/nm/20060524/od_nm/australia _pets_dc;_ylt=AqrzEUoyJMS32SwR lxyzC2ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdx dHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-">Link As if these guys didn't have enough to do preaching at us humans for their lifestyle, now the Australian animal rights activists are complaining that pet owners are overfeeding their pets and that the obesity epidemic is extending to these animals. I don't know about you, but I don't sleep any better at night knowing our governments are spending excessive amounts of mone...
I do not oppose immigration in this country. We need immigrants, and what they have brought to our culture is invaluable. But, like most Americans, I cannot stand this acceptance of consistent entry by those who do not have a legal right to be here. We have fairly simple standards for entry, and they should be observed. Unfortunately, though, we have a policy of ignoring the crimes committed by illegal aliens because of political correctness. If I steal your wallet, for instance, and I us...
Barring those with an exceptionally short attention span, anyone who reads me will know that I am a HUGE fan of baseball. Several family vacations have specifically centered around the sport, including one where I "sacrificed" an AL baseball hit off of the bat of Ken Griffey, Jr. in batting practice at Milwaukee County stadium into the cornfield in Dyersville, Iowa, in the year 2001 as a "sacrifice" to the Gods of baseball in hopes the Yankees would lose the series (they did). And so, it was sli...
I didn't write the article below. It was originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. But it is an article that everyone in America who defends the piece of human excrement that is Cindy Sheehan needs to read. Wonder how long it will last as a post on DU: A day to accept a memorial A famous casualty of the Iraq war may - and should - get the monument he deserves. By Thomas Lipscomb On a pleasant hillside in the Vacaville-Elmira cemetery in California, there is a grave that st...
As Bush and Company are working hard to convince us that the bird flu pandemic could wipe out much of North America, I have decided, for once, not to dismiss it as hype, not to consider that this may be an artrificially induced hysteria and write it off with the laughable projections of other doomsayers. Instead, I will be proactive, refusing to be a victim. As a patriot, I will treat the bird flu pandemic as I would any other invader. I will begin killing each and every bird I see, in an att...
It seems I was pretty much spot on on the sentencing of Z---- Moo-Sow-Oui. I predicted that he would not disappear, but would be made into a political prisoner. Before the ink was even dry on his sentencing, he attempted to retract his guilty plea. You can't do that once you have been sentenced, though. Now, we have Osama bin Laden maintaining that Moo-Sow-Oui was not among his picks for the 9/11 hijackers. Now that the tape's been authenticated, it should take little time for protestors to b...
On a message board where I contribute regularly, the question continually arises as to whether or not we should try to press cases against CPS on appeal for Constitutional law violations. I thought I'd share with you my response: There is much debate about whether a family should set the basis for appeal in their encounters with CPS and family court. While an appeal can be lengthy and can effect a family emotionally, and thus should never be undertaken lightly, it is absolutely crucial for us...
"The Da Vinci Code" pulled in $77 million over the weekend, an impressive take, by all estimates. With "Over the Hedge" pulling in $37 million, and "Mission: Impossible III" taking in $11 million, it's been one of the better grossing weeks for the US box office in quite awhile. While DVC's controversy's not likely to die soon, by selling tickets, it is helping an industry that has been underperforming recently. While we've seen hype over movies such as last year's "Brokeback Mountain", DVC came ...
Well, I finally was able to have a friend email me some pics of the kids taken at the Easter Egg Hunt. I can't upload photos on the library computer, so this was the only way I could get photos to share. Here's one for all of you (hope it comes out OK):
As I've watched the debate rage on about the movie (and book) "the Da Vinci Code", I have noticed an interesting pattern. Most (not necessarily all) of the individuals I see arguing most passionately that the movie is "no big deal" and saying that somehow there's something wrong with Christians who oppose it are the same people who argued that the Danish newspapers shouldn't have printed the infamously offensive cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. While the cartoons were no more based in fact than...
Link We all remember Lionel Tate. In 1999, then 12 year old Tate killed a six year old girl, and his attorneys pinned the blame on professional wrestling. While our collective unconsciousness wanted desperately to call this individual a thug and a career criminal, we were silenced by elements within the minority community that convinced us it would be somehow racist. Tate became the youngest person sentenced to life in prison, but the conviction was overturned and Tate was allowed to ...
I hate lavish CEO salaries. I hate the fact that the CEO's of major corporations live in penthouse apartments while the worker that provides the labor to run the company must watch their dimes and nickels. But in my growing understanding of economics, I have gradually become aware that CEO salaries, while insane, are a perfect example of the law of supply and demand. See, a good company can't do anything without a good leader. The best product in the world is worthless without someone...
Link The Geneva based World Council of Churches has declared that conversion to another faith is a basic right. This in response to certain actions where the "religion of peace" is a majority and where people who have converted away from the religion of peace have been peacefully removed from this existence. While I agree with the verdict, I do not recognize the authority of the agency who issued it, nor, in fact, will the serious practitioners of most faiths. Just as with the United Na...
One of the first rules of "point whoring" for a blogger, I have discovered, is to include the names of celebrities in your article. Preferably with a host of other keywords, such as nude, titties, s&m, or other words describing sexual behavior (even and especially deviant sexual behavior). But the celebrity names themselves will generate hits, if they're hot enough. I found this out the (err, ahem!) hard way when I first started blogging and wrote the now-notorious "Mary Kate" article (as...
Link Richard Hatch, the first winner of the reality show Survivor, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for failing to pay his taxes. While Hatch just may be one of the biggest idiots on the planet (you don't win a million bucks in front of millions of viewers and fail to pay your taxes...that's just insane), the prison sentence hardly seems to bode as harshly for Hatch as it would for some of us. Heck, it's probably better than eHarmony for matchmaking. How can you know someone better tha...