No posting for me until Sunday, most likely. It is 75 degrees, sunny, and I am about to go engage in a 2 day margarita spree. If you want to help me with bail money, I prefer the paypal method over the amazon honors…
Adios
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
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No posting for me until Sunday, most likely. It is 75 degrees, sunny, and I am about to go engage in a 2 day margarita spree. If you want to help me with bail money, I prefer the paypal method over the amazon honors…
Adios
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Is this the real cause for European Anti-Semitism?
“What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.”
Can you guess the Jew-basher? Pat Buchanan? Pat Robertson?
Nah. Hillary Clinton? Maybe, if Dick Morris can be trusted. It was actually Karl Marx, in an obscure 1843 booklet written in response to German theologian Bruno Bauer’s “The Jewish Question.” The booklet is best known by the wishful Moscow translation, “A World Without Jews.”
The author has his own excellent blog that you might want to check out. By the way Clay- I want on the damned enemies list. Snicker.
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What the hell do I have to do or say to get on the Warblogger Watch List? I am at least as blood thirsty as Jeff Jarvis..
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This should help you choose which computer you are going to buy:
The country’s fourth-largest computer maker is taking to the airwaves in a bid to rally consumers against a copyright-protection bill that would prevent computers from playing pirated movies and music.
Starting Wednesday night, computer maker Gateway Inc. will launch a radio and TV ad campaign urging consumers to visit its Web site to download free music and learn more about a copyright debate that so far has been dominated by Washington lobbyists and corporate lawyers.
The ad campaign underscores the furor over a bill introduced last month by South Carolina Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings that would prevent new computers, CD players and other consumer-electronics devices from playing unauthorized movies, music and other digital media files.
Let’s see. Dell hassles legal gun owners and federally authorized sellers of weapons, Gateway is spending their money promoting awareness of the horrible impact the Hollings Bill will have on consumers.
I am in the market for a new computer. My choice got much easier.
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Who volunteered for this study?
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Jacob Weisberg opens his large mouth and claims that this is a Bushism:
“It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber.”-Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002
Not to mention the fact that this daily Bushism is ridiculous in the sense that this is the only tired type of lame attack the loonies can mount against Bush- ‘Bush is stupid (therefore I am so much smarter for pointing it out), but the way I read it, it was a subtle swipe against the competence of the DEMOCRATIC controlled chamber. It is actually a double entendre. It could be read:
“It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber,” implying that it is the CHAMBER full of Democrats he does not trust, or it it is not too unreasonable to assume that he meant:
“It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber,” which would imply that he would rather shower in prison than clone anyone from the Senate.
Take your pick. Or, if you are a lazy, partisan, hack writer with nothing really to say, merely parse quotes looking for something to make you feel smug- like Weisberg.
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Is Ken Lay really broke, as his wife asserted on national televison a month ago? This was an interesting read on asset protection. Mind you, I am not a lawyer or financial planner, so I can not delve into the veracity of the claims.
In February 2000, Mother Jones has learned, the Lays paid about $4 million — an amount greater than Lay’s entire salary from Enron that year — to buy variable annuities that will, starting in 2007, guarantee the couple an annual income of about $900,000. While stocks and most other ordinary investments are open to attack by creditors, life insurance policies and annuities are protected in many states. Variable annuities of the sort purchased by the Lays are basically tax-deferred investments wrapped in insurance policies.