In an interview with Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes on April 12, 2009, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D) firmly equated mental illness with criminal insanity by repeatedly using the phrase “criminals and the mentally ill.”
If it wasn’t bad enough that she did irreparable damage to the reputations of hundreds of thousands of folks, Sen. Feinstein stated that the AK-47 is the weapon of choice for the mentally ill.
Does the mentally ill community have an official gun? Perhaps they have an endorsement deal with Kalashnikov… “AK-47, The Official Assault Weapon of the Mentally Ill.” Or “Just Do Them.”
AKs [rifles] and other firearms, once forbidden under the ban, now fill entire tables at gun shows; you can buy them from private sellers without a background check.
“These assault weapons are essentially designed and made to kill numbers of people in close combat,” Senator Dianne Feinstein of California told Stahl.
Sen. Feinstein was the author and champion of the assault weapons ban in 1994. “They become the guns of choice of drug cartels, of gangs, of people who are mentally incompetent.”
– 60 Minutes, April 12, 2009
“Gun Sales: Will The “Loophole” Close?”
Ms. Mallick describes Sarah as having “a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.” And that’s the nicest thing she had to say about her.
Plus, Fox News hates Ms. Mallick. I can’t think of a better endorsement.
There’s a video on YouTube of a harpy from Fox News – whose name completely eludes me – attempting to castrate David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen. It really was quite pitiful. She was full of rage and venom at the CBC for allowing Ms. Mallick’s article to stay up on their site. To his credit Mr. Warren quietly explained to her that up in Canada they still have freedom of the press. And that everybody *knows* McCain picked up Palin to get white tr… errrr… the populist vote.
The Media Equation – An Anchor Lets Down Her Hair – NYTimes.com
It is telling that when the McCain campaign was looking for a soft place to land Governor Palin’s first interview, they turned to Charles Gibson at ABC, not Ms. Couric. It would have been fun to watch given the implied subtext: “Hey, Governor, I invented spunky; I’ve had a colonoscopy on live network television, so let’s get started on yours.”
Wow, it’s the perfect t-shirt for Father’s Day. Don’t tell Mr. X I made him one for his birthday instead of buying him that riding mower he thinks he’s getting.
I think I’m finally getting the hang of this Adobe Photoshop thing. I am tragically untalented.
Sita Sings the Blues was created by animator Nina Paley, who you might remember from her animated IMAX feature, Pandorama. All I’ve seen of Sita is the preview on archive.org, embedded later in this post, and it really captured my imagination.
Sita is great, like those wild Bollywood movies they show on Namaste America. Singing, dancing, love lost, singing and dancing, love regained, and more singing and dancing. It’s delightfully melodramatic. The Goddess’ story is interspersed with an autobiographical storyline from Ms. Paley’s own life. The movie is narrated by three sock puppets. Errr, that should say shadow puppets.
The music in the preview sounds like a cross between Timothy Leary’s White Birds Sing (Beyond Life) and Led Zeppelin’s Four Sticks (Led Zeppelin IV), however Sita Sings the Blues uses the music of Roaring 20′s era songstress Annette Hanshaw to express Sita’s (and Nina’s) feelings.
Edit:
That didn’t sound quite right. I like White Birds Sing and Four Sticks, but I realized later that other folks might not. The music was raucous and fun. Unlike the Indian engineers and professors I’ve met… What, do they only let the boring people come here? Maybe the US is a kind of exile.
Another edit:
When I wrote this article WikiPedia had nothing about the movie Sita Sings the Blues. After I added an item to the Sita disabiguation page, an article on Sita Sings the Blues showed up. Magically. How did we live without the interNets?
I think I’ll name my next dog
“Hash: b2e189abf85e809a51522cdb0e53083a”
I found Don Park’s site (see below, Identicons) while searching for 2D codes such as ShotCode and QRCode. Once I get everything tagged, life is going to be much simpler.
Ok, so Don had links to some other fun icon sites, and I’d like to share them.
This one, created in php by Charles Dark of Visual Consumption, uses the same concept but a different implementation to build a colorful 9-code “Visiglyph” of your IP address.
This avatar, also based on IP address, can be found at planetOzh. I like mine. It’s purple.
thing. I am tragically untalented.
This one, created in php by Charles Dark of Visual Consumption, uses the same concept but a different implementation to build a colorful 9-code “
This avatar, also based on IP address, can be found at 
Visiglyph
Identicon
security
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