newsblurb: October 2005 Archives

When a high school student takes a picture of themselves giving the thumbs-down to a tacked up magazine photo of The Shrub -- as part of a project on the Bill of Rights --, the photo developer turns it over to the police, who refer it to the Secret Service. The Secret Service proceeds to show up at the school, question the student, and confiscate the poster. I'll give it to the student... he was more polite to the SS than I would be.

Uh oh... bad sign. Reports that Bush says Miers won't withdraw herself from consideration for the U.S. Supreme Court. I give it less than a week now before she withdraws, sword in chest.

As recent as yesterday, there is speculation that Ms. Miers will withdraw her name for consideration for the Supreme Court. Today, the Shrub is predicting that she will be confired. Someone is tragically out of touch. Of course, on both sides, it really amounts to nothing more than geurilla marketing.

From an ABC news story: The draft report of the federal government's emergency plan predicts that as many as 200 million Americans could be infected and 200,000 could die within a few months if the avian flu came to the United States. Right now, there is no vaccine to stop the flu.

There's a special place in hell reserved for people who lay on the horn while commuting through a residential neighborhood.

Passive-aggressiveness is the last resort of the weak-minded. Not the the stupid.

Excellent overheard quote: "It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you pretend to be."