Dear Santa,
For Christmas I would like a giant robotic elephant. I have been a very good boy so far this year and would very much appreciate one.
Thank you in advance,
Michael
Monday, January 28, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Check all boxes that apply to you...
So I was reading NYTimes.com and came across this story about Jose Padilla finally being sentenced. That's all well and good, but a funny fact popped up in the story...
The government’s main evidence against Mr. Padilla, a former Chicago gang member with a lengthy criminal record, was an application form that prosecutors said he had filled out to attend an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. Defense lawyers argued that Mr. Padilla had traveled to the Middle East to study Islam and Arabic, not to participate in a violent Islamic jihad.
Wait.... so you're telling me you have to fill out an application to go to an al Qaeda training camp? And this guy put his real name?
Really? Super-secret terrorist group uses applications?
What are the questions on it?
"List all ethnicities/infidels you wish dead"?
"Complete this statement: Death to the ________!"?
The sheer stupidity of the very idea of the application makes me laugh.
Wait.... so you're telling me you have to fill out an application to go to an al Qaeda training camp? And this guy put his real name?
Really? Super-secret terrorist group uses applications?
What are the questions on it?
"List all ethnicities/infidels you wish dead"?
"Complete this statement: Death to the ________!"?
The sheer stupidity of the very idea of the application makes me laugh.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Happy new year
Real News - Obama won Iowa, got just as many delegates as HC in NH (I doubt the recount will change anything.
And Ron Paul beat Giuliani in Iowa, and currently has more delegates. I'm not what you would call a Ron Paul supporter. I think his plans for a strictly- constitutional based government will not work in the modern world. The United States constitution is too simple to do nothing more than base a government on.
State constitutions, however, are much more in depth and detailed in their definitions of state agencies, governmental duties and, in the case of Kentucky, how many people the State can employ at one time (35,000 is the magic number I believe). The extensiveness of a state constitution means it can be used to run the daily operations of a government. The federal government, with its large complexity, would start to collapse if someone were to start pulling out the agencies from the “federal government pyramid” (a picture of which I think I might draw latter). But enough about Paul. He’s not going to get the nomination, but maybe he will raise some awareness about what the neo-cons have been doing with spending and expanding the government.
And hopefully people are starting to realize what a creep Giuliani is. If he gets the nomination there is no chance the GOP can win the Big House again, possibly for a very, very long time.
Some cool stuff:
MST3K is back, kinda, with Cinematic Titanic. I used to watch MST3K on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. I was a nerd back then too.
There's a new Tom Waits cover album coming out, by Scarlett Johansson. I’m glad I got to see Waits in concert. Man! that was a good show.
Also, I like palindromes.
And Ron Paul beat Giuliani in Iowa, and currently has more delegates. I'm not what you would call a Ron Paul supporter. I think his plans for a strictly- constitutional based government will not work in the modern world. The United States constitution is too simple to do nothing more than base a government on.
State constitutions, however, are much more in depth and detailed in their definitions of state agencies, governmental duties and, in the case of Kentucky, how many people the State can employ at one time (35,000 is the magic number I believe). The extensiveness of a state constitution means it can be used to run the daily operations of a government. The federal government, with its large complexity, would start to collapse if someone were to start pulling out the agencies from the “federal government pyramid” (a picture of which I think I might draw latter). But enough about Paul. He’s not going to get the nomination, but maybe he will raise some awareness about what the neo-cons have been doing with spending and expanding the government.
And hopefully people are starting to realize what a creep Giuliani is. If he gets the nomination there is no chance the GOP can win the Big House again, possibly for a very, very long time.
Some cool stuff:
MST3K is back, kinda, with Cinematic Titanic. I used to watch MST3K on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. I was a nerd back then too.
There's a new Tom Waits cover album coming out, by Scarlett Johansson. I’m glad I got to see Waits in concert. Man! that was a good show.
Also, I like palindromes.
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