tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59998322011-08-16T22:02:42.511-05:00Prairie AngelThe Prairie Angel returns from her galactic wandering and finds mischief afoot!Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.comBlogger15121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-3283733994842080332009-05-03T13:26:00.002-05:002009-05-03T13:29:40.419-05:00Say it loud enough and maybe people will believe it
More Up-is-Downism from your friendly GOP:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-30298167533080669642009-02-17T01:01:00.004-05:002009-02-17T01:04:28.337-05:00Take over
"MY Cable Box. MY Television. MY Gergen..."Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-4168790854988322432009-02-05T01:15:00.002-05:002009-02-05T01:17:42.192-05:00Things that make you go 'hmm'
It has occurred to me to wonder if the GOP wouldn't mind too much if civilization actually, you know, fell. I mean, they've already got their fortifiable compounds and plenty of guns...
Just throwing that out there.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-60214202721739312009-01-09T23:00:00.003-05:002009-01-09T23:35:53.485-05:00Lost characters as conservative icons
Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood finds conservative virtue in the Lost characters. Go read it, then come back for my reaction.
WARNING - SPOILERS FOR SEASONS 1-4 BELOW:
He's clearly cherry-picking his data here, heh. Biggest goof - John Locke. I mean, come on. Locke lived in a commune with a bunch of pot-growing hippies, forpetesake. He was in Australia in the Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-80550402600287529162009-01-02T14:47:00.000-05:002009-01-02T14:48:12.023-05:00Pay it forward
Via Shakesville, a member whose father suddenly died needs help paying back a loan for a plane ticket to New Zealand.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-134405863192990922008-12-31T19:51:00.003-05:002008-12-31T19:54:55.012-05:00She's HERE!
Miss Abigail:
She needs eyedrops and antibiotics twice a day and she's currently hiding under the kitchen table. But she cheeps like a baby bird. And she's already discovered the catfood bowls.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-41212813257302420182008-11-16T12:29:00.002-05:002008-11-16T12:34:22.932-05:00Subtle, yet effective
For those of you in search of the True Meaning of Christmas, I give you... the burning cross:
The American Family Association is selling this little fashion statement for a mere $81.85. Decorate this holiday season with the Original Christmas Cross to remind your friends, family, neighbors, and all who drive by your home, office, or church of the real meaning of Christmas. Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-80406131913583675152008-11-11T16:09:00.002-05:002008-11-11T16:18:02.945-05:00Bathrooms. Again.
The right is going back to an old standby; 'transgender bathrooms'. Remember Phyllis Schlafly hyperventilating about 'unisex bathrooms' in the seventies? (Oh yeah, and women in combat? Eeek.)
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, says Obama's new non-discrimination policy will be an "open door" for gender-confused and cross-dressing federal Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-38924960479391747782008-11-06T21:23:00.002-05:002008-11-06T21:27:17.758-05:00Just thinking...
After all the Georges, Williams, Jameses and Johns, isn't it kind of cool to have a President named Barack?
Which makes me wonder. What do you suppose they're going to do with barackobama.com? It would be a shame to mothball it after so many people kind of dug in there - do you suppose a President can keep a personal domain running for, like, non-'business' stuff? Like say, he Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-81688135192569599272008-11-05T12:19:00.000-05:002008-11-05T12:20:03.676-05:00I'm just saying
From Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com:
What I actually found upon leaving the studio, however, was a spontaneous display of joy in the Nation's Capital. Mere blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, in a buttoned-down section of America's only remaining buttoned-downed town, horns were honking in a ticker-tape stream until three in the morning, and strangers black, Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-49266007280890573542008-10-29T00:48:00.000-05:002008-10-29T00:51:11.596-05:00Undecideds
heh. David Sedaris on the 'undecided voters':I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-6790024254605693792008-10-29T00:09:00.002-05:002008-10-29T00:15:18.716-05:00Redistributionist?
What the... ? Damn, the GOP is turning into the party of survivalists.
Maybe I'm a spoiled city girl but I like roads and bridges and mail delivery and a unified military instead of a bunch of little militias scattered around the country armed with blunderbusses. I don't want to live off the grid and have all these homeschooled kids telling me Jesus rode on dinosaurs.
