Senator Santorum, With His Pants Down Around His Ankles Again

Senator Rick Santorum took a poll on his website recently, asking people's opinions on Social Security personal accounts. People love the plan, the Senator said. But, he took the results down.

The Senator can't really weasel out of the poll, 'though, since his opponent Chuck Pennacchio cleverly cached a snapshot of the results.

Senator Bob Kerrey, then the Senator from Nebraska, called it a few weeks after Santorum took office:

"Santorum, that's Latin for a**hole."

You can count on this dingbat to be on the wrong side of virtually every issue, and this time is no exception. Recently Santorum said that banning gay marriage would be "the ultimate homeland security." The website Counterpunch detailed

"Even Santorum's staff knows the senator is a vacuous boob prone to outrageous gaffs and crude outbursts of unvarnished bigotry. For years, they kept him firmly leashed, rarely permitting him to attend a press interview without a senior staffer by his side."

Now that The Senator has been elevated to a Republican leadership position, his staff can no longer keep him muzzled; it shows. Keep sounding off Senator!
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Heroes And Villains No. 32--> John Lennon & Carrie Nation

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Heroes And Villains No. 31--> Morris Dees & Queen Mary I a/k/a Bloody Mary

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Kill Things Over The Internet! (Or, Technology On The March)

There's a web site now (live-shot.com) where you shoot a remote .22 caliber rifle at targets and silhouettes. The company has develped real time cameras that a user can pan and tilt, and fire away. Literally. It looks as if they also plan on allowing you to bag antelopes, wild boars, and other critters in the future. For an extra fee, they will send you DVD video of your shooting session, as well as the target you ventilate. I didn't check to see if they would send you the 50 pounds of pork if you bag the wild boar.

"challenge yourself and compare your skills to other members with our on-line target shooting. "

It makes you wonder what's next. First, of course, this system will be exploited by the "adult entertainment industry." After the vast legions of one-handed typists explore the technology, you just might be able to climb Denali over the internet, bake a cake in real time, or swim with the sharks.

Click on the title of this article to link up with Live-shot.com's website.

The View From Up There

Click on the title of this posting to link to a great panoramic view from the summit of Mt. Everest. Only a thousand people have made it to the summit. Everest is at roughly the same altitude most commercial airlines fly at... /jack

Poem: AT HILLCREST CEMETARY IN KENT, WASHINGTON, I WALK BY THE GRAVE OF SAM THE GRASSEATER

I walk past the grave
Of Sam the Grasseater (he took no chances).
He was known for improper advances
(No woman over fifty was safe).

He mowed lawns and dug
Every single grave in town.
The first grave in forty years
He had not personally dug
Was the one where he sank down,
As Sam would say,
Snug as a bug in the rug.
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Heroes And Villains No. 30--> Nina Simone & Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme

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Heroes And Villains No. 29--> Phyllis Schlafly & Peter Jackson

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The Dog Suicides, Part 2

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This story has been bugging me: http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2005/03/canine-suicides.html No one has a more cynical estimation of dog intelligence than I do. They will fetch a stick for hours, they sit endlessly waiting to be petted, and you can hook them up in teams to drag a sled through miles of snow. They are faithful and devoted, but they are none too swift. They are flat-out too dumb to commit suicide (not that committing suicide is a hallmark of intelligence...but it does indicate reasoning, however faulty).

A passel of heroic dog stories exist, but I look upon them with a jaundiced eye. We have even heard stories before of animal suicide (the greatly exaggerated stories of lemmings marching off cliffs into the sea). Aside from the well-known urban legend of a dog chasing a ball thrown through a top-floor apartment's window, there is not a lot of information about dog suicides.

The dogs in Dumbarton, Scotland are either being hucked off the bridge by some sicko, or the highly improbable explanation of an optical illusion is actually true. I hope they follow up this story.
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Heroes And Villains No. 28--> President George W. Bush & Andy Warhol

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The Dog Suicides

Animal researchers are concerned after at least five dogs are said to have thrown themselves from an historic bridge in the past six months. Dogs don't commit suicide. At least as far as we know today. Click on the title to link to this story... /jack

Boy, 8, arrested after violent tantrum

Associated Press
Mar. 4, 2005 08:00 AM

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Police arrested an 8-year-old boy who allegedly had a violent outburst in school, head-butting his teacher and kicking an assistant principal, when he was told he couldn't go outside to play with other students.

The 4-foot pupil was led away from Rawls Byrd Elementary School in handcuffs Tuesday and charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery.

"It's not something that happens every day," Maj. Stan Stout said of what could be the department's youngest arrest ever.

Stout said the chair-tossing, desk-turning outburst occurred after a teacher, and later the assistant principal, attempted to stop the boy from joining his classmates.

The child was later released to his parents.