Becuase Everything Else Sucks

The Daily Connect: 01/08/07

By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, January 8th, 2007, 11:39 am
Filed under: The Daily Connect, Personal Posts

  • All the major blogs are a flutter about the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards. If you’re a regular visitor to the site, or even an irregular one, we would greatly appreciate your vote. I’m thinking that “best new weblog” and “best-kept secret weblog” would be good categories to nominate the Largest Minority in, but it’s up to you. It’d also be nice to nominate some of our friends in the blogroll to the left. Gracias for your support.
  • Newly released documents show how the FBI and Department of Justice were investigating opponents to the late Chief Justice Rhenquist’s confirmations in 1970 and 1986. The files also document Rhenquist’s addiction to painkillers, and mention the fact that he was a reptilian alien. Damn that Freedom of Information Act.
  • Truthdig beat us to the punch on these two great stories, but we didn’t want to deprive you of them regardless. The first has to do with ExxonMobil paying $16 million to certain ideological groups in an effort to attack the science behind global warming. The second story is about a US-crafted law which would give foreign investors up to 75 percent of Iraq’s oil profits. And yet the administration still claims the war was about giving freedom and not taking oil. Iraq owes us the money to pay for our expenses the same way the victim of a shooting owes their assailant money for a new bullet.
  • The owner of the smallest country in the world is now putting his piece of “land” on the market. Everyone’s had the dream of owning their own country, but if you’ve also dreamt that your country should be a row of rusty storage sheds atop two concrete pillars, then Sealand is the tropical paradise for you. Shall we start the bidding at 20 million?
  • The Decline of Democracy Carnival featured at Random Thoughts, Notes, & Incidents has featured our post, Heroin Sheikh: US Overthrow Means More Opiates for the Masses, in their latest issue. As always, stop by and give them a juicy kiss. If it’s your first time visiting the carnival, don’t use your tongue.
  • Consumer Reports say that 10 out of the 12 infant car seats they’ve tested “failed disastrously”. Perhaps Britney Spears knew something about the hazards of these baby car seats the rest of us didn’t. In light of this recent study, I suggest placing babies in the trunk for safe transporting. Just remember to poke holes for air.
  • Lastly, Faux News provides us with this gem of information from two of their scholarly presenters. News Hound has the video of this brilliant exchange. The first personality claims global warming is caused by the earth moving too close to the sun. The second, who is a weatherman, states that no one knows why the earth is getting hotter, but refuses to attribute it to global warming. Ah, wisdom handed down from the mountain tops. Does that mean winter occurs when Mars and Earth switch orbits? Frankly, I think the weatherman dropped the ball. Everyone knows the world gets hotter when God accidentally buys a 100 watt bulb for the sun instead of his usual 75 watt.

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