Archive for October, 2003

BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory

Allen October 31st, 2003

A wonderful directory of blogs (and more importantly) RSS feeds.

I’ve been looking for a RSS feed for Dave Barry’s blog, but haven’t been able to find it yet. Found now at blogstreet.

BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory

Allen October 31st, 2003

A wonderful directory of blogs (and more importantly) RSS feeds.

I’ve been looking for a RSS feed for Dave Barry’s blog, but haven’t been able to find it yet. Found now at blogstreet.

Bush and Muslims - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED

Allen October 31st, 2003

Time for another White House Ramadan dinner.

But as more and more people are pointing out, Islam is not necessarily a religion of peace. No other religion calls for the killing of non-believers and the supression of other religions. So Bush saying “Americans think terrorists are evil people who have hijacked a great religion” is not entirely true.

Most Americans have no problem with apostate Mulsims. Those who reject the call of killing and violence set down in the Quran.

Once last quote:

Preaching on Saudi state television from the holy mosque in Medina, Shaykh Salah Bin-Muhammad al-Budayr recently hailed Ramadan, concluding his sermon (according to a translation at www.imra.org.il): “O God, support Islam and Muslims and destroy the enemies of Islam, including Jews, Christians and atheists. . . . O God, deal with the Jews for they are within your power. . . O God, shake the land under their feet, instill fear in their hearts and make them a booty for Muslims and a lesson to others.”

Nuff said.

[Via Dhimmi Watch]

Bush and Muslims - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED

Allen October 31st, 2003

Time for another White House Ramadan dinner.

But as more and more people are pointing out, Islam is not necessarily a religion of peace. No other religion calls for the killing of non-believers and the supression of other religions. So Bush saying “Americans think terrorists are evil people who have hijacked a great religion” is not entirely true.

Most Americans have no problem with apostate Mulsims. Those who reject the call of killing and violence set down in the Quran.

Once last quote:

Preaching on Saudi state television from the holy mosque in Medina, Shaykh Salah Bin-Muhammad al-Budayr recently hailed Ramadan, concluding his sermon (according to a translation at www.imra.org.il): “O God, support Islam and Muslims and destroy the enemies of Islam, including Jews, Christians and atheists. . . . O God, deal with the Jews for they are within your power. . . O God, shake the land under their feet, instill fear in their hearts and make them a booty for Muslims and a lesson to others.”

Nuff said.

[Via Dhimmi Watch]

retroCRUSH: the world’s finest pop culture and Leo Sayer website

Allen October 31st, 2003

Obligatory Halloween related post. 100 of the scariest scenes in movies.

[Update: Should have been watching my pop-up counter in my Google toolbar. Pop-ups ahoy!]

[Cross-surfed from Blogcritics.com]

retroCRUSH: the world’s finest pop culture and Leo Sayer website

Allen October 31st, 2003

Obligatory Halloween related post. 100 of the scariest scenes in movies.

[Update: Should have been watching my pop-up counter in my Google toolbar. Pop-ups ahoy!]

[Cross-surfed from Blogcritics.com]

TCS: Tech Central Station - American Hegemony

Allen October 31st, 2003

Interesting article countering an earlier article at TCS about American Hegemony.

The counter-thrust of the article is that American Hegemony is here to stay.

Europe? Short-term political interests that are starting to back-fire on them.

China? Corruption and a habituallly lying government. SARS anyone?

[Via Instapundit.com]

TCS: Tech Central Station - American Hegemony

Allen October 31st, 2003

Interesting article countering an earlier article at TCS about American Hegemony.

The counter-thrust of the article is that American Hegemony is here to stay.

Europe? Short-term political interests that are starting to back-fire on them.

China? Corruption and a habituallly lying government. SARS anyone?

[Via Instapundit.com]

Need to review and clean up

Allen October 31st, 2003

I’ve been reading back over some of my previous posts. I need to go in a clean up a few speling misteaks. and punctuation errors? And I need to cleans up grammer errors as well.

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Fairer Tax

Allen October 31st, 2003

Another call to abolish the national income tax and replace it with a national sales tax. However, this time there appears to be House and Senate bills proposing such a tax.

In general, I favor a consumption tax. Of course there is issues with supressing demand, but I think most humans don’t have a problem with consumption. This bill would reward hard work.

Some call such a tax a regressive tax — hitting the poor more than the rich. I’m not sure that is true. Do the rich (and here I don’t mean the super-rich) necessarily spend less of their income on goods than the poor? And don’t we want to promote savings? With such a tax we do.

Problems with barter? Not really. This is just a different face on bartering to hide income.

Problems with private sales? Again, not really. Same song, different tune.

Problems with purchases overseas brought here. Well, perhaps. We would need to watch closely with the super-rich. If you purchase something overseas and bring it immediately here, then there is a strong case that this is tax avoidance. If you purchase something overseas for your home there and then ‘move’ here, do you tax that? Not so clear now.

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