November 15, 2004 – 7:00 pm
From the USAToday (online version of course. No way I am paying .75 cents for it) GREENSBURG, La. (AP) — These eager beavers had a whole new slant on money laundering. A bag of bills stolen from a casino was snapped up by beavers who wove thousands of dollars in soggy currency into the sticks […]
November 15, 2004 – 8:27 am
Captain Ed has a good take on the the Grey Lady’s article on "Southern Democrats Decline is Eroding the Political Center." Captain Ed writes "However, Toner uses contradictory racial arguments and ironically engages in a bigoted fallacy about Republicans to reach her conclusion:" Ms. Toner does, indeed. Ms. Toner also misses a few facts. There […]
November 15, 2004 – 7:21 am
From the NY Post: Soon after the buzz of gunfire faded from his ears, Army Spc. Frederick Ofori, who just minutes earlier earned hero status in Fallujah, called his mom in Coney Island and said only what he’s said for the eight months he’s spent in Iraq: "Don’t worry, Mom, I’m fine. I don’t have […]
November 15, 2004 – 7:00 am
Good for a Monday: Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. Drive carefully. It’s not only cars […]
November 14, 2004 – 11:52 am
I almost forgot to post a joke today. Thought I had one set up. Here is a bad one :) John was a clerk in a small drugstore but he was not much of a salesman. He could never find the item the customer wanted. Bob, the owner, had about enough and warned John that […]
November 14, 2004 – 11:32 am
I have been trying to write about this for a week now, finally kick it up. Many of us out there use some sort of aggregator to quickly see what is happening in the news and the bloggosphere. If you aren’t, you should. It is a fantastic way to see what is being written. I […]
November 14, 2004 – 9:55 am
Anyone else starting to think that bloggers are scaring the MSM’s? Sure, what we do is important, and it deserves to be talked about, especially those like Powerlineblog, the Captains Quarters, Little Green Footballs, etc (no offense to anyone else, just 3 that I pulled out of the hat quickly). CNN discusses this in an […]
November 14, 2004 – 9:17 am
From a summit convened by Nigeria on the trouble in Ivory Coast, that is. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – Nigeria convened an African summit on Ivory Coast’s crisis on Sunday without the leader of the embattled nation, who remained holed up in his mansion, increasingly surrounded by hard-liners. Ivory Coast said it was instead sending its […]
November 14, 2004 – 9:00 am
I am sure that most of y’all know that the Federal Communications Commission only gets involved after a broadcast, if there are complaints. I wonder what would happen if alot of right thinking folks sent in complaints regarding the broadcast of the last Bin Laden terror tape? It did use bad language and make threats […]
November 13, 2004 – 9:37 am
In pirate lore, most of ye are familiar with the raising if the Jolly Rodger, also known as the Skull and Crossbones, when pirates go on the attack. But, sometimes they would raise the red flag, which meant "no quarter given." That is how I feel about the DNC and it’s supporters about now. Democratic […]
