From lefty website Democracy Cell Project, filling out their calendar:
January 24 or whenever the State of the Union event is, drown out the Bush regime. PLAN NOW for drum circles, choirs singing, tap dancing, noisemakers, etc. during the speech in your local areas.
Tap dancing?
A Tiburon man is auctioning three of Jerry Garcia’s toilets on eBay, and the bidding starts at $500 each.
If you want a chance at his hot tub, get out $5,000. Kitchen drawer handles? $100 each.
The commodes and other items (bidet … dishwasher) can be viewed at www.sophia-foundation.org. Proceeds will go to that charity.
Upcoming: look for [...]
Has your brain stopped hurting from last month’s initiatives? There’s more coming!
Already qualified for next November: the “Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century” aka the “Why Pay Southwest $49 To Get To Oakland When I Can Ride A Slower, More Expensive, Publicly Funded Train” Act.
Apparently the sister “Unsafe, Unreliable [...]
L.A. Observed reports that:
Sacramento columnist George Skelton opted out of the L.A. Times buyout at the last minute. But a more prominent name put himself on the list: longtime Pop Music Editor/Critic Robert Hilburn. Arguably the Times’ best-known critic, Hilburn will continue to contribute pieces to Calendar.
We will be sorry to see Hilburn go. We [...]
It is a semi-slow news day so we’ll take a cue from MSM and cover our own industry–more specifically the goings on at 8763 Wonderland. We’ve had several stories overlap with Wonderland including favorites Holly Ashcraft and Chris Irwin Julian and we like to keep an eye on what they are doing.
Last month 8763 went [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)What is already quite apparent by just walking around and looking at people has now been shown to be impacting medical injections into rear-ends.
Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.
Yes, not [...]
Adding new meaning to the words “do anything to win”, a football coach at San Pedro High School in California was caught on camera moving the first down marker to give his team a late and decisive first down. Now I’m not a rules expert but would assume that the moving of the chains is [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Writing about Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s call to wipe Israel off the map, Mark Steyn pointed his readers to comments posted on the BBC website. Here are some of the ones he highlighted in his broader piece, along with others we found that represent a world view we just don’t understand:
If G-Bush and T-Blair can talk [...]
Police Department officers arrested 10 people on Sunday outside Raymond James Stadium accusing them of operating a fully operational strip club inside a jet-black 40′ mobile home (“Deja Vu”) in the parking lot during the Bucs vs. Bears game.
Police found:
Several bouncers and dancers.
Alcohol being sold inside
Lap dances (@ $20 for topless and $40 for nude)
$20 [...]
Always classy lefty protesters were supposed to celebrate “Buy Nothing Day” on Friday by
going to their one-stop anti-globalization center, Wal-Mart, and
filling up shopping carts with merchandise, then abandoning them;
wasting employee’s time;
clogging checkout lines;
and urinating on the floors of the bathrooms.
Of course, in the Bay Area, the protest professionals came out:
In Emeryville, the Shellmound Peace Walk [...]
According to California Assemblyman Mark “Criminals First” Leno, disincentives won’t affect the incidence of drunk driving (Sacramento Bee):
… But Assemblyman Mark Leno, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, said increasing fines, boosting jail terms and permanently revoking licenses don’t address the underlying problem.
“When you take away someone’s driver’s license for [...]
When gas prices are still close to $3 / gallon, how smart is Dodge to key this new ad campaign on the bus-like proportions of the Dodge Mega Cab?
That’s the 7,200 pound, 13 mpg (city) Dodge Mega Cab. The ad inspires the question “will they finance the gas bill?”
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… but Dodge may be smarter than [...]
Econoblogger Marginal Revolution gives a nice rundown on why the health care market doesn’t perform so well. One would expect that given an efficient market the healthcare ship would ultimately right itself–but it hasn’t. Why is that? Read the hyperbole-free post to learn the latest theories on why not.
On a related and more local note, [...]
Yahoo News reports:
A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics — relations with “ETs.”
Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 publicly stated:
“UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly [...]
All the PR flacks who were brazenly predicting that Michael Jackson would lay low and then slowly work to rebuild his career after his devastating child molestation trial once again under-estimated the utter wackiness of Michael’s world.
We have learned that Jackson is now converting to Islam. Why not? He’s tried everything else to destroy what’s [...]
