Liz Cheney gets it:
We are at war. America faces an existential threat. This is not, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed, a "situation to be solved." It would be nice if we could wake up tomorrow and say, as Sen. Barack Obama suggested at a Jan. 11 hearing, "Enough is enough." Wishing doesn't make it so.Go ye and read it all, for it is good.
I was enjoying the view at Gallery of the Absurd and somehow ended up at Fresh Spam, which has great illustrations of spam names and subjects.
Spam names? Sure. Here's a selection from my own inbox:
Ladyda Jessica
Dorita Crow
Minnie Sadler
Rajan Eileif
Kobi Levi
I used to see authors like "Wrestling B. Dangler" but maybe my ISP is filtering those now.
Anyhow, after the Fresh Spam site I hopped over to this post at Birdmonster, where a bunch of kind folks are sharing the spam names in their inboxes.
Naturally, you would follow stock advice from Grinchmas Gashy, right? lol
You can make your own names with the Spamfriend Generator.
At Fox News:
Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.Previous:[...] Khetani [the owner] on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down.
In a move that will thrill gun-control advocates, the Tijuana police are now armed with slingshots.
We heard from a student yesterday (Monday 1-22-07) that two students were arrested at Bogalusa Middle School with weapons.
Can anyone confirm?
Apologies to my readers.
Tried to make the blog classier and add more ads. And I totally screwed up the format.
Par for the course. I think we're back on track now.
Thanks for your patience :-)!
Via Gulf Coast Pundit:
Wisconsin Mat Company Gives US Troops the Finger
Sgt. Hess, who is from the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq, emailed a company called discount-mats.com, an online retailer in West Allis, Wisconsin to inquire about ordering some mats but wanted to verify that they would ship to a APO.
From: SGT Jason Hess
Sent: Tue Jan 16 3:25
Do you ship to APO address? I’m in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for who ships to APO first.
Well, you wouldn’t believe the disgusting reply he received back from the company:
From: contact@discount-mats.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Feedback: from discount-mats.com
SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com
In today's issue, this headline:
Textbook selection processes has many hurdles [emphasis mine]I sure hope the people reading and reviewing our children's potential future school books are a bit more learned than whoever wrote that headline.
I was lurking in a Usenet group and ran into a link for this Time magazine article [excerpt]:
A little over a year ago, 10 friends got together in San Francisco over a potluck dinner. There were a few teachers, a technology marketer, an engineer, a dog handler. What would it be like, they wondered amid the Christmas shopfest, if they all pledged not to buy anything new except food, medicine and essential toiletries for a year? Thus was born a movement that they named, in a light-hearted way, after the 1621 Mayflower Compact. "We are a group of individuals committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid," they wrote in a chat-room manifesto that lists their aims as going "beyond recycling," reducing clutter in their homes and simplifying their lives: "Borrow, barter or buy used."Here's the San Francisco blog.
