Archive for September, 2007

A Bit About Iran.

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

     ore sanctions are possible for Iran, over their nuclear program.
     World powers met Friday to discuss a third U.N. Security Council resolution imposing additional sanctions against Iran for failing to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
     (Snip! . . . )
     The Security Council has repeatedly demanded that Iran suspend enrichment of uranium and has imposed limited sanctions on [...]

Viva La Revolution!

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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Links and Thoughts

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

     h, that pesky Bill of Rights! — Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
     I expect we’re going to see a lot more of this in the next couple of years. Since we can’t get [...]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad At Columbia University.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

     olumbia University invited Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak. In his introductory speech, the Dean of the University, Lee Bollinger, spent ten minutes blasting Ahmadinejad.
     He said, “Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” adding, “You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated.”
     The Iranian president, seated 10 feet, or 3 [...]

I Solved It!

Monday, September 24th, 2007

      solved the damn riddle! In fact, I think I’ve solved the whole Enigma! To be fair, in the end, it was a “group effort”, because Art — also a Fortress member — was working it as well. We had each solved the first four riddles separately, but both got stuck at the same riddle. [...]

Riddle Me This.

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

      haven’t posted since Wednesday, and there’s actually a reason besides laziness for that. See, I play this game called UrbanDead — you may have heard me mention it once or twice — and in UrbanDead, I belong to a group called the Fortress. Well, the Fortress has this puzzle, open to members only, that [...]

Avast, Matey! Yarr!

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

     oday be Talk Like A Pirate Day, but I’m sure ye dogs already knew that. Yarr, th’ sweet trade be a long an’ distinguished trade, markin’ back t’ the time of Caesar, an’ before. In 75 BC (Before Corsairs), Julius Caesar hisself was kidnapped by Cilician pirates, and ransomed for fifty talents of gold. Later [...]

News Bits

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

     rnie Chambers, a Nebraska state legislator, is sueing God. Apparently, he’s trying to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits.
     ”Plaintiff, despite reasonable efforts to effectuate personal service upon defendant ‘Come out, come out, wherever you are,’ has been unable to do so,’” Chambers said.
     The suit also requests that the court, given the peculiar circumstances of this [...]

Punday Night

Monday, September 17th, 2007

     here was this really smart sheep down in Mexico who knew how to make butter and buttermilk.
     One night she sneaked across the border and got a job working for a farmer, who set up a roadside stand and told her to try to sell the stuff. Unfortunately traffic was very heavy and the sight of [...]

Glenn Beck vs. Jack McClellen

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

     amn. I may have to take back some of the rotten shit I’ve said about Glenn Beck. Here’s Beck, interviewing self-confessed pedophile Jack McClellen. It’s worth the minute or two to watch.