Posted on August 17th, 2004 by
According to Germany’s best-selling newspaper, this is the favorite “athlete” in Women’s Breaststroke.
We don’t know where you work but chances are this link isn’t work safe.
Posted on August 17th, 2004 by
In the last two weeks, we called on you to vote for either Sheri Valera (aka Miss K?ssen verboten) or Hans Zeiger to be the featured young Republican speaker at the GOP convention. We did our part by pulling Sheri’s lever on many, many occasions. But did any of you follow our lead? Sadly, No! Apparently, the winner is: Princella Smith. Tabarnak!
Princella, seen here on MTV, loves the President Bush:
Bio Highlights
[…] youngest member of African-Americans for Bush
African-Americans for Bush. An Army of None.*
He [Bush] in essence emphasized the point that the most important actors in constituency aid programs are those who make up the constituency – the people themselves.
If it wasn’t for the President pointing out that the actual people who volunteer are the most important elements of such programs, well, you wouldn’t know that we guess.
My favorite MTV show is Punk?d. It is HILARIOUS.
Uh, no.
Princella says she has fond memories of Bush visiting Van Buren, Arkansas. It’s easy to understand why given that he served up the following observation:
One parent — a parent can send the school — a child to a different public school. In other words, when — there has to be accountability in order for a — I mean, there has to be a consequence in order for an accountability system to work.
The President says “in other words” –> Danger! Danger!
President Bush, is there anything you’d like to add?
But at some point, there has to be an end to mediocrity.
Ping!
* Yes, we stole that from Justin Darr, the hottest new conservative writer on the web!
Posted on August 17th, 2004 by
Earlier today, we attempted to update our email address for our subscription to the Happag-Lloyd Express newsletter. This is what we were told:
You first!
Posted on August 17th, 2004 by
Pete M. from The Dark Window draws our attention to the Washington Post’s Best Blogs – Politics and Elections contest. Arguable, Sadly, No!’s record at fixing elections isn’t great. We were unable to win a Koufax award. Even when working for good, (i.e. trying to send Sheri Valera to the GOP convention,) we failed miserably.
Yet we are a stubborn people, and so here we go again. Go to the Washington Post web site, and enter your favorite blog in the following categories:
So go register now (it’s free and it’s required) and stuff that ballot box! Imagine how much shriller we’re guaranteed to become once we have nationwide media exposure!
Posted on August 17th, 2004 by
Michelle Malkin at her, uh, how shall we say… well, put your morning coffee away and take a look.
Posted on August 16th, 2004 by
Thanks to Bartholomew’s notes on religion, we find out about some pretty exciting videos available:
Jesus Healed a Woman with Three Breasts ?is only the most striking video on offer from Gilbert Deya Ministries[.]
As Bartholomew notes, competition is pretty stiff so be sure to review the other selections.
Posted on August 16th, 2004 by
According to an email we received from NewsMax, the answer seems to be a lot. Indeed, they hate America so much that Democrats are spending large sums of money doing something that can only be described as treasonous:
But the same 527s, backed by Bush-hating billionaires like George Soros, have spent more than triple that amount – some $85 million — on registering new (read Democratic) voters.
These voter registration drives are below the radar screen, but may prove decisive for the Democrats on Election Day.
Registering voters! Now that’s outrageous!
PS: How many Bush-hating billionaires are there anyway?
PPS: Edited the title — thanks to Eric.
Posted on August 16th, 2004 by
The President explains what “not really” means to Larry King:
KING: You first were opposed to the 9/11 Commission and then changed. Why?
G. BUSH: Not really.
KING: You weren’t opposed?
G. BUSH: Well, I just wanted to make sure that it was done the right way. I felt like that — one of my concerns was that it would usurp the Congress’ need to fully investigate.
President Bush wasn’t “really” opposed to the 9-11 Commission. That makes perfect sense:
President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11. (CBS News, May 23, 2002.)
In a move applauded by Democrats, President Bush Friday reversed himself and endorsed the formation of an independent commission to conduct a “focused inquiry” of the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States that goes beyond intelligence failures already being probed by Congress. (CNN, December 1, 2002.)
