September « 2005 « Sam's Thoughts

Murphy’s Law

I just spotted this on Sivacracy. Scroll down slowly through the sequence of photos.

Shrub doesn’t only dislike black people

Shrub actually actively disdain’s anyone who isn’t wealthy enough who bail him out of his business disasters or finance his political campaigns. Now in the wake of hurricane katrina he has suspended the prevailing wage laws in the affected areas. The purpose of these laws is to require government contrators to pay same wage as [...]

One Open house down one to go

We went to the open house at Sofia’s school last night and I was quite impressed. All her teachers seem very enthusiastic about teaching and their students. Three of her six classes are college prep. The biology teacher is actually a doctor of veterinary medicine and has practised on livestock (although I am not sure [...]

Shrub’s brain to lead NOLA rebuilding effort

Over on talking points memo Josh Marshall has an item about shrub assigning Karl Rove to assemble the team to determine how to rebuild New Orleans.

Priorities on display, from the Post …

Bush already has dispatched his top strategist, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and other aides to assemble ideas from [...]

Great idea from Dave Slusher

Listening to the Sept 11 edition of Evil Genius Chronicles this morning Dave had the following tag lines for haliburton:

Haliburton, We’re # 1 in the misery business

This show sponsered by Haliburton. If you’re fucked, we’ll make money on it

Dave Slusher, Sept 11 2005

Dave had a great suggestion for a protest on [...]

Bombs, gunmen kill over 150 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber lured a crowd of Shi’ite day laborers to his minivan and blew it up in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 114 people and wounding more than 156 in Iraq’s second deadliest bombing since the war began.

Is this what nearly 2000 american troops and countless 10s of thousands of Iraqi’s [...]

IT’S A BIG AD

I found this via Dave Slusher. It’s just so frea…king huge!!

Microsoft uses invalid code on website in order to make it work with IE

Here is another reason not to use Internet Explorer and better yet not to use any Micorsoft product. IE is so badly broken and not compliant with internet standards that MS has to use invalid html code to make pages look right in IE. This means that it won’t render properly in other browsers. In [...]

CapitolBuzz: Santorum Blames National Weather Service For Katrina

Rick Santorum should be confined to House Arrest in what was the ninth ward of New Orleans for the rest of his life. This evil scumbag earlier this year introduced a bill in the US Senate that would prohibit the National Weather Service from providing weather information free to the public if any private company [...]

Dvorak Uncensored » How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb?

I found this on John C. Dvorak’s blog. The only one I would question is #9. for that you would use the entire staff of Fox News.

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb?

The Answer is TEN…

1. One to deny that a light [...]