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Do you older conservatives remember the days when an outspoken media figure would say some deeply stupid things and there could be no rebuttal?
Many liberals cannot stand the very existence of Fox News because it gives an opposing voice to the “conventional wisdom.” Before that, only the truth came out. Walter Kronkite could help sink a war and the New York Times could create a homeless crisis on Reagan’s watch uncontested.
No more.
Look at poor Keith punching above his weight class and getting quick jabbed.
NASHVILLE - Sen. Raymond Finney proposes to use the legislative process to get an answer to the question of whether the universe was created by a “Supreme Being.”
Under Senate Resolution 17, introduced by the Maryville Republican, the answer would come from state Education Commissioner Lana Seivers “in report form” no later than Jan. 15, 2008.
Can’t you just hear it? “Get me the answer to the origin of all creation - and have it on my desk by Friday…”
Then again, it’s just another political publicity stunt that further demonstrates the level of intelligent discourse that goes on in our state government. It’s hard to say for sure, but I have a feeling that our state may lead the nation in political publicity stunts.
Finney, a retired physician, said Monday that his objective is to formally prod the Department of Education into a dialogue about the teaching of evolution in school science classes without also teaching the alternative of “creationism,” or “intelligent design.”
As the resolution is written, if Seivers (TN Dept of Education Commissioner) does answer no to the first question - stating that the universe was not created by a Supreme Being - she would be offered “the General Assembly’s admiration for being able to decide conclusively a question that has long perplexed and occupied the attention of scientists, philosophers, theologians, educators and others.”
Yep, publicity stunt.
The most embarrassing part of the whole affair may be that the Senator is going to the State Department of Education for the answer to any important question. If the topic isn’t directly related to skin-color- or sexual-orientation-based- diversity training, I’m afraid the TDOE probably doesn’t have much to offer in the way of actual answers.
I write this urgent appeal on the eve of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth receiving critical acclamation.
Global Warming has caused devastating storms across Southeastern Pennsylvania and the world. Countless oxygen producing trees have been destroyed and its up to us to make a difference.
Dear friend, won’t you please consider a generous contribution to combat Global Warming?
Your gift of $3.00 will buy 50 lbs. of potting soil.
$12.00 buys a lovely dwarf pear tree for the north side of my wooded back yard.
$150.00 will help me finish the oxygen generating toad pond that I need to finish this Spring.
Don’t fret that you drive your gas-consuming Jetta, give money, it will make you feel betta!
And thank you for your concern about saving the planet.
UPDATE:
Since you people obviously don’t give a rip about the environment ($0 to date), maybe you’ll care about attaining salvation. You even get a prize for donating.
Is Ben Stein is getting soft or just more pragmatic? Here is his appeal to raise taxes on the rich.
He may be onto something about never being able to reduce government spending.
We the people do like our government perks. A bridge to nowhere keeps several hundred people employed for a couple of years. Bringing home millions to move brand new train tracks keeps people employed and employed people are happy people. If you’re the guy spreading so much joy, you may well get elected next time around.
The MSM, as predictable as a dog salivating at the ringing of the bell, immediately does a human interest piece at a homeless shelter at the first hint of cutting government programs. John Stossel is the notable exception since his investigative reporting has opened his eyes to the beauty of libertarianism. (non-commissioned Amazon link)
We at the Buffet have avoided the Britney (no, not THAT Brittney) meltdown. It’s not that we don’t care, which we don’t. Nor is it that we avoid taking cheap shots - certainly you know us better than that.
No, the reason for no Britney postings is that when one starts at zero, the trip to the bottom is unremarkable.
The new study found that temperature rises had a significant impact on the number of pre-schoolers presenting to emergency departments for fever and gastroenteritis.
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The University of Sydney research is the first to make a solid link between climate changes and childhood illness.
“And now global warming is becoming more apparent, it is highly likely an increasing number of young children will be turning up at hospital departments with these kinds of common illnesses,” said researcher Lawrence Lam, a paediatrics specialist.
Fact - High temperature corollates with an increase in children with fevers.
Conclusion - Global Warming will cause children’s heath to suffer.
Also uncovered;
Severe foot injuries will increase due to heavy equipment slipping out of blue-collar worker’s sweaty hands. Thereby increasing disparity between economic classes.
