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After years of secrecy the terrifying truth of the Five Fuwa can now be revealed. Behold the horror that is M.A.S.C.O.T.
Published: Sun, 07-13-08 01:42 PM

Each year many foreigners come to China when they get home they swear blind that some local restaurant owner or other stiffed them by substituting regular meat such as pork and chicken for dog meat, without realizing two all important things:1) That
Published: Fri, 07-11-08 12:45 PM

Who, exactly, are the Five Fuwa? and more importantly do they spell doom for China?
Published: Sat, 06-28-08 09:42 AM

Barack Obama and, if the political ads in Denver are any indication, just about all the Democrats running for office want to undo the Bush tax cuts and make "the rich" pay their "fair share." Considering the latest (1996) IRS ...
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 07:03 PM

To all you Europeans and others who favor the date format dd/mm, Happy Pi Approximation Day! Or Casual Pi Day! You see, July 22 can be expressed as 22/7 -- which is a good approximation of pi (3.14159…). It's too late for this year, but...
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 11:17 PM

Last week, Larry Kudlow went on a great rant against bailouts: Why does it seem to me that all Washington ever seems to talk about these days is bailouts? Bailout Freddie Mac. Bailout Fannie Mae. Bailout Wall Street. Bailout homeowners. Is it possib
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 10:59 PM

The economic suffering Americans are enduring through high oil prices and other market maladies is blinding us to how offshore drilling is another hoax on the American people – like George Bush’s economic policies of the last 7and a half
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 05:17 PM

The economic suffering Americans are enduring through high oil prices and other market maladies is blinding us to how offshore drilling is another hoax on the American people – like George Bush’s economic policies of the last 7and a half
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 03:42 PM

The economic suffering Americans are enduring through high oil prices and other market maladies is blinding us to how offshore drilling is another hoax on the American people – like George Bush’s economic policies of the last 7and a half
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 09:33 PM

Today I went to the doctor to get a checkup.   I hadn't been to the doc in eighteen months, so I figured I was overdue.Fortunately, I checked out just fine and I'm good to go for another year or ten thousand miles, whichever comes f
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 06:23 PM

Far right radio talk show ost, Michael Savage, lived up to his pseudonym last Wednesday when he dismissed autism as a phony disease when he said, "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out..."Wh
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 10:59 PM

Gas prices are up, higher than they've ever been in my lifetime.   When I first bought my car in 2003, it took five dollars to to go from three quarters of a tank to full.   Now, it takes fifteen dollars.Food prices are likewi
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 10:56 AM

Soul Music. Along about 1999 I worked with a couple members of a Seattle Grunge Band, they kept bringing that shit to work to listen to. I countered with some Country and Western and Bluegrass, damned if those two didn't like that too!!!The music
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 03:26 PM

Freedom - What it Takes All in all Saturday was a great day, it began as an overcast and cool morning as we loaded up a couple of folding chairs and some water bottles then headed off for McCord AFB and the 2008 Airshow.The bad? I took lots of pictur
Published: Sun, 07-20-08 03:58 PM

I was recently sent a video clip with the question. Think Muslims would understand? My response was hell no, not since 632.A son asked his father, 'Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?' The father who, despite having a heart conditi
Published: Thu, 07-17-08 12:53 PM

McCain makes promises he cannot possibly deliver.
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 11:02 AM

Tom Bonsall
Published: Sun, 07-20-08 10:59 AM

In an ideal world, we would go back to the beginning of the primary campaign and start all over, with an entirely news set of candidates.
Published: Sat, 07-05-08 07:59 PM

With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the solution.
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 12:40 AM

When was the last time you sat through an excellent talk where the speaker didn't read through their bullet points? it is a rare skill to achieve, with so few practicing it.
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 07:12 AM

With Amazon S3 suffering an 8 hour outage, it is vitally important you take responsibility for your own cloud infastructure. Trust no one and rely on your own skills instead of blaming the provider.
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 02:38 AM

Now the percentage of women participating in the workforce is to have reporter to have dropped by 2.2 percent since the year 2000.  (A couple of years ago I had reported that one source had saidit had dropped by 1.85 by 2003. The article mention
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 03:18 AM

Does it surprise you that the truth comes out and Mr. Maliki's disownment of statemer to the German magazine went down a lot like the way I surmised in my post below? There was a call from the US Embasse to the Iraqi officials (but only for
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 07:35 PM

For weeks the McCain team has been harrassing journalists about all the attention Senator Obama would get going to Iraq, as if  John McCain didn't get extra news space when he went to Iraq (earlier this year I believe).Still it's the Rep
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 01:58 AM

Even if it turns out that the McCain doctrine was right, it has brought about his own undoing as a Presidential candidate -- it now has enabled Barack Obama to argue that his 16-month plan for withdrawal was right all along. In other words, assuming
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 01:04 AM

John McCain is now sinking down the drain of irrelevance. While he is grousing about how Obama's plans will lead to defeat, Obama is winning over world leaders, generals, and soldiers with his tour around the world, which has gathered him major p
Published: Wed, 07-23-08 12:10 AM

Continuing our full-fledged assault on Christian Fundamentalism (by which I mean the right-wing orthodoxy that has permeated the world), we make forays into some more of Nietzsche's work. First of all, we discuss his work, "Beyond Good and E
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 10:44 PM

Inscriptions of Allah and Mohammed have appeared on cuts of beef up North in Birnin Kebbi - astounding.
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 02:48 PM

Our women's minister took a battalion to the UN, they could not shoot their guns and the medics gave them an overdose of sarcastic nudity.
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 11:06 AM

The Pardon Attorney Roger C. Adams is fired for including racist recommendations in the clemency petition of a reformed Nigerian ex-convict minister. I sympathise more with the attorney than the Nigerian immigrant.
Published: Sat, 07-19-08 03:45 AM

