Archive for the 'Politics' Category

The “Salmon-Forty-Salmon”

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Originally From Moxiegrrrl.com, the “Dumbest Grant Ever”.

Photo Credit to CLAY LACY and CHAD SLATTERY – Alaska Airlines
The ultimate in government waste; a non-profit groups called the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board awarded Alaska Airlines a half-million dollar grant to paint the aircraft. The Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board was funded by a 29 million dollar federal allocation [...]

Tough Time for Military Recruiters

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

3 Free songs from iTunes if you agree to be contacted by an Army National Guard Recruiter.
This ad has been seen making the rounds on the Internet.

A full size – readable screen shot is also available.
Not only is this ad in bad taste . . . the ad is asking potential recruits to enter their [...]

Ok, in the event that you were wondering . . .

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

I don’t normally do this, but . . .

You are a Social Liberal (78% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (60% permissive) You are best described as a:
Democrat

Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

It’s interesting, as I don’t subscribe to [...]

Google Responds

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

The fine folks over at the Google Blog have responded to questions and complaints of political slant regarding the top Google results for the “failure” and “miserable failure” search keywords.
It’s interesting to note how the page ranking works in this process; but interestingly, the ranking of “failure” and “miserable failure” has been attributed to a [...]

Look to the Europeans for Inspiration

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Every time I think the US Government and large companies are trying to take another miles worth of personal freedoms and privacy, the Europeans remind me just how good we still have it:
According to this Yahoo News Article, the Dutch are assembling a database to open “Electronic Files” on all citizens upon birth “as a [...]

The Great Google Tells All

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

The great global brain that is Google tells all again . . .
A quick search for the word “failure” has a surprising top result.
EDIT 08/13: In the event that “someone” requests a change in page rank . . . I’ll link directly to the current top result for the word failure.
Interesting . . . and [...]


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