One Year Ago Today

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Happy Blogaversary To Me!

I started doing this a year ago today. Tell me how you feel about it. What's good, what's bad. I did some "Best of" posts as a way to review what I've been doing. I don't plan to stop just yet.

Best of Headlines Part I

I am throwing together a bunch of headlines that I did last year during my first six months of blogging. I apologize about the broken links. The news sources don’t keep their articles online very long.

Here are the very first three headlines I ever wrote. Good times. Good times.

FDA Reviews Ban on Silicone Breast Implants
Vow to personally examine hundreds of breasts

Hidden Fat Could Mean Heart Disease Risk
Exposed obvious fat safe though.

Earth's oldest known object on display
Dick Clark does performance art

Here are some others.

B.B. King Monument to Be Built in Arkansas
Aging Blues man says "Don't need one, not dead yet."

Cruise Ship Returns After Wave Damage
Passengers now encourage to use "Tomahawk Chop" to show enthusiasm

New Sensors Detect Speech Without Sound
Improvement over Democratic sensor which detects speech without thought.

Canadians take many roads to Rome
All Canadian roads to Rome eventually end at huge body of water called the ocean.

Woman, 90, Grabs Bobcat's Tail to Free Cat
Goldthwait says "Lady, Let go my butt! I don't even have your stupid cat"

Rehabilitated Dolphins Released in Fla.
Sea World praised for their aquatic 12 step program - Next is shelter for battered fish.

Like opera, striptease is art, Oslo court rules
Unlike opera, in striptease nobody wants to see the fat lady sing

Next-Generation Xbox to Be Media Hub
Picard hopes it will keep Wesley off the bridge

Some Say Laughter Is the Best Medicine
But just try getting a prescription for it

Iraq PM suffers cabinet setback
Needs 8 X 1 1/4" screws to hold panel A to right side

Crocodiles put rangers on high alert
Clerics, bards and magic-users failed their saving throws and are on normal alert

China recalls Japanese germ warfare experiments
So if you have a Japanese germ warfare experiment issued between 1998 and 2001 please return it to China for replacement or refund

Pizza delivery ends prison siege
Crisis ended when Dominoes delivered 2000 large pizzas with extra armed guards on them

Good news on severed goat heads: Satan not involved
Prince of Lies thanks newly acquired Johnny Cochran for clearing his name

German senator douses homeless man with wine, quits
He realized he didn't have all the ingredients for Bum Flambe

Twins Seeing Double Once Again
Bush says he'll take keys to the liquor cabinet next time he leaves country

Jowell wants Bond to stay in UK
African Americans raise funds to ship Julian to London

Drug That Treats Diarrhea May Prevent It
Company investors expect high liquidity at first followed by a solid performance

Angry jailers massacre inmate's pet pigeons
No explanation given for sudden coo

Cruise Says Holmes Is 'Magnificent
'Actor fondly remembers late porn star's biggest moments

Florida Man Accused of Poaching Alligator
Says poached alligator crucial ingredient in alligators benedict

Texas Family Finds Baby Opossum in Toilet
Dad remarks "I don't remember eating that"

Obesity Research Shows 3 Crucial Periods
Scientists identify these as breakfast, lunch and dinner

Rush Guitarist Sues Hotel Over Altercation
Spokesman Tom Sawyer said "While it was his Free Will to stay in the Subdivisions it was no excuse for such fly by night service."

Rain queen dies at 27
Dustin Hoofman's attempt to combine sequels to Rain Man and Tootsie big box office flop.

After Tsunami, Mothers Want More Children
After California verdict, so does Michael Jackson

FDA: Some Guidant Defibrillators Recalled
This came as no shock to some

King Tut is back in the US to wow audiences
Lots of new Tut merchandise in gift Cheops

Schwarzenegger: I'm Still Enjoying the Battle:
"Especially the crushing of my enemies, seeing them driven before me, hearing the lamentations of the women"

Bush Adviser Must Turn Rhetoric Into Policy
Bush critics to continue to work only with rhetoric

Bush Drops a Few Clues About Candidate
Democrats pick up crayon, notebook and sit in their big chair to figure it out

Lost Sappho love poem published after 2,600 years
"The poetess of Lesbos full of joy
Tis no mystery who this lass likes
How she envys the little Dutch Boy
With a finger in the dikes"

