Archive for January, 2004

January 31st, 2004

Backlink

I’ve been using a PHP backlinking script from Laze.Net for a while now to show the referrers to my site. Unfortunately, the script hasn’t been updated to reflect changes in Yahoo’s new search string. So, I updated the string parsing code to correctly show the search terms. You can find the code [...]

January 31st, 2004

Castro accuses Bush of plotting to kill him

‘We know that Mr. Bush has committed himself to the mafia … to assassinate me,’’ the Cuban president said, using the term commonly employed here to describe anti-Castro Cuban Americans.
Castro’s comments came at the end of a 5 hour speech that began Thursday night and continued into early Friday at the closing of a [...]

January 30th, 2004

“Lebanon: The Real ‘Occupied Territory’”

Here’s one cause you won’t ever see the pinkos take up: Lebanon: The Real
‘Occupied Territory’

January 30th, 2004

Chinese Censorship

Chinese dissidents say that despite the government’s best efforts to stop them, they are successfully using the internet to spread their messages ever more widely through the world’s most populous country.
But despite the help of several major international corporations and the use of the most sophisticated equipment, the Chinese government is finding the worldwide web [...]

January 30th, 2004

Hot anime chicks molded in plastic! Call me weird, but these models rock!

January 30th, 2004

Commie Economics

I’ve often wondered how socialists can possibly explain away the actual track record of socialist regimes in countries like the USSR, Cuba, and China. Now I know: they were actually capitalist countries all along!
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It is widely assumed that capitalism means a free market economy. But it is possible to have capitalism without a [...]

January 30th, 2004

“A religion of peace”

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) The cleric who delivered the sermon Friday at the annual hajj pilgrimage had a simple request: God grant victory to Muslims fighting around the world.

The prayer by Sheik Saleh al-Taleb to 500,000 people in Mecca’s Grand Mosque and nearby streets came as the hajj neared its climax.

“Oh God, give victory [...]

January 28th, 2004

More depraved leftist hypocrisy

Get this: according to the leftists, even one civilian death was unacceptable when our troops went after Saddam. However, when it comes to the anti-occupation resistance, innocent deaths are perfectly fine, says a prominent leftist pundit:
Do you think the anti-war movement should be supporting Iraq’s anti-occupation resistance?
“Yes, I do. We cannot afford to be [...]

January 27th, 2004

Sounds about right

With a proposed annual budget of $756 billion, the Department of Deficit Obliteration will study ways to eliminate the gap between federal revenues and expenditures without any real cuts in spending that might cause discomfort for potential voters.

January 27th, 2004

Did Saddam bribe anti-war politicians with oil money?

Apparently, it was all about the grease: Claims that dozens of politicians, including some from prominent anti-war countries such as France, had taken bribes to support Saddam Hussein are to be investigated by the Iraqi authorities. The US-backed Iraqi Governing Council decided to check after an independent Baghdad newspaper, al-Mada, published a list which it [...]

January 27th, 2004

Thanks, Comment Spammers

Not funny. I am also one of the top results for the Paris Hilton video, photos of women’s privates, and Arabic peep shows. I have never mentioned any of these topics on my blog (before now that is), but after various unsavory characters spammed my referrer list, search engines associated my websites [...]

January 27th, 2004

Plans to build a major new medical laboratory in England were scrapped Tuesday in the face of protests by animal rights groups, who claimed the decision as a major victory.Cambridge University said the project, which would have used monkeys for neurological testing, would no longer go ahead and cited spiraling costs over security needed to [...]

January 26th, 2004

“from sadam’s daughter”

Check out this email I just got:

Please I need urgent assistance and advice.
My name is Jume Hasa Hussein. I am daughter of Sadam Hussein, former ruler of Iraq Islamic Republic now in captivity. I was a student of Environmetal Microbiology at Islamic University Al-Athmia before the United Nations weapons inspectors arrived Iraq and subsequent outbreak [...]

January 26th, 2004

Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity

Check out John Stosell’s “List of Popularly Reported Misconceptions.” Every one of them should be obvious to any educated individual with an ounce of independent thought. That they are rarely recognized as such in the media and elsewhere is a sad testament to irrationalism of our society.

January 25th, 2004

“F*** Hitler! F*** the Nazis!”

This is one of the reaons I want a parrot: “inner thoughts of Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill live on, thanks to the foul mouth of his 104-year-old parrot who lives at a garden centre in southeast England.” Also check out JJ’s take on it.

January 25th, 2004

Israel moving forward with plan to release 400 Arab prisoners

Israel is releasing over 430 terrorists (many of whom are known to have planned and carried out terrorist attacks) in exchange for a single businessman abducted in 2000 by the Hezbollah. While this is a great example of the difference between the value Israelis and the terrorists place on human life, I wonder how [...]

January 25th, 2004

Goodbye to the Big Apple

I’ve long wanted to live in a major city in or near New York City, but recent political trends have changed my mind. Here are some of the more outrageous examples:
New York has a Department of Homeless Services, which, among its other activities, is giving away $10 million in cash to the homeless.
Washington DC [...]

January 24th, 2004

I need your help!

Im currently trying to choose a template for ObjectivismOnline, and I would like your help in picking one from among the finalists. Please go to here and select one of the templates from the Template Chooser on the bottom of the left side. Ive listed my favorite ones in the poll below. [...]

January 23rd, 2004

Post Office Stuck in Time Loop

A leading physicist claims to have figured out why the U.S. Postal Service loses a lot of mail and delivers most of the rest late—post offices are “architectural anomalies” that cause time warps, wreaking havoc with letters, packages, sorting machines . . . and sometimes even mail carriers themselves.
While the Post Office is indeed stuck [...]

January 23rd, 2004

“Mandatory Masks for the Ugly”

Federal officials who recently reported that over 140 million Americans are fat are now saying that at least that many are ugly. And the solution they’re proposing is a law that would encourage or even require “facially challenged” citizens to cover up with masks, Weekly World News has learned.

But the news isn’t all bad. According [...]