It’s Wednesday, and Lisa has a gorey caption contest, heh! Ted’s not the only blowhard/gasbag in the Democratic Party. And we so don’t want gasbags in charge. Go Bush and consider volunteering and/or donating to the Bush campaign. I have. (more…)

OK, word’s out that Al Qaida has something up it’s collective posteriors, an attack, a big attack. Quoting WND:

Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today “credible intelligence” indicates al-Qaida plans to “attempt an attack on the United States” in the next few months.

Saying the terror network hoped to “hit the United States hard,” Ashcroft said al-Qaida’s own public statements suggest it is almost ready to strike.

Almost ready, 90 percent ready, oh gee am I going to worry? Nope, Al Qaida attacking is bout as likely as Longhorn being released this year.

“Just after New Year’s, al-Qaida announced openly that preparations for an attack on the United States were 70 percent complete,” he said at a Washington press conference. “After the March 11 attack in Madrid, Spain, an al-Qaida spokesman announced that 90 percent of the arrangements for an attack in the United States were complete.”

Ooooo, I’m so scared… not!

Why, mind you cause I know the absolute safest place to be in the U.S. that will absolutely NOT be attacked by Al Qaida.

Ashcroft said “especially attractive targets” include upcoming events this summer and fall.

“These events include the G-8 summit hosted by the United States and Georgia, the Democratic Party convention in Boston and the Republican Party convention in New York City,” he said.

He’s wrong on one, said safest place happens to be the Democratic National Convention. Why you ask? Al Qaida wants Kerry to win, all the terrorists, terrorist supporting regimes, and France do. So they are NOT going to attack any place he is on the off chance he gets offed.

See, it’s obvious. So, now that you know where Al Qaida won’t attack, plan accordingly.

There is the possibility I am wrong. (more…)

Beyond the pale, the ACLU is up to it again, this time wanting the cross removed from LA County’s seal.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding the removal of a tiny cross that is among historic symbols on Los Angeles County’s official seal.

The seal “prominently depicts a Latin cross, a sectarian religious symbol that represents the beliefs of one segment of the county’s diverse population” and is an “impermissible endorsement of Christianity” by the county government, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California said in a letter to county officials this week.

“Under clearly established law, the seal is unconstitutional,” the letter said, warning that refusal to remove the cross in a “reasonable time-frame” would cause the ACLU to seek a court order.

The cross was incorporated into the seal to represent the area’s settlement by Spanish missionaries who, in the 1700s, founded two of California’s famous missions in what is now Los Angeles County.

It’s historic. Mind you, they don’t seem to get upset by rampant immorality. I’ve got it, change the cross to a condom, surely that won’t be controversal. If they don’t want that, here’s some other symbols that may be acceptable to the ACLU - a Greek goddess, Buddah, star and cresent, sickle and hammer, a giant penis, just about anything but a cross. Get over it or someone might just stick said cross up your collective posteriors.

To 10.3.4 and installed security update, the one that should fix the script problem with help copiously documented elsewhere.

Upgrading has one flaw however, sets theme back to Aqua so need to fix. So not used to Aqua.

Still playing in Shiira, cool browser.

Update: OK here’s the included screenshot, browser showing is Safari, theme is GUIPod.

VomiTech for those instances…

“When you need someone to throw up a site quickly for you.”

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Who else would think up of such a concept?

Got another browser and didn’t even need to log in to my admin area, used all of Safari’s stuff. It’s called Shiira, is Japanese so I have no clue to anything on the homepage. Found about it from Richie. Domo arigato gozaimasu.

Dean has a fascinating entry on population density which only proves there is plenty of room for everyone. So there.

However, count me out in the move to Alberta. Too cold, too Canadian for my taste.

Spent all this time downloading a movie of a Dodge SRT-4 and it looked like a souped up Neon. Disappointing. So, time for a cute kitty pic and since I basically slept all of yesterday without so much as taking one pic, sharing an older pic.

Having finally woken up, felt the need to point out this week’s Bonfire of the Vanities mostly cause I remembered to submit an entry. Talk about selfish, egocentric reasoning. Sides, if it isn’t cats, I usually forget. Cat plug follows…

History lesson here. Some traditions aren’t as old as one thinks. Quoting in part.

This headgear was invented in the early 1970s by Mussa Sadr, an Iranian mullah who had won the leadership of the Lebanese Shiite community.

In an interview in 1975 in Beirut, Sadr told this writer that the hijab he had invented was inspired by the headgear of Lebanese Catholic nuns, itself inspired by that of Christian women in classical Western paintings. (A casual visit to the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, or the Louvres in Paris, would reveal the original of the neo-Islamist hijab in numerous paintings depicting Virgin Mary and other female figures from the Old and New Testament.)

Sadr’s idea was that, by wearing the headgear, Shiite women would be clearly marked out, and thus spared sexual harassment, and rape, by Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian gunmen who at the time controlled southern Lebanon.

Read the rest, it’s rather amusing. Mind you there are practical reasons for wearing a hijab, keeps one out of jail, may keep one from being raped, keeps sand out of one’s hair on windy days, don’t have to worry bout one’s hairdo, saves a bundle at the hairdresser too, covers thinning hair, great if you have alopecia, hides the fact one is an infidel and thus spares one’s life - probably the most compelling use for the thing, ha! Lots of practical uses indeed.