Daily Archives: February 25th, 2006 «

 

RIP, Don Knotts

Posted by: ST on February 25, 2006 at 6:30 pm » 13 Comments

Actor Don Knotts, most famous for his role as Barney Fife on the very successful “The Andy Griffith Show” passed away last night. He was 81. The AG Show is one of my all-time favorites and Knotts in the role of Deputy Fife always made me laugh … now, hopefully he’s making ‘em smile in [...]

 

Peace on the horizon for Sunnis and Sadr’s Shiites?

Posted by: ST on February 25, 2006 at 4:46 pm » 18 Comments

Via The Australian: THE movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, alleged to have played a role in the anti-Sunni violence over the last few days, publicly made peace with political and religious Sunni leaders overnight. Four sheikhs from the Sadr movement made a “pact of honour” with the conservative Sunni Muslim Scholars Association, and called [...]

 

Oh please

Posted by: ST on February 25, 2006 at 4:24 pm » 19 Comments

Can it get anymore pathetic these days than the op/ed pages of the New York Times? Not even two weeks after they stated their reasons why they wouldn’t publish the ‘offensive’ Mohammed cartoons, an editorial appears in their paper today that would have you believing that they never took such an appeasing stance – and [...]

 

By the time I wake up in the morning …

Posted by: ST on February 25, 2006 at 1:31 am » 5 Comments

…. my Sitemeter will have ticked over 200,000 visits to this site. Thank you. Thank ya veruh much (as Elvis would say) Regulars to the blog may have noticed that blogging has been sporadic the last few days here – I’ve had a lot going on ever since I moved last month but things seem [...]

 

And the award for wackiest street name goes to:

Posted by: ST on February 25, 2006 at 12:43 am » 12 Comments

Psycho Path: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation’s wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names. Here’s the complete list: 10. Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, Texas 9. The intersection of Count and [...]