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Islam Turns Teen Boys into Dancing Girl Love Bunnies
2007-11-29 17:56:00 I found this article, “Afghan boy dancers sexually abused by former warlords“, about the bacha bereesh in Afghanistan by following a link from the quite obviously anti-Islam site, TheReligion ofPeace– Islam: The Religion of Peace (and a big stack of dead bodies). One would think then that the link would direct to a condemnation of Islam– ... More About: Dancing , Love , War
Jeb vs. the BBC
2007-11-28 17:47:00 The video is from 2006. It isn’t new, but it isn’t really old news either, especially with another election coming. Things to watch for in the film: Telling, though circumstantial, is the reaction of Clayton Roberts to questions early in the video, about time 1:30. Database Technologies, a company with ties to the Republican Party ... More About: Impeachment , Corruption
Ron Paul gets a hot endorsement
2007-11-27 18:44:00 And not from Nazis either! Actually, this one I can’t really hold against him. Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, says he was so impressed after hearing Paul at a campaign stop in Reno last week that he decided to raise money for him. ‘BunnyRanch’ Brothel Owner Endorses Underdog GOP Candidate Ron ... More About: Ron Paul , Endorsement
Kind of a dream come true
2007-11-24 18:10:00 I really hope this project takes off, partly because I feel such sympathy for something I found in their FAQs. Do you really expect to be able to detect and filter anything that’s conceivably stupid? No, of course not. You’d need real AI for that, and beyond a certain point it’s simply subjective; after all, a sufficiently ... More About: Dream , True
A Judge Gores Gore? Yee Haw!
2007-11-24 17:36:00 Not too long ago a judge ruled that Gore ’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ contains a number of errors. Of course, this ruling damns all of climate science to the limbo of fairyland, at least that is the impression one gets when reading the reactions around the blogosphere. Never mind what the scientists say. Well, Tim Lambert at ... More About: Global Warming , Judge
A mind bending hypercube puzzle
2007-11-24 00:49:00 This has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever found while wasting my time online: What is it? Why it is a “a fully functional four-dimensional analog of Rubik’s cube”, obviously. There is even a 5D version of the cube, and a curiously puzzling 2d version as well. More About: Puzzle , Mind
If only I could get my paper published?
2007-11-23 20:30:00 … then global warming would go away. People would see it for the sham that it is. But… whoa is me!… the man establishment global conspiracy mainstreams scientists are biased against my groundbreaking work, and they won’t publish it. They just won’t. I submit and I submit and I submit and they just won’t publish. ... More About: Science , Global Warming , Published , Paper
I?ve jumped on the Dofollow bandwagon
2007-11-22 20:29:00 And Perishable Press is responsible. Removing ‘nofollows’ from a Wordpress blog is remarkably easy to do and you needn’t install a plugin to do it, as explained in “The One-Minute Dofollow WordPress Upgrade” and in the Industrial Strength WordPress Dofollow Upgrade for those wanting that little extra. I recommend the latter. It took me less ...
Blackmail is ?iffie? at best
2007-11-22 20:19:00 But the images sent to Amy Polumbo have to be the most ridiculous blackmail photos of all time. Polumbo, Miss N.J., claims someone sent them to beauty pageant officials to force her to relinquish her crown. The most incriminating of these pictures is: Now come on? High school students post filthier photos on their MySpace or ... More About: Sexuality , Blackmail
Flying the not so friendly skies
2007-11-21 21:06:00 Back not too long ago I walked into the airport and past the security with a knife big enough that security personnel stopped me and measured the knife before handing it back saying that if the blade were a hair longer they’d have to arrest me. In fact, I walked through several security checkpoints with ... More About: Flying , Friendly
A Climate Grab Bag
2007-11-19 19:25:00 I was asked by my girlfriend to put together a kind of list of global warming resources so that she can email it to some skeptical friends and associates. I might as well make that list do double duty. The best single source on the web for global warming information is Realclimate. You can search the ... More About: Global Warming , Climate , Grab
Bill defends himself and impeaches the decider in chief
2007-11-17 20:02:00 Clinton turns the tables on the right wing during this Fox News interview: More About: Politics , Chief , Bill , The Decider
Gold, Gold, Gold!
