Blognard

2002-11-21T10:38:00.000-05:00

Is this thing working? Is this on?
I'll try again on this 20th day of November to see if I can update the damn page. If so, great. If not, then maybe it's time to break down and buy my own domain?

2002-10-08T11:09:00.000-04:00

After a brief hiatus, I've located another interesting blog to read: http://bizarrescience.blogspot.com/

2002-09-24T09:18:00.000-04:00

Daniel Pipes has an essay on the Democratic Party platform.

2002-09-24T08:19:00.000-04:00

Fox News has a preview review of The Two Towers.

2002-09-23T10:00:00.000-04:00

On CNN too! A report downplaying, sort of, the role of human-made "greenhouse gasses" in "global warming". This will get quickly squashed- it was a NASA study, afterall, and we know President Bush controls all federal agencies like a puppet master.

2002-09-23T09:50:00.000-04:00

Damn Imperialists! Won't the UN do something about them? You can't just go invade some African country on your own. This is outrageous, and somebody needs to stop these aggressive Imperialists.
Of course, they are French, and the UN won't say anything against them, nor will the EU condemn them, either.
This post has been completely facetious: I support their actions entirely.

2002-09-23T09:44:00.000-04:00

How is this news? Is there some secret agenda the reporter is trying to meet? Why the headline as it is written then?

2002-09-23T09:34:00.000-04:00

There are some real whoppers in today's PC Patrol, Fox News' Tongue Tied. Huckleberry Finn? Mark Twain's book that is as anti-racism as you could get in the 1800's?

2002-09-19T08:35:00.000-04:00

Superstition. Surely, pure superstition? Monkeying with the brain can produce all sorts of bizzare results.

2002-09-18T09:57:00.000-04:00

Suddenly, universe awash in black holes
Well, not suddenly. We just haven't been able to detect them in the past. I'm sure, then, that there are plenty more we still can't detect.

2002-09-18T09:50:00.000-04:00

Arab TV Station: U.S. Holding an Employee at Guantanamo Bay
Ok, just my opinion, but this "station" is an accomplice of al Qaeda. They continue to broadcast anti-US messages to various Arab nations and air Osama bin Laden's tapes as though they are news and truth. You could say they are the propaganda arm of al Qaeda. Arrest them all, let the CIA sort them out.
In the final days of the U.S. bombardment that dislodged Al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts from Afghanistan, an unoccupied Al-Jazeera office was hit during an air raid. The United States said it targeted the Al Qaeda network and didn't know the television channel had an office at the location.
Hmmm. We didn't know, eh?

2002-09-17T09:15:00.000-04:00

"Blast Goes Off at Palestinian School"
The principal said he believed Israeli militants planted the explosives.
Of course. Two possibilities: the Principal may be correct, though Palestinian militants have killed more Israeli school children than the other way around. Second possibility: Palestinian militants are planting bombs on their own, and detonating them to have effect, but small danger. Why? To get more Palestinian terror-bombers attacking Israel. There will be no peace until there is no Israel.

2002-09-17T09:09:00.000-04:00

PETA taking fire for funding ELF's terrorism.

2002-09-17T09:04:00.000-04:00

Who you gonna call?

2002-09-16T13:11:00.000-04:00

If the guy's name is Bogus, I'm not likely to take seriously what he says.

2002-09-16T12:50:00.000-04:00

Part Three! But, damn, this is turning into a serial, and if I miss a day I'll develop PTSD!

2002-09-16T11:58:00.000-04:00

If true, this means we shouldn't hesitate any longer.

2002-09-16T11:38:00.000-04:00

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals. This FoxNews.Com article is too damn funny. Can't wait for food replicators or pills so that we don't harm animals or plants to satisfy our nutritional needs. Consider: vegans don't eat bugs, either, yet decaying insect matter is a component of soils, as well as various animals' excrement.

2002-09-13T09:38:00.000-04:00

This stuff is hilarious. I can't wait for part three.
Part I
Part II

2002-09-12T08:59:00.000-04:00

A sensible proposal, even though Homeland Security Department is not.

