May 12, 2005
Waaaaaaaaaah!
I'm bummed. As is Jonathan, who was actually a guest a few times.
I liked Dennis' show, not simply because I'm a Miller Junkie and have been since I was in high school when he did the news on SNL (Tina Fey? Who the hell is that?), but rather because he made a conscientious effort to have guests who would not turn into a pack of screaming mimis. That was one thing you never had to deal with on his show---people screaming at and over each other to the point where no one got heard. I know that quality apparently makes for great tee vee, but it's not appealing to some of us. I enjoy a good catfight as much as the next person, but political news shows nowadays, like Hardball are a waste of time, in my humble opinion. I have no idea how someone can sit through an hour of that crap. No one listens, people flog books relentlessly, they spout the most inane opinions. Ugh. Who needs it? Dennis, while still the biggest wise-ass known to mankind, nonetheless respected reason and civil discourse. What exactly does it say about television viewers nowadays that a show where people were actually allowed to state an argument that--ahem---could be heard wasn't watched?
Fare thee well, Dennis. Good luck and if you ever get another talk show and need a guest who can crack wise, I am so there.
Provided I don't get that deer-caught-in-the-headlights thing going on.
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Some fascinating, out-of-this-frickin'-world money quotes would include:
{...}As FDR and Churchill consigned these peoples to a Stalinist hell run by a monster they alternately and affectionately called "Uncle Joe" and "Old Bear," why are they not in the history books alongside Neville Chamberlain, who sold out the Czechs at Munich by handing the Sudetenland over to Germany? At least the Sudeten Germans wanted to be with Germany. No Christian peoples of Europe ever embraced their Soviet captors or Stalinist quislings. {...}
But wait. In true Ron Popeil fashion, there's more:
{...}Other questions arise. If Britain endured six years of war and hundreds of thousands of dead in a war she declared to defend Polish freedom, and Polish freedom was lost to communism, how can we say Britain won the war?If the West went to war to stop Hitler from dominating Eastern and Central Europe, and Eastern and Central Europe ended up under a tyranny even more odious, as Bush implies, did Western Civilization win the war? {...}
{...}True, U.S. and British troops liberated France, Holland and Belgium from Nazi occupation. But before Britain declared war on Germany, France, Holland and Belgium did not need to be liberated. They were free. They were only invaded and occupied after Britain and France declared war on Germany – on behalf of Poland.When one considers the losses suffered by Britain and France – hundreds of thousands dead, destitution, bankruptcy, the end of the empires – was World War II worth it, considering that Poland and all the other nations east of the Elbe were lost anyway?{...}
This, to put it mildly, is one of the biggest chunks of bullshit that Bucky's ever produced and that's saying quite a bit, given how much bullshit Bucky produces on a daily basis just by opening his big fat mouth to order a coffee at the local deli.
I honestly don't know where to start. The blatant revisionist history? The overall wrongness of his conclusions? The fact his Lindbergh-esque isolationist bias is showing? Good God, my mind is a jumble.
Thankfully this is not a problem, because Martini Boy has done an excellent job of fisking this puppy. Go and read.
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It seems like some dot com addresses are down. That's bad when its yahoo dot com that you're trying to reach. Some dot org's are down, too. This is really weird.
I don't know what got hacked or who hacked it--- and of course, this is presuming the problem was caused by hackers---but wow. I haven't seen anything like this in a while. The husband is wondering if a big patch of DNS servers are down somewhere.
I dunno, but whatever it was, it's really screwing the pooch.
UPDATE: Google's down. I can get to Blogspot blogs, but I can't get to their parent company's site. What the heck is going on here?
What's weird is that my site is still up and running, while I can't get to other moo knew sites. WTF?
UPDATE DEUX: But I have to say, WOW, what's left of the internet is really freakin' speedy. It's taking no time at all to post this stuff. A few seconds, at most. Which doesn't usually happen.
UPDATE THREE: Do you think a few people are now realizing how addicted to the Internet they really are right about now? Heheheheh.
UPDATE FOUR: And we're back up and running.
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Heh.
(Make sure to check out the blogroll. You'll get a chuckle.)
(Hat Tip: Hog On Ice)
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May 11, 2005
Anyway, now that it's working again, well, I don't really feel like writing a damn thing, but rather have decided to take a bubble bath.
