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Archive for March, 2007

Harry Potter and the Torture Apologist’s Trump Card

Posted: Friday, March 30th, 2007 @ 11:13 am in Political | 6 Comments »

FBI report, 2004:
Captives at Guantánamo Bay were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves, an FBI report has revealed. …
Besides being shackled to the floor, detainees were subjected to extremes of temperature. One witness said he saw a barefoot detainee shaking [...]

McCain, Zarqawi, Altered Beast

Posted: Friday, March 30th, 2007 @ 1:05 am in Political | 4 Comments »

“Rise from your grave”
According to Sen. McCain, it would be a huge mistake to withdraw US military forces from Iraq, “because if we come home, bin Laden and Zarqawi, they are going to follow us.”
It would be bad enough for Osama bin Laden, who is most likely somewhere in northwestern Pakistan, to “follow us” home [...]

Malkin: This should be about ME, ME, ME

Posted: Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 @ 5:36 pm in Political | 4 Comments »

Kathy Sierra, a tech blogger and author of several books on Java (the programming language), is subjected to disgusting personal attacks and death threats. Michelle Malkin’s reaction is to get pouty, self-righteous, and jealous when other bloggers express sympathy for Kathy Sierra:
[W]here have y’all been? … The death threats Sierra received are no worse [...]

Crazy Pammy Jumps the Shark

Posted: Monday, March 26th, 2007 @ 3:10 pm in Political | 5 Comments »

It starts out, as usual, with a long, refreshing drink of Wingnut Kool-Aid:
More blood, the wrong kind, on the Democrats hands. There are Iraqis fighting for their country, fighting the global scourge of jihad but the Democrats would rather slit their throats then see the Republicans succeed. Here is an article on Iraqi translators who [...]

No use crying…

Posted: Friday, March 23rd, 2007 @ 4:59 pm in Misc | 1 Comment »

There’s no use crying over spilt milk.

Friday Dog Blogging

Posted: Friday, March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:52 pm in Dogs and Cats | 6 Comments »

Here is Okapi.

And here is Mystery.

Five Million Real Americans

Posted: Saturday, March 17th, 2007 @ 1:30 pm in Political | 5 Comments »

The groundswell of popular support for the Real Conservatism of Michael Savage is building… he has passed the five-million mark on his Web survey! Five million Real Americans have said Yes to Savage!
WILL GIULIANI, MCKENNEDY (sic) AND ROMNEY AGREE TO MEET THE SAVAGE NATION?
That’s the sound of the gauntlet being thrown down as [...]

Straight talk (about NCAA hoops)

Posted: Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 @ 6:06 pm in Political | 4 Comments »

You love politics, right?
And you love the excitement of March Madness and NCAA hoops, right? (Well, who doesn’t?)
Now you can combine the two: just head on over to John McCain’s official campaign website and fill in your official John McCain 2008 NCAA Tournament bracket. You could even win some cool McCain 2008 [...]

Dennis Prager vs. Strawman

Posted: Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 @ 7:03 pm in Political | 3 Comments »

Dennis Prager wants to remind John Edwards that “Jesus Was Not a Leftist.” Why is that?
Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards told an interviewer from the religious website beliefnet.com that Jesus “would be disappointed” at how little Americans help the destitute who live among them. Jesus, Mr. Edwards said, “would be [...]

Interrogation

Posted: Sunday, March 11th, 2007 @ 5:25 am in Cinema, Political | No Comments »

Abbas Kiarostami, one of the giants of world cinema, was subjected to 2.5 hours of questioning at JFK airport.
Is there any logical reason on God’s earth why this man needed to be subjected to an interrogation? Does it get any dumber than this?
Apparently, Kiarostami is in New York for a major exhibition of his [...]