December 10, 2004 – 6:49 pm
From the BBC: Ukraine’s opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has gone into hospital in Austria for tests into the mystery illness that disfigured his face. Doctors will spend the weekend examining him to assess whether his illness was caused by poisoning. Mr Yushchenko was taken ill in September and resumed his presidential campaign with a pock-marked […]
December 10, 2004 – 4:42 pm
From WRAL: A study released by the University of Nebraska Medical Center shows an average of 42 percent of clinic appointments are no-shows. But forgetfulness isn’t the reason; instead, the study shows that fear keeps patients away. "There’s a fear of what they might hear, and there’s a fear of what might happen," said researcher […]
December 10, 2004 – 7:16 am
You might want to be careful about what photo’s you take. Camera phones may make great Christmas gifts, but people better not use them for peeping-Tom photos on federal property. In one of its last moves of the year, Congress passed a bill that would levy heavy fines and prison time for anyone who sneaks […]
December 10, 2004 – 6:59 am
From the New York Times (reg req’d), comes a long, bloviating article on Bernard Kerik’s involvement with several security and armament corporations, making him tons of money. What is the point of the article? Just five years ago, Bernard B. Kerik was facing lawsuits from a condominium association and bank over delinquent payments owed on […]
December 9, 2004 – 9:56 pm
Here is an interesting article from the Commissar regarding trackbacks, ran across it while persuing the Showcase. For me, being in the top 1000 is pretty nice. With the whole issue with the TTLB Ecosystem database, I lost about 100 or so links, including 17 well earned links for the Guardian Story, which I actually […]
December 9, 2004 – 9:17 pm
Y’all have got to see this site: Famous Idiot. Some good stuff, such as Teresa calling Kerry and idiot.
December 9, 2004 – 8:23 pm
Jeremy of American Warmonger has said that the doors will close if someone doesn’t blog something good on S. 2845, which John Kerry did vote for. See this post. We don’t want the doors closing, so, here goes. This is a good thing. Folks seemed to be expecting some vast, all inclusive, Bill, but, since […]
December 9, 2004 – 4:27 pm
just want to see if the update works without a manual ping.
December 9, 2004 – 4:12 pm
One of the things I love about working in the mall now is that I get to see all the great stuff. Like all those girlie man adds for clothes and perfume cologne. You know what? ‘Taint going to get me to buy that stuff. You want me to buy some of those clothes or […]
December 9, 2004 – 1:55 pm
Perhaps I should have a new catagory, entitled Holy Crap! The following pictures are of a moose that went through a woman’s windshield near South River, Ontario (Canada, of course, hoser). The woman came away with a broken wrist and in need of a good bath. And clean underwear. You have to wonder how she […]
