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July 31, 2003

Who to believe

This guy

or the WaPo?

Posted by Nukevet at 06:21 PM | Comments (0)

The Color of Right

You really need to go read what I found over at Town Hall.

It is an essay that talks about Mr. Donald Rumsfeld and why there is civilian control of the military.

"It would be an understatement to say that Donald Rumsfeld has ruffled a few feathers during his tenure as secretary of defense. He has been called a "takedown artist," a "control freak" who has little patience with the niceties of military protocol. His critics say he thinks nothing of insulting general officers and running roughshod over those with whom he disagrees. Not surprisingly, the uniformed military has struck back. Anti-Rumsfeld leaks to the press have been unprecedented. Hardly a week goes by without a story in the press quoting anonymous officers trashing the secretary for one reason or another."

"The uniformed military might not like it, but there�s a term for what Rumsfeld is doing at the Pentagon. It�s called exercising civilian control of the military� a feature of Republican government much beloved by the Founders of the United States."

Go read the rest.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:19 AM | Comments (1)

The Twilight Zone

Here is another website that will make you want to break things.

Bring Them Home Now.com is just too strange.

They claim to be 'a coordinating committee of military families, veterans, active duty personnel, reservists and others opposed to the ongoing war in Iraq and galvanized to action by George W. Bush's inane and reckless challenge to armed Iraqis resisting occupation to "Bring 'em on."

But if you read further, you will see that the group mostly consists of the 'others'. I realize that there are undoubtably folks who are close to servicemembers who are also opposed to the war. But I am also sure that the vast majority of them realize that a group such as this is not the way to support them.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:51 AM | Comments (1)

Slacker

Sorry for not carrying my weight - real life has been kicking my ass. I promise to post a bit more this week-end. Take that as either a promise or a threat........

Posted by Nukevet at 10:51 AM | Comments (3)

Witch Hunt

You try to do something nice, something that offers help, inclusion and interactivity to your co-workers, and by the end of the day you're in trouble at work. Now, I agree that it may not have been the smartest idea, but it still didn't deserve the response it received.

"The city of Oakland barred two employees from advertising an informal group that respects "the natural family, marriage and family values," contending the bulletin-board flyer was "homophobic."

In a case that could set a precedent challenging anti-discrimination laws, Regina Rederford and Robin Christy filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court in Oakland against two city supervisors who enforced a policy they insist is unconstitutional."

"It's ridiculous � the flyer doesn't mention homosexuality whatsoever," said Rederford's attorney, Scott Lively."

Not only that, but it doesn't even mention Christianity. It says "people of faith'. I'm a certified heathen, and I know I wouldn't be offended.

Just go read.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:35 AM | Comments (2)

Manhatten Project

Now that we all know about New York city's school for gay students only, it seems that more information about dumb things going on in NYC schools is coming out. (Get it, coming out. Ok, sorry).

"Growing numbers of students, most of them struggling academically, are being pushed out of New York City's school system and classified under bureaucratic categories that hide their failure to graduate."

"Officially the city's dropout rate hovers around 20 percent. But critics say that if the students who are pushed out were included, that number could be 25 to 30 percent."

"The city data make it impossible to determine just how many students are being pushed out, where they are going and what becomes of them. But experts who have examined the statistics and administrators of high school equivalency programs say that the number of "pushouts" seems to be growing, with students shunted out at ever-younger ages."

These are the same people who always whine about needing more money 'for the kids'.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:23 AM | Comments (1)

Scars

The so-called 'Religion of Peace' decide, once again, that tolerance is not an idea they agree with.

"After slaughtering a Muslim-turned-Christian, Islamic extremists have reportedly returned the man's body to his Palestinian family in four pieces."

"According to a report from the Barnabas Fund, the newly converted man left his friends and family earlier this month bound for a mountainous region of the Palestinian Authority area. He reportedly took Christian material with him � videos, cassette tapes and a Bible. After approximately 10 days, the body of the man, who left behind a wife and two small children, was returned to his home, having been cut into four pieces. The family believes the act was meant a warning to other Muslims who might consider becoming Christians."

I wish the box had a return address on it with GPS coordinates.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:08 AM | Comments (1)

Freewill

I am grateful that there are folks with this much common sense to the north of me.

"Premier Ernie Eves announced yesterday at the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters headquarters Peterborough as the location to take aim at the Federal Governments firearms registry and to announce this government�s own platform for fighting gun-related crime."

�We will not waste the time of our police and busy courts with prosecutions under the federal Liberal�s overpriced, ineffective gun registry boondoggle,� said Eves

"Eves also mentioned that the money spent thus far on the registry would pay for as many as 13,000 police officers on the streets. Eves also announced that he is unveiling his government�s own plans on how to fight gun-related crime. This includes instructing crown attorneys to seek tougher sentences and stricter bail conditions for those using or carrying guns in the commission of a crime, placing a priority on the elimination of gun smuggling operation from the U.S. and abroad, creating special courts to deal with firearms created offences in a more serious manner."

Posted by Nukevet at 09:55 AM | Comments (0)

One Little Victory

We've been stringing these little victories together, not that you'd know it from the national or world media.

"Iraqi Governing Council Picks First Leader"

"Iraq's U.S-backed Governing Council named a Shi'ite politician as its first leader on Wednesday, after adopting a rotating presidency which will give representatives of all major groups a turn at being in charge."

"Ibrahim Jaafari, a medical doctor who is the spokesman of the Shi'ite Da'wa party, was chosen as the first president of the self-rule body at a meeting Wednesday."

"After more than two weeks of laborious discussion, the Governing Council of 25 Iraqis decided Tuesday that nine of its members -- drawn from various religious, ethnic and political factions -- would take turns at being president."

This hit the newswire before 10am EST yesterday. Let me know if, when and where you heard about, if you did so before finding it here or somewhere else on the 'sphere.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:36 AM | Comments (1)

Limelight

While I have been naming all of my posts with Rush song titles, my band of the week was playing a free show on an abandoned military base near Toronto with AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake and The Guess Who.

Approximately 420,000 people showed up and covered up the equivalent of 540 football fields to watch a concert that served as a benefit to the city of Toronto. The city lost millions of tourist dollars (billions when converted to Canadian dollars) with their mismanagement of the SARS outbreak.

The only reason I could ever think I would want to go to Canada would be to watch a Rush concert. I would even leave hundreds of dollars there.

I'm just wondering where Allanis Morrisette and Bryan Adams were.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:16 AM | Comments (1)

The Body Electric

AKA: The failings of Socialised Medicine.
AKA: Why the British Have Bad Teeth.

Take a look at this photo. Do you know what that is?

No, it is not a pic from the fromer USSR of people lined up for bread.

It is a line of people waiting to sign up at a National Health Service denist.

There were 300 openings, but close to 1000 people showed up. The office had to hand out numbered cards and hold a lottery style event to choose who got on the list.

Disgusting.

Found at Samizdata

Posted by Nukevet at 08:56 AM | Comments (1)

La Villa Strangiato

If you are like me, you are sick of those on the left crying 'censorship' everytime someone points out how dumb they sound. And you know that the truth actually sits in the realm of the lefty bias in the mainstream media not giving the right a competant voice. Tucker Carlson, please!

So take a look at this from NewsMax.com,

"A major hotel chain that will not make top-rated Fox News Channel available to guests has a record of individual campaign contributions heavily favoring Democrats."

"Federal Election Commission records reviewed by NewsMax.com show that among those officials who list Starwood or a Starwood hotel property as their workplace favored Democrats by better than 3 to 1 over Republicans for the 1999-2000 election cycle."

"Starwood's hotels include Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis, Luxury Connection, Four Points and, ironically, W."

"In the 2001-2002 cycle, a midterm election period, the amount contributed was considerably smaller than during the presidential election time. But the ratio of contributions to Democrats then was more than 5 to 1. The latest figures for 2003-2004 so far show a preference for Democrats over Republicans running almost 6 to 1."

And if I remember right, Fox is number one in the ratings without being broadcast in major markets like San Francisco.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:55 AM | Comments (1)

Anthem

If you need a good laugh, you couldn't find a better place to go.

"9-11 and Iraq, No Connnection
Don't Attack"

"1-2-3-4
We don't want another war
5-6-7-8
Stop the Killing, Stop the hate"

These are just two examples of songs and chants posted at the 'United for Peace and Justice' website.

Provided you have a strong stomach, swing on by. And feel free to mock them in the RNS comments section.

Something like,
1-2-3-4
Uday and Kusay are no more
5-6-7-8
Our TOW missles sealed their fate
9-10-11-12
Sent their asses straight to hell
12-11-10-9
Now it's Saddam's turn for dying
8-7-6-5
I know his death will make you cry
4-3-2-1
Now open mouth and insert gun.

Found at The Ville

Posted by Nukevet at 05:42 AM | Comments (1)

Lessons

If for no other reason, the current war in Iraq was a good thing because it increased the knowledge of certain people in Iraq.

Found at Curmudgeonly and Skeptical,

"Three days before the fall of Baghdad on April 9th, Uday told the leader of Iraqi television, quote, 'I think the end is near because this time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton.' End quote." - Brit Hume quoting the London Telegraph

No kidding, Uday. You really think so?

Posted by Nukevet at 05:24 AM | Comments (0)

July 30, 2003

A fast ship, Going in Harms way....

The USS Ronald Reagan. Commissioned July 12th 2003, she will be a proud addition to the fleets of the United States. Named for a great man, with a proud legacy.

I know I'm late on this, but I couldn't let it go. The Reagan's brave crew will make us proud of them, our navy always does.

