| HoustonWade.com |
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| The official Site of Houston Wade and his ramblings on politics and life. |
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| March 3, 2006 Issue 0004, Stupid Senate, Patriot Acts are for authoritarian states. |
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| Aren't you curious as to what is going to be on this side of the page in the future? |
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| That's right, the Senate just approved the USA "Patriot" Act |
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| The vote was 89-10 in favor! Do the Democrats just like losing elections? That is what it seems like to me. Two years in a row the Dems make a show against the Patriot Act during the State of the Union address and then they cave like a house of cards when it comes to actually doing something about it. Sure, they "compromised" and let a few civil liberties through. What the hell is wrong with the rest of the civil liberties we had prior to 2001? |
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| It turns out that the bombing in Karachi killed a US diplomat |
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| Bush is "defiant" and will go to Islamabad anyway. I like this juxtaposition in an article I read, "Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan," Bush said at a news conference in India, where he signed a controversial nuclear agreement and laid a wreath at a memorial to independence hero and nonviolence prophet Mahatma Gandhi. Would Bush even know who Gandhi was if it wasn't for Ben Kingsly? Even then I bet Bush never actually sat through the entire film opting instead to hit the gym and turn in early. |
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| Animal rights activists charged for terrorizing business |
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| I can understand the motives behind groups like this and like PETA and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) but most of the time I find the members of these groups an embarrassment to liberals everywhere. So, any of you remember when ALF set free an entire mink farm in England a few years ago? There were something like 300,000 mink on the fur farm and none of them were native to the British Isle. Half were immediately killed on the freeway just outside the farm, it was a blood and guts mink massacre out there, and the other half destroyed the local ecosystem. I think most militant animal rights people don't really think before they act. When I was in middle school there was an anti-fur protest outside Nordstroms around Christmas one year. My aunt and I were doing our Christmas shopping for the family, something we do every year, and happened upon 30 or so men and women with signs and red paint (ready for tossing on fur wearers I guess). I noticed and pointed out to one of the women there that her shoes and purse were made of leather. An animal died so that she could "look good" and was therefore a hypocrite. One of the papers, Seattle Times I believe, even wrote about what a miserable failure the protest was because there were people protesting that had leather jackets, shoes, purses, etc... There are a lot of animal righters that will use the argument, "Do you know how many gallons of water, and pounds of grain it took to make that burger you are eating?" and will reply with something like, "2000 gallons of water, and 800 pounds of grain" Whoopty shit, trust-fund hippie. Do you realize that the cow is the most efficiently used animal on the planet? Name me a part of the cow that doesn't get used somehow. You can't do it, can you? Hey, Audi-driving hippie, do you realize how many gallons of water and how many pounds of grain and hops went into making that beer you're drinking? How many thousands of acres of the world's best vegetable-producing land went into growing those American Spirit cigarettes you smoke? Save your stupid arguments for someone who doesn't have logic. |
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| Actress who coasts through life because of her smoking-hot body angry that Playboy put her on cover, claims it is damaging to her career |
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| Jessica Alba, who is really hot but can't act, is suing Playboy for putting her on the cover of its latest issue. She claims that it might give people the wrong idea and make them believe that she is naked inside. She is suing to have Playboy pull the issues from newsstands and pay for the damage to her career. Honey, "Blue Crush" and "The Fantastic Four" were damaging enough. There is nothing Playboy can do that would salt your image anymore than it already is. You are a hot-body. That is all you are used for. Whether you are in a bikini or not people are watching your movies to see your body and nothing else. You won't win the case because Playboy can prove that being in its magazine is not damaging to one's career. Just look at Jenny McCarthy, Pam Anderson, Shannon Tweed, Marylin Monroe, Sharon Stone, Cindy Crawford... Those woman are bajillionaires or absolute legends. Do you think you are better than Marylin Monroe?!? Think again. It's not like you are posing in Penthouse. It's Playboy, you're not naked, we're not gazing up at your uterus. Apparently Alba was chosen as the sexiest star of the year and is featured on a list of 25 of the sexiest stars. A Playboy spokesperson had this to say: "Many celebrities have appeared on the cover of Playboy, but not nude, including Claudia Schiffer, Paris Hilton, Goldie Hawn, Raquel Welch, Barbra Streisand, Brooke Shields and Donald Trump," Playboy spokeswoman Lauren Malone said. |
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| Ted Stevens backs down again, won't change 1977 Magnuson Amendment |
