PSA (free March Madness Audio via Yahoo)

Yahoo has a premium service that is applicable to most games, but by going to their audio page and looking for games with a "gray" speaker instead of a "gold" speaker you can listen to some of the games via their home broadcast.

How bout UWM, sheesh!

World Wide Wolfowitz Whining

There is quite an overseas stir at President Bush's nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank. The UK papers seem especially despondent over the nomination. This to me makes it all worthwhile. While I don't have any problem with the British people, the whole "How Could 50 million people be so dumb" cover never sat well with me. For that reason, I enjoy seeing them all "a tizzy" over things they have absolutely zero control.

This Is London: Outrage Over Bush World Bank Nominee
They even quote a handful of extreme leftists to make their case!

Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs said there were many people in
the US and around the world with expertise in development economics, but
Wolfowitz was not one of them.
John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal
think-tank, said: 'If the Bush administration wanted to poke a finger into the
eye of every nation on Earth, it couldn't have made a better choice.'

I agree nutter, I agree.

Financial Times (this paper I actually do enjoy, takes me back to International Macro Econ)

Surprise, and in some quarters dismay, was a common response in the World
Bank's other large shareholder countries to Paul Wolfowitz's nomination.

The lack of consultation before the announcement meant that European
governments - who collectively hold about 30 per cent of the votes on the bank's
executive board to the US's 17 per cent - were slow to react. "There are going
to be a lot of very unhappy people, but they may be as upset about the process
as about the person," said one European official. "They were supposed to consult
us and there was no consultation."

The beat goes on in FT. Wolfowitz nomination a shock for Europe

Some non-governmental groups fear Mr Wolfowitz will have a different focus,
seeking to enlist the bank in the larger project of building US security by
spreading democracy. "There will be concern about the possibility of introducing
the war on terror into the projects and policies of the World Bank," said Manish
Bapna, executive-director of the Bank Information Center.

Don't forget about Reuters, never one to miss an opportunity to try and kick America.

The U.S. nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as World Bank chief drew a cool
response from European officials on the bank's board but they had little chance
of blocking it, board sources said on Wednesday.
Sources close to the World
Bank board said Wolfowitz's name was informally circulated several weeks ago
among the 23-member board, which represents the bank's 184 member countries, and
the reaction was made clear to U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow.
"Mr. Snow
knows that the reaction from the board was unfavorable," one source said. "Mr.
Wolfowitz's nomination today tells us the U.S. couldn't care less what the rest
of the world thinks."

I especially like the part about the US not caring what Europe thinks. High comedy here folks!

Don't sleep on the US press either, they are none too happy. WaPo leads the way!

Nomination Shocks, Worries Europe

President Bush's nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as
the next president of the World Bank was met with much surprise, little
enthusiasm and some outright opposition in Europe, where he is best known as a
leading proponent of a conflict deeply unpopular here, the Iraq war.
"We
were led to believe that the neoconservatives were losing ground," said Michael
Cox, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
"But clearly the revolution is alive and well."

Here is a fun sounding board at the BBC where users are free to comment on the nomination of Wolfowitz by President Bush.

This and the appointment of Bolton to the UN are transparent attempts to
destroy all worldwide institutions and make the US the only internationally
relevant power. The neo-cons have not hidden their contempt for these
institutions and it seems that if these appointments are not challenged then the
institutions will be destroyed. Is there not something which can be done to stop
this? Come on Europe, show some mettle and veto this appointment.Kym, Leicester,
UK

Outrageous, dangerous, and against the world tide of progress for humanity. I
am ashamed and chagrined. Europe, flip the deck - challenge this appointment,
don't accept it. Flex your muscles and reject this nomination.Bruce Macdonald,
San Diego, California, USA

Really though, they're all good. Also keep checking out those DU threads, non stop hillarity!

They know not the meaning of shame...They inhabit some kingdom Beyond Shame,
and exhibit breathtaking audacity.

ANWR Passes, McCain once again shows his colors

In "what the heck took so long" news, Senate finally has voted to allow drilling in ANWR (actually they voted down an amendment to take out pro-ANWR language from the bidget) in an incredibly slim 51-49 vote. I went home to watch the vote over lunch and was fairly surprised at how the vote went. I knew Snowe was going to vote left, she usually does. On this issue I thought McCain actually might side with his own (albeit loose) party affiliation. Turns out I was wrong. I am looking for a link to the votes and will post it when I find it (there is a small chance I am wrong about McCain, but I don't think so).