I like Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-50052544376195627622008-10-25T17:05:00.002-05:002008-10-25T17:06:38.861-05:00I laughed
Comment from Jennifer at the Political Animal blog, on a post relating to GOP infighting: "In the one piece of good financial news we've seen in the past month, popcorn futures are way up."Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-86165859605189985362008-10-24T12:52:00.002-05:002008-10-24T12:56:37.953-05:00Faux Violence
You all heard the story of the poor pitiful McCain campaign volunteer who was mugged by an angry Obama supporter, who cut a letter 'B' on her face? Yeah, she made it up.
You understand this comes from, of course... here's all these news stories out there of crazed Palin supporters race-baiting reporters and so on. One might expect the campaign to try to rein in their more Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-86861921832717881702008-10-22T22:37:00.001-05:002008-10-22T22:48:20.738-05:00Heh
Ezra cracks me up:
Sarah Palin wasn't a beet farmer last week. She was a governor. Presumably, she had clothing already. Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-73993036463990745292008-10-22T10:45:00.001-05:002008-10-22T10:46:38.141-05:00Palin shakes down God
From the CNN Political Ticker:
In an interview posted online Wednesday, Sarah Palin told Dr. James Dobson of “Focus on the Family” that she is confident God will do “the right thing for America” on Nov. 4.
Nice little creation you got here, God. It'd be a shame if something... happened to it... know what I mean?Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-67355308366128383602008-10-22T09:46:00.000-05:002008-10-22T09:49:21.047-05:00Ha!
Sully on McCain:
He's George W. Bush, without the prudence and caution.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-32119018990410377662008-10-21T19:15:00.001-05:002008-10-21T19:16:46.239-05:00Pshew
Nate Silver suspects, with evidence, that the recent 'tightening' of the polls is a Dead Cat Bounce.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-28304420579963774532008-10-21T13:25:00.002-05:002008-10-21T13:26:41.639-05:00Word
I just had to transcribe and admire this quote from Shakespeare's Sister Melissa: And, if you're anything like me, you'll be left bitterly wondering why it is that we can't have a functioning economy and a responsible press simultaneously.
Sing it.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-89556249978676250812008-10-21T12:25:00.003-05:002008-10-21T12:30:04.707-05:00What I keep saying
Maybe you'll listen to the Christian Science Monitor?
Why the economy fares much better under Democrats
Princeton, N.J. – John McCain is a maverick and Barack Obama is a postpartisan problem-solver. But you wouldn't know it by looking at their economic plans. Both candidates' proposals faithfully reflect the traditional economic priorities of their respective parties. That Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-74308515802241032602008-10-21T12:20:00.001-05:002008-10-21T12:23:29.935-05:00Every cloud has a silver lining
From WaPo:
The recent collapse on Wall Street appears to have found another victim: the independent political groups aiming to make an impact on the 2008 elections.
Expected to be a force in the final weeks of the presidential race, outside groups and the pointed advertising they brought to the airwaves in recent campaigns are barely evident this year. Political Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-40472251205828434022008-10-19T14:13:00.004-05:002008-10-19T14:46:34.145-05:00The sliming of Powell?
I wonder how long it's going to take for the people who defended Powell for years for his egregious UN testimony to decide that he's not the GOP's Great Black Hope, but indeed, a sell-out who puts race above party?
UPDATE: Well, that didn't take long.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-89976135826785783352008-10-18T16:22:00.002-05:002008-10-18T16:28:58.755-05:00What real fraud looks like
... in West Virginia.
At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win.
Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.
"When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-32345167930999256372008-10-17T00:42:00.002-05:002008-10-17T00:49:06.727-05:00Desperate to get him gone
Weird op-ed from the Boston Globe:
Fast track the new president
THE NEXT PRESIDENT will be elected on Nov. 4, but will not take office until Jan. 20. Normally, this lag time is not an issue. But with the financial system in meltdown, the "real" economy threatening to follow, and a feckless, lame-duck administration unable to lead, this yawning interval is a problem. If Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-17378355356172156312008-10-16T12:02:00.002-05:002008-10-16T12:05:06.331-05:00Boogeyman
So last night McCain said:
We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.
ACORN on the verge of perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history? God knows I'm not a lawyer, but I think they just got Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1315356679302658052008-10-16T11:39:00.003-05:002008-10-16T11:55:12.120-05:00Best Live-blogging
... of the Debate Award goes to Time. Highlights:
9:06 p.m. - Michael Grunwald: I'm sorry to start with facts, but this mess did NOT start with fannie and freddie. They buy mortgages - they don't issue mortgages. I'm in a grouchy mood - I'm going to drink when they lie.
9:14 p.m - Karen Tumulty: Tammy asks: "Are there actually plumbers who make less than $250K a year?"