In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee,--are all with thee!

Posted by Nukevet at 09:08 PM | Comments (0)

Resistence is futle-you will be assimilated

A future unlike anything in the past is coming. In Dayton Ohio a small research project may lead to the next generation of main battle tanks. Granted it may take another ten to fifeteen years to field, but imagine the possibilities. Our M1 Abrams is king of the battlefield now, but the quantum leap in firepower being researched here could lead to kills at unheard of ranges. The whole DU arguement would disappear because the railgun doesn't use it.

IAP has advanced the launch package technology to make railguns feasible. We have developed launch packages which ranged in size from 15 to 90 mm, and which can support the launch loads. The initial force propelling the object can be so high that the projectile can deform or blow up. Through the changes made to the projectile and associated components, IAP increased its strength by tenfold.

I'm no physicist, but I do know this, high velocity plus a dense mass equals a really bad day for someone. It's so gonna suck being an enemy of ours in this century. Are we really on the cusp of becoming so far advanced over our enemies that fighting us is going to be like fighting the Martians in The War of The Worlds?

I believe we are.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:37 PM | Comments (0)

the most diehard of leftists

George Monbiot, Gaurdian columnist, author, speaker and general all around asshat. This opinion piece drew my attention, because I thought even this guy couldn't be serious. It in turn led me to some of his other works.

How to Stop America

George Monbiot launches the Chartist movement of the 21st Century: a manifesto for a world in which every individual would have an equal say.
Published in the New Statesman, 9th June 2003

You see it's up to proper English communists and third world cannon fodder, oops, I mean peasants to fight the evil American Hedgemon from total domination of all things good and nice. I bet George wouldn't give two shits what some Brazilian farm worker thinks if it goes against his opinion, but that's me being realistic again. I also bet the risks he asks others to take aren't his own, lefty's love enciting the mass's then scurrying back under the baseboard to watch the blood flow.

Back to the religion piece, it's plain he understands neither religion, nor America.

The American revolutionaries believed that the English, in turn, had broken their covenant: the Americans had now become the chosen people, with a divine duty to deliver the world to God's dominion. Six weeks ago, as if to show that this belief persists, George Bush recalled a remark of Woodrow Wilson's. "America," he quoted, "has a spiritual energy in her which no other nation can contribute to the liberation of mankind."

Americans are indeed the most spiritual people of the industrialized world, so what. We believe in vast numbers, to an ardent communist that is damming enough, but we commit the further sin of exceptionalism. Not allowed to think we may have a special place in the destiny of the world. Not allowed to engage in pride or confidence. That is insulting to everyone else you see..... Moonibat doesen't explain how French or Russian national faith and pride isn't also a bastard religion, dosen't deign to even think through his own theory.

this guy is guilty of projection, because he himself is looking for heretics in the temple. His chosen scapegoats for all the failures of socialism and mankind in general? Yep, the mean old USA. From his second piece.

Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were smart operators. They knew that the hegemony of the United States could not be sustained without the active compliance of other nations. So they set out, before and after the end of the Second World War, to design a global political system which permitted the other powers to believe that they were part of the governing project.

He believes it's all a dark plan, followed by sinister Americans to control the world, and has been since our founding. His religion piece says as much. Wether he sleeps facing north while holding an crystal to block the signals from NSA satilites directly beamed into his head? I wouldn't rule it out. I notice that no other great power comes under his scrutiney, like maybe, cough, the Soviets, cough......

At best a deluded fool off his medication. I preferr the worse case senario, he's a brainless dick who can't get over the idea that communism is failed and dead. He also doesn't care how many more bodies will get tossed on the fire to make another attempt at it.

Now who did he say the zealots were?

Posted by Nukevet at 05:04 PM | Comments (0)

Animate

I was making a final pass through the NW IMC sites and found this.

It is a semi animated propaganda piece put out by 'Take Back the Media' called "An Army of One" that touts 'Bush's lies', 'Daily Deaths', and how the Republicans are taking the benefits away from the troops. All to the song 'Zombie' by the Cranberrys.

Watch only after removing all throwable objects from the immediate area.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:56 PM | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Circumstances

I think I may have caused a little misunderstanding with my post on the librarians from yesterday. I started up a response in the comments and after I noticed I was on the fifth paragraph, I decided I had better just put up a post on it. So let me clear things up for ya.

Greg writes: "I'm confused. I'm not a big fan of the ALA, but it's a different story with librarians. Why would you use the actions of the oft-confused ALA to insult hard-working librarians nationwide? Librarians (and teachers) do unbelievable work and make difficult sacrifices for their communities despite the unions/organizations, despite ridiculously low pay, and despite the potentially dangerous users. And why would anyone even consider letting a child go into a library (or anywhere else for that matter) alone?"

I really don't consider what I wrote as an insult. At least not a horribly graphic one. But, if some want to take what I wrote as an insult, that is their right.

One thing I think some folks forget about groups like the ALA is that you have to pay dues for membership. And if one does not want to be confused with the officials at the top of the group one should A. work to boot the bastards out B. vote with your feet and don't join C. get enough other people to vote with their feet D. create a new organization E. combine options B, C and D.

Yes, educational professionals do make sacrifices going into their chosen professions, and for that they should be commended. But the key phrase in that sentence is 'chosen profession'. You don't accidentally become a librarian or a teacher. From what I understand, it takes at least 4 years of schooling to enter either profession. So claiming ignorance of the benefits or atmosphere is truly bizarre. And bitching about it afterwards won't get much play here.

I am currently getting set up to begin schooling in the field of forensics. Ballisitcs to be specific. For the past 6 months, I have spoken with people in the field. I have met with people from state, county, and city departments to ask them what I will be expected to know, which schools to attend, what classes I will need to take and what the job is like. Proper planning. I would hate to pay for 4 years of school just to learn that I didn't like the job.

When the University of Washington starts up again this fall, you will find that I will be posting stories on the teachers assistants whining about how long their hours are and how little they get paid. If you want to know my opinion on that subject ahead of time, click the *more* button.

And as for letting children go to a library (or anywhere else for that matter) alone, there was a time not too long ago when this was a common occurance. I know that there are too many social circumstances that have contributed to this not being common anymore to deal with here, but I would wager money that the folks who politically side with groups like the ALA and the various teachers unions were the ones who enacted the laws leading to such.

Something to this effect was posted by me on a BBS at the UW when this subject came up last year.

You know what, that's too fucking bad! If you don't like the job, find another one. What, you say you have worthless skills that are no good in the real world (English/Philosophy/African American Studies/History Major), that is too fucking bad as well. You should have thought of that ahead of time. Go cry somewhere else.

The only thing you will accomplish by getting you pay raised is your and my tuition fees raised. What, did you forget that the money had to come from somewhere. Oh yeah, you're a college student with no real world experience. Sorry to have to break it to you, but it doesn't just well up from the ground.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:10 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Between the Wheels

I'm sad that I didn't follow this link from A Small Victory yesterday.

It seems that Mr. Tim Blair is hosting a forum of lyrical aptitude on the subject of St Rachel of the Dozers not knowing to stay out of they way of construction equipment.

Go contribute. It's for the kids.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)

Heresy

The making of a bank robber who was shot by police in Berkeley into a saint has begun. For the longest time, I thought than 'cannonization' meant shooting someone out of/with a cannon.

Here's the headline from the SFGate.

"Robbery suspect killed by police a recent UC grad. Victim had run legal-aid business."

Bank robber as 'victim'. Interesting angle.

"The bank robbery suspect who was shot dead by Berkeley and Oakland police was a recent UC Berkeley graduate who ran a legal services business, campus officials and a relative said Monday."

A Berkeley alumni, huh? They must be so proud.

"Glennel Givens Jr., 28, of Oakland, graduated from UC Berkeley this year, campus officials said. He also was a suspect in a series of takeover robberies of banks in Oakland and San Francisco, police said."

'A series of takeover robberies', also known as a 'violent crime spree'.

"Givens was shot and killed by three police officers about 11 a.m. Friday after he allegedly brandished a weapon at them on the 2200 block of Haste Street near the UC Berkeley campus, authorities said. About an hour earlier, Givens allegedly had held a gun to the head of a female teller at the Wells Fargo Bank at College and Ashby avenues in Berkeley and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash."

I see. The cops definitely shot him, but he only allegedly robbed a bank.

"Givens earned an undergraduate degree in African American studies, according to university spokeswoman Carol Hyman."

I knew english majors had a hard time finding jobs after college, but geez.

"His great-aunt, Sarah Fowler of Jacksonville, Fla., said Monday that she was surprised Givens had been accused of criminal wrongdoing. Fowler, 52, described him as "such a clean-cut kid."

And they always say serial killers were 'such good neighbors'.

"Fowler said Givens was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and had dabbled in acting. He was interested in the law and had run a prepaid legal services business that helped those in need of legal help."

He sure had experience in the criminal point of view.

"At UC Berkeley, Givens was active in African American affairs and at one point lived at the African American Theme House, a co-op near campus on Prospect Avenue, public records show."

I've never heard of the 'Theme House'. Is it anything like 'House Party' or 'House Party 2'?

"When the Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley student newspaper, published a full-page ad on the last day of Black History Month two years ago criticizing reparations for slavery, Givens was among a number of African American students who denounced it in a rebuttal ad published in the paper several days later."

I'm sure it was a requirement of his 'African American Studies' degree.

