Daily Archives: March 1, 2007

In Like A Lion, Indeed

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

Roaring winter storms have caused at least 19 people today, with the toll likely to go higher. It has been a brutal day, weathe-wise. Many of the dead are teenagers killed when a school roof collapsed in Alabama when a … Continue reading →

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Rats!

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

Well, the scandal of the rats who like takeout food in New York has taken another new turn today. The parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut has temporarily closed still more franchises held by the same company … Continue reading →

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Trial Balloons Reach Speed Of Light

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

The Democrats are floating trial balloons so fast, they have actually set new speed records with them. Literally just hours after they tried to float one about possibly cutting some funds out of the military budget, they reversed course so fast … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, War | 5 Comments

In Like A Lion

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

We're in the middle of a raging winter storm right now. The schools are closed all over the area, my wife got partway to work and turned around , it was too awful even for a Subaru. We even had … Continue reading →

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Fundamentally Anti-Democratic

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

The push by unions to eliminate the requirements for a secret ballot in unionization votes is reaching high gear in the House of Representatives. This change would force companies to recognize unions based only on the so-called card check recognition. … Continue reading →

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The Proof Is In The Numbers

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

The News Buckit provides a tabulation that counts up the number of uses the "seven deadly words" that George Carlin made famous in the blogosphere. Even with a somewhat larger sample of right-leaning blogs (22 to 18) the results are completely … Continue reading →

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Night Raiders

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

The Animal Uprising™ has a new warrior. This beast can work in complete darkness and we here at Blue Crab Boulevard fear that it will be unleashed on unsuspecting sleeping humans in the near future. Fear the Enormous, blind, albino … Continue reading →

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Speaking Of Yugos

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

I have called my new, very old Linux computer a "Hot Rod Yugo" due to it's seriously old hardware and very slow speed by today's standards (Pentium II @ 333MHz, 384MB RAM). Thanks to Quilly Mammoth from Just Barking Mad, … Continue reading →

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The Same Old Story

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Gaius

The same old song and dance. Democrats run in the elections using a meme about the "culture of corruption". Then once they are in office, Nancy Pelosi wants to appoint William "Cold Cash" Jefferson to the panel that oversees Homeland … Continue reading →

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