Happy Friggin' New Years, Y'All!

I never managed to get around to doing my Top Ten Most Annoying Things of 2005 post, so in its stead, I'll simply link to some boingboing goodness about the ongoing Lazy Sunday/Chronic-WHAT-cles of Narnia rage.

Happy NY everyone, and here's to hoping politics will get less stupid in 2006 and allow me to blog about something else!

Talk to you in twenty-o-six.

w00t!

New Blog - Is Randy Smoking?

For those of you who know and care, I have now created a blog to allow everyone to find out, in almost real-time, whether Randy is currently smoking or quitting. Check out: Is Randy Smoking?

Given the historical background, that one might get posted to more often than exitramp.

Sorvinos in Scranton (okay, Clarks Summit)

Last night, while out at Amore for this blogger's birthday celebration, we were all pretty certain at one point that Paul Sorvino was sitting across the bar from us. Mira Sorvino appeared to be there as well.

Turns out, that Mira was sworn in as an honorary deputy Lackawanna County Sheriff earlier in the day.

Heh, indeedy.

Radiohead US Tour Next Summer, bizn1tchez!

You stop reading an infrequently-updated blog for a few months, and you miss all the good stuff.

From ateaseweb, Ed O'Brien confirmed on a Radio 1 interview last week that Radiohead will "definitely" be touring next year, with a US leg likely in the summer.

Huttah! I'm setting up email alerts from ticketmaster and WASTE, people!

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Why the h3ll is Joan giving out my number?

Dammit! In the space of an hour tonight, I've gotten two calls on my house phone for Joan and John. Actually, the second caller seemed to think I was Joan, so I have to feel a little sorry for John.

Now, I've had this phone number for over a year, so it cannot be the case that Joan and John just moved and are still giving out their old number. Also, the callers sounded pretty familiar with J&J, so I also can't assume that they haven't talked in a while and are just trying to get back in touch.

Thus, I can only assume that Joanie and Johnnie have recently gotten a number which is very similar to mine, and are giving mine out by accident. And I can only assume that I can look forward to fielding calls for Joan for some time until we get this crap straightened out. Yay!

Actually, methinks it's easier to turn the damned ringer back off and let the Jerkys straighten it out by themselves.

Winter Solstice - The Reason for the Season

From here on in, the days only get longer, people.

Enjoy!

...And a Joyous Winter Solstice to all!

Harpers: Clinton at the UN

In the January issue of Harper's, (website is yet to be updated) Parag Khanna pens an interesting article. (Yes, I sponsor NPR and subscribe to Harper's. I'm that liberal)

He laments the current ineffectual state of the United Nations. ("The United Nations is the only organization that holds annual meetings to commemorate its failures.") He apparently worked as an intern at the U.N. at the age of 17, and is now a Fellow at the Brookings Institution. The first half of the article is spent discussing the fact that the U.N. seems best suited to producing reports on how to make itself more effective and relevant. He ponders the current lame duckishness of the current tenure of Kofi Annan as Secretary General. He also laments the current lowest common denominator nature of all of the people currently being talked about as potential successors.

His key point is that he is calling for Bill Clinton to be nominated for the Secretary General of the UN. It's an intriguing idea. Excepting the domestic contingent of Clinton-haters, The Big Dog is about as close to the ideal of a global rockstar as exists today. And whether you like him or not, one has to admit, he's one of the most silver-tongued devils who has ever lived. There really aren't that many symbols of American government who command the global respect and admiration that Bill does.

I have to admit, if it was an elected position, I'd totally vote for Clinton for U.N. Secretary General.



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Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Last night, I went out and bought the classic Bass-Rankin "Frosty" and "Rudolph" on DVD, and my girlfriend and I spent the evening making home-made Bailey's-style Irish cream liqueur, then watching those Christmas classics. I hadn't seen either of them in years, so I was looking forward to seeing them as an adult.

Rudolph, from the classic Rankin-Bass classic holiday TV show.

The one thing which struck both of us was the fact that, in Rudolph, Santa really comes across as being a total dick. As soon as Rudolph's fake nose pops off, during the Reindeer games, Santa disses him. After listening to the elves do their special song for him, he slams the performance saying it needs work.