Here is the great "if you voted for drilling you are an environmental rapist" DU thread.
I love these people, they make politics fun!

In addition to defeating the anti-ANWR resoultion, the Senate aso defeated Sen. Boxer (Communist - CA) resolution to give more corporate handouts to the failing Amtrak.

It's been a great day all in all if you're a GOPer. Finally we get some decisive wins.


EDIT: I was right, McCain shows his leftist tendencies. Good luck with that '08 run slick.

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Wolfowitz for World Bank...watch these threads!

In an action sure to piss off hard core leftists world wide, President Bush will anounce at 10:15 eastern that his choice for World Bank head honcho is Paul Wolfowitz, evil incarnate to lefty nut jobs. Here are some threads sure to be hillarious and over the top over at DU.

Link #1
Link #2


Enjoy.

Michelle Malkin Must Read

Once again, Ms. Malking hits the nail on the head with her most recent piece, in which she deals with the knuckleheads who will be protesting this weekend, or next week... does it matter, do they ever stop protesting? Reading all the emails I get about the "great protests planned" for the two year anniversary of "bombing and invasion of Iraq" I am struck (as was Michelle) by the absurdity of it all. As Iraq's government meets for the first time last night, the streets of Lebanon are rising up for democracy, the leftists will be protesting a policy that has freed and enlightened millions around the world, and the democracy dominoes continue to tumble.

With freedom on the move across the Middle East and beyond, aggrieved
anti-war protesters here in the United States have nothing better to do this
weekend than what they have always done: stand in the way.
The most unhinged of left-wing activists, from breast-exposing pacifists to the
conspiracy-mongers of MoveOn.org, will descend on New York, Washington and other major media markets to "mark the two-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq." They will do so by clogging the streets, tying up police
resources and leaving behind a trail of anti-Bush propaganda litter...Along the
way, the marchers will stop to harass workers at a local military recruiting
station. Yes, these are the supposed peaceniks who derive pleasure from ripping
yellow ribbon magnets off of minivans and throwing rocks through ROTC campus
offices. These are the acolytes of Michael Moore, who compares Iraqi
head-choppers to American Revolutionary war heroes.
"Oppose the war, support the troops"? Bull.
The Bush-bashers, as always, have impeccable timing. Nothing highlights the
bankrupt obstructionism of the anti-war movement more than the inspiring photos
of the renaissance of freedom taking place in Lebanon. Contrast the faces of
hope and defiance against terrorism pictured at the massive rallies in Beirut's
Martyrs Square this week with the faces of Bush hatred and capitulation to
terrorism that you'll see this weekend. Any question about who's
winning?

These are incredible and historic times, and history will show that the left has been on the wrong side from the beginning.

Perhaps the GOP can pass this test

In what might finally be a vicroty for the GOP owned congress, there is exected to be a vote on ANWR in the next day or two. The leftists including Kerry are in a tizzy, trying to get grass roots activism out in force to shake up a few Senators. We'll see if it works. A vote is expected by tomorrow.

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who for more than two decades has been unable to
persuade Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil companies,
said he was optimistic about the prospects.
“We believe we have the votes,”
Stevens said at a news conference. Alaska officials view the refuge’s oil as
replacing dwindling shipments from the aging Prudhoe Bay fields on the North
Slope.
Plan added to budgetSeeking to sidestep a Democratic filibuster that
would require 60 votes to overcome, Republican leaders have put the Alaska
refuge provision into a budget document that is immune to a filibuster under
Senate rules.

I honestly don't understand the opposition to the drilling. I honestly think that the left simply wants us to have Flintstone cars, and animal operated vacuum cleaners. Wait, no that won't work PETA would be pissed. I really don't know what they want. No oil drilling, no wind power, no nuclear plants, opposition to coal plants in Wisconsin...

Do they really want to force us only see at night when they toke a bowl? How can they play their Dead, man, if there is no electricity to run their DAT player?

Those fantastically compassionate liberals strike again (DU takes on Ashley Smith)

This time, they are questioning the story of the woman who pacified Nichols. It seems the DUer theory is that Nichols is the guy who stabbed this womans husband to death years ago, and that this whole thing was a ploy to get the reward money. Sheer brilliance! Here are some classic excerpts from the thread.

