Archives for the Month of June, 2007

Leadership, clueless style

An alert enemy of the state (of socialism in America) recently came across this picture on Nancy Pelosi’s web site:
Alert readers will note that the person in uniform on the left is a Canadian soldier. And these people want to make decisions on our behalf. Either Pelosi and her staff are suggesting that Canadian health [...]

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Maybe it is time to read ‘The Satanic Verses’

I’ve long known about Salman Rushdie, the Indian author who has lived under an Islamic death sentence since 1989. Maybe it is time for me to add The Satanic Verses or one of his other novels to my reading list.
He is the victim of renewed ire from the Muslim world because the British Empire recently [...]

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Skin whitening is the new rage in Asia

And I’m positioned to take advantage of this new getting whiter craze. I’m the whitest person you’ll meet, and it’s all natural. I don’t have to use creams and life threatening treatments.
I don’t get it. White people feel the need to tan, and dark complected people feel the need to lighten up. I think some [...]

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Rental car blues

Last night I left my hotel to get some dinner. I was driving a Nissan Altima Hertz gave me. On the way back my rental car starting acting funny. The car started decelerating and I found myself pushing harder and harder on the gas. Eventually I was down to five miles an hour and the [...]

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Airports

One of my least favorite places to waste an hour. While I enjoy people watching, I do not enjoy being herded. Thus, passage through a modern U.S. airport in 2007 is a painful proposition from my perspective. I am sitting in an airport typing this and listening to banal TSA announcements.
I briefly considered changing careers [...]

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