"In last week's incident, Givens was shot and killed by Berkeley police Sgt. Craig Juster and Oakland police Officers Shawn Knight and Dave Burke, according to sources close to the investigation. All three have been placed on paid administrative leave, standard practice in officer-involved shootings, pending an investigation by Oakland and Berkeley police and the Alameda County district attorney's office. A former roommate of Givens said the recent graduate had intended to attend law school. "He was a peaceful man," said Fela Thomas. "He couldn't hurt a fly. There is no rationale for the police to shoot him."

He sure can't hurt a fly anymore. Of course the only ones who would be disturbing him now are laying eggs.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:38 AM | Comments (13)

Leave That Thing Alone

Sometimes I wonder what might be in the water in Oregon. And I'm not just talking about the hippies, the anarchists and the social engineers.

"Last summer, the city of Portland coated the 78-year-old statue with gold leaf, restoring it at a cost of $45,000. "The feelings about the statue restoration is still at polar ends," says Barbara Horton, co-chairwoman of the neighborhood association. "Some people love it, and there are others who hate it and think it's too garish." Horton acknowledges she is among the latter group. Her reaction when she first saw the reguilded statue: "Oh, my gosh, she's bright."

"Deep down, many Laurelhurst neighbors agree with the two boys who vandalized their beloved Joan of Arc statue. The teenagers told police they dumped black paint on the statue this month because "it was too shiny."

Sounds to me like somebody's parents need to be charged the $45,000 to re-leaf the statue.

"Firefighters say a house fire in the Kenton neighborhood Thursday caused about $4,500 damage to a bedroom. The official cause, according to the fire report: "Burning cockroaches in bed with a portable torch."

"Actually, fire officials say, 90-year-old Ona Bates wasn't using what most people would consider a torch. "It was more like a big butane lighter stick you use to light candles," says Neil Heesacker, a Fire Bureau spokesman."

"Fire consumed Bates' bedding and damaged much of the room before firefighters extinguished it. Torch. Lighter. Matchstick. It doesn't matter. Firefighters don't recommend using any type of flame to deal with a bug problem."

Unless your 'Orkin Man' is Carl Spackler. (Bill Murray's character from the movie Caddyshack).

Posted by Nukevet at 03:34 AM | Comments (0)

Peaceable Kingdom

The Dalai Lama, who some say is the worlds most peaceful person, was interviewed in India by Conrad Kiechel, international editorial director of Reader's Digest.

In the interview he told Kiechel, aomng other things that he misses sex and owns a rifle. An air rifle, but a weapon none the less.

He uses the rifle to shoot at hawks that threaten his birds. He says he doesn't shoot to kill, so I think I need to go talk to him and remind him of this major ruleon the subject of handling firearms: Do not point your gun at anything you do not wish to destroy.

Alas, his most strident worshippers in the US will not make the connection of him using a gun to scare off birds and a person carrying a gun for self defense. I call them worshippers, for most of his followers haven't a clue that he has ever said these words:

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

Quote from the Flashbunny 'Famous Gun Nuts' quotes section.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:12 AM | Comments (0)

REO Speedwagon

And I can't fight this feeling anymore. I've forgotten what I started fighting for. It's time to bring this ship into the shore. And throw away the oars, forever..........

Music means many things to different people, for me this song, "I can't fight this feeling anymore." is about finding peace. Finding a safe harbour in the night. I have found one in my wife and family, yet I still yearn for a time without pain, without exhaustion. I know I've many years to go, I hope I do, but perhaps you can see what I mean. Not about quitting, no it's about bringing it to a peacefull ending, finding tranquility, serenity.

My taste in music is just plain weird, from the high art of classical to the most basic thump and boom Rock and Roll. I like weird Al, I also like Andrew Loyd Webber. Broadway and Alice Cooper. John Williams and Ozzy. The only music I do not like is music that lacks the ability to carry my soul on beyond my own limited existence for awhile.

I confess, I'm a hopeless romantic.................

But you know, I like it that way.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:14 AM | Comments (3)

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five

She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye .

The Eagles referrence seemed appropriate, Cox and Forkum strike again. While the Eagles probably wouldn't apreciate my using their lyrics in this way to defend the war, I don't care. Art is art, for opinion I go elsewhere.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:44 AM | Comments (0)

By-Tor and the Snow Dog

Mr. Bill Quick, Master of the Daily Pundit Region takes on a certain David Neiwert, Prince of Orcinus, on the topic of Fascism.

Sir Quick's words are in bold.

"One of the essential traits of fascism, you may recall, is the widespread belief that dissent is treason, 'dissent' being anything outside the official party line."

"I don't think this guy has a clue as to what fascism really is."

"a longtime (though now former) Republican from Idaho. I have had ample experience up close and personal with genuine fascists."

"Sorry, but if anybody thinks the idiocy of a bunch of backwoods survivalists has anything much to do with genuine fascism, they need to check a few other sources - like maybe history books or genuine experts in the field."

Then the Prince of Orcinus enters the Region's comments section to start a discussion that starts like this, "Actually, Mr. Quick, my primary experience is with the folks at the Aryan Nations. This expanded in later years to the militia movement. If you choose to believe that they are not genuinely fascist, that's your privilege, as is any kind of self-delusion. But it's still self-delusion."

"Secondarily, were you to spend even five minutes perusing the essay at the top of my blog, you'd see that I spend a great deal of time discussing the meaning and definition of fascism. I use genuine scholars, not half-assed observations from partisans, for the basis of the discussion."

"Not, however, that I expect you to bother investigating further. You have your beliefs, and by gawd you'll stick to them, I expect."

And the battle begins.

All the Rush fans will know by now who wins this one.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:25 AM | Comments (1)

July 29, 2003

Radical, or just a realist with ambition?

I found this at Occham's Toothbrush, and he found it at National Journal.com

Had he pursued the subject, Bush might have found further parallels. Not the least is that Bush, like Roosevelt, is an accidental radical. He is an amiable establishmentarian who finds himself with the opportunity to effect transformational change, and who is seizing that opportunity and pushing the system to its limits. Or beyond.

Now that is a statement that'll make liberals howl. Like FDR?, maybe in destiny, maybe in other ways. But Bush is definitely his own man, not the sock puppet his detracters seem to think. Like his Presidency or hate it, he is the one in charge and making decisions. If he fails, it's not as if the failure isn't ours as well, because this is for big stakes and trying to trip him for partisan advantage is blindness. We are embarked on remaking parts of the world, and democrats who know that it's right shouldn't throw a fit because he's in the other party. It's a gamble that we can't afford to lose, and if a democrat with balls could do it, I'd support him as well. The right man, for the right time. Let a democrat lead when the fightings over. It's evident though the democratic leadership is going down the Kum Baya rathole, be nice, be gentle, be tolerant of other countries feelings.......

I'd rather keep a grownup in charge for now.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:52 PM | Comments (0)

Under the Shadow

I used to love to go to the library. One of the smart things the county did, in reguards with the housing project I grew up in, was to put a library across the street. It was a place where you could get something for free (yes, I always took the books back when they were due). I'm talking about things like knowledge and adventure. And all you had to worry about was behave yourself while there and bring them back when you were done.

I wouldn't let a child of mine into a modern library alone if you threatened me with a gun (FYI, don't threaten me with a gun). Besides all of the things that wander in from the street to look for kids to prey on, it seems that the staff there is worse than in the classroom.

"Has the American Library Association become Fidel Castro's latest "useful idiot"? On the surface, it seems implausible: Any organization dedicated to the uncensored dissemination of books, journals, and ideas would naturally be critical of a dictator who suppresses liberty with an iron fist. After all, a champion of open expression can't be indifferent to Castro's persecution of free thinkers, right?"

"Well, according to several top members of the ALA, maybe not. A dispute at the association's annual conference in Toronto last month revealed a troubling obtuseness about the status of human rights in Cuba."

"The 'controversial' issue at hand was whether the ALA should formally respond to Havana's jailing of 14 independent librarians earlier this year. Two competing resolutions were debated. The first, introduced by a group called Friends of Cuban Libraries, condemned the arrests and demanded the prisoners' release. The second, a somewhat toothless proposal drafted by the association itself, merely noted that the librarians had been imprisoned and asked that the Castro government protect freedom of expression and access to information. Ultimately, the ALA chose to postpone any resolution on Cuba until January, claiming that it didn't yet have sufficient evidence to make a judgment."

Lordy, some people need the 'severe beating about the head and shoulders' treatment badly. They shouldn't mind. After all, it is what Fidel would approve.

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Oh, the Humanity

Or is that canine-ity?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:29 AM | Comments (3)

Kid Gloves

I'm sure that you've heard about the latest report on crime in the UK that came out yesterday.

"The extent of street crime in London is revealed in new figures showing there are 164 muggings in the capital every day."

Eat your heart out Washington D.C.

And it isn't going to get much better with the Animal Rights whackos planning an increase in attacks this weekend.

"On Thursday, 1,200 company employees will be sent a short, factual e-mail by their management. It will warn them that animal rights activists are planning a 48-hour weekend of action from midnight on August 1 and staff should take extra care over their safety at home. For two days and nights, employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) will face an even greater likelihood of having bricks thrown through their windows, their cars covered in paint-stripper, incendiary devices put through their letter boxes and hooded men attacking them as they walk from the car to the front door."

But I have a quick suggestion for the police adminstrators that doesn't involve the carrying of firearms.

Quit letting the new cops have sex with young boys!

"A gay cop sacked after being convicted of indecency with a boy of 16 has got his job back, The People can reveal. P.C. Matthew Cowling, 23, was reinstated - even though a judge put him on the Sex Offenders Register for five years. Cowling will even get about 12 months' back pay of �24,000. The Old Bailey heard how the boy was 15 when Cowling met him."

