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This article had me enraged for about an hour
Really, an hour. Here is money quote
Junk-food suit targets Nickelodeon, Kellogg
“But then they turn on Nickelodeon and see all those enticing junk-food ads,” Carlson said. “Adding insult to injury, we enter the grocery store and see our beloved Nick characters plastered on all those junky snacks and cereals.”
Carlson and another plaintiff, Andrew Leong of Brookline, Massachusetts, spoke at a news conference organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.
They intend to sue Kellogg and Nickelodeon parent Viacom Inc. in state court in Massachusetts and served the required 30 days’ notice on Wednesday.
“For over 30 years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children,” said Susan Linn of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. “Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened.”
It’s as if this woman’s children have their own money and do their own grocery shopping. Furthermore, I have it on good authority that children existing before television. Why not just take that away? Why aren’t we calling in some sort of family services on people who can’t control their kids?
And campaign for a commercial free childhood?
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A pleasant development
The AJC is covering the Bill Campbell trial in blog form.
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Quick roundup
- It’s depressing that two senators don’t realize how off they are. If you want to characterize the Republican majority in the House of Representatives negatively, then the proper term is fascism (taken literally, strength in numbers, and a dictatorship thereof) rather than a plantation, the relevant characteristic being oppression of the many by the few. All to work in a racial angle I suppose.
- Tom MacGuire has more interesting thoughts on the NSA wiretapping thing. Still, why not change the law though?
- An interesting post from the Belmont Club “A stone killer is never idle in a lawless Third World country”
- America’s possible action on Iran:. Evidently some lessons were learned from the lack of immediate American response to Afghanistan after 9-11.
- The Great War of 2007 – very scary possible history.
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Quote of the moment
From Inside the Net podcast – “A business plan will emerge.”
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Interesting
Holland might ban the burqua. Here is a link to Georgia’s largely unenforced mask law, which would ban it here as well.
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They make it sounds so negative
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Sunday rapid fire
- A nice summary of the demographic predicament of the Democratic Party. The Roe Effect is curiously unmentioned.
- 39 Mega pixel digicam! Via Digg.
- A very good article on NRO about the current state of 527 organizations.
…led by the so-called 527 groups, was a broad-based, grassroots effort, it was, in fact dependent in substantial part on just five donors: financier George Soros, Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis, Hollywood mogul Stephen Bing, and the California investors Herbert and Marion Sandler. Together, they spent about $78 million in the effort to defeat the president  more than the $75 million in federal funds that each presidential candidate received to conduct his entire general election campaign. (It was also more than twice what the late-starting top five Republican 527 donors spent on their side.)
The low number of people funding really does explain a lot about the Kerry campaign.
- The Iranians seem to refine technique.
- A good look at what could the scenario with the FISA/NSA case. One thing I would still like clarified: Is it wiretapping when it is recorded, or when someone listens to it? It still seems like a massive amount of datamining to me.
- Blues guitarist Rory Block has an unappealing FrontPage website, but a very interesting life story.
- I intent do explore AJAX more thoroughly when I have more time, but here is a tutorial, and a good open source download site. Here is an AJAX library it seems.
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The new faucet
Last week I decided to finally get a new faucet. Much to my surprise, the previous owner had installed the last one horribly. All of the nuts where misthreaded and stripped and it worked out to be a 6 hour pain. I wound up having to take the entire counter apart to get good leverage on loosening and remove everything.
An astonishing amount of gook can accumulate on the underside of the faucet over the years.
The counter with the back panel removed.
Dirt!
The underside of the old faucet.
Here is the finished product
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Everything you can say about America is true
Vampire Candidate ‘Won’t Hide Evil Side’
Thursday, January 12, 2006MINNEAPOLIS One gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota is giving a whole new meaning to the “dark side” of politics. A man who calls himself a satanic priest plans to run for governor on a 13-point platform that includes the public impaling of terrorists at the state Capitol building.
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Including the impaling of terrorists, rapists, drug dealers and other criminals, Sharkey’s platform includes emphasis on education, tax breaks for farmers and better benefits for veterans.I think govenors have been hiding their evil sides for far too long, and I welcome his candor. Throw in his impalement policy and I think we have a winner. Sure, it didn’t work for Dole in 96, but America has changed since then.
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This is interesting
DNA Tests Confirm Executed Va. Man Guilty. And it would seem that Schwarzenegger is not going to pardon the elderly mass murderer in California either. An eventful week for capitol punishment. Kudos to the govenor for ordering the test.