2002-09-11T08:42:00.000-04:00

A good story, or criminally irresponsible journalism? You decide.

2002-09-10T16:15:00.000-04:00

Why would private enterprise need permission to go to the moon? At last I heard, nobody owned it.

2002-09-10T10:46:00.000-04:00

Bambi and MTV are why they hate us! Who woulda thunk it?

2002-09-09T11:22:00.000-04:00

Drivers Licenses and Data Privacy. Really, a no brainer. A DL is only good for anti-crime or anti-terrorism if the card wasn't fradulently created in the first place. Falsifying birth certificates, Social Security Numbers, etc., is not such a hard thing to do.

2002-09-05T15:22:00.000-04:00

Huh? Where did this come from? I was there the last time the Arab world said: "A U.S. war against Iraq would "open the gates of hell" in the Middle East"
If that was hell in 1991, I'll take it any time.

2002-09-05T09:25:00.000-04:00

Capitalism at work. Only a capitalist would try to find a way to mine gold and grow food crops at the same time. Plus, it's good science.

2002-09-04T13:04:00.000-04:00

David Horowitz has something to say about secondary education and how to fix it.

2002-09-03T11:16:00.000-04:00

Only in Europe: government must find a means to tax/license or otherwise take money from people, whether they are profiting from their endeavours or not.

2002-09-03T11:04:00.000-04:00

Fifteen minutes of fame, extended by an hour or two.

2002-09-03T10:55:00.000-04:00

Sure. I believe this, don't you? Standard diplomatic delaying tactic to give your side time to move/hide evidence. The US are warmongers. Sure, yet we've never gassed our own people. We haven't arrested the "million mom march", either.

2002-09-03T10:52:00.000-04:00

Cut of one head, and another grows. This is an article about more terrorists popping up. Go figure.

2002-08-30T13:58:00.000-04:00

Oh please! What nonsense. Just what was the Japanese fleet doing, then? Sight seeing? Fully loaded with bombs?

2002-08-30T08:46:00.000-04:00

Al Qaeda Is ‘Alive and Well’ U.N. Report Says Terror Network
Is Still Well-Financed.

No kidding? You mean concentrating on one cell, and not even doing that very well, hasn't cut off the snake's head? I'm shocked, I tell you, truly shocked.

2002-08-29T10:43:00.000-04:00

Loose lips sink ships: journalists and war. What exactly, is a journalist's responsibilities in these situations? Help the enemy kill as many of our guys as possible?

2002-08-28T10:45:00.000-04:00

Walter Williams is just absolutely brilliant. I'd send my kids to whatever school he chooses to teach at.

2002-08-28T09:50:00.000-04:00

Not enough bathroom breaks? Well, maybe one might need more if he were spending his day sampling the product. Don't like it, work somewhere else.

2002-08-27T12:49:00.000-04:00

Life possible on Mars? Duh! no Really? Here's the kicker:
But such "terraforming" might require hundreds or thousands of years before it could support more conventional forms of Earth life. And there are other drawbacks as well.

"Of course, there are many potential ethical and environmental problems with this," Kral said.

Eh? What "potential ethical and environmental problems"? If there is no life already, why not put some there? Why not turn Mars into Earth 2? Oh, I know why not! Because Americans or white men may be involved, and they are only capable of destruction and ruin.

2002-08-27T10:23:00.000-04:00

I like my sports, but Doug Bandow is right.

2002-08-27T09:33:00.000-04:00

A Tax Cut Sen. Ted Kennedy would support. I agree- taxes are way to high on a majority of items purchased by average Americans. The US government used to operate on interstate and international tarriffs alone. What happened? We became too sheep-like?

2002-08-27T09:27:00.000-04:00

Bush to UN summit: Bite me. Don't I wish. But, he's not going. Here's the best part of the article:
Bush supporters back his decision not to attend, and say they support his choice to skip an event where no one might be listening.

"They're hoping to beat on him like a Mexican piñata," said Jerry Taylor, director of natural resources studies at the Cato Institute. "That's why they want him there."