I swear, they've all gone batty over there.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:49 AM | Comments (1)

The Weapon

Mr. Kim duToit has an excellent post up on a question put forth to him by many of his readers. "What would be a good 'bedside gun' for home defense?"

"you're fast asleep, when suddenly you wake up and realize there's mischief afoot, inside your house."

He reasons that unless your operation of a large auto pistol is first nature, that your best choice is a revolver. And he doesn't need me to tell him he is right, but he is.

As a matter of fact, as much as I try, the wife is not as well practiced with firearms as I would prefer her to be. So when I am not at home I leave her my backup piece. A S&W; Mod 37 loaded with 158gr Hydra-Shocks.

It may not look it, but a revolver is pure simplicity when compared to a semi-auto. The reason I personally prefer a semi to a wheelgun is simply cartridge capacity and feel. In the years I have been shooting I have only once seen a revolver fail. And it was due to a combination of bad maintenence and a crappy maufacturer.

A horribly funny story of 'first nature' gun handling almost gone bad below. It is actually quite embarassing.

I was at one of the many malls here in the area and it was shortly before the first 'Star Wars' prequel came out. I rounded the corner of a jewelry store and less than thirty feet away were two Imperial Stormtroopers walking towards me with blasters in hand.

Are you getting what may have happened yet?

Yep, I just about drew on them.

Being a child of the 70's I see those white outfits and think 'bad', 'evil', 'must destroy'. As I stepped for the cover of a large planter, my left hand went to clear my coat for my right hand to reach. Luckily, I caught myself before the grab and tried to make it look as if I had tripped on something.

It ends up that a special edition of the first three movies had just hit the racks at the malls video store and they were part of the promotion.

Those two probably never knew they could have been dead before the words "these aren't the droids we're looking for' left their lips. It just ain't safe to be a storm trooper in my town.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:19 AM | Comments (3)

Grand Designs

There is a movie hitting the theaters on Aug 8th called S.W.A.T. that has the hippies all riled up. The billboards, posters and bus signs seem to be causing a convergence in the universe that is making the tin foil in their hats restrict.

The SF IMC is getting a campaign together to try and 'redesign' the adds.

Go here to take a look at what they have made up so far.

Update
WARNING: Do not scroll all the way down to the bottom of the IMC page. 'Goatse WARNING'. If you do not know what 'goatse' is, trust me you do not want to know. This is one instance where I wish the IMC admin would do a little deleting.

Update PtII:
It has been removed

Posted by Nukevet at 05:57 AM | Comments (6)

Subdivisions

By now I'm sure you've heard of the new high school in NYC for homosexual students only. While I was thinking that was just another stupid educator idea, I came across this analogy Lee at Right thinking on the Left Coast and decided that not only was it a stupid educator idea, it was a really fucking stupid educator idea.

"By following this out to its logical conclusion we should segregate every single group into individual schools: one for jocks, one for computer nerds, one for homeboys, one for fat kids, one for stupid kids, one for smart kids, and so on. Virtually every group is picked on at one time or another, and if we're going to identify victims of abuse I'd say that they fat kids have the queer kids beat."

So, with all of this hullabaloo over this RFSEI, wouldn't you just rather send your kid here?

One other point I'd like to make, with all of the 'feel good/self esteem' junk being thrown around by the left in schools today, they seem to have forgotten that some of the greatest Americans have come out of schools such as these. And during your first year in these institutions, you are treated like crap. Both VMI and this new school refer to first year students as 'rats', they are required to complete the most demeaning tasks and chores, and basically eat shit for a year. These things make the students appreciate the privileges they receive when they become the upper-classmen.

I would respect the left more if they could use their beady little eyes and see that humility is better than 'self esteem'.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:26 AM | Comments (1)

Bravado

This Grizzly measured 12ft 6in at the shoulder and 14ft at the top of his head when standing. He was shot by a forest service employee in Alaska while he was out hunting deer. Luckily he wasn't just out hiking. Two other folks that had been became bear food. The bear started to charge him from 50 yards away, the forest service employee dumped 5 rounds of 7mm Mag into the bear out of his semi-auto Browning and the bear stopped within 2 yards of him. It was still alive, so he reloaded and dumped 2 more into its head to kill it.

One of the hikers did have a 38spl revolver with him and was able to land 4 out of 6 rounds in the Griz, but to no effect. They haven't yet found the first one to be taken down by the bear.

It is reasonable to assume that this bear could look over the roof of a standard rambler style home. If it was standing in front of you, a 6ft tall man would be looking at it's navel. It has set a new record for a felled Grizzly and will be stuffed and mounted and placed at Achorage airport to 'warn tourists of the perils of the wilderness' (aka: warn stupid hippies that farting around in the woods is still dangerous).

Here is a pic of its paw. The man holding the paw is a full grown adult. Notice it goes all the way across his chest.

This pic is quite gory. Half eaten human alert. Seriously, not for the squeamish. You have been warned.

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Sticking it to the "man", by getting arrested.

The WTO protesters are at it again, and their numbers seem a little deminished these days. Couldn't be that sense is breaking out?....Nah, just that they're giving up.

Mr. Pettigrew, who expressed his dismay at the vandalism, said the anti-globalization movement has lost steam in the last few years.

"It has been replaced by a view that globalization can not be stopped, and possibly should not be stopped," Mr. Pettigrew told a news conference Monday.

(cricket sounds).................................Bwhhhaahhhaaaaahahahhhahahahahahaha

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"Thanks for the Memories"

A great man has gone. He wasn't a hero, or a teacher, not a leader of men. He was something special, a man gifted in his ability to touch other lives. His USO work is legend, his courage unquestioned, yet he always played the coward. Always was the butt of his own jokes. He was a lover of women and always played up to, and never down at them.

I remember his TV shows, and his specials from Vietnam. Some you who are older will as well. He was just a funny man, and he gave us a laugh when we needed it, optimisum when we craved it, and for a time helped us to see ourselves as who we hoped we were. Here's a list of his films that some of you may have seen on TV. I know younger people won't remember him as I do, and his humor was corny by todays standards. But I can't help feeling we've just lost someone truely special.

Thanks Bob, great show.

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July 28, 2003

May the gods protect me,...I bought a ford.

I once swore in a momment of dispair to never, ever buy a Ford again...........

Chalk it up to wifely influences, sigh, maybe the tranny won't go out on this one. Ours is a 94, but it's the right price and perfect for the kids. Looks just like this one except for the full windows.

I haven't posted much I know the last couple of days. Family obligations, plus a fairly severe flare have made sure that I was just too tired and sore to do anything but drink heavily and take drugs....well, take prescription drugs anyway. I don't drink much at all anymore, wouldn't be wise while on medication.

I shall repent on my next purchase and buy Chevy, I promise. I hate keeping my fingers crossed on this. But maybe Ford's gotten better, maybe. I'll try and post again tonight, but I have to go to work now. Later, I promise.

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You Bet Your Life

If you hurt a criminal in the UK.

At least that is what Tony Martin is finding out now that he is finally being released from prison for protecting himself, his home and his property.

"Relatives of Fred Barras, the burglar shot dead by Tony Martin, last night warned that the Norfolk farmer will be murdered after his release tomorrow. One cousin of Barras said Martin was "going to get it", while another said a hitman would be hired if the dead teenager's associates failed to carry out a retaliatory attack."

Martin not only got more time in prison than the guys who broke into his home did, the one who was only wounded broke the law again (heroin distribution) and was released after less than 3 months of an 18 month sentence.

"Ishmael Steele, Barras's cousin, who lives on the same road in Newark where Barras grew up, said Martin would be killed. "He will get it. Something will happen to him, it's got to. "We've got hundreds of relations who aren't happy with it. And to those who say it's just talk, I'd say wait and see. The detectives can't be with him all the time, can they?"

"Another cousin of Barras, who gave his name as Georgi, said the travelling community had recently put a �60,000 bounty on Martin's head. "He is a dead man. I don't know if it will be a traveller that will do it, but it will be a proper hitman, a professional job," he said.'

Do you see the word 'traveller' in that last sentence? Fucking gypsies. Why do I say that? Because part of their 'Code' is that if you aren't a 'fellow traveller', what's yours is theirs and retribution is common among those who cause them trouble in that reguard. So I was actually waiting for this to become public.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:55 AM | Comments (7)

The Necromancer

Did you know that Mumia Abu-Jamal was a journalist? Niether did I. We'll just call him a scribbler for now.

I wandered through the Seattle IMC and found this gem of his declaring the 'MOVE 9' innocent after 25 years of failed appeals. And failed appeals is something Mumia knows a lot about. What with having she of 'Dead Man Walking' fame on his side along with the 'I'm not the president, but I play one on TV' guy.

He just can't catch a break.

"For nearly a quarter of a century the MOVE 9 has been consigned to dungeons across the state of Pennsylvania. Their innocence, to the judicial soldiers of the ongoing War against MOVE, is all but irrelevant."

Sorry Mumsie, when you either kill or conspire to kill cops, you become irrelevant.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:31 AM | Comments (2)

A Farewell to Kings

I had heard of this site before, but I had never seen a link to it that I could remember. Anyway, when you get some time, stop on by The Tocquevillian Magazine. Another newbie to the ever-expanding Links Dept. Soon, you'll think RNS is a golf course.

While I was at TocqMag, I found this laugh-riot from the NY Post.

