Archive for July, 2007

U.S. Plans $20 Billion Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia

President George W. Bush is asking Congress to approve a $20 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states. I have to ask, what is he thinking? Saudi Arabia, next to Iran, has the most foreign fighters in Iraq. The majority of September 11, 2001 terrorists came from Saudi [...]

Video Post - We Love To Watch Train Wrecks

The best bit is at the end where Miller directs people to follow up on the segment by misdirecting them to NBC news.com, which resulted in a shrieking “nooooooo!” by one of the staffers at Miller’s ABC produced show.

The Renaissance of Anti-Semitism

I missed it a year ago, but Mark Steyn has republished a year old article he wrote about the renaissance of anti-Semitism:
But all the hoo-ha about Holocaust denial (and granted, from President Ahmadinejad to Mel Gibson’s dad, there’s a lot of it about) has obscured the fact that the world has re-embraced, with little objection, [...]

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Issues Apology Over Upside Down Marine Emblem

I hadn’t realized that Mia Michaels was wearing Marine Dress Blues with upside down Marine emblems on the sleeves when I wrote yesterday’s article discussing the solos. (video here)

Travel Channel Show Pulls For Illegal Immigrants

Travel Channel Show Backs Illegal Immigrants

Pork Alert! Fishing Buy-Back Program Courtesy of Your Tax Dollars

The National Fisheries Service has a fishing vessel ‘Buy-Back’ program, whereby they use your tax dollars. Fishing boats are bought from their owners, in order to “ensure sustainability of fish stocks.” The vessels are then generally destroyed under a mandatory destruction clause. However some are sold for “non-fishing purposes … to [...]

You’d Have To Get Me Drunk To Go Up In Space Too

There is an unsubstantiated report out that some astronauts were drunk and in violation of the “standard 12 hour “bottle-to-throttle” rule” when they launched off the pad.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an [...]

Who The Hell is Pro-War?

Update: So You Think You Can Dance Issues Apology, read article and see video here.
The Fox Broadcasting Network has one of the most entertaining reality TV shows I enjoy watching with their 3rd season hit So You Think You Can Dance. I watch the show with my family for the sheer entertainment provided by the [...]

Islamists, Communists, and the State of the Western World

I hope this scenario does not come to fruition, but it is possible that we wake up saying, “crap, we are not in Kansas anymore”.

Tobacco Goes Up in Smoke at Disney

Disney has decided that none of its movies will feature people who smoke. Disney took the decision because it believes that children are influenced by those they see in movies and that smoking characters lead our youth to take up that nasty habit. Disney said that it would like some of its other studio labels. [...]