CHRIS HAYES, "The whole conditions-based withdrawal has been a smokescreen from the very beginning...Well, when conditions got worse, we had to stay to make them get better. And once they get better, we have to stay to make sure they never get worse.
Published: Tue, 07-22-08 02:13 PM

Tabacco, "I apologize for this Post because you will learn absolutely nothing from it about Torture. However you will get to see how Bush administration officials respond under Oath just as members of La Cosa Nostra would".
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 11:44 AM

Barack Obama: "George Bush and John McCain don't have a strategy for success in Iraq; they have a strategy for staying in Iraq"! Transcribed by Tabacco on CNN "This Week In Politics", Sun 7-20-08 ... FINALLY! A Democratic politician speaks the TRUTH!
Published: Mon, 07-21-08 12:40 AM

Well, once again we get some bad news on the state of healthcare in the U.S. (view report here). It turns out that the U.S. came in "last among 19 industrialized nations in premature deaths that might have been prevented by better access to
Published: Thu, 07-17-08 10:26 PM

America Our Next ChapterTough Questions, Straight Answersby Chuck Hagel with Peter Kaminsky  I actually enjoyed this book. It's nice to know that not all Republicans are ultra-right wing, idiological idiots. And Hagel makes it clea
Published: Thu, 07-17-08 10:28 PM

Overshadowed by the controversy caused by the New yorker cover, is Obama's op-ed piece in the New York Times outlining his plan for Iraq. It's a good one, and worth reading if you want to speak knowlegably about the the issue.Speaking of Iraq
Published: Thu, 07-17-08 10:29 PM

Our two girls were down stairs watching WWE.  Downstairs we have a big screen TV.  Everyone in the house likes to watch the Big TV.  We have a total of 4 televisions in our home.  Yet there is constant arguing over the TV amongst
Published: Fri, 06-27-08 08:58 PM

I have heard from many sources over the years saying...do not focus your mind on the negatives of life but on what you want to happen.  You know this is good in theory. I say this because even though you think positive it doesn't mean those
Published: Tue, 06-24-08 08:04 PM

The wife was at work.  I am at work driving this cdl licensed truck near my neighborhood.  The time is approaching 3:30 and my son has to be picked up from daycare by 5:30.  I call my sisters and my pops to see if they could swing by,
Published: Sat, 06-21-08 08:30 AM

It's a phenomenon!
Published: Thu, 06-26-08 02:21 PM

Because what Pennsylvanians need most is a bunch of reporters coming here to tell us who we are.
Published: Wed, 06-25-08 02:31 PM

Last week, Dennis Kucinich brought up a resolution to impeach Bush.
Published: Sat, 06-14-08 10:37 PM

I'll be gone for an undetermined time while I guest blog at Roger Ailes . Go there.
Published: Sat, 07-19-08 11:17 AM

Flip-flopper. Anyone who says the word sounds like a bloody idiot. How did a fucking sandal, that does not at anytime turn itself upside down nor reverse it's orientation on the foot, become synonymous with a politician who reverses his positions
Published: Fri, 07-18-08 08:57 AM

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the House Financial Services Committee that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "adequately capitalized" and in "no danger of failing." The two companies hold or guarantee more
Published: Thu, 07-17-08 11:44 AM

A few years ago, I was cleaning my apartment, and feeling rather down. Then my inner voice said, "What are you doing put on some happy music." At the time I was listening to Beethoven and it was a rather slow piece. So I changed the Cd to a
Published: Wed, 07-16-08 12:29 AM

Most of my life has been lived in a mystical way. From my earliest memories I had psychic ability and over a life time this gift has grown. In my early forties I learned to use my healing hands ability.  Then around 1990 I had my first Reiki&nbs
Published: Sat, 07-05-08 12:43 AM

Hell in a very small blog place
Published: Wed, 07-16-08 07:22 PM

In the pre-dawn hours of June 25, 1950, the dark skies above the 38th parallel exploded with the brilliant light show and deafening noise of artillery blasts. Then a phalanx of tanks moved forward to begin their devastating drive southward...
Published: Sun, 07-06-08 02:09 PM

After 35 years of nationalized oil in Iraq resource colonialism makes a comeback
Published: Mon, 06-30-08 09:34 AM

I have no doubt that there will still be those who are going to dismiss the latest evidence that the US government has in fact been torturing prisoners in the War OF Terror.  I am also sure that anyone who speaks-out against this corruption of b
Published: Wed, 07-02-08 09:46 AM

It was inevitable.  Once the primary season ends, winning candidates always abandon their previous hardline positions, and move to ones that are meant to gather as many "independent" voters as possible.  The conservative Charles K
Published: Fri, 06-27-08 07:41 AM

I am shocked!  SHOCKED to hear that the justice department hired attorney's based on political ideology:The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigati
Published: Tue, 06-24-08 05:07 PM

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Published: Fri, 06-27-08 12:14 PM

absence is supposed to make the heart grow fonder right???
Published: Fri, 06-06-08 02:03 PM

how it all ended...........
Published: Wed, 03-26-08 10:45 AM

If like me, you're accustomed to receiving email notifications when anyone makes a CVS commit in your projects, then you'd want the same when you're project source is stored in Subversion. Thankfully Subversion makes it fairly easy via a
Published: Thu, 08-30-07 12:25 PM

The SVN commit emails that I blogged about previously don't quite match the expectations I had, given the rich emails that CVSspam produces.The commit-email.pl script can certainly be hacked to your own preference but an alternative is to use SVN
Published: Thu, 08-30-07 12:25 PM

A whistlestop guide to turning your Mac Mini into a fully functional mail server
Published: Thu, 11-30-06 04:31 AM