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GAO to sue White House for energy records, source says
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
The General Accounting Office planned to announce Wednesday that it will sue the White House for access to documents from President Bush's energy task force, a congressional source said Wednesday.
On Tuesday, some Republicans had threatened to try to block the suit.
Cheney Refuses Records' Release
Vice President Cheney yesterday said he would not give congressional investigators records from the administration's energy policy development, inviting what legal experts say would be the highest profile court fight between Congress and an administration since Watergate.
Cheney framed his forceful rejection of the demand for information in broad constitutional terms, professing a desire to restore presidential power to a level not seen in decades. "I have repeatedly seen an erosion of the powers and the ability of the president of the United States to do his job," he said. The vice president said it was "wrong" for past administrations to have acquiesced to congressional demands.
(Bold annotation mine)
Geez Dick, I didn't know that the U.S. was a monarchy! I know that you and yours would like to drag us back to the Dark Ages where inbred incompetents were treated as God-kings, but some of us aren't going to stand for that.
Justice Department covers nude Art Deco statues
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
More proof of Ashcroft's right wing fruitcake nuttiness:
The Justice Department spent $8,000 on blue drapes that hide two giant, partially nude statues in the Great Hall of the agency's headquarters, said spokesman Shane Hix.
Censorship Is Unamerican!
The Battle Back Home
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
The Senate will soon launch hearings on why we weren’t prepared for, and warned about, September 11. The intelligence committee will study the matter, but mostly behind closed doors. Cheney was calling to pre-emptively protest public hearings by other committees. If the Democrats insisted, Bush administration officials might say they’re too busy running the war on terrorism to show up. Press the issue, Cheney implied, and you risk being accused of interfering with the mission.
Could it be that the impotent and cowardly Democratic Party, in complete disarray since the questionable presidential election of 2000, might finally be going on the offensive?
I say don't hold your breath. The Republican's (and lots of Democrats as well) red scare style campaign of disinformation and obfuscation seems to be working well, even though the public is already bored with the supposed war on terrorism.
Image of Jesus appears in tree
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
I'm always up for a good Jesus simulacrum, but in this case I can't quite see it.
The Gold Guide
Monday, January 28, 2002
Before you shell out your hard earned money on that PC game, you can find tons of reviews collected here. There's links to patches, demos and related websites for each game too.
The Cook's Thesaurus
Sunday, January 27, 2002
This page helped me solve my fresh vs. dried chile pepper confusion. It's great for finding ingredient substitutions or brushing up on your general food knowledge. Very useful.
Holy Robot's Galactic Fantastic Robot-A-Thon
Sunday, January 27, 2002
Send your robot drawings today!
I also like Holy Robot.
Creator Tim Boucher also has a weblog.
Legal system leaves Bush unaccountable on environment
Sunday, January 27, 2002
Nice summary of the Bush administration's use of legal loopholes, bureaucratic maneuvering and closed door policy making to make war on the environment and big bucks for its corporate masters.
Bush Does Abortion Right
Saturday, January 26, 2002
There he was, the famously semi-articulate voice of the free world actually being broadcast over loudspeaker to the wide-eyed, Bible-stroking throngs on the 29th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, reiterating once again that sure enough, he's still very much all about trampling a woman's reproductive rights whenever possible.
It's a fact.
Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant, so says the radical right.
Thanks, Random Walks :)
Anthrax Missing From Army Lab
Saturday, January 26, 2002
Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army's biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s, during a turbulent period of labor complaints and recriminations among rival scientists there, documents from an internal Army inquiry show.
Another piece of the anthrax puzzle falls into place. Instead of putting the thumbscrews on us civilians who don't agree with government policy, along with shredding both free speech rights and the Constitution, why aren't Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft helping to improve security at these locations?
Universal Military Training and Service Act of 2001
Saturday, January 26, 2002
The Draft. It's baaaaack!
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3598
SEC. 3. BASIC MILITARY TRAINING AND EDUCATION.
(a) OBLIGATION FOR YOUNG MEN- It is the obligation of every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, who is between the ages of 18 and 22 to receive basic military training and education as a member of the armed forces unless the citizen or person is exempted under the provisions of this Act.
I don't expect this to be any more than the typical sabre rattling kook rhetoric, but you never know. Don't you love the fact that a bunch of paranoid and senile old white fools can decide the fate of an entire generation?
Buzz Off
Saturday, January 26, 2002
Looks like the Hornets are gone.
I'll help them pack too.
They tried to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayers and the voters told them to piss off.
I think the Hornets should change their name to the Harlots.
The New Orleans Harlots. It has a nice ring, don't you think?
Now if we can just get rid of the Panthers we'll be in business. Charlotte has a severe case of bad sports karma. We have players who are murderers (Rae Carruth), murder victims (Fred Lane), rioters (Anthony Mason), idiots who kill themselves off drag racing (local Darwin Award winner Bobby Phills) and the usual collection of assault, drug possession and weapons charges. We even have a team owner, George Shinn, who was accused of rape.
Yet, people still wonder why I ignore professional sports. They have nothing to do with athleticism, courage, sportsmanship or teamwork anymore.
It's all about the bucks.
Thanks, Ghost in the Machine :)
Ooh! It's the Bloggies (TM)
Friday, January 25, 2002
I wouldn't have linked, but this begs for a rant.