"They arrested five teenagers last week, charging them with repeated acts of vandalism - which included the painting of swastikas and anti-Jewish and racist epithets. But they're not sure they can charge them with having committed a hate crime on a local church. As Police Chief John Pollinger put it: "It is definitely a bias incident, but it might not be a bias crime."

"What's the problem?"

"It seems that because the vandalism was directed at so many groups - instead of specifically targeting one ethnic class - it might not qualify as a hate crime. "There were a lot of expressions of hate and bias to everybody, but it wasn't . . . targeted to any particular person," the chief explained."

"Imagine that."

"The alleged haters displayed too much hate to have committed a hate crime. Don't you hate when that happens?"

I found TocqMag at The Ville. Where I also found this cartoon poking some truth at PETA called "Hard Questions for Soft Minds".

Oops, I forgot to give out an official 'Drink Alert!' Sorry.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:08 AM | Comments (0)

Red Lenses

I hope most of you partook of the Blogathon this weekend. Michele, Lawrence and Meryl took in over $15,000 towards a new ambulance for Magen David Adom.

And don't forget, you can still donate the MDA through Michele, Lawrence or Meryl until midnight tonite.

I tried to stop by everyone who was participating in the Blogothon and I think I succeded. One of the folks I stopped by was the Bitch Girls. Bitter Bitch was 'othoning' and had posted something she found in the 'Letters to the Editor' section of the Boston Globe. This guy is still living in the early months of 2001 and is so full of hate he is seeing red.

"If George Will is bemoaning the position of the conservatives (''Bush's bad news for the right,'' op ed, July 24), think how liberals must feel. This is the worst beating liberals have taken in decades. And, unfortunately, many Democrats are not standing up to this ideological tyrant who is president.

"No matter the subject - health care, education, tax breaks for the wealthy, Iraq, appointment of judges, environment issues, foreign affairs, etc., Bush is moving the nation in the wrong direction."

"Since he can't do anything right, he is unqualified to be president. The Supreme Court should be ashamed of its role in handing him the job."

ANTHONY J. PALMER
Hudson

To quote Bugs Bunny, "What a Maroon!"

Posted by Nukevet at 06:38 AM | Comments (0)

Red Sector A

Speaking those bastard commie reds, Castro came out of his palace to pat himself on the back and spout some hate. Can you believe that SOB is able to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of 'De Revolution' that brought him to power. This time he didn't save all of his verbal feces for the US, but kept a reserve for the likes of the EU. Maybe those folks over there aren't so bad after all.

Nah, they still suck. And you can thank Castro for todays edition of this:

So, why did he go off on the EU? Well apparently they spoke badly of him on the subject of jailing and killing dissenters, and he didn't appreciate that.

In this article, the BBC was able to get through the whole article with out once mentioning communism. I guess that one man's commie truly is another man's hero. G*d I hate the BBC.
Found @ Samizdata.

Here, the Miami Herald gives a stomachable story on the event. I wonder why? Oh yeah, I remember! All the dissident Cubans who would pay to strangle Castro with their bare hands right near by..

Posted by Nukevet at 06:09 AM | Comments (1)

Beneath, Between and Behind

Time for a new addition to the Links Dept.

Commiewatch does what I wish I cound do. Keep an eye on those red bastards, fulltime.

They are everywhere and their numbers are growing. After the indoctrination the youth of today get in the public school system, the socialists sound reasonable.

And yes, I wish they'd switch the colors on the election map graphic too. I think the lefty media did it either just to annoy us on the right, or knew that regular folks would catch on if it were the other way around.

Found @ Right Thinking on the Left Coast.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:46 AM | Comments (2)

Working Man

AKA Support your local police force.

I do.

In what way, you ask?

Well, I start the day by having a little skeet competition with a couple of them. I didn't do too badly, 64% with the 1st shot, 88% with two. My Wilson Combat clone Remingotn 870 always gets strange looks at the trap range.

And then later that afternoon I give one of them a call on his cell phone to ask for assistance at my residence. Assistance with eating BBQ'd burgers and hot dogs. Quicker than 911, I tell ya. They show up in twos and threes.

Remember folks they're just working stiffs like you and I. Only their job probably sucks more.

Ok, so just got done cleaning up the guns. I'm listening to Rush and I reek of Hoppe's #9. Could it get much better? Welcome to Monday folks.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:34 AM | Comments (1)

July 27, 2003

"Clueless" About the Iraqi War?

Here would be a good place to go to educate yourself.

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Hateful Speech Index

Following the death's of the Saddam Demon Spawn, there was quite a hew and cry in the blogosphere. There was much rejoicing from the "conservative" side of the aisle, and even more hand wringing and teeth gnashing from the "liberal" side. One blog (I'm sorry, I can't remember who it was - if anyone DOES know drop me a line so I can point to it) even held a little contest to see if there were any "leftist" blogs that had any positive comments about the death of the black twins.

However, one theme I came across over and over again was how "hateful" those of us on the right are. That we are the only ones that ever say anything mean or nasty or cruel or stupid (especially stupid - with Bush and his Bushism their favorite target). This, of course, is just a reflection of the old "Democrats are the compassionate party that cares about people and Republicans are the monstrous party that only cares about money" meme that the Democrats so desperately want (and need) their voting base to believe if they are to have any chance in the upcoming elections.

So, I would like to try a little experiment. I would like to compile a list of hateful/mean/nasty/stupid/petty things said from members of both sides of the aisle. It can be from a government official, a celebrity with a known ideological slant, etc, etc, etc. The litmus test for the comments is that they must come from documented and VERIFIABLE sources. So, if you submit a comment, then submit the documentation as well. Any comments that are submitted with phrases like "I heard that Cynthia McKinney said....." without proper citation will be deleted. At the end of the day, I want a list of comments made by people from any ideological spectrum that we can be sure were actually said.

This blog has a modest readership, so I'll need a little help if we are really going to develop any kind of numbers of comments. Hopefully some of the "bigger" blogs will help spread the word. At the end of this, I would like to end up with a "Hateful Speech Index" - the ratio of stupid things said by the 2 parties.

Maybe this is just a complete waste of time, but I wonder if the Democrats REALLY believe that the Republicans have a stranglehold on hateful speech in the arena of US politics, or if that is just wishful thinking on their part. Or, maybe they are right - after all we have people like Ann Coulter and Michael Savage who are "conservative" and who say some pretty outrageous things. But then, they have Michael Moore and BarBra.

I have created a new Forum for you to post these in over on the bulletin boards. If you don't want to post them there yourselves, then e-mail them to me and I'll do it for you (remember to tell me where they go, as I may not know the individual you are quoting)

Hateful Speech Index

My guess? The Left:Right Hateful Speech Index is exactly 1.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:19 AM | Comments (1)

Buy American?!?

I've thought the entire push from Congress to "buy American" is sort of short sighted when it comes to military procurement. It seems like we should get the best from whatever source is available. However, stories like these may make me rethink my position.

A Swiss company's refusal to provide critical parts for the Pentagon's flagship Joint Direct Attack Munition during the Iraq war shows the need for "buy American" laws, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said yesterday.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, also said Switzerland, a neutral nation, blocked delivery of grenades to British military forces during the conflict because it opposed the war.
"The British went into battle in Iraq without a full grenade load," Mr. Hunter said in an interview.

And this bit REALLY pisses me off:

Regarding the JDAM parts, Mr. Hunter said Swatch Group AG, and its Micro Crystal division in Gretchen, Switzerland, refused to send key components used in the bomb guidance equipment used on the JDAM after the Iraq war began.
The Swiss company's president blocked the parts to Honeywell, which was a subcontractor for Boeing Co. in making the tail kits for the satellite-guided bombs, 6,600 of which were dropped with great effect during the period of major conflict in Iraq.

So, these companies have NO problems signing on for lucrative DoD contracts, as long as we don't actually use the weapons in a war? Seems awfully unilateral of the "neutral" Swiss, don't you think.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:26 AM | Comments (3)

Neurotica

Some folks had a hard time believing the post I put up last week about the 'Ant Permits' in Germany. Well, believe it or not, I found more examples. This selection is from Belgium.

"Switzerland is often accused of having more rules than cows but Belgium is not far behind, and for its bureaucrats no detail is too small. Everyone has their own story to tell, usually with their brow furrowed, their head shaking in disbelief, and their mouth spewing a stream of unprintable expletives."

"I was reminded of this when I sold my car recently. Sticking a neat "for sale" sign in the back window of my car as I have seen many Belgians do, I thought I would be ok. I was wrong. A phone call from the local policeman swiftly followed with a stern warning to remove the offending sign or face the consequences. It is illegal to sell goods on the public highway, I was told, and a nameless neighbour, bless them, had had the good sense to report my misdemeanour to the authorities."

"Then there is the issue of rubbish. Put it out on the wrong day or in the wrong type of bag and you are likely to bring down the entire weight of the Belgian establishment on you. A friend recently received a letter saying she had been fined 80 euros (�57) for putting her bin bags out a day early."

"Belgian rules on rubbish collection could be the subject of an entire book. Failure to sort your rubbish into a choice of three different coloured bin bags is also a serious offence. In normal circumstances, that would be understandable, highly laudable, and a real fillip for Belgium's environmental credentials. But it isn't: all the bags are thrown in the back of the same truck and then thrown onto the same dump. The Belgians, it is explained, are merely trying to get people into good habits before they start properly recycling the rubbish themselves."

"Want to let off a firework in Belgium? Get a permit. Is a neighbour's branch overhanging your garden? Don't actually talk to them - get a lawyer onto their backs and fast. Want to move house? Fine, but make sure you're in when a policeman drops by to establish that you have actually moved or else you risk receiving a deportation order."