However, last night--as I was up late listening to her story for a half
hour--I thought to myself, "This entire story is hogwash."All I have is my
intuition on this one, and I'm feeling as if she was lying and that her entire
story was fabricated. Like you, I saw the fake crying. I saw a fairly decent
actress--acting.

Do you think maybe he knew her prior to going to her apt? How did he
choose her apt? Isn't it a big complex?


"most" people who lose their husband to murder, would NOT turn
over their one yr old to an aunt to raise. They "might" move in with an aunt,
baby in tow, to get "back on track", but it strikes me as odd that she's "on her
own".. I foresee problems ahead for that daughter..

And my favorite...

If our hunch is right, there are going to be some angry and embarrassed
people. What if he was the person who stabbed and killed her husband? That case
has not been solved. He was waiting there near her house.

Wow. There are actually multiple threads. Here is the other one, a bit more crass. (fishmarket?)

I do not buy her story. I have nothing but my intuition, on which to go. I
just get the feeling that her entire story is cooked.I don't know WHY I feel
this way. I just do.I didn't believe her. I got a "programmed" feel from her. I
listened to her entire story. It's a long story, so there are going to be
inconsistencies and other quirks. Those didn't bother me. It's her entire
presentation.

Debating Social Security

I basically started this blog with two issues in the forefront of my mind. Social security reform and Walker's campaign for Governor. Seems I was a bit premature on both fronts. The campaing is still months away from really gearing up, and the president still hasn't proposed a discernable plan. However, when did having facts and figures ever stop a debate? We don't need Perotvian charts, we can speculate and assume all day long to argue our positions. Such a debate (it really is shaping up to be a pretty good one) is taking place over at Sanity in Mad City. It seems that, despite no plan being proposed, people are opposed to it (and people are in favor of it, the fools). This sums up the leftist position:







There is also some good stuff going on up on Capitol Hill, with Mr. Greenspan testifying before one of the thousands of committees (Special Committee on Aging to be specific). The gist, STOP SPENDING!

We need, in effect, to make the phantom "lock-boxes" around the trust fund real.
For a brief period in the late 1990s, a common commitment emerged to do just
that. But, regrettably, that commitment collapsed when it became apparent that,
in light of a less favorable economic environment, maintaining balance in the
budget excluding Social Security would require lower spending or higher taxes.
Last year, Social Security tax revenues plus interest exceeded benefits by
about $150 billion. If those funds had been removed from the unified budget and
"locked up" and Congress had not made any adjustments in the rest of the budget,
the unified budget deficit would have been $564 billion. A reasonable hypothesis
is that the Congress would, in fact, have responded by taking actions to pare
the deficit. In that case, the end result would have been lowered government
dissaving and correspondingly higher national saving. A simple reshuffling from
the unified accounts to the lock-boxes would not have, in itself, added to
government savings; but higher taxes or lower spending would have accomplished
that important objective.
The major attraction of personal or private
accounts is that they can be constructed to be truly segregated from the unified
budget and, therefore, are more likely to induce the federal government to take
those actions that would reduce public dissaving and raise national saving. But
it is important to recognize that many varieties of private accounts exist, with
significantly different economic consequences. Some types of accounts are
virtually indistinguishable from the current Social Security system, and the
Congress would be unlikely to view them as truly off-budget. Other types of
accounts actually do transfer funds into the private sector as unencumbered
private assets. The Congress is much more likely to view the transfer of funds
to these latter types of accounts as raising the deficit and would then react by
taking measures to lower it.

Nod to Social Security Choice.

So I lied...sorry

I didn't drop my weekend sorts roundup yesterday, mostly because I am enraged at the plight the UW Mens hockey team finds itself. Because of a totally computer generated field of 16 for the NCAA tournament, the men would have helped themselves by LOSING on Sunday. You see, that loss would have made Alaska Anchorage a "team of consideration" and in the process given Wisconsin 5 more wins against "teams of consideration" (we beat AA five times this year). Anyway, that means UW's Pairwise rating fell by beating AA. Convoluted. Now they are in jeopardy of missing the Dance if they lose in the WCHA tournament.

