Tale of the Ketchup Bandit
You can come across some strange things on the web. If you read through or scroll down, the video of the mouse is pretty interesting.

Ways to Support the Troops
Courtesy of FoxNews.com

When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.

He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."

It became very quiet in the room.

Majority arrested don't live in San Francisco
San Francisco -- The anti-war demonstrations in San Francisco have proved to be a powerful magnet, drawing law-breaking protesters from as far south as Mexico, as far north as Washington state and as far east as Connecticut -- but only a minority from the city itself, arrest records show.

(LILEKS) James : the Screed : Moore is less
If you ask me, Michael Moore is a gasbag who, if stuck with a pin, would fly around the room until he ended up on the floor as three pounds of wrinkled hot-dog skin and a sweat-stained ballcap. And if he is a balloon, that would mean that his penis is twisted in a tight little knot.

I just love creative, well-done disses of Michael Moore. This is best I've seen yet. Lileks has a quite a reputation in the blogosphere. I need to read him more often. (but geez, how can you keep up with all this...?)

If I had known Michael Moore was going to get booed, I would've watched the Oscars. Some of the photos were interesting. I was happy to see Susan and Tim raising the victory sign on their way in.

I learned something from an insult left in my comments. Someone without the guts to leave an email, a link or any identifying characteristic, called me a "purblind moron." I'd never heard the word "purblind" before, so I looked it up and according to Merriam-Webster, it means "lacking in vision, insight, or understanding." There's also an obsolete meaning of "wholly blind." From looking at the referrer logs the offending visitor was likely from the UK. Perhaps they use that word more commonly over there.

Instead of watching the Oscars, in their honor we drove up to Cuba, NM (get it?) and had fajitas at El Bruno's restaurant. The drive is about an hour and fifteen minutes and the food is worth it. The short roadie was nice -- there's something about cruising down the highway at night that clears my head, and boy did I need it. I'm contemplating some wholesale change in my life, and concurrently my wife and I are contemplating wholesale change in ours. The two situations are not the same but they are concurrent, I know because I looked up "concurrent" at Merriam-Webster.

Quit imagining things. We are definitely not doing what your morbid imagination is conjuring. But I may need a new job soon, and we are tiring of New Mexico and its third-world socialist government. This place becomes more of a banana republic all the time. Lucy has a good job though, and those being soooooo rare around here....

"A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip 'had shocked me back to reality.'

"Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera 'told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head.'"

- Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave

"The crowds of demonstrators against the war are thinning, even in the Peoples Republic of San Francisco, where some of the demonstrators induced vomiting yesterday, soiling the sidewalks outside a federal office building, to demonstrate that the war makes them sick. What actually makes them sick about the war is not necessarily that it will be nasty and brutish, but likely to be all too brief. 'Demonstrating' is all these people have to do.

"...The old lefties in America are running on Viagra, prune juice and stale rhetoric left over from the Vietnam War. They're joined in the streets by out-of-work actors, smug preachers with empty pews and a few sophomores who have heard all the war stories and yearn to live in that imagined romantic past, like Civil War re-enactors fantasizing about Chancellorsville."

- Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 3/21/03

Taken from Chuck Muth's News & Views

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