"The issue on which Belgian officials outdo themselves is tax. Own a car radio? You had better make sure you're paying the special car radio tax, and don't try to pretend that you haven't got one. They know. Want to open an office in Brussels? Then make sure you're paying your computer screen tax. Just count up the screens and tell the authorities and they'll send you a bill."

"Another long-time resident, who again prefers not to be named, argues that the lack of humanity is the most depressing thing. He gloomily describes his trip to a Belgian police station to complain about being woken up by builders illegally starting work at 6.30am. "Do you have your identity card Monsieur?"
"Well, no, it's 7am and I've forgotten it. I've just woken up. Sorry." "Monsieur, that's an infraction of the penal code. You're breaking the law."

You should go read the rest. While the police are busy cracking down on these major crimes, things like pedophilia and drunk driving go on undetered by law enforcement. And remember, those on the left idolize these people. Think about the crap NYC is having to put up with under Bloomberg.

Found at Samizdata.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:51 AM | Comments (0)

Vapor Trails

This week's product placement is for

Hart Rifle Barrels

Since the doc brought up the subject of his new toy, I figured I would bring up my next project gun. I have recently purchaed a new Remington 700 ADL short action in 308. All I wanted was a good bolt and receiver but I couldn't find anything I liked well enough to justify saving the $50 bucks and buying used. It is currently sitting in the box it came in, inside the safe, waiting for me to save up the $600 to be able to send it off to these folks for rebarreling.

I have used a couple of other barrel makers (who will go unnamed), but I was just not satisfied with what they put out. I can honestly say that I have been completely happy with Hart. Both in service and product.

They can do just about anything you like and the prices are quite reasonable, considering what you are getting.

My last 700 was purchased by a gentleman who was impressed when, at the local range, he saw me hitting roofing nails on the head at 200yds (yes folks, that is 1/6th MOA). He didn't believe that it could do that repeatedly and asked if he could try it. After 20 rounds and about 45 minutes, he had hit 19 out of 20 nails. I met with him at the range again the next week and he offered me an undisclosed amount (a little over $600 more than I had into the gun) for it and I sold it to him. I plan on trying to build one that can reliably pull of 1/8th MOA this time, so cross your fingers.

I need to learn to have two of something before I sell one.

And if any of y'all are sitting $1500 you don't need, please consider this a request for one of these. Thanks.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:26 AM | Comments (0)

In the Mood

Do you know these 3 Amigos?

That's right, it's Rush. One of the few good things to come out of Canada.

I think I'll stay with the three piece bands (for obvious reasons). So all this week, all my post titles will be from them.

If you don't know their music, well that's just too bad. Go buy an album. I would suggest starting with anything dated from 1975 to 1981 and work from there.

If you know their music and think they're pretentious, that is also too bad. And you are wrong. I see very few bands out there that can match them. In longevity or especially talent.

So, here we go. Have a good week, everyone.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:48 AM | Comments (3)

July 26, 2003

You do the math

Bushmaster V Match AR15 + Trijicon ACOG = Don't F#ck with Nukevet

That's all I'm saying, mmmmmm'kay?

Posted by Nukevet at 04:37 PM | Comments (4)

You have to be a special kind of contrarian to write for this paper

The Guardian is crap, biased to the hard left, anti-Israel, anti-Bush, a rah rah sheet for the worlds socialists. But it's nice to know what your enemy is saying. This particular columnist I've read from timt to time, and he hasn't been right once yet. The thrust of this piece is that Bush and Blair have squandered the moral high ground by the wide disemination of the death photos. Two quick points,

A. He complains about the publication of them in the UK, then he needs to bitch to his own boss. Front page of the Guardian, I saw it. Blair didn't make you print them you ass.

B. By saying it squanders the moral high ground, you concede we had it.........Strange, since from your previous shi..work, it was never clear you thought so. So you posthumously grant virtue just to take it back when you can use it to bash Bush and Blair? Nice trick, but it's a gutter cheap one.

He qoutes widely from the bible, as if passages taken out of the correct context mean anything coming from him. Trust a socialist to tell a Christian the "proper" way to believe, I'm sure Jesus Christ is happy you've decided to interperit for the President, since socialists have been responsible for killing so many of his children, Christian or not. Qoute Marx you putz, you should only write about something you know about.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)

When Godzilla stops by

For a guy who just lost everything, he looks way too happy. Earthquakes in Japan are commonplace, which may explain their affinity for rubber monsters stomping the city flat movies. But really, would you strike a Hi Mom pose like this?

Tugio Unakami inspects the damage done to his house after and earthquake

Somebody has been in the Sake barrel early today. Tugio, my addled asian friend, start taking aspirin now, you're so gonna have such a headache tomorrow.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:07 PM | Comments (1)

Does Gomez know his mom's a tax cheat?

GAHHHH!...........................Hold me mommy, maneqin woman scares me.

Priscilla Adams.............

Don't like paying taxes? Object to something the government does? Well get in line, but go all the way to the back behind the other 280 million Americans. What you don't get to do is pick and choose which laws you can just disobey cause your heart is pure(retch, cough, cough). Moral crusaders make me ill, wether it's on booze, anti-guns, religion or ant-war. Because they mostly have the sparkle of lunacy in their beady little green eyes.

The Quaker peace and justice organizer now finds herself in a second court battle with the Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites).

Adams, 50, has refused to pay at least some of her federal taxes since 1974 and owes the government more than $42,000 in back taxes, interest and fines.

OK then, I want my money back from the NEA, from all nonscience related research grants, and from Ted Kennedy's paycheck. If she gets choices, we get the same choices. Equal protection under the law, REMEMBER?..... If I did what she did I'd be in jail, so WHY isn't she?

"That would be a hefty price for what we believe is right," said Gretchen Castle, a leader with the group. "I think that there are other ways the government can do it that are more friendly, more supportive of our faith."

Supportive?...Of your faith?............Well fuck me, does the peace lefty crowd screech like banshees when some government official mentions God in a speech, scream about the separation of church and state, rant wide eyed at a single child going to a private religious school on a public voucher. All that and we should be supportive of her faith?

Piss on her faith, when she allows that everyone else has an equally valid answer, then she gets some ear time.

Adams is the only employee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting who doesn't voluntarily pay income taxes, although a few take other actions such as refusing to pay federal telephone taxes that go to the military, Castle said.

"We are not against paying the taxes that support our life and our living and our communities," Castle said. "It's just that we need to have the option to truly not support the killing of people."

That's nice, I presume then you have a problem with funding the police department as well? They do shoot bad guys from time to time you know. So do you pay all your city taxes? I'll bet you do. So the issue isn't a purely moral one then, maybe it's that dirty little word, POLITICS................She's either an over zealous idiot, or an over zealous hypocritical idiot. Which ever, if she was my neighbor I'd build a big fence, and a moat.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:53 AM | Comments (1)

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Apparently that statement applies to Humor as well.

But, we could have used her photo back in the day, when we had the "Harmonia" contest.

And as for her "anti-war" clip art comic strips, all I can say is Jim Treacher did it first, and she ain't no Jim treacher.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:24 AM | Comments (3)

Decision or Collision

It yet another example of the non-existant leftwing bias in the media, the Washington Post puts out this turd of an editorial.
Found @ Ravenwood's Universe

"In yet another offensive encroachment on the ability of District residents to make their own decisions, a key member of Congress is pushing to strip away gun and ammunition control protections that have been on the city books for 27 years."

Exactly what choice that is being offered to the 'residents' now will be 'stripped away? Whatever you think they are, they sure aren't protecting them now, bubba. Sounds to me like they will actually be given the choice of something more than just a pointy stick.

"Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) is ready to let the city become an armed camp in the name of self-defense -- an idea that chills law enforcement officers on the front lines and surely heartens criminals, who now take to the streets to find guns to steal or buy and who would leap at the prospect of finding ready supplies in homes, stores and the coat pockets and purses of citizens."

I notice that you finally called the people 'citizens'. And I'm sure you have quotes from law enforcement ready to prove your 'chilled to the bone' remark, right? While you're looking those up, you can get me the stats on how many criminals are in favor of people walking around armed.

"This isn't the first time that semiautomatic mouthpieces of the National Rifle Association and other firearms lobbyists have attempted to scrap the gun safety law enacted by the locally elected government."

Oh, you mean those 'gun safety laws' that have caused the city to become 'The Murder Capitol of America'

"But the leadership of Mr. Hatch and a growth in the ranks of arm-the-citizens lawmakers could mean open season on District residents who have no self-defense against the summary judgments of Congress."

I really doubt the citizens would mind being armed, seeing as how they are now in open season to cretins who are even lower than polticians.

"Mr. Hatch, whose bill had 18 co-sponsors at last count, says congressional repeal of the District laws -- including a loosening of the city's definition of a machine gun, which would free up a whole flow of semiautomatic weapons now banned -- is needed to underscore constitutional gun rights."

I'm sure your definition of 'machine gun' is pretty close to your definition of 'assault weapon' and relies on looks, not function. And I'm also pretty sure that the correct word in that last sentance should have been 'restore' not 'underscore'.

"In 1999, when the House of Representatives failed to enact national gun control legislation that included repeal of the District protections, pro-repeal lawmakers made similar arguments."

You ain't seen nuthin' yet.

"At that time, nearly half the guns used in District crimes turned out to have been purchased in neighboring states -- 23 percent in Virginia and 20 percent in Maryland. The best way to dry up this supply of guns would be for Congress to enact a federal law extending the District protections to Maryland, Virginia and all other states."