Taylor called the summit "political theater," no different from the U.N.-led conference on international racism last year that was marred by virulent anti-Israeli and U.S. demonstrations.

"There are positive things that we can do to improve the environment further, but they are not on the agenda in South Africa," Taylor said.

That last part is the key.

2002-08-26T10:03:00.000-04:00

Minority Report. Who needs a crime? Just arrest them all anyway, you know, just to be safe.

2002-08-26T09:58:00.000-04:00

Capitalism at it's finest. Unlike socialism, where solutions to problems are just disguises for the problems, capitalism is in the business of finding solutions.

2002-08-26T09:50:00.000-04:00

This is a tricky subject. Such resolutions should have automatic expirations, such as termination of curent term in office, for example. Too easily they become tools for later officials to excuse tyrrany. As we can see is happening in this report: an old resolution is being quoted for a current use.

2002-08-26T09:47:00.000-04:00

Take the fight to the enemy. It's about damn time we stopped fooling around in Afghanistan and got serious about the war on terror. I see very little to be controversial about this. War on terror is world wide, so our theatre of operations should be the whole damn world. Anyone other than journalists have a dissenting opinion?

2002-08-23T09:47:00.000-04:00

Is home schooling illegal? California thinks so.

2002-08-23T09:44:00.000-04:00

Did we deserve it? No, and Mark Steyn thinks not, too. As he says, we deserved to be attacked as much as a woman deserves to be raped. You won't hear this out of Liberals, of course, because rape is only about sex, and Bill Clinton taught us that sex isn't important.

2002-08-23T09:19:00.000-04:00

Finally, someone is acting sensibly in the face of tyrrany caused by terrorist attacks on US soil.

2002-08-23T09:05:00.000-04:00

The World's Elites meet to decide our fate.

2002-08-22T09:42:00.000-04:00

For those people who think Homeland Defense is a good idea, here's something to think about.

2002-08-22T09:12:00.000-04:00

This Guy's always belonged in Looney Tunes.

2002-08-22T08:56:00.000-04:00

NASA: We found it.

2002-08-22T08:50:00.000-04:00

They can vote, serve life in prison or the death penalty, and fight and die in service for their country, but they can't drink, and now California wants to deny them cigarettes.

2002-08-22T08:46:00.000-04:00

But what would the NEA say?

2002-08-22T08:34:00.000-04:00

On August 22, 1485, Richard III died in battle and the Crown was passed to Henry Tudor, King Henry VII of England, Richard's nemesis and commander of the opposing army.
I've spent some time studying Richard III, and this story is fascinating.

2002-08-21T15:16:00.000-04:00

Of course it's not Global Warming! Simply because it doesn't exist.

2002-08-21T15:11:00.000-04:00

Naturally, government "experts" will try to discredit this new idea rather than evaluate it, or look into fallibility of their own model.

2002-08-21T15:07:00.000-04:00

And there was much rejoicing, part 2!

2002-08-21T15:05:00.000-04:00

And there was much rejoicing!

2002-08-20T13:34:00.000-04:00

Global Warming? Now, if we can only find some way to blame America for this, Europe will write a UN charter for funding to pay scientists to combat it and regulations to cripple the American economy.

2002-08-20T13:25:00.000-04:00

Supreme Court Updates. Some good ones here.

2002-08-20T08:32:00.000-04:00

As if we needed more evidence that al Qaeda are bad guys: ABC News story. We may need to invade Iraq just to go after our anti-terror goals, and bypass Saddam Hussein altogether. This is, however, an unprecedented opportunity for the Iraqi president to deliver up some terrorists to the UN and gain himself much favour with Khofi Annan against the rumoured US invasion. Watch him drop the ball.

2002-08-19T12:33:00.000-04:00

You've lost what? NASA is not having a great record this decade.

2002-08-19T12:25:00.000-04:00

Impossible. Only the Republicans can be associated with Big Business. This must be all lies to deflect attention away from President Bush.

