Monthly Archives: February 2008

Lindsay Lohan Nude?

Yup. Mostly. Look on the bright side, though. At least she is not opening the hood by running into something in an automobile! (No nudity below the fold. Safe for work, though racy)   She is recreating Marilyn Monroe’s final photo shoot for New York magazine. Some time in the gym for a muscle tone […]

Global Warming Today: Huh? It’s Been Cold?

Oh, of course, it must be weather, not climate (snicker) NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world’s ice-caps are melting, it emerged last night. Ice levels which had shrunk from 13million sq km in January 2007 to just four million in October, are almost back to their original levels. Figures show that […]

SCOTUS Says Wiretapping Terrorists Legal Again!

Via Rusty at The Jawa Report (through al Reuters) The administration abandoned the program about a year ago, putting it under the surveillance court that Congress created more than 30 years ago. The high court’s action means that Bush will be able to disregard whatever legislative eavesdropping restrictions Congress adopts as there will be no […]

Al Qaeda’s Choice?

Someone is making a faulty hypothesis at the BBC “Islamic terrorists want war. They want suffering – among others and their own people alike. They would surely surmise that McCain will give them what they want. Bin Laden himself intervened with what many thought was the effect of keeping President Bush in power in 2004 […]

Michelle Obama Loves The United States

now that her husband is running (from Breitbart, via Patterico’s Pontifications) “What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback and let me tell you something, For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because […]

Global Warming: Wez Gots To Rename It!

Here we go again: people understand the bullshit behind the curtain, so, hey, let’s rename it and fool ’em! The old “triangulation” gambit. “People don’t like our message, so, we just need to recouch it.” Heh heh John P. Holdren, the head of Harvard’s center on science and technology policy, is sick and tired of […]

Angry White Men

Heard this one on Boortz this morning. Makes sense to me There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from […]

Bottled Water Now Immoral

Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser. “We have to make people think that it’s unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong,” said Tim Lang, the Government’s naural resources commissioner. Phil Woolas, the environment minister, […]

Aside: Fearmongering

Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades takes on the “fear mongering” meme regarding FISA.

Beer Monday: Making America Less Secure While Hooking The Lawyers Up

Monday. The start of a new work week. Time to do your best, get busy, impress the bosses. How ’bout a beer? No beer needed to understand this by Rich Galen Last year, after the uproar over the so-called “warrantless wiretaps,” the Congress passed the “Protect America Act” which made some minor adjustments to FISA […]

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