Cruel and Unusual

Posted on February 23, 2006 | Filed Under Editorial

January 8, 1981. Lodi, California. Michael Morales grabbed 17-year-old Terri Winchell from behind and attempted to strangle her with his belt. He then took a hammer and repeatedly struck his victim in the head, beating her into unconsciousness and crushing her skull. Morales left 23 identifiable wounds in Terri’s skull. Then he dragged her face-down across the road into a vineyard where he raped Terri Winchell and left her face down on the ground. Morales started to leave, but returned to stab Terri in the chest four times. Terri Winchell died from her …

No WMDs - Fact or Fiction?

Posted on February 22, 2006 | Filed Under Iraq, Politics

Last Month, Georges Sada, Saddam Hussein’s No. 2 man in the Iraqi Air Force, confirmed to the New York Sun that Iraqi WMDs were moved to Syria just before the war began [ Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says ]
Mr. Sada, 65, told the Sun that the pilots of the two airliners that transported the weapons of mass destruction to Syria from Iraq approached him in the middle of 2004, after Saddam was captured by American troops.
These pilots appearently told Sada that two commercial Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to transport planes by removing …

Verse-O-Matic 3.1.0 Released

Posted on February 21, 2006 | Filed Under Verse-O-Matic

Well, the Verse-O-Matic upgrade was released. � If you are upgrading from 3.0.0, you will need to download the special upgrade (indicated on the Verse-O-Matic page). � Everyone else (new installs and upgrades from versions previous to 3.0.0) can download the regular package.

Some major new features in this release include the ability to toggle the way it displays. � You can go with random each page load (the original), random by day, set what will display each day (verse of the day), and set a static verse to display until you change it.

Get it here.

Bryant Gumbel - Racist

Posted on February 21, 2006 | Filed Under Editorial, Politics

Bryant Gumbel, reporting from the Winter Olympics in Torino, had this to say about the games:
“Count me among those who don’t care about [the Olympics] and won’t watch them… So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention.”

Now that’s class.

Gumbel is a racist, pure and simple, and is unable to look beyond the color of skin and acknowledge talent, choosing to equivocate “the only reason you won the gold is that you didn’t have to compete against a …

Why I Don’t Like Unions

Posted on February 21, 2006 | Filed Under Editorial, Politics

It seems that there is some trouble brewing in Collier County Florida. The school district had to change the President’s Day holiday to a hurricane makeup day. The union filed a grievance because they were not given a paid day off and were not paid time-and-a-half for working on a holiday. The school board told the union that the grievance was out of line and the threat of a work stoppage (strike) would not be tolerated. Not only would it not be tolerated, they said it would render the entire agreement null and void, i.e. you’re all fired.

Well, good for …