Many more thighs will suffer second and third degree burns directly caused by Global Warming’s effect on leather car upholstery.
Places like Arizona and New Mexico will suffer from “extreme dry heat”.
Egads.
UPDATE: Should temperatures reach 450 degrees F. for 30 minutes, one will be able to cook a delicious Tombstone pizza right on the street!!
UPDATE II: Seriously, there may be the beginnings of backlash over the Global Warming hysteria.
One mother, unable to get tickets to the [Al Gore live] show, called U of T and lamented that her daughter, a high-school student, has been unable to sleep since seeing Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and hoped seeing him live would make her feel better.
Pete Williams, of Somerfield, said: “Concerns over our environment dominate the media at present and kids are exposed to the hard facts as much as anybody.
“While many adults may look the other way, this study should show that global warming is not only hurting the children of the future, it’s affecting the welfare of kids now.
pps More idiocy. Note that kids’ sanity is just another casualty of Global Warming and not say, hysterical grown up like Pete Williams.
I’ve touched on the unnecessary stress put on children with the ecopocolypse hysteria previously.
No special reason for posting this except that Miller is appearing to mellow into his role as the Libertarian Hollywood Commentator.
While you wait to see if Red Eye and The 1/2 News Hour will make it, check this out.
Love the way O’Reilly has to translate Miller’s obscure analogies.
ps Listen closely at the beginning of the video. Did he say that Miller is getting his own radio show? Freakin’ A!
UPDATE: Thanks to Right Wing Duck for providing the actual dates of the show because I’m too lazy to type “Dennis Miller Radio Show” into that little box on the Google site and actually press the “Submit” button..
The program is scheduled to debut March 26, 2007, and will air live from 10am to 1pm Eastern Time, with re-feeds from 1pm to 4pm Eastern Time and 4pm to 7pm Eastern Time.
Somebody had a theory that was aptly applied in Southeast Asia and neatly encapsulates what’s happening in South America…oh..what was it called? Oh, yea.
From the Memri Blog, it’s one of those wacky islamic cartoonists. I suppose we should all riot and kill each other in the streets now that this one has been published.
Inset: <<“Hillary” and “Obama” – A Woman and a Negro are Participating in the Campaign for the American Presidency >>
The Religious Man: “This is another sign of the collapse of the Western civilization”
Those izlammmms - they’re a freakin’ riot. It’s a good thing they’re a protected political class or women and blacks would surely voice their outrage. Right? Right?
There are other emerging fissures, as well. The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the “I” word — Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close.
Support for Israel in the U.S. has lately become bafflingly multi-cultural, representing an alliance between diaspora Jews, traditional Zionists and evangelicals. Support from Christian zealots, who now represent about one third of Israel’s tourist business, is welcomed even though, according to evangelical doctrine, Judgment Day will bring the ultimate destruction of Israel and death to most of its residents.
Shortly after the interview, the Vanity Fair journalist tried his best to suck the pants off of Edwards in the green room, but was beaten back by Edwards’ staff of bodyguards.
And, inexplicably, a bafflingly high number of liberal Joooooooooooooos will waddle up to the voting booth and vote Defeatocrat in ‘08. Maybe some of my yiddish commenters can enlighten me on how that happens year after year.
In fact, pants-shitting Colorado law professor Paul Campos openly wept onto the pages of the Rocky Mountain News recently in a limp-wristed attack on Insty due to Insty’s hurtful commentary.
Murder is the premeditated unlawful killing of a human being. Glenn Reynolds, the well-known University of Tennessee law professor who authors one of the Internet’s most popular blogs, recently advocated the murder of Iranian scientists and clerics.
“We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and Iranian atomic scientists . . . Basically, stepping on the Iranians’ toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq,” Reynolds wrote.
Of course Iran is not at war with America, but just as Reynolds spent years repeating Bush administration propaganda about Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, he’s now dutifully repeating the administration’s claims about supposed Iranian government involvement in Iraq’s civil war.
Mmmmmkay….. Campos’ trademark lefty moral-outrage-driven hyperventilation is amusing at best, and tedious at worst. This is just a sample of the drivel that is cascading from the keyboards of the ass-o-sphere as a result of Reynolds’ excellent recommendation. There was really no need for Insty to defend himself, but, as usual, he does so with aplomb.
