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In reaction to the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, Condoleeza Rice's response was: "She's [Condi] asked her staff to look into that. Why is it that we didn't see this coming?" I am sorry all you Condi supporters, but this is extremely disconcerting. It is completely indicative of someone living in the policy wonk world of the State Department, getting 99.99% of their news and "analysis" from that world and clueless as to what is actually going on. 9/11 was the result of 40 years of that kind of myopic foreign policy thinking. "Didn't see it coming?? Let's...

Spider Control Made Simple A 34 year-old German woman decided to rid her garage of spiders- so: First she attacked the pesky critters with hair spray – lots of it. The spiders were unimpressed , so the annoyed hausfrau grabbed a cigarette lighter , and attempted to burn them out. Hair spray being quite inflammable , there was a sort of popping noise,and, within minutes , flaming material was oozing down the garage wall , and setting a nearby hedge ablaze. The woman grabbed her garden hose , and tried to put the blaze out ; but it spread to...

In observing the sad state of our society I have noticed a few things that seem to be related. there is a tremendous proliferation of over reaching regulation to prevent accidents. There are air bags and passive restraints to prevent deaths in car crashes. There are all kinds of restrictions on how I can arrange things on my own property to prevent trespassers from hurting themselves. I can't buy a mercury thermometer because some idiot might get exposed to a small amount of a heavy metal. These regulations exist to keep idiots from hurting themselves in the normal course of...

I have to get this off my chest before the polls open. This election will be determined by the four A's: Apathy or lack thereof, Anger towards the President, and the third/fourth and widely undiscussed issue of Agnostics and Atheists. There are a few consistent themes in the negative feedback I get towards the President... cowboy, swagger, stubborn, etc. Right up there is "his religion." I am far from a zealot. I am not part of the Christian coalition. I go to church when it is convenient or when there is an event to celebrate. That's not the issue. The...