http://something-stinks.com/WordPress Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:34:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Aug30.2010 MSNBC.com ran the latest update on the weird story of NYC student Michael Enright’s knife attack on a Muslim cabbie.  Really weird.  And possibly sad, too, as this kid had just traveled to Afghanistan last spring with a group that promotes interfaith understanding.  From what we know of ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=63 Here's a recent New Yorker article by Jane Mayer on the billionaire Koch brothers, who [along with Rupert Murdoch] are a major financial force behind the tea-baggers and a lot of the virulence from the Libertarian Right. Note their father, Fred Koch, was one of the original John Birchers. ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=62 I remember back a few years ago before my mom went into the old people’s home how I used to sit on her front porch there on Main St., Rustlersville, Kentucky on Sunday mornings while the mega-decible speakers on the steeple of the Methodist church across the street blared on ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=61 As a service to our loyal reader, we periodically filter out the best of Wimp.com -- i.e., removing all the idiot baby and cat vids -- to bring you only the cream. That presumes you agree that alligator-packed rivers and corner-jive ranks as cream. 1. Emotionally devastating Australian anti-speeding ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=60 As Letterman recently observed, since marrying his latest trophy bimbo -- what? his 5th? -- Rush Limbaugh is on a Viagra drip.  But he still has time to show the world how ignorant he ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=56 Helen Thomas, of late retired, famously suggested that the Jews should "get the hell" out of Israel.  Far less known were the comments of NY Sen. Chuck Schumer a day or so later, in which he told the Jewish Orthodox Union that Israel should continue to strangle Gaza.  UC Irvine ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=55 It goes almost without saying that the Israelis will do anything it takes to spin the May31.2010 Israeli Defense Forces attack on the Mavi Marmara in order to dampen the growing backlash of negative world opinion.  Violence followed by deceit and lying is Israeli's modus operandi and it's one of ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=54 The CDC is falsifying the H1N1 data it presents on its website.  They are trying to make the public believe that the weekly body count is 75, when it is actually hundreds.  They are trying to make the public believe that the cumulative body count is considerably less than it ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=48 I lived in New Zealand for about a decade, and so things from and about NZ tend to catch my eye.  This one sure did – it’s a lecture given in 2005 by Canterbury University history professor, Geoffery Rice. Prof Rice published a book about the 1918 flu; it's called ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=45 I'm not going to crunch any numbers in this H1N1 post.  Nope, all verbal.  In fact, I'm not even going to write this post.  I'm going to lift it all from recent US government sources. Here are excerpts from the CDC and from Homeland Security’s  Water and Wastewater Annex to the ... http://something-stinks.com/WordPress/?p=44