“Stop, or I’ll say stop again!” It’s about time that Yasser Arafat took some decisive action made a feeble quote.
W is kicking off a physical fitness initiative for Americans. I don’t have anything bad to say about that, except that he sure looks unfit in the picture CNN used. Of course, I’m not one to talk, but I’m dispensing the insults here, not absorbing them. :-p
High school senior Masha Malikina was paralyzed from the waist down three years ago in a car accident. Her goal was to be able to to walk across the stage at her graduation. Amazingly, she recovered enough to be able to walk with the aid of a walker. However, her principal dashed her hopes, claiming that he was unwilling to risk the liabilities associated with her possibly injuring herself. Thankfully, a local radio station stepped in and staged a ceremony just for Masha, where she was able to walk across the stage and accept her diploma in front of a cheering audience. And as for that prinicipal, what a shyster.
Someone’s losing their pilots license. OK, maybe not, as it isn’t as bad as it initially sounded. The White House was evacuated yesterday briefly because a single-engine Cessna strayed into restricted airspace above Washington.
Donald Rumsfeld is a big whiner. In order to avoid conflicts of interest in his government position, he sold off up to $91 million dollars in assets. The man is obviously worth quite a lot of money, but is now complaining about the complexity of the disclosure forms and the $60,000 in fees he paid to have accountants prepare them for him. We should all have such problems.
There’s more damning evidence in the Colorado forest ranger saga. It now appears that they don’t even believe her (flimsy) story about burning a letter, alleging that she deliberately set the fire and created what appeared to be an abandoned campfire to cover her tracks. There’s a special place in Hell for her if this is true, especially considering all of the people whose lives were destroyed and all of the people who lost their lives flighting these blazes.
W is a moron, no matter what his spin doctors try to say. I really doubt that the man who cheerfully (and smarmily, I might add) admits to being a non-elitist C student discussed the Nicomachean Ethics of Tocqueville with a colleague. To wit: among the countless intellectual blunders, faux pas, and outright mistakes that W makes, this is the deep insight he had on immigration last week, “We need to know who’s coming in and why they’re not going out.” As the story suggests, maybe it was actually Nickelodeon Ethics that he discussed. :-p
Get free popcorn chicken at KFC tomorrow from 11-2. Mmmm… popcorn chicken.
Score one more for the bad guys: RIAA has settled its copyright suit with AudioGalaxy. After the demise of Napster, AudioGalaxy was one of the better peer-to-peer (P2P) music sharing sites. Unfortunately, they succumbed to the demands of RIAA, and after a while blocked more songs than they offered for download. This settlement further cripples their selection, as they can now only feature songs that are explicitly offered by the music publishers, songwriters, or music labels. So basically you’re not going to find anything you want at AudioGalaxy anytime soon.
My current favorite P2P service is Kazaa Lite, a version of the popular Kazaa service that has all of the spyware and advertising removed. I have yet to not find a song there, and you can also download videos and images, although I haven’t really delved into that much yet. Try it; you’ll like it! Their download site is a little slow lately, but it’s worth the wait.
And now for the Feel Good Story Of The Day: Seal saves drowning dog. No, not a Navy SEAL, a seal. OK, everybody at once now: “Awww, how cute…”
