Wizbang: December 2004 Archives

A Year End Message From The Owner

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (6)

In regards to the politicization of the response to the Sumatera Earthquake and the Tsunamis... I offer this well though out message to those on both sides of the political aisle, as it concerns "who cares more"...... [Full Story]

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Terrorism is a tactic, not a label

Posted by Paul · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (53)

[Note: For whatever reason, MT ate some of the punctuation in the blockquote. Sorry bout that. It is right on Steven's site.] For a brief moment, I thought James Joyner had gone over the edge. Then I noticed it was a guest poster Leopold Stotch. I don't remember a time... [Full Story]

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Weekend Caption Contest™

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (145)

It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following photo: Update: Winners finally announced! Comments are now closed.... [Full Story]

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Can you spell over-reaction? Sure you can.

Posted by Paul · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (0)

YIKES! YIKES and Double YIKES! In my now (in)famous post below where I compare how the lefties and righties covered the Tsunami, I end the post by wondering aloud: Still I have to wonder... We are continually told how much more liberals care about their fellow man than conservatives, yet... [Full Story]

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Origins Of The Tsunami Videos

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (2)

I'm interested in tracking the origins of the videos featured in our previous video posts (Original, More Tsunami Pictures And Videos, and More Tsunami Videos II. If you have information on where the videos might have originated, or who may have taken them I'd love to hear from you.... [Full Story]

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A quaint and curious custom

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (11)

For years in Boston, the city has done a crappy job about getting snow out of the streets. To deal with this chronic negligence, residents have adopted a tradition to deal with this. They shovel out a parking space for themselves, then "claim" it with trash cans, traffic cones, chairs... [Full Story]

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Fair Warning

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (9)

This shall constitute due legal notice that, should anyone today tell me, in person, "see you next year!," I quite likely may either strike or strangle them. That is all. J. ... [Full Story]

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I love being effective

Posted by Paul · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (90)

Well, the lefty blogs finally caught up to my post "A Partisan Tsunami?". In it, I compare the coverage of the tsunami on left and right blogs. I must have touched a few nerves by outing them and the libs have gone mad. I've been called "The Worst of the... [Full Story]

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Well, I was born in a small town...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 31, 2004 · Comments (36)

It never fails to amuse me the odd names people give places. I grew up in a rather remote corner of Cow Hampshire, and whoever came up with the town names around us had a severe case of Ruralitis. We had a Bath, a Littleton, a Warren, an East Ryegate... [Full Story]

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America Cares

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (32)

Chuck Simmins has been counting American donations to the victims and survivors of the Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunamis. He hasn't been counting our government's contributions, but individuals and companies. So far he's found over $127 million dollars in non-governmental donations. Stingy indeed... ... [Full Story]

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Found On Phi Phi Island, Thailand

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (226)

I was asked to host some photos taken from a camera (and bag) found by survivors of the tsunami in Thailand. The women in the pictures below presumably are the owners of the camera and bag it came from. Here's the message I received, explaining the circumstances:My friend was caught... [Full Story]

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Thank You Dr. Ferber

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (37)

We used the Ferber method on our twins when they were youngsters and we've have peaceful nights of sleep ever since. In fact we've had many friends marvel when we tell them how easily we get the boys to bed and that they (and we) have been sleeping through the... [Full Story]

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Year end Remainders

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (2)

Count this as the first of many subsequent Wizbang posts featuring 2004 year-in-review collections.Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer (LA Times) Year in Review 2004 - Part I, and Part II. Tim Blair's Quotes of 2004, staring with January. I won't link them, just start with January and navigate forward through... [Full Story]

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NY Times Editorial Writers Getting Ideas From Kos?

Posted by Paul · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (18)

At the height of the Rathergate controversy, CBS went digging thru Kevin Drum's comments section looking for an "expert" to pull their tails out the fire. In reality they just dug themselves deeper when it was learned the commenter was hardly an "expert." Now it looks like the editorial writers... [Full Story]

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Gulp

Posted by Paul · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (4)

Kevin and I have been working behind the scenes trying to create an infrastructure to support these massive video downloads when we have big news stories. Before we were really ready for it, we got a trial by fire... Or a trial my Tsunami. We worked fast over the last... [Full Story]

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Yet another problem with liberalism

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (25)

The other day on the radio, the talk-show guy was talking about the airport security guys who've been copping feels under the guise of "security screenings." He was arguing against that in favor of profiling passengers. He said one thing, though, that just crystallized the whole matter for me. "They're... [Full Story]

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The do's and don'ts of list-bombing

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (8)

Yesterday, I had the misfortune of winning an argument with an idiot. I call it "misfortune" because after losing, he decided to "list-bomb" me by signing my e-mail up for about thirty or so different mailing lists. Naturally, I'm putting a bit of effort into making sure the idiot in... [Full Story]

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"Call Your Mother"

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (1)

In case you were thinking that the tsunamis and the earthquake weren't having a direct effect on America...CNN - Dec 29, 2004 - The U.S. State Department is working to find thousands of Americans unaccounted for days after powerful tsunamis struck countries bordering the Indian Ocean. No exact numbers are... [Full Story]

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Kerry Gains 285 Votes In Ohio

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2004 · Comments (12)

The Green and Libertarian parties paid $113,600 for a recount in Ohio which helped John Kerry gain a net increase of 285 votes. That works out to an expenditure of $399 per vote, money neither the Greens, the Libertarians, nor the Kerry's paid. Kerry supporters, who where either lead to... [Full Story]

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Payback's a bitch, John...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 29, 2004 · Comments (19)

Throughout most of the day, I've been having an ongoing argument with a "John." It got a bit heated, but I'm used to that. Then, tonight, I suddenly found myself getting subscription notice after subscription notice in my inbox. Luckily, most of them were responsible ones, and required me to... [Full Story]

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Satellite Imagery

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2004 · Comments (2)

A collection of before and after hi-res satellite images of the tsunami zone in Sri Lanka from DigitalGlobe Via BoingBoing... [Full Story]

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What would life be without DU?

Posted by Paul · Published: December 29, 2004 · Comments (74)

Every big news story gives us a few Democratic Underground chuckles... In random order. Since we know that the atmosphere has become contaminated by all the atomic testing, space stuff, electronic stuff, earth pollutants, etc., is it logical to wonder if: Perhaps the "bones" of our earth where this earthquake... [Full Story]

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Merchant of Death

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: December 29, 2004 · Comments (8)

Over at isfullofcrap.com, Lair Simon's running his annual Dead Pool contest. I've already got my roster in and I've offered two bonus prizes of my own, and I've already got 'em ready to go. Plus, this year Lair is holding a referral contest. So far, Michele of A Small Victory... [Full Story]

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