tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255007312008-09-04T19:18:26.949-07:00The Pounders BlogFor the black Mohawk aficianado, an irreverant look at love & life in the city with an Asian by your side.Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-44221377446714757862008-09-04T19:18:00.001-07:002008-09-04T19:18:27.138-07:00Dark Roasted Blend: Shocking & Creative Ads from the Urban Jungle
“Dark Roasted Blend: Shocking & Creative Ads from the Urban Jungle”
Any ad that shows dead hippies is all right with me.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-26452205613803009992008-08-29T16:58:00.001-07:002008-08-29T17:02:42.112-07:00Hurricane Gustav powers up, heads toward you-know-where“Gustav Regains Hurricane Strength - NYTimes.com”
With Gustav newly elevated to hurricane status as it passed through the Carribean and aimed at the Gulf Coast, officials here said a mandatory evacuation order for this city* * New Orleans was likely to be issued on Sunday.
Let’s hope more people this time heed the warning and leave. A mandatory evacuation was issued before Katrina; some Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-37161657253540782262008-08-29T15:17:00.001-07:002008-08-29T15:17:58.287-07:00Touché, Mr. McCainMcCain picks outsider, Alaskan governor for Vice; she’s anti-abortion, pro- Second Amendment, oh, and a lady
“AFP: McCain’s surprise VP pick is little-known woman governor”
John McCain tossed a huge but risky surprise into the US race for the White House Friday when he unveiled the little-known governor from Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his vice presidential running mate.
The gist of the Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-21296791072149615102008-08-28T23:05:00.001-07:002008-08-29T15:21:59.683-07:00Hi, we aren’t from America, but we’ll tell you for whom to vote (because we know best for your country)Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-86144125517436160022008-08-28T22:54:00.001-07:002008-08-29T15:20:03.354-07:00‘Global Warming Is Real’: Dispatches from the International Conference on Climate ChangeClimates change. Nine thousand years ago, the Russian arctic was much warmer. Greenland’s ice cap will melt at a whopping .4 — that’s “zero-point-four” — percent will melt in an entire century. These facts and others take the wind out of the scareists of global warming at the International Conference on Climate Change [1] 1 The event at which John Stossel was giving his speech on dumb reporters Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-79034071222109891512008-08-27T21:50:00.001-07:002008-08-27T21:50:53.502-07:00Booyah
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The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-25977803033887975892008-08-26T00:57:00.001-07:002008-08-26T00:57:26.044-07:00Pay for things with your cell phone! (In Mexico)
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans will soon be able to pay for small purchases such as restaurant meals and taxi rides using their mobile telephones, the country’s banks said on Monday. ↩ Telephone operators Telefonica SA and Iusacell are teaming up with big banks such as Citigroup Inc and BBVA to launch the service, marketed at first toward technology savvy teenagers Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-5167001534822574902008-08-25T22:17:00.001-07:002008-08-25T22:17:13.901-07:00Family blames sanctuary policy in 3 slayingsThe effects of protecting an illegal immigrant-criminal: the murder of a family
A ruthless illegal immigrant didn’t care about the laws of the United States or the lives of the family he slew, and the local authorities didn’t care about upholding immigration law. So, a father and sons are shot coming home from a family barbecue.
Time to sue:
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The Bolognas’ claim Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-51672086713551445492008-08-25T21:57:00.001-07:002008-08-25T22:20:21.387-07:00Record number of Mexicans going home“It’s almost 100 percent more this year than it was the previous two years.”
—Mexican consul general Enrique Hubbard
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon plans to help returning nationals by providing food, medical care and temporary shelter if needed. But reports are already out in Mexico that the large number of illegal immigrants returning home could drive down wagesTironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-73729451595098030972008-08-25T14:48:00.001-07:002008-08-25T14:57:33.921-07:00Tensions boil between Obama-Clinton camps30% of Clinton Dems won’t support Obama over McCain
About Senator Obama in regard to how Democrats plan to tip-toe around his lack of experience as any kind of leader:
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“That puts him in a terrible bind, because you can’t give a ringing endorsement when you’re talking about foreign policy,” a longtime Clinton adviser said. “Obviously, the hard thing to talk about Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-37634175883904758922008-08-24T02:04:00.001-07:002008-08-24T02:04:10.917-07:00“Climate changes.”It’s what it does.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-91534653926673206792008-08-24T01:28:00.001-07:002008-08-24T01:28:31.849-07:00Gun control isn't crime controlNot a single documented statistic shows gun control reduces crime
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-14310372092481306882008-08-23T13:32:00.001-07:002008-08-23T13:32:43.827-07:00“We didn’t expect anything like what you have witnessed to occur,” said WTF secretary general Yang Jin-suk. “I am at a loss for words.”Disgraceful kick to Olympic referee gets Cuban banned forever
Pic credit: Jung Yeon-Je/Getty Images.