Weblog "awards" suck.
You thought that the internet was not like high school.
You were wrong!
Little Yellow Different, nominated for six awards?!? It's dullsville, man.
Wil Wheaton? Do you think this guy would have gotten nominated if he wasn't famous? I doubt it. Let's get real, shall we?
Who decided on the geographic divisions are a joke. Canadian? Where the hell are the brilliant abuddhas memes and Woods Lot?
Australian weblogs? Where's The Null Device?
Best European weblog? Where's Nutlog? It's one of the most eclectic weblogs on the web.
Best Asian weblog? Where the hell is gmtPlus9, one of the few weblogs I read daily?
Political weblogs with the exception of Kill Your TV are a pile of mediocre feelgood rhetoric. Where's Unknown News, my nominee for the most important weblog you aren't reading?
Best article or essay about weblogs? Best temporary weblog? Best weblog about weblogs?Who cares? This is why most people think the weblogging phenomnenon is a incestuous circle jerk (and it is, unfortunately).
There are a few solid nominees, like Boing Boing and Daypop, but if I was nominated with most of these bores, I'd demand to be removed from contention. I guess mediocrity and flash sells. Wankers who beg their readers to vote for them annoy me as well. Anyone in my left hand column is far more worthy. Lots of the nominees are genius web designers but poor webloggers.
Can you say "steaming pile"? I knew you could. Eddie Izzard said it best: It's sixty percent how you look, thirty percent how you sound and ten percent what you say. Please, don't vote, or better yet, express your condescension.
Parallax View gets my award for best comment on the Bloggies:
unimaginative selection reveals large swathes of the blogging community to be conservative starfuckers.
So true.
Boy, I was cranky when I wrote this, wasn't I? I had to tone down the bitterness. I've never won an award in my life and probably never will. That's not what irritates me. We all have that utopian dream that there is someplace, somewhere to escape the social strata of "We are cool. You are not."
The dream is dead!
The Raging Tide: or, The Black Dolls Imbroglio
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
Edward Gorey fun, link courtesy of my sister.
Mozambican sculptors turn weapons into art
Monday, January 21, 2002
Mozambican artists are turning guns, grenades and rocket launchers into artwork in a unique "guns into plowshares" program. I think the rest of the world could learn a thing or two from this, especially those countries that supply the weapons.
Hello? USA, China, Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Israel? I'm looking in your direction!
Arms Into Art
This appears to be the official site, but the images are in somewhat blurry black and white. I found some more images here, here and here.
Ummo's Daughters
Monday, January 21, 2002
A strange tale of a South American UFO cult, based on one of the most successful, yet little known UFO hoaxes of the postwar era.
DOOM for ZIM?
Sunday, January 20, 2002
Invader Zim dead? It appears so.
No more giant hamsters, eyeball pluckings, rampaging shoggoth baby piles, malfunctioning android parents, planet jackers, voot cruisers, supernatural cows, time travelling rubber piggies, nanoprobe shootouts, hypnotic zits named Pustulio, child organ stealing, evil giant spider Bitters or Dib and Zim being turned into living sausages. If you have no idea what any of this means, boy did you miss out!
Worst of all, no more Dib, Zim, Gaz, Ms. Bitters or GIR.
Seems the post terrorist political correctness, cover your ass police got it axed. I was shocked that a network that shows endless pablum like Rugrats ever greenlighted it in the first place.
It was dark, twisted and weird, my kind of toon.
Better watch it now. Thank GIR I've got every episode on tape.
You can also petition those Nick bean counters.
I don't think it will do much good.
Two articles from last month:
Death and Morons: The Jhonen Vasquez Story
Speaking For Zimself: A Conversation With Jhonen Vasquez
GIR: I miss you cupcake!
No More Popup Ads
Sunday, January 20, 2002
Holy cow, it works!
This page helped me kill about ninety percent of the pop up and pop under ads I run into on a regular basis. You will have to stick a bunch of cookies in your browser files though.
Thanks, Daypop Top 40 :)
George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil
Sunday, January 20, 2002
It speaks for itself.
Only The Cute Will Survive
Sunday, January 20, 2002
The Panda Paradox:
Scientific bias towards the cute, unique or spectacular may be helping condemn a substantial proportion of the world's plants and animals to extinction, suggests an Australian ecologist.
Pitas.com
Sunday, January 20, 2002
Pitas seems to be up and functioning well, if a tad slowly.
Hooray! Thank you, Andrew!
(Sorry about all the snarky e-mails)
I've been in a creative slump, but should get things back up and running soon. Cross your fingers!
World Ramen.net
Friday, January 4, 2002
I admit it, I'm a carbohydrate addict, most especially for noodles of all types. As this page proves, ramen is a lot more than just an eight for a dollar noodle brick and an oversalted artificial flavor packet.
For some interesting and sometimes appalling ramen recipes, the Ramen Recipe Database is worth a gander. Slam Ramen! Delish!
Some ramen history.
Yokahama even has a ramen museum.
Here's some photos from a guy who visited it.
Daily Radical - How to Subvert the Funny Papers
Friday, January 4, 2002
If you haven't read Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks, you should check it out.
It's a damming indictment that the only place we can find any insightful, contrary commentary about U.S. policies comes from a comic strip and not from the press.
The other comics articles in this issue of LA Weekly are worth a look too.
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