Early Voting in Indiana
I wasn't sure if I wanted to vote early... As I said to my friends the other day, "If my flight back from SanFran on the evening of Nov 3rd were to be delayed for more than nine hours, something would...
View ArticleI used to work for GM
But... While GM was making Vega (the 70k mile engine before they fall apart cars) and Buick Skylarks and Hummer H3s and oh my god what is that THING Pontiac Aztecs and crushing the electric EV-1s to...
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Gay Rights, Indianapolis, IN
Hello to the Prop 8 supporters who are, "surprised and dismayed", that their pet religious project has caused a backlash. This isn't going away, Mormon Church, Southern Baptists, etc. "The election...
View ArticleThere is NO GLOBAL WARMING
Heh.The GOP, or whatever Party the neocons and theocons say they belong to these days, can't help themselves. This morning on WIBC, EMMIS' flagship station, (see EMMIS stock price at 0.36 cents today)...
View ArticleSpineless Weasels
Treason: This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war...
View ArticleBankruptcy - and What of the Retirees? :-(
My dad worked for GM in an engineering capacity for about half a century, just after WWII to thru the 1980s. My 81 year old mom has a pension thru GM because of this. GM has already dumped...
View ArticleSenator Lugar, this is all going wrong.
Senator Lugar,I'm not big on bailouts. I think the whole financial sector bailout is being handled (as we would expect from the incompetents in the Bush Administration) really badly. Really, REALLY...
View ArticleFear, the Citi is Rank With It!
Let us ease their pain. Release the money! - Henry Paulson, Orc in ChargeI woke up this morning with a headache anyway, so why not read the news? I mean, it can't get any worse, can it? Oh. It...
View ArticleDoom and Gloom
This is... a big scary estimate I read today of the total cost in today's dollars of various big projects this country has embarked on.• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost:...
View ArticleCarrying a Gun in a Gun Range vs Carrying a Gun in a National Park
RIFLE AND PISTOL RANGE RULESPLEASE READ AND REMEMBEREYE AND EAR PROTECTION REQUIRED AT ALL TIMES ON THE RANGE.NO SMOKING ON THE RANGENO FOOD OR DRINK ALLOWED FORWARD OF THE YELLOW SAFETY LINESHOOT ONLY...
View ArticleIn Defense of Rick Warren
Lots of angst about Rick Warren. As a gay/bi guy I understand completely...However, like it or not, the country is made up of believers and not, and like it or not, they need their bone as much (or...
View ArticleFirst Thing GWB Has Done Right in a Long Time
Oh. My. Goddess. Loans for GM and Chrysler.Thank you!As someone in the Industry, I am so very surprised and pleased. You know what? This is even sweeter because it is sure to piss off a bunch of...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan, Bipolar Republican Extraordinary
One day he'll be for Obama, the next day, quoting John McCain, perhaps hoping to curry favor with the people he has been screaming at the past few years.Now he's against the loans to GM and Chrysler...
View ArticleIslam + Hamas and Gay Rights vs Israel
Hamas, the militant and political group in the Palestinian Territories have said that they win the Palestinian Authority Parliamentary election, they would ban men and women dancing together and will...
View ArticleSkynet Makes Inroads or, How I Learned to Love the Bomb and Windows Too!
StopMissileDestroyingEarth.exe has encountered an invalid page fault and will be shut down.If you were working on keeping the missiles locked down and not launched then your hope has been lost.Please...
View ArticleNatural Gas Prices, Indianapolis
Hey, this is not so much a diary as a WTF rant.When I bought my house in 2001 I paid about seven hundred in mortgage. Now, because of increased property taxes in the main, I pay about thirteen...
View ArticleLimbaugh Calls for Revolution
Now, I may be extrapolating a little bit (but hey, George Will does it too), but did I. or did I not, hear The Fat Man call for Revolution on his ditto show today?
View ArticleWe want them to know WHY THEY NEED US! (The Fat Man at CPAC)
"We conservatives have not done a good enough job of just laying out basically who we are, because we make the mistake of assuming that people know. What they know is largely incorrect, based on the...
View ArticleJimmy Carter
Anyone remember Jimmy? The press, such as it was then, completely owned by big business and with no other option to rebut excepting small indi papers, took Jimmy apart.From the time that Jimmy Carter...
View ArticleShopping For a New Car
My sis needs a new car. Now, I have to say that we've been GM people for a long time. We get a GM discount, my dad worked for GM for 44 years, my mom gets a pension from GM...
View ArticleGoposaur
GoposaurWith a snarling grimace and a terrible sound He pulls the splitting old levees down! Goposaur!Oh no, they say he’s got to go Go go Goposaur, yeah Oh no, there goes Ohio Go go Goposaur, yeah
View ArticleLose DADT. I want it gone. NOW.
Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and officer in the Army National Guard who is fluent in Arabic and who returned recently from Iraq, received notice today that the military is about to fire him....
View ArticleThe Danegeld
Do we really think torture and murder will defend us?Mr. President. We can't let people, any people, who set policy on mistreatment of POWs (and by POW I mean anyone captured fighting US forces) get...
View ArticleI Have the Distinct Impression We are Being Toyed With
"Number One, I have the distinct impression we are being toyed with." -- Picard in ST:TNG "The Survivors""Out! We need no urging to hate humans! But for the present, only a fool fights in a burning...