The Badgers were eighth in the Pairwise last week, but are now tied for 11th,
which means they went from a third seed to a fourth. They dropped because
Anchorage is no longer a team under consideration for the tournament. Records
against teams under consideration - those with .500 or better power ratings -
are part of the Pairwise criteria. UW was 6-1 vs. the Seawolves this season and
those wins can no longer be used in its Pairwise resume.

Moving on...

It seems the Opinion Journal has discovered some interesting goings on in the Middle East, where President Bush has become the new hero.

That's right, they're quoting President Bush, the simian-American unilateralist
cowboy! And they're not alone. In a Washington Post essay, Youssef Ibrahim, formerly a reporter for the New York Times
and The Wall Street Journal and now a Dubai-based consultant, says that
throughout the Arab world are coming "murmurs of approval for the devoutly
Christian U.S. president, whose persistent calls for democracy in the Middle
East are looking less like preaching and more like timely
encouragement"...Ibraham himself admits to second thoughts: "It's enough for
someone like me, who has felt that Bush's attitude toward the Mideast has been
all wrong, to wonder whether his idea of setting the Muslim house in order is
right."

Over at LGF we find out that trolling DU is a favorite not only of yours truly, but of all bloggers. Nowhere is there more fodder. Today (technically last night) they are predicting the Next Great War as America's great Navy has begun descending on the Middle East.

Justice Antonin Scalia gives a speech that I wholeheartily agree with. I heard him speak at Marquette and he is actually quite funny, in addition to being incredibly intelligent. I don't think even his most ardent detractors could deny his vast intellect. The thrust of his speech was that judges are ruling on issues they have no business ruling on.

In a 35-minute speech Monday, Scalia said unelected judges have no place
deciding issues such as abortion and the death penalty. The court's 5-4 ruling
March 1 to outlaw the juvenile death penalty based on "evolving notions of
decency" was simply a mask for the personal policy preferences of the
five-member majority, he said..."If you think aficionados of a living
Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again," Scalia told an
audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington think tank. "You think the
death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You
want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's
flexibility."
"Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine
lawyers?" he said...Scalia said increased politics on the court will create a
bitter nomination fight for the next Supreme Court appointee, since judges are
now more concerned with promoting their personal policy preferences rather than
interpreting the law. "If we're picking people to draw out of their own
conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally
for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us," he said,
explaining that's why senators increasingly probe nominees for their personal
views on positions such as abortion.

He's a judge who just wants to be a judge, a goal to which all Supreme Court justices should aspire.

A quick "pop-in"

I figured I had better check in this morning, seeing that the good folks at Dummocrats linked me in their blogger showcase and the most recent post I had was about my little sisters heroics in womens hockey regionals. Since that interest group is incredibly small, I figured I would drop a line quick this morning, and I will have a sports roundup later today or early this evening (TONS going on there).

Basically there is tons going on of importance, here is a guick look at some news:

UAW nutters

Sunshine week, I still don't know what to make of it. If it does what it says (unlikely), great. If it turns into a Bush Bahs 05 (likely) then it's just another waste of time. (Question, will Boots n Sabers request for voting records be championed this week in the Urinal?)

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that the media was much harder on President Bush during the election.

PSA Vodkapundit has guest bloggers all week, and the comment sections so far are quite entertaining.

Quiz, what do Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett and Bjork have in common? Apparently, they both dislike America.

"A sick Phil Kessel goal"

That is how my little sisters goal today in regionals was described to me. Digusting. One of her coaches (my older sister) called me to let me know I would have to extend my Cactus League vacation at the end of March to include a few days up in Colorado for the Women's Nationals. It should be a lot of fun, my older sister won nationals about six years ago in Syracuse, so this trip will be a lot nicer. Anywaym it seems the younger sister pulled out a move she learned from Kessel in the game today and made MN's goalie look foolish, so at lease I have that going for me, which is nce.


Badger Hockey update, Bruckler gets the pine as Eliott starts in net. Game just started.

The must click of the evening

A new Michael Jackson video, courtesy of eBaum's World. Very well done, very very funny.

All your base are belong to us...

