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August 27, 2005
Russian Police Detain Man With Fake One-Million-Dollar Note
One problem the article doesn't address: the US has never had a one million dollar note. While we're on the subject of money...check this out. I'd never advise her to break the law...but she would have been better served by getting that stuff outt of the US.
Posted by Eddie at 11:13 PM | Comments (1)
Know your rights
The other night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room, when we noticed 7 police cars and 18 police in front of our apartment building. Being the respectable, nosy citizens we are, we went down to take a look. Apparently, someone had a shotgun and he and his girlfriend were walking around the neighborhood with it. Freaks. Glad the cops were there. 15 minutes later, they had nothing on the woman (the guy took off) so they let her go. Moments later, back in our apartment, we hear her yelling at the cops calling them Pigs and other things. Shortly thereafter, the police followed her to her apartment (in the building next to her) and kicked her door in. They also called her all sorts of names and complained about how her legs looked like cottage cheese. They did not arrest her, but 5 or 6 cops kepts calling her a fat b---h with cottage cheese legs. Now, this lady was not what I would call an upstanding citizen, but I am not sure a cop can do that. I looked this stuff up online and the ACLU's website informed me that her rights were violated. They also supplied me with this handy "Bust Card." Check it out: http://www.aclu.org/Files/Files.cfm?ID=10042&c=184
Posted by SteveH at 02:09 AM | Comments (11)
August 26, 2005
Gates of Fire
I heard this read on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. Quite a story. I'd never have heard it otherwise. Wonder why?
Posted by BIL at 12:24 AM | Comments (1)
August 25, 2005
London Sun: Worst album covers...ever
Check out the Slideshow. It's worth the price of admission.
Posted by Eddie at 10:35 PM | Comments (0)
Stern reveals more Sirius details
Won't be listening to Stern when he moves, because I get XM Radio, the rival of Howard's Sirius. I'm not sure how successful he'll be. Stern's NY rivals Opie and Anthony are already on XM and can't be doing all that well because XM stopped charging the $2/month fee to listen to it. Another part of this article also interests me:
"However, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday the Federal Communications Commission is investigating Stern for yet another indecency complaint, which could prompt Infinity to pull the plug earlier than planned. The complaint lodged with the FCC by a Florida decency crusader was about a Feb. 4 show in which Stern had women play golf with sex toys strapped to their heads and singing "Amazing Grace" with sausages in their mouths"
I'm not sure how the above is obscene. It's stupid, not funny and inane, but obscene? Anyway, my real point is how can the FCC attack Stern and let that bozo Pat Robertson off the hook? What's more obscene...Talking with sausages in your mouth and dildoes strapped to your head or saying, on a religious, tax-free network, that the US should "take out" the leader of a foreign country?
Posted by Eddie at 11:30 AM | Comments (1)
USA Today: 'Men's Vogue' goes for the sophisticated guy
Publisher Conde Nast believes men's magazines have focused too much on the "young guy" market. "For the last 10 years, men's mags are skewing younger and have abandoned older, sophisticated guys."
Hey, BIL...are they talking about us?
Meanwhile, Conde Nast also announced that they will publish a monthly business magazine. Rumor has it that it will be heavily female-oriented. Look for articles about culture and poodles and the like.
Posted by Eddie at 11:18 AM | Comments (1)
Iraq Cleric Urges Followers to End Clashes
Finally, some good news. We need a lot more of this. It's the way to start eliminating car-bombings, etc. They've got to do it internally and we've got to pressure them into it one way or the other.
Posted by Eddie at 09:30 AM | Comments (2)
PBS tries to stay relevant in a 500-channel world
It's time to let PBS make it on its own. I cannot think of a single valid reason that the federal governement should be forking over $400 mill to keep them afloat. Why should taxpayers subsidize a television network? Aren't people sick of higher and higher tax bills? I know I am.
Posted by Eddie at 09:26 AM | Comments (0)
Canada.com: Clapton tired of listening to Bono's grandstanding
Bravo!!! The best thing I've heard from EC since his Crossroads solos. Excellent!
