Monthly Archives: November 2004

Ye Olde Daile Silliness(e)

You may not know that many nonliving things have a gender. For example: 1) Ziploc Bags — They are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them. 2) Copiers — They are Female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm them up again. It’s an effective reproductive […]

Ye Olde Daile Silliness(e)

Traditional Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow […]

More on the Raleigh GOP Attack

Such special people: RALEIGH — An apparent supporter of three people arrested in an attack on the N.C. Republican Party headquarters tussled with two cameramen as they followed him from the Wake County Public Safety Center on Monday afternoon. The young man shielded his face from the cameras as he left the first appearance hearing […]

Good SciFi

Some new SciFi books I plan to either purchase or get from the library as soon as done with some of the Honor Harrington books: Michael Marshall "The Upright Man" (Check out his others, under the name Michael Marshall Smith) Harry Turtledove "Days of Infamy" The master of Alternate History! Plus, while not scifi, Nelson […]

Even the Guardian Doesn’t Like France

What a hoot. In this case, I am not going to comment. You have to read this for yourselves.

It’s all a lie!

So Lawrence O’Donnel is going even loonier then he did with his fifty ways to repeat "Liar!" Now he says that the Blue States should secede. And do I have to mention that the military supports the President. And most military bases are in Red states. I’m sure some of you could come up with […]

Vapor Lock

One of those times where the thoughts just do not come, and little interest in really seeing what is happening out in the world at the moment. However, I had the MP3 player jamming, and I started think about a post that Cass had on I Love Jet Noise, then I thought about how many […]

Lottery For Mike E?

The question on many news sites minds is will Mike Easley get his Educational Lottery? There are many for or against a lottery, and many (like me), who can take it or leave it. My concern is that the lottery money would go to education, but not in the way we think it would. It […]

Ye Olde Daile Silliness(e)

A woman walks into a shop that sells expensive Persian rugs. She looks around and spots the perfect rug and walks over to inspect it. As she bends to feel the texture of the rug she accidentally breaks wind. Very embarrassed she looks around nervously to see if anyone has noticed her little accident. She […]

I guess this is OK

SInce the French and the UN are large and in charge (sic), I guess it is ok to have a large military presence on a foreign nations soil, as well as: ….dropping percussion grenades on mobs massing at bridges, the international airport and the military base in Abidjan. French troops also fired tear gas and […]

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