I have had possibly the most unproductive day in months. I decided, once I woke up to go over to my neighbors with my laptop and surf. Nothing else, just surf. Here is where I ended up:

Zero Wing: Somebody set us up the bomb! You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha. (If that made no sense to you, you should watch the video)

This actually gave me an idea so I stopped at Home Depot while getting dinner and I too will be making a "flat man."

The original Aicha (GellieMan), and a copycat, charminggeek.net to be specific. Funny funny stuff.

The human clock

Banana phone

Basically, I am killing time to watch the replay, cordoned off in my apartment with the phone off so I can watch the replay at 10:30 with no prior knowledge of the outcome. I'll let everyone know how flat man turned outm and possibly post some pictures.

Close one...

For those of you who care, Bucky squeaked out a victory, 5-4 despite Bruckler's Eddie Cicotte impersonation (ok, I'm sure he wasn't trying to throw it, but sheesh). I haven't seen the game, I listened to it on 1310, but damn did Bernd sound weak. A hundred footer rolling through the 5 hole got him yanked. Elliott performed in his stead and the Badgers were able to fight back and win. I am staying in tonight to watch the replay at 1:30 onb MPTV Channel 551.

UConn is in the process of trying to scrape back from a 21 point deficit with 12 minutes left. They have it down to 12 as we speak. Why must the things I care about torture me so??

At least I am better off than these schmucks. There is nothing more foolish than these iPod devotees. My sisters are members. It is expensive for what it offers, a sleek quality mp3 jukebox with relatively poor battery life. Personally, I decided on a Dell DJ 20 gig. It was about the price of an iPod mini with amazing battery life and a much less slick package. I don't care what it looks like, I want it to play songs. I also don't think about it 24 hours a day, give it a name, or pay hundreds of dollars for absurd accessories. For you older folks, were you like this with the first Walkman's? Did you guys name those gigantic boomboxes you carried on your shoulders?

My tech porn comes in phone form. My killer Nokia 6230 is an amazing phone with built in FM radio, 1gb of memory, built in mp3, high quality camera and did I mention the 4 minutes of video record? Did I mention it is incredibly tiny and light? Smaller than a mini by faaar.



HOLY HOLY HOLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! UConn just hit a three, we're back to within 6!!

The Friday Sports Roundup

Because we can never forget...we hate Phil Kessel. ( Livestrong style bracelets may or may not be on the way).

Some QB is coming back, I don't know he's supposed to be pretty good.

Mike Wilkinson and a few tag-alongs play the Buckeyes tonight.

This can't be, the Urinal has discovered there is a hockey team...in Wisconsin! Great way to recognize em...

His team has won only two of its last 10 games, kicked away a chance to win
the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season title, scored more than
three goals just once in its last 13 games and hasn't won consecutive games
since Jan. 22 and Feb. 4.

Must win weekend for the badgers, more here. An article on why the games are being moved out of the Kohl center, to the old time Dan County Colliseum (I will never call it whatever it is now, and the Mecca will always be the Mecca).

We still hate Phil Kessel, look at this guy, he's too goofy lookin for the Cardinal and White. Fits right into that maroon n mustard.




Badger fans also got another solid defensive recruit.

Eaves bags another defensemen, another early commitment for 2007-08. Nigel
Williams, currently a 16 year old 6-3 210 lbs defenseman, set to play with the
USNTDP next year.

OSU sucks, Gophers suck, Syracuse sucks. Oh, Alaska Anchorage sucks. (Links will give you live scoreboards for the respective games that matter).

They deleted my last post...

so I decided to pull a Vodkapundit and do a little "drunk blogging." Here is what the page looks like right now, at approximately 11:53...

Reform! Reform! Reform! (none / 0) Senator Feingold, Thank you for stopping by and please come back. We'd like to hear from you just as much as we hope you're listening to us. Senator, you are uniquely qualified to help reposition the Democratic party as the party of populist reform and change that can be a new, forward looking clean government answer to the cesspool of corruption being overseen by the GOP in Washington, DC. We are Reform Democrats and we're looking for a leader. Please help make your colleagues see the light and help the party become Reform Democrats too. Thank you for listening, Steve in Sacto

by Steve in Sacto on Thu Mar 10th, 2005 at 09:42:58 PM EST [ Reply to This | none 1 - Troll 2 - Lame 3 - Super ]

Run. Please, we need you! (none / 0) Senator, you will have my vote if you decide to run for president.

