Aug
31
Posted at 23:21 by Brad
How did I know that WorldNetDaily would eventually publish a gem like this:
Hurricane hits just before homosexual event
Christian activist: Act of God prevented ‘Southern Decadence’ festival
Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans just two days before the annual homosexual “Southern Decadence” festival was to begin in the town, an act being characterized by some as God’s work.
Fascinating. The hurricane also struck only one week after the annual Shrimp Festival in Delcambre, Louisiana. As you all know, God hates shrimp so much that He pointedly calls them “abominations” in the Bible. This debauched, gluttonous festival in Delcambre clearly aroused God’s wrath and forced Him to seek vengeance. So for all you sinful jerks who decided to flaunt the Lord’s will and chow down on shellfish, I point my finger and say, “YOU helped this to happen!”
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Aug
31
Posted at 22:02 by Brad
Even by JB Williams’ admittedly low standards, this column is really bad:
Polls Demonstrate Effectiveness of Message, Not Mission
JB Williams
August 31, 2005 – The easiest thing to find in America today, or the world for that matter, is an opinion about the war effort in Iraq.
Well no shit. All you have to do is go outside and ask someone what they think about the Iraq war. It isn’t that difficult. Hell, you could say the same thing about opinions on the goddamn Easter Bunny. I went up to some dude just the other day and said, “Hey! Is that Easter Bunny wack or what? Who does he think he is, hopping around town, leaving big piles of rainbow-colored rabbit shit on my front porch?” And the guy looked at me and said, “Right on, man! That fuckin’ bunny can rot in hell for all I care!”
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Aug
31
Posted at 20:36 by Sadly, No!
Love is in the air:
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of stupid people parroting stupid buzz words. There are too many to list all of them here, but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to try. I propose that we all agree, here and now, to strike these words and phrases from our collective for the betterment of humanity, and the improvement of my blood pressure. Thank you.
Blog: The word “blog” is literally shorthand for “boring;” a vulgar, overused word that strikes your ear with the dull thud of a cudgel to the soft spot of a child. [...]
It’s an unspoken rule that every blog must use the same layout as every other blog: long, slender columns of annoyingly condensed text, thousands of links to other blogs, plugs for shitty political books, and more links to yet more blogs:
Hooray! Plenty more where that came from.
(”Thanks” to Scooby for the link.)
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Aug
31
Posted at 20:10 by Sadly, No!
The Wall Street Journall reports:
Daniel Perry, an Orlando, Fla., lawyer who has closely followed Mr. Wall’s case online, said Mr. Wall may have taken on liability by posting negative comments about Traffic-Power.com himself. [...]
“The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people.”
Oh, wait…. Merde!
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Aug
31
Posted at 18:38 by Gavin M.
Instapundit: Good for something.
Katrina relief info here.
The wingnutosphere is doing a flood-aid blogburst tomorrow, and as long as they stick to stuff like that, we might all be pals around here.
The black people are looting, looting, looting!
Well, maybe not pals, exactly. But we won’t call Michelle that special name until things are brought at least somewhat under control in the Gulf.
Also, since it’s Ecumenical-nice Day around here, Jude Wanniski, of supply-side fame, was one of the first conservative solons to speak against the war. A principled conservative: R.I.P., August 29, ‘05.
We certainly aren’t what you’d usually call joiners, but ever since Blog Like A Conservative Day we’ve felt a special warmth for our right-wing bretheren and sistern. And not just in our pants! Watch the world turn backwards and upside down as S,N! joins the conserv-o-blog flood-aid blogburst.
And will they remember this later, when we’re scuffling over a fireplace poker trying to bash each other’s skulls in? We hope so, because that might slow them down long enough to grab the poker. Hmm.
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Aug
31
Posted at 8:34 by Sadly, No!
Things are not good in the Gulf Coast area, but:
After touring the destruction by air, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said it is not of case of homes being severely damaged, “they’re simply not there. … I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.
Except for the number of dead bodies and stuff:
The nuclear weapon Little Boy, which killed an estimated 80,000 civilians and heavily damaged the city, was the second such device to be detonated, and the first ever used in military action.
Or:
By 1950, another 230,000 Japanese had died from injuries or radiation.
Hiroshima.
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Aug
31
Posted at 5:44 by Gavin M.
The entries and (equally) comments at Metroblogging have the best up-to-date reports on New Orleans.
The broadcast media has been using old footage and routinizing the disaster to fit the template of a standard Florida-style hurricane story. But it seems much worse than that: The city is effectively in chaos, with no end in sight. The best media source is the Times-Picayune, the entire staff of which is now ‘at large’ (the paper is in temporary offices, publishing only its online edition).
But the scarcity of hard information from New Orleans is startling. Most residents have left the city, and there are few channels of communication open for those who have stayed, but if anyone has a good source to post in comments, I’ll bump it up pronto to the main page.
