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Well the gang over at Problem Adults is on one of their infamous “Road Trips” again….
Come join us for warmth, sun, adventure and good friends!!!!!
Republican Senator reminds Atty General Gonzales ‘President does not have a blank check’
Can I get a HELL YEAH!
Checks and balances, baby! That’s why the power is split in three equal parts in our government.
I can’t express how much this all makes me nervous. I was under the impression that the CIA and the FBI have “watchlists”. They know who the badguys are, they’re keeping tabs on them. So why is this “Surveillance Program” so urgent and vital to the War on Terror?
Now to all the sheep in this country that reason all their rights away with “Go ahead, I’ve got nothing to hide! Nyuk! Nyuk!”. Chew on this:
Gonzales then panicked, sputtered more pre-fabricated talking points, rhetoric about how the sky is falling and freaked out as this curveball wasn’t covered in his cue cards from the White House…
So I ask our Federal Government the same question… why not run it past the Federal Court and check it for legalities?
You have nothing to hide, right?
You know…
I really want to believe that these militants are a small minority in Islam. I really do.
Fact of the matter is, I *KNOW* no matter what I think of our current policies in the U.S…. No matter how idiotic I find the current administration in the White House…
I wouldn’t last five minutes in that region without someone wanting to make a video of my beheading. All for simply being an American.
Why should I give anyone a level of understanding or sympathy they would never give me?
Continue reading “The Muslim World Needs a Chill Pill”
Now Wulfgar’s and Rabid Sanity’s posts are worth discussing!
For too long the right and left wing in the blogosphere has reduced the other side with straw men and caricatures. You know, right wingers are nazis and left wingers are traitors. Enough already! I became a registered independant back in 2002 because I couldn’t take this partisan bullshit.
I’ve also seen time and time again someone critical of the Bush administration get instantly shut up when asked the question: “Well, you complain a lot… but what is YOUR solution to the problem?”
So here you have an intelligent discussion by intelligent people that clearly respect each other’s views… and unlike many right/left sites, they actually want to HEAR what the other side has to say.
KUDOS TO THE BOTH OF YOU!
The old adage “You’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem” immediately comes to mind.
Me? I’m part of the “I’m tired of all the bullshit” brigade. 😀
How odd, considering I don’t have an ebay account as far as I know of. Yet, I get this email once a week!
An email regarding this was sent to you in your e-mail.
To confirm your unlock on file at eBay, just click the button below:
**
This will confirm to eBay that your account is working.
Sure it will!!!! LMAO!!!!
* Link to contact “ebay” goes to http:// www.singin-now.go.ro/come-to-become-an-power-seller in-respect-reconoscare-rewared.html
** Button image originates from http://www.geocities.com/syllvesttre/Questions/
And the link goes to http://sign.in.now.home.ro/eBayISAPIsigninebay.html
oooookay……
If at this point you don’t know what a phishing scam is, you’re hopeless.
And honestly, anyone who clicks on those links in their email *DESERVES* what happens to them. 🙁
I feel I need to share that with you.
If charsets were athletes, UTF-8 would be in the special olympics and have a special handicap sticker on it’s car!!! GAWD!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!
Currently I’m doing a MySQL database which features musicians with lots of wild schwas and tildes and accents. My host (for reasons that elude me) now has it so the data converts to UTF-8. So artists like Mel Tormé and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen turn into illegible words with question marks.
This is why I still use ISO-8859-1 for my charset, I mean how will Mötley Crüe survive the internet with such a restrictive and retarded charset like UTF-8??? I have since had to drop my “®” from WHUZZUP!® because most feeds crash from it.
So if you need these funky characters you can use this chart.
Whoever you are that came up with UTF-8… I hate you too.
I just stumbled on this trying to find out what the hell happened to Reverend Mykeru…
Kinja Card for WHUZZUP – It’s… it’s…
Well, I don’t know what it is, but it’s pretty cool! And it ties in to Technorati, Way Back Machine, Alexa and all sorts of goodies. Continue reading “Kinja Cards? How cool!”
Usually on this day, I can look all over the web and someone, somewhere is reshaping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a supporter of their cause. You name it. He’s for/against the Iraq War, he’s suddenly a vegan and a card-carrying member of PETA, he’d join the fight for gay marriage.
Frankly, I doubt the last one. As a man of the cloth, I’d imagine his view of homosexuality would be very much the same as any religious figure… I *DO* see the parallels, and this is a matter of Civil Rights and equality… and even in his own words “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” ring true in this case.
Continue reading “Let us make MLK in OUR image, after our likeness”
New Rant in SoApBoX…
Do Onto Others (Until They Know How It Feels)
I’m better now. 🙂
It seems for a while I was lost, and couldn’t see the bigger picture (I hate when I do that).
I needed a good flow of negative energy to respark my need and will to survive.
Yes. I need my hate and rage and pain. It’s what keeps me feeling for others. I need my chaos and mayhem to appreciate order. I need to see the world through the eyes of a child to tap into the magic and wonder that we seem to lose over the years. No matter how absurd it appears on the surface… I need to believe, and listen to that still, small voice inside me as my guide.
I need to believe and set my course to the largest star and follow it.
And that star is leading me the hell out where I currently live.
All I needed was a chance….
(Special thanks to ~T~, MissD, Bob, Jeanna and Lee for helping me find my way back…)
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