2002-08-19T12:22:00.000-04:00

A study to prove what most of us already knew. But just can't remember.

2002-08-16T10:13:00.000-04:00

Emergency Liberal Elitism Alert: PETA has gone too far. I think it's time every single American write them a letter telling them to go stuff themselves. Show up at PETA headquaters in furs and eating hamburgers. Turn 100,000 lab mice loose in their offices.

2002-08-16T10:11:00.000-04:00

If you wait for government or the tax-supported telcos, you'll be waiting a long time. Do it yourself.

2002-08-16T10:02:00.000-04:00

I've commented on this before. Don't believe a word: the language of the RAVE Act is very unconstitutional, and a dangerous start down the road to the revocation of rights. I'll be on the lookout for a link to the bill itself, if possible.

2002-08-16T09:58:00.000-04:00

Fly the friendly skies! Another Airline bailout, but not what you think.

2002-08-15T10:11:00.000-04:00

We need a LOT more of this.

2002-08-15T09:49:00.000-04:00

War with Iraq? Not going to be the armageddon as predicted by the doves. From Jane's website:
"At the outset, remember who the critics are. They are the people who predicted Armageddon in all recent conflicts. The critics claimed a decade ago that the war to remove Saddam from Kuwait would last 'for decades'; its most intensive phase lasted less than a month. They also said that 'huge numbers' of Western soldiers would be killed. In fact, hundreds died. They predicted that Saddam's Republican Guards would 'fight to the end'; in fact, they ran away."
I'm convinced this can produce more benefits than drawbacks.

2002-08-15T09:06:00.000-04:00

Impossible! Senator Hollings forms a good idea! The world is coming to an end.

2002-08-14T14:43:00.000-04:00

Another fabulous Walter Williams column.

2002-08-14T11:12:00.000-04:00

I always know I can find a BS science story on CNN.com. Here's the latest. It's about, what else, global warming. I offer another hypothesis: pollution, maybe?

2002-08-14T11:08:00.000-04:00

Almost too damn rediculous to report. Do the French know about this?

2002-08-14T11:01:00.000-04:00

If you are looking for conspiracies and subtle terrorist attacks here's a start.

2002-08-14T10:55:00.000-04:00

As far as profiling goes, I can agree and disagree. The premise of the article is since all of the hijackers were Arabs, then we should only be searching Arab visitors. I say yes, but, John Walker Lindh was not an Arab. Thus, terrorist profiles need a bit more work, though seaching Saudis and Egyptians is a start to solving the problem. Tell them the same thing you tell the blue-haired old lady: If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear. Don't call it profiling, call it threat assessment.

2002-08-13T12:25:00.000-04:00

Excellent story. And this has got to be about the coolest photograph I have ever seen. Talk about a big bang!

2002-08-13T12:05:00.000-04:00

Iran speaks out.! My answer: Yes, and so should anyone else. Unless you don't really care for your people, that is.
"The American administration has a misunderstanding about their own power and their own interests," Khatami said. "Since Sept. 11, this administration has taken an angry approach to foreign policy."

Reasonable, given the fact that 3000 Amercian civilians lost their lives from the actions of followers of the peaceful and benevolent religion of Islam. Islamic Terrorists bombed the Marine Barracks in Lebannon, killing 270 Marines. We did nothing. It's a trend the Islamic terrorists seem to have gotten used to. Hopefully, our current President plans to put an end to that trend. Too bad it came to the killing of thousands to wake up the Federal Government. It should have ended with the first ever terrorist murder.

2002-08-13T11:55:00.000-04:00

Meaningless. We elect officials to determine matters of government, such as whether or not we will go to war to protect us and our interests. We do not conduct such policy by polls and surveys. Or, at least we had better not.

2002-08-12T11:43:00.000-04:00

Serves 'em right! What a society of wackos we have become.

2002-08-12T11:41:00.000-04:00

Now, if we could only find some way to tie white male Americans to this problem, we could get billions in funding to fix it.

2002-08-12T11:35:00.000-04:00

To catch the latest PC garbage, read Tongue Tied.