Pfft. I'm fickle that way. Sue me.
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Makes one wonder if one should pay their taxes if this is the best the goverment can come up with.
{ducking and running}
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{...}Yet Columbia remains a holdout, not least because of Mr. Bollinger's dismal leadership. It certainly didn't have to be this way. The 1994 Solomon Amendment forbids universities that exclude ROTC from their campuses from receiving Pentagon funding--reason enough, we would think, for a university president to bring his school into compliance with the law. In April 2003, Columbia held a student referendum on ROTC. Two-thirds voted to bring it back. This led the university senate to appoint a 10-member panel to examine the subject; it split down the middle on the question of readmitting ROTC "as soon as is practicable."{...}
See, this is where the Opinon Journal missed a big opportunity to take a big, fat whack at Columbia's politically correct, lefty ponfitications.
ROTC, along with being an armed forces training/recruitment device, is also a huge scholarship program. You see, if you join up with the Reserve Officer's Training Corps, you get money to pay for school, and while you are required to serve for a specified period of time after you graduate, it's no different than the Americorps program, which I don't believe Columbia has an issue with.
Columbia, with its hoity-toity attitude is depriving its students of the potential of financial aid. You know, getting the government to pay for education, which is something I believe is something the lefty professors and adminstrators would advocate. This policy, one could also suppose if one were so inclined, discriminates against those who perhaps don't qualify for a large financial aid package, who haven't received scholarships ad infinitum, and need yet another way to pay for school without taking out a small fortune in student loans.
How much is tuition at Columbia again?
Too bad the Opinion Journal missed that one.
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@#$#!!@#@ MADD!
I hate OMVI laws. For the uninitiated, OMVI means "Operating a Moving Vehicle While Intoxicated." That doesn't necessarily exclude a car or a motorcycle, but could also include riding mowers, bicycles, and yes, horses. A horse, it seems, is a "moving vehicle." Don't tell the horse; he'll probably be insulted.
I would really like to know how many people were killed in the past five years by a drunk lawn mower driver. Same with drunk cyclists. Do we really need to protect the citizenry of this country from these people? Is there such a dire need for protection from these people that the police really need to be arresting drunken equestrians? I don't think so. I think this is about money and the raising thereof for shiny new cop cars and cop shops. And God only knows anyone charged with an intoxication offense of any kind gets milked for all they're worth.
It's just like speeding tickets; it's easy money, baby. Why the heck not charge someone?
Nanny state, we greet thee.
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Questions, darling, questions. I need questions for Divas Sez on Friday.
Don't be mediocre, darlings. That simply wouldn't do.
/Edna voice
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Of course you are, being the good little geeks that you invariably are.
Far be it from me to keep you in suspense...so away we go.
- What Rebel snowspeeder pilot had the callsign Rogue Two?
- Who reactivated the hyperdrive on the Falcon during its escape from Cloud City?
- What was Han Solo's first line in The Empire Strikes Back?
- What, according to Han, was the destination of the stolen Imperial shuttle?
- What creature is the typical meal for a wampa?
- Who went full-throttle during his Death Star trench run to keep TIE fighters at bay?
Go to it. As always, either throw your answers in the comments section or send a secret transmission to the Evil Cake Eater Empire's mailbox.
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Congratulations to you both!
You can find the answers after the jump. more...
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Ahhhhhh. Yeah, I know. everyone's favorite subject. Well, at least it is for some of the men in the audience. For the women? Well, that's another story entirely. In my experience, women, on the whole, do not like strip clubs. Nor, for the most part, do they like strippers---unless they happen to be one. Strippers are seen as a threat to a happy home. This is why men, wisely enough, tend not to advertise when they go to a club. When was the last time any man told his wife, "Yeah, honey, I'll be at such and such bar for a time, then we're planning on going over to the King of Diamonds after that. I don't know when I'll get home. But I'm going to need cash, and I'm going to need it in small denominations, so can you get me $100 in five dollar bills when you go to the bank?"
Yeah, like that's going to go over well.
If they divulge that information at all it's after the fact and not before. I know many a woman who simply does not want to know, so it's a "don't ask, don't tell" situation. One of the husband's friends, however, has a wife who would hit the roof if she found out where he'd been, so he has, on occasion, asked lil' ol' me to cover for him, should his wife call and wonder where he is. Fortunately, she's never called, so I've never had to cover for him.