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| For years, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has acted like Washington State's third Senator and that is because Stevens really, really wanted to get supertankers into the Puget Sound; one of the few waterways in the country that can handle ships of that size. Well, Thursday he gave up. It turns out that it was Republican Mike McGavick, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat from Washington state this year that got the job done. McGavick, a former aid to Washington Senator Slade Gorton (AKA Skeletor), knows that he can't win if Republicans put supertankers into heavily populated and heavily Democratic Puget Sound |
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| In more Washington-specific news... |
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| Seattle School District may close up to 12 schools |
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| This is worst idea ever. I spent my entire childhood and teen years reading and watching news reports about how Seattle Schools are over-crowded, that they need more teachers, more desks, less students in the class room... Now that that have those things and finally have student-to-teacher ratios where they should be for a good learning environment what do they want to do? Close schools and increase class sizes. Why are those that make decisions on education in this country so stupid? They are going to close those schools and then ten years from now when all of the young adults who moved to Seattle for the tech industry have squirted out a few kids the schools are going to be over-crowded again. Seattle, accept the shrinking student populations as a blessing and use it. There are less kids and more tax revenue than ever because the population is made up of a higher percentage of working adults. Use this to your advantage and make those schools into palaces. |
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| Now a Dubai company wants to buy plants that make parts for military vehicles and aircraft |
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| Great. Now they will control the entire Eastern Seaboard and make sure our military can physically move weapons and personnel. What is so hard about having US corporations do this work? Heck, I should submit a bid to take over the US ports. At this point the government (Bush administration) would probably be willing to pay more to save face. |
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| Religo-wackytown being built in Florida by founder of Domino's Pizza |
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| A rich weirdo by the name of Thomas Monaghan wants to build an entire city according to "God's Will." |
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| He's just two parts crazy and few hundred million parts rich. He is dropping over $250 million of his own money into the construction of a town around Ave Maria University, the first Catholic university built in the US in 40 years, and has plans for the town to be built according to Roman Catholic doctrine and be free of sin. In Ave Maria there will be no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control but there will be young-boy touching stations on every corner. |
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| More Mail!! |
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| Hi Houston! I’m not sure if you remember me. I got my inspiration for blogging while at BartFest Vegas way back in 2002, in a smoke-filled room full of progressives who were already sick of Putsch way back then. I think I remember you, John Wesley Hardin (who used to have a blog ripping on Ann Coulter), Will the guy who runs AWOL Bush, and a couple of others talking trash – and, if I’m not mistaken, you were the one who was constantly challenging the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Usurper to a fight. Anyawys,… if I’m talking to the wrong guy please accept my apologies. If not, nice to cath up with you again… I have been reading your site for a while now. Bart dropped the first link to your zone quite a while ago, and he is the one who turned me on to your site. Please keep up the good work, and hammer this arrogant son of a cheney on my behalf (until the writer’s block breaks up). And if you’re ever in the metro Detroit area, drop me a line. Regards, Tom Gevaert Owner, operator, chief cook, and bottle-washer The Funny Farm www.funnyfarmonline.org |
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| My old site that was on Geocities for a while is now finished (yes!), thanks for writing. It is nice to know that people are starting to filter on in. |
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| Way to go Costco! |
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| Costco, a company that treats its employees like human beings, posted a higher than expect profit this last quarter. At Costco your checker is making $40k a year with full benefits and that nice lady behind the counter where you are buying a hot dog or pizza? She's pulling down $20 an hour and can take her kids to the doctor without fear of losing pay or paying out the nose to a useless HMO. At the last quarterly meeting some share-holders were calling for Costco to cut employee pay and benefits. Costco's CEO, and co-founder Jim Sinegal threatened to make the company private again if that is what the shareholders wanted to do. Wal-Mart might make billions of dollars in profit every year while Costco only make a few hundred million but what is a billion dollars and losing your soul when you could have a hundred million and feel good about yourself? It's all more money than I could ever spend. |
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| Well, there goes AmeriCorps |