2002-08-12T11:11:00.000-04:00

Clearly, Iraq is hiding something. Our "friends" the Saudis should worry, as should the Iranians, amongst others, primarily Kuwait.

2002-08-12T11:05:00.000-04:00

One more reason to boot the UN out of New York, and for us to leave it.

2002-08-12T11:01:00.000-04:00

A story to interest archaeologists and chess fans alike.

2002-08-12T10:58:00.000-04:00

Back from a trip to Canada. 2100 miles in three days is a bit tiring, to say the least.

2002-08-07T13:27:00.000-04:00

Death penalty questions.
"The Supreme Court's ruling allows California and 19 other states that permit execution of the mentally retarded to legally define retardation. The generally accepted clinical definition is someone having an IQ of about 70 or lower.
"

Well, it's the stupid criminals that get caught, or smarter criminals turn them in. How does this fit in with the popular Liberal opinion that the IQ test is a racist test, and thus blacks, er, African-Americans rather, score lower- making them retarded? Ok, this argument is going in circles and getting sillyer with each revolution. I should have known it was illogical from the beginning just by mentioning Liberal or Democrat or California.

2002-08-07T13:17:00.000-04:00

We threw tea into Boston Harbor because of high taxes on tea. Now I suppose we should dress as Indians, um, ah I mean Native Americans, and throw tobacco into New York Harbor.

2002-08-07T11:08:00.000-04:00

We really don't need Saudi Arabia. We already have these huge floating bases, called aircraft carriers, and enough Marines in a carrier battle group to take over Iraq's port provinces, establish a beachhead and begin construction of temporary airbases for the Air Force. The Army can jump troops in up north and get support from Turkey, though that's not necesary either.

Simply, we do not need any other nation in the Middle East to help us if we choose to eliminate whatever terrorist group or supporter suits our fancy.

2002-08-07T10:56:00.000-04:00

Somebody has to, because NASA sure won't. And more people than just me should be complaining about it.

2002-08-07T10:36:00.000-04:00

Free music, free books, now free research.

2002-08-06T12:48:00.000-04:00

To quote Homer Simpson: "Doh!" Are global warming advocates getting caught in their own disinformation?

2002-08-06T12:10:00.000-04:00

On Welfare. This is the part I like:
"In the welfare statist's world, no one is responsible for his own life. People's lives are shaped by social forces, not by their own choices. Because "society" makes people poor, in this view, "society" owes them handouts."

That's it, in a nutshell. It's not my fault, so government should pay for it. Meaning: rich people owe me a living.

2002-08-06T12:01:00.000-04:00

Informational on Homeland Security Department. Jack Kelly is wrong, I fear. I can agree with many of his points, however, we don't need:
"... more Customs agents, Border Patrolmen and Coast Guardsmen. "
What we need is less restrictive policies and rules for the organizations these agents work in. We need them to be better able to perform their jobs, not a bureacracy to oversee their bureacracies. Typical of Washington: the way to fix a problem is to throw more money at it, not correct the errors.

2002-08-06T11:14:00.000-04:00

I'm super confident in my government's ability to protect me from terrorists.
Not.

2002-08-06T11:12:00.000-04:00

In France, and it's spreading, if you don't toe the government line on your ideas and beliefs, you will be outlawed. Next comes the thought police.

2002-08-06T10:51:00.000-04:00

I believe I commented on this several weeks ago. Environmentalists don't want environmentally sound energy generators blocking their view. More of the same: "I don't care where, just not here."

2002-08-05T15:37:00.000-04:00

Global Warming nonsense.

2002-08-02T11:34:00.000-04:00

They must be going crazy in Louisiana. Don't they know that guns create crime and violence? This Governor should be fired, no? Isn't it irresponsible ot encourage women to defend themselves? Afterall, that's what the police are for: your personal body guards. Or, that's what the Liberals are telling us anyway.

2002-08-02T11:31:00.000-04:00

Are the Canadians getting ready to invade the US? Or is it just their relaxed immigration policies allowing more anti-US terrorists through?