A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)
Someone from proxy01.syd.iprimus.net.au writes:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Eli Lilly Freemason
Not so far as I know. He doesn’t get a mention in Dwight Smith’s history of Indiana Freemasonry and I’ve never seen him in any lists of famous Freemasons I’ve encountered.
We did some rawther plebian chores today, don’t’cha know. So there was no bloggage.
First, we had breakfast. This was important since we are both getting over nasty colds (yes, Sally gave hers to me. Share and share alike in this family).
Next, we went to the local appliance stupidstore to buy…a freezer! 11c.f. frost-free if you must know. The annoyance of being a gourmet cook with no freezer to store leftovers will be no more. (The freezer on top of the fridge is too damn small.)
Next, we went to the local u-assemble-it furniture shoppe that carries the full line of Sauder furniture. Just looking, but we saw some glass-front bookcases that we lust after (only $109 each!), and a very nice computer armoire that we may get for Sally (a bit more expensive…$329 I think it was). No decisions until we get our Larger Place™.
Then, we went to Costco and bought a few things. I was suffering from Costco Withdrawal since I hadn’t been there since last Monday. Second breakfast there consisting of all of the samples they had to give out.
Thence to home, to clean out the garage now that the garage door spring has been fixed, so that the installers will be able to get the freezer (see above) into the garage. (And incidentally, Sally will be able to park Vanna in the garage, too.) A trip to the dumpster and the storage locker finished that up.
Finally, an evening with friends at Keystone Sports Review.
Back home to finish reading the backlog of Sluggy Freelance that I hadn’t managed to read in the last few days. I just discovered the strip last week and have been reading it voraciously. Finished all five years plus about 20 minutes ago.
That’s it. Probably light if any bloggage till Tuesday.
Those senators who voted against the resolution (by state):
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Bob Graham (D-FL)
Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
Edward Kennedy (D)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
James Jeffords (I-VT)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Russell Feingold (D-WI)
My suggestion is that they all need to be diselected at the earliest opportunity.
Proving once again what a bunch of tools they are, the fellow-travellers at the Nobel awards gave the Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter.
“[F]or his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
Yeah, right. And for always being on the wrong side when it came down to it.
Man, I was hoping that Larry Miller story was true. Turns out it is, except that he got the name of the band wrong. See his correction here.
(Link via the Professor.)
Smart Woman™ Ann Coulter disses Stupid Ass™ Sen. Robert Byrd (D-KKK), among others.
Byrd, for what it’s worth, was sound-bited on Rush today talking about his 50 years in the Senate. As far as I’m concerned, he’s been in the Senate at least 38 years too long. (And for that matter, so has Strom Thurmond; I won’t play favorites in the “make Congress a career” sweepstakes.) I think two terms in the House and two in the Senate, making a sixteen-year career in national politics, maybe capped by two terms as President if you should be so lucky, is all anyone ever ought to aspire to. Our Founders did not expect us to elect career men to run our government. They expected people to take a few years to serve (remember, the word is “serve”, not “lord it over”) their fellow citizens, and then go back to their plow or shop or classroom or law office or whatever they actually did to earn an honest living (lawyers of course being excluded from “honest” living).
Time to go, Kleagle Byrd. And Strom, much as we love you, it was probably time for you to go 10 or 12 years ago.
…when out of the blue they make idiotic statements like the one Harry Belefonte made yesterday?
What provokes this kind of sheer meanness? I mean, come on. There’s a war on, Harry. It’s time for everyone to pull together, not apart. And a stupid comment about Colin Powell is hardly the way to do that. Did someone stick a mike in your face and you just couldn’t come up with anything better to say?
Sheesh.
(Scroll down) Best of the Web says that apparently it is. And the Weekly Standard has apparently taken Miller’s piece down.
Too bad. It was a good story while it lasted.
Michelle Malkin (*sigh*) writes about how Christian broadcasters are knocking NPR programming off the air in some markets.
The religious radio revolution is the result of plain old hard work and sharp business acumen. Unlike NPR and its nearly 300 member affiliates across the country, which have grown fat and lazy while feasting on federal taxpayer handouts since birth, Christian entrepreneurs have been diligently raising private capital to purchase “full-power” stations on the low end of the FM dial, which is reserved for non-commercial, educational stations.
A provision buried in federal broadcasting law gives full-power stations the power to bump small “translator” stations-such as local NPR affiliates that retransmit programming from larger, distant sources-off the air.
Caught napping, NPR radio executives and their media cheerleaders are crying foul. Left-wing radio host Laura Flanders who hosts a San Francisco talk show attacked evangelical programming as “vitriol.” A Variety magazine editorial lambasted Christian radio as “strident.” “It is, like, nuts,” complained one NPR general manager to the New York Times.
And you’re feeling that fire roasting yours, aren’t you?
High time NPR got what was coming to it.