2005-07-28
blips + updates
• Matt + Dave's Cross Country Bike Trip | The intrepid travelers have reached the Grand Tetons, dealing with temps that range some 80 degrees [farenheight] from dawn to dusk | Dave is now up to 
9.5 flat tires but still pushing onward | They've posted some great recent photos, two of which you see here | Here's their photos, page 1 and page 2 |
• Tim Zimmerman, at Wetass Chronicles tells about the largest luxury yacht on the seas | Owned by an Arab Oil Sheik, the yacht Platinum is projected to be powered by four (4) diesel engines, each packing in excess of 9000 horsepower. Suffice to say, this might be the first yacht that needs an onboard crude-oil refinery. ;-) Good thing fuel oil is so cheap right now...
• The Dreamer, at Nighmare Hall recounts his difficulties with indifferent and uncaring medical types who lose paperwork and don't give a fig | Ends up sounding like the old Soviet health care system where social dissidents got worse treatment than well connected Politbureau Types |
• Watching America provides a link to a good think-piece pubished in LeMonde on A Guide to Living with Terrorism | Teaser quote: “Nothing would be worse for the battle against terrorism … than restraining our freedoms, renouncing habeas corpus, or practicing torture or imprisonment without a trial.”
• Steve Gilliard's News Blog touches on Dropping National Guard recruitment figures; White right-winged snot Tucker Carlson's bald faced racism while heartlessly joking about a missing woman of Color; and let's not forget the BDSM Pervert and dirty trickster Joe Braun who is campaign manager for Ohio's "Family Values" candidate Jean Schmidt | [personally, I got not problem with what kind of consensual actitivies Mr. Braun engages in. It's his bed, he can lay in it if he chooses; but don't lie about it, please] Oh yeah, you can donate to her opponent, Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett and his campaign at this site |
• Finally [and on a lighter note] Kevin Janson at Weirdsmobile, updates up on Airline Food Reviews, Immigrant children who spell English better than most Americans and exotic, affordable honeymoon venues | ¶ 21:54
• Matt + Dave's Cross Country Bike Trip | The intrepid travelers have reached the Grand Tetons, dealing with temps that range some 80 degrees [farenheight] from dawn to dusk | Dave is now up to 9.5 flat tires but still pushing onward | They've posted some great recent photos, two of which you see here | Here's their photos, page 1 and page 2 |• Tim Zimmerman, at Wetass Chronicles tells about the largest luxury yacht on the seas | Owned by an Arab Oil Sheik, the yacht Platinum is projected to be powered by four (4) diesel engines, each packing in excess of 9000 horsepower. Suffice to say, this might be the first yacht that needs an onboard crude-oil refinery. ;-) Good thing fuel oil is so cheap right now...
• The Dreamer, at Nighmare Hall recounts his difficulties with indifferent and uncaring medical types who lose paperwork and don't give a fig | Ends up sounding like the old Soviet health care system where social dissidents got worse treatment than well connected Politbureau Types |
• Watching America provides a link to a good think-piece pubished in LeMonde on A Guide to Living with Terrorism | Teaser quote: “Nothing would be worse for the battle against terrorism … than restraining our freedoms, renouncing habeas corpus, or practicing torture or imprisonment without a trial.”
• Steve Gilliard's News Blog touches on Dropping National Guard recruitment figures; White right-winged snot Tucker Carlson's bald faced racism while heartlessly joking about a missing woman of Color; and let's not forget the BDSM Pervert and dirty trickster Joe Braun who is campaign manager for Ohio's "Family Values" candidate Jean Schmidt | [personally, I got not problem with what kind of consensual actitivies Mr. Braun engages in. It's his bed, he can lay in it if he chooses; but don't lie about it, please] Oh yeah, you can donate to her opponent, Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett and his campaign at this site |
• Finally [and on a lighter note] Kevin Janson at Weirdsmobile, updates up on Airline Food Reviews, Immigrant children who spell English better than most Americans and exotic, affordable honeymoon venues | ¶ 21:54