Federal law extending District protection? Hmm. Sounds like 'Gun Control' to me. All other states, huh? That sounds like it includes my state and the person who is reading this' state. All that just so the crime rate in D.C. will go down? Haven't you ever heard of the term 'Act Locally'? Clean up your own back yard before you start looking at mine.

"Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey's gun recovery programs continue to yield arsenals of high-powered weapons -- more than 1,000 so far this year."

High-powered according to whom?

"As he said in 1999, "Anytime you get guns off the street, several people's lives have been saved." The people of the District have chosen not to load up their city with firepower; Congress ought not overturn this sensible local decision.

I like how you tied your statement to the end of the Chief Ramsey quote. Makes the reader have to watch the quotation marks. That was very clever. You made it seem as if the chief thinks that the citizens actually have a chioce for protection and are just not taking it, when it was actually your statement.

If I am ever harmed or robbed in a location where I cannot take a firearm, I plan on sueing every person and group that was involved in making it illegal to take my gun there. I will be relentless. You all think you are having a good time while doing a good deed? Wait until I drag your asses to court for conspiring to deny me my civil rights.

Would I win a case such as that? Probably not.

But I might.

Your first amendment right does not allow you to run roughshod over my second. And I will make you spend as much money as I am able until you realize that you are killing innocent men, women and children.

Think, if I were able to find 20 people who had been affected by the Brady Foundation. I am not speaking of a 'class action' suit. I'm speaking about 20 different cases in 20 different states. All of them costing the Brady Bunch $100 an hour in lawyers fees. What fun that would be. And all I would need is for one of them to make it past the first court.

I think we'd see how they liked it.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:19 AM | Comments (2)

Heard it on the X

This is a 'Possible New Cult Alert'

I was listening to the always entertaining 'Coast to Coast AM with George Noory' (the new Art Bell show) show last night. When I say 'always interesting, I mean that he has some real, umm different, folks on his show.

Well, last night he had a representative for this guy, Dr. Masaru Emoto. Dr. Emoto plays music for water. He also shows water pictures, has groups of people hold hands around water while thinking 'happy' thoughts, and he even has a 'Water Prayer'.

After he does these things to the water, he freezes it and takes pictures of it. He claims that when he does nice things to water, it makes crystals. He adds that, according to his experiments, the thinking of bad thoughts and playing of 'heavy metal' music around water makes the frozen water (ice) take on a 'blistered' appearance.

You're probably asking how this could be the forming of a possible new cult? Because he likes to remind folks that people are 90% water, so the happy thoughts are necessary for people to be healthy and happy. Plus he takes money from folks so he can travel around the world and do his 'experiments' on different bodies of water. He is currently in the Mediterranean after a stop in Israel.

I wish I could get a gig like this! People give me money and I go to beaches around the world and do 'experiments'.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:50 AM | Comments (0)

El Diablo

Even though my long distance bill has exploded because of my marathon calls to the fiery pit, I must not have the clout there I thought I did.

"Idi Amin came out of coma on Wednesday and is no longer using an artificial respirator. But he's still in intensive care and his condition is still serious," a source at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters on Thursday.

Or, as Taranto put it,

"The admissions office in hell must've gotten backed up when Uday and Qusay arrived."

Posted by Nukevet at 02:45 AM | Comments (0)

July 25, 2003

Cheap Sunglasses

If you didn't stop by the Emperor Misha's place yesterday you missed something spectacular. He liked to a post by the Israpundit that has some very interesting thoughts and ideas in it.

They may be actually more that thoughts and ideas, but just go take a look.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:25 AM | Comments (4)

World of Swirl

I wandered over to my local IMC to see what kind of conspiracy theories they were spewing in the wake of Tweedledead and Tweedledeader being sent to go torture virgins.

I didn't find any whacked out conspiracies. I found instead, things that made me understand why the left wanted the asylum population reduced and the laws on involuntary incarceration minimized.

First I found an accuate but skeptical account of the action that opened like this,
"Saddam Hussein's 14-year-old grandson, Mustafa, may have been the last to die in Tuesday's four-hour siege on a house in Mosul, and kept shooting even after Qusay and Uday Hussein, his father and uncle, had been killed, US military officials said yesterday."

"According to a detailed account of the assault on the house given by Lt General Ricardo Sanchez in Baghdad, a volley of 10 anti-tank missiles near the end of the siege "wound up killing three of the adults" in the house. But when US troops made their third and final assault on the building, a sole survivor kept firing until he was shot dead. US officials believe that the last defender was a teenage boy, identified as Mustafa Hussein, who was known to be travelling with his father."

Did you get the idea that Mustafa was not an adult?

It ended with descriptions of wounded civilians, scared women and children in the crossfire and comes close to using the word 'careless' to describe the actions of the US Army.

The other story isn't even that nice. I shouldn't even post it, it is that worthless. But since the good Mr. Puggs can stomach 'The Fiskette', I should be able to stomach this.

Caution: This was published at the World Socialist web site.

"There is little doubt that Uday and Qusay Hussein, the two sons of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein killed by US forces in a house on the outskirts of Mosul July 22, were morally and politically reprehensible figures. By all accounts, Uday Hussein, the elder, was a sexual predator and murderer, while Qusay, as chief of Iraq�s notorious security apparatus, had even more blood on his hands. Given the reactionary nature of the regime, there is no reason to doubt the extent and depth of their crimes."

"Having said that, both the means by which Hussein�s sons were liquidated and the manner in which the killings were greeted by the American government and media speak volumes about the nature of the US intervention in Iraq and the character of the American political establishment."

"On the plane of morality, there exist no fundamental differences between the personnel of the Hussein regime and the Bush administration. The latter operates in every sphere with unashamed lawlessness and violence. If there is a difference in the degree of brutality against its own citizens, the �restraint� exercised by the Bush forces is a matter of circumstance rather than moral superiority over the killers and torturers of the ousted Iraqi regime."

Sick. Truely sick. But that's not all

In the operation against the Hussein brothers the US military mobilized hundreds of troops and dozens of vehicles and aircraft. The American forces used automatic weapons, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and tow missiles against four individuals armed with AK-47 automatic rifles.

The assault had the character of a gangland slaying, the vengeful wiping out of the cornered leadership of one gang by a more powerful and better-armed outfit. An unnamed senior US military official in Iraq spoke like a Mafia don, telling the UPI: �This is a very beneficial hit. They cannot feel anything other than doom, since if we can take down these guys, we can take down anybody.�

The exultation of US and British officials and the media over the killings in Mosul�which included the death of the 14-year-old son of Qusay Hussein, Mustapha�can only arouse revulsion. The pleasure that these circles take in bloodletting and violence has a pathological character.

President George W. Bush boasted, �Now more than ever Iraqis can know the former regime is gone and is not coming back.� Senator Ted Kennedy, the dean of Democratic �liberals,� expressed satisfaction over the killings. �It�s progress,� he said.

Britain�s Prime Minister Tony Blair was less restrained, declaring, �This is a great day for the new Iraq.�

The American media was both jubilant and bloodthirsty. The New York Daily News carried photos of Saddam Hussein and his two sons, with red crosses placed over Uday and Qusay, and the words, �One to go.� Rupert Murdoch�s New York Post, headlined its editorial �E-RAT-ICATED!�

The New York Times also celebrated the �hit� in Mosul, calling the assassination of the Hussein brothers �the most encouraging news out of Iraq in weeks.� The editors of the Washington Post called the deaths �very good news indeed� and went on to claim that the killings �meant a serious blow to the diehard resistance that has plagued the postwar administration.�

The notion that the murders in Mosul will halt Iraqi resistance to the US colonial occupation of that country is wishful thinking of the most politically blinkered variety. The American government and media establishment apparently believes its own propaganda that the only opposition to the US presence is being offered by �holdouts� of the old regime, �terrorists� and �criminals.�

These people are so blind to social and political reality and so distant from the Iraqi people that they cannot conceive of popular resistance that rejects both the Ba�athist regime and foreign imperialist tyranny. Attacks on US forces continued unabated July 23, as two more American soldiers died and nine were wounded in attacks.

Why were they not taken alive?

Why was no effort made to capture Uday and Qusay Hussein alive? When asked about this, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who was in charge of the operation, answered blandly, �Our mission is to find, kill or capture.�

A number of factors come into play. After weeks of US deaths and sagging troop morale, American officials no doubt concluded that a murderous assault would boost the spirits of the war constituency in the US and the psychotic element in the military. In any event, they share the outlook of this constituency and were in need of a bloodletting themselves. The pent-up rage and vindictiveness, in the face of growing Iraqi resistance, expressed itself in the extermination of Hussein�s sons.

More fundamentally, the capture of Uday and Qusay Hussein presented politically troublesome problems. Putting the two former officials on trial would have inevitably raised the issue of the entirely lawless character of the war and occupation. The Hussein brothers would not have found it a great challenge to turn the tables on their prosecutors and expose the hypocrisy and criminality of the Anglo-American operation in Iraq.

We have the example of the ongoing Slobodan Milosevic war crimes trial in The Hague, which has turned into a fiasco for the US and NATO. The former Yugoslav president has already succeeded�during the prosecution phase of the case�in using the tribunal to expose the machinations of the great powers. Milosevic is expected to develop his arguments during the two years he will now have to present his defense.

Beyond the immediate situation in Iraq, there is the equally vexing question of the long-standing relationship between the US government, including some of its current leading officials, and the former Hussein regime.

