Ever wonder to yourself, "What damn time is it?", or "What damn time was it yesterday?"

Well, finally, Jim has the answer: nachlin.com's RSS time feed.

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An exerpt from Barack Obama's DNC speach - text, audio and video here.

A belief that we are connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief--I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper--that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one.

For those of you who love a good doughnut, but just don't have the time for all that tiresome chewing:

Krispy Creme Glased Doughnut frozen drink

The life cycle of a salad green: Green salad bowl

Adoring fan(s): Mark, what are you doing now that your unemployed and done traveling around like a, well, like an aimless bum.

Mark: Well, tonight I spent a few hours trying to compile gcc with gcj (the GNU compiler for Java) support on my mac.

Adoring fan(s): wah?

Mark: exactly.

It's easy to fall down a manhole, it's easy to put the candles too close to the drapes, it's easy to launch a military invasion of another country based on a few blurry satellite photos.
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This year my people, we scaled the Everest of stupidity and we stand upon its peak.

Bush wins big at Stupidity Award

Reasonable intelligent debate continues unfettered in California:

Some California legislators are angry with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after he referred to them as "girlie-men" during a speech on Saturday.
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But a Schwarzenegger spokesman says the comment was the governor's way of saying that legislators are "wimps" (weaklings) by giving into special interest groups.

Schwarzenegger Provokes Anger
With 'Girlie-Men' Remark - Voice of America

I drove out to Long Island on Thursday to meet my brother. I headed east on Eastern Parkway towards the Interborough Parkway. Actually, it's now called the Jackie Robinson Parkway, but I can never remember to call it that. It's not that I don't like the new name. I have always been enamored with Jackie Robinson. It's just that we drove the Interborough to go visit my Uncle's family in Queens, and for a while I lived with them, so I spend a fair amount of time traveling back and forth on the Interborough.

As kids, whenever we drove on the parkway, one of us would mention how it was the most dangerous stretch of road in New York. It was a small curvy thoroughfare. It was very narrow with a small concrete nub reaching no more than a foot in height dividing the oncoming traffic from you and imminent death. It appeared to be more of a misplaced curb than a highway safety barrier. It was a winding stretch of road, and I could feel the tension emanating from the drivers seat as we approached the parkway. I have memories of Christmas Eve drives to Queens in the rain, the unspoken threat of large Buicks with drunken operators hurtling eastward towards us, our only protection a mere twelve inches of concrete seemingly enticing the massive cars to hop the pathetic divider and crush us in our meager green duster. All this being read from the strain in the back of my Mother's neck as we drove down the Interborough.

As we approached the parkway, my Mother would comment how she learned how to drive on the Interborough. This was always a strange statement. Who, in their right mind, would give the wheel to a new driver, my mother as a new driver for that matter, and then point them towards the Interborough. This, of course, would have been our father. I assume he was either insane or a sadist, and years of stories about him seem to lend credence to both. My mother could hardly bare the strain of the parkway after thirty years of driving experience, it was implausible that she could survive her first day out on this stretch of asphalt. After a few years I realized that she was just talking nervously while trying to ease her and, by proxy, our stress of the impending death ride into hell. She was trying to calm us by implying that she had survived her first drive on this road, so this current drive would be a cake walk. But her white knuckled death grip on the steering wheel gave her away easily. Somehow we survived. Maybe to tell the tale to others, so they could hear of the great evil that lurks just west of the Van Wyck Expressway.

For awhile, Tamara was working with my brother out in Sayville, and she took the Jackie Robinson Parkway out to Long Island. I still called it the Interborough, and she would correct me. Eventually my brother and I started calling it the Inter-Jackie Robin-bourogh-son Parkway. The divider is no longer a nub but a tall concrete barrier protecting you from the huge SUVs barreling down the road towards you. Most of the parkway is wider, and it is nicely paved and is actually a very scenic ride through Highland Park, Cypress Hill, Glendale, and Ridgewood. As I drove down the parkway on Thursday, just for a second, my knuckles turned white, and my neck got tight, and I thought, "My Mother learned how to drive on this god forsaken road."

Interborough (Interboro) Parkway, Queens and Brooklyn boroughs of N.Y. city, SE N.Y., at extreme W end of Long Isl. Short parkway (4.7 mi/7.6 km long) snakes its way from the East N.Y.-Highland Park area of Brooklyn E to the Grand Central Parkway in Kew Gardens, Queens. Completed Aug. 1935, its lack of breakdown lanes, narrow, winding character, difficult lane changes, and low median barrier made it one of the most hazardous thoroughfares in the metropolitan area...

Interborough (Interboro) Parkway

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A Picture of History - Kew Gardens. Old and new photos of the Jackie Robinson Parkway.

We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take.

Ridge says al Qaeda planning attack - cnn.com

Al Qaeda plans a large-scale attack on the United States "in an effort to disrupt the democratic process" before November's elections...

He said U.S. officials have no precise knowledge of the time, place or method of attack...

don't be jealous (.mp3 40k)

It was you charlie (watrfrnt.mp3 522k)...

Iraq had ties, ties, ties with Al Qaeda.

Or maybe not: Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed - Washington Post

The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda

A creative press release from the Vice President.

1. The 9/11 Commission shows no ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
2. Dick Cheney says they don't have all the info.
3. The Commission says, "Then give us all the info."
4. Cheney releases a statement saying this is a no story because the Commission has access to all the sensitive info they need, and he is pleased with the report? P.S. It's the media's fault, again.

9/11 Panelists Rebut Cheney on Information - NYTimes

The leaders of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks on Tuesday disputed Vice President Dick Cheney's suggestion that he probably had access to more intelligence than the commission did about possible ties between the Qaeda terrorist network and Iraq.

Cheney Had No New Data on Saddam, Al Qaeda-Panel - Yahoo News

The Sept. 11 commission, which reported no collaborative links between Iraq (news - web sites) and al Qaeda, said on Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) had no more information than commission investigators to support his later assertions to the contrary.

Soon after the Sept. 11 commission said in staff report last month that there was no evidence of a collaborative relationship between the two sides, Cheney continued to assert that long-standing links existed.

The Cheney team responds with:

"We are pleased with today's statement from the 9/11 commission, which puts to rest a nonstory," he said. "As we have said all along, the administration provided the commission with unprecedented access to sensitive information so they could perform their mission. The vice president criticized some press coverage of the draft staff report. He did not criticize the commission's work."

A bit of a redesign, and a push towards xhtml compliance. Some times there's just so much beauty in the world, not that this is one of them.

Update: seems the pull link/nifty javascript/dealie is not working in internet explorer.

Update update: seems I don't care enough to fix it...