Yahoo! News - Texas Rep. Ralph Hall Switches to GOP

Yahoo! News - Texas Rep. Ralph Hall Switches to GOP:

He told The Associated Press that he's always said that if being a Democrat hurt his district, he would switch or resign. He said GOP leaders had recently refused to place money for his district in a spending bill and 'the only reason I was given was I was a Democrat.'
(Emphasis mine)

He also said he did not agree with 'all these guys running against the president.'

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said Democrats are 'reaping what they've sown.'

'Their leaders have lined up behind Howard Dean (news - web sites)'s brand of angry, intolerant politics. They've made their message clear: 'moderates need not apply' and that's a sad trend for a once-great party,' DeLay said.

Apparently, DeLay didn't know about the the facts outlined three paragraphs before his quote. Which party is the angry, intolerant party?

That Parent-Child Conversation Is Becoming Instant, and Online

And I thought my family was geeky.

Bush opposed mad-cow rules just a few weeks ago

New meat rules reverse industry efforts: "The Agriculture Department's announcement yesterday of a ban on the sale of meat from ailing 'downer' cattle marked a policy turnabout for the Bush administration, coming only a few weeks after the department and allies in the powerful meat lobby blocked an identical measure in Congress."

Why does Goerge Bush hate America?

CNN.com - Wary U.S. turns spotlight on international flights - Jan. 2, 2004

CNN.com - Wary U.S. turns spotlight on international flights - Jan. 2, 2004

British Airways canceled Flight 223 from London to Washington today, the third time in three days the flight was disrupted because of security concerns, the airline said. Today's cancellation came a week and a half after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert to orange, its second-highest level.

I've got an idea: why don't they load the plane up as planned, only put guards on it, check every piece of luggage and instead of flying, get the plane away from the airport and round up the suspects? By cancelling the flights, it looks like they're just telling the terrorists to reschedule.

Hey, just like the Bush administration!

Thousands Rally in Hong Kong to Demand Free Elections: "Many business tycoons oppose further democracy, contending that the public does not understand the importance and complexity of creating an environment conducive to investment."

Yeah, murdering millions of innocent people / making foreign travelers get fingerprinted -- pretty much the same thing,

Brazil to fingerprint US citizens: "'I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis,' Federal Judge Julier Sebastiao da Silva said in the court order."

Another example of being a little too loose with the Holocaust comparison.

We Didn't Smacko Jacko, Say Calif. Cops

I must admit, Fox News wrote a great headline.

Cyber blackmail targets office workers

MSNBC - Cyber blackmail targets office workers

Something tells me this story is bogus. First, the primary source is an unnamed "British detective." Two, the story doesn't cite a single instance in which the ploy actually worked. No victims or perpetrators are quoted, and the only victim cited is an unnamed "Scandinavian university." And third, it just sounds farfetched. How are these perpetrators getting merchant credit card accounts, which would be necessary to accept the credit card ransom, as outlined in the story? Wouldn't nine out of 10 recipients report the e-mail to authorities, who'd then track the merchant accounts? Bogus.