In yet another step to prove just how horrible consumers are the Music Publisher's Association wants you jailed for hosting websites with song lyrics on them. No really, I'm not kidding:
Wow, you really can buy EVERYTHING from Amazon.com
hat tip Instapundit.com
L.A. Times story on Silo Summits
The L.A. Times has run a story about Don Briggs, professor at the University of Northern Iowa, and his ice climbing on silos. The Silos are located directly behind my house, at our neighbors. They put giant lights on them and then climb in the dark. It's really fun to watch.
Does anyone believe this is real?
I don't want to believe that a groundhog can predict weather, it just seems wrong. I'd like to trust millions of dollars in computers and scientists, but I have an obvious technology bias.
Then I read this, Animals escape Asian Tsunami hmm, maybe animals really do have a sixth sense of some sorts. I guess I'll invest in more LP for my heating.
HERMISTON, Ore. --
The McDonald's restaurant in Hermiston, Oregon appears to be "outsaucing" customers drive-thru meals. The restaurant on Highway 395 has outsourced one of the most important jobs at the drive-through window -- order taking. When a customer drives through, they'll be patched through to Grand Forks, North Dakota to place the order. Why? Because the minimum wage in North Dakota is $5.15, compared to Oregon's $7.25.
Tim Nesbit is head of Oregon AFLCIO. He says this undercuts Oregon's minimum wage by more than $2 an hour. A McDonald's media relations person in Illinois, where the corporate headquarters is based, never returned a phone call to the AP.
(January 27, 2005) --
If you don't believe that bloggers are giving newspapers a headache, talk to Nick Coleman. A veteran newspaper columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Coleman is in the middle of an old-fashioned feud with one of the leading conservative Web logs in the country.
So far, his battle with Powerlineblog.com — Time magazine's "blog of the year" — has sparked an anger-spewing column by Coleman, an ombudsman's clarification, and a threat by a leading bank to pull advertising from the newspaper.
Moreover, it has confirmed the growing ability of blogs to get under the skin of the mainstream media. "This is just the beginning," an exasperated Coleman warns. "People need to pay attention to [bloggers]. To watch out."
Big Media doesn't like blogs. I can't say this surprises me. With Blogs around to point out all the Big Medias flaws/lies/ommissions etc.. I'd probably be upset if someone pointed out all the bad things about me too.
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush
Like little babies not getting their way the lefties are throwing temper tantrums. Boo hoo, you didn't win, you don't like the war, so get violent with army recruiters. Gee, and the Democrats wonder why the red states voted overwhelmingly for Pres. Bush?
I think John Powers sums up the Democrats nicely.
Still unable to accept that the right has dominated our national life for the last quarter-century, the left hasn’t done the hard, slow work of thinking through what it means to be progressive during an era of ultraglobalized capitalism in which the only successful Democratic president in the last 35 years, Bill Clinton, followed policies that even he compared to Dwight Eisenhower’s. Far from proposing bold new ideas that might seize the popular imagination, the left now plays the kind of small-ball that Dubya disdains. Even worse, it’s become the side that’s forever saying "No."
The no side, and violent temper tantrum side as well. Pres. Bush's car was pelted with stuff during the parade yesterday, how freaking pathetic is that?
Winners of Oprahs car give-away must pay up to $7000 in taxes for their free cars
Once again, the tax man has ruined a good thing. It was nice of Oprah to do, but sheesh $7000 in taxes for people that were all screened as poor and needy of new cars. Seems like someone should pony up some money for this, I.E. Oprah.