Admittedly, he's supposed to be worried sick over the fact that the huge snowstorm is threatening to force him to cancel Christmas, but still. They portray him not as an otherwise-Jolly, but troubled Santa, but more of a crotchety, autocratic cobag. I wonder how many kids were subliminally conditioned towards anxiety about not pissing Santa off by the endless repetitions of "Rudolph" throughout the years.

At least in Frosty, Santa was mainly portrayed in a more standard Jolly Old Elf character. Although, at the end, they did leave Karen on the roof of her house with no apparent way down....

ANWR Drilling in Defense Spending Bill

There's a story sliding under the radar this weekend which, but for Iraqi elections, the stopped PATRIOT Act reauthorization, and revelations of seemingly illegal authorization of domestic spying by Chimpy, would probably be a top story. sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is attempting to insert language into the annual defense spending bill which would open ANWR for oil drilling. Personally, for a long time, I spent a long time listening to the arguments from the pro- and anti- camps on this one, and wound up walking away with glazed eyes, and confused beyond my ability to give a crap.

We've heard from supporters that this is critical to our energy indepence, and that if the original bill for drilling had been authorized a decade ago, we'd be enjoying the benefits of that delectable Alaskan oil today. We've heard from the opponents that this would destroy a pristine wilderness, and wont really affect the overall picture much, anyway.

So, I figured it was time to go to the ultimate source on this one: The DOE Energy Information Administration. Here's the quick overview on ANWR; It's located up on the northern coast of Alaska, east of Prudhoe Bay, "the largest oil field ever discovered in the United States".



The EIA Analysis Summary was last updated in Jun 2004, so the dates referenced are probably going to be off by about two years.

Because of the nature of oil drilling, it's anticipated that it will take between 7-12 years from authorization to initial production. As the Analysis Summary states: "The opening of the ANWR 1002 Area to oil and gas development is projected to increase domestic oil production starting in 2013." So, if this was authorized, we're looking at roughly a decade from opening the area for drilling and the initial "opening of the taps". From that point, it will take more time until peak production can be acheived. "In 2025, the coastal plain of ANWR is projected to reach 0.9 million barrels per day under the USGS mean oil resource case, and 0.6 and 1.6 million barrels per day under the low and high resource cases, respectively."
In other words, in 2025 we can expect to hit peak production of between 0.6MBD and 1.6MBD, with a mean estimate of 0.9MBD.

How will that affect our dependence on imported oil?

Petroleum imports are projected to decline one barrel for every barrel of ANWR production. Opening the coastal plain of ANWR is projected to reduce 2025 oil import dependence from 70 percent in the AEO2004 reference case to 66 percent in the mean resource case. The high and low oil resource cases project a 2025 oil import dependency of 64 percent and 67 percent, respectively.

So, in the best of cases, given the information we know, we'll be reducing our import dependence from 70% to 64%. I've got to admit that the "it wont make much of a difference" argument seems to have some weight behind it.

For the hell of it, I just wanted to take a look at some absolute BPD import numbers, just to get a sense of what ANWR peak production means. From here, we find that in 2004, the US had net petroleum imports of ~ 12 million BPD. So, the anticipated peak production of ANWR would be the equivalent of between 5%-13.3% of our what we're currently importing. At best, this could be considered a start.

So the effects of full ANWR production towards reducing imported petroleum is decades away, and the impact is, at best, small. Does it make us independent of Middle East oil? On the basis of this information, I'm saying; "hell, no!" So, frankly, if this is being justified on the basis of ecomonic impact to Alaska, there's an argument, but from the "independence from imported oil perspective," I'm sure not seeing it.

PARK(ing) - Guerilla Park Project

You've put your money in the meter, and you've got the spot for the next half hour. Now what do you do with it? If you're in San Francisco and part of the rebar group/project, you lay down some sod, put up a potted tree and some benches, and make a temporary mini-park. Or as they say: "Providing temporary public open space in a privatized part of town."

Very sweet idea. Originally via metafilter.

Congress Attempts to Lock Down Analog Outputs

Lord knows I'm sick of blogging about politics. I'm tired of alerting my readers to the daily evil being perpetrated in Congress. And I would gladly either give up blogging or find myself a new topic if Congress would stop trying to make life more of a pain in the ass.

Having said that, today's outrage is that Congress is now attempting to pass legislation to force manufacturers of consumer electronics to implement DRM restrictions out to the analog outputs.

