7 August, 2008
This Ought to Shut Them Up
I mean those who think the military courts are a puppet of the Bush White House. If an acquital on the most serious charge wasn’t enough, the sentencing ought to prove it.
Update:
It wasn’t entirely the judge’s fault.
Stuff Your Computer Knows About You
Well, sort of. Here’s a cute Javascript that analyzes your browser history and makes a good guess as to your gender.
Fortunately, I’m 96% likely to be male. What’s interesting is the male/female ratio of some of these sites. I’m still not clear on how they determine that, though.
Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com 0.98
yahoo.com 0.9
myspace.com 0.74
youtube.com 1
ebay.com 1.11
amazon.com 0.9
walmart.com 0.77
bestbuy.com 1.11
circuitcity.com 1.2
wunderground.com 1.22
linkedin.com 0.94
gizmodo.com 2.08
macrumors.com 2.08
slickdeals.net 1.27
gametrailers.com 1.53
godaddy.com 1.17
fatwallet.com 1.38
footlocker.com 0.72
jalopnik.com 2.13
engadget.com 1.7
tinyurl.com 0.83
compusa.com 1.7
joystiq.com 1.44
logmein.com 1.17
bmwusa.com 1.41
Some are not surprising at all.
The Case Against Barack Obama
I heard a little of David Freddoso on KSFO this morning talking about his book. I like to think I’m moderately well informed and paying attention, but there was a lot of stuff I didn’t know about. Like Obama’s first election in Illinois: He had his operatives spend a lot of time challenging petition signatures to get competitors tossed off the ballot. When election day rolled around, Barry’s was the only name on it.
And while even Babs Boxer was in Washington urging a unanimous vote to protect babies who survive abortions (passed 98-0), in Illinois a similar measure was up for a vote, thanks to a nurse with a conscience who could no longer stand the sight of tiny preemies left to die, gasping for breath, in dirty closets. Obama voted against the legislation which would define anyone born alive as a “person” in the eyes of the law. His reason? It could open the doors to lose abortion “rights”. So it’s not a stretch to say that Obama has voted for infanticide.
Why, as Lee Rodgers wondered, isn’t the McCain camp hammering Obama with this? That’s the most radical pro-abortion stance of any presidential candidate in history, even farther out than Boxer, for crying out loud.
One of the book reviews on Amazon is worth noting.
I am not going to agree with either side. All I wish to express as a former Cuban exile, is that Barack Obama and Fidel Castro share many personality traits, ie:
Both were abandoned by their fathers at an early age.
Both are charming, elocuent lawyers that say exactly what people want to hear at the right time and place.
One never led the nation to suspect he was a communist at heart, the other doesnt mention the word socialism when in reality this is exactly what his agenda stands for.
Neither Obama nor Fidel ever held a real job either in government or in private enterprise for they think of themselves as demigods unworthy of soiling their hands when their destiny is much larger than their own realities.
Censoring Skepticism
If you can’t beat ’em, shut ’em up.
Note that the proposal of censorship comes from a professor of journalism. It makes sense: his job is to teach morons how to be idiots.
Now he’s trying to backpedal. All you really need to know is in his masthead. What the hell is “environmental journalism” supposed to mean?
Shame on Random House
A gentle puff of wind from the general direction of Islam and Random House buckled. This kind of pre-emptive caving is despicable and cowardly.
As we learned in the Wall Street Journal today, the company has decided not to publish Sherry Jones’ historical novel “The Jewel of Medina” about Mohammed’s child bride Aisha. The book was part of a $100,000 two-book contract with the author.
Shame on Random House! This act of abject cowardice and de facto censorship is one of the most disgraceful incidents I can think of in the history of American publishing.
I hope Jones gets her novel published somewhere, even if it’s not very good. Mohammed’s pedophilia cannot be made taboo.