2007-11-17 18:58:00 A commenter in another thread posted a rather lengthy piece about the gold. True, the gold standard is relevant to that thread but I’d hate for this topic to get lost there, so I’ve extracted the gold and banking section and am posting it here. For the record, I’m not convinced that a gold standard ... More About: Society , Politics , Gold
Creation Science at its best
2007-11-16 19:39:00 There is a very good article about a bit of creationist dishonesty over at The Thinkers? Podium. It is the tale of an edited interview with Dawkins. Its a good read. More About: Science , Creation
Now let?s talk about Ron Paul
2007-11-13 18:24:00 My recent post about Hillary, lit a few fires. Now let’s talk about Ron Paul . First, I haven’t always had negative things to say about Ron Paul. Actually, I haven’t had much to say about him at all, but this post, and this one, are actually positive. But that doesn’t mean I’m a Paul supporter. [edit] I’m adding ... More About: Talk
Lexical forcing of optical depth and metaphoric breadth
2007-11-12 18:36:00 Genius. In the post-Althuserian work of Baliunas, a predominant concept is the concept of capitalist climate culture. In a sense, in Idoru, Gibson deconstructs climate constructivism; and the ELM computer modeling paradigm is visually reified in the solarized scenes of The Matrix Reloaded. However, Vienna Circle structuralists like Singer, and the naive realists of the ... More About: Optical , Depth , Lexi
I can?t figure out why anyone takes this guy seriously
2007-11-12 17:59:00 From ADAMANT, a blog I only just discovered and really kinda like (even though I think we may butt heads on some issues): A fake– ridiculously fake– climate change paper was circulated online and Limbaugh swallowed it whole. The pseudo-study,complete with bogus equations, suggested man-made CO2 does not cause global warming, and sure enough, within 48 hours ... More About: Figure
Passing along a good idea
2007-11-12 17:17:00 There is a post up at Wired about a charity, Soldier’s Angels, pushing a project, Project Valour-IT, to provide laptops operated by ‘microphone or using other adaptive technologies’ so that ‘our wounded heroes are able to send and receive messages from friends and loved ones, surf the ‘Net, and communicate with buddies still in the ... More About: Society , War , Idea , Good , Passing
Another Reason to not like Hillary
2007-11-11 20:27:00 Hillary Clinton looks to be the Democratic front-runner and this annoys the hell out of me. It annoys me because Hillary plays politics like a champ and that is exactly what we don’t need coming out of the travesty of government that is the Bush administration. The nation needs leadership that will help it to ... More About: Reason , Hillary
Pie in the Sky?
2007-11-11 19:39:00 Oh no! The the Pie is Now on Earth. Aardvarchaeology has the latest Carnival of the Godless.
Rumsfeld flees France
2007-11-10 18:57:00 Just before switching servers I posted a piece about Rumsfeld fleeing Franc e for fear of being charged with the crime of torture. At the time of that post the information was somewhat sketchy and I hedged a bit fearing that the report was too good to be true, but that has changed. Charges were in ... More About: Torture , Lees
Mortgage Anyone?
2007-11-09 20:42:00 Here is a bit of something that is going to hurt. This will sink originating banks and mortgage companies. It will sink securitizers (which are the big Wall Street “boyz”) and raises all sorts of interesting SarBox issues. It will also wipe out every broker and real estate agent who participated in these schemes. Market Ticker: Mirage Monday What ... More About: Mortgage , Mort
We are a sick people
2007-11-08 18:14:00 I seem to be slipping into animal ethics lately. It is a new twist for the blog but old hat for me. I’ve long felt deeply the words of the prophet, “L?enfer, c?est les autres”. Small furry critter, though, that is another story. But back to animal ethics. Recently I questioned the sanity of a murderous, and ... More About: People , Sick
Carnival of the Liberals #51
2007-11-08 16:47:00 Hell’s Handmaiden has made it into another Carnival of the Liberals . The CotL is probably the most difficult carnival to get into and usually has some of the best blogging around. I thank PollyTicks for including me. More About: Carnivals
Switching Servers
2007-11-05 16:11:00 Hell’s Handmaiden is switching servers. The site is going to LaughingSquid– more on them later– because the site owner is damned frustrated with his current host– more on them later as well. While the DNS servers are adjusting, I won’t be putting up any new posts as I don’t want to worry about synchronizing two ... More About: Servers , Switching , Serve , Witch
Run, Rummy. Run.
2007-11-04 17:42:00 There is a report out about Rumsfeld running from charges of war crimes. Apparently a visit to France was cut a wee bit short by some legal glitches involving torture. Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of “ordering and authorizing” torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib ... More About: Politics , Torture
Lies, Lies, Lies? and, oh, more Lies
2007-11-04 15:46:00 (JavaScript Error) inc_totals_at_rate(1000); … US dollars into it and we got there because of lies. (Counter courtesy of CostofWar .com.) Anyone who has been paying attention has heard of ‘Curve Ball’. ‘Curve Ball’ was the Bush Team man of the hour back when we were ramping up for invasion. He was our super secret spy guy, our ... More About: Iraq , Lies
A plug for you; a plug for me
2007-11-03 17:48:00 A piece over at GodisaJoke… ?You stupid feminist secular humanist I bet you had an abortion I bet you got an education and sold your soul to the devil you probably let your children watch Harry Potter you?re going to hell because you?re stupid you?re old you?re ugly I don?t want you in my heaven because ... More About: Plug
All Swell in Iraq
2007-11-03 17:32:00 Just ask the diplomats who’ve been– or who may be– ordered to work there. Several hundred foreign service officers participated in the gathering at which several diplomats, backed by the vocal support of their colleagues there, vehemently complained about the prospect of so-called “directed assignments” to Iraq to make up for a lack of volunteers. “Incoming is ... More About: War , Well , Swell
Democratocracy Run Afoul of Colbert
More articles from this author:2007-11-03 17:18:00 Really… I should say ‘Colbert run afoul of the Democrats’ or even more accurately ‘The Democrats run afoul of themselves’. However, after about 40 minutes of discussion by top party officials, the executive council voted 13-3 to keep the host of “The Colbert Report” off the ballot. “He’s really trying to use South Carolina Democrats as suckers ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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