Charlatans And Chalipates

No, Bitsblog has not become a Star Trek board and this is not the latest version of Al Gore.  For those who with the immense good sense not to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Odo, pictuired, was a Shape

WASHINGTON (AP) – Consumers brushed off rising gasoline prices and slumping home sales to storm the malls in May, pushing retail sales up by the largest amount in 16 months.The Commerce Department reported that retail sales surged by 1.4 percent

Captain Ed asks what we ought to be calling ‘earmarks”.

How about we call them “Corruption”?

No, Hoss…

Your inability to figure me out, is perhaps the best indication of your inability as regards independent thought.  You show occasional flashes of brilliance, in your writing, and in your responses, but in the overall you are disappointing,

Ummmm… Yeah… apparently so.

Of course it should be pointed out, that simply because you read other sites, and link them, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be getting links back.  I’ve been finding that out lately.

As regards

(Original post date 2/1/03)

It’s been amusing and educational, since last November’s elections, watching the Democrats squirm.

For example, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschele (feels really good to say that) Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschele lately is rather like watching

I wish to God someone would transcribe this.

In this vid, Al Gore is highly critical of George Bush supposedly ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorism.

Why, it’s June 14th, which is the birthday of the US Army.

Guess why the news will never even make mention of this?

Brian, Iowa Voice, has a story of some Broward County, Florida politicians who when given a choice between their emergency broadcasts, i.e. hurricane information, being heard on the area’s broadcast leader, or some other weaker station, opted for

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News, has posted a not very surprising “temperature check” for June:

1) Are you pleased that the Senate immigration bill did not pass?

Yes: 49 — 96%
No: 2 — 4%

2) Do you

Fox News is reporting:

BAGHDAD —FOX- Suspected Al Qaeda insurgents on Wednesday destroyed the two minarets of the Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra, authorities reported, in a repeat of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed

Television executives are paid to be smart, or at least feign the appearance of same.  CBS executive Leslie Moonves is not playing the part of a smart man.  Moonves is now attempting to blame the audience, or better yet the

Don Herbert, television’s “Mr Wizard” has died at age eighty-nine.  Lynn Elder, AP Television reports:

LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.

Ain’t it real, Gang…. ain’t it real.

Some of the fine work available at Cox and Forkum. 

WRAL, Raleigh, reports on the Mike Nifong trial:

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Durham police investigator testified Tuesday afternoon that during an initial briefing with Mike Nifong that the district attorney brought up inconsistencies in the Duke lacrosse accuser’s story