The House Judiciary Committee today introduced a bill (HR 4569) to close the analog hole.

Here’s what we had to say about the draft version of the bill.

The government is proposing that devices (consumer electronics, computers, software) manufactured after a certain date respond to a copy-protection signal or watermark in a digital video stream, and pass along that signal when converting the video to analog. The same goes for analog video streams, to pass on the protection to the digital video outputs.

I'm just going to remind everyone that copyright protections were originally implemented for the public good, not to bow to the whim of media companies and provide legal protections to their profit margins.

As always, let's all contact our representatives and express opposition to HR 4569. And bds1313, you know I'm definitely talking to you, here.

(originally via boingboing)

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King George Dissected

Given the immediacy of the concerns over the PATRIOT Act reauthorization, I really hadn't given much consideration to the full weight of yesterday's revelation that the ChimpAdmin had authorized domestic spying.

However, I read the following post by Glenn Greenwald, and the point was firmly smacked against my head with a 2x4. I am going to use the word "masterful" to describe this post, and will say that everyone must read it. Seriously, every American citizen owes it to themselves to read it and think about it long and hard.

Bush's unchecked Executive power v. the Founding principles of the U.S.

New exitramp team member - strawmanliberal

Everyone, I'd just like to take a moment to introduce the newest member of the exitramp editorial team: StrawmanLiberal.

He's going to be providing insight from the perspective of the caricature liberal you hear Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter talking about so often.

Let's give the man a hand, people....

PATRIOT Act - Filibuzt0rz!

pwned! LOL!!!1!1!

Looks like the final vote was 53 to 47, no cloture!!

Back to committee...

Thanks to peacenik23 for liveblogging the CSPAN coverage.

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What's up with CNN headline writers?

It would appear they've started hiring caveman-americans:

Yes, indeed, Turok. And great ball of fire in sky give heat, life. Ungh!

BMW Fuel Efficiency Technology

Hybrids, hybrids, hybrids...sure they're a great idea, but I'm sick of hearing about them.

Luckily, it seems like BMW has heard my plea. BMW has seen the future of automobile efficiency, and it is: The Steam engine?

Yes, apparently, they've developed a system which recaptures some of the heat which is normally lost through the exhaust, and uses it to power a steam engine to provide additional power to the drivetrain. It increases efficiency by 15%.

I guess I'd really better get cracking on my gasoline-hamsterwheel hybrid drive technology before someone beats me to it.

PATRIOT Act - Cloture vote @ 11 am

There will be a vote for cloture on the PATRIOT Act today at 11, and the Russinator thinks there are enough votes to block dat shit.

Of course, today the nytimes also revealed that the ChimpAdmin has authorized domestic spying in apparent violation of our Fourth Amendment rights, so let's hope that revelation will push any wavering Libertarians over to our camp.

Technorati tags: patriot act, civil liberties

**update** Link to domestic spying article changed to an msnbc link, since nytimes.com locks articles up after a few days.

PATRIOT Act - Cloture Debate Friday Morning

According to Sen. Feingold, the Senate is scheduled to vote on cloture Friday morning. The Repubs need 60 votes for cloture, then discussion is closed, but it's not clear that they have them. Nor is it clear that they don't...

Ugh! I don't think I'm going to sleep too soundly tonight.

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Bill of Rights Anniversary

Given all the recent posts about the PATRIOT Act, I think it's only fitting to note that today is the 214th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights! (wikipedia entry)

It became law on Dec 15, 1791. Happy Birthday, big guy!

Now, let's focus on making sure it survives substantially unmolested for many, many more birthdays, mmmm-kay?

(A tip of the hat to Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" for pointing this fact out to me.)

PATRIOT Act - Momentum?

I'm busy today, so I just wanted to point this out quickly...

On today's TMPCafe post, Sen. Feingold points out that there is a debate on the Senate floor about the PATRIOT Act starting at 10:30AM EST. In what I hope turns out to be a positive sign, he makes this comment:

I will be on the Senate floor listening and taking part in the debate and if you have the opportunity, please tune in. It's clear that your voices are being heard. Our efforts continue to pick up steam and more and more members of Congress understand that we need to change this conference report to address the important civil liberties concerns we have discussed over the last 4 years.

