ambivalent bits

Gunner Gear:
Xmas gifts for the gunner you love.

Court declines to hear gay marriage case:
Justices had been asked by conservative groups to overturn the year-old decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage. They declined, without comment.

Smiling Frowned Upon in Visa Photos:
The new guidelines permit people to smile for passport and visa pictures but frown on toothy smiles, which apparently are classified as unusual or unnatural expressions.

Ailing Chief Justice to Miss Work Again:
Rehnquist, who is 80, was likely to remain absent for at least two more weeks.

The Christmas Resistance Movement!
Together, we boycott Christmas Shopping, Christmas decorations, Christmas cards, and every variety of Christmas Crap. We refuse to support the Holiday Industry.

70 most beautiful words in English?

League of Blogging Voters:
... something like The League of Women Voters for 21st Century voters who want to think about their decision and need information and other points of views. Great idea!

Crayola State Your Color:
Hey America, check out the first-ever Crayola State Crayons! Named by crayon fans - each color stands for one of the 50 states.

Poll: Creationism Trumps Evolution:
47 percent of John Kerry’s voters think God created humans as they are now, compared with 67 percent of Bush voters.

Textbook Disclaimer stickers:
Sample: This textbook contains material on gravity. Gravity is a theory, not a fact, regarding a force that cannot be directly seen. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.

Exploding cell phones a growing problem:
Safety officials have received 83 reports of cell phones exploding or catching fire in the past two years, usually because of bad batteries or chargers.

Has everyone else had more sex than you?

Grilled cheese sandwich sells for $28k:
A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $28,000 on eBay.

Presidential Yacht?
The Senate voted 65-30 for the legislation late on Saturday that sets aside funds for a range of priorities including a presidential yacht, foreign aid and energy.

Color Lasers Track Your Docs:
According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce.

Hello Google Scholar:
Precisely what makes something “scholarly” enough to be included in Google Scholar, Google will not say. And this is not an insignificant omission.

Press the red button to be liked!

When Your Co-Worker Is Away:
The keyboard through the desk and the sprouts in the keyboard are very original...

Bush Is Consolidating Power w/the Executive:
Which is certainly a good thing since if there is one thing this president sorely needs it is more yes-men.

Privacy Experts Shun Black Boxes:
Information gathered on black boxes — typically everything from speed, brake pressure, seat belt use and air bag deployment — has already been used in determining guilt in criminal and civil cases across the country.

One of every 140 U.S. residents is in prison or jail.

Ashcroft condemns judges who question Bush:
Hey John, ever hear of that little “checks and balances” idea?

Dialogue? Sorry Everybody:
Apologies accepted. We're Not Sorry.

Nation's Poor Win Election for Nation's Rich:
“You have selflessly sacrificed your well-being and voted against your own economic interest. For this, we humbly thank you.”

Exit poll format influenced 'moral values' priorities:
“We did not see any indication that social conservative issues like abortion, gay rights and stem cell research were anywhere near as important as the economy and Iraq,'' said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center.

“Sorry” seen as magic word to avoid suits:
Some malpractice-reform advocates say an apology can help doctors avoid getting sued, especially when combined with an upfront settlement offer.

Political Blogger Mass Suicide To Be Discovered In Several Weeks

Recounts and Retractions:
So the media was kept two floors away from the vote counting at the Warren County Administration on election night on the basis of a “10” FBI terror threat that the FBI says was never issued.

Buzz on Vote Fraud Debunked:
“Much of the traffic is little more than Internet-fueled conspiracy theories, and none of the vote-counting problems and anomalies that have emerged are sufficiently widespread to have affected the election's ultimate result.”

F@#! the South?
Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass. [Caution: Not for the profane-averse.]

Holiday-Flavored Sodas?
This week Jones Soda Co. launches a full meal deal of five Thanksgiving soda flavors, from the bile-colored Green Bean Casserole to the sweet — but slightly sickly — Fruitcake Soda. Last year's Turkey & Gravy is also back on the menu.

Dean's Post-Election Message in NY:
“Our mission is to set the example and show that what George Bush did in this last election is not good for the country and to treat the people who did not support us because they did not agree with us on key issues with respect, reach out to them and learn to talk about the things we have in common.”

Election Frauds and Fictions:
“What I want is a sustained response that will change the outcome four years hence.”

Evidence Mounts that Vote May Have Been Hacked:
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking – the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.

Port Authority Investigating Ground Zero Suicide:
A source said Veal may have been suffering from some personal problems, though his family has told authorities that he was very upset about the war in Iraq and President George W. Bush's re-election.

It Wasn't Just Rednecks Who Voted for Bush:
America's resistance to the conventional wisdom of the rest of the developed world is likely to intensify in the years ahead.

A new Modest Proposal: The USAR:
Then the new USAR (United States of America Red) can ban books, repeal civil rights, persecute gays and have all the wars they like. They want prayer in schools?   More power to them.  They can ban abortion and post the Ten Commandments in every federal building in their country.  Bring back slavery, if they want. 

Americans Flock to Canada's Immigration Web site:
On an average day some 20,000 people in the United States log onto the Web site, www.cic.gc.ca -- a figure which rocketed to 115,016 on Wednesday. The number of U.S. visits settled down to 65,803 on Thursday, still well above the norm.

Mac OS X Reported Safest Computing Environment:
“More and more smart individuals, government agencies and corporations are shifting towards Apple and BSD environments in 2004.”

Ashcroft Seeks Control of Voting Rights:
Bush administration lawyers argued in three closely contested states last week that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights set out in the Help America Vote Act, which was passed in the aftermath of the disputed 2000 election.