View ArticleOne Does not live by Politics Alone (TSCC) Renew Renew Renew Sarah Connor...
Tomorrow? Tomorrow we know if Sarah Connor Chronicles gets renewed. It isn't politics (sort of, but it is FOX)
View ArticleThe Russians are Planning on Staying in Space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...Russia 'to save its ISS modules'Industry officials told BBC News of plans to keep the Russian ISS modules flying around a decade from now. ISS partners are optimistic they will...
View ArticleIn the Latin alphabet, Jehovah starts with an ‘I’
Blessed is the Lord God Jehovah who brings forth bread from heaven, water from rocks, and men like Mark Sanford from the dust of the earth. His will be done. Ah Redstate. Ah comedy. Yesterday:First,...
View ArticleRedstate Keeps Going Up and Down
http://www.redstate.com/Quick, everyone run to the left and let's see if we can capsize her! 500 - Internal Server ErrorError establishing a database connection
View ArticleRepublicans... Still fighting the battles of the 1960s and 70s
As an engineer/tech writer/mechanic (etc) I can tell you that the metric system is something I use all the time. I have to have metric tools, write metric measurements into manuals, and use things...
View ArticleLeverage (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rupert)
Crap human! - TerlHow do you threaten a Senator, a talk show host, a political hack, without seeming to threaten? By that I mean, without seeming to be breaking a law. How do you break someone's nose...
View ArticleChristianist Fake Archaeology Thursday! (Or - Dinosaurs Were Fuzzy Pets!)
Dr. Willie Dye discusses Biblical Archaeology with Greg Garrison in Indianapolis, in which radio program Mr. Dye tells us about the conspiracy by scientists to cover up the Truth of the...
View ArticleThe Wingers are Seriously Stupid and I'm Feeling Violent
Today... Having lunch. Down at the end of the lunch counter, two Brother John Birch Antioch Baptist Church guys (and one really had green teeth)...
View Article...children playing with matches.
And they burned the house down. - Dollhouse Episode 13, "Epitaph One"Makes me think of right wing "talk" radio and right wing journalism and right wing blogs.
View ArticleAnd God said, "Verily I will spare Florida, for you, Charlie Crist".
Good few hurricane years for Florida?Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is telling supporters that that's because of a personal request he put in to God back in 2007.Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) is really taking his...
View ArticleMy Newspaper was Trashed
The crazys are getting worse.Today I picked up my morning paper at my local breakfast/coffee house and found that a Republican had written...
View ArticleThe Chamber of Commerce on Global Warming
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific...
View ArticleIs Texas in Iran Somewhere?
"Many of the syllabuses taught to students majoring in humanities are not in line with Iranian and Islamic culture and therefore their revision is a must," Ayatollahi said in a statement published by...
View ArticleJoe Wilson Begins to Edit YouTube Comments
I have insomnia caused by allergies tonight. I'm not the only one who isn't sleeping.We must be keeping Joe's staff over athttp://www.youtube.com/...very busy tonight.
View ArticleCongresscritters and Morality
...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. - "Foster's Case", New York Tribune, 3/10/1873 - Mark...
View ArticleI Can Be Obstructionist Also - Call Coburn and Prank Him!
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn effectively shut down Senate debate of sweeping health care legislation for nearly three hours today when he forced the reading of a lengthy amendment.Read more:...
View ArticleKill the Gods Dam-med Bill
Look. If I get sick, with the current way that things are done, I will go broke or die and go broke.I do not see that the Senate bill will change that.
View ArticleThank you very much, Rush!
Oh Rush, thank you SO VERY MUCH!Since this is, still, within the Christmas and Holiday season, I'd like to say thanks for all you've done. I used to listen to you during Gulf War One, and thought you...
View ArticleConservative Talk Radio Host's Son In-Law Dies of Swine flu
Washington, D.C. -Conservatives on Capitol Hill and throughout America are planning to reject the massive scale swine flu vaccination that the government has planned for this fall. Some conservatives...
View ArticleOn the other hand, if Brown loses
...It could be the FAUX News' waterloo...LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL
View ArticleCOWARDS!
I see that suddenly, Democrats everywhere (legislature/Congress) are just giving up on health care. Frank. Webb. Bayh... Well, OF COURSE Bayh.Hey MORONS. You remind me of the Italian army in WWII.
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The Company is Pleased - A thank you from Weyland-Yutani Corporation
Weyland-Yutani Corporation wishes to express its deep gratitude to the five members of the United States Supreme Court who today allowed true freedom of speech to blossom in accord with the...
View ArticleBanned from the American Family Association
How to get Banned from the American Family Association Facebook pages, just in time for another anti-gay screed.Did you know that the AFA has a Facebook page? Of COURSE they...
View ArticleWhat Do you Do About This? (Green Light to Take the Shot)
Laser sight dot on the head of the President in a Facebook profile?http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/...I grew up with conservatives all around me, and while they were in many ways disagreeable, KIng James...
View ArticleEnthusiasm for Democrats in November
Feds object to 'don't ask, don't tell' injunction Feds object to injunction on 'don't ask, don't tell' being considered by federal judgeJULIE WATSON AP NewsSep 23, 2010 20:56 EDTAttorneys for the Obama...
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