2003 – Page 40 – commonplacebook.com

Fraud, Enron, Bush!

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 6, 2003
Post category:Politics

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Number of Times Buffy Has Saved The World

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 5, 2003
Post category:Television

Six, according the USA Today. Actually, that’s only in season enders. She also saved the world in midseason, in episodes “Innocence”, “The Zeppo” and “Doomed”. And technically last season, it wasn’t Buffy that saved the world, but Xander, and Giles. So she’s saved in eight times, so far. I’m guessing number 9 is coming in the next couple of weeks.

Here’s a post for my older brother

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 5, 2003
Post category:Recently Read

Hog Heaven: Celebrating 100 Years of the Harley-Davidson. Brought to you by the Library of Congress, this retrospective explains how the modest “transport vehicle” became an American icon.

Deep Throat Uncovered

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 5, 2003
Post category:Current Events

The University of Illinois Department of Journalism has uncovered who they think is the mysterious informant who brought down the Nixon White House, after four years of intense research. Fascinating.

House Photos – almost there

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 2, 2003
Post category:House and Home

I’ve spent a massive amount of time reworking my house photos, ordering them by room and then chronologically since I moved in. The difference is worth the effort — it helps to see sections of the house seperately to follow along with different projects that I’ve worked on. And it really becomes apparent how much work I’ve done this way, which is cool.
I’m almost finished; just have to build the pages for the front and back yard and I’ll be done and ready to put them up. Unfortunately, I seem to have taken more photos of the front and back yards in the last year than any other part of the house, so working through those pages is going to take a bit of doing. But progress has been made. And now I have to pack up and meander home so I can go to the ball diamond and watch my girlfriend play softball.

America Sides with Anti-Female Thug Countries

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 1, 2003
Post category:Politics

U.S. Stands up in favor of rape, forced pregnancy, domestic violence.
“The American delegation joined with Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Libya and others in efforts to delete a phrase – included in previously agreed-upon UN statements dating back a decade – that calls on countries to condemn violence against women and “refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration” to avoid the obligation to stop the violence.
It joined objections to a passage about women in armed conflict, aligning itself with fundamentalist regimes in trying to change a reference to “forced pregnancy” – listed along with murder, rape, systematic rape and sexual slavery as by-products of war and societies emerging from conflict. The term “forced pregnancy” is seen by some anti-abortion groups as a pretext for promoting abortion.”

Canal Gondola Company

Post author:HFM
Post published:May 1, 2003
Post category:Indianapolis

The company that rents gondolas downtown on the canal. Ben & Company Boat Rental, Inc., 632-1824

If You’re Not A Terrorist, You Have Nothing to Worry About

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 30, 2003
Post category:Politics

“We helped ourselves to the buffet and then sat down to begin eating our dinner. I was just about to tell Asher how I’d eaten there before and how delicious the vegetable curry was, but I never got a chance. All of a sudden, there was a terrible commotion and five NYPD in bulletproof vests stormed down the stairs. They had their guns drawn and were pointing them indiscriminately at the restaurant staff and at us.”

So the moral of this story is, if you’re not a terrorist, and if you don’t eat in any Indian restaurants, you have nothing to worry about.

Who is Running Our Country?

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 30, 2003
Post category:Politics

Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride:

The retired general overseeing Iraq’s postwar reconstruction said on Wednesday that his fellow Americans should beat their chests with pride at having toppled Saddam Hussein (news – web sites) without destroying the country’s assets.

(Except for those crappy 5,000-year-old artifacts in the Iraqi National Museum. But who gives a shit about those as long as the oil wells are safe?)

Molly Ivins Hits The Nail On the Head

Post author:HFM
Post published:April 29, 2003
Post category:Politics

As always, Molly writes an excellent column, this time on one of my favorite subjects, the Mystery of the Disappearing Weapons of Mass Destruction. “In the weeks before Gulf War II, the United States told the world Saddam Hussein was hiding mobile chemical laboratories, drones fitted with poison sprays, 15 to 20 Scud missile launchers, 5,000 gallons of anthrax, several tons of VX nerve gas agent and between 100 tons and 500 tons of other toxins, including botulinum, mustard gas, ricin and sarin. Also, we said he had over 30,000 illegal munitions. So far, we have found bupkes.”