Mike's Blog Round Up
I took pen in hand and, fully caffeinated, was all ready to write something profound and challenging, but I'd filled up the very last page in my Journal with affirming thoughts about the happy, happy day when Ann Althouse actually returns my calls, dammit, even though I wrote really small, and my downstairs copy of The Purpose Driven Life came right to hand, so I took it down and opened it (nice big print).... And thought up some truly merveilleux snark, but the margins were too narrow to contain it. So I didn't actually write anything down. Maybe tomorrow.
I wish I'd said this, but Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes got there first:
[In Mother Knight, Vonnegut has] a beautiful image about how the fascist mind works even in the face of insurmountable logical contradictions. It's like the gears of a cuckoo clock with a couple of teeth filed away on purpose. The clock simply skips that tooth and the gear slips effortlessly into the next groove.
And I wish I'd said this: "When your team is the biggest loser in a generation... It's the little things that make you happy."
These: 1) "Reason 101 why Kirk is better than Picard:"; 2) "Managed to freecycle a wicker kitty bed, the hanging gun rack we had no more room for (and was too small for our collection anyways) and my old 3 person dome tent."; and 3) "To my surprise, the entire issue was devoted to primate foraging strategies."
Or this helpful suggestion to round out botulism-merchandiser Wal-Mart's new line of Christianist toys:
Lot's Wife Salt Doll: Fun to play with...and to lick! Pull the string on her back and Boston's "Don't Look Back" plays.
Or this: "So, for the record, 'spanking guru James Dobson' will now be referred to here as 'wife-beating apologist James Dobson'." Oh heck, this too: "I don't understand this sign Mitt Romney is waving. MOMA isn't in Chelsea, it's in Midtown, so ... What? Oh."
And finally this: "Shows what you can do if you do not give in to bitterness."
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Here are my top stories today from around the internet:
National Intelligence Director Claims Bush admin Politicized Iraq Intel
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=1bb4e8a6-a122-4c89-...
The Role of The Internet In Presidential Elections
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=8e908690-6d4c-4631-...
U.S. Not Ruling Out A Strike on Pakistan
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=4da97c7a-2c59-4d5c-...
Michael Moore Visits Colbert Report
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=2f48258b-9e95-4e88-...
President Bush is a MORON
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=55115748-99de-48f8-...
Why would anybody in their right mind want to talk to Ann Althouse?
How bout a new twist on "doing the job Americans don't want to do."
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 by Reuters
WASHINGTON - Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested on Monday after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker’s office and adjoining hallway, authorities said.
Before police escorted her away, Sheehan, who emerged as a leading peace activist after her son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, announced what she had earlier suggested — that she would be a candidate for Congress next year.
HOLY HANNA! You linked to my blog! This is better than CHRISTMAS!
Thanks, by the way.
Rusty: What, you don't have a poster of bikini-clad Ann Althouse on the wall of your basement apartment? What's wrong with you?
LA Confidential: Be sure to spread the word to the "long tail" blogs... That's what the links up there are for! (Besides giving you the chance to read some excellent and not-very-welk-known writing.)
HE WAS FOR IT BEFORE HE WAS AGAINST IT
Bush Set To Veto HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill Due To
Provision To Remove Mercury From Infant Vaccines
21 Jul 2007 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/77363.php
According to the Congressional Quarterly, the White House stated on Tuesday that President Bush would veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and "objectionable provisions" such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.
Autism advocacy groups are outraged because President Bush stated in a questionnaire during his 2004 campaign: "I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded."
But since 2005, President Bush has steadfastly refused to issue an Executive Order banning high amounts of mercury in vaccines that would protect children and pregnant women despite repeated requests from the autism community that he uphold his campaign promise. Under his current administration, mercury has been and will continue to be knowingly injected into the youngest of American citizens. The controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal has been linked by thousands of parents as being the cause of their children's mercury poisoning and autism.
