Archive for August, 2005

where is europe

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 by Poca Dot

Multiple Mentality hosts Items of Interest #55. Pretty sure MM has hosted the others as well. But it is interesting.

Don Surber reads something in Der Spiegel online (in English) and posts Katrina Hits. Where's Europe? Katrina Hits. Where's Europe?

Bonfire Of The Vanities #112

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 by Poca Dot

Bonfire Of The Vanities #112 is up, hosted by Don Surber.

Don't Mess With Texas

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 by Poca Dot

Is it too early to joke about it? Don Surber has why Karl Rove Created Hurricane Katrina

Dueling Byrds

Monday, August 29th, 2005 by Poca Dot

Big Cat Chronicles hosts the RINO Sightings carnival!

Gary Cruse hosts the Best of Me Symphony carnival!

Don Surber noticed that the banner ads in the WV 2006 Senate race look eerily the same. Strange cyberfeud.

Good afternoon

Monday, August 29th, 2005 by Poca Dot

John Cole at cuts to the chase on what you can do about Hurricane Katrina.

The Anchoress says the war was worth it. That's good.

Argghhh! says Iraqis say the war was worth it. That's better.

Mudville Gazette whacks the LA Times, NY Times and Washington Post upside the head for their stories on Sunday that still insist Iraq=Vietnam.

American Thinker asks what should education be about?

Outside the Beltway feels no sympathy for the "Halliburton whistleblower" who was demoted.

Wizbang! says American Muslims are taking sides. The wrong one.

Large Bill asks who is Hugo Chavez? Hint: Not Eric Chavez's father.

Kwitcherbitchin

Monday, August 29th, 2005 by Poca Dot

Some things happening besides a hurricane.

Don Surber explains why Connecticut gets only 65 cents for every dollar its residents pay in federal taxes while West Virginia gets $1.82. Hint: Robert Byrd has nothing to do with it.

Rightwing Nuthouse asks where are all the other protesters? Cindy Sheehan does seem rather alone.

Maureen Dowd: "The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute." If so visit The Massgraves: Victims of Saddam's Regime. Riveting photographs.

Good Stuff

Sunday, August 28th, 2005 by Poca Dot

The war president has been called an imbecile, a liar, a warmonger and worse. Nevertheless, Mr. Snitch defends Abe Lincoln.

Some fellow in Switzerland named Tony Surber died in a car crash two years ago. Now a lawyer wants Don Surber in Poca, WV, to claim he is a relative. Should he? That is the $6 million question.

Turkmentistan

Sunday, August 28th, 2005 by Poca Dot

Photographer Rick Lee has heads scratching in his latest What the hell is it? contest.

American Dinosaur says it is time for less talk and more action in fighting terrorism. A reminder that many of the people not satisfied with the prez think he's not aggressive enough.

Caveman visits the big city. This picture is worth 4 words.

Lorie Byrd's 5-year-old daughter apparently did well in surgery. Mom should be back to blogging soon.

More Surber has the Worst team money can buy.

Courtesy of Pravda, why Ashlee Simpson will not tour Turkmenistan.

Courtesy of al-Jazeera, how it came to pass that  a Morrocan and a Turk man came to be arrested for Internet havoc. It gets plenty weird as you think about it.

Fayette Tries Capitalism

Sunday, August 28th, 2005 by Poca Dot

Don Surber has the latest development on a billion-dollar development in West Virginia.

Not a Joke But Funny

Saturday, August 27th, 2005 by Poca Dot

So a man is being fitted for his artificial leg. He decides to take the leg for a test drive and  Don Surber reports, walks off without paying for it. And here we thought all you had to worry about was those one-armed bandits in Vegas.