For Python fans. And to think I turned down the LiveVault franchise for Nashville. sigh.

That's good. I don't care about the actual product, I'm not in an IT department, but the whole thing is very well done.

Institute for Backup Trauma

Sometimes people forget, sometimes they wish they could. This isn't as horrifying as Shoah, but needs to be seen anyway.

frontline: memory of the camps | PBS

] Dogs and children have been warned away. The force of the
] explosions is impressive. "It's like hitting a
] slightly rotten orange with a golf iron," one Green
] activist explained yesterday.

They're really fundamentalist toads, but they just haven't figured out that whole suicide bomber thing yet.

Exploding Toads!

] In that way, he argued, the precedent could ultimately
] hurt the GOP by allowing Democrats to bar the filibuster
] the next time they hold the White House and a majority in
] the Senate.
]
]
] "If we don't protect the rights of the minority %u2026 if
] you had a liberal president and a Democrat-controlled
] Senate, I think that it could do great damage," said
] McCain, who sought the GOP presidential nomination in
] 2000 and is considering another run in 2008.

And here's why McCain won't be allowed to become a nominee. He just doesn't have that same "kick em when they're down" attitude.

McCain Sees 'Slippery Slope' in Filibuster Ban

] The easy answer for divorce is the same answer for gay
] marriage: ban it. Make it illegal. You want a divorce?
] Not in our country, Sunny Jim. Save the children. Save
] the family. Ban divorce.
]
]
] So many people claim that being opposed to gay marriage
] has nothing, no NOTHING to do with the same type of
] prejudice that once prohibited marriage between blacks
] and whites or Jew and Catholic. Heavens no. It has to do
] with concern over saving marriage itself, even though not
] one shred of evidence has been produced indicating that
] gay marriage would somehow threaten straight marriage.
]
]
] There's the simple answer, then. Ban divorce. Put it on
] the voting referendums of every single state that banned
] gay marriage, watch it go down and flames, and expose
] them for the screaming hypocrites that they are.

A nice thought from someone who never fails to suprise me by coming up with an interesting idea.

PeterDavid.net

] U.N. landmine commerical won't air in US.
]
] A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a
] soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there's a
] big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other
] networks don't want to air the ad.

Someone else also linked this but that link seems gone. The people who made this are absolutely right. If this were happening, we'd be incensed.

Boing Boing: U.N. landmine commerical won't air in US.

] What that means is if you're the Methodist church and you
] sponsor an alcohol treatment center, they can't say only
] Methodists, only Methodists who drink too much can come
] to our program. (Laughter.) All drunks are welcome, is
] what the sign ought to say. (Applause.) Welcome to be
] saved, so they become sober.

I'm curious. What does that mean for agnostics, atheists, or people subscribing to other religions? Okay, so a Lutheran walks into a Methodist chuch, no big deal there. A Jew in a Southern Baptist church? We're starting to head into strange territory there. A Unitarian at a Hasidic Synagogue? Ummmm... An atheist doctor at Church of Christ Science? WHOA NELLY!

There's a reason FDR got the government into the charity business on a lot of levels and that LBJ continued it. It's because while the government may be filled with bureaucracy, it stays out of religion because it doesn't want to get into religion. Why THIS administration wants to force people into church is the problem.

President Highlights Faith-Based Initiative at Leadership Conference

] Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life
] as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety
] and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all
] men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it
] another word for rut?

And this was written at the age of 18. Sometimes the more you know, the more impressive things become.

Security by Hunter S. Thompson

] If two-thirds (4 percentage points) of your Social
] Security taxes are diverted into private accounts, as
] Bush proposes, the date the program begins running a
] deficit will advance to 2012 from 2018, according to the
] liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
] Similarly, the date the trust fund is emptied advances to
] 2031 from 2042

If I read this right, the actual plan is to make Wall Street a crapload of money and burn Social Security to the ground ten years earlier. How the hell is this a good idea?

Accounts may be fine idea. Alone, they're no solution.

"If Bill Hicks were alive today,
What would Bill Hicks say?

In 250 words or less, please rant and let it fly.

Talk about politics or drugs or smoking or crappy celebrities or an update on the People Who Hate People party...whatever, just capture the essence of Bill Hicks.

Judges are still being assembled."

Read "The Virus" LOLOL

What Would Bill Hicks Say?