I, on the other hand, have absolutely no illusions about the husband's activities. He's been. I know he's been. He knows I know because he's told me. I know that, sometime in the future, he'll go again. I see no reason to disillusion myself in regards to this, or demand that he not go: I wouldn't want to put him in a position where he has to lie to me, and I must say that I don't understand women who don't get this. Men are going to go to strip clubs. This is a fact of life: why not just deal with the facts as they are rather than trying to bend them to your particular whims? While you may think that your man's visits to a club means something about your relationship, you should probably know that, unless your man is going on a daily basis, those visits have absolutely nothing to do with your relationship. They do, however, have everything to do with looking at naked women.
Men go to look at naked ladies. They have reached the stage of their life when they have some brass in pocket, and they can pay to see a naked woman, rather than having to work for that particular payoff. I truly believe this activity is them trying to get in touch with the glories of sex and women as seen through the eyes of a teenager, when sex was new and any naked woman was gorgeous, even if she was, in reality, a hag. Nowadays, they just let their eyes wander in an unfocused sort of way to get back to that feeling. They just can't touch.
Now, I can understand how men can go to these places. No hassles there. What I don't understand is why women would want to go. And there are women who dig those places. If you're one of them, well, know this much: I don't get you. Those places are for men. They appeal to men. They smell like men. They are populated with men. This is their clubhouse. If you show up at one of these places, a muppet will pop up and will start singing "Which one of these things is not like the other?" Furthermore, I don't think men want you there. It ruins the illusion for them. How do I know this? Because I've been, and I was a less than enthusiastic visitor. If you want the rest of the story, take the jump.
And no, Mom, you're not allowed to take the jump.
For those of you who would like to skip the jump, you can go and read what the other Delicious Demystifying Divas have to say about this topic. Make sure to go over to Meanderings where one of our Red Hat divas, Michelle, has also thrown in her two cents. You can also go and read if Pete, Zonker, Puffy or Phin have confirmed or denied my suspicions.
UPDATE: Pammy also has chimed in. more...
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Pete: thanks, sir. that's very kind.
DEATHS from cervical cancer could jump fourfold to a million a year by 2050, mainly in developing countries. This could be prevented by soon-to-be-approved vaccines against the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer - but there are signs that opposition to the vaccines might lead to many preventable deaths.The trouble is that the human papilloma virus (HPV) is sexually transmitted. So to prevent infection, girls will have to be vaccinated before they become sexually active, which could be a problem in many countries.
In the US, for instance, religious groups are gearing up to oppose vaccination, despite a survey showing 80 per cent of parents favour vaccinating their daughters. "Abstinence is the best way to prevent HPV," says Bridget Maher of the Family Research Council, a leading Christian lobby group that has made much of the fact that, because it can spread by skin contact, condoms are not as effective against HPV as they are against other viruses such as HIV.
"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex," Maher claims, though it is arguable how many young women have even heard of the virus.{...}
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Let's see if we can follow the logic the FRC is using here. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. They believe sex before marriage is bad. Hence if you're vaccinated against HPV, you are, from there on in, going to be ruled by your hormones, because, obviously any lessons you've received over the course of a lifetime about abstaining from sex before marriage will fly right out of your head the minute the vaccine hits your bloodstream. It's apparently tricky that way. It gives women "a license to engage in premarital sex."
But Kath, you say, how could this affect other women?
Well, I'm glad you asked. Let's follow that one down the line, shall we?
What about married women? What does that mean about them if they get vaccinated against HPV? Hmmm. Could that mean they're going to go right out and cheat on their husbands? Why would they need it if they're in a committed, monogamous relationship? Hmmmm? Furthermore, I suspect these wicked married women are just giving their husbands a free pass to go out and get laid in the back of their local Perkins if they get vaccinated, because why would they need to protect themselves with the vaccine if it were otherwise?
What about rape victims? Does this mean that if a woman was vaccinated against HPV that they were asking for it? That this, like a woman asking for her rapist to use a condom, means she consented? Well, then, she wasn't really raped, was she?
I could go on, but I think you get the gist.
For an organization that promotes issues of faith, well, it sure would be nice if the FRC had some in women.