by Hannula on Thu Mar 10th, 2005 at 10:58:17 PM EST [ Reply to This | none 1 - Troll 2 - Lame 3 - Super ]

[new] Why delete posts? (none / 0) I don't thin kthe Senator would approve of your overt blog censorship. What happened to the forum of free speech and open debate? The gist of my previous, deleted post, was that I want you to run for President Mr. Feingold, because then you won't be able to play politics. The people of Wisconsin will see you for the leftist you really are, and the beating you take in the primaries will carry into a beating in your next Senate campaign. Do the right a favor sir, run in 08.

by badgerhockey on Fri Mar 11th, 2005 at 12:51:30 AM EST [ Reply to This ]

As you can see, badgerhockey is my cleverly disguised handle. We'll see how long it lasts, my guess, a few minutes.

"we need free and open discourse" unless of course, you dare to challenge the Great Senator on his own blog...


EDIT: I am happy to say my post has been restored and it seems the senator will be allowing some free form debate on his site. (I still can't tell if this is his site or if he was just making a guest post). Anyway, it could prove to be a fascinating look at this guy.

The Russ Feingold Blog!!

What a jag. This guy is the Phil Kessel of the political world (by that I mean I can't stand him).

My kids often tease me about the time I pre-heated a toaster before putting some bread in to toast it...While the days of campus protests are not the same today as when I was in college, many people don't realize that campus protests are going on every day, all over the country, when thinking people, from all different states, generations, and ethnicities are drawn more and more to participate and exercise their First Amendment rights in an exciting venue: the Internet in general and blogs in particular. I agree Russ, I think you're worthless. Name me something you have done with your time in the Senate, besides hold on to your seat with a death grip...

This could prove incerdibly interesting, and I really hope he keeps it up. (The comments are disgustingly sappy..."a blog from the next President of the United States, you have got to be kidding me).


EDIT: see if you can find my comment, I wonder if it got taken down yet?

Problems

Seems like there are some problems with Blogger and/or blogrolling.com.
I have been unable to access blogrolling since early this morning and
now I am having trouble getting onto another blogger site.

However, I have reached a conclusion about one important matter. I am a
John Bolton fan. For all the reasons the socialist Guardian dislikes
him, I am a fan. (I haven't heard the term Americanist used very often,
but I rather like it. I hope most would see me as an Americanist.)

The enemy within

How an Americanist devoted to destroying international alliances became
the US envoy to the UN

"John Bolton has been named by President Bush as the US ambassador to
the UN. "If I were redoing the security council today, I'd have one
permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution
of power in the world," Bolton once said. Lately, as undersecretary of
state for arms control, he has wrecked all the nonproliferation
diplomacy within his reach. Over the past two decades he has been the
person most dedicated to trying to discredit the UN. George Orwell's
clock of 1984 is striking 13."

If they aren't referencing Hitler it's always Orwell isn't it? Do they not understand that 1984 was simply Stalin's USSR set in "the future" written by a shell shocked devoted
communist who went nuts when Stalin's atrocities came to light?

"In his first year, he forced the US withdrawal from the anti-ballistic
missile treaty, destroyed a protocol on enforcing the biological weapons
convention, and ousted the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons. He scuttled the nuclear test ban treaty and the UN
conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. And he
was behind the renunciation of the US signature on the 1998 Rome statute
creating the international criminal court. He described sending his
letter notifying the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, as "the happiest
moment of my government service".

(That is simply a stunning list of fantastic accomplishments. If there was an international court, howlong would it take for charges to be brought against every President we
have, and for some right wing nut to bring charges against French puppets in retaliation?)

Sorry for the formatting, it must look terrible. I'll try and fix it
when blogger gets its crap together.

(emailed in ESK).

Worst...Chant...Ever...the sad plight of Xun (George) Wang

"Ain’t no university without the student body. We tried to do it nice, now we’re getting rowdy."

Parkside Protestors

About 100 students and faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside marched
through the school’s halls today protesting in support of a sociology
associate rofessor who Chancellor John Keating has recommended be
dismissed.Keating wants to fire Xun (George) Wang because Wang refuses to teach
weekend classes. Wang contends he's the only professor who has been forced to
teach weekend courses. Some faculty and students are concerned that the
university’s treatment of Wang is discriminatory. Wang is Asian. He has filed
two discrimination complaints against the school with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission since 2002.

