Shockingly, protestor turnout was lower than estimated. At least, according to a scientific means. Now, I suppose Peggy and Justin will have to fight it out.

Rex has some good definitions of poli-economic terms. (blogger links, scroll down to IT’S OKAY…REALLY!.

Proof that the world would be a better place if Glam Metal just went away.

Update: 60 confirmed dead as of 10:42a.m. Jesus.

I blab about my dog a lot. Now that I have server space, here’s a pic:

My wife’s dog can be found here, he’s a model for a pet supply manufacturer.

Interesting statistics on oil imports found here. Source Andy & Allison, my wife’s radio station of choice. Persian Gulf sources are found here.

In short, it doesn’t matter where you buy your gas because the oil is intermingled regardless of its origin.

Gonna give you a heads up. People on the right keep touting that your next run for the big office is guaranteed because the Democrats just really haven’t done a lot. Basically, they think that because the Democrats failed to develop a stance early on with respect to Iraq, the war on terror, and the economy (since the entirety of their stances was always Republicans are wrong instead of what they thought should be done) and this will lead to your success in 2004. By the way, you could have buried the Democrats then.

Well, I’m here to tell you something. You’re losing some ground from the people who may be inclined to vote for you with these gems:

The Patriot Act
Patriot Act 2
TIA
The Department of Homeland Security
lack of enforcing the recent Justice Department policy on the second amendment
that faith-based stuff
record deficits
some of the abortion stuff
continuing the war on civil liberties err drugs

Time to start cleaning up your own backyard or your gonna lose votes from the large Republican voter demographic who have just been waiting for a good excuse to vote Libertarian (not that I’m mentioning names or nothing). Thought you might want to know that.

Sincerely,

SayUncle

Every week I make a trip to our local Weigel’s to purchase two gallons of milk. I buy two because the wife wants skim and I used to drink whole milk. I’m coming around because now I drink 2%. Any way, it always amuses me because on the freezer of our local Weigel’s is a sign that reads:

Gallon Homo $2.29

Of course, it refers to a gallon of homogenized milk. I laugh every time I see it. I know it’s not that funny and that I shouldn’t but I do. Oh well.

So, the gummint needs more cash and Congress has to up the debt ceiling.

Peggy has a retort to Instaguy’s claims of low protestor turn out in Knoxville. Maybe the horse’s ass picture was a bit rough.

So, this weekend there were some protests. I’ve read various estimates of the number of people who protested around the world and place this number around 2 million. So, what about the 5,998,000,000 that didn’t protest? Where’s their news story? Oh, that’s right. It’s about people trying to make a difference. Here’s a newsflash, no it ain’t. It’s about the fact that this 0.03% think that either America is always wrong or George Bush can’t be right. It’s sad really, but these same folks would likely not be concerned if the order was coming from Gore or England.

I’ve read that the KNS estimated that the number of protestors in Knoxville was around 500. Of course, everyone I’ve talked to who actually drove through and saw it said it was more like 40 people. And apparently, those protestors were pretty intolerant of differing views (isn’t that what they accuse us warmongers of?).

More power to our protestors for practicing their freedom of speech. It’s just a pity that they’re wrong.

Head on over to moveablebeast and check out some pictures she took of the local Knoxville Hippy contingent.

And here’s why there will never be a successful liberal radio show.

SKB brings to our attention some survey questions conducted in an effort to develop a snazzy new logo for downtown Knoxville. We here at SayUncle Research got a sampling of answers to one of the questions and here are the results:

The conclusion: Marketing groups should stop asking stupid fucking questions.

Another case for home schooling:

Public schools are run by the National Educational Association. They are not run by people you can hold accountable, such as teachers, superintendents and school boards. The NEA opposes merit pay, charter schools, and any decision by any school administrator that has not been determined in advance by collective bargaining. Simply put, the NEA opposes everything except its own power.

Ah, more power hungry unions!

Meanwhile, kids aren’t learning. The vocabulary of the average American 14-year-old has dropped from 25,000 words to 10,000. San Francisco Examiner reporter Emily Gurnon asked teenagers to identify the country from which America won its independence. Among the answers: “Japan or something, China. Somewhere out there on the other side of the world.” “It wouldn’t be Canada, would it?” “I don’t know; I don’t even, like, have a clue.” “I want to say Korea. I’m tripping.”

Yup, kids today are screwed.

Sara Boyd, a recipient of many awards and accolades during her teaching career experienced difficulty passing a mathematics competency test. She sued the state of California, claiming the test was racially discriminatory. But at her deposition she was unable to answer the question: “What percent of 80 is 8?”

I’m stupid, so you must be racist?

Yup, home schooling or private schools seem the way to go.

Check it

A bout of insomnia inspired me to make some changes. Check out the new layout and let me know of any errors you find. I suck at HTML so what would have taken your average competent person 30 minutes just took me three hours. But I bet I can get to sleep now! Oh yeah, since everyone else blogged about it but me: war protestors are stupid and warmongers are mean! Good night.

Today my father in law said something that I thought worth writing down. Here goes: If you’re gonna be stupid, you have to be tough. He said this after putting a bit too much habanero sauce on his chili. Hehe. Advice to live by, if you ask me!