9:33 Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-35487870168240459662008-10-14T18:00:00.002-05:002008-10-14T18:03:14.314-05:00Right track?
From the NYT:
In the face of economic upheaval in the United States, a record 89 percent of Americans now say the country has pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track while just 7 percent of Americans say the country is going in the right direction, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Much is made of the fact that 89% is a record for the 'wrong track' answer, Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-41887366315723873262008-10-12T18:13:00.005-05:002008-10-12T18:27:09.769-05:00Time warping
So the other day, I read the following comment on a blogpost: "America: Love it or Leave It." The poster was, from context, not being ironic.
Wow. Took me back. I felt like posting 'Power to the People!' and 'Don't trust anyone over thirty!', which at my age would be simply ludicrous.
Honestly, these twenty- and thirty-somethings crack me up.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-56337874359182767062008-10-12T02:31:00.003-05:002008-10-12T02:38:32.036-05:00Overworked Jesus
Via Sully:
At a McCain rally, an invocation:
"I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons," [Pastor] Conrad said.
"And Lord, I pray that you would Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-68907250252972356312008-10-10T16:59:00.003-05:002008-10-10T17:08:02.620-05:00A Tale of Two Rallies
From fivethirtyeight.com:
Palin's rally featured the more impressive entrance, with giant video screens showing the crowd the slowly turning campaign bus as it approached the cavernous inside venue. Finally, the fog machines hit high blast, the huge blue curtain parted, and the bus drove right inside the hall. As "Eye of the Tiger" blasted over the loudspeakers, Palin Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-18696041705449533362008-10-10T15:20:00.002-05:002008-10-10T15:42:44.588-05:00"Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama"
William F. Buckley's son Christopher:
I am—drum roll, please, cue trumpets—making this announcement in the cyberpages of The Daily Beast (what joy to be writing for a publication so named!) rather than in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column. For a reason: My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-11042539545429164282008-10-10T14:51:00.000-05:002008-10-10T15:01:41.271-05:00Demagoguing ACORN
If you are really interested in vote fraud (as opposed to being only interested in seizing on any hints or rumors you can find to fuel your hatred of the Democratic Party), you really need to read this piece by Josh Marshall.
Money quote:Remember, most of those now-famous fired US Attorneys from 2007 were Republican appointees who were canned after they got tasked with Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-42291595600427915272008-10-09T23:05:00.003-05:002008-10-09T23:18:02.702-05:00What neither side can say
Both campaigns are implicitly lying to the public. I'm going to cut both of them some slack, however. They have to - the first person to tell the truth before election day loses.
They're lying, of course, about the economy. I think it's safe to say we're not going to be seeing any huge tax cuts in the near term. More, I think any cutting of government spending is going Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-90208568264307538062008-10-09T11:58:00.000-05:002008-10-09T12:00:51.057-05:00Naderites, are you out there?
Remember the election of '00? Remember trying to talk sense into people who were planning to vote for Ralph Nader? Remember saying a vote for Nader is a vote for George Bush? Remember their reply? "There's no difference between the two major parties so it doesn't matter."
Do you suppose they still believe that? Just wondering.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-71063957493678057122008-10-09T11:17:00.000-05:002008-10-09T11:55:07.115-05:00Ruled by Resentment
Listening to the national discourse, it's pretty easy to see that any possible bailout of individuals in bad mortgage loans is probably going to fail. That is, if it's left up to the voters. I'm hearing the same kind of anger and resentment that we heard over the 'Wall Street Bailout' bill. To wit, people feel that they've been responsible, took on no more debt than they couldArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-47795624970978496282008-10-08T00:49:00.003-05:002008-10-08T00:53:57.733-05:00BwahArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-91425908457817104562008-10-06T23:04:00.005-05:002008-10-06T23:50:33.632-05:00In Defense of Wasteful Spending
One of John McCain's 'best' lines on the campaign trail is when he rails against earmarks, and cites the example of the earmark to study the DNA of bears. He doesn't know, he waggishly remarks, if it's a criminal issue or a question of paternity, but he's pretty sure it's a waste of taxpayers' money.
Only... is it really?
The Scientific American puts on a pretty Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-69115933296015282672008-10-06T11:50:00.002-05:002008-10-06T11:57:05.790-05:00Educating John Cole
Here's John Cole on Sarah Palin's latest:
I read her comments in their entirety, watched the video, and while it was nasty and from my perspective, bullshit, there didn’t seem to me to be any racial component. That was the same sort of bilge they throw at any Democrat- divisive and a sign of desperation, yes, but racial subtext? I am not seeing it.
