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(If you need to translate it, I suggest that you use the almighty Google)
Two out of four kids have ear infections. Nice.
Lamont lost to Lieberman – I’m sorry, but I’m not surprised. I really don’t want to get into the debate about all this crap, but I agree that Lamont lost because he made the election about Lieberman, not the issues. Either way, we’re not going to leave Iraq anytime soon, and I honestly don’t know what the heck Lieberman has to do with that – HE isn’t the one who got us into this quagmire, Bush is. Let’s focus on getting him out of the Oval office, then we can address Joe’s problems.
Britney Spears: yes, she’s getting a divorce. Yeah. I think I already addressed this. The reason I mention it: she drives a lot of traffic to my site. Not her personally, of course….. People looking for photos of her. I’ll save you the trouble: look here – they’re all in one place. I might add some to the page. Why?
I used to include the posts about Britney in the “Posts” category. Now that page is about 2mb in size. When the search engines spider the site, they put that page in their index under Britney Spears, even though it’s not really appropriate. I’ve taken the liberty of removing those posts from the page, but also of using a robots.txt file to block spider access to that page. Since doing that, traffic to that page – and my monthly bandwidth usage – have shot way down. Coincidence? I think not.
I’ve noticed that the Britney page is making it’s way up the “popular pages” list, but not quite as quick as I expected. I wonder how long it will take for the photos page to make the list? Let’s find out.
Daily Kos: The President Speaks, Americans Demand Answers
It would seem that while Bush is talking about how the nations intelligence activities are being targeted at “al-Qaida and their affiliates”, the new nominee for CIA Director is saying that “we cemented a deal with another corporate giant to jointly develop a system to mine data that helps us learn about our targets” – aka everyone in the country.
Add to that the fact that the NSA Knows Who You’ve Called and you have a nice comfy feeling in the gut of Joe American, who hasn’t done anything wrong but has Big Brother breathing down his neck….
I didn’t catch the whole State of the Union address last night, but what I did catch makes me a little sad – and scared.
When did we elect a King? I thought we lived in a Democracy where the people – that would be you and I – choose people that we think will have OUR best interests at heart and act on those interests.
When Bush was “elected” – and remember, Gore won the popular vote, and then lost the whole shebang due to shenanigans in Florida – I was already disappointed. Since then, things have gone downhill.
But the speech last night….. Well, all I can say is that I’m waiting for the Ten Commandments to re-appear in that courthouse down South again, and for the Religious Right to start taking over again. If Bush and his cronies were any more conservative, we’d all be wearing wigs and calling him King Bush, and Cheney would be Lord Cheney. Oh, and there would now be a tax on tea again. Bostonians take note.
I happened to tune in during Bush’s little tirade about abstinence, so we’re wondering how long it will be before condoms are illegal and “safe” sex is a thing of the past.
When he went on about the defense of marriage stuff – and let’s face it, it needs defending from…. well who, exactly? – I almost had to change the channel. The only problem with that, of course, would be that he was on about 20 channels last night. Can anyone explain what, exactly, the problem is with letting gays and lesbians have rights similar to “normal” heterosexuals? Is it really going to be the end of the world? I don’t think so.
(Oh, and if you’re a Republican/conservative/Bible-thumper and you’re gonna comment about how I’m going to rot in hell or am contributing to the end of the world, just move along now before hitting the “submit” button)