Yahoo! News – Chirac Seeks International Tax to Fight AIDS Wed Jan 26,11:45 AM ET DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – French President Jacques Chirac outlined bold proposals on Wednesday for an international tax to help fight AIDS (news – web sites), … Continue reading
That’s right, folks. Johnny Carson, the god of late night television is still dead. I have a feeling this headline will probably fit in tomorrow and the day after, but we’ll have to just make sure of that. Knowing that … Continue reading
India said they can “handle it themselves.” Indonesia is toying with aid workers and insisting on cornering them with their military. Sri Lanka is only grudgingly accepting aid from Israel, but only from charities and not from the Israeli military … Continue reading
“the black race is the cancer of human history.” Damn, that’s some harsh stuff! I can’t imagine anyone would have the stones to say something like that about black people. Honestly. It’s people like this who keep the racial divide … Continue reading
It all works out really. On some days, you get 100% (I would classify that as most days). On some days you get 75%. Important to realize, however, is that for each day that you get 75%, there are an … Continue reading
As much as Rumsfeld has pissed me off with his glib proclamation and impervious-to-blame attitude, you have to realize that the current “controversy” is absolutely idiotic. It would seem that sympathy letters to families are signed by an autopen machine, … Continue reading
Oh yeah, life can be a real kick in the nuts sometimes. I usually walk to the 7 train which is five blocks further from my office than the E or V train. I dig the exercise. Today, I walked … Continue reading
Yahoo! News – Bryant Case Could Chill Rape Reports One of my favorite games to play, and one that I play on a semi-regular basis, is “what’s missing from this story?” It’s a fun game, and I’ve played it once … Continue reading
You know, John Kerry spent yesterday defending himself from SBVAT and President Bush spent yesterday saying he’s never questioned John Kerry’s “noble” service. Isn’t it quaint that with a band of radical islamic fundamentalist nutcases trying to kill us wherever … Continue reading
We all hit bad times on the web now and then – – I think the important thing is would not to let it make us absent or silence our voices. I think Uptown Girl may have woken me up. … Continue reading
In the ACPOTI post yesterday, the only thing I posted for the whole day, I introduced you to one of Geoffrey’s readers writing one of the most virulent anti american pieces of vomit I had ever read. I literally felt … Continue reading
All I can say is no shit, Sherlock… New York City – Manhattan news Among the findings in the long-awaited study, which is an update of one published in 1999, include: Judging by the location of their employers, city residents … Continue reading
Yahoo! News – Philippines Announces Pullout to Save Iraq Hostage I don’t have a problem with a withdrawal. Make no mistake, that’s not my problem. But when you tell terrorists “we’re withdrawing to save a hostage,” you send a pretty … Continue reading
No biggie. I have all day. Doug’s Dynamic Drivel: Long overdue So Ronald Reagan died today, well excuse me if I don’t shed a tear. It was an event at least 24 years overdue. Fuck you Doug. I thought you … Continue reading
Ronald Reagan, Party Animal – The man who taught Republicans to be irresponsible. By Timothy?Noah You know, when Paul Wellstone died, I wept for his family, and wrote a respectful post about him even though I hated his policies and … Continue reading
It isn’t bad enough that Glover coddled Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro like a concubine. How about this: FOXNews.com – Top Stories – Quotes: A Nation Reacts to Reagan’s Death Actor Danny Glover: “We all know Reagan’s legacy, from the Iran-Contra … Continue reading
It amazes me, really, that the speeches the President give have the reactions canned before a word is ever spoken. I cringe when I hear the President speak, not because I find what he says repugnant in any way, but … Continue reading
There are only two options with regards to 9/11 and the President. Either you believe that the President didn’t know anything and was caught as off guard as anyone else by what happened, and 9/11 in its unprecedented nature changed … Continue reading
They cry for Yassin. A known terrorist. A mass murderer. In New York. Fuck them. Fuck every single one of them who dares weep in my country at the death of that piece of shit. I have no use for … Continue reading
NATO Sees Specter of Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo By Shaban Buza PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) – NATO (news – web sites) troops raided apartment blocks in a flashpoint Kosovo town on Friday after two days of mass violence the … Continue reading