Posted by Eddie at 09:19 AM | Comments (0)
Of All Gas Consumers, Bush May Be Biggest
" Almost every vehicle Bush uses is custom-made to add security and communications capabilities, and the heavier weight of these guzzlers further drives up gas and jet fuel costs."
What do they expect? The President of the United States should be driven around in a Honda Civic?
Morons.
Posted by Eddie at 09:16 AM | Comments (1)
August 24, 2005
Photo of the Day
Posted by Eddie at 09:02 PM | Comments (2)
ESPN: Fleury to play for Belfast Giants
Fleury drank his way out of the NHL, so where does he go to play? Ireland, of course!
Posted by Eddie at 08:54 PM | Comments (0)
August 23, 2005
Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Hugo Chavez
They should revoke his tax-exempt status. This has nothing to do with religion.
Posted by Eddie at 02:33 PM | Comments (3)
Ira Glass on Working in Television, Public Radio's Struggle For Innovation, and Hanging Up On People
Running this for my lovely DW, who adores Glass's radio show This American Life. I've listened many times. It's a fine show, but, to me, there are as many misses as hits.
Posted by Eddie at 02:29 PM | Comments (13)
The House of Fuddy-Duddy Aspires to Be a Trendy-Setter
Strange signals from Walmart the past few weeks. First they decided to add hootch to their inventory at Sam's Club and now they are advertising in Vogue. Obviously they are trying to go upscale. If they are to succeed, here's some tips from my brother-in-law Eric:
--"Gotta get rid of that "discount blue. Those smocks are awful. They are depressing. They scream discount-cheap."
--"Why are their buildings so ratty looking? Do they have a special material that includes 'rattiness?'"
--"No more greeters. Only white-trash places have 'greeters.' You don't have greeters at real stores. People ignore you at real stores."
Posted by Eddie at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)
L.A. Times: Google to Deliver Instant Messages
And it may begin as early as tomorrow. Look for them to expand GoogleTalk into some sort of VoIP. My kid tells me that Yahoo has an excellent Voice messaging service going, and that you can leave messages, as you do on a phone's machine. This is all going to somehow merge into a telephone-computer messaging system and it won't be that long before it happens.
Posted by Eddie at 09:37 AM | Comments (1)
Bye bye library?
Somehow, browsing for reading material online doesn't have the charm of browsing among the book stacks. I can't begin to guess at how many books became my favorite reading material simply because a title or a cover caught my eye while scanning rows and rows of books. And how do you know something is well written and interesting if you can't flip through the pages? Technology, thy advances may be someday the death of thee.
Posted by Kay at 08:09 AM | Comments (7)
August 22, 2005
French countryside hit by a massive invasion of frogs
Wow, that's a dilemna. Is it possible to surrender to yourself?
*courtesy of NRO "Best of the Web".
Posted by BIL at 11:47 PM | Comments (1)
Google Is Set to Bring Web to Users
Nice explanatory bit about Google's latest feature, Sidebar. What intrigues me, however, about Google is this piece from last week's Business 2.0, the prospect of a nation-wide, free wireless Google-net. This was written a few days before Google announced plans to raise an extra $4 billion to add to the $3 bill they already have stashed away. I've used Google-Mail, which incorporates tiny ads within it. If that's what they have in mind for a free wireless system, count me in.
Posted by Eddie at 06:27 AM | Comments (0)
August 21, 2005
GOP Senator Says Iraq Looking Like Vietnam
Was just about a month ago when I linked to Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (Md.). At that time BlogReader and frequent commenter BIL joined forces in the comments. BR wanting us to use an analogy to WWII instead and BIL commenting that "there is an element of the 60's generation comprised of disaffected quasi-intellectual anarchist dilettantes that view Vietnam as the defining moment in their lives." Interesting comment, bro, since both Rep. Gilchhrest and Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel received the Purple Heart in Vietnam. Do they fit into your description or perhaps it's today's Chicken-Hawks who are in fact the "disaffected quasi-intelletuals"?
Posted by Eddie at 09:42 PM | Comments (12)