October 27, 2005

Ode to Lazlo, a poem by Googlism

lazlo is a place where all people of all races and ideals can live together in harmony with each other and with the world at large
lazlo is showing off his riding skills at an impromptu rodeo
lazlo is an inspiration to all, even our four footed friends
lazlo is shown as a basically good person who is pushed over the edge by judicial unfairness
lazlo is an attorney who defends hippies
lazlo is saved by the headlights of a passing car
lazlo is modern in scale and
lazlo is the evil crime boss figure trying to organise the werewolf population into his army
lazlo is more heated than ever
lazlo is miserable
lazlo is a resistance leader
lazlo is an anti
lazlo is a dutch
lazlo is huge
lazlo is a content man
lazlo is employed as a manager at advance energy
lazlo is a noted czechoslovakian resistance leader who has escaped from a concentration camp and is wanted by the nazi's
lazlo is the type of character that is involved in politics for the love of politics
lazlo is just an incredible dog
lazlo is concerned about sitting down ever again
lazlo is pleased to announce that he's stolen this
lazlo is all of those things
lazlo is our attorney from brooklyn who has ties to the entertainment world
lazlo is a main character but
lazlo is modern in scale and proportion
lazlo is clearly some kind of whacko
lazlo is ready
lazlo is laughing
lazlo is based on the radical attorney oscar zeta acosta
lazlo is feeling right now? why? is it wrong to make fun of someone?
lazlo is our delivery person
lazlo is being held by the druids of forlorn for treatment
lazlo is our first and best cyber friend
lazlo is a very calm dog
lazlo is going to complicate the lives
lazlo is a wonderfully gentle
lazlo is also a sound engineer
lazlo is crazy
lazlo is friendly and desires these for defending its borders & policing
lazlo is all business and flakfizer is all goofiness
lazlo is flawless
lazlo is a marked man for his resistance
lazlo is odd like velvet
lazlo is interested in the house
lazlo is finally free to rebuild her life
lazlo is going to have bad dreams
lazlo is found with his throat cut
lazlo is preparing to leave

 

Make your own here.


Posted on 10/27/2005 1:18 PM Comments (3)

October 22, 2005

I'm camera shopping & need input!

Here's your chance to be smart and tell a dummy like me what kind of camera to buy.  So have at it.  I'm in the market for a nicer digital camera (nicer than the P'n'S we have now) that we can take to the Grand Canyon/Mexico and get some really killer shots. 

  • I'm no whiz, so it should be fairly simple to operate; however, I can learn to use a DSLR. 
  • I want to be able to print out good 11x14s.
  • If it has a Memory Stick, all the better, b/c we already have one of those.
  • I'd really like to keep the price at or below $600.
  • It needs to have decent zoom capabilities.
  • Movie mode is a fine feature, if it has sound.

    Please, flood me with your knowledge.


  • Posted on 10/22/2005 1:24 PM Comments (11)

    October 11, 2005

    Gizzoogle's version of whitehouse.gov

    can be seen here
    works for any website

    Posted on 10/11/2005 6:20 PM Comments (5)

    October 6, 2005

    Bush says more sacrifice needed in war on terror

    Really?  More sacrifice???  How many are we talking here??
    I'm gonna BOLD some terrifying points....and (red) my thoughts while reading this.

    By Steve Holland

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday rejected critics of the Iraq war who demand a U.S. pullout and cast the conflict as necessary to prevent Islamic militants from gaining a foothold for a sweeping empire.

    "We will never (never?  ever?) back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory," Bush said in a speech on Washington's war on terrorism.

    Bush used new and more specific language in characterizing the opponents as part of an Islamic radical movement "with a clear and coherent ideology" and territorial ambitions, rather than dismissing them as the terrorist "evildoers" of his early speeches on the issue.

    It was part of a White House effort to rebuild waning American support for the Iraq war amid an upsurge of violence ahead of a planned October 15 referendum on an Iraqi constitution.

    Bush firmly rejected those who demand a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, saying to pull out would leave the country's fledgling government exposed to supporters of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the group's leader in Iraq, Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

    "Having removed a dictator and aided free peoples, we will not stand by as a new set of killers (huh?  aren't we the new set of killers?) dedicated to the destruction of our own country seizes control of Iraq by violence," he said.

    Bush sought to put the Iraq war in a global context, calling it a central front in the war on terrorism, and accusing al Qaeda militants and their supporters of seeking to overthrow moderate Arab governments and to attack U.S. targets.

    He said the United States and its allies had disrupted 10 serious al Qaeda plots since the September 11, 2001, attacks, three inside the United States.

    "EVIL BUT NOT INSANE"

    Bush dwelt for a good part of his speech on the aspirations of militants as he tried a new approach to convincing Americans of the seriousness of the war on terrorism.

    "The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that expands from Spain to Indonesia (WTF?!)," Bush said.

    Citing recent attacks in London, Sharm el-Sheikh and Bali, Bush said while the bombings appeared random, they serve a clear ideology, "a set of beliefs that are evil but not insane," and gave a new name for the ideology: Islamo-facism .

    A CNN/Gallup/USA Today poll last month said only 32 percent of Americans approved of Bush's handling of the war (finally, people are waking up), which he launched in 2003 citing the threat of weapons of mass destruction possessed by Saddam Hussein's government.

    Since such weapons were never found, and al Qaeda followers have spilled into Iraq to fight against the Americans, Bush now calls Iraq a central focus of the war on terrorism he launched after the September 11 attacks.

    His remarks were aimed at an increasingly restive American public, which is weary of daily television images of bombings from Iraq and holding funerals for the more than 1,900 Americans killed in Iraq (yesterday it was confimed that another soldier from Missoula had died; he graduate from Hellgate High School last year).

    "Wars are not won without sacrifice, and this war will require more sacrifice, more time, (more bodies), and more resolve. The terrorists are as brutal an enemy as we have ever faced," he said.

    Democrats did not hear what they wanted from Bush. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said Bush failed to outline a strategy (or a strategery) for achieving military, political and economic success in Iraq.

    "Instead, the president continued to falsely assert there is a link between the war in Iraq and the tragedy of September 11th, a link that did not and does not exist," he said.

    Bush also gave an implicit warning to Syria and Iran, accusing them of supporting radical groups.

    "State sponsors like Syria and Iran have a long history of collaboration with terrorists and they deserve no patience from the victims of terror. The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them because they're equally as guilty of murder (but the U.S. remains innocent forever and ever Amen)," he said.

    There was a time when the name bin Laden rarely crossed Bush's lips publicly -- partly it seemed to avoid raising the issue of why the United States had failed to track him down -- but Bush invoked the name of the elusive al Qaeda leader several times in making the case against bin Laden's style of Islam.

    "Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims: 'What is good for them and what is not.' And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege (sound familiar, GW?) considers good for poor Muslims is that they become killers and suicide bombers. He assures them that this is the road to paradise, though he never offers to go along for the ride (sound familiar, GW?)," Bush said.



    Posted on 10/06/2005 10:06 AM Comments (4)

    October 5, 2005

    Wednesday's Edition

    We're hiking the M this afternoon.  Should get plenty of good photo ops of the fall colors and the valley.

    Rented Home Movie, gotta watch that.

    Then, either tonight or tomorrow night, we're going to the Wilma to see The Aristocrats.  Can't wait.

    Off to Lynching class....


    Posted on 10/05/2005 12:50 PM Comments (0)
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