Man Reveals Reason for Shooting Postman
Seems he rang more than twice

Rat Study Links Aspartame to Cancer
Dieting rats beg for more funding to find cure for cancer testing

"Your Pre-Pregnancy To-Do List"
Has just 1 activity on it and you know what it is

Activists Want Circumcision Declared a Human Rights Crime
Law enforcement officials standing by awaiting tips

A Better Treatment for Head Lice?
Democrats who urged better treatment for Gitmo detainees now seek better treatment for other vermin

US singer Cohn shot by carjacker
Came very close to "Croaking in Memphis"

Kanye West Calls for End to Gay Bashing
Gay bashers everywhere cease activity. "We just needed to be told by some guy with a grammy."

Downey Jr. says 'I do'
"I do cocain, I do heroine, I do pot...."

Judy Garland's Famed Ruby Slippers Stolen
Clinton, Boxer, Pelosi, and other wicked witches questioned

Should Labs Treat Chimps More Like Humans?
Democrats say yes as they move to register 100000 new primate voters

Kate Moss Acknowledges Drug Use
By falling down, retching her guts out and babbling incoherently

Many Islands "Gone," Wetlands Gutted After Katrina, Experts Say
Looters claimed they needed islands and wetlands to survive

Mars getting warmer, may have quakes
Bush blamed for not signing Kyoto-Terra Meridiani accords

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The Best of Dane Bramage

The Best of Dane Bramage

I did a quick scan of the posts I made over the last year and I decided to list and link to my better stuff. Given how much work this has been for one year I am hesitant to announce whether or not this will be a yearly thing.  Anyway here is some of what I consider “Best of “material.  

To start things off I have So If Your Name is Kevin, Why is This Blog Called Dane Bramage?  Has a little background on why I blog and why I call this blog what I do.

It seems like people everywhere were seeing the Virgin Mary. Virgin Mary Blows into Windy City was one such instance.  Virgin Mary Blows Through Northern Italy was another.

I really liked blogging about the Smithee awards. And the award for "Stupidest Looking Monster" goes to...  has the background and The Smithee Awards Report  has the actual 2005 award show review. I fully plan to attend again this year.  Maybe I’ll skip the near-death infection this time.

As a black conservative Republican I am at political odds with most of my fellow African Americans. Using Rosa Parks is just one such case.

I made my feelings about Katrina known in a Homespun Blogger Symposium post HBS How Do You Feel About Hurricane Katrina

And I took a personal look at suicide and euthanasia in Killing Ones Self Is Such a Hassle

And of course how could I forget about the U.N. bombing the Smurfs. Tra La LaLaLaLa La La La La BOOM!  

I took a bunch of quizzes and answered a couple memes.  I linked to a lot of work that other people did especially covering the Religion of Peace.  All and all it was a good year. I am not planning to make any changes to my format or the things I usually comment on.  Feedback has been favorable. I haven’t had any trolls, which probably means I need to get noticed by more people.  So for my second year I will work a little harder to post regularly and be more of a link whore.    

Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn : Christians Kill The Erotic Thriller

Christians Kill The Erotic Thriller
rfburn over at Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn has a great post about the accusations that Christianity has killed the erotic thriller genre.

The accusation is being leveled because of the huge box office flop Basic Instinct 2 which over the weekend earned slightly more than Larry the Cable Guy which has been out for two weeks.
The failure of Basic Instinct 2 couldn't possibly mean that perhaps the film just plain sucks or that the genre has run it's course. There must be someone or some group to blame, and there is! Conservative Christians to be specific. Paul Verhoeven, director of the first Basic Instinct makes the following claim:

From Reuters Entertainment News
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States", said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends."

Oliver Stone said the same thing about why Alexander flopped. Can't these guys just admit they made crappy movies that no one wanted to see? Maybe if BI2 had more of an agenda behind it the critics would have heralded it as another Brokeback Mountain instead of celluloid trash.

Do You Know What Tomorrow Is?

Tomorrow is the 1 year blogaversary of Dane Bramage. I plan to mark the occasion with more template changes and a "Best of Headlines" post. I will probably have a post with links to some of my best posts (IMHO).  If you have a favorite let me know and I will add it. I will probably ask you to leave a comment about this blog too.  So rummage through the archives and let me know what you think "The Best of Dane Bramage" is.

