In the tradition of historically accurate and thought-provoking marching band halftime shows, a Texas high school decided to do a WWII themed performance. Include in the billing was “Deutschland Uber Alles,” a song linked to Hitler, and a ceremonial showing of the Nazi flag.
I don’t think they intentionally meant any harm, nor do I think they themselves are sympathetic to the ideals of National Socialiasm (though some of them perhaps the latter part). I do, however, have to wonder what on earth the producers of this show were thinking.
“I know, during halftime at the big game, let’s show an introspective piece about the greatest war ever fought.” To be fair, perhaps they were worried Liberals would scream about discrimination if they didn’t give all particiapants equal access to the airwaves - just an example of the “fairness doctrine” in practice. After all, we know that war was only about coal.
In a post-debate poll, when posited a choice between Busamante and McClintock, registered voters pick McClintock 49-42, and “probable voters” pick McClintock 56-37. In a dead heat between Arnold and Bustamecha, registered go 52-39 and probable go 58-36 for Arnold.
This illustrates what I’ve been talking about all along. If Arnold wasn’t in the race, McClintock would still win nicely. The problem is that among all the people I know who are voting for Arnold, they say “I like McClintock, but I don’t think he can win, so I’ll vote for Arnold.” With one week left, it’s way too late to change any minds, but if these people had just given McClintock unqualified support from the begining, he would be in line for the governorship.
This being said, in the current situation, it seems wise for McClintock to bow out and give his support to Arnold, shoring up the GOP victory and showing he’s a team player. This would also set him up nicely for a challenge next year against Boxer for Senate. With his statewide exposure, and a favorable exit from the race, I think he stands a good chance. In all actuality, I think I’d prefer to have in Washington than Sacramento anyways.
You are a professional PC. The kind that programmers, hackers and the like use. You’re fast, optimized for crunching big tasks in no time. On your hardrive there will be lots of specialized tools for programming and such.
The graffiti was found early Sunday on upscale homes, two clothing retailers and a Pottery Barn store, which included statements hostile to President Bush and Jews, police Lt. Mitch McCann said.
The attacks, which targeted sites between Sunset and Santa Monica boulevards, coincided with the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah.
No, the Anti-War, Anti-Bush left isn’t intolerant or anti-semitic. They’re the epitome of peaceful, thinking, rational beings. Just one more example of the Democrats - Party of Tolerance.
This is the best short story I’ve read in a long time. In “Love Is a Fallacy,” Max Shulman demonstrates a wit and clarity of language that I find lacking in most modern writing (mine woefully included). The thesis of this story is that a good lawyer’s wife must be “beautiful, gracious, and intelligent,” and as a first year law student, the narrator sets out to make such a wife. Seeing as how it is “easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful,” the author bargains for his roommates girl, who possesses the first two necessary traits, and tries to instill the third. His lessons in logic go terribly awry.
I urge you to take 15 minutes out of your day to read this five page story.
Don’t think he doesn’t have any.
Schwarzenegger has received close to $7 million in contributions from real estate developers, high-tech companies and the entertainment industry.
I think they were aiming for serious, but I find it quite enjoyably humourous. The same Frenchman that brought you the 9-11: The Big Lie, claiming that no plane ever crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and that the attacks were plotted by a faction within the U.S. military, has given us another intellectual masterpiece - a deck of cards featuring the 52 most dangerous American officials.
On the one hand, I’m honored. It’s good to know that we still strike fear into the hearts of loony left-wing, Stalinist sympathasizing, dictator and terrorist appeasing European intellectuals. The fact that Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades is all the better. I would prefer that they see our Secretary of Defense as someone who is willing to actively oppose them. I would be afraid if these nutcases saw in our SecDef someone who would just follow our “enlightened elders” in their path of appeasement and ignorance, someone who would tow the line and turn a blind eye to atrocities while trading arms with the most vile regimes on earth.
On the other hand, it’s just downright cute. I find the whole idea rather funny, and I plan on ordering myself a deck. In fact, it gave me a good idea for a deck about French people that I could build.
Warning: This next section is just good old-fashioned humour. I’m not a racist bigot, and I don’t hate the French anymore than is necessary.
I knew it would be far too difficult to build a deck of the 52 biggest badasses of the current French goverment, so I decided to be charitable and open it up to all of history. Unfortunately, I could only find 4 in all of French history. Well, I guess that’s an ace for each suit.
1. A 13 year old little peasant girl. [Joan of Arc]
2. An Italian of small stature. [Napoleon]
3. A smelly Celt. [Vercingetorix]
4. A stauch Catholic and opponent of the French Revolution (two things considered anathema by modern French). [La Rochejaquelein]
In case you’re interested, I found two neat ways to determine the moon you were born under.
A precise technical estimation
or
A pretty picture
I suggest you look at both. Armed with this knowledge, you can plug in your birthmoon to any random culturally specific astrology you so desire.
PS: This is all courtesy of the United States Navy - I don’t wanna hear any more complaints about our government or the military being anti-Wiccan.
A recent Gallup poll shows that:
Nearly two-thirds of Baghdad residents say the removal of Saddam Hussein was worth the hardships they have endured, a report said Wednesday.