{Hat Tip: Andy}
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May 09, 2005
Methinks Dementee might also feel differently when another pharmacist decides to hold his prescription hostage because not only is said pharmacist not morally obliged to fill Dementee's prescription, he's in a position where he could shove his morals down Dementee's throat---who may or may not agree with them. And we all realize what a tempting option that is, don't we kids? Mmmhmmmm. Good stuff there, the opportunity to proselytize from the back of a Walgreens! There's no power to be had at the back of a Walgreens, is there? Nope. None at all. After all, there's no state license required to dish out drugs...anyone can do it!
Perhaps, until then, Dementee should realize that this is a slippery slope he's advocating and perhaps, just perhaps, it requires a more nuanced answer than simply assuming that the pharmacist has the right to do whatever they damn well please. The Establishment Clause isn't going to shield a pharmacist from a lawsuit when someone dies because of their refusal to dish out drugs they might have problems with.
I suppose if Dementee's got a problem with all of that, perhaps he can go and fuck himself, no?
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Heh.
As far as Arianna Huffington's new group blog is concerned, well...
I suppose it's going to be good to have a potential one-stop-shop for all your mockery needs, eh? I mean, come on. It's not everyday you get to link directly to the puffed-up pontifications of Mike Nichols, David Mamet and John Cusack.
Should be good fun, no?
UPDATE: OOOOOOOOH, OOOOOOH, MISTAH KOTTAH!
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If the party of the first part decides to rob the party of the second part blind, well, the party of the second part is completely entitled to fuck the party of the first part up the ass with a particularly pointy broom handle.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This blog is a dream come true!
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Jokes aside, mazeltov, congratulations, etc. to the both of you from the Cake Eater.
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{...}The Real ID Act, which was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday and likely will clear the Senate next week, would require most license applicants to show a photo ID, a birth certificate, proof of their Social Security number and a document showing their full name and address. All of the documents then would have to be checked against federal databases.{...}
I'm not concerned so much with added scrutiny in regards to granting driver's licenses. What concerns me---and many geeks---is the last sentence of that paragraph: "All of the documents then would have to be checked against federal databases." The problem here being that with this bit of language it will be much easier for a hacker to steal your identity should this be signed into law.
{...}The bill dictates that all states collect, at a minimum, personal information from citizens in order to obtain a driver's license, including name, date of birth, gender, driver's license or identification card number, digital photograph, address and signature.Whereas collection of this particular information is not new, the linkage of states' databases is. The bill specifies that states link what are at present discrete databases, creating, in effect, one nationwide database with personal information pertaining to all citizens. {...}
Right now, a hacker would have to attack the databases of all the DMV's in all fifty states to get the information that, should this bill pass the senate and be signed into law, would be available in one place. This would create one big ass bullseye instead of fifty bullseyes.
Data convergence is all well and good until the Federal Government gets its grubby paws on the data. Given that Lexis-Nexis had the information on 310,000 of its customers stolen recently, and the same happened to Time Warner employees, do you really think the Federal Government will be able to keep your data safe from hackers?
I don't.
Call or email your senator today. They're trying to slip this one in under the wire to please those who watch the Lou Dobbs Xenophobe Hour of Power by attaching it to an Appropriations Bill, with no debate or hearings allowed. This is what the focus on illegal immigration has wrought. Pat yourselves on the back, big boys. You should be proud of what you've accomplished! Way to put everyone in jeopardy! THANKS!
{Hat Tip: Mike at Techdirt}
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You're probably scratching your head and wondering why this is important. Well, it's not really...but you should know that it means there are only TEN DAYS left until Episode III is released.
wOOt!
Anyway, we're halfway done here. Are you having fun yet, kids? I sincerely hope so. Here are your questions for today. There's a definite theme going on here.
- Who grabbed his blaster rifle for protection when he saw Sand People approaching?
- What spearlike weapons do Sand People wield?
- Who frightened away a group of Sand people?
- What planet are Sand People native to?
- What creatures do Sand People ride?
- What order do Sand People ride their mounts in?
Throw your answers in the comments or send them to the Cake Eater inbox.
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The only problem is that it's Doug. Again.
Congratulations to him. To the rest of you, get with the program here and have some fun! You can only have said fun by answering the questions!
You can find the answers after the jump. more...
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