May « 2006 « Sam's Thoughts

The Monkeys

Jules sent me this link to an excellent video that sums up the real differences between humans and other animals. It’s entertaining but makes some really good points about humans vs other homonids.

Predictions of the obvious

Pat Robertson has been talking about the revelations that god has been giving him again. This time on his 700 club show. Evidently the big guy told him that storms and a possible tsunami will lash American cosatlines this year! It took a revelation from god to figure this out?! Give me a break. This [...]

Antique Forest?

I was driving in to work this morning taking yet another alternate route when I spotted one of those really ridiculous things that real estate developers do. On Ford Rd in Canton is yet another one of those cookie cutter non-descript McMansion subdivisions. You know the ones where the builder goes in and clears all [...]

Bush authorizes companies to lie

I Just found this via Atrios. Last week USA Today published a story stating that phone companies AT&T, BellSouth, and Verizon helped the National Security Agency violate the law by turning over millions of of their customers calling records without any subpoenas. In case you are unaware, the CIA and NSA are both expressly forbidden [...]

Free video for small devices

I recently replaced my Motorola V710 cell phone with a palm Treo 650 smart-phone. The phone came free as a result of a class action settlement with verizon wireless. The timing worked out great because although the v710 worked great for me as a phone, the batteries in both the phone and my palm tungsten [...]

Browser stats

Checking my blog stats today I see some interesting trends. Since the beginning of this year I have had the following number of hits from various browsers:

3954 Mozilla Firefox 2814 Internet Explorer 6 462 Apple Safari 439 Mozilla 59 Netscape 4 47 Netscape 3 41 Internet Explorer 5.5 32 Internet Explorer 5 15 Opera [...]

Filmstrip on Despotism

An anonymous commenter over on Ypsidixit.com pointed me to a very disturbing film strip from Encyclopedia Britannica Films. You should definitely go watch this. It is a short educational film from 1946 that warns of the dangers of creeping despotism. This film was created in the wake of world war 2. There are some very [...]

Christian Fascists

Henceforth I will always refer to so-called “christian conservatives” as Christian Fascists. According to dictionary.com :

fas·cism Audio pronunciation of “fascism” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fshzm) n.

1. often Fascism 1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and [...]

Ford shareholders uphold equal rights

Ford Motor company has long been a leader in promoting equal rights for all their workers including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. They have explicit anti-discrimination policies that include GLBT employees. They provide domestic partner benefits to all employees regardless of gender. For some time christian fascists (no I will no longer refer to [...]

America is on the verge of a fascist dictatorship.

Between 1939 and 1945 tens of millions of people around the world died in a battle against fascist dictatorships led by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hideki Tojo. In the wake of the war the victors conducted the first war crimes trials in history. The people responsible for the carnage were imprisoned and some were [...]