Personally, I believe we should go a hell of a lot further than simply whacking some scientists, mad mullahs and other government officials. It’s time for the little Hitlers in Teheran and Damascus to glow in the dark. Turn the Syrian and Iranian Governments into radiation-emitting rubble. The best way to help the Iranian government with its nuclear program is to give them an up-close look at how atomic weaponry works.
If we weren’t a third(second?)-tier blog, some Churchillian faculty ass-clown might produce some emotional column attacking us, but alas…
More geek humor. I’m starting to wonder if we’re narrowing our demographic with this nonsense. Oh well. Start saving now for that McWindows OS-based toaster.
Titanic Thug Pacman Jones have did it again. This time, Pac was kickin’ it with the rest of the thugs at the NBA “All Star” weekend in Vegas.
Cofield said Jones, accompanied by a large posse, entered the club late Sunday night with a “Glad Bag” full of dollar bills, and soon began throwing the money at the dancers (”making it rain”). Rappers Nelly and Jermaine Dupri were also at the club, and were throwing money at the dancers from “blocks of singles”.
Two of the strippers allegedly began to fight over the cash, and in part because of that confusion, the club owners turned on the lights in an effort to get all the patrons to exit the club.
Cofield noted that after Jones and his group left the club, there were allegedly multiple gunshots from automatic weapons coming from Jones’ entourage, resulting in two bouncers being shot (both are in critical condition) and a woman also getting hit with the gunfire (condition unknown).
The XM Fox Sports radio report I just listened to reported that when Pac was asked to leave the B.O.C. (breast observation center), he let the security guards know that he was “gonna kill them”. Instead he sent some of his homies to do the job.
So, Coach Fisher, does Pac get a pass on this once as well since he didn’t spit on any of his bizitches or beat any of his hos?
Certainly by now, you’re familiar with the cult of the Truther. They’re a group of mental midgets who lash out at society by claiming that 9/11 was an inside job, blah, blah, blah. They really don’t merit any attention, but it’s fun when someone takes the time to set their stupidity to digital media. The following video is part 1 of 5 - it sets the tone for you, but you should go through and watch all of them.
It’s simultaneously funny and pathetic that these walking, talking stool samples get any type of exposure, but, again, it’s always best to know the enemy. With any luck, Michael Moore will mistake some of these fuckers for 5-foot fried chicken tenders at their next get-together and consume them with honey-mustard. And not in the usual way the truthers lay around gobbling up each others’ tragic naked leavings after they oil themselves up during a particularly exciting episode of Hardball.
Another case of Sudden Jihadi Rage Syndrome or typical Nashville driver? You be the judge:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.
The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left one man hospitalized and a cab driver arrested, said police
Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.
Nothing fosters multicultural understanding like converting your opposition by treating them like speed bumps in front of the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza.
Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft.
Turns out the cabbie was also driving on a suspended license and a stolen license plate.
No word yet on whether this will be prosecuted as a hate crime. And doubtful we will.
A convicted drugs dealer, Khayam wore a suicidebomber style vest at a London protest last year.
Fanatics around him waved placards supporting the July 7 London bombings and called for new terror attacks in the demonstration outside the Danish embassy.
Of course not, that’s why you’re not a London HR generalist you rabid Islamophobe.
Mad Dog Madeline Halfbright’s hoof prints are all over the “flood the zone” coverage the Council on Foreign Relations is giving to Iran and Russia. From the NY Times, to the Tehran Times to an upcoming Newsweek piece, the CFR’s Dukakisinian helmeted think tank operators are pre-emptively striking an unconditional surrender pose as the best course of action for dealing with Ahmadinejad/the 12th imam and the rising Neo-Soviet interference in Iran and the world over:
I WANT YOU! - to kiss Iran’s ass
The bottom line: Washington must accept certain distasteful facts—beginning with Iran’s ascendance as a regional power and the staying power of its regime. It should open talks with Iran, not in order to limit its growing power—an impossibility—but with a view toward regulating it and curbing potential excesses. In other words, Washington should embrace a policy of détente, just as it did in the past with such seemingly intractable enemies as China and the Soviet Union.
