Archive for September 1st, 2006

Faceless terrorists drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night

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The Raw Story | GOP Senator Burns: ‘Faceless’ terrorists ‘drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night’
I don’t know. If I got into a cab and the driver had no face, that would certainly terrorize me, at least until I got another cab. I suppose I’m a facist.
But as for the impliction [...]

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Frank Lloyd Wright in Half Life 2

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YouTube - Frank Lloyd Wright in Half Life 2 (via boingboing.net)
Since I was just there a month ago, I can attest that this is a very accurate reconstruction of Falling Water. The only thing it’s missing are the creepy groundsmen clones with Prince Valiant haircuts and the women at the information desk who make you [...]

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CA Assembly approves universal health care

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Assembly approves universal health care / Passage of bill seen as election-year test for Schwarzenegger
See what happens when you get more than one party in government? Of course it’s a test for Schwarzenegger. All good Republicans oppose “socialized medicine” as inherently corrupt, despite the fact that it’s just not true. It’s only the insurance companies [...]

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Kyra Phillips Top Ten List

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YouTube - Kyra Phillips Top Ten List
In case you missed it. The original Bush speech with over-dub is also on YouTube.
I think she’s redeemed herself pretty well. Too bad there wasn’t a line about her wonderful “end of the world” conversations with fundamentalists.

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How Hitler Became a Dictator

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How Hitler Became a Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger
The article is a pretty good summary of the key events of the day–mainly those which bear some resemblance to the events of the last five years. That is not to say that BushCo had anything to do with plotting 9/11 like the Reichstag fire. That takes [...]

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British Airways Flies With Google Earth

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British Airways Flies With Google Earth - Forbes.com
It’s in the web reservation system, apparently. That’s pretty cool. Next, I want GE to replace that old in-flight map I see on most US flights, even if it’s just one computer driving all of the TV screens at once (on tour mode, for example).
Which reminds me of [...]

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Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water

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WorldNetDaily: Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water
I don’t know if this story is true or just fanciful on the part of some writer (note the WND site). The fact that the faithful man got as far as his waist and didn’t notice he wasn’t walking on water yet is telling. Did he think the [...]

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