The flu vaccine which continues to be manufactured with mercury is recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite the fact that the Institute of Medicine in 2001 recommended against the policy of exposing these same sensitive groups to thimerosal containing vaccines. According to the EPA, one in every six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to environmental exposures alone. "Injecting even more mercury into the bodies of pregnant women, infants and children when it is not a necessary component of vaccines is just bad medicine," said Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds and parent of a mercury-injured child. "It defies logic that a flu vaccine must be disposed of as a hazardous waste if it is not used, but somehow injecting the same mercury-containing vaccine into a baby is safe."
Re: Wal-Mart religious toys
Actually, most large chain bookstores already sell these.
HE WAS FOR IT BEFORE HE WAS AGAINST IT
Bush Set To Veto HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill Due To
Provision To Remove Mercury From Infant Vaccines
21 Jul 2007 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/77363.php
According to the Congressional Quarterly, the White House stated on Tuesday that President Bush would veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and "objectionable provisions" such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.
Autism advocacy groups are outraged because President Bush stated in a questionnaire during his 2004 campaign: "I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded."
But since 2005, President Bush has steadfastly refused to issue an Executive Order banning high amounts of mercury in vaccines that would protect children and pregnant women despite repeated requests from the autism community that he uphold his campaign promise. Under his current administration, mercury has been and will continue to be knowingly injected into the youngest of American citizens. The controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal has been linked by thousands of parents as being the cause of their children's mercury poisoning and autism.
The flu vaccine which continues to be manufactured with mercury is recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite the fact that the Institute of Medicine in 2001 recommended against the policy of exposing these same sensitive groups to thimerosal containing vaccines. According to the EPA, one in every six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to environmental exposures alone. "Injecting even more mercury into the bodies of pregnant women, infants and children when it is not a necessary component of vaccines is just bad medicine," said Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds and parent of a mercury-injured child. "It defies logic that a flu vaccine must be disposed of as a hazardous waste if it is not used, but somehow injecting the same mercury-containing vaccine into a baby is safe."
Bush's new solution on how to "surge" the troops in Iraq.
lambert strether @ 5:
Yeah, but I don't want it to talk.
Bush's latest "surge" of troops to Iraq.
JM Bell: You're welcome. I asked for recommendations of "Undiscovered" blogs, and your name came up, so...
Nice to hear the hamsters turning the wheels that power the Intertubes, what?
lambert strether @ 5:
It's about . . . . .Lohan Busted For DUI Again
The Great American Obsession
Rusty @ 7:
I feel that Ann--if I may call her Ann--indeed talks to me. In a deeply spiritual sense.
baby jesus knows how the facist mind works as like the authoritarian mind described by John Deans book,
baby jesus recommends the work of Ernest Becker to really understand the fascist, the republican and evil
also recommended to understand how the little humans can work opposite of irrefutable logic see the movie
Flight from Death. baby jesus....over and out.
This is faaaantastic. Wheee! Thanks very much for the mention! May heaven rain sweetmeats upon you! And since I'm asking for things, how 'bout a new set of tires for a '95 Saturn, God?
Kurt Vonnegut makes all things possible! (Yay!)
HJ
Oh, yeah. Love the Ambassadors reference!
HJ
WWJI -- Who would Jesus impeach?
Rusty Shackleford @ 2:
Hoping to get laid?
Hoping to meet Ann Coulter and get laid?
Hoping to meet Michele Malkin and knowing you're gonna get laid?
Blue Buddha @ 7:
Hmmm...are they selling the Delilah, male castration and haircut kits yet?
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Assholes!
Did anyone see Barack Obama responding to more CNN/YouTube debate questions online? It's on his blog at News Groper.
Don't forget little Dachshund-beating Dobson.
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MN USA @ 23:
He'll still make it to heaven. You only get damned if you beat your rooster.
Picard and Ryker: Make it so.
I against spanking kids. Make them wait until their grown and have to pay professional women too!
I'm
Ooooooooooh sex is bad, mmmmmmkay?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fox_guest_Sex_Ed_teaches_kids_0723.html
Live all you can, Bing. It's a mistake not to.
Me @ 6:
You mean that Bush is actually doing something reasonable for a change? Why don't we ban hydrogen from water next, since hydrogen is highly flammable?
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