Just found this AP news story about some biker in Wabasha county, Minnesota who was ticketed for doing 205 mph on a Honda RC51. The dude has become a celebrity overnight, and as is to be expected, there are lots of people who are skeptical about that figure — they say most people don’t believe a Honda RC51 can go that fast. Then again, the AP isn’t exactly a bastion of journalistic integrity, so I had to verify this story from an unimpeachable source.
Caught this one on Slashdot today. Apparently a group of physicists in France have discovered a miracle liquid that freezes when heated, and will liquefy again when cooled. If you ask me, I have no idea what practical use such a liquid could have. But that is still seriously cool.
Yet another precious masterpiece from that endless pool of talent that is the pajamahadeen: Excerpts from the new Inspector Dan Rather Mystery by David Burge.
Here’s a sample:
I stabbed out a Lucky into my Watergate Hotel ashtray, a sentimental little souvenir I picked up after my first big scoop (Dan Rather #1 – the Case of the Phantom CREEPs), and peered through the Venetian blinds of my 53rd Street office. I polished the lens on my camera.
It had been over a year since my last big investigation, a nasty little blackmail plot against an eccentric Baghdad Hills tycoon (Dan Rather #24: The Tikrit Orchid), and rent was overdue. I needed a scoop, and I needed one fast. My rabbit foot was working, because a scoop soon came waltzing through the door. In silk stockings.
“Gotta light, handsome?” asked the 32-30-41 silhoutte leaning on the frame.
Mapes. I hadn’t seen her since Dan Rather #27 – The Secret of Abu Ghraib. She was a dangerous dame with dangerous gams — and a nose for Republican plots.
Get your full serving at Iowahawk.
I have just launched a new web site called “The Issachar Files“. It is intended to be a Christ-centered weblog with lots of inspirational content, ranging from bible studies and devotionals to opinions, reviews and more. This is still at an experimental phase, and hopefully it will grow with time. Please visit the site, leave some feedback and recommend it to your friends if you like it.
For some reason I’ve taken renewed interest in this blog recently (it’s been fun dropping in humorous tidbits from the Rathergate scandal) … so today I decided to add traditional blog permalinks. Took me about half an hour of wrestling with mod_rewrite to get it to work properly (the blog rules were interfering with my existing rewrite rules for the other pages on the site), but it works now, and it is good.
Looks like our friends at the Boston Globe weren’t wise enough to distance themselves from CBS’s embarassment and the Liberal Mainstream Media (MSM) label. They published an article yesterday titled “Authenticity Backed on Bush Documents”, quoting Dr. Phillip Bouffard, a nationally renowned forensic document expert. In their article they deliberately twisted and misrepresented Dr. Bouffard’s statements in such a way as to make readers believe that the charges of forgery had been utterly refuted. Dr. Bouffard was not amused, and furiously complained to INDC about this gross misrepresentation of what he had said by the Boston Globe.
Quote:
I just interviewed Dr. Bouffard again, and he’s angry that the Globe has misrepresented him. He’s been getting hate mail and nasty phone calls since last night’s story was posted, and he wants me to correct the record. He did not change his mind, and he and his colleagues are becoming more certain that these documents are forgeries.
[Bouffard said:] “I would appreciate it if you could do whatever it takes to clear this up, through your internet site, or whatever.”
“All I’d done is say, ‘Hey I want to look into it.’ Please correct that **** impression!”
“What I said to them was, I got new information about possible Selectric fonts and [Air Force] documents that indicated a Selectric machine could have been available, and I needed to do more analysis and consider it.”
“But the more information we get and the more my colleagues look at this, we’re more convinced that there are significant differences between the type of the [IBM] Composer that was available and the questionable document.”
“The [new Selectric] typefaces sent to me invalidated the theory about the foot on the four [originally reported to INDC], but after looking at this more, there are still many more things that say this is bogus.”
“… there are so many things that are not right; ‘s crossings,’ ‘downstrokes’ …”
“More things were looked into; more things about IBM options. Even if you bought special [superscripting] keys, it’s not right. There are all kinds of things that say that this is not a typewriter.”
“Any form of kerning may be critical [he hasn't rendered a definitive verdict if there is a form of kerning yet]. If there is any type of kerning, it obviously isn’t a typewriter or it’s definitely a typeset document.”
On the Globe and others:
“You talk to someone on the phone and it comes out different than you said!”
Yeah, add the Boston Globe to the list of liberal media outlets. Hopefully they’ll go down together with CBS News when this is over. LOL!
Meanwhile, Seeing Is Believing.
In remembrance of 9/11, the proud warriors of the Baker Company put together this magnificent memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack that changed the face of America and the world.
