If anyone needs a miracle fat-burning pill, let me know — I’ve just deleted like 15-20 comment spams for it and they seem to still be coming.
In other news, has our webmaster looked into any of the anti-spam measures described here ?
As noted in the LA Times,
“On an isolated islet of Indonesia, scientists have discovered skeletons of a previously unknown human species — tiny, hobbit-sized figures who lived among dwarf elephants and giant lizards as recently as 12,000 years ago when modern humans already thrived worldwide.”
Does anyone else think this is a little creepy?
The conservatives are overly concerned that electing Kerry will bring America close to being a communist state. Following a popular premise that the Smurfs were communists, there is irrefutable evidence that John Kerry is the Smurf’s worst enemy which should dispel any notions that he would agree with their communist ideas.
It’s from the Times, but it looks like DC is banning the sale of tall boys in parts of the District.
“If we can’t buy single beers, it’s going to [hurt] us,” said the 47-year-old woman, who called herself Hope. “Can we buy a six-pack for $6 when we ain’t got but a dollar?” … (M)erchants have until Nov. 14 to sell off their stock of 24-ounce cans known as “tall boys” and 40-ounce bottles known as “40s.” After that, no individual beer container of less than 70 ounces will be sold in Ward 4. …(T)he owners of Ward 4’s mom-and-pop convenience stores — which sell the bulk of single beers — expect the ban will hurt their bottom line. “I’m not feeling good because our sales are 40 [percent] to 50 percent single beers,” said Teshome Chekole, 42, owner of Town & Country Market on Upshur Street NW.
“We used to have people hang around that corner all the time, and we don’t have that anymore,” said Miss West, 37. “I miss them, though. They were nice drunks.” … Miss Anderson (a retired school librarian) called the single-beer ban a “yuppie thing.”
Continuing my inappropriate love for Pastis, here’s a bit from Sunday’s Pearls
I checked. It is too late to change my vote, and a vote for a fictional character is not counted or reported.
Kerry supporters hassle GOP early voters in Florida.
<humor>More proof that there’s someone out there controlling the vast left wing media empire:</humor>
Darby Conley (Who, BTW, has been suspiciously silent during the Sox’ run this fall) is clearly colluding with NPR on the content in his strip. Exhibit A, last week’s series with Satchel Pooch doing “doga”, which is apparently yoga for dogs:
He did, no lie, an entire week featuring Satchel’s attempts to master doga. I thought it was brilliant, satire along the lines of The Onion or ScrappleFace. At least I thought it was satire until I heard George Bodarky on NPR. I honestly had to pull into someone’s driveway until I stopped laughing and could drive home. Stories like this are almost enough to convince me that some people actually may have too much money.
My question, now – What’s the lead time on an NPR story? Did someone read last Friday’s strip, die laughing, google “doga” and find out that it was a no-crap, real-deal thing, and speed the item into production? If so, WSUF may be getting an extra couple of bucks.
Earlier I was considering posting today’s Washington Post Kerry endorsement. I was maybe a little surprised at how mild an endorsement it was — they seem to give it to Kerry by a nose.
But then my Mom sent along the Shreveport Times’ Kerry endorsement, which surprised me even more.
Both argue that Bush hasn’t earned reelection and fault him not for going to Iraq, but for failing to be realistic about the aftermath.
And I’m rather impressed by a couple of points in the Times’ editorial …
Kerry, as did this opinion page, bought into Secretary of State Colin Powell’s “evidence” presented to the United Nations that Iraq was playing a shell game across the countryside with weapons of mass destruction. But while the president needed the latitude to protect the United States and its allies, the expectation was that military invasion would be a last resort.
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It’s not a sign of weakness but one of intelligence to be inclusive in decisions that profoundly impact our world. The world is too complex, too interrelated to dismiss out of hand global opinion. And regardless of how spinners play his remarks, Kerry has expressed a resolve to act — not to seek permission — in whatever ways necessary to safeguard the United States.
Both points cut right through specific partisan spin points with common sense, which is something I haven’t necessarily seen from many national news operations.
Read more!Al Gore gave a speech this week at Georgetown that I think really hit on the problems with George Bush and identifies the dishonest rhetoric that is particularly angering to us Liberals.
It’s counterproductive, he argues, to call Bush a dumbass. He isn’t one, and it’s not simple-mindedness that causes him to avoid thinking too hard about ways to fix problems. And it’s counterproductive to call Bush a religious zealot. He may be one, but that’s not why he seems bent on mixing religion with government and having morality legislated.
Rather it’s the fact that he’s a right-wing ideologue that makes him so dangerous.
I was particularly heartened by this bit. As with most candidates, if only Gore had the balls to talk like this during his campaign, we wouldn’t have Bush in the WHite House now.
The essential cruelty of Bush’s game is that he takes an astonishingly
selfish and greedy collection of economic and political proposals, and
then cloaks them with a phony moral authority, thus misleading many
Americans who have a deep and genuine desire to do good in the world.
And in the process he convinces them to lend unquestioning support for
proposals that actually hurt their families and their communities.
But as you can probably tell, lacking good sound bites, this stuff probably didn’t make it outside of C-Span.
And I’ve attached an abridged text version after the jump.
Read more!Just this one item this week since I’ve been out of town and fairly unwired all week.
Read more!… “It is normal during elections for supporters of presidential candidates to have fundamental disagreements about values or strategies,” according to an analysis produced by PIPA. “The current election is unique in that Bush supporters and Kerry supporters have profoundly different perceptions of reality. In the face of a stream of high-level assessments about pre-war Iraq, Bush supporters cling to the refuted beliefs that Iraq had WMD or supported al Qaeda.” …
First, if you’re thinking about fruitcake, and I know I am (though more directly about the last piece of pie in the fridge that I’m praying neither my lovely wife and soulmate or the flesh of my flesh found today while I’ve been at work), don’t hesitate to order from the Collins Street Bakery. Heck, I’d go so far as to insist that if you’re driving between Dallas and Austin or Houston that you outta swing by downtown Corsicana and pick up a couple of cakes at their store. The stuff’s that good.
The other is to check out these random timewasters. Turns out I’m .html (versitile, but not good with amateurs), and am in the process of figuring out which OS I am. Next – “Tom Cruise movie or gay porn flick”…
(BTW – I consider the Carter bit to be my “Free Fire Friday” for the week. Plus, I’ve already voted)