as friggin hilarious as this is, it's not nearly as funny as Ann Coulters original article.
http://sean-mykael.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/25/18457/9312
Original Article
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20050224.shtml
The Think Progress response
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=328
Media matters response
http://mediamatters.org/items/200502250002
Why does she have a job?
As a side note, when looking around and reading her speaches I found this quote, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. "
http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulterprint091301.html
That's not even out of context, she said that, she really said that. And I just say her in an interview talking about her "christian beliefs."
She should be grateful the ground doesn't open up under her feet.
Monday, February 28, 2005
make your own church sign
This is just too freakin' cool.
http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/
You can put what ever you want on a church sign, and it looks pretty convincing too. There are just so many possibilities. My mind is still spinning. reeling... a-buzz even. I'm just not witty enough to think of anything good right now.
oh! I've got one
that wasn't that funny, was it?
Okay, okay. You want funny? y ou wan tme to pull out the big guns? You want me to reach deeeeep into my pocket and pull the one that never, NEVER fails?
did you grin at least?
http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/
You can put what ever you want on a church sign, and it looks pretty convincing too. There are just so many possibilities. My mind is still spinning. reeling... a-buzz even. I'm just not witty enough to think of anything good right now.
oh! I've got one
that wasn't that funny, was it?
Okay, okay. You want funny? y ou wan tme to pull out the big guns? You want me to reach deeeeep into my pocket and pull the one that never, NEVER fails?
did you grin at least?
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Where's Iowa?
I read an article in "Reuters Oddly Enough." It was supposed to be one of those "things that make you go hmmmm" articles.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=5&u=/nm/20050223/od_nm/odd_japan_korea_north_dc
Oddly Enough - Reuters Hint: It's Above South KoreaWed Feb 23, 9:50 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has menaced Japan with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese high-school students can't place the country on a map.
Only 76 percent of high school pupils in a survey by an academic body could locate the reclusive communist state, despite a daily bombardment of news about it in the Japanese media.
As for Iraq, where Japan has some 550 soldiers in one of the country's most controversial overseas deployments and where a Japanese was beheaded by kidnappers, over 40 percent of university students and high-school pupils couldn't find it.
"While students are interested in the news, they don't see it as important to know where the countries are," said Yumiko Takizawa, a geography professor at Teikyo University who ran the survey for the Association of Japanese Geographers.
"Inter-dependence and links between countries are ever more important," Takizawa said. "It's clear that an education system that teaches a proper knowledge of the world is needed."
The survey polled 3,773 students at 25 top universities and 1,027 high-school pupils at nine schools across Japan.
They were handed a world map with 30 numbered countries and asked to write the number corresponding to 10 countries that have recently featured regularly in the news.
It wasn't only small countries that didn't register, however.
Takizawa said that some students couldn't find the United States and located it in China, Brazil or the central African state of Congo.
But I thought about it a bit more. Now I wonder how these same students would have compared had they been tested on knowledge of current events. Or an understanding of the relationships and connections between nations.
My first instinct is to chide these students for not being able to geographicly locate the nations affecting their everyday lives. But maybe we've finally reached that place where physical location just isn't as important. Sure, neighboring countries have more potential for friction. But distance isn't a safety barrier.
Nations can easily reach out across the globe and wreak economic, social or military havoc with little or no regard to the distance.
I think that it would be more important to know what nations pull the strings on another nations economy (who's pulling our economic strings?) or how far reaching it's military is, rather than where it is on the globe.
Is that really where we are at? Is that really the world we live in now?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=5&u=/nm/20050223/od_nm/odd_japan_korea_north_dc
Oddly Enough - Reuters Hint: It's Above South KoreaWed Feb 23, 9:50 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has menaced Japan with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese high-school students can't place the country on a map.
Only 76 percent of high school pupils in a survey by an academic body could locate the reclusive communist state, despite a daily bombardment of news about it in the Japanese media.
As for Iraq, where Japan has some 550 soldiers in one of the country's most controversial overseas deployments and where a Japanese was beheaded by kidnappers, over 40 percent of university students and high-school pupils couldn't find it.
