Monthly Archive for February, 2005

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The Dean Years

Published on 2005/02/15 in Politics. Closed

Well, Howard Dean is now officially the head of the Democratic Party. And to get things off on the right foot, he had this to say while addressing the Democratic African-American caucus:


“You think the RNC could get this many people of color into a single room? Maybe if they got the hotel staff in there.”

I find that insulting. And I’ll bet that if a Republican had said something like that, the MSM would be all over it, along with all the lefty bloggers. We wouldn’t hear the end of it until that person resigned.


But as Ted Rall and others have shown us, white liberal racists (see Robert Byrd) can pretty much say or do anything they wish with impunity.

Another Update

Published on 2005/02/12 in Idiots. 3 Comments

I also blogged about Judge Donald Thompson masturbating and using an enlargement pump in court. Yes, while he was presiding over trials.

Thompson’s court reporter, Lisa Foster, told authorities that she saw him use the pump at least 10 times during trials. She told The Associated Press that the first time in court was in 2000, but she said nothing at the time for fear of retaliation.

Seriously, don’t jerk off while you’re sitting on the bench. Justice is blind, yes, but not due to auto-erotic asphyxiation. Thankfully, he’s now facing charges of indecent exposure, much to his surprise.

“We’re certainly saddened by the thought that the prosecutor filed charges,” said Clark Brewster, Thompson’s attorney. “We thought all this was dealt with when he resigned. We didn’t feel like anything that was alleged rose to the level of criminal charges.”

Once again, and I can’t stress this enough, don’t jerk off while you’re sitting on the bench.


On the bright side, once he’s convicted and sent to prison (hopefully), he’ll be able to service himself to his heart’s content. Not to mention all the other inmates he’ll likely be servicing.

Ouch! Updated

Published on 2005/02/12 in General Stuff. Closed

I blogged a while back about Amanda Monti, who ripped a testicle off her ex-boyfriend with her bare hand. Well, she’s had her day in court, and she got two and a half years in jail. Personally, I was hoping the sentence would be harsher considering she left the guy permanently deformed, since they couldn’t re-attach the extracted piece of anatomy. I’m sure most guys would agree with me on that. Yeesh, I can’t imagine the pain.


What I find odd is that I saw it on my RSS feed for Yahoo’s “Oddly Enough” news category. Their headline is “Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!”. Now why file it under Oddly Enough? Oddly enough she actually received jail time for ripping off a testicle?


Or Oddly Enough, the guy (after getting out the hospital of course) didn’t hunt her down, cut her head off, and place it on a pike in his front yard as a deterrent to any other females that might have designs on his one remaining testicle?


You know, like in the old days. Vlad the Impaler would have been proud.

Eason Jordan Quits

Published on 2005/02/12 in Politics. Closed

I haven’t really posted about Eason Jordan, plenty of others have. But reports are now confirming that he has resigned.


Ah, the power of the bloggers…

Guilty!

Published on 2005/02/11 in Politics and War On Terror. Closed

Lynne Stewart, a left-wing activist and general moonbat, was convicted just a short time ago of smuggling messages from one of her clients, a radical Egyptian sheik, to his followers, urging them to commit violent terrorist attacks.


Since she’s sixty-five, and her sentence should be at least twenty years, that should pretty much wrap things up for her.


Now, can we prosecute someone for getting the Hezbollah to help promote their documentary propaganda film?

Speaking Of Gender Issues

Published on 2005/02/11 in General Stuff. Closed

It turns out that one of Zimbabwe’s leading female athletes had some uncommon anatomy:


Samukeliso Sithole, 17, has been charged with impersonation.

At her court appearance, she insisted that she was a woman, despite a doctor’s report to the contrary.


Ms Sithole said she was born with both male and female sexual organs and a traditional healer had made the penis disappear but it had since regrown.


She told the court that the penis had returned because the healer had not been fully paid for his services.


She said that she had already arranged to pay the healer on 3 March, the day her trial is set to start, and so she expected her penis to disappear once more, according to the state-run Herald newspaper.


That “healer” sounds pretty powerful. If wonder if his magic works in the other direction as well. If so, he could make a fortune. All he needs is a product and someone to send out tons of spam.

Victims Gone Wild

Published on 2005/02/11 in Politics. Closed

Amy Alkon has a column up discussing “How Feminism Has Messed Up Relationships”. Here are some choice excerpts:

“IN SEDUCTION, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine,” proclaimed radical feminist Andrea Dworkin in 1976. If you’re a woman born 20 years ago, you probably don’t even recognize Dworkin’s name. Yet, there’s a good chance you’ve had some seriously frustrating dates with her unwitting progeny: the guy who waits until date three or four?not to grab you, throw you up against the wall and suck face?but to politely inquire, “May I kiss you?”

…


Dworkin, MacKinnon and their hairy-armpitted underbosses gave the order to the “victimized”?women, largely privileged and white, on campuses across America?to crawl out from under the boot of “male oppression.” In reality, what they were fighting wasn’t male oppression, but maleness of any kind?based on the erroneous feminist notion that equality means sameness.


…


But, there are also a lot of lonely women in their 30s and 40s who dress like men trying to attract work picking lettuce. Refusing to pander to “the male gaze” is what it used to be called.

I recommend reading the whole thing, it’s a really good column, and she makes great points. Personally, I still open the door for women, and if they happen to think I’m doing it because I feel they’re inferior, that’s their problem, not mine.


My mother taught me what having manners and being polite are, and some damned hippie feminist isn’t going to change that one bit.

Switching To Firefox

Published on 2005/02/11 in Geeky Stuff. Closed

I’ve been using Firefox now and then, and it seems to be a really decent browser platform. However, I haven’t completely switched over simply because my blogging platform uses FreeTextBox as the editor, and when bringing up the admin console in Firefox, all rich text editing is gone, you just get a plain old text box.


A few weeks ago, I upgraded from FTB 1.0 to FTB 3.0, which went fairly smoothly, but although it does have support for Firefox (you can see the example in Firefox on their web page), it still didn’t work in .Text.


So after some digging and several failed compiles and more tweaking, I was finally able to get FTB 3.0 to work in Firefox with .Text. Whoo Hoo! Now I can take the plunge and switch completely over to Firefox as my browser.

Got Gmail?

Published on 2005/02/10 in Geeky Stuff and General Stuff. 3 Comments

I just checked my Gmail account, and I now have 50 invites to give away. I couldn’t get rid of them fast enough when I only had 10.


Anybody want a Gmail invite?

Good News For Eric

Published on 2005/02/10 in General Stuff. Closed

From The Scotsman:

SCOTLAND will become the first part of the UK to allow men to marry their mothers-in-law, the Scottish Executive announced yesterday.

As part of a comprehensive overhaul of legislation governing family life, deputy justice minister Hugh Henry unveiled plans to allow marriage between all relations – as long as they do not have a blood link.

Yeah, because we all know that guys are just dying to dump their wives and marry their mothers instead.