Let me unpack it for you, Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-91466226126195153242008-10-05T19:13:00.003-05:002008-10-05T19:17:11.969-05:00Dishonoring Virginia
Sigh. My state:
A local newspaper columnist, in a spoof of Obama’s platform, wrote in one recent piece that the Democrat would hire the rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black (a reference to a pro-Obama song by Ludacris), and divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream." He Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-9788096357220533752008-10-05T16:50:00.004-05:002008-10-05T17:30:15.456-05:00Nothing they won't lie about
From ABC news:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country's brutal regime from the state's multi-billion-dollar investment fund, she claimed during Thursday's vice presidential debate.
Not quite, according to a review of the public record – and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-36838765768865270902008-10-04T00:01:00.001-05:002008-10-04T00:03:15.718-05:00Ground troops
Wow, read this story about the difference between the Obama and McCain ground troops in Missouri.
Way to piss off the blogger, McCranky.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-27733314630523533242008-10-03T15:37:00.002-05:002008-10-03T15:45:16.885-05:00Dragon Eggs
Okay, this is sort of silly, but please click on my dragon eggs - it will help them hatch.
Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-37203785082272994112008-10-02T23:20:00.004-05:002008-10-03T00:29:01.663-05:00Educating Sarah
I remain perplexed at otherwise intelligent people's fascination with Sarah Palin. She's so real, so authentic, yadda yadda...
Oh, I know people like Cinderella stories and the whole McCain/Palin ticket is a pretty fair approximation of 'Educating Rita', with John McCain in the Michael Caine role of crusty misanthropic professor brought back to life by the Cockney hairdresser (Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-37265694052445894632008-10-01T22:32:00.002-05:002008-10-01T22:51:41.542-05:00Perspective
Everyone is waxing wroth about the 700 Billion Bailout; I thought I'd pour some context onto the issue, just for grins and giggles.
We're already spent circa 600 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Estimates of the total cost run from 1.2 to 3 trillion dollars. But never mind that. Here's another way to look at it.
The Federal government budget in 2007 was 2.7 trillion Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-49519383562184144832008-10-01T10:25:00.004-05:002008-10-01T11:01:22.869-05:00The GOP thinks you're stupid
Well, that's not any big surprise, of course; they've always operated on the assumption that the electorate is bone-ignorant, and they've gotten pretty far with it. But their game-playing over the issue of the 'bailout' bill has gotten insulting.
Last night I was watching one of those 'balanced' panels in which each side fielded a representative to try to convince Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-46946233003331681452008-04-29T22:19:00.001-05:002008-04-29T22:21:19.573-05:00Question no one is asking
What was the NAACP thinking, giving Rev. LooseCannon a platform from which to attempt to torpedo the first black candidate with a shot at the nom? Self-loathing, or what?Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-24795868803506910512008-03-22T15:00:00.002-05:002008-03-22T15:06:00.415-05:00Unbelievable
Just when you think the Far Right can't get any crazier, here's Pat Buchanan on the Rev. Wright imbrolgia:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-36899661284642317342008-03-22T13:41:00.004-05:002008-03-22T14:00:56.717-05:00Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Left Edition
Apparently CDS affects your reading skills. Camp Obama (by which I mean the candidate's adherents in the Internet EchoChamber) are in a tizzy over these remarks by Bill Clinton:
It'd be a great thing if we had an election where you had two people who love this country, who were devoted to the interest of the country and people could actually ask Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-37273745453243483082008-03-19T22:44:00.002-05:002008-03-19T22:52:17.579-05:00Sexism versus Racism
Kevin discovers that people are less likely to vote for a generic woman than a generic black and says "But this poll certainly suggests that racism is alive and well in America, and that misogyny is even aliver and weller," and wonders why.
It's easy, Kevin. We have successfully stigmatized public expression of racist sentiments. But misogynistic expression - "Senator Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-46414524519602169802008-03-19T22:22:00.002-05:002008-03-19T22:32:10.493-05:00Baby steps...
From today's WaPo story about Bush's irrational optimism vis Iraq:
In one disputed portion of his address, Bush resurrected assertions that Osama bin Laden and his followers have played a central role in the Iraqi conflict. Bush suggested that a backlash among local Sunni Muslims to the group calling itself al-Qaeda in Iraq amounted to "the first large-scale Arab uprising against Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-21096134884536715402008-03-19T11:33:00.001-05:002008-03-19T11:36:10.442-05:00...dafuck?