Andrew has an interesting peice on how your blog could come back to haunt you. I guess anonymity is a virtue in this day and age. Bonus points for that reference.

Alex did a good job refuting the BBC claim that no cash was going as humanitarian to Afghanistan. Of course it’s a bogus claim. The fact is cash is going to Afghanistan. Read Alex’s rant for the facts, some thing BBC attempted to distort through deception. Stating that it’s omitted from the budget is implying that it’s not gonna get paid. Of course, a summary of actual cash expenditures indicates it was paid. No bias here, right?

Update: Go here scroll to page 5 of 25 and you’ll see $296M in humanitarian and rebuilding aid budgeted for aid in Afghanistan. Notice it is the 2003 budget. The BBC didn’t get the facts straight! Thanks to Jay at the Daily Rant!

I love you with all that I am.

I started reading Lost Rights yesterday. I’ve only completed the first two chapters which deal with government property seizure abuses and zoning abuse. Very interesting to see how our rights are being violated at every level of the government. And, the author alleges, it’s all driven by money. I really (only two chapters in) suggest this book. The basic premise is that the government is now so huge (A Leviathan) that its corruption is unstoppable. It lists various abuses and stories of these abuses. Go Buy This Book!

Heard on the radio this morning an interview with Mr. Whiteside (the victim of racism in our fair city). He told the radio guy that his neighbor (the bigot) was using the racial epitaphs in front of the police and in front of the press. The radio guy’s response was basically that he couldn’t believe people still did that stuff in 2003. Mr. Whiteside states that he and his family are going to move. Mr. Whiteside, of course, should not move but he does fear for the safety of his 6 and 10 year-old children.

Mr. Whiteside stated he’d been contacted by national media outlets who want to cover the story. Another embarassment for Knoxville.

An interesting note is that the radio guy played Grandmaster Flash’s White Lines as the introduction to the segment.

Hang in there Mr. Whiteside! Don’t move. This incident is another big fat blemish for Knoxville. Bah!

This is funny!

A follow up article in the KNS addressing the recent racist incident in West Knoxville reports:

The Whiteside family has been living in the neighborhood for about two years. James Haldeman moved in about a year ago

Bubba found the information at KGIS. This extensive research conducted by Bubba (until recently unknown to the KNS) probably took an entire (brace yourself) five minutes. That’s right, reporters were amazed at the amount of time said research took. Standard journalism procedures suggest a maximum of three minutes tops or else the story gets old.

The article suggests a panel be formed to examine racial incidents since the 1990s in Knoxville. Including a cross burning in Halls.

Of course, racial means: Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races.
Arising from or based on differences among human racial groups: racial conflict; racial discrimination.

I think our reporter means racist.

Of course, no amount of panels will end racism in our fair city. We need to change attitudes. In the case of James Haldeman, that is a pointless endeavor, I’m afraid. Racists ignorant morons will always exist.

But they keep advertising that last episode will have a twist. My prediction: They’ll give the chick Joe chooses a choice:

a) You can wed this guy
b) You can have $1M

At which point, she’ll admit to the world she’s a moneygrubber and take the dough. Then, the dude looks like a sucker and the woman is made to be more greedy.

Ah, the decline of civilization.

Why is it that you never see Al Qaida spelled the same way twice? Use this handy list of the top spellings to ensure that you know exactly which terrorist whackos the press is referring to:

Al Qaeda
Al Qaida
ALKDA (phonics anyone?)
Kareem Abdul Jabar
Alfalfa
Abra abracadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya
Aunt Jemima
Bunch of fucking crazy goddamn idiots

Yeah, that was funnier when I thought it up than when I actually typed it. Remember, I’m in this to entertain me, not you!

The Rocky Top Brigade is mentioned in a weekly paper and no mention of me. Bah!

Bjorn & Brehd doing radio interviews.

Will the madness ever end?

Kevin over at Leanleft brings to our attention that:

House and Senate negotiators have agreed that a Pentagon project intended to detect terrorists by monitoring Internet e-mail and commercial databases for health, financial and travel information cannot be used against Americans.

I read a book once called The Puzzle Palace, which detailed some inner workings of the NSA. Per the book, the NSA was forbidden by law from intercepting transmissions by US citizens. The result was that the NSA did it anyway and tried to cover it up. Evidence later came to light indicating such. Such an organization with the capabilities to track this data is subject to abuse by immoral employees or corrupt administrations. So, even if the bill passes, the resulting agency has potential to infringe on our rights given the corruption and bureaucracy inherent in government.

So, until TIA is dead in the sense that it will never come up for a vote, I’m still concerned.

Oliver Willis draws attention to the fact that Instapundit isn’t commenting on Bin Laden’s tape. SayUncle will now draw attention to the fact that Instapundit isn’t commenting on Oliver Willis either.

Of course, we all know the true culprit is Rich Little.

Well, missile launchers are set up in DC. The threat level is rising. The CIA is saying something is gonna happen. And I pray to God that nothing does happen. However, if something doesn’t happen (or something isn’t at least stopped) credibility is out the window. And panic and reactionism rules the day.

Without hitting a blogger in Knoxville. Bjorn of Knoxpatch has created a blog. Pay him a visit.