Monthly Archives: May 2006

Global Warming Causes Droughts?

First of all, what a funny looking word: droughts. Anyhow, a new report from Live Science kinda debunks global warming, er, climate change: A new study comparing the most recent drought in the Southwest United States with other dry periods going back 508 years confirms worries that water shortages will become more common and severe. […]

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Memorial Weekend Sunday

Justice Chiefs Threaten To Quit Over Documents

Perhaps President Bush and Speaker Hastert should listen carefully: Top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI threatened to resign this week if President Bush ordered them to return materials seized in last week’s raid of Rep. William Jefferson’s office, senior administration officials said. The showdown, said to be reaching a “tipping point” by […]

Understanding Liberals: Surrender Monkeys Drink More When Solo

From Animal Planet: Surrender Monkeys drink more alcohol when housed alone, and some like to end a long day in the lab with a boozy cocktail, according to a new analysis of alcohol consumption among members of a rhesus macaque social group.   These and other observed behaviors strongly correspond with human patterns of alcohol […]

Two Days Before The Day After Tommorrow

Been a crappy day. Need humor. [gv data=”UZc4d3vT1dU” width=”350″ height=”275″ ][/gv] Eat your heart out, Internet Al! 

Hastert Taking More Abuse

Shouldn’t this case be about William Jefferson (D-La), not Dennis Hastert? Yet, with Hastert’s silly outbursts, he has made it more about himself: Conservatives yesterday expressed confusion and outrage over House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert’s defense of a Democratic congressman whose Capitol Hill office was raided last weekend by the FBI. “Only thing I can […]

Welcome To The Nanny State

First Taxachussets, now Vermont: MONTPELIER, Vermont (Reuters) – Vermont’s governor signed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the second in the nation with near-universal health-care insurance by extending coverage to as much as 96 percent of its residents by 2010. The law comes a month after neighboring Massachusetts passed the nation’s first […]

TrackBack Friday, Featuring The DNC Surrender Monkey!

 It’s that time of the week again! Do you have an interesting post you want to share with everyone? The official Surrender Monkey of the Democratic Party says to do what the Lefties don’t, since they all have the same talking points: link it!   I guess the Deafto, the Surrender Monkey, likes Dennis Hastert. I […]

Al Gore Lies? The Hell You Say

Found via Right Wing News, my bud Al Gore: Question: There’s a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What’s the right mix? Wooden Al: I think the answer to that depends on where your audience’s head is. […]

Not All Congress Critters Have Issues With Jefferson Search

The following story was actually entitled something else earlier in the day, but now it is about “Hastert lashes out at the Justice Dept.” Either way: The confrontational approach by Hastert and the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, did not sit well with some colleagues. “Criticizing the executive and judicial branches of our government for […]

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