Daily Archives: September 19th, 2005 «

 

In a former life, I was a ….

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 8:06 pm » 3 Comments

…. pirate’s wench Thanks to Jim at bRight and Early for the great PSP effort, in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day. Update: It’s 8:40 PM ET and I’m calling it an early night. Any non-troll/spam comments and/or trackbacks will be approved in the morning. G’nite, mateys!

 

Cutting some pork out of the NC budget

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 7:18 pm » 5 Comments

Earlier, I blogged about the blogosphere’s efforts to give the US Congress some ideas for how to go about trimming some pork out of the federal budget in light of the announcement that the President doesn’t intend on raising taxes to help pay for the Katrina relief and reconstruction effort. He basically said Congress was [...]

 

Nagin reverses course, suspends N.O. reopening

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 6:35 pm » 7 Comments

It’s about time: Under pressure from President Bush and other top federal officials, the mayor Monday suspended the reopening of large portions of the city over the next few days because of the threat of a new round of flooding from a tropical storm. "I am concerned about this hurricane getting in the gulf. … [...]

 

Successful elections in Afghanistan

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 11:10 am » Comments Off

Again: CANDIDATES: About 2,760 ran for 249 seats in Wolesi Jirga, parliament’s lower house; 68 seats reserved for women and 10 for Kuchi nomads. More than 3,015 candidates competed for 420 seats in 34 provincial councils; quarter of those seats reserved for women. —— VOTING: 12.5 million registered voters, nearly 42 percent women. Ballots cast [...]

 

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 10:42 am » 11 Comments

I have a weakness for pirates in those cute outfits  This pirate is pretty darn cool, too. Here’s more on Talk Like a Pirate Day …. argggh!

 

Fisking Clinton’s dissing of the President

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 10:07 am » 31 Comments

This past weekend, President Clinton went on the attack about President Bush, calling the Iraq war unnecessary and putting the lion’s share of the blame for the Katrina response on the federal government. John at Powerline has posted a righteous fisking of Clinton’s claims and notes something everyone should be aware of and that is [...]

 

Help the federal gov’t trim the pork!

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 9:26 am » 2 Comments

We know the costs of the relief and rebuilding efforts on the Gulf Coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina are going to go into the billions ($200B and probably more).   The President has said that taxes will not be raised in order to pay for the rebuilding but instead that Congress will have to take a long [...]

 

North Korea Vows To Drop Nuclear Weapons Development

Posted by: ST on September 19, 2005 at 9:05 am » 4 Comments

While the US has been arguing over who should shoulder the lion’s share of the blame over the pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina response this past weekend, North Korea has apparently agreed to drop its nuclear weapons programs: BEIJING — North Korea pledged to drop its nuclear weapons development and rejoin international arms treaties in a [...]