Day: February 14, 2006

Well, while my Wonder Woman has a late gig at school (who schedules parent/family activity night on Valentine’s Day? Oh, right. School administrators: the stupidest people in the education establishment *sigh*), here are a few lil short takes:

Yeh, for those of you who are dropping in but still haven’t changed your blogrolls, take note. I mean you are here, so you do know the address has changed…

🙂

Just how bad is America’s Math Edcuation Pretty darned bad. As bad as America’s reading education, at least, and that’s in the toilet… just hasn’t been flushed yet as it has been elsewhere (in Britain, as per one of The Lost Posts from last week, it’s not just math and reading, the kids are getting dumber).

Islamist Bumper Stickers Some dry humor there. Another blogger who’s buckin’ for a fatwa.

Enter to Win a Legoâ„¢ PC–that actually works!

The Legoâ„¢ PC is an effort commissioned by PC Magazine and built by Nathan Sawaya Neat stuff.

Go read The Dragon of Upways Gorge. Ferdy needs to get Bruce to market his stories. Sure, they were written as kids’ stories, but it’d be useful to get ’em into Alan Greenspan’s hands, let alone into the hands of folks who could read them as bedtime stories to congresscritters…

News you’ll not hear from our Mass media podpeople: Scurrilous Is As Scurrilous Does: A Justice Primer

Nasty stuff that. Justice. Has no place in the faux left’s America–or world. To be avoided at all costs in the same manner as Truth.

Trenchant observations on memetic warfare at Armed and Dangerous: Gramscian damage

An interesting report on John Walker Lindh. It’s a view that doesn’t get much (any) press in our MMPA, so that lends it some cachet, but just because it’s contra the terrorist sympathizers in our media, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. More of the story will come out as time progresses, no doubt, that will enable folks to arrive at a sensible conclusion about this guy. I’m leaning toward thinking he’s scum, but then I think that about terrorist sympathizers in general.

Where Have you Gone Ronald Reagan has his own perspective on the Cheney hunting accident. Droll, dude. Oh, and be sure to load his front page and catch the Porky Pig post… LMAO.

More good shoot ’em up commentary from DL at TMH’s Bacon Bits. Targetting Mass Media Podpeople: Ready… Fire… Aim. Ahhh, wasn’t a lucky shot DL; you could just fire into the herd!

A lil lesson in econ 101 from Cracker over at The Wide Awakes. *shhh!* Don’t tell the politicians about this post. It’d take too long explaining the concepts in little bitty words, very, very sllllooooowwwwwllllyyyyy…

And one last thing. Be honest with me willya? How many of y’all did steal this?

Steal This Book: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Perspiring minds wanna know, even at The Conservative Cat.

The big kerfuffle in the last few days, of course, never quite got the headline that would place it in perspective:

Cheney shot a Lawyer!

Oh. My.

Injuries not serious

Oh, well… *sigh*

Shouting “First, kill all the lawyers!” at Common FolkUsing CommonSense

[note: I do personally know or know of five lawyers who are decent human beings, and so I infer there must surely be more of that nature. But liking and respecting five lawyers as individuals doesn’t bring me any closer to appreciating lawyers as a class… And do also note that I am well aware that the snippet lifted from Henry VI is really Shakespeare’s tribute to lawyers as a bulwark against tyrants. And yes, I know the mistaken meme I invoked when I typed the words… ]

And yet another update–From Rush Limbaugh, this lil gem:

“Would you rather go hunting with Dick Cheney or riding in a car over a bridge with Ted Kennedy? At least Cheney takes you to the hospital.”

Uhm, was that a rhetorical question, Rush? (h.t. Newsmax)

Over at Diane’s Stuff, a good piece of info for commenters. “How to Add an Avatar”–to your comments here at twc, or any WP blog that’s configured with Dan’s Avatar Thingy.

Of course, I might add that trolls using fake IPs/email addresses still won’t have an easy time since Spam Karma 2.2 does a fine job of labeling such stupid tactics.

See Diane’s post for info on using an avatar associated with your comments here.

A helpful hint for Jean Fraud sKerry… in an Open Post so that perhaps alla the linky stuff will eventually carry the help to his jackass ears.

Yep: doing this with the aid of and alla the fine bloggers linking in (hint-hint yourself, folks! :-)). Link here and trackback.

Hey! Jean Fraud (and all the skis a-slope), sorry to see you’ve been getting little press recently. Sure, sure, ya had a little press time with your fail-ibuster flop, but you really need to flip that somehow, cos you’ve had virtually zippo for the last coupla weeks.

How are you ever gonna get to be Billary’s running mate in ’08 if you can’t get more press?

Hey! Here’s an idea! Now, don’t ignore this one; it could keep your sour puss on the top o’ the news for MONTHS–it’s a blockbuster of an idea:

Release your records.

Yeh, yeh, I know you promised multiple times to do so. And I know you even said you kept that promise—first during the ’04 campaign when you said alla your records were on your website and released to the press, then nearly a year after you said that, telling us all you finally had released your records… to two “news” organs (let’s not say which organs, but anatomically speaking the LASlimes and the Boston Glob are somewhere near the end of the alimentary canal) who have since released… uh, zippo.

So, you want your mug in the news, ya hafta do something newsworthy, even completely out of character. So, how about you…. *SHOCKER*… make good on your word and *EARTH-SHATTERING NEWS* Let your records go.

If there’s nothing there, it’s still be an amazing news story, “Kerry Stops Lying!!!”

Wow. Think of the ink.

Noted at Cao’s, where you too can join the Free John Kerry’s 180 Blogburst. See my sidebar for tons of other fine blogs involved.

Join the blogbursts to help FREE Kerry’s 180 every Tuesday!

We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free Kerry’s 180, click here to email me, include the url for your blog. The blogburst is every Tuesday, so don’t forget to blog about it. All you have to do is encourage Kerry to set his 180 FREE, I’ll send you the code for the blogroll.

Also noted at Adam’s Blog (where Adam needs a cuppa joe… or three :-))

It’s an old joke, but somebody has to tell it.

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An atheist was taking a walk through the woods.

What majestic trees!

What powerful rivers!

What beautiful animals!” he said to himself.

As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.

He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly charge towards him.

He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer.

He tripped and fell on the ground.

He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.

At that instant the Atheist cried out: “Oh my God!…”

Time stopped.

The bear froze.

The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky:

“You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don’t exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?”

The atheist looked directly into the light, “It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps could you make the BEAR a Christian?”

“Very well,” said the voice.

The light went out.

The sounds of the forest resumed.

The bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together and bowed his head and spoke:

“Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive through Christ our Lord, Amen.”