Added: In the comments, Yamantaka from the excellent The Xpat makes the following points:
When the 9/11 Commission first met on February 11th 2003, it’s clock had started ticking on November 27, 2002: the day that bush signed the bill approving the inquiry. So the commission (which had been set to run for 18 months) had already lost 3 months before it’d even met.
In addition, NORAD and the Pentagon were unresponsive to commission queries. Until March 2004, the commission could not even directly question Condoleeza Rice. Those witnesses who appeared were not made to answer under oath, and often had “minders” sent from the White House to monitor them. The panel that Bush authorized was as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner.
Posted on August 16th, 2004 by
Last June, we wrote about Adam Yoshida‘s plans for a wicked awesome international alliance, which he’d thought of calling the League of Good Nations. We asked for your help in coming up with names, and many of you came up with some excellent ideas, including:
Well, it looks like someone else could use our (and your) help. His name is Thompson. Ryan Thompson. You’ve heard of him? Of course you have: he is the crusader against that greatest evil: pink. Ryan is done with that though, and now he has a plan. One of those it’s so crazy it might just work plans:
For over two hundred twenty eight years, the Anglo world has been formally divided. While our nations typically form an ad hoc coalition of the world stage, the rise of the European Union has threatened to fracture the friendship. Now to counter the threat to the alliance by the European Union, the people of the Anglo Six” as I call them (Australia, British Isles (the United Kingdom and Ireland), Canada, New Zealand, and the United States) should form a union that protects our common beliefs and heritage that at the same time respects the sovereign status of each nation.
Of course! Why didn’t anyone think of this earlier?!? Right.
The United States is the largest or second largest trading partner for every other member of the “Anglo Six.”
The United States’ largest trading partner? Canada.
The United States’ second largest trading partner? Mexico.
The United States’ third largest trading partner? China.
The United States’ fourth largest trading partner? Japan.
The United States’ fifth largest trading partner? Germany.
(All data from 2004.)
So why can’t we make this the “Anglo-Hispanic-Chinese-Japanese-German 10?!?”
Further, the members of the “Anglo Six” could be a net exporter of energy if they polled their resources into a unified market. By using their resources in a unified fashion, citizens of the six nations would be less likely to feel pain from uncertainty in the world energy markets. It also would allow the “Anglo Six” to cut its ties to nations who we are currently dependent on for energy resources that abuse human rights.
Awesome! We could power our SUVs on England’s abundant oil reserves. See you in hell Iraqis!
The taxation rates in the ?Anglo Six? with the exception of New Zealand are far below the industrial world average. […] While other parts of the world have experienced economic problems over the last ten years, these nations have remained economically stable in comparison with continued growth.
Right, continued growth. Being 18, Ryan’s just too young to remember the last recession in the United States. At least US taxes are way low:
KPMG found that the U.S. has the fourth highest corporate-income-tax rate in the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The combined U.S. federal and average state rate of 40% is almost 9 percentage points higher than the average OECD top corporate rate of 31.4%.
Look over there! Pink!
Our nations share a common heritage of being involved in the world at varying levels.
You’ve been involved in the world at varying levels too?!? Let’s fuck!
The “Anglo Six” could be a greater influence for good in the world if this military force was released from the bureaucracy of the European Union and the United Nations.
Screw you Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs Kofi A. Annan! We hates you!
The challenges of the modern world demonstrate that unity among people who have common values is essential for success. During this time of global peril, a united front among the Anglo nations will help in defeating the threat to our existence. Being united will increase the force of freedom and will assist in driving our common agenda.
Ryan dear, we don’t quite know how to say this, but it has to be said. We once called someone somewhat below clueless fucktard dumb. You, my friend, have just gone off the entire scale.
Posted on August 16th, 2004 by
Over at The Rant, one Frederick Meekins is upset about ads for condoms being shown on Tech TV:
The purpose of placing a condom ad on [Tech TV] could only be to alter the values of those seeing it and ultimately those of the broader society. It?s definitely not about profit or even product placement, for how many Geeks do you know in the market for quality prophylactic? [Emphasis added.]
The man who brought you this interesting question looks like this:
Any questions?
(Thanks to The Dark Window for the tip.)
Update: Again, thanks to John for being Sadly, No!’s unofficial editor.