PSoTD

I know it's all in jest, but I can't help it, I must be an old fogie now. I just can't get on board with any request that ends with ", bitches!". It's a big turnoff to me.

I guess nothing else is working for them.

McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said Saturday that an Obama presidency combined with Democratic control of Congress would lead to bigger government.

“Now they do this in other countries where the people are not free -- government as part of the family, taking care of us, making decisions for us,” she said during a rally in Sioux City, Iowa. “I don’t know what to think of having in my family Uncle Barney Frank or others to make decisions for me.”

Philadelphia Flyers still winless since Mooselina dropped the puck for their opening game.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Several lineup changes couldn't help the Flyers find their way in San Jose last night.

The Flyers, despite two goals from Danny Briere, blew a 3-1 lead and dropped a 5-4 overtime decision to the San Jose Sharks before a sellout crowd of 17,496 at the HP Pavilion.

In the overtime, Dan Boyle scored from in close with 1:25 gone as the Sharks improved to 5-1.

The Flyers remain winless (0-3-2). They played with more vigor than during Thursday's 5-2 loss against Colorado. But they were also outshot, 45-17, by the Sharks, who played the night before in Anaheim.

First Dude Todd Palin and Republican senator Norm Coleman at a rally in Minnesota.

Memo to the Right Wing Wacko Concern Trolls for Joe the Plumber!

Halsey Frost has owned his own company "Frostworks",since this marriage announcement in the NY Times in 1992 so he chooses to not give himself insurance. He also employed his wife as "bookkeeper and operations management" prior to her recent 2007 hire at the "medical publishing firm". As her employer, he apparently denied her health insurance as well.

His company, Frostworks, is located at 3701 E BALTIMORE ST. A building that was purchased for $160,000 in 1999. The buildings owner is listed as DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN CENTER, LLC whose mailing address is listed as 104 S Collington Ave which is the Frost's home. The commercial property he owns is also listed as the business address for another company called Reillys Designs which leads to the question of whether rental income is included in the above mentioned salary total

The current market value of their improved 3,040 SF home at 104 S Collington Ave is unknown but 113 S COLLINGTON AVE, also an end unit, sold for $485,000 this past March and it was only 2,060 SF. A photo taken in the family's kitchen shows what appears to be a recent remodeling job with granite counter tops and glass front cabinets

I sure gotta admire your respect for a citizen's privacy.

And now it's time for another episode of the right wing wackos favorite gameshow .... The Guilt By Association Game!

Today's password is "David Ifshin".

Ifshin, you see, had been a vehement anti-Vietnam radical. He had even gone to Hanoi at the height at the war and given a speech denouncing the American pilots dropping bombs on North Vietnamese civilians as “war criminals.” The speech was broadcast repeatedly in the Hanoi Hilton, where McCain was being held captive. More than a few people thought Ifshin was guilty of treason.

Ooohh ... scary bad evil America hater commie!! Kill him!! Kill him!!!

Well actually, he's already dead. But wonder whose close friend he was?

Banished from Right Wing Crazy World!

So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to say it’s a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me.

While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.

So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.

Either I didn't know or didn't remember...

Those who like to honor Columbus would have us believe that bringing up the darker side of the explorer is an attempt to blow the man's memory off course.

But these facts of genocide and land theft are not part of a revisionist, false history. In his own words spelled, out in his personal diary, Columbus acknowledged his scheme to subjugate the Taino Indians: "I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I pleased."

Columbus' men rounded up 1,500 people and selected 500 as slaves to be shipped off to Spain. Two hundred died en route. This did not deter Columbus, who, according to historian Howard Zinn, later wrote: "Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."

Some defenders of Columbus fall back on the rationale that he was just a man of his time, with the prejudices that prevailed. But one of Columbus' own contemporaries, Bartoleme de las Casas, a Spanish colonist turned priest, spent his last years trying to wash the indigenous blood from his hands by calling for an end to the slave trade.

John McCain is going to find out this country is better than he thinks it is. I hope.

Here's a game that you can spend quite a bit of time trying to master.

And then, sometimes, never get around to it. Here's a bit of catchup:

Anyone out there use MailList King? I've had this saved for over a year for a client that was curious but eventually decided not to run their email list through their own servers. I'm still curious.

Quantcast has an interesting review based on traffic of the top visited sites on the Web.

One more web-based question - anyone have any experience using Blue Archer?

I have three or four "newspapers of the world" web sites bookmarked, but haven't settled on one yet as a favorite. Maybe onlinenewspapers.com.

Sometimes Google Trends tells you more than you want to know about the depth of the online public. Spanx underwear?

At some point I was planning to write about The Livermore Earthquake of 1980, since I experienced it and it was quite a sensory experience, but I haven't gotten around to it and not sure I will, other than to say that it scared the hell out of my Grandma.

I dunno, could it be The Naked Clown Calendar?