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Friday, April 25, 2003
President Bush wants harming a fetus to be a federal crime. What kind of sense does that make? Criminal law is a state matter. Murder is a state offense. Assault is a state offense. Theft is a state offense. So what in the blue blazes is he talking about making "harming a fetus" a federal crime for?
First, it's because he has absolutely no idea what the difference between state and federal jurisdiction is, except that it has to do with people trying to keep him from getting his faultless enlightened presidential way. Second, he's trying to get a better legal basis for outlawing abortion. After all, what is abortion if not harming a fetus? What an ass.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 8:39 PM
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"Some in Congress say the plan is too big. Well, it seems like to me they might have some explaining to do. If they agree that tax relief creates jobs, then why are they for a little bitty tax relief package?" -George W. Bush in Ohio, again showing off his brilliant gift for oratory while stumping for his tax package in Voinovich country. The Senator, possibly using his time for something less stupid, didn't even bother to show up.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 3:03 PM
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American Airlines, what a bunch of dicks. While they're squeezing their unions for $1.8 billion in wage cuts to keep themselves out of bankruptcy, they're looting the treasury to make sure that when the ship goes down, the captains can sail away on a well-appointed lifeboat. Well, at least the board fired bandit #1, CEO Don Carty. May have kept themselves out of bankruptcy for a while by doing it too - the unions were likely to walk out on their contracts if Carty stayed on. Still, they only gave back part of the money they earmarked for themselves - I have absolutely no doubt who the AMR board is looking out for. Just more corporate crooks.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 2:56 PM
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Thursday, April 24, 2003
Meanwhile, North Korea has nuclear weapons and we've broken off talks with them... again. Yep, we've got our priorities straight. Let's invade Turkmenistan! Woooooo!!
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 4:17 PM
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BBC Director Greg Dyke has gone off on the American news media, especially FOX News, for the "gung-ho patriotism" of its Iraq coverage. I wonder how long before we start discussing the "consequences" of England's presuming to question us, like we're doing with France.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 4:15 PM
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003
So you've heard about Rick Santorum's happy little tirade, right? The one where he says that if God forbid the Supreme Court didn't uphold a Texas anti-sodomy law, that it was right there legalizing polygamy and incest, and goes on and on and on about how homosexuality is just an affront to all that civilization holds dear? The NY Times points out a few of the especially juicy parts here. One of my favorite segments: "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy... Then you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." Note he didn't even actually say consensual gay sex. Freudian slip? He's really against all unmarried sex? Who knows. Anyway, I always considered Santorum to be one of those Senators who never really did anything and you could safely ignore, but maybe I ought to keep an eye on him...
It took forever, but a finally found an unabridged transcript of at least part of the interview here, courtesy of the Kansas City Star.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 12:07 AM
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003
So Newt Gingrich is calling the Powell State Department a disaster. Now, while I completely disagree and think Colin Powell is probably the only reason we haven't gone to war with everybody up to and including Estonia by now, my main response is this: Since when does Newt Gingrich get to call anybody a failure?
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 11:47 PM
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As if we needed it, there is now even more proof that PETA is really stupid. They just offered $15,000 (in veggie burgers - seriously) to the town of Hamburg, NY, to change its name to Veggieburg. Said Hamburg Supervisor Patrick Hoak: "With all due respect, I think it's a delicacy in our community," he said about hamburgers. "We're proud of our name and proud of our heritage." This comes after a failed 1996 attempt to get Fishkill, NY to change its name to Fishsave. Fishkill is Dutch. It means "Fish Stream".
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 4:15 PM
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Sunday, April 20, 2003
So here's a question: what's this blog for? It's not a compendium of all the news of the day. Google News is much more efficient at that than I'd ever be. It's not a diary. Honestly, I don't really want the world to know my deepest and innermost thoughts and feelings. I'm not updating it constantly with my reactions to everything I see or hear or read. It's not a manifesto. So what is it? Well, I think I have the answer: it's whatever the heck I feel like it being at any given time. Hey, nobody's being forced to go here. If what I'm writing is interesting, then people will read it. If it's not, they won't. I'm just writing this thing because I enjoy it, and I'm writing about things I think are interesting. Those things include Reebok commercials, national politics, and demented animation. If you don't think those topics belong together on the same page, there are plenty of other pages out there to choose from. Or you could read a book. I suggest Dave barry.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 11:06 PM
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