So, there's clearly good reason to believe our concerns are not falling on deaf ears. Reasonable civil liberties protections may not be dead just yet, folks.

PATRIOT Act - PA Votes

The following is taken directly from here. At least Kanjorski voted "No," I'm going to have to call his office, too, and commend him.

(AP) — The 251-174 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a measure to renew a modified USA Patriot Act.

A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill.

Voting yes were 44 Democrats and 207 Republicans.
Voting no were 155 Democrats, 18 Republicans and one independent.
X denotes those not voting.

There is one vacancy in the 435-member House.

PENNSYLVANIA

Democrats — Brady, N; Doyle, N; Fattah, N; Holden, Y; Kanjorski, N; Murtha, N; Schwartz, Y.

Republicans — Dent, Y; English, Y; Fitzpatrick, N; Gerlach, Y; Hart, Y; Murphy, Y; Peterson, X; Pitts, Y; Platts, Y; Sherwood, Y; Shuster, Y; Weldon, Y.


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PATRIOT Act - Feingold Update

Sen. Feingold has a new post up on TPMCafe confirming that Senators Reid and Leahy are backing him on opposing cloture for the PATRIOT Act compromise authorization.

Russ also has a press release up here. He stresses his continuing commitment to the bill which was originally worked out back in July, as opposed to the compromise bill that just came out of conference.

I'm personally calling Specter's office as soon as I get a minute and expressing my support for Feingold's position.

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House Renews Patriot Act

The house today voted 251-174 today on the compromise PATRIOT Act reauthorization. No details on the vote are up on Thomas yet.

However, Harry Reid has apparently joined Russ Feingold in threatening a no vote to cloture. This is apparently causing enough concern to Frist, that he's talking about only reauthorizing it for one year.

I think it's time to start a wave of phone campaigning to our representatives to back our commitment to strong civil liberties, people.

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Fine Beer Review

Over on his until-recently-neglected blog our friend and drinking buddy, bds1313, has started doing reviews of fine beers.

We are all members of a fine beer club at a local restaurant, and bds puts us all to shame for sheer quantity of beers sampled. Personally, after 3 or 4 beers, I have a hard time remembering details at the level of detail that bds retains. As such, his taste and expertise is always highly appreciated. Especially when, at the end of the night, he helps me remember which direction my home is.

Go check it out. (Although, admittedly, if you're reading this post, odds are you already know all this, bu-ut...)

Feingold v. Specter on PATRIOT Act Extension

Before I say anything else, let me make clear that as a constituent, and as a liberal-leaning Independent, I respect Arlen Specter. Hell...I've voted for the guy. In a rational, non-partisan world, he exemplifies what I look for in a politician. Further, as a denizen of Corporate America, I am more than aware of the fact that the art of compromise is a virtue.

Unfortunately, I have to say that on the subject of the USA PATRIOT Act, Specter and I are on opposite sides of the fence. And Sen. Feingold and I are not only on the same side of the fence, but we're digging postholes together.

Russ posted a transcript of the debate Senators Feingold and Specter had today regarding the Patriot Act extension. Admittedly, it is an awkward and unfriendly mechanical(?) transcription of the exchange on the Senate floor. And it is painful in its Parliamentary procedures and formalities. But I laughed my ass off reading it, and gained a lot of respect for both Senators for having read it, and I encourage everyone to do the same (Once you've left work and have a free 45 min or so).

Sen. Specter understandably argued that he fought for the best compromise that he could. Details were argued and compromises conceded, apparently. However, my essential agreement with Sen. Feingold was summed up by the following quote from him (admittedly, highly selective - read the whole thing):

A SUNSET IS ONLY A SECOND LEVEL OF PROTECTION SAYING, LOOK, PEOPLES' RIGHTS MIGHT BE VIOLATED NOW, BUT AT LEAST WE'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO CHANGE IT LATER.

One of the things that has been drilled into my head since childhood, regarding the qualities which makes this country great, is that we are better than the fascists and the commies and whatever self-righteous goverments which ignore the principle of "government of the people, by the people, for the people". The country which I love is the country that is secure in its judicial processes over an authoritarian self-protection. I really have to give Russ some serious props for standing up for essential principles over a watered-down compromise, which compromise is fundamentally opposite to what I consider fundamental to our basic liberties.