Wait, you mean they’re actually happy that they no longer have to go through life terrified of the government? What about the fact that sometimes they don’t have electricity? In all seriousness, I’m sure some people are shocked that Iraqis turn out to be normal, rational human beings. On almost any Cost-Benefit Analysis scale, life in Iraq now is miles ahead of where it was six months ago, and the invasion was worth it.
However, there is one troubling aspect to the survey:
Iraqis in the capital still maintain a great deal of skepticism about the motives of the United States and Britain.
Residents said they hold France and its president, Jacques Chirac, in higher regard than President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
So, they’re happy the invasion happened, but they highly respect the one leader most opposed to the invasion. If Chirac had his way, they would still be living under Saddam, which, according to their own opinion, is less preferable. Doesn’t make much sense to me.
Some American Muslims have coined the term Judeo-Christian-Islamic to reflect their ideal of what the United States should be. *
How about just “Abrahamic.”
I find it odd that there is an entry in the help manual for Windows explaining how to access the help manual.
Using Help
If you don’t know how to do something, you can look it up in Help. Just click the Start button, and then click Help.
You can get Help on each item in a dialog box by clicking the question mark button on the title bar and then clicking the item.
Last January, at a conference in Switzerland, he happened to chat with two prominent Republicans, Colorado Gov. Bill Owens and Marc Holtzman, now president of the University of Denver. I would have been a Republican, Clark told them, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
So, angered at being left out of the club, Clark decides to switch parties to try to show Karl how he screwed up. I don’t know why the Democrats are embracing this guy so much, he seems like their version of John McCain. When considering this party history, coupled with his lack of knowledge about the issues, it really seems as though Clark just wants to win - and doesn’t actually care about what happens if he does.
Hours after his announcement, ABCs Mark Halperin asked Clark for his personal ranking of the two most crucial U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the last quarter century. The general drew a blank (but privately vowed afterward to hit the books).
More seriously, Clark managed to create confusion about his position on the war in Iraqopposition to which was supposed to be his calling card. Pressed by reporters, Clark said he probably would have voted last year for the congressional resolution that authorized George W. Bush to go to war. Suddenly, the Democratic establishments beau ideala four-star foe of the war, a MacArthur who could not be branded a McGovernseemed to fade into just another wishy-washy pol.
What Clark meant, his aides scurried to say, was that he would have voted aye only to pressure Saddam Hussein into allowing more inspections, and as a way of scaring the United Nations into taking more action. But that was the rationale many Democrats in the Senate (including Kerry and Clinton) used to justify their yes vote.
In Iowa, he declared he never would have voted for the war, though war was precisely what the resolution he probably would have supported authorized.
Gray Davis has finally unveiled his grand vision for the state of California, “My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth.”
Man, talk about using works not in the same lexical field. Unfortunately, this time it would appear that the transitive property has failed for Gray. Three pairs emerge with actual lexical connection: state belongs with country, country with earth, and earth with planet. State does not belong with earth (at least not in the sense of internal administrative division that Davis uses), and neither state nor country belongs with planet.
When Davis said he was out of touch with the people of California, he wasn’t joking. He doesn’t even know who those people are.
History’s largest rodent has been found in Venezula. At Phoberomys pattersoni, it’s name is a mouthful. Called simply “Goya,” and described by lead scientist Marcelo Sanchez-Villagra as “a wierd guinea pig, but huge, with a long tail for balancing on its hind legs and continuously growing teeth,” it was as big as a buffalo, and weighed over 1,500 pounds.
A man in Oregon crashed his car while singing a Justin Timberlake song because a bee entered his mouth. Using the legal logic developed during the 90’s, I think this man has a great case against Justin Timberlake and the record producers. I can just imagine the testimony now:
Plaintiff: “I was just driving along, minding my own business when the Timberlake song came on. Suddenly, the music and media image forced me to start singing and dancing - dancing in my car! What kind of respectable activity is that? All forced on me by the excellent vocal renderings of Timberlake and the beats of his producers. If they hadn’t created such groovalicious music, I would never have opened my mouth and closed me eyes while pretending I was on American Idol, and that bee never would have come in.” (Note to self - check statute of limitations. Perhaps it’s still possible to sue American Idol for instilling a desire to be a performer, and eliciting my overactive imagination.)
Prosecutor: “Is it true, Mr. Timberlake, that you make ‘groovalicious music?’”
Defendant: “Yes, it’s true. My music is of the highest quality, and I’ve warned my producers for years of the dangers of releasing my music on an unprepared population. They would usually respond with ’shut up and sing, pretty boy.’ Come to think of it, this created a hostile working environment, and until now, I never thought of the blatant homophobic overtones. It’s a testament to my talent that I was able to perform at all under these conditions.” (Note to self - sue producers)
Judge: “I am not able to make a ruling at this time because not enough minorities listen to Justin Timberlake. They tend to only have CD players, which have been outdated by MP3 players. Since nobody buys Mr. Timberlake’s albums anymore, mp3s must be burned onto CDs. Clearly, distributing his music only by mp3 violates the equal protection clause, becuase minority groups can’t figure out how to properly burn CDs.“
