Nightly Ramble: Pre-code Ramblings

I was in meetings, most of the day, and apparently quite a bit happened whilst I was busy;

* Apparently, the Senate has started to react to the negative reaction on the supposed immigration bill bill.  It is essentially a

It’s easy to see why Al gore’s [sic] movie should not be shown in schools. An Inconvenient Truth is a political commercial that misrepresents a whole area of science.

Kristen Byrnes, age fifteen, via Sister Toldjah.   A high school

I don’t know…

BBCT to an unnamed reader, feedbacking last nights’ comments.

Update/Breaking: TMZ is now confirming she’s out.

Well, that figures.  Originally sentenced to 45 days in jail, sentence reduced to 23, she’s released after having served three days,

President George W. Bush has had the shear audacity to nominate for surgeon general a canidate who challenges the liberal mantra that homosexual behavior ought to treated as if it were normal.  Jake Tapper reports for ABC.

President Bush’s

Billy:

I know that feeling.

For what it’s worth.

Dale Franks is an occasionally brilliant writer.  One of his better postings is this one, on D-day, which was 62 years ago today.

Read the comments, too.

I wonder; What would those who fought that battle, say about America’s

Frank Luntz says the big winner from the republcan debate was Mitt Romney.  Allahpundit has the video.  The big loser: Wolf Blitzer.

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran’s proxy war against the

We’ve been watching this monstrosity known as the Kyodo protocol diagrams slow death for some time now.  Stratfor seems willing to say the thing is dead. It’s a long discussion, but it’s well worth the time to read.

TMZ has learned that Paris Hilton DID have to undergo a cavity search as part of the booking process at the jail.

The NY Post reported this morning that Paris was not required to undergo the customary ‘bend over and

It will be interesting to see how the holocaust deniers deal with the writings of Rutka Laskier.

JERUSALEM (June 6) -AP- The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the “Polish Anne Frank,” was unveiled Monday by Israel’s Holocaust museum

“[B]ecause an uninsured person who goes to the hospital is more likely to die than an insured

Steven Taylor, over at OTB notes a Reuters feed:

The House of Representatives, prodded by Republicans, voted on Tuesday to possibly consider expelling indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana before he even stands trial.On a bipartisan vote of 373-26,

Ok, Mike Huckabee is not my canidate and CNN is not my network.  Further, Creation is not exactly my cup of tea.  Yet canidates asides and your theory on the origin of human life aside, you have love to Huckabee’s

The Music: It was 40 years ago, today, that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play. No kidding…. give or take a few days. June first in the UK and June 3rd in the states.

Among the other technical innovations,