Added: These folks are putting together photographic flood maps using Google Earth. The downside, as with many such techie projects (I grabbed the link from BoingBoing) is that you need to be set up with existing trendware to view the files — in this case Google Earth, which is, to put it mildly, a resource-intensive program.
Added (thanks, Scaramouche!): http://lifegoesoff.blogspot.com/, http://nokatrina.blogspot.com/
Both have good links to NOLA media and breaking information.
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Aug
30
Posted at 22:27 by Brad
Free Opera for everybody.
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Aug
30
Posted at 19:46 by Brad
I’ve only been away for three days, but in that time, Renew America posted a ton of extra-kooky columns. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do, so let’s start with R.A.’s hottest new columnist, Tom Kovach!
Since Tom’s the new kid on the block, he’s trying extra hard to show that he belongs in the same class as wingnut heavyweights like Kaye Grogan and Justin Darr. And to prove his worthiness, he’s written this super-zany column about the minimum wage:
Minimum wage: “new deal” vs. “square deal”
Tom Kovach
August 30, 2005
The political Left is at it again. There are new rumblings ? mostly from Democrats, with their Socialist allies ? about raising the minimum wage. They claim that American workers are “economically oppressed,” and need relief from those greedy capitalists. You know, the ones that pay the taxes that the Left likes to spend on midnight basketball, and other “strategies.”)
Ah yes. We all know how crushing the tax burden on the rich has become. (Seriously, hiding your money in overseas shelters is hard work!)
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Aug
30
Posted at 8:22 by Gavin M.
Last I saw Dan, he was running a recording studio in the storefront that later became his raw-food restaurant, Quintessence, on E. 10th St. — he was living with Debbie of the False Prophets in a loft above what’s now the dining room. Chicken John was also living there, or crashing, or keeping his stuff in the basement (or something), and I was playing bass with John’s band-at-the-time, Letch Patrol. We’d record in what’s now (I think) Quintessence’s kitchen, while Dan and Debbie argued upstairs about all the weirdos who were always hanging around the place.
Right, ‘Letch Patrol’ — ‘food in the raw.’ Puns springing up like hollyhocks. See, you turn around and suddenly people are on the cover of the NY Post. There are like, what, a couple hundred residents of downtown Manhattan? Because it’s just the same people over and over.
(Pic & clip stolen from the doughty Steve Gilliard.)
Restaurant boss in raw – tipsters
Is he subway flasher?
BY TRACY CONNOR and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Cops want to question a Manhattan restaurant owner after getting numerous tips that he’s the subway flasher caught in the act by camera phone, police sources said last night.
Nearly two dozen people have phoned the Daily News and the NYPD to say they believe Dan Hoyt, co-owner of raw-food eateries called Quintessence, is the man whose photo appeared on the cover of Saturday’s paper.
Investigators contacted Hoyt by phone and asked him to come in for an interview, NYPD sources said. No arrests have been made.
Hoyt did not return The News’ calls, and his business partner and ex-wife, Tolentin Chan, said, “It’s not proven yet.”
She said whoever the flasher is, he needs counseling.
“There should be a support center to support these men to find what is the cause of their action instead of …putting them in jail,” she said.
Hoyt and Chan co-own two restaurants, one on E. 10th St. in the East Village and the other on Amsterdam Ave., and are well known in the raw food movement, which calls for serving uncooked food.
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Aug
29
Posted at 23:12 by Brad
Hey, I just moved into a new apartment and am still unpacking shite. Be back with a super-special post tomorrow.
UPDATE: OK, I’m back for a bit. I forgot to mention that I found the perfect job for Ben Shapiro:
LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland – More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland?s 13th wife on Monday…
C’mon, Ben, what do those lame-asses have that you don’t? Now fly to Swaziland and show the king them boobies! Look, you’d even be paying tribute to the symbol of the Republican Party:
Wielding machetes and singing tributes to the king and queen mother, also known as the Great She-Elephant, the girls danced around the royal stadium in the hope of catching the eye of the 37-year-old monarch.
Shake it, Ben, shake it!
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Aug
29
Posted at 22:39 by Sadly, No!
Nothing makes Opinion Journal crazier than The Flat Tax (Crazy Jesus Lady is a close second.) John Fund writes:
After being mired in stagnation for years, in 2001 Russia implemented a flat tax of 13% for individuals, along with a 15% rate for most business income. The economy grew 7.3% last year, thanks in part to underground activity going legitimate, more than doubling revenues from income taxes.
Luckily for John Fund, not a lot of people follow the Russian economy that closely. Sadly for John Fund, Google does:
Economic growth in Russia is estimated to have been around 6-7 per cent in 2000. [...] The high price of commodities on the global market and the devaluation of the rouble after the 1998 crisis have particularly supported strong economic growth in Russia. Export has increased as a result of devaluation. Likewise, the price of imported goods has increased. For this reason, industries to replace imports have been developed in several sectors.
