Daily Archives: March 29, 2008

New Theme Time: Pirate3.0

Yes, another new theme, which, yes, looks remarkably like the last one. The last one was using Zen In Grey, which, while it looked great, I could utterly not get the sidebars to be fixed width within a fluid format, so, when decreasing the screen resolution or the screen width, the right sidebar went down […]

U.N. Condemns Fitna, Still Waiting For Them To Comment On Tibet

So, we have all the violence in Tibet, the crackdowns and human rights offenses by China, yet, not a peep from the United Nations. But a movie sends them into hissy fits Secretary-General today led a chorus of United Nations condemnation of the Internet broadcast of a video made by the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, […]

Aside: Right Wing News Favorite Bloggers

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has his 40 Favorite Bloggers for 2008 up, and, cool! he gave me an honorable mention. Good company. Check it out.

A Black Hole Will Kill Us All

Now, for the wonky news of the day More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice. None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men […]

A Catholic Church In Saudi Arabia? It Could Happen

The very fact that negotiations are occuring is very encouraging (Wash Times) The Vatican is negotiating with authorities in Saudi Arabia for permission to build the country’s first Roman Catholic church, sources in the Holy See said yesterday. The move evidently heralds a major policy change toward the nearly 1 million Christians working in the […]

Ye Olde Goracle Bloviates On Skeptics

Sad, really Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man – among them, Vice President Dick Cheney – are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat. Confronted by […]

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