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| Why is Bush always wanting to kill programs that work? AmeriCorps has been nothing if not a success and is one of the great legacies of the Clinton Administration. Bush himself has even lauded the program in his SotU addresses. While Bush is trying to gut this very worthwhile program "Read Across America" is going to take place tomorrow and through the weekend (an AmeriCorps program). What kind of dick do you have to be to cut a program that sends enthusiastic youth to do service work all over the country from teaching children to read to assisting in the Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina recovery. For what? 15 more cruise missiles? Bush makes me sick. How can you cut this program? |
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| I think there are two standard go-to stories for any news source. The first is: "Red wine proven to help heart" the second is... |
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| Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly |
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| A floating iceberg off the Antarctic Peninsula (Image: CU-Boulder National Snow and Ice Data Center) |
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| How many times does it have to be told to us before the crazies who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and think global warming is a hoax get it through their heads? Antarctica is losing 36 cubic miles of ice every year. That is so much water going into the ocean. People really don't know how much 36 cubic miles of material is. The largest volcanic eruption ever recorded was the Tambora eruption of 1815 and that was 11 cubic miles of material. An asteroid 1 cubic mile in volume has over $4 trillion in precious metals contained with in it. 36 cubic miles is equal to, get this, 11,867,329,696,628,736,000 cubic inches of water! Almost twelve quintillion cubic inches of ice is turning into water in our oceans every year! Holy shit! That is just the Antarctic, not even the Arctic with the Greenland shelf, Siberia, Northern Europe, Alaska or Canada taken into consideration. |
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| Republicans think they may have finally found someone to take on Clinton in New York Senate reace |
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| Who'd they pick? An apprentice of Henry Kissinger who used to be the spokeswoman for the Pentagon but hasn't had a job since 1985 when she became a stay-at-home mom, Kathleen Troia McFarland. Nothing against stay-at-home moms but if you are going to take on one of the toughest opponent politics has to offer you are going to want to have something more than Reaganomics and Kissinger attached to your name. This from the NYTs: Ms. McFarland, known as K. T., is pretty green: She has been a stay-at-home mother since 1985, and was drawn to the Senate race only because she already believed she was going to lose her bid for a Congressional seat on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Oh, that makes total sense. Run for the Senate because rich people wouldn't even elect you to the house. Smart move, that one. I smell another Lazio and Pirro in the making. |
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| Bush: "Let's go back to the Moon... Again, but first let me smash NASA's budget." |
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| The White House wants to cut NASA's budget by $3 billion over the next three years. How come no one ever wants to cut the Pentagon's budget? What we should be doing is boosting NASA's budget by billions of dollars. If we were to capture an iron-nickle asteroid and put it in orbit it would mean, literally trillions of dollars in precious metals. We should be sending missions to the Moon so that we can harvest ultra-rare helium-3 and build nuclear power plants out of it. Such stations on the Moon could transmit the energy back very easily and efficiently using microwave lasers. Imagine an infinite, powerful energy source that did not require power plants to be here on the Earth? No pollution, no NIMBY, nothing. Heck, we could build gigantic spherical mirrors inside craters on the Moon and have gigantic telescopes that would allow us to see light billions of times as faint as anything here on the surface of the Earth. Space is the last frontier let's start making a ton of money off of it already. |
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| Gary Glitter is going to prison for 3 years for being a disgusting pervert who rapes children |
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| Way to go, Gary, you are such a winner. |
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| Korea beat Taiwan 2-0 in the first game of the World Baseball Classic It was a good game. I wish for two things out of this: #1 they have announcers who can tell me what is going on because I have no idea who any of these players on most of Korea's and all of Taiwan's team are, and #2 Just call it the "World Cup of Baseball" because that's what it is. |
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| Japan beats the holy-hell out of China 18-2 in the second game of WBC |
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| No mercy shown by Japanese. Heck, China did better than UH Hilo does against most of their opponents. |
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| Last Issue |
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| Please, If you do use anything off of this site reference it back to me so that I can become famous. Thank You. |
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| Just stare at those lines. Isn't it just wigging you out? |
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