MoveOn PATRIOT Act Petition

MoveOn PAC has a petition up to urge Congress to reconsider the PATRIOT Act extension compromise.

It builds upon the efforts of Sen. Feingold to strengthen protections for Civil Liberties.

I urge anyone who does not like the idea of a scary-ass police state to sign it...

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Badass Corporate Ladder Climbing

When it comes to giving money to charity, I prefer the United Way, since they seem to be devoted to promoting the general welfare, rather than (at least potentially) advancing a "My god is better than your god" agenda.

As such, I was checking out my local United Way website, and more specifically, its "News and Events" page. While reading that page, it was hard not to notice the bio on the 2002-2003 Campaign Chair:

[He] joined PNC Bank in 1984 as a corporate banking trainee in the credit department. In 1985, he was named commercial lending officer in East Stroudsburg corporate where he advanced to assistant vice president in 1986

DAY-um!, boy...trainee to assistant vice president in two years? That is some serious-ass advancement.

He's also on the board of a bunch of local Chambers of Commerce and every major local business development organization. I gotta talk to that guy...maybe he can put in a word for me somewhere...

Hello.....Ladys!

Everyone who has a blog with sitemeter certainly relishes the moment where one's blog is discovered via some bizarre search string.

Today I found my sweet search! I am apparently, at this moment, result #1 on search.msn.com for:
"events on december 14,2005 for ladys"

Hello....Ladys! Can I buy you a drink?

The "ladys" came from my "War Against Christmas" post, and the rest is clearly just serendipity.

I guess December 14th is officially "Ladys Night" at exitramp. All ladies get in without a cover, drinks half-price. Tell your friends....

Russ Feingold at TPMCafe

Sen. Russ Feingold will be blogging over at TPMCafe this week.

The first post is part of his ongoing work to rationalize the PATRIOT Act.

PATRIOT Act Extension Compromise

Lock up your privacy and civil liberties, folks, for the House and Senate have settled on a compromise PATRIOT Act extension. This baby includes lovely features like a 4-year-extension on "roving wiretaps", continues to allow the goverment to investigate people who are not actually suspected of any wrongdoing, and keeps those Orwellian permanent gag orders.

My boy Russ Feingold is calling it a turd and is threatening a filibuster to block its passage.

The 2005 USA PATRIOT Act extension: "I can't tell you how much I like it! Seriously. My gag order forbids it!"

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Weekly Rumsfeld "Iraq Withdrawal Update"

In what is becoming an increasingly difficult story to keep straight, we learn today that Rumsfeld is now back on the "Draw Troops Down from Iraq in 2006" wagon. Admittedly, it has been slightly more than a week since the last time Rumsfeld said that withdrawal would be a mistake, so flipping on that position really is overdue. (link)

And prior to that, it was a full 10 days since Murtha was being called a traitor for suggesting such an idea, even though it was simultaneously being reported that Gen. Casey had submitted drawdown plans to Rumsfeld. (link)

Were we to go back to the summer, we'll find that there was some confusion about whether Rumsfeld was at that time calling for a quick pullout, (here) followed a month later by the story that the Army was planning on having "well over 100,000 troops" in Iraq for at least 4 more years. (here)

In all fairness, we must point out that it was Mr. Rumsfeld himself who suggested before the war began: "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." (link) So, clearly he's got some issues when it comes to making plans and sticking with them.

Rumsfeld illustrating his progress
on mastering that Vulcan hand gesture thingy.

House Extends Tax Cuts

Well, it looks like we've got the tax cuts on capital gains and dividends for another two years. Of course, this wouldn't be a bad thing if we didn't have a massive Federal deficit. Or if they hadn't just lopped approximately the same amount of money off of Medicare, food stamps and student loans, not three weeks ago. (Linky)

I'm particularly fond of this quote:

But Phil Gingrey, a Georgia Republican, insisted his party was not "robbing the poor to pay the rich". Instead, he said, failure to extend the cuts would result in a tax increase.

No... Failure to extend the cuts would result in: the end of the cuts. Pay special attention to that word "cuts". Or what other people might call "a return to the original level of taxation, prior to the cuts, which were sold as a temporary measure to kickstart the recession-addled economy." See how easy it is, Phil?

