Archive for September, 2007
How the Law “works” in Texas
YouTube - Texas Legislation
You won’t believe how blatantly Texas lawmakers steal each other’s votes. If you’re not on the floor when a vote is taken, someone sitting nearby will just reach over and vote for you, however they wish, even across party lines. It’s against the rules, passed by the very same lawmakers this year. [...]
Read More..>>The Boy is Mine
Although looking at how cute he is, I have a hard time understanding how he could possibly be related to me. He’s basically doubled in size since birth, is almost sleeping through the night, and smiles at just about everything I do, as long as he’s the center of attention.
Read More..>>Randy Pausch
If you don’t check my professional/tech blog regularly, I’d like to point you to a very moving/inspirational story of a dying professor’s last lesson (someone I actually have the honor of knowing). It’s well worth watching the full media stream, but there’s a short video and an article linked too.
http://www.realityprime.com/news/dr-randy-pausch
Alaska Republican Ted Stevens Caught On Tape By FBI
Crooks and Liars » Alaska Republican Ted Stevens Caught On Tape By FBI
Stevens had no comment. But the FBI released the following excerpt. Apparently, Stevens suspected he was being wiretapped, though to what extent wasn’t clear.
"I just the other day got… an internet was sent by a company at 10 o’clock in the morning on [...]
Republicans pushed ‘bogus’ terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says
The Raw Story | Republicans pushed ‘bogus’ terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says
Republicans and the Bush administration used a ‘bogus’ terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government’s spy powers last month, a former top intelligence committee [...]
Movies in Which Fred Thompson Plays a Dick
Is it type-casting, or just dumb luck that Fred Thompson, the actor, always plays a giant dick, barking orders and making the hero’s life difficult? It makes me wonder if he knows how to play any other kind of role. As President, one wonders if his management style is to tell his underlings to get [...]
Read More..>>Tazers = Electric Speech
If you’ve followed the story of a Florida student getting tasered by cops after asking a string of breathless questions to Senator Kerry, you’ve no doubt formed an opinion. The cops were out of line because the kid was just asking a question. The kid deserved to get tased because he was an attention whore, [...]
Read More..>>President Bush, THIS is grounds for firing a U.S. Attorney
Feds: Prosecutor Sought Sex With Girl, 5
Well, an assistant US Attorney anyway. Yes, conspiring with the mother of a 5 year old (actually, an undercover cop — the mother, not the 5 year old) to have sex with said toddler is generally agreed to be grounds for dismissal, among other things. US Attorneys not conspiring [...]
Iran or Syria or Both?
A tale of two dictatorships: The links between North Korea and Syria - Times Online
I don’t know what it is. Perhaps it’s the fact that a Murdoch owned paper is repeatedly reporting on how the US attack on Iran is imminent and how the Israeli attack on Syria last week was to take out a [...]
WMD, EMP, Dick Cheney and Three Genuine Heroes
I saw an interesting article on WorldNetDaily, which I won’t link to because WND is total crap. It’s interesting, not because it propagantastically claims that Iran is on the verge of detonating small nuclear weapons in our upper atmosphere, causing an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, knocking out all electronics, communication, and power.
It’s interesting because [...]