From WaPo, via Kevin:
One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car, only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had to be "checked for tattoos," he said, to make sure he wasn't the suspect.
Checked for tattoos to buy a car???Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1336649816854687272008-03-19T11:25:00.002-05:002008-03-19T11:30:13.844-05:00Polls show Amerians smart!
CNN: "More than 7 out of 10 Americans think government spending on the war in Iraq is partly responsible for the economic troubles in the United States, according to results of a recent poll."
For the weirdly sad 28% who think the two are unrelated, a thought problem.... If your waterheater breaks and floods your house and you have to pay to buy a new one AND clean up Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-20470627399597118702008-03-18T11:45:00.000-05:002008-03-18T11:46:44.419-05:00Just FYI
What else I've been doing. Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1459733748867251922008-03-18T11:34:00.002-05:002008-03-18T11:41:06.836-05:00Poor Florida
Here's what CNN's Candy Crowley said about what the party thinking is about the Florida mess:
I think one of the things is, if you listen to the party leaders, many of them at this point are saying, no matter what happens, we cannot seat delegates from Florida and Michigan that change the results in a way that turn them over.
So, in other words, if they go into this convention -- Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-4714568333154604192008-03-18T11:26:00.001-05:002008-03-18T11:29:54.365-05:00An OJ moment
While I'm a Hillary-supporter (I just don't think Obama has either the toughness to win the general or the experience for the job), I'm not one of those who thinks he should be excoriated for what his preacher says. How many birth-control-using Catholics sit in church every week without feeling the need to rear up and denounce their priest? How many Christians listen to a gay-bashingArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-24390778355677530502008-03-18T02:36:00.002-05:002008-03-18T02:46:55.096-05:00This explains so much...
Why lies work:
Consider, for starters, this paradox of social psychology, a problem for myth busters everywhere: repeating a claim, even if only to refute it, increases its apparent truthfulness. In 2003, the psychologist Ian Skurnik and several of his colleagues asked senior citizens to sit through a computer presentation of a series of health warnings that were randomlyArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-26846257224486923512008-03-16T21:13:00.002-05:002008-03-16T21:15:18.823-05:00Paul just now notices
Krugman:
Craziness
One measure of how crazy people on at least one side of the Democratic nomination struggle have become: I’ve gotten a number of complaints that the end of my last — entirely non-political — column, “hope is not a plan,” was a swipe at Obama.
Um, guys, it’s a phrase military types use; I started using it a lot when Iraq went pear-shaped. In fact, if you Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-41547554085049132312008-03-16T20:24:00.002-05:002008-03-16T20:31:24.956-05:00What she said
Filed under 'Shut up and listen for one goddam minute, would you?' comes this from Susan Estrich - The White Elephant in the Room:
Walter Mondale picked her [Geraldine Ferraro] over Michael Dukakis (yes, he was the other choice) in 1984, because he wanted to shuffle the deck, change the dynamic, bring excitement and a sense of making history to what was already seen as a long-shot Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-65398987055078098772008-03-16T14:33:00.002-05:002008-03-16T14:40:14.673-05:00Report from the 51st state
CNN's Kyra Phillips is in Iraq, apparently as part of a Happy-Fifth-Birthday-Iraq-War! thing CNN has going on. Anyway, she interviews some soldiers about the US election. No, not American soldiers, Iraqi soldiers. Let's listen in:
PHILLIPS (on camera): Is there a certain candidate in the U.S. that you're following?
AHMED MANSOUR, 6th DIVISION, ENGINEER (THROUGH Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-5333125261297371872008-03-16T13:17:00.002-05:002008-03-16T13:21:50.724-05:00An Interesting Read
In the Village Voice:
Hillary and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
The strange case of conservative pundits and their love for Barack ObamaArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-74542371657722841742008-03-15T18:19:00.002-05:002008-03-15T18:36:07.409-05:00The Florida Mess
The majority opinion on seating the Florida delegation seems to be "they knew the rules and they broke them", so no seats for them. Many people even feel that a revote would be unfair; inconsistent messages equals bad parenting, or something.
What I'm not hearing in the media or the blogosphere is the fact that moving the Florida primary got tacked onto a larger election reform Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-70533910508486570062008-03-15T17:38:00.002-05:002008-03-15T17:48:54.625-05:00I'm baaaaack
So I left off blogging for a while to go do other things (Proxima was lovely, thanks), and I come back to find the left side of the blogosphere has gone stark staring mad. (See below.)