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Cuba’s Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend that he be banned for life.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-12867798848736477192008-08-23T01:55:00.001-07:002008-08-23T01:55:07.780-07:00Who gives to charity more?Who gives more to charities, the rich or poor? The rich have more money so possibly the rich. Who gives more, liberals or conservatives? Liberals view themselves as the most kind-hearted, so it must be liberals.
Wrong. John Stossel’s online video report [1]
1 Look for John Stossel’s report, “Cheap in America: Who Gives More?” on his video page.
at ABC’s 20/20 shows that the most giving of any Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-31358706151398599582008-08-22T04:23:00.001-07:002008-08-23T02:36:08.224-07:00More paddles hit dark skin than peachRead original article.
Many I’m sure don’t know, but spankings in schools are still used as an effective punishment for hijinks, hurly burlies and kerfuffles. An organization that wishes to end corporal punishment issues a scaaaaaary report that states it’s the tomfoolery that gets paddled more than the shenanigans, saying that blacks [1] 1 …and American Indians…
get swatted more than white Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-68949635611474313522008-08-22T04:08:00.001-07:002008-08-22T04:09:44.267-07:00Sampling a song can be fair use, rules US courtAnd speaking of fair use, good news on that front:
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Judge Richard B. Lowe III ruled in the Supreme Court of the State of New York that “fair use is available as a defense in the context of sound recordings.” Past rulings outlawed the use of even very short music clips without copyright holders’ permission.
I’ve heard of ridiculous stories where documentaries couldn’tTironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-45437988692321378442008-08-22T03:12:00.001-07:002008-08-22T03:17:39.467-07:00Woman can sue over YouTube clip de-posting
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Lenz then sued Universal in Northern California, YouTube’s home district, for her costs, claiming the music company had acted in bad faith by ordering removal of a video that — she contended — was obviously a fair use of the song and had no commercial value.
Unhappy with the so-called takedown notice she received for her noncommercial movie clip of her baby dancing to Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-84435742934938269172008-08-21T03:33:00.001-07:002008-08-21T03:33:35.274-07:00Obama’s half brother living in Kenya
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Senator Barack Obama’s long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.
I guess he can’t do something embarrassing if he’s living in Kenya.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-50174255720963349382008-08-20T18:46:00.001-07:002008-08-23T02:06:59.333-07:00Pistol-packing woman, 85, forces intruder to call 911 [more...]Update: Here’s video from ABC’s website.
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An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.
I’m linking the Digg page rather than the original article because of all the great pro-gun comments — surprisingly — listed.
KWZ: 29 diggs; BE3: 139 diggsTironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-37163051457709047912008-08-20T03:17:00.001-07:002008-08-20T14:16:20.159-07:00U of Illinois blocks reporter from seeing Obama filesFiles would outline close relationship of Obama to member of ‘Weather Underground,’ a ’60s terrorist group which bombed the Pentagon
Read original article at the National Review; Althouse linked the story.
COVER-UP?
Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded myTironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-44275330281225451862008-08-20T02:49:00.001-07:002008-08-20T02:50:32.889-07:00Victim punched, kicked, hit with racial slurs
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“The victim tripped and fell, and the suspect started punching him and kicking him in the ribs,” said Hamilton police media officer Sergeant Terri-Lynn Collings. The attacker then ran off.
The victim received minor injuries, Collings said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Hamilton police at 905-526-4925 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Why don’tTironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-38370159399088726992008-08-20T02:28:00.001-07:002008-08-20T02:30:51.434-07:00Three found guilty of web extremism plotRead more of
“Three found guilty of web extremism plot | OUT-LAW.COM”
Charged with a plot to spread jihadism on the Internet, three belonging to the religion of peace are caught.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-23381493054236149542008-08-20T02:15:00.001-07:002008-08-20T02:30:26.760-07:00Foreigners and ethnicities targeted by Russian nationalistsRussians only want Russians in Russia.
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Russian human rights activists said during the hearings that police often stood by when skinhead and neo-Nazi groups staged demonstrations against Jews, ethnic minorities or foreigners.
The U.N. condemned the scenario of police who “stood by” when these groups held demonstrations, illustrating Europe and the U.N.’s intolerance of the Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-6708065025181283902008-08-19T16:37:00.001-07:002008-08-19T16:42:56.169-07:00The ‘Everything We Could Find’ PizzaYou’re seeing that right: that’s a pigs-in-a-blanket crust.
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“15 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped”
This seems to be a Photoshop with some Japanese text thrown on, to mock a culture whose major export seems to be insanity. But the product is real and oh by the way, it’s from Pizza Hut.
Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25500731.post-12873961443543060002008-08-19T01:16:00.001-07:002008-08-19T22:40:42.334-07:00‘In Defense of Looseness,’ and we aren’t talking about Paris HiltonD.C. gun-ban ban not the accurate interpretation of 18th century law, says the New Republic
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“In Defense of Looseness”; originally linked from Althouse
A columnist for the New Republic disputes Justice Scalia’s assertion that, in his recent majority opinion in the Heller Washington D.C.-gun-ban case, of being “originalist” in its approach. He argues that, though Scalia Tironiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975960775590465276noreply@blogger.com