Number of comments: 1 Luigi: How many men you got here, Colonel?Colonel: Oh, er ... seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and er, two divisions of paratroops.Luigi: Paratroops, Dino.Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.-Monty PythonThere's a bright spot so far in Oregon's congressmen. Democrat representative Pete DeFazio doesn't' [...]
Number of comments: 2 “It wasn’t even in my wildest dreams to be in a place like this.”Auschwitz was made infamous by its cruel lying entry with a sign promising freedom for hard work. Arbeit Macht Frei became a world famous slogan in wrought iron, and now it appears someone has stolen the sign. [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."-Douglas Adams [...]
Number of comments: 1 “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.”-Hugo ChavezBy now the fact that the Copenhagen alarmist festival is nothing more [...]
Number of comments: 3 "What kind of engine you got in that rig?"There's a couple of shows on the Speed channel which you might want to watch, if you're a guy or like cars. The first is called Pass Time, and its a game show. The concept is very simple, they pick three people' [...]
Number of comments: 0 "I don't think anyone's ears have ever been damaged by this."Ever notice that your TV gets louder during commercials? I know, supposedly that's illegal but we all know its true, don't we? Some channels are worse than others, and some shows are so quiet that the ads blow your eardrums [...]
Number of comments: 1 “Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.”-Denis LearyOne thing I've long known but have had little proof I could point to on the internet is that Europe, indeed most of the world, is far more intolerant and [...]
Number of comments: 0 "In the face of effects like these, clear evidence that only reckless fools would ignore, I feel a sense of frustration at the lack of agreement so far."-Al GoreFormer vice president Gore has been sticking his foot in his mouth more and more these days. If he's not claiming the [...]
Number of comments: 0 "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."-John Adams [...]
Number of comments: 0 Maybe she loves volcanoes tooI'll just have to take a guessShe looks like a little volcanoWith her red hair and brown dress-The Dead Milkmen, Born To Love VolcanoesJust some breaking news: a volcano in the Philippines is erupting, prompting mass evacuations. The mountain is called Mayon and it is erupting' [...]
Number of comments: 0 "“If a situation warrants it, we ask for outside safety evaluations if we have particular concerns about a child’s safety. We followed all the protocols in our system.”"The safe schools Czar of the Obama administration was put into place ostensibly to try to find ways to reduce violence and shootings [...]
Number of comments: 0 "ice, ice, baby"Al Gore made another prediction at the Copenhagen alarmist summit. This time he declared confidently that the arctic ice was melting away and may be entirely gone in five years. In a sneering, dismissive response to Sarah Palin, Gore also said:"The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing" [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."-Sidney J. Harris [...]
Number of comments: 4 "A laugh riot!"There's another spoof movie coming out. This one is called The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It. Aside from having the worst title since The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, this is yet another in a [...]
Number of comments: 1 "Blame John Dewey, patron saint of the teachers' union, who insisted that the purpose of public schools was socialize, not educate, and said that teachers must never treat bright pupils as if they are in any way superior to other students."I was a "gifted student." I skipped a grade, I' [...]
Number of comments: 0 "This left-wing activist Judge is setting a dangerous precedent that left-wing political organizations plagued by criminal accusations have a constitutional entitlement to taxpayer dollars"Darrell Issa (R-CA)A few weeks back in my Word Around the Net Friday news wrap up I mentioned that ACORN was suing congress for shutting off their [...]
Number of comments: 0 The one area that's always good to be in during a recession is working for the government.Number of jobs officially lost in the last 18 months: 7.3 millionAverage US federal government worker salary: $71,206Percentage of federal employees making $100,000* or more: 19%Percentage of federal employees making that much before the [...]
Number of comments: 0 "I think the TARP funds are appropriately used to create jobs to reduce the deficit."-Nancy PelosiThis is a bit old but I wanted to bring it to peoples' attention as it is timely. The ocean's ability to absorb and release CO2 is a phenomenon oceanologists have known about and are' [...]
Number of comments: 1 "If everyone ditched their pre-work coffee fix that would do wonders for the planet."Tim Blair recently wrote about Dr Dave Reay who the Scotsman proclaims a world-renowned expert on carbon emissions (first I've heard of him at least). Reay declared that people were killing the planet with their coffee, according' [...]
Number of comments: 1 "There's a sense that we have an old way of defining participating in the arts and that the public is redefining what participation means"Although the numbers look impressive, Hollywood continues to be concerned about the drop in movie attendance. As I noted in my Box Office post a while back, [...]
Number of comments: 0 "I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence."-President ObamaJackie Robinson was the first recognized black man to play in professional baseball. While there were some men who were at least as black as President Obama who played before him, the league pretended they were something else, usually indians. [...]
