Friday, 28 September, 2007. 10:48:23 AMStudents in
Colorado have walked out on the Pledge of Allegiance in protest. One of the things they
named was the improper inclusion of the phrase "under God" in the pledge. I agree with
them 100%. The inclusion of the religious phrasing is un-American and exclusionary. It
violates the 1st ammendment which requires the government to be completely neutral with
regard to religion.
Thursday, 27 September, 2007. 01:17:59 PMFor the cost of our wasteful national folly in Iraq, we could have funded
11 manned missions to Mars.
Tuesday, 25 September, 2007. 09:36:24 PMBill O'Reilly:
I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship... There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "M-Fer, I want more iced tea."
What was Bill O'Reilly expecting to see at a black-owned
restaurant with black patrons? Was he really shocked that people weren't
throwing food around the place, dancing on the tables, as well as other
un-restaurant-like activities? What kind of racist fantasies does Bill
O'Reilly have anyways?
Let's see what he says next:
That's right. That's right. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "M-Fer, I want more iced tea."
You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all.
Tuesday, 18 September, 2007. 09:42:21 PMThe version of dc included with the Debian stable distribution is 1.3, and that
version understands the .dcrc init file. The version of dc included with the Debian
testing distribution is 1.3.94, and that version does not understand the .dcrc file.
Tuesday, 18 September, 2007. 08:37:19 PMWTF all of the sudden GNU dc doesn't accept the .dcrc initialization file. I'm checking
the original GNU source code for it and there's no check for .dcrc in it at all,
and strace confirms that my binary doesn't ever check for a .dcrc file.
Monday, 17 September, 2007. 06:14:15 PMThis video does a pretty good job of showing
how the media gets away with repeating the official positions rather than actual reporting. For the
most part, TV journalists just replay and repeat the scripts written for them by the people they are
supposed to be investigating.
This kind of reporting is how we wound up in such a huge mess in Iraq.
Thursday, 13 September, 2007. 09:38:17 PMIn 1797, the United States signed a treaty which stated "The United States is not a Christian any more than it is a Jewish or Mohamaddan Nation." By the Constitution of the United States of America,
that treaty is the law of the land. Anyone who claims that the United States is a Xtian
country is just wrong.
Wednesday, 12 September, 2007. 04:50:06 PMConservatives like to claim the media is liberal. This is not true, as anyone who pays
any attention at all can attest. If the media is liberal, then where are the liberal guys
who are as clearly partisan as Bill O'Reily, Hannity, or even his sidekick Colmes? The
conservatives claim that everyone else in the media is liberal, but this claim falls down
flat in comparison to the one news personality who is actually liberal - Keith Olbermann.
Media Matters exposed the myth of the conservative television media, and they have
released
a new report which shows clearly that newspapers also devote far more space to
conservative opinion than to liberal opinion.
Wednesday, 12 September, 2007. 02:10:19 PM
USA Today is reporting that a majority of Americans think that the
country was founded as a Christian nation, which is completely untrue.
Across the board attitudes regarding tolerance towards religion and
speech were more negative, and I find that trend particularly worrying.
Americans need to have more education on the 1st Amendment and should be
should be taught that the USA is an explicitly secular nation, founded
on secular principles.
Monday, 10 September, 2007. 09:39:13 AMConservatives say "me" and Liberals say "we."
Sunday, 09 September, 2007. 11:58:45 PMCracked Magazine was something I read when I was a kid. My mother used
to buy copies for me at the supermarket every month. It was like Mad Magazine,
except it was even more juvenile. It was funny and silly, and sadly the
print magazine stopped publication quite a while ago. It still lives on
the Internet. It's still funny and silly, but on the computer screen it's
achieved something that it never achieved on the grocery store magazine
rack: brilliance.
Mad Magazine might have made you laugh, but it could never tell you
why you were unhappy.
Sunday, 09 September, 2007. 11:01:45 PMIf you're putting a light on the outside of your house or business, make sure
it's full cutoff to save the night skies, improve security, and save energy. http://www.starrynightlights.com/
Wednesday, 05 September, 2007. 08:00:23 PMThe new Chinese health chief, Health Minister Chen Zhu, says that Chinese
products are safe, and Americans are just hypersensitive.
I think he's just whining because his peer over at the State Food and Drug
Administration was executed for taking bribes in the dog food scandal.
Tuesday, 04 September, 2007. 09:21:42 PMNew Track Media, the company that purchased the assets of Sky Publishing,
is continuing their quest to cheapen one of the mainstays of Astronomy
journalism. My "Sky and Telescope" magazine arrived this month with a
cheap staple binding. It looks like cheap crap, it feels like cheap crap,
and it will last like cheap crap.
Tuesday, 04 September, 2007. 02:17:48 PMSteve Fosset is missing after taking off from the Flying M Ranch in Nevada. He hold
more than 115 world records including the single engine endurance and around-the-world
records.
Monday, 03 September, 2007. 11:12:11 AMThere's been a Republican scandal every week this year.
Saturday, 01 September, 2007. 09:19:29 PMRon Paul is very popular among Libertarians on the Internet. For a good
look inside the brains of Ron Paul's fans, read the bizarre blog of
Ilana Mercer, super Libertarian. Do we really want a President that thinks like this?