Apparently parts of the Obama camp have become so thuggish online that Pro-Clinton writers have left DailyKOS en masse. One wonders how the Obama supporters square their behavior with their Chosen Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-78694471322771394952008-03-15T13:35:00.004-05:002008-03-15T14:38:03.199-05:00
Jumping the Shark
Okay, I haven't been blogging here for a while, but that doesn't mean I'm not still reading the blogs. And today the weirdness out there just got to be too much.
For instance, these separate stories from Americablog:
Hillary urging donors to blackmail DNC into stealing the election for her
I'm really getting sick of Hillary's crap. Fighting tough is welcome. Fighting dirtyArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-75043200913296849962007-12-31T01:40:00.000-05:002007-12-31T01:47:05.419-05:00Ignorance is bliss?
Further proof that we get the government we deserve:
But ignorance of Pakistan's travails may not necessarily prove damaging to a candidate's political aspirations. In 1999, shortly after Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup, a Boston television reporter asked a U.S. presidential candidate if he could name the general in charge.
"A new Pakistani general has just been Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-14944394140557221022007-12-20T13:39:00.000-05:002007-12-20T14:08:42.305-05:00Apparatchik spurned
This just in:
The Bush administration is dropping a plan to take control over the promotions of military lawyers, following an outpouring of alarm over the independence of uniformed attorneys who have repeatedly objected to the White House's policies toward prisoners in the war on terrorism.
Under the proposal, first reported by the Globe on Saturday, politically appointed Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-65244436629387786082007-12-20T13:02:00.000-05:002007-12-20T13:38:50.393-05:00A new (old) nation
Hey, for all you people threatening to emigrate to Canada, now you can emigrate to another country without leaving the continental US...
Lakota nation breaks away from USArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-31407783971179580282007-12-05T15:00:00.000-05:002007-12-05T15:14:53.526-05:00National Credibility is a terrible thing to waste
I just had a scary thought. This would be a great time for a currently non-proliferation Evil Dictator to get into the WMD business. Because the Bush Administration would jump up and down and yell 'LOOK! WMD' until they were hoarse and nobody would believe them.
It sucks to be led by morons.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-79073137949792081502007-11-23T13:14:00.000-05:002007-11-23T13:20:01.142-05:00Oooh, it's ON!
From the American Family Association: Put up or Shut up. (ooh!)
Gays challenge traditional marriage supporters: put up or shut up
Homosexual group calls for boycott of Wal-Mart, shopping at Target instead
If Wal-Mart sales go down, gays will claim victory in support of same-sex "marriage" benefits
...
Homosexuals have challenged traditional marriage supporters to do battle. WeArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-87091826383655818512007-08-08T17:58:00.000-05:002007-08-08T18:16:29.491-05:00It should come as no surprise...
that our government's main concern in emergency management, as in all things, is to avoid blame:
A decision by the Bush administration to rewrite in secret the nation's emergency response blueprint has angered state and local emergency officials, who worry that Washington is repeating a series of mistakes that contributed to its bungled response to Hurricane Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-57357166097066833832007-08-08T16:02:00.000-05:002007-08-08T16:03:30.705-05:00Aren't we special?
Ego much?
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended his five sons' decision not to enlist in the military, saying they're showing their support for the country by "helping me get elected."Look, I know you have to have a pretty high self-esteem to run for Prez in the first place, but we've already experimented with ONE chief exec who thought he was on a Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-800330311311306132007-08-07T12:19:00.000-05:002007-08-07T12:22:31.653-05:00Among the phrases you never want to actually hear in your life...
"Your application for reincarnation has been denied" has to rate up in the top ten, at least:
Buddhas told to apply for reincarnation
FROM next month, Tibetan living Buddhas will have to apply for reincarnation to the Chinese Government.
The new rules are "an important move to institutionalise the management of reincarnation of Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-71511282987148344002007-07-11T11:27:00.000-05:002007-07-11T11:52:00.163-05:00ZOMG, the heathen are coming!
Hide the children, Maudie! Hindus eats brainzzzz!
Ahem. For some reason, the American Family Association has me on their mailing list. I never unsubscribed because it's so funny to see what they're all in an uproar about.
Here's their latest group-hysteria:
Hindu to open Senate with prayer
On Thursday, a Hindu chaplain from Reno, Nevada, by the name of Rajan ZedArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-21763086441556284992007-07-09T18:09:00.000-05:002007-07-09T18:14:41.506-05:00About time
"Way of the Ninjabi!" - Muslim women are taking up martial arts. And yay for them, I say...
