Posted in Africa, Circumcision, Lies, News, Politics, Random, Religion on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Damn straight. Solving the AIDS crisis via circumcision is like removing your tonsils so you won’t get the flu. We hear a lot about the ignorance of Africans in regards to AIDS. Well the elders of this village are contradicting that. They know better.
Elders from Kenya’s Luo community in western Kenya have refused to [...]
Posted in Lies, News, Politics on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just been listening to a segment on NPR detailing the rent-controlled luxury apartments of the nation’s senators and representatives.
Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told Capitol Hill reporters Thursday how he feels about the rent-stabilized studio apartment he uses as a study and poker [...]
Posted in Animals, News on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It makes me incredibly nostalgic thinking that there are still these incredible creatures in the wild 143 years after the invention of barbed wire. According to this Newsweek feature, the horse population doubles every four years so the animals must be rounded up so they don’t destroy the environment. While I don’t know any of [...]
Posted in Bush Administration, Iraq, Lies, News, Politics, Sex, War on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I like how Naomi Wolf always takes a subject that the average American may think is far removed from themselves and puts that subject in a context that is recognizable.
I had a sense of déjà vu when I saw the photos that emerged in 2004 from Abu Ghraib prison. Even as the Bush administration was [...]
Posted in Bush, Environment, History, Lies, News, Politics, War on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This story has been well reported, so I don’t expect anyone reading this will be surprised, but I thought it might bring about a good topic for discussion and that is “is this guy psychotic or what?”
Bush has said many times that history will vindicate him as a president. I just have to wonder how [...]
Posted in News, Olympics, Sports on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s easy to get disillusioned with the sport of swimming when reading an article like this. I’ve summarized the controversy which you can read about here.
TYR (swimsuit manufacturer) is suing athletes and USA Swimming because USA Swimming requires the American team to wear the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit.
TYR is suing swimmer Erik Vendt who has [...]
Posted in Environment, News, Random, Washington on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
In the winter we often drive through the town of Enumclaw on the way to Crystal Mountain ski resort. It’s a small humble town where some parts look more affluent than others. The town gained some notoriety a few years back due to a rather embarrassing story that I won’t go into here.
But Enumclaw is [...]
Posted in Lies, Media, News, Photography, War on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Via the New York Times.
As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Decision 2008, Hillary Clinton, Media, News, Politics, Race on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has an opinion piece on how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had no advantage being black and female respectively during the Democratic nomination. The writer describes how she has heard many people express that Barack Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he wasn’t black and how upsetting that is for [...]
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq, Lies, News, Politics, War on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s encouraging to know that it is the Iraqis themselves who may end this war and thus control their own destiny. Think about every justification you have ever heard about the war from George Bush. Those justifications are tremendously hollow when the liberated people don’t want you there.
Iraq will not accept any security agreement with [...]
Posted in Media, News on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Ya think? Here’s a link to the article with the video.
I earlier wrote about this bizarre Nazi-style role playing story about Max Moseley. Moseley is now suing the News of the World who published the story. You know things are bad when your defense is:
James Price QC said his client admitted using prostitutes, but the paper had committed a “gross and indefensible intrusion”.
Cross-examined by Mr [...]
Posted in Food, News, Random on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I like mayonnaise. My husband absolutely adores it. Apparently if you get food poisoning it’s unlikely mayonnaise is the culprit.
Most commercial brands of mayonnaise contain vinegar and other ingredients that make them acidic — and therefore very likely to protect against spoilage. When problems occur, they usually result from other contaminated or low-acid ingredients (like [...]
Posted in History, Humor, News, War on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
A man has been arrested after tearing the head off a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at a newly opened branch of Madame Tussauds in Berlin.
Police spokesman Bernhard Schodrowski said a security guard had been shoved aside by the attacker.
“He tried to prevent the man from acting but failed. The suspect, from the Kreuzberg district, [...]
Posted in Environment, News, Politics, Republican, Transportation on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The price of gas is a topic that has consumed Americans for the last year. Now Republican senator John Warner has made a surprising suggestion: reduce the national speed limit to stretch gas mileage. It sounds perfectly reasonable. In fact, there is a precedent. In 1974 faced with an energy crisis Congress decided to create [...]
Posted in Food, Justice, News, Pop Culture, Random, UK on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
My husband doesn’t think so, and I’m not sure I do either but I have to admit they are a guilty pleasure.
Meanwhile in the UK:
A Pringle is undoubtedly crisp - but it is not a potato crisp. That was the conclusion reached by a High Court judge today after an exhaustive inquiry [...]
Posted in Fashion, News, Random on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Walking down the catwalk in front of the great and the good in New York is a far cry from using your hands to clean up human excrement for a living.
But this week a group of such women - known in India as scavengers - have been doing just that. They have been attending a [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Bush, Bush Administration, Decision 2008, Lies, McCain, News, Politics, Republican on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m the type of person who worries a lot. If I have nothing to worry about, I assure you I will think of something to worry about. My worries are primarily comprised of rare happenings like terrorist attacks, plane crashes, car seat problems, medical mishaps, child abductions, exploding cell phones, re-useable plastic bottles — you [...]
Posted in Bush, Entertainment, Humor, Money, News, Politics on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country.
According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, “Many of the sites [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Decision 2008, Internet, News, Politics on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
To say I was disappointed by Barack Obama’s reversal on FISA legislation, would be an understatement and it would appear I’m not alone. We will soon see if Barack Obama has the makings of a great leader or not. I’m hoping he’s a great leader.
A grassroots group of activists has been organizing on MyBo, Obama’s [...]
Posted in Humor, Media, News, Sports, Tennis, UK on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Talk about pressure.
Posted in Food, Humor, Media, News on July 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What’s next? Woman needs to water her tomatoes?
Posted in Food, News, Random, Seattle, Transportation, Washington on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Things were so much better in the olden days. I say this having never lived in the olden days, but noticing the folly of planning a time-sensitive harvest festival in advance. Take this strawberry festival in Bellevue:
These are tough times for lovers of local strawberries.
The unseasonably cool temperatures have delayed the annual harvest and is [...]
Posted in Fashion, Federer, News, Sports, Tennis, UK on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I somehow missed this neat little nugget of Wimbledon information from a few days ago:
June 27 (Bloomberg) — Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia took delight in dumping former champion Maria Sharapova and her outfit out of Wimbledon yesterday.
“It’s very pleasant to beat Maria,” said Kudryavtseva. “Why? Well, I don’t like her outfit.”
Sharapova’s outfit, a white [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Decision 2008, Lies, McCain, Money, News, Politics on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Hmmm, Obama is supposedly the elitist but John and Cindy McCain have hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card debt. One of their children has $10-50k in credit card debt. These people truly have nothing in common with everyday Americans and are clearly not financially responsible.
In an interesting peek into John McCain’s personal finances, [...]
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