Oh well...I suppose I'll take my savings on this years' dividend taxes and go buy a six-pack.

Day of Infamy

Just realized it was December 7th.

Let us not forget.

Rude on Scalito

I think Rude sums the whole Alito subject up quite nicely in this post, so I'm mainly just going to link and make a brief comment.

Given how the wingnuts have been howling that criticism of Alito amounts to (surreally) racism or (more recently) anti-Christian bias, it's certainly interesting that Alito is bending over backwards to dodge the abortion question. BushCo. nominated him to appeal to the base, so it should be reasonable to assume that he's anti-abortion. Only, all of the players know that support of Roe v. Wade is still strong enough that they can't go around broadcasting this fact without a kerfluffle.

Arlen Specter managed a disturbingly weak showing when he explained that "[Alito] said that his personal feelings would not be a factor in his judicial decision...With respect to his personal views on a woman's right to choose, he says that that is not a matter to be considered in the deliberation on a constitutional issue of a woman's right to choose. The judicial role is entirely different." And in a vacuum, if it wasn't clear that opposition to Roe. was a key characteristic for this post-Harriet nominee, that might even be a sustainable argument. However, as Rude points out:

Every opportunity that Samuel Alito was given to comment or rule on involving abortion, he attempted to restrict access to or express his dismay with Roe v. Wade. He said, back in 1985, that the federal government should help states "chip away" at Roe. In his job application to be Deputy Assistant Attorney General, he volunteered, without prompting on the issue, that he believed that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion." And, of course, in 1991, he dissented from the majority opinion on Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, saying that a woman should be forced to tell her possibly raping, abusive husband that she wants an abortion.

The point is that there's no reason to assume that our boy Harriet Jr. is anything other than an anti-Roe tool. But the backroom players all know that coming out and saying that is going to start a shitfit. And they hope they can make that fact slide through without too many people finding out.

Avian flu for the birds??

OK so something caught my eye that was so intriguing that I had to post it. I won't go into because it's all in this nice little linky.

Makes you really wonder.

Update in the War Against Christmas

I've been busy this weekend, as a loyal strawman liberal, executing some tactical strikes in the War Against Christmas. I was up late Friday night re-arranging the neighbors Christmas lights so that their "Happy Holidays" and "Merry Christmas" signs now read "Pay Hip Ho Ladys" and "Merry Shit! Scram!" Even though I personally question the efficacy of such measures, the War Against Christmas Operations Manual insists that these are invaluable subversive morale-destroying measures which make Baby Jesus and Bill O'Reilly cry.

Also, I checked the mail Saturday. In it was the check from the ACLU containing the money from George Soros. With check in hand, I placed two full-page ads in the local paper, set to run for the entire week of Christmas.

The reason for placing two ads has to do with the double-pronged attack strategy. One ad reminds everybody of the pagan origins of Christmas as the celebration of the Winter Solstice. It features the prominent tagline: "This Christmas, remember to thank a pagan!" The second ad is ostensibly from a fundamentalist christian shell orgainization, lamenting the commercialization of Christmas, and imploring everyone to not to forget "the reason for the season" by getting too wrapped up in the buying. This ad serves to deliver a deadly blow to the capitalist retailers.

On the way back from the newspaper offices, I decided to stop in at the nearby Christian bookstore. This place is clearly not a "Happy Holidays" kind of place. Hell, at this time of year, all their t-shirts and sweatshirts that are normally tagged as size XL are changed to read "Christ Large". I badgered them to order some Harry Potter books for me for a while, then used the rest of the Soros money to buy up their entire inventory of Narina boxed sets. This way, there will be a bunch of god-fearing children who wont have the books in time for the December release of the movie.

Bwah-hahahaha! It's good to be an evil strawman liberal.

If a blog is posted in the forest, and noone reads it...

Due to recent issues with a project that have been consuming all my time at work, my posting has been sporadic, at best. As such, even my three friends who compose the remaining not-me 20% of my site traffic, barely even check it more than once a week.

As such, I've been thinking about putting adSense on the blog and turning it into one of those spamblogs. At least then I might be able to pick up a few nickels off of this endeavor. I could just see it now...

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Long Day Quickie Post

YOU THERE!! Feel special!!

If it wasn't for you, odds are, nobody in the whole world would be reading this blog right now.

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