Also this: "A woman in western India has stripped to her underwear in public to protest over alleged abuses from her husband's family for not providing a dowry."
Much of the population of the world would be better off with a little old-fashioned consciousness-raising, feminazi-style.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-4110581035909019312007-07-03T22:42:00.000-05:002007-07-03T22:46:21.409-05:00Stock up...
...on your Impeach Cheney First-obilia now; avoid the rush.
Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-40567975081313852682007-07-01T15:34:00.000-05:002007-07-01T16:35:21.341-05:00Kids today
Man, I'm reading about the big 'terror' in Scotland, and while not wanting to take away from the potential for great tragedy, what can I say? Three big adult men carry out a big mission for Allah (I'm presuming these are Muslim terrorists, although there is no confirmation that I can find at the time of this writing), and one bystander gets treated for a leg injury? Are they recruitingArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-6411339304960863972007-06-27T17:02:00.000-05:002007-06-27T17:09:13.304-05:00Are you required to be a sociopath in the GOP?
... or is it optional and counts for extra credit?
Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack. He'd built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.
[snip]
As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-25246215698179775082007-06-27T12:49:00.000-05:002007-06-27T13:39:23.493-05:00She's more to be pitied than blamed
Okay, maybe not, but we finally get some insight into why Anne Coulter can't think. I'm sure you're aware that Elizabeth Edwards phoned in to the Chris Matthews show last night to ask her to stop her vile personal LYING attacks on the Edwardses. Anne's response?
"The wife of a presidential candidate is asking me to stop speaking. No."
Now we know - she not Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-9109573730772214122007-05-07T11:36:00.000-05:002007-05-07T11:39:07.691-05:00Our National Guard...
... busily guarding the wrong nation:
The rebuilding effort in tornado-ravaged Greensburg, Kansas, likely will be hampered because some much-needed equipment is in Iraq, said that state’s governor.
Governor Kathleen Sebelius said much of the National Guard equipment usually positioned around the state to respond to emergencies is gone. She said not having immediate access Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-7127203722433266792007-05-01T11:43:00.000-05:002007-05-01T11:49:02.510-05:00The George Tenet Contrition Tour
Color me unimpressed. Where was he when we needed him?Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-66739049474410357882007-04-27T17:30:00.000-05:002007-04-27T17:34:53.725-05:00I knew it!
I just knew it.
Gene explains why people are night owls
A genetic mutation called the "after-hours gene" may explain why some people are night owls, it is revealed in Science journal today.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-91176441004609297292007-04-23T12:48:00.000-05:002007-04-23T12:49:34.940-05:00Finally!
Wiccan symbol OK for soldiers' gravesArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-9955814249432974632007-04-21T12:52:00.000-05:002007-04-21T12:55:33.619-05:00Your Tax Dollars at Work
How nice - we're in the business of making ghettos now. After all, it worked so well in Warsaw, why not in Baghdad?Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-71550994907802308992007-04-20T11:14:00.000-05:002007-04-20T11:15:10.929-05:00Honestly.
What is the MATTER with people? Berlin's polar bear cub Knut receives death threatArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-38759957382472090292007-03-15T23:52:00.000-05:002007-03-15T23:57:02.680-05:00Universal Suspect Located
'Admitted 9/11 mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is sure going to close a lot of cases:
During the hearing, Mohammed also acknowledged he planned, financed or ran training for a catalog of high-profile terrorist attacks, including operations to assassinate several U.S. presidents and to destroy world-famous landmarks such as Chicago's Sears Tower, the Panama Canal and Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-18563304161209428172007-03-11T13:10:00.000-05:002007-03-11T13:13:41.525-05:00
Inquiring minds want to know...
What's the state of our extradition agreements with Dubai?Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-72441424506048003062007-03-10T20:50:00.000-05:002007-03-10T21:14:28.560-05:00Here. We go. Again. ... sigh ...
For those of you who haven't been following the Fox News - Dems Debate story, a recap: The Nevada Democratic Party got together and organized the first debate of the '08 election cycle, to be held in Nevada, and aired on ... (wait for it) ... Fox News. A number of people were outraged/alarmed; after all, why should they trust the staging and presentation of a Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-70774087769322593592007-03-10T14:49:00.000-05:002007-03-10T15:48:35.603-05:00The Gay Hustler Gap
Every election cycle, there's some new group that the demographers tout as the latest Must Have demo to win elections. The Democrats have to learn to appeal to People of Faith, pollsters warn. The GOP has a problem 'getting their message out' to minorities. Well, never mind your soccer moms or your NASCAR dads, the Dems have a bigger problem! Why are all the gay hustlers Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-22707129021443352932007-03-10T14:20:00.000-05:002007-03-10T14:27:44.426-05:00Not for the faint of heart
Painting of Dick Cheney... on black velvet
I'm serious - don't click link if you are not in good health.