"While students are interested in the news, they don't see it as important to know where the countries are," said Yumiko Takizawa, a geography professor at Teikyo University who ran the survey for the Association of Japanese Geographers.
"Inter-dependence and links between countries are ever more important," Takizawa said. "It's clear that an education system that teaches a proper knowledge of the world is needed."
The survey polled 3,773 students at 25 top universities and 1,027 high-school pupils at nine schools across Japan.
They were handed a world map with 30 numbered countries and asked to write the number corresponding to 10 countries that have recently featured regularly in the news.
It wasn't only small countries that didn't register, however.
Takizawa said that some students couldn't find the United States and located it in China, Brazil or the central African state of Congo.
But I thought about it a bit more. Now I wonder how these same students would have compared had they been tested on knowledge of current events. Or an understanding of the relationships and connections between nations.
My first instinct is to chide these students for not being able to geographicly locate the nations affecting their everyday lives. But maybe we've finally reached that place where physical location just isn't as important. Sure, neighboring countries have more potential for friction. But distance isn't a safety barrier.
Nations can easily reach out across the globe and wreak economic, social or military havoc with little or no regard to the distance.
I think that it would be more important to know what nations pull the strings on another nations economy (who's pulling our economic strings?) or how far reaching it's military is, rather than where it is on the globe.
Is that really where we are at? Is that really the world we live in now?
Monday, February 14, 2005
valentines day
Cast
Sarah: The Mother. Suffering from a Migraine, just home from work, she still manages to look beautiful and well put together.
Ashley: The 9 year old daughter of Sarah. A little scruffy, a little wild, she resembles a wound up monkey throwing a football.
Lucas: The 9 year old classmate of Ashley. Sarah watches him for a couple hours on Mondays. Dusty brown hair, glasses, he is normally calm and quiet. Or maybe that's the appearance in relation to Ashley.
Sarah: The Mother. Suffering from a Migraine, just home from work, she still manages to look beautiful and well put together.
Ashley: The 9 year old daughter of Sarah. A little scruffy, a little wild, she resembles a wound up monkey throwing a football.
Lucas: The 9 year old classmate of Ashley. Sarah watches him for a couple hours on Mondays. Dusty brown hair, glasses, he is normally calm and quiet. Or maybe that's the appearance in relation to Ashley.
It is an overcast Valentines Day in Wisconsin. The snow is melting into the dirt. There is mud
and salt on everything. A big grey beat up buick pulls into the drive. The Bumper sticker says"I leave Bite Marks"
2 nine year old kids spill out of the back seat, Sarah exits more slowly.
Ashley: (without a breathe) mom mom MOM! guess what Lucas. do you wanna know what Luca did? guess what Lucas did!
Lucas: (trying to cover Ashleys mouth as she bats his hands away) no shhhhhh no
Sarah: (tiredly gathering her purse from the passenger seat) what did Lucas do?
Lucas: I'm not ashamed. I'll tell your Mom. I'm proud.
Ashley: (daring him) fine tell her.
Sarah: (resigned) tell me what?
Lucas: there's this girl in my class
Ashley: (interupting) it's Shenice, and Lucas likes her!
Lucas: I got her a really big special Valentines card, a carnation from the gas station when my Dad took me into school, and a teddy bear from my sisters room.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Letter to Bush
I love this. I found it online, and I thought it was serious at first. I was looking for any quotes from Bush concerning God. I've heard these accusations against him, time's when he supposedly said that God put him in power, or that he talks with God. From everything I've seen, I believe that he does believe that God put him in power, and anything he does is justified. But I wish I could find the quotes. Anyway, I found this instead....
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/wbarrett/political/BushTalksGod.htm
Bush talks God
Dear President Bush;
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you and understand why you would propose and support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. As you said, “In the eyes of God marriage is based between a man and a woman." When someone tries to defend homosexuals I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination.
But I need more advice on following some other elements of god's law:
Lev. 25:44 states that I may possess slaves provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Why can't I own Canadians?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, a sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. What would be a fair pice for her on today's market?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him or could I ask the police to do it?
A friend feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination as stated in Lev. 11:10, it says it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there "degrees" of abomination?
Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of god if I have a defect in my sight. I admit that I wear glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20 or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have considerable expertise in such matters, and I am confident you will help. Thanks for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Helen P. Henry
Lewiston Tribune
9/5/04
[Note – some of these appeared in the series West Wing, second series, in an amusing form. WAB]
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/wbarrett/political/BushTalksGod.htm
Bush talks God
Dear President Bush;
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you and understand why you would propose and support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. As you said, “In the eyes of God marriage is based between a man and a woman." When someone tries to defend homosexuals I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination.
But I need more advice on following some other elements of god's law:
Lev. 25:44 states that I may possess slaves provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Why can't I own Canadians?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, a sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. What would be a fair pice for her on today's market?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him or could I ask the police to do it?
A friend feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination as stated in Lev. 11:10, it says it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there "degrees" of abomination?
Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of god if I have a defect in my sight. I admit that I wear glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20 or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have considerable expertise in such matters, and I am confident you will help. Thanks for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Helen P. Henry
Lewiston Tribune
9/5/04
[Note – some of these appeared in the series West Wing, second series, in an amusing form. WAB]
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
I posted this earlier at http://www.unfilteredradio.com/
good morning, I'm listening via the web, so I'm about 20 minutes behind. I just heard the Pap attack and it reminded me of a recent event here in Madison, WI. Even though I know the links don't work well, I'll post a link to the whole story.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/4158543/detail.html
My wife and I have been talking about this one a lot. On the one hand, I think that non-lethal law enforcement is great. I just can't get on the "Tasers are evil" band wagon. BUT, I think that the key to their effective use is that guideline "only used in place of a gun". I don't think that guideline is being enforced (read the above story for an example).
The Pap attack story for instance was just a couple frustrated cops that lost their temper. Would they have shot him if they hadn't had tasers?
In the Madison story it pretty much comes down to a split second decision between running after the 15 yr old kid, or dropping him with a taser shot. Would they have shot him if they didn't have tasers?
I'd hate to see the use of non-lethal force rolled back because of irresponsible individuals. But still, this story about the 15 year old kid just makes me sick. I'd have done the same thing he did, and I bet my kid would do the same thing too.
This is getting long, but here's one little quote from the article
"Since 2003, Madison police have tased 84 suspects. Five of them were injured, but the department believes Tasers allowed them to avoid using deadly force in 6 of those cases."
What was the justification in the other 78?
good morning, I'm listening via the web, so I'm about 20 minutes behind. I just heard the Pap attack and it reminded me of a recent event here in Madison, WI. Even though I know the links don't work well, I'll post a link to the whole story.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/4158543/detail.html
My wife and I have been talking about this one a lot. On the one hand, I think that non-lethal law enforcement is great. I just can't get on the "Tasers are evil" band wagon. BUT, I think that the key to their effective use is that guideline "only used in place of a gun". I don't think that guideline is being enforced (read the above story for an example).
The Pap attack story for instance was just a couple frustrated cops that lost their temper. Would they have shot him if they hadn't had tasers?
In the Madison story it pretty much comes down to a split second decision between running after the 15 yr old kid, or dropping him with a taser shot. Would they have shot him if they didn't have tasers?
I'd hate to see the use of non-lethal force rolled back because of irresponsible individuals. But still, this story about the 15 year old kid just makes me sick. I'd have done the same thing he did, and I bet my kid would do the same thing too.
This is getting long, but here's one little quote from the article
"Since 2003, Madison police have tased 84 suspects. Five of them were injured, but the department believes Tasers allowed them to avoid using deadly force in 6 of those cases."
What was the justification in the other 78?
Thursday, February 03, 2005
"you know, it breaks my heart to see people like that. Husband left her, 3 kids, smart gal too..."
"that makes it all the harder"
"well ya... It just breaks my heart though. But what can you do? ya know? When you're just barely making it yourself"
"I guess you've just got to remember what..."
"Order for Mary!"
"...said, 'It could be much worse'."
"that makes it all the harder"
"well ya... It just breaks my heart though. But what can you do? ya know? When you're just barely making it yourself"
"I guess you've just got to remember what..."
"Order for Mary!"
"...said, 'It could be much worse'."
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