January 2008
79 posts
Gerald Polley For President, 2,008! →
randomonium: North Dakota Psychic running for president. He’s internationally known. I guess. Have a look around the rest of the site. This has been your daily dose of crazy. End transmission. Shouldn’t he already know he’s going to lose?
“This is undeniably a good thing for the country, and while they are probably too...”
– John Cole on the dying Guiliani campaign
“The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus...”
– Bruce Schneier : Security vs. Privacy (via toldorknown) Nothin’ like having the wolves protect you from the foxes.
yesterday was a successful day of photography.
The post by superdoofus-stratodrive is here. Nice post. Reminders are always handy… I long for manual focus. Then again, I’m just a poor beginner. Although having grown up in a family of photographers, to the point where it took me a VERY long time to pick up a camera due to overkill and being forced to pose ad nauseam, one thing that stands out to me here is to take a LOT of...
“Seriously, WTF do you have to do to be deemed too incompetent to work for this...”
– John Cole on Paul Wolfowitz
Stimulus disappointment - Paul Krugman →
But it appears that most of the measures that would do that — benefits to the unemployed, food stamps, aid to state and local governments — are being bargained away. Even the tax credit is apparently not fully refundable, so those who need it most, and are most likely to spend it, won’t get the full amount.
“I need to get into this line of work. Make all sorts of crazy big commissions on...”
– John Cole (The Free Market at Work)
Laughing jailhouse phone call gets woman tough... →
During the conversation, the man told Arrington that an acquaintance believed she should get a medal and a parade because she had “taken out” a “tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot.” Arrington laughed. When the man said he knew it was a terrible thing to say, she responded, “No, it’s not.” Assistant Public Defender Michael...
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can...”
– Stephen Hawking (from ninjabot)
“If anything, his campaign resembled Terri Schiavo - listless, inert, and with no...”
– John Cole (RIP, The Thompson Campaign)
“…and ultrasonic laughter has been recorded during groundbreaking...”
– Damn Interesting » Humoring the Gelotologists
“Our health care system makes no damned sense whatsoever. Not to go all...”
– John Cole
Man accidentally shoots himself during robbery,... →
A short time later, police found 25-year-old Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg. He was expected to have surgery at a hospital. FAIL
“Some days when it’s raining and nothing seems like it’s going well, I close my...”
– Tim F.
“I think I have RDS. He is currently ten words in to his appearance on Face the...”
– John Cole on Mitt Romney
“I don’t know anything about Taiwan, except Thai food is pretty good.”
– Some idiot on Amazing Race
“This new era is being built with the understanding that power is a trust that...”
– George Bush In a speech code-named: Do as I say not as I do.
Orlando Premium Outlets' owner buys Dixie Stampede →
Dixie Stampede LLC abruptly closed the Dolly Parton dinner theater Monday, putting more than 160 employees out of work. My neighbor was one of the 160. He returned from the hospital the proud dad of baby girl to find he had no job.