From the purveyors of "The Tackiest Mexican Velvet Painting There Ever Was", the Famous Satan on the Toilet painting. Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-48595685686626203022007-03-09T12:16:00.000-05:002007-03-09T12:18:08.777-05:00Headline says it all
Priests to purify site after Bush visitArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-6345585061146046392007-03-08T12:32:00.000-05:002007-03-08T12:37:18.091-05:00Pop quiz
Three states, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia, all suffer devastating tornadoes. Two states are comfortably red, with GOP governors. One state has a Democratic governor and threw out their GOP reps in '06. Which state was not declared a federal disaster area, which would have made them eligible for assistance from FEMA, to include trailers for the people made homeless?
Oh, come on, peopleArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-43847952078881016782007-03-07T11:16:00.000-05:002007-03-07T11:23:17.386-05:00Reason stirs
Vermont Votes to Impeach Bush/Cheney
When Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, a Republican with reasonably close ties to
President Bush, asked if there was any additional business to be considered at the town meeting he was running in Middlebury, Ellen McKay popped up and proposed the impeachment of Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney.
...
"It became clear that no one was going home Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-24793230839001971972007-03-04T11:41:00.000-05:002007-03-04T11:43:11.610-05:00A good start
This is a good list: The Must-Do List. Start here.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-42900732010991292262007-02-20T22:23:00.000-05:002007-02-20T22:30:37.051-05:00More Bad News on 'Faith'
And lest you thought that the previous article meant that the American electorate is tolerant as to which Invisible Supernatural SkyBeing you choose to put your faith in, as long as you have an Invisible Supernatural SkyBeing you believe in,here's the story about a Pentacostal chaplain who embraced Wicca and suddenly found himself no longer a chaplain. It's a long story Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-62676161431504435142007-02-20T21:58:00.000-05:002007-02-20T22:10:03.001-05:00Atheists - the new n-words
From E&P:
NEW YORK A new Gallup survey confirms that Americans claim they will be willing to vote for a woman (read: Hillary Clinton) or a black (read: Barack Obama) for president next year. But they still raise questions about voting for a well-qualified Mormon (Mitt Romney) or 72-year-old (John McCain) or someone who has been divorced twice (Rudy Giuliani).
Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1171925870407536732007-02-19T17:56:00.000-05:002007-02-19T17:57:50.450-05:00Oh, John - it's too late for that.
McCain: Rumsfeld is one of the worst defense secretaries
It's too late to try your sweet talk now. Please. Just ... leave.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1169674303567440882007-01-24T16:30:00.000-05:002007-01-24T16:31:43.746-05:00Yeah... what about Mars?
I too want my trip to Mars.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1169657850174333472007-01-24T11:56:00.000-05:002007-01-24T11:57:30.233-05:00Weird
It feels weird to be a Virginian and not have to cringe in embarrassment over our Senator. Really weird, but I like it.Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1169165414141749102007-01-18T19:07:00.000-05:002007-01-18T19:21:13.466-05:00
Happy 301st
Awww. I missed Ben's 301st birthday. It was yesterday.
From his website:Did you know that Franklin was so sure that fresh air was important for good health that he took a daily “air bath”? He wrote to the French physician, Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, describing it thus: “I rise early almost every morning and sit in my chamber, without any clothes whatever, half an hour or an hour, Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1168969377672411172007-01-16T12:34:00.000-05:002007-01-16T16:42:30.670-05:00Got your teeshirt yet?
Scores of people were killed in Baghdad on Tuesday in bombing and shooting incidents, most of them in neighborhoods where the militia of a powerful anti-American Shiite cleric holds sway.
A suicide bomber and a car bomb killed at least 65 people and wounded 138 more at entrances to a once-prestigious university in Baghdad. LINK
It really looks like the beginning of a Arachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999832.post-1168968843858835382007-01-16T12:32:00.000-05:002007-01-16T12:34:03.860-05:00Apocalypse NOW!
51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse - it's the End of the World as We Know It! Thank godArachnaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990626375598577802noreply@blogger.com1