http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354689,00.html
"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.
Sounds like Code Pink has jumped the shark.
A few women stood outside the recruiting center Friday with signs that read "Peace" and "Warmongers -- Eating Our Children for Profit."
mmmmmmm.... children. It is BBQ season, after all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050801047.html
I was a HUGE Speed Racer fan as a kid. Even today I still say "Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, go Speed Racer goooooooooo" for no good reason at all (you can ask Suzy to confirm this). I was initially excited that this was going to be made into a movie. I'm always weary about live-action adaptations of anime, but I thought this could be good. Good anime, cars, a monkey.. how could you go wrong?
But, then I saw the first trailer. Frankly, it didn't impress me. It seemed like a Tron meets Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, meets a pinball machine. I got a feeling it would disapoint people who actually grew up enjoying the show. Based on the reviews I've read, I'm right.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/myanmar/index.html
I think we should just drop the food, without the permission of the ruling military junta. Just drop some crates. Hopefully, it'd then reach people before the military gets there to take it away. Of course, if the military then killed anyone, the USA would be blamed.. and somehow it'd be a Zionist conspiracy against Islam. But, maybe it'd help some people.
And another thing, let's stop calling it Myanmar. Because, whenever someone is talking about it, they just say "Myanmar, formerly known as Burma". Well, let's just call it Burma again (making pythons happy everywhere). Or, maybe "Myanmar, the country that killed Buddhist monks", maybe "Juntadia", or "Who?".
Back in March these people sent me a letter saying my payment is past due. Well, I get another one today. I do the same as last time, and look up the payment at my bank. And, yet again, it was posted 4 days before it was due. Yet again, they send me one of these letters. I call, and of course they got the payment. I can understand 1 mistake, but 2 in the course of 3 months, up yours.
Get your shit straight. Nobody likes these letters, especially when the make sure you're paid, every month, BEFORE the due date. I will never, ever, ever use 1st National Bank of Scotia again.
Lesbians don't want a gay group to use the word lesbian, because they don't like people thinking they are lesbian Lesbians, when they have been Lesbians for eons already.
There once was a lesbian from Lesbos
Who wanted her name changed to be Heteros
Her face is the same,
The Island's quite tame,
And the lesbos in Lesbos ain't lesbos!
Frosts the last 2 days (killed my veggies), pretty cold since the weekend in general. Where's this "Global Warming" I've heard so much about?
He's outraged!
Obama said, "I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday."
Because in the 20 years he attended this church, he certainly never knew about Wright's comments, thoughts, feeling, or anything else. But now, since the fact this his own judgment comes under scrutiny (since he has no real record to go by, his apparent judgment is looked at) he's simply outraged. He wasn't outraged for 2 decades, but now he is. He acts as if what Wright says now is something new. Phoney.
"This is his [McCain] solution to the problems of the energy crisis and your tax bills," Obama told several thousand at a noisy rally in Wilmington. "Keep in mind that the federal gas tax is about 5 percent of your gas bill. If it lasts for three months, you're going to save about $25 or $30, or a half a tank of gas."
I'm not exactly sure why Obama thinks a few months of an 18.4 cent cut in gas prices would somehow not be a good idea. Would he think that a natural drop in per-gallon prices of the same amount also aren't a big deal? I think his numbers, considering most families have multiple drivers, is incorrect. Plus, the fact that people tend to drive more over the summer months, so this could be a good amount of savings in American's pockets. Especially, for people who have longer commutes or sit in traffic much of the time. Not to mention how a 24.4 cent drop in diesel fuel somehow isn't good for truckers (and the rest of us, since when they pay more, we pay more). If saving $30 doesn't mean much to Mr. Obama, he can certainly whip out his wallet and give me $30.
"That's his big solution," Obama said of McCain. "He had the gall yesterday to tell me that because I don't agree with his plan, I must not be sympathetic to poor people. This is at the same time as he is proposing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for corporate interests, for the wealthiest Americans."
This is a typical Obama statement. Instead of addressing how his plan is better, he just doesn't give what his plan is and changes direction.
Oh.. wait..
"There's a problem, everybody's upset about gas prices. Let's fund some short-term, quick-fix so we can say we did something, even though we didn't do anything," Obama said. He argued that reducing consumption and increasing the use of alternative fuels represent real long-term solutions to rising gasoline and diesel fuel prices.
His plan is the same as everyone else's. Figure out how to reduce consumption and use more alternative fuels. Not original, and those things will take years. What's wrong with some short-term thing? What's wrong with a variety of short-term solutions to help us not-so-rich people? For 98% of Americans, $30 here, $20 there, $50 over there can make a difference.
So, Mr. Obama, I'll wait for my $30 from you since that's such a piddly amount.
UPDATE: I had gone to the Obama website, and sent an email asking for $30, since it's no big deal to Obama. Of course, I know I wouldn't get it, or that the email would even be read. However, by sending an email on their web form, you apparently get subscribed to their mailings (There is no way to not have this happen on the form, or any verbiage that it does happen). Anyways, today I get an email from "Barack" asking for a $25 donation. So, let me get this straight.. $30 in our pockets is no big deal, but we should send him $25. Just ask many people sending him $25 makes a difference (to HIM), $30 in all our pockets would make a different (to US).
Kyla recently took the SCAT (School & College Ability Test), and we've patiently been awaiting her results. Today, I got them and she has been accepted into the Young Scholars Program next year. It's similar to an Advanced Placement, in that next year she'll go to the middle school once a week and take classes there (it's part of a Gifted and Talented program). We're very very excited for her. Her scores were quite fantastic:
Verbal Reasoning:
Better than 98% of kids in her grade from across the country.
Better than 59% of the kids in 8th grade from across the country.
Quantitative Reasoning:
Better than 99+% of kids in her grade from across the country.
Better than 63% of the kids in 8th grade from across the country.
Congrats Kyla!
Funny, I was just thinking this two days ago. I thought I heard something about the gov't talking to oil companies about all the money they are making off us, and thought "Well, so is the government. They should stop taxing gas for a while." It would be good if they do this, as I cringe when I go to the gas station these days.
I also wondered what would happen if we ('we' as the US, or "Western" nations) said "We'll only play $75/barrel of oil." We all know there is really no reason for these high oil prices, aside that we keep paying it. I'd think $75/barrel is probably reasonable, so that's what we should pay. What would happen? They won't sell to us? We could use our reserves, while the fact that we aren't buying boosts supply, which would naturally lower prices. Crazy thought, but I'm not really sure it wouldn't ultimately make prices lower. This scenario would never happen, but I think it could work!
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/16/iran.sept11.ap/index.html
"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.
Yes, they have. They were all read aloud on the last anniversary. He'll deny the Holocaust, and now will deny 9/11? This is the guy Obama wants to sit down and chat with.
