Archives for June 2006
Anyone who hates email scams will love this. I am still laughing. The ultimate “scammer scammed.”
Welcome to the 419 Eater
TITLE: The Incredible Shrinking Artwork
SCAMMER NAME: John Boko
SCAMMER LOCATION: Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
SCAMBAITER: Shiver Metimbers
A slightly different twist on my now familiar artwork anti-scam. I manage to secure two pieces of artwork, but unfortunately due to the […]
USATODAY.com - Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete
Based on its reporting after the May 11 article, USA TODAY has now concluded that while the NSA has built a massive domestic calls record database involving the domestic call records of telecommunications companies, the newspaper cannot confirm that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the NSA to provide bulk calling […]
Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: 8 More Days
My wedding is 8 days from now - that’s why things have been fairly quiet around here. There will be a fairly major change to this blog in the weeks to come and an announcement about another project I’m going to launch as well.
Jeff is also moving and […]
Clinical Germany win on penalties
Germany beat Argentina 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out after a tense quarter-final in Berlin ended 1-1 after extra-time.Argentina led when Roberto Ayala took advantage of slack marking to head in a Juan Riquelme corner after 49 minutes.
But with 10 minutes left Michael Ballack’s cross was flicked on by Tim Borowski and […]
Opinions You Should Have
Trial Next Thursday, Bush Says
In a hastily called press conference early this morning, George W. Bush fixed reporters with a steely eye and told them that the New York TImes was no more, calling it “the paper of the broken record.”
The White House was quick to note that the New York Times […]
via Unscrewing The Inscrutable
The title is no typo.
Embedding those Youtube videos in my own posts took me some doing.
Update: Dorkafork’s advice to Wordpress 2.0x users works: If you go to “Users” and scroll down your profile and uncheck “Use the visual rich editor when writing”, then the copy-paste of the embed code should work. […]
not kidding
Taylor Hill: When and how was your first Dead show?
Ann Coulter: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome.
TH: When and how was your last Dead show?
AC: I have no recollection of it whatsoever, other than that it was awesome. Actually, my last Dead show wasn’t quite a Dead […]
Three week hiatus; cause uncertain; possibly Zarqawi’s death
For more than two years the attacks came like clockwork. As soon as the military secured and workers repaired the pipelines from Iraq’s northern oil fields, just when the valves were about to open, insurgents would strike. But roughly three weeks ago they suddenly stopped, letting crude oil […]
No bearing on right to hold detainees
The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that the military tribunals it created to try terror suspects violate both American military law and the Geneva Convention. In a 5-to-3 ruling, the justices also rejected an effort by Congress to strip the court of […]
via Decision ‘08 - Kerry - “But that’s not cut and run.”
It’s more of a “chop and jog.”
INDCJournal: AMBER ALERT!
Name: “dorkafork”Case Type: Unknown - possible Non Family Abduction or existential quest to “find himself”
Chronological Age: 28
Emotional Age: 11
Sex: Male (give or take)
Bill sure has a lot on his plate!
Researchers Discover Which Organs In Antarctic Fish Produce Antifreeze
Thirty-five years ago Arthur DeVries of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first documented antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) in Antarctic notothenioid fishes. This month three colleagues report they’ve solved the ensuing, long-running mystery of where these AFGPs, which allow the fish to survive in icy waters, are produced.
“Ever […]
according to Shiite legislator
Seven Sunni Arab insurgent groups have contacted the government to declare their readiness to join in efforts at national reconciliation, a key Shia legislator said on Monday.The seven lesser groups, most of them believed populated by former members or backers of Saddam Hussein’s government, military or security agencies, have said they want […]
Hot Air » Video: Bush calls Times’s expose “disgraceful”
“The 9/11 Commission recommended that we follow the terrorists’ money in a robust way.”
Go see the video, as Allah says, Bush is visibly angry.
Does the Left have a segment of their base that believes a certain pseudo-science, a segment their leaders are reluctant to antagonize? Is astrology quietly acceptable within the “progressive” community? The Left takes great pleasure in bashing Republican Creationists and ID advocates (quite appropriately, and I join them in this, as my readers know).
Jerome Armstrong’s […]
