"THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED..." Chris Taylor @ Word Around the Net collects Glenn Reynolds' posts tracking "The Bush Tyranny." But exactly who has been suppressing civil liberties? Surprise, surprise.
YES, BUT CAN YOU SMOKE 20 A DAY? Marijuana smoke contains higher levels of certain toxins than tobacco smoke
THE NUMBER YOU HAVE DIALED is no longer in service: A Whopper of a Cell Phone Bill Piotr Staniaszek, who usually pays less than $150 a month for his phone, saw his November bill clock in at $59,000. When he called to complain, his carrier said the number was incorrect. In fact, his bill was going to be $83,000.
THE BOGUS PEACE PRIZE: The premise underlying the Nobel Committee's expanded definition of peace is that there is a causal connection between natural resource shortages and violent conflict. No Connection Between Environmental Crises And Armed Conflict, New Study Argues
LOCK AND LOAD: AJ Strata thinks "the top is coming off the restless and angry left."
WHY DO Ticketmaster Events Sell Out Instantly? Cipriano Garibay, president of RMG Technologies, boasts: "We pay guys in India $2 an hour to type the answers."
IT'S THE DATA, STUPID: Google Is All About Large Amounts of Data
HE'S WAITING FOR THE DVD: "It's the episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie that I missed. The one where the father is so angry with his teenage daughter for not wearing the hijab that he strangles her to death."
THOMAS LIFSON @ American Thinker: Hillary Agonistes wonders, "Is it possible that Bill Clinton secretly or unconsciously is sabotaging Hillary's campaign? It cannot be ruled out."
THE GREAT WHITE FLEET One hundred years ago yesterday – December 16, 1907 – sixteen battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, trailed by a flotilla of torpedo boats and other auxiliaries, sailed from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on a world cruise.
SHOW US THE MONEY! The Stealth Tax at Bali : "A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources," Emma Brindal, a "climate justice campaign coordinator" for Friends of the Earth Australia, wrote Wednesday on the Climate Action Network's blog. Tax And Wane
SHOVELING SEAWEED AGAINST THE TIDE: NIH Panel Seeks To Dispel Stigma Associated With Fecal And Urinary Incontinence
THE GIANT RAT OF FOJA "The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat," said Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip." Efforts to name it Rattus Humongous have unsuccessful.
Posted by Vanderleun at December 16, 2007 11:10 PM | TrackBackSooner or later, the shouts of outrage, and the violence, from Islamofascists will be answered by thunder and starfire - the tall man of smoke that wears a wide hat will bend over Mecca, and over other places. The sooner the better.
Islam and modern civilisation cannot share a planet in peace. I know which I'd rather see evicted.
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