This is so awesome

Got this from BOTW.

"What are we protecting you from a wrong cheeseburger?"

Hilarious.

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Time for the annual seal hunt! Get your clubs, get set, go! All us evil conservatives have been just itchin to go club some seal pups.

Yawn

Same old song and dance. Leftist chicken littles implore us to notice the sky is falling. Is the great 'die off' going to begin soon?

Missing WMD

Powerline links to what seems to be a plausible explanation for the missing WMD. I hope it's true (not just of the anthrax, but all their WMD), because I sure don't want the WMD smuggled into a place like Syria or Iran.

Terri Schiavo

Thomas Sowell cuts to the chase, in language far clearer than I could ever muster (also read here). I was angered that Congress seemed to overstep its bounds in passing a law to interfere with a family matter - but I am angered more by the fact that they had to (and they acted Constitutionally!), because another government entity (which I have far less sympathy for) had made a poor call that violated the Constitutional right to life of a woman. As far as I'm concerned from my reading on the case, there is significant doubt as to whether or not Terri is in a vegetative state, and that alone should force us to "err on the side of life", as the President has stated. Finally, the husband's behavior can't be viewed without suspicion - although to be fair, it's a tough situation and I can't honestly say what I'd do were I in his shoes (assuming he's telling the truth). This case is certainly a gray area, and the usual suspects will fall on the same sides - those who err on the side of life, and those who are the purveyors of the culture of death.

To the conservatives who are willing to "live and let live" - I felt the same way until I was drawn into the case and understood more of the facts. I just wanted to let her die and not think about it, since this is a matter between the husband and the family, right? Well, turning your face from an ugly reality won't make it go away, and this is truly an ugly reality. Think about it: the willful starvation of a woman, and her only crime is that she has become an inconvenience to one person - we treat animals and criminals more humanely. I still have sympathy for the "live and let live" conservatives (I'm thinking more libertarian folks like Glenn Reynolds, Neal Boortz, and Charles Johnson) especially since many of this stripe have personal experiences that mirror this case. However, viewing this as an objective outsider (objective in the sense of Constitutional vs. moral implications, with no previous experience to color my viewpoint) I feel I've come down on the right side of things now.

I view the behavior of the MSM as the most disgusting thing in this whole episode, for they have been the ones who have shaped the public debate on this by manipulating and omitting the facts. I never heard of the nurse (who in a sworn affidavit, gave a statement contradicting Mr. Schiavo and casting him into suspicion) until I listened to Sean Hannity. Or of the doctors and neurosurgeons who have stated that Terri is not only not vegetative, but can possibly be rehabilitated by new treatments. What is clear to me now is the MSM is bent on seeing a "conservative crack-up" by painting this as a Constitutional overreach by the Republicans to split those crazy Evangelicals from the Constitutional law-and-order conservatives. That the MSM will distort a story to allow a woman to starve to death in order to score political points against President Bush shows you what's most important to these people. It's power. To them, power is life, and not vice versa.

Good news for stem cells

found via The Corner: Aussie scientist finds potential way to skirt ethical issues surrounding embryonic stem cells. More good news is that these cells seem to be safer than the embryonic ones as well. This is good news, but we'll see if it catches on.

Great Idea

This would actually make me sad that I turned down CU-Boulder for grad school. Well, that and the good snowboarding being just an hour away.

This just seems backwards

How does this make sense? My favorite quote, seen on Good Morning America, was when one of the non-husband family members said, "[Hopefully the courts will now go along with the will of Congress]." Heck, lets just get rid of due process all together. Or more in the spirit of things, lets make all due process so long that no one will ever get to the end of it. What's the functional difference between a path that you can never get to the end of and a path that doesn't exist?
This just feels like a clumsy political stunt such as a clueless libral might use in order to try to convince everyone how he "gets" the sanctity of life thing while simultaneously trampling all over the sanctity of marriage and individual choice (i.e. free will). Someone please tell me why I'm wrong or at least over-reacting... Husband and wife leave their parents and cleave to each other. Hence they each bear the ultimate worldy responsibility for each other. Assuming that Terri indeed does not want to live as a vegetable, what about her wishes? The courts already determined that she is in fact in a vegatative state. I would of course snap my fingers and fix her, but I can't.

Does George W. Bush Read?

Why am I posting this? Because I got into an argument with a Mass. liberal (one of my classmates) on the way to Maine. We were passing by New Haven and he commented on its most famous alum, and how they should be ashamed that they produced such a stupid man. "He's obviously dyslexic, and that has to impact his reading ability. He's clearly not that intelligent. I bet he 'reads' books on tape!" Those were his arguments - he was seconds away from a declaration of "mildly retarded". Anyway, according to this article (and to anyone with common sense) the answer is yes, the President reads, and he reads books of much import. Another interesting part I found out in this article is that Woodrow Wilson (famous Democrat Pres., PhD, and Princeton alum) was dyslexic as well. Sorta skewers the whole 'dyslexic=stupid' theory.

Drivel

How does this crap get published in the #1 paper in the US?

Global Dimming

Hilarious post on the religious left: Filthy Old Cars Will Save Us All. Which is it, eh? Global warming or global dimming? I dunno, but the sky is falling! The sky is falling! And it's all capitalism's fault!

Insane

Danny Way is going to jump the Great Wall of China. I also found it interesting that China has a Minister for Extreme Sports. Nothin' like the efficiency of Communism.

I agree

with this. Honestly, would we even know about the Oil-for-Food scam were it not for her?

You can stop worrying

50 cent is safe y'all.

Why?

Why in the world must something like this occur? Obviously a remake but utterly pointless as the original is freaking ONGOING, AMAZING and in freaking ENGLISH and this fraud is doomed for FAILURE. When will these people learn? What is so hard about coming up with something original? This port of "The Office" is something that I dread watching. I wonder why? Isn't it cheaper to just buy the damn shows and replay them here? You know, as if it wasn't already on BBC America?

About Time

Have you ever been reading something and noticed something that actually made sense? In some ways what I'm about to share kind of seems mean but really the thing is that sometimes things need to be done.

A new county law aims to keep readers from reeking. Libraries in San Luis Obispo County have had their own rules banning offensive body odor since 1994, but the policy became law after the Board of Supervisors last month adopted an ordinance that lets authorities kick out malodorous guests.

BillnHill

Our (well, my former) portly governor seems to be casting his hat into the ring for '08...I'd much rather have him as the candidate than Hillary, although she will probably be the candidate with him as running mate. Let's hope he's the candidate and can rescue the party from the leftward spiral it's in.

Under the umbrella...

...of that end all liberal buzzword, 'disenfranchisement', "Hillary Clinton and John Kerry want to let criminals vote". The question in this article is why, besides the obvious that felons happen to vote overwhelmingly democrat. An interesting piece with some good background information.

Gizoogle

Translate any web page to Ghetto-speak.