Headlines For Monday 4/03/2006

Where rejected greeting cards go to die
They all suffer from tachycardia

Thousands of German WW2 corpses in Czech factory
Czechs reject criticism that German corpses might not be a marketable commodity; plan to continue production into third quarter.

Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in Sleep
Presence of Judge and lawyers fail to wake the man

'Brokeback' Takes Top Film at Gay Awards
Followed closely by second place winner 'Balony Pony Express'

Film Shoot Mistaken for Hostage Situation
Film viewing likely to feel like hostage situation

Pamela Anderson Calls for End to Seal Hunt
She encourages British singer to turn himself in

Maine man builds a house out of concrete
Man is confident Big Bad Wolf won't blow it down like his brothers houses

Late Grateful Dead leader's toilet stolen
Cops on the lookout for perp with Jerry Garcia's head in a duffle bag

Groups Want Warnings Taken Off Drug Ads
They don't want you to know that the new drug you are taking may cause swelling of the face, fingers, feet, and/or lower legs; severe stomach pain; bad breath; black, tarry stools, and/or vomiting of blood or material that looks like coffee grounds; headaches; backaches; numbness in arms and legs; tingling in toes and fingers; loss of hearing; blurred vision; loss of appetite; loss of balance; unusual weight gain; and/or skin rash; reduced sex drive; head exploding; sudden unexplained death.


That's it for Headlines today. Remember to visit the usual suspects for more "headliney goodness"!

basil at basil's blog

Linky Business
The Pirates Cove
Committees of Correspondence
webKittyn Warbles

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Sigins of Life

Ah spring. One need only look arounnd and see budding... posts! Something stirs at Laffin At The Left, Post Katrina. Is it me or has The Capitalist mellowed a bit?

And there is a non-post over at Bloggin Outloud, Im not Blogging! Yeah right. Pull the other one.

Meanwhile further down the alphabet in the blogosphere, "Petifog's Jots and Tittles" has new content while "Perspectives in Motion" is closed for remodeling.

Dutch Following in Hitler's Footsteps

You may have remembered when I posted about the Dutch woman who wanted mandatory sterilization of blacks. I also posted about how the Dutch will be the first to legalize euthanasia for babies. Well their trend for murdering undesirables hasn’t gone unnoticed. In fact an Italian official has drawn disturbing parallels between the Dutch policies and similar policies enacted by Hitler during his administration. From Killing Babies, Compassionately;The Netherlands follows in Germany's footsteps.

At last, a high government official in Europe got up the nerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infant euthanasia. Italy's Parliamentary Affairs minister, Carlo Giovanardi, said during a radio debate: "Nazi legislation and Hitler's ideas are reemerging in Europe via Dutch euthanasia laws and the debate on how to kill ill children."
Unsurprisingly, the Dutch, ever prickly about international criticism of their peculiar institution, were outraged. Giovanardi's critique cut so deeply that even Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende felt the need to respond, sniffing,
"This [Giovanardi's assertion] is scandalous and unacceptable. This is not the way to get along in Europe."
As is often the case in the New Europe, what is said matters more than what is done. Thus, the prime minister of the Netherlands thinks that killing babies because they are born with terminal or seriously disabling conditions is not a scandal, but daring to point out accurately that German doctors did the same during World War II, is.(emphasis mine -DB)

Ah the magical world of PC. What German doctors did during WWII was deplorable but the same thing done by the Dutch today is OK because they really care about the babies. We can’t be allowed to draw comparisons between the two because that would link the liberal agenda to Nazism and everybody knows only Bush and conservatives are Nazis.

The Weekly Standard article points out that in Germany, doctors who performed the “treatment” of undesirable babies were not forced to do so. The actually felt they were doing a valuable service. But this service quickly got out of hand and evolved into the T-4 project where undesirable adults were murdered either by starvation or lethal injection. Often these people were killed without examination but just at the whim of the doctor.

I find it amazing that the Dutch think that they can avoid the slippery slope. It looks like history is about to repeat itself.

Hat Tip Danny Carlton at JackLewis.net

Some Retooling Is In Order

Some of you may have noticed that my blog is loading rather slowly.  I am investigating it right now. I wish I could blame Blogger but other Blogger blogs load pretty quick. I think the culprit may be in one of my many sidebar blogthingies. I have already removed the clock because McAfee kept identifying it as having a potential virus attached. I will replace it with a "clean" one eventually.  In the mean time bear with me. I will figure this out.