Number of comments: 0 "You can blame Hollywood’s doom and gloom on the Oscars, but I’m not going to. Instead, I think it’s George W. Bush’s fault."-Ramin Setoodeh, Newsweek entertainment writer [...]
Number of comments: 0 Well its the right season for it but I have a full blown cold. Sniffles, sneezing, achey, weak, weary, all that stuff. People tell me that's actually the flu, but I always thought that meant sick to my stomach, vomiting, weak and shaky with a high fever. Who knows.Times like [...]
Number of comments: 0 "If part of a data set is contaminated, all of the data is suspect."John Hawkins wrote a column at Town Hall recently, pointing out four huge holes in the human-caused global warming (AGW) hypothesis out of many others. Its a pretty good basic look at the problems, but what really [...]
Number of comments: 0 The temptation, then, is to dismiss the whole thing as a ridiculous circus.”Its 21 degrees Fahrenheit outside as I write this. That's unusually cold for this part of Oregon, normally this time of year we have drizzling rain and around 40 degrees. The Willamette Valley is pretty well protected by [...]
Number of comments: 0 “To win we must not just generate understanding, but emotion—fear, revulsion, anger, disgust.”-Robert Creamer, Democrat strategist [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Our work is far from done."Now that we know the "stimulus" package failed in its mission of slowing employment and stimulating the economy - what little government spending did actually cause temporary growth came from the TARP funds in the Cash for Clunkers program - the Obama administration has announced [...]
Number of comments: 0 Just a few hours ago, several bombs went off in Baghdad, killing at least a hundred. There were five total bombs set off, including at least one suicide bomber in a police patrol car. In other words, things are not completely safe and calm in the country. Sadly, Muslim terrorists [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Men of unknown origin and religion implicated in militant plot"Back in October I wrote about David Headley, the Chicago resident who was planning terrorist attacks on Denmark to punish a newspaper for publishing the Muhammad cartoons, among other targets. The AP report of course neglected to mention his religion, but [...]
Number of comments: 0 "It doesn’t change anything in the IPCC’s conclusions"The United Nations has likened Warmaquiddick to Watergate. Wait, don't nod your head yet. They don't mean "there's a huge coverup and a conspiracy here to edit data and keep facts from the public and people in charge." No, they mean it in [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Its for the children!"There was a court case in Canada not too long ago in which a man was found not guilty of attempting to lure a child for sex. He was chatting on the internet with a 12 year old girl while 32 at the time and engaged in [...]
Number of comments: 0 “Doing nothing is the worst thing we could do!”-Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI)In the fall of last year we were told that the TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) bill had to pass or there would be complete economic disaster. That without these bailouts, financial companies that were "too big to fail" [...]
Number of comments: 0 There is more good news on the economic front, with unemployment dropping .2% to 10% in October. While typically employment drives upward this time of year as retailers hire on more help for Christmas shopping, I'll take any good news I can get when it comes to this recession. Let's [...]
Number of comments: 0 “If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None."-Mark Steyn" [...]
Number of comments: 0 "at least, unlike Michael Mann, I can claim to have shown my working out."In an interesting comparison between net interest and legacy media coverage, Richard North creates the Tiger Woods index - destined to internet fame, I suspect.How does it work? Well he does a search on the internet and [...]
Number of comments: 0 White House spokesman Gibbs made a bold and daring statement, putting his reputation and career on the line, by insisting that "climate change is happening." He assured reporters that all the scientists agreed with him on this. And anyone who looks out a window.Whether that climate change is progressive, catastrophic [...]
Number of comments: 0 "As someone who once worked in TV, handing ANYTHING over to the sale staff is a path to destruction."Newspapers are struggling to stay open, and among the various strategies (smaller papers, fewer workers, less color, etc) is to try to focus more on advertising and marketing instead of just news.Several [...]
Number of comments: 0 "So how many times have we been flooded out after all those years of melting ice caps again?"Tom Blumer is fascinated at Pajamas Media how the legacy media in the US is studiously avoiding three huge stories:GM restructured, losing billions of dollars and flushing taxpayer money awayHomelessness is on the [...]
Number of comments: 0 "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."-Laurence J. Peter' [...]
Number of comments: 1 "Remind me again why we're there?"-A leftist commenterConsider Cindy Sheehan. The woman has turned her grief at the loss of her son into an industry, and during the Bush administration she was a media darling. Once Democrat Barack Obama became president, however, the media turned against her.Still, she keeps up' [...]
Number of comments: 0 When Black Friday comesI'll stand down by the doorAnd catch the grey men when theyDive from the fourteenth floor-Steely Dan, Black FridayThis is my fourth November blogging on Word Around the Net. For three of those previous Novembers I've written about the day, and each time its been about coverage [...]