Could Tehran ultimately prove to be as willing a negotiating partner as Beijing and Moscow once were? There are reasons to hope so.
That last sentence is so loaded that it’s practically dripping with sour cream and bacon bits. And it’s a telling portent of what the Surrender Caucus of the Democrat Party inhabiting the CFR thinks our diplomatic efforts should be towards Tehran. As if our policy towards China and Russia is something worth emulating.
We regret our inability to deliver sizzling flank steaks of satire to the Cuban Venezuelan people from this point on. You have our best wishes if not our meat in your mouth.
(ed. note: You don’t win Bolivarian revolutions with salad.)
Considering New Orleans’ increasing unpopularity with the US public, I suggest a non-binding resolution cutting all funding to the city. We will undermine their national efforts at tourism and strategically redeploy the New Orleans Saints to Utah and reunite them with The Jazz.
Heretical hijinks afoot in the island nation of Vanuatu. The self-proclaimed “World’s Happiest Place” has taken their beachside blasphemy to the streets to celebrate a mystical white saviour:
World War II and the arrival of US troops on Vanuatu was a defining time for the movement. They had a name for their spiritual deity. He was John Frum.
Villagers believe that their messiah was responsible for delivering to them the munificence of the US military.
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They were awestruck by the army’s cargo of tanks, weapons, refrigerators, food and medicine.
“One day he will come back,” he says.
“John is our god,” declares village chief Isaac Wan, who beats his fists into the ground to emphasise his words.
You could rule Vanuatu as as their albino god with an i-Pod and a Sam’s Club membership. And unless my CIA book is wrong, you can buy some lagoon-front mansion for $40k US.
About 20% of Tanna’s population of 30,000 follow the teachings of one of the world’s last remaining cargo cults.
Other islanders can barely disguise their contempt for it.
A Christian youth worker told me how he thought the cult was childish. “It’s like a baby playing games,” he insisted. “Those people are holding on to a dream that will never come true,” he said.
Those crazy kids. While lacking a consistent source of potable water, it appears they are experiencing a surfeit of irony.
We may have to take a road trip and straighten everything out.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s three white guys from Tennessee, one from Philadelphia and a smokin’ hot chick from California!
Four surviving groupies and three DJs from Rock 103FM were despondent for different reasons this afternoon upon learning that The Doors are no longer a group. Again.
British rock singer Ian Astbury has quit the Doors revival band formed by two of the legendary group’s members, and will resurrect his old combo the Cult, he said on Thursday.
Astbury convincingly filled the late Jim Morrison’s shoes in Riders on the Storm for the past four years, playing alongside original Doors members, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger.
[...] “This has been a difficult decision to make but I feel I would be holding them back as well as myself if I did not depart at this time.”
Crawlin’ King Fake
Ian Astbury, formerly “successful” karaoke crooner / likely Danica Patrick imitating transvestite
That’s right, Ian. It’s you who has been holding Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger back. By filling their audiences up with women in their late 30s rather than ones in their early 60s?The leather pantaloned fiend.
But that wasn’t the only news rocking the music world tonight. Boy band marketeer “Captain” Lou Albano-Pearlman, credited for inflicting the Backstreet Boys and ‘n Sync on the co-workers of women who love shitty pop music, was arrested this evening on charges as of yet unrelated to exposing himself to minors.
A stunned nation waits for the other shoe to drop.
Toyota executives have publicly downplayed the importance of predictions that the Japan-based company will pass General Motors Corp. this year as the world’s largest automaker. But the Toyota report says the company could face criticism because its U.S. sales are increasing while Detroit’s automakers are losing sales and shuttering plants.
This shouldn’t matter as much as it used to.
In the 80s, when the perception was that Japan would conquer the U.S., I did everything I could to buy American and support domestic businesses and jobs. This included buying a piece of crap Dodge Daytona Turbo. (You wouldn’t actually get more power when the turbo kicked in, but it made a cool sucking sound.)
More recently, when the time came to put my underpowered but very highly reliable ‘93 Saturn SL1 down, I chose the Toyota Camry/Solara.
Why? Well besides the fact that the Toyota has very high reliability and holds its value well, the “Buy American” reality is considerably different.