The traitorous French add (PDF:)
The positive effects of the 1998 devaluation of the rouble (domestic output partially replaced imports)
and the surge in oil prices since 1999, accompanied by the steady rise in export volumes, are widely acknowledged
as the drivers of Russia’s economic turnaround after the 1988 crisis.
Let’s make this a slam dunk, ok?
The economy rebounded in 1999 and 2000, buoyed by the competitive boost from the weak ruble and a surging trade surplus fueled by rising world oil prices.
Speaking of slam dunks, we’ll let the CIA wrap this one up:
Russia ended 2004 with its sixth straight year of growth, averaging 6.5% annually since the financial crisis of 1998. [...] Economic growth slowed down in the second half of 2004 and the Russian government forecasts growth of only 4.5% to 6.2% for 2005. Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices.
John Fund also throws in:
Greece is likely to introduce a 25% single rate for both corporate and personal income next month.
Given that the US pretty much has an effective federal tax rate of 25%, John should be pretty happy. [Ooh, a Sadly, No! classic.]
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Aug
29
Posted at 22:09 by Sadly, No!
Apparently, yes! Responding to their hate mail bage, The Rant writes:
I really enjoy this revival of smugness over WMD. This is the only ammunition you short- sighted I told you so nags have in your arsenal.
Bonus: We defy anyone, and that includes Dr. BLT, to make sense of this:
Just as dwelling in the recent past is endemic among the less than literate, looking into the future any farther than whether the barmaid will be back from the head soon enough to fix you another Pink Squirrel is the outside limit of foresight. Planning for the future, like maybe drinking that Squirrel in front of you a little slower to prevent the anxiety of an empty glass, is not in your skill set. Review what was found in Iraq and remember that you big mouth counterfeit altruists are the hypocrites. You have brushed aside the suffering of entire nation so you can continue wagging your finger saying I told you so, ignoring world history and refusing to have the balls to look into the future.
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Aug
29
Posted at 20:16 by Gavin M.
We’re certainly not working on a mash-up Flash video for Dr. BLT’s new song, The Folks at Sadly, No!
Not Toots Hibbert of the Maytals
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Aug
29
Posted at 18:37 by Sadly, No!
Because no one likes homosexuals more than John Derbyshire.
So we say: Go Brian! (It’s must see TV.)
Warning: Contains a naked George Bush and homosexuals. Hooray!
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Aug
28
Posted at 19:26 by Sadly, No!
Pretty much. Maggie Gallagher (the real life 40 year old virgin) writes:
Two of the hottest love stories this summer are “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “March of the Penguins.” [...]
Funny thing is, both movies are both pretty much about the same thing: [...]
“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” is a quirky, rather vulgar and endearingly subversive sex comedy[.] [...] The comedy here is rooted in the audience’s rueful laughter at the mishaps produced by the way the sexual drive relentlessly fuses with the restless human search for lasting love.
Which is exactly how we would summarize The March of the Penguins.
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Aug
28
Posted at 17:08 by Gavin M.
We’re ridin’ the BLT!
BLT (Basel, CH)
Here you go. This is for all of you folks poisoned by the cyanide of cynicism. Here’s the key to my free MP3 jukebox:
Now that only gives you access to about 50 of the hundreds of songs I’ve written and recorded over the years, but go for it! Tear them apart one by one. Protest each song at the rising of the sun. But when all is said and done, you will have hurt your cause. Your vituperative utterances have caused me to rise in prominance. I’m already gained a huge underground following since you’ve all been taking shots at me, so who I am to complain about your vociferous vitriol? You can run everry single song into the ground, but you can’t take away what you all wish you could take away from me—my right to freedom of speech.
Posted by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, Ph.D., aka Dr. BLT at August 28, 2005 04:58 PM
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Aug
27
Posted at 21:46 by Sadly, No!
Crazy Jesus Lady, August 25, 2005:
In the rough future our country faces, bad things will happen. We all know this. [...] Imagine they’re planning that on the same day in the not-so-distant future, they will set off nuclear suitcase bombs in six American cities, including Washington, which will take the heaviest hit. Hundreds of thousands may die; millions will be endangered.
Evan Coyne Maloney, June 2004:
Put your hand on your neck and imagine a large knife sawing though it. (Stop and think for a minute…you can almost feel it, can’t you?) Well, that’s just one of your possible fates if we decline to fight this war.
What do wingnuts put in their coffee anyhow? Maybe Dr. BLT can write a song about it.
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Aug
27
Posted at 21:23 by Sadly, No!
After much tweaking, and in no small part thanks to the help of Bruce, the first version of the style switcher (from white-on-black to black-on-white) should now be fully functional.
We had some minor issues with the new style not sticking on comments or extended entries, so we added the switch option to both windows (near the top.) Once selected in all 3 possible windows, the settings should stick (even when you close your browser.)
We hope this is to everyone’s liking — please report any problems in the comments. (Tested on Firefox and IE.)
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