Pakistan heatwave death toll rises

A tragedy, of course, that Pakistan has such high temperatures atm. Even worse, if you look at the picture of the Pakistanis desperately cooling off in the river on Drudge you'll notice the only people bathing are men...

Typical, of course, Muslim nations letting their women bake in burkas whilst their men sip margaritas on the riverbed. That diversity is just beautiful.

Libs Bending Over Backward to Protect a White Racist

Democrats are scrambling to be first in line to justify Ralph Nader's N-bombs. Now look: Nobody should be using that word. It's insensitive and ignorant. But suddenly, if you spend your best years in an Ivy League university, if you are as white as Casper, and if you spend your life doing nothing for minorities while reaping their votes, you can use it. There will be token scoldings (See Reverend Sharpton's comments in the article) but no real outcry. In fact, the criticism is just as muted as Robert Byrd's misstatements.

I'm sure the front pages of every MSM newspaper will be plastered with direct quotes from Messr. Nader's speeches. Or not.

Cingular Should Keep Its Big, Collective Mouth Shut

I'm an unfortunate Cingular customer. Their service is awful. For example, right after my old carrier was gobbled up (AT&T), a Cingular customer representative actually told me it's not Cingular's job to ensure I get a cell signal. I had called to complain because in 6 distinct, well-populated areas of San Diego County, I was losing all of my calls or unable to get a signal at all. Silly me.

So now Cingular is telling the FCC to keep cell phones off of airplanes. It's just one more example of their utter ineptitude... and might be a sign of monopolistic corporate comfort.

They can't get bills right, signals strong, or customers happy. Don't listen to their advice on policy.

Jackson Verdict

Tryin to figure out why it took so long to decide:

Not guilty on conspiracy, lewd act on a minor x4, attempt to commit a lewd act on a minor, intoxicating a minor x8,

Maybe the jury wasn't paying attention - so long, you know, they might have been sleeping.

Of course, it's brilliant of them to believe the scary-looking white guy who likes to sleep with little boys, and disbelieve the little boys. After all, no one should believe a little boy's trauma exists if the little boy has a manipulative mother.

Maybe the jury just spent all the time deliberating enjoying their days off work.

The moral of the story: if you're rich and famous and male, you won't go to jail.

Disney's Good Ol' Shareholder Battle Revival

Admittedly, I wasn't a stellar law student. But I did get the gist of my favorite professor's wisdom -- that shareholder battles largely died away until they recently came back around into the courts' favor. It looks like Disney's Eisner-Iger-Roy-Gold fight is going forward. Yes, yes, I know no actual trial has taken place yet, but it's allowed to happen, which is a really big deal.

As I see it, Roy Disney and his ally, Stanley Gold, are dissatisfied with the direction the Walt Disney Corporation has taken in recent years. (I agree; they focus far more on being PC and putting out Miramax films than promoting Mickey Mouse and Disneyland.) So Roy and Gold left the Board in protest, thereby removing any influence they had on the company. But they had a plan: use their influence as large shareholders and squeaky wheels to get even larger shareholders to side with them to oust Michael Eisner (formerly President and CEO) and his cohorts.

Roy and Gold ended up with a surprising amount of support among the shareholders. Roy and Gold threatened to run against the incumbents in a proxy battle -- and with their large percentage of shareholderrs backing them, it was possible they would end up with a good portion of the Board under their control. So Eisner's allies, headed up by the President-destroyer, Senator George Mitchell (ret.), promised to find a way out of the mess. Roy and Gold backed down, and Eisner's allies chose his handpicked successor, Iger, to replace him as President. The Board breathed a sigh of relief, thinking they'd escaped an explosion.

Roy and Gold now sue, saying they'd never have backed down if they'd known that Eisner, Jr. (Iger) would be the solution.

Should be a down-home barn-raisin' caterwallin' clawing match.

Whiners Cry Out

Bill Press writes the longest whine heard from a man since Pat graced the screen on SNL... or was that a woman? At this point, I'm not sure what to make of Bill. He uses Felt-Throat as a launching pad to cry out for a hero to rescue the world from the evils of the Bush Presidency. He wants a traitorous FBI agent to expose the Administration and all its secrets, to throw open the vaults of knowledge to the press and our enemies.

In not so many words, Mr. Press loudly longs for the day when we can retreat from Iraq in shame, oust another Republican President, and throw our enemies to the wolves. in his mind, there's nothing worse than standing on Conservative principles and ruling from that stance. (Please, no remarks on the failure of this Presidency to stand on the principles of borders and trade deficits.) Mr. Press, increasingly alone in his whining, has called out to the world for somebody, anybody to join with the journalistic ranks and try to push this Presidency out of Washington. We'll see if anyone steps forward.

Whiners Cry Out

Bill Press writes the longest whine heard from a man since Pat graced the screen on SNL... or was that a woman? At this point, I'm not sure what to make of Bill. He uses Felt-Throat as a launching pad to cry out for a hero to rescue the world from the evils of the Bush Presidency. He wants a traitorous FBI agent to expose the Administration and all its secrets, to throw open the vaults of knowledge to the press and our enemies.

In not so many words, Mr. Press loudly longs for the day when we can retreat from Iraq in shame, oust another Republican President, and throw our enemies to the wolves. in his mind, there's nothing worse than standing on Conservative principles and ruling from that stance. (Please, no remarks on the failure of this Presidency to stand on the principles of borders and trade deficits.) Mr. Press, increasingly alone in his whining, has called out to the world for somebody, anybody to join with the journalistic ranks and try to push this Presidency out of Washington. We'll see if anyone steps forward.

Judge Rules That Gillette Ads Are False - Yahoo! News

As someone who shaves from chin to crown, I take a special interest in the latest-and-greatest from the world of razor blades. I never liked the idea of vibrating blades on my skin -- I have nightmares about that kind of thing. Well, it appears that apart from driving fear into my heart, the claims that they do any good are false. I'll stick to self-powered sharpies thank you.