Hmmm, thanks for letting us know he's Asian, I was thinking possibly Polish, maybe Nordic? Going to the UW-Parkside web site offers a bit more information. Oh, sorry Ms. Chang (she wrote the piece for the Urinal) I wasn't trying to discriminate against you, it's just that your blurb left some wanting more info.

It seems Mr. Wang is the low professor on the totem pole of the Anthropology/Sociology Department.

I decided I had better check out just how overworked this poor man is, so I checked out the schedule for the upcoming fall term. It seems Mr. Wang is teaching a whopping THREE classes for a rough total of 9.5 hours a week. That's right folks, less than ten hours of class time pre week. The man is teaching 8 credits. I took more than eight credits in a SUMMER once. If he is barely working one full day during the week, and won't work on weekends, when does Mr. Wang intend to earn his pay check? Mr. Wang is teaching two Intro to Soc classes and one Research/Survey Methods class (which seems to me to be a sort of study hall for Soc/Anthro majors.

So umm, what do you do Mr. Wang?

Just for fun, lets get an idea of the Anthro dept's view of the world, lets check out their links shall we?

Uncommon Thought :

This March 19th is the two year "anniversary" of the Bush and Company war of
choice in Iraq. To put it another way, it's the anniversary of the unleashing of
war in "perpetuity" or, as Gore Vidal aptly named it, "Perpetual War for
Perpetual Peace." For six months prior to the invasion of Iraq, and subsequent
occupation, if not longer, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Donald
Rumsfeld, et al, conducted a "marketing campaign" to sell their "product" with
all the fervor of a corporation introducing a "new" product or brand

Eszter's Blog:
Wow, this is an intelligent, left-of-center blog. I'm shocked.

Keywords:
A whole bunch of leftist drivel, including some (shocking!) defense of Ward Churchill.

Anyway, from here it looks like some leftist Soc professors are trying to boot someone for being lazy. If only he hated America and praised the terrorists, these nutters would go to the mat for him.

Get in touch with Mr. Wang, let him know if you have a 9 hour a week job with full benefits that needs a socialist...sorry, sociologist.

The nutters (a DUer of course) solved it!

They have known all along that we wanted to kill the Italians, but no one could figure out a motive. Well, it turns out that the multiple shots were really covering fire for a crack sniper to shoot the communist reporter (in a car going 100 mph...very nice shot indeed!) because she knew about all the terrible chemical attacks we carried out in Fallujah. The hit would have worked too, if it hadn't been for "the heroic sacrifice of Nicola Calipari. Ironic that the neocons are stymied by a combination of altruism and duty, things they cannot possibly comprehend."

Honestly, it's a bit tough to follow the logic, but I know it has to be right. Here's more:

Had everything gone as planned, an American sniper would have assassinated
Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena with one shot, following the sniper's code of
'one shot, one kill'. The only independent witness to what happened would then
be dead, as both her guardian, the heroic Nicola Calipari, the driver of the
car, and the other two passengers were Italian secret service agents, thus
worked for Berlusconi, and would be unable to say anything (on other accounts,
the driver may have been an Iraqi, but he could easily be disposed of). The
Americans obviously could have killed everyone in the car by simply blowing it
up, but it would then have been impossible to claim that this was just another
mistake made by a panicking speeding driver at a checkpoint. By firing lots of
rounds, but with only one shot killing anybody, it is clear that either the
Americans are terrible shots, or all the flying ammo was simply a ruse to hide
the only shot that mattered, the one that would kill the person with the
information on what happened in the chemical warfare attacks on Falluja. All the
Americans, except for the sniper, were shooting to miss.

Additionally, the US was apparently in a bidding war with Italy, we wanted her returned dead, they bought her freedom...

Presumably because the Americans offered them so many dollars to have her
returned dead. Fortunately for her, the Italians offered more to have her returned alive.

It's a shame that the author's true motives are finally revealed in the last paragraph with some nuty anti-Semitic rant:

Shooting journalists is just like the Israeli shooting of journalists and
international human rights monitors, and the entire Sgrena incident is just
another Israeli-style 'targeted assassination'. The Israelification of the
United States continues

More fun with anti-semitism abounds in the blog.