Canal Gondola Company
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
“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?
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
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.”
Feminism 201: The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), affirming the equal application of the U.S. Constitution to both females and males, is still not a part of the U. S. Constitution. The ERA has been ratified by 35 of the necessary 38 states. When three more states vote yes, the ERA might become the 28th Amendment.
The ERA was written in 1923 by Alice Paul, suffragist leader and founder of the National Woman’s Party.” She and the NWP considered the ERA to be the next necessary step after the 19th Amendment (Woman Suffrage) in guaranteeing “equal justice under law” to all citizens.”
The ERA was introduced into every session of Congress between 1923 and 1972, when it was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The seven-year time limit in the ERA’s proposing clause was extended by Congress to June 30, 1982, but at the deadline, the ERA had been ratified by 35 states , leaving it three states short of the 38 required for ratification. It has been reintroduced into every Congress since that time.
The 15 states that have not ratified the ERA are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.
Political Compass 2003
For about the third time in the last month I’ve been called a lefty, and I’m getting pretty shitty about it. Actually, I think the most recent quote was “It would be hard for any man to be to the left of your political views.” To which I replied: “either you don’t know shit about politics or you don’t know shit about my political views, one of the two.” So if you’re really interested in finding out where I am, and where you are in comparison to me, take the political compass quiz.
Then check out where you are on the grid, compared to me. As you can see, it isn’t hard for anyone to be to the left of my political views. Gandhi is, for one.
Santorum is an idiot, part 2
Read the full remarks he made to the Associated Press here. They are more shocking than the edited quotes that appeared elsewhere. This man should not be in a leadership position in a political party.
White House holds meeting seeking ways to punish France
One of the proposed ways it wants to do that is to lessen it’s power in NATO, among other things. Apparently, our attempts to control and manipulate sovereign nations that have their own governments doesn’t just extend to the Middle East. Are we invading France, next? Seriously, the words “Drunk With Power” don’t even begin to describe the arrogance of this. I’m buying a French flag. When are we impeaching this dumbass?
Where to Get News
I just remembered that over Easter one of my brothers said something about me always reading “liberal websites” when we were talking about where I read the news. Google News is what I generally read. It’s a news aggregate that pulls stories from various sources, and will post numerous links to the same story in different publications. This isn’t Mother Jones, kids. Not that I don’t read Mother Jones, but that’s not where I get all my news.
And on the homefront…
I should take some time out from all the ranting and raving to note that Dru, my new cat, came out from under the bed last night, played around in the room, jumped up on the bed, and came over to be petted, all without any coaxing from me. Apparently she’s realized I know where the canned food is and how to get it. 🙂 She’s the cutest thing. With the exception of climbing on the curtains, that is.
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