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Entries from January 2006

Tuesday Open Trackback / Linkfest

January 31st, 2006 · 7 Comments

GO CLICK AND READ what others are blogging about. That’s the purpose of a linkfest.

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Tags: Linkfest

Bush Set To Destroy Salt Lake City, Says Them Moonbats

January 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The last known hideout of both Elvis and Bigfoot, could be destroyed, further hiding the Truth from the People. Woe unto you, thou evil wretch, Bush McHitlerHaliburtonCabal!

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Tags: Absurd · Government · The Left

Is Believing In Fiscal Responsibility The Same As Believing In Santa Claus?

January 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Two Republican senators say they will force their colleagues to vote on the Senate floor on each pork-barrel spending project this year. Will McCain and Coburn make any difference?

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Tags: Government · The Right

Inline Trackbacks With WordPress

January 28th, 2006 · Comments Off

WordPress, at least version 1.5 and older, has no option for displaying trackbacks/pingbacks in the message body, also known as “inline”. So I had to use Google and a lot of trial-and-error to come up with a solution. The following is what I’ve discovered to implement inline trackbacks in WordPress 1.5. WordPress, trackback, pingback, inlineSpread [...]

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Tags: Blog · Linkfest

Thus Begins A Showdown?

January 27th, 2006 · Comments Off

That haughty, French-looking Democrat and ‘Captain Chappaquiddick’ threaten the dreaded filibuster.

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Tags: Government · The Left · The Right

He Never Met A Terrorist He Didn’t Like

January 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments

A day after terrorist organization Hamas swept to an upset victory in the Palestinian elections, former US President Jimmy Carter urged the international community to fund their continuing activities of killing old women and little children.

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Tags: Absurd · Muslim/Islam · Terrorism · The Left

Drink To Your Health

January 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Moderate drinkers have a 33% reduced risk of ischemic stroke as compared with individuals who didn’t drink.

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Tags: Strange/Funny

Hamas Wins Palestinian Election – Is Death To Follow?

January 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

It is unrealistic, unwise and even immoral to ask Israel to sit down with a government that contains people who believe it is their right to murder women, children and innocent civilians to achieve their goals.

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Tags: Government · Muslim/Islam · Terrorism

If He Wants To Kill You, Then By All Means Let Him

January 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

The rapist has a right to live, and this takes precedence over the right of his victim to not be raped; the robber has a right to live, and this takes precedence over the right of his victim to not be threatened with death.

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Tags: Government · Guns · The Left

I’m My Own Grandpa

January 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

In the 1930s, Dwight Latham had a singing group called “The Jesters”. Their specialties were bits of spoken humor and novelty songs. While reading a book of Mark Twain anecdotes, Latham found a paragraph in which Twain proved it would be possible for a man to become his own grandfather. So in 1947 Latham and [...]

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Tags: Strange/Funny

The Doors Were Left Open And Some Inmates Escaped

January 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Fortunately for the rest of us these types usually don’t breed to excess – it’s probably due to their listening to Barbara Streisand songs while watching “The Best Of Tim Robbins” on the Biography channel while thinking that George Clooney and Cindy Sheehen would make a cute couple.

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Tags: Absurd · Government · The Left

I Kneel Before, And Brings Gifts, To Goddess Lyn

January 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Yesterday this humble blog went on the fritz. I use Firefox as my browser and didn’t realize that, when viewed by IE, the main body of this blog slid into the right sidebar, making a skinny but long blog, completely unreadable. Fortunately über-hacker Lyn, over at Bloggin’ Outloud, pointed it out to me. After four [...]

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Tags: Blog

Alito Passes Judiciary Committee

January 24th, 2006 · Comments Off

The Judiciary Committee favorably recommended Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate. But watch closely for the hypocrisy and petty partisanship.

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Tags: Government · The Left · The Right

Tuesday Open Trackback / Linkfest

January 24th, 2006 · 11 Comments

Tuesday Open Trackback / Linkfest

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I Want You To Look Just Like Me

January 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

An Islamic campaign group has called for an existing Catholic primary school to be converted to the Muslim faith. Islam’s driving goal is to literally eradicate what it sees as the false and misplaced worship of all other religions.

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Tags: Christianity · Dhimmitude · Muslim/Islam