Andymatic

Month: February 2006

  • 85% of US Troops in Iraq Don't Know Why They're There

    Zogby released a poll today of troops serving in Iraq: >85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks.” 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.” “Ninety-three percent said that removing […]

  • Bush Approval Ratings Hit All Time Low

    Remember, friends, Nixon was at 27% during Watergate: Gallup: Bush Approval at 39%  CBS: Bush Approval at 34% Zogby: Bush Approval at 40% No more mandate. The Project for the New American Centruy is derailing. What will they do? Can John McCain be the new charisma for 2008 – after Rove destroyed him in 2004? […]

  • Shark Vacuum Cleaner

    It is Tuesday morning. Kitty is lapping up a bowl of water. He’ll go the whole day without hydrating and then suddenly park himself in front of the water dish and have at it. He’s now enjoying a post-meal stretch on the floor. I got a vacuum on Sunday. I had one already but the […]

  • The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

    I thought I’d rent the Wes Craven classic The Hills Have Eyes on the weekend release of it’s remake. And with taglines like: The lucky ones died first. and They burned the father, killed the mother and raped the sister! I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I still found the movie pretty […]

  • Peeping Tom (1960)

    Oatmeal cooking in the micro. Just finished watching Peeping Tom, Michael Powell’s controversial 1960 horror film. Considered to be a pre-cursor to the slasher genre, the film destroyed Powell’s career for it’s commentary on sadism, voyeurism and entertainment (Hitchcock’s Psycho came 3 months later – ignited similar controversy – but was lauded). Powell’s favorite review […]

  • Oprah: Tom Cruise Talks About Breaking Up with Katie Holmes

    Okay not really. But it is a nice video mix of Oprah’s Jame Frey shakedown and the legendary ‘I WILL EAT YOUR BABIES’ Tom Crusie episode.

  • Personals Ads from the Deep

    Checked my Yahoo! email which I hadn’t checked in a long long time and saw email from Salon Personals which morphed from Nerve Personals back from my dating days. I’m deleting my account but was curious to see what was my personals ad like back then: Hunky brainiac seeking… I have great hands (14 years […]

  • Police Intimidation in Miami-Dade and Brown Counties

    Undercover reporters went to go and see what happens when they ask for a complain form at Miami police stations. In the I-team’s undercover investigation, there was one incident in which our tester went in to file a complaint. After several times asking for a form, being told “you’re not leaving without a form,” he […]

  • 40 Palm Beach Voting Machines Hacked in 2004 Elections

    Black Box Voting finished their analysis of the 2004 elections in Palm Beach which used Sequoia voting machines: Another disturbing find was several dozen voting machines with votes for the Nov. 2, 2004 election cast on dates like Oct. 16, 15, 19, 13, 25, 28 2004 and one tape dated in 2010. These machines did […]

  • Jobs and Defense

    Something I forgot to mention last night with regard to Why We Fight is the one thing I hadn’t really realized before. That wrapped up in our military-industrial-congressional-thinktank ecosystem there is another force that keeps us anchored in a ‘war footing.’ Jobs. The manufacturing of defense products and bombs and uniforms – all of the […]