Yes, today is the day – one full year of bitching, moaning, and generally pissing other people off. I LOVE birthdays!

Now, where the hell is my cake, bitches?

**UPDATE**

Same name, same birthdate! Stop by and wish Rob @ Say Anything a happy second blogiversary!

If you are a crack coder and can crank out some code quick, I need some volunteer help with the Take Back The Memorial site.

What I need:

1. A Petition (someone with previous petition experience preferred)
2. A one-click “god and everybody” emailer so folks can create one email that that goes to all the contacts.

The code need to be WordPress compatible (PHP). Drop me an email (link under My Stuff on the right) if you can volunteer your time!

NBC is reporting that someone tossed a grenade at the stage while Bush was speaking in Georgia in Freedom Square.

According to U.S. law enforcement officials, someone threw a hand grenade that landed with 100 feet of the stage where the president was speaking.

They also reported that the Secret Service has not yet seen the device.

Thanks Jude. I needed a good laugh today.

**UPDATE**

This was part of a forwarded email. I do not know who the original source it, otherwise I would be happy to credit them.

**UPDATE**

See comments for source. An online “generator” it would appear.

I have 10 to give away. If you would like one, just send me an email.

Via Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, the quote comes from Clint Eastwood in the February 28th issue of Time.

Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. — Oakland native Clint Eastwood

Ain’t that the truth?

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Vanishing Robbers

Do your part – download SETI@Home and help find those little buggers!

Well, Danny boy has officially retired. I am looking forward to not having to skip past CBS quite so quickly as I channel surf now.

If you missed his final sign-off, complete with one last “Courage!”, check out the video at Jackon’s Junction.

Ahab is after that whale, again.

This is not good news, if true, but not completely unexpected.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea on Thursday announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying it needs the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.

The communist state’s pronouncement dramatically raised the stakes in the two-year-old nuclear confrontation and posed a grave challenge to President Bush, who started his second term with a vow to end North Korea’s nuclear program through six-nation talks.

“We … have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration’s ever more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North),” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

The claim could not be independently verified. North Korea expelled the last U.N. nuclear monitors in late 2002 and has never tested a nuclear bomb, although international officials have long suspected it has one or two nuclear bombs and enough fuel for several more.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said North Korea should return to disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation. She said the world “has given them a way out and we hope they will take that way out.”

“The North Koreans have been told by the president of the United States that the United States has no intention of attacking or invading North Korea,” Rice told a news conference in Luxembourg. “There is a path for the North Koreans that would put them in a more reasonable relationship with the rest of the world.”

The problem is that you are dealing with an unreasonable, and quite possibly insane dictator.

This all makes me very nervous.