In February 2003 the National Security Archive released 60 documents detailing the extent of the relations between the Reagan administration and the Iraqi government during the 1980s. At the time of the Iran-Iraq war the US, while claiming to be neutral in the conflict, supported Hussein against the Islamic regime in Teheran. The Archive notes that Washington, through direct and indirect means, provided financing, weaponry, intelligence and military support to Baghdad �in accordance with policy directives from President Ronald Reagan,� several years before the US restored formal relations with Iraq in November 1984.

A highlight of the process of normalizing American-Iraqi relations was the visit by then presidential envoy (and current Secretary of Defense) Donald Rumsfeld to Baghdad in December 1983, where he held a 90-minute conversation with Saddam Hussein. The US was well aware that the Iraqis were using chemical weapons against Iranian forces and Kurdish insurgents. Rumsfeld made no mention of the issue in this discussion. A secret memo sent to the State Department reported that �Saddam Hussein showed obvious pleasure with [the] President�s letter and Rumsfeld�s visit and in his remarks.�

As the New York Times reported in March 2003, the US and France were the sources of Iraq�s biological weapons programs.

Iraqi officials have learned to their cost that whether a foreign leader is feted by Washington or assassinated depends entirely on the circumstances.

The assassination of the Hussein brothers has further undermined the claim that the US went to war to prevent the Iraqi regime from developing or using weapons of mass destruction (WMD). According to Judith Miller in the July 23 New York Times, Qusay Hussein �was also responsible for overseeing Iraq�s unconventional weapons. ... Stephen Black, a former inspector and chemical weapons expert, said that by virtue of his control of the security services, Qusay would have known, for instance, �whether they had chemical weapons, how many they had, and where they were deployed.� ... Finally, he said, Qusay would have known not the exact hiding places but the �broad brushes of the concealment policy and practices�whether Saddam had destroyed or hidden weapons or the capability for just-in-time production, and what the goals of this concealment were.��

Obviously, by taking the decision to murder Qusay, the US government and military expressed their total lack of interest in the existence of WMD and, in effect, acknowledged that such deadly and dangerous weapons do not exist.

US role at Nuremberg

The bloodlust and lawlessness of the present-day political establishment is placed in sharp relief by comparing its campaign of political assassination in Iraq with the attitude of the US to the treatment of fascist mass murderers captured at the end of World War II.

Less than sixty years ago, Washington opposed the summary execution of the leaders of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan�who had committed crimes on a far more massive scale than any carried out by the regime of Saddam Hussein�and insisted they be placed on public trial and accorded all of the legal privileges of due process. The vast contrast between then and now underscores the break with any conception of democratic principles that has occurred within the American ruling elite.

The surviving Nazi leaders were responsible for the deaths, by genocide and war, of tens of millions, yet American officials were scrupulous in demanding that they be captured alive and placed on trial, as they eventually were, at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal in 1945-46. Considerable pains were taken to ensure that the defendants not take their own lives. The US was insistent that the defendants be provided with counsel and access to evidence and that they be accorded the right to cross-examine witnesses.

Dennis Hutchinson of the University of Chicago in a November 18, 2001 Chicago Tribune article cited the comments of Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, chosen to represent the US in any post-war proceeding, explaining the options he presented to President Harry Truman: �We could execute or otherwise punish them [the Nazi officials] without a hearing. But undiscriminating executions or punishments without definite findings of guilt, fairly arrived at, would ... not set easily on the American conscience or be remembered by our children with pride.� Jackson insisted that the only appropriate �course is to determine the innocence or guilt of the accused after a hearing as dispassionate as the times and horrors we deal with will permit, and upon a record that will leave our reasons and motives clear.�

Jackson feared that summary executions would erode the moral high ground that the victorious powers enjoyed, according to Hutchinson, and that it was necessary as well to document the precise nature of the Nazi crimes for posterity. Jackson commented: �Unless we write the record of this movement with clarity and precision, we cannot blame the future if in days of peace it finds incredible accusatory generalities uttered during the war. We must establish incredible events by credible evidence.�

In a comment directly relevant to the current international situation, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jackson noted that the Allied triumph by itself did not provide the victors with the legal sanction to punish German officials, nor did Allied claims and proclamations. The guilt of the Nazi leaders had to be proven in a court of law.

Jackson declared, �The president of the United States has no power to convict anyone. He can only accuse. He cannot arrest in most cases without judicial authority. Therefore, the accusation made carries no weight in an American trial whatsoever. These declarations are an accusation and not a conviction. That requires a judicial finding. Now we could not be parties to setting up a formal judicial body to ratify a political decision to convict. Then judges will have to inquire into the evidence and give an independent decision.�

In his opening statement to the Nuremberg tribunal, Jackson said, �That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.�

Jackson�s comments and actions were bound up with a certain fidelity to democratic principles that still held sway within the American ruling elite. They expressed as well a certain confidence in the prospects for US capitalism and the post-war world. They came from a position of relative political and economic strength.

The prevailing atmosphere in present-day Washington, which venerates repression and murder, represents the collapse of any adherence to democracy, at home and abroad. The Bush administration, which came to power through fraud and thuggery, serves the interests of a crisis-ridden ruling elite that can only hope to exercise power through the unrestrained use of violence on a global scale.

The campaign of political assassinations in Iraq is a further demonstration of the criminalization of the American ruling elite.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:18 AM | Comments (0)

Snappy Kakkie

Sometimes I worry about the future of America, what with the crap the kids have to sit through in their public indoctrination centers. But it is things like this that ease my worries.

"Fifteen-year-old Josh Pfluger and his pals went into his garage and hammered out a shoe-scanning device with the goal of polishing off his Eagle Scout requirements."

"Looks like the project passes muster. Pfluger's good deed is in daily use at the world's busiest airport, helping passengers at O'Hare International move through security checkpoints with a minimum of fuss."

"It's real cool," the Rockford, Ill., teen said Thursday as he prepared to fly to New York for a round of appearances on network television shows. "If other airports call me, I'm going to do it as a job."

Kid'll probably be a millionaire if this thing takes off.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:31 AM | Comments (1)

Brown Sugar

A real problem comes out of a fake one.

"A drug prescribed for children with behavioural problems is being abused in schools as pupils trade the medication for CDs and telephone cards, it is claimed."

"Overload Network, a charity for parents with hyperactive children, said it had found some pupils selling Ritalin tablets, an amphetamine which works on the central nervous system, for 50p each. Ritalin is often given to children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Janice Hill, the mother of a child who was prescribed the drug and who founded the charity, said teenage girls were using it as a diet pill."

"She wants the Government to ensure that prescriptions are properly regulated."

Because asking the doctors to stop handing it out like candy is just so much more difficult than punishing the kids for not wanting to take a mind numbing drug.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:08 AM | Comments (1)

Dippin' Low in the Lap of Luxury

Another example of government gone stupid.

"Does that Biltmore mansion-replica going up next door make your castle look like a cottage? "Tom Williams Jr., who grew up in a 1930 Greek revival home on Arden Road in Buckhead, said his mother is "heartbroken" about the giant house under construction next door. "I would say it's diminished grandeur," Williams said."

I would say that's too darn bad, Tom.

"That's one of the hazards of living in a city that loves to show off its wealth, values floor space over green space and is constantly rebuilding itself. But an Atlanta City Council member, with help from Georgia Tech, is trying to devise a way to legally protect neighborhoods against oversized new homes. The problem is defining what is too big."

But of course the 'City Leaders' will have a suggestions.

"Do we want McMansions and McCastles?" asked council member Mary Norwood, then answered her own question: "If you are out of scale and have a looming facade, that's problematic for people around you."

Your right Mary, it's their problem. Not mine. Leave me alone.

"She said she can tell when a house is too big for its neighborhood just by looking at it. "If I had my way, I would say, 'You can't do that,' " Norwood said, poking a finger at a photograph at a massive home under construction on Arden Road in Buckhead."

I'm sure you would, you marxist.

And in 20 years she'll wonder one or both fo these two things.

1. Why are there fewer rich folks in here city

2. Why all the rich kids who are still in town are going to one school. Time for more forced bussing.

Found @ Ravenwood's Universe.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:52 AM | Comments (0)

Woke up with Wood

He then rounds out his day by talking to rocks.

"Fort Lauderdale "rock talker" Michael Levy says stones "are here to help us" but their message is getting lost because most humans just look at them as inanimate objects."

"Right now, the rocks feel human kind is "going down the toilet," what with large corrupt corporations and religious holy wars. But Levy says we can reverse all that, just by listening to the rocks and following their advice."

Proof that 'Pet Rocks' and 'Ludes' don't mix.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:22 AM | Comments (0)

The last fiskett for awhile, but I'm in a bad mood.

An asshat of epic proportions, undiluted by logic or rational thinking. Always taking the side of the murderer, the thug, the terrorist.

Others will ponder the old Arab belief in the plot, the conspiracy. Did the Americans linger in order to fake the pictures? Have they digitised the brothers' faces in order to make them appear dead while still they are live?

Is it any wonder he has such a following in the middle east?

As three more American soldiers were killed in an ambush outside Mosul - revenge comes swiftly in this dangerous country, for the men of the 101st Airborne died scarcely 36 hours after Saddam's sons were killed nearby - the two shrivelled corpses in the mortuary of the Kindi hospital lay unidentified and uncared for, further reason for Iraqis to hate their occupiers.

Was it good for you Bobby? Did you drool or tremble over the corpses all blackened and charred, did it excite you to mention American deaths while thinking about those fine young Iraqi martyrs? Did you have to go change your pants afterwards you sack of shit? If time proves anything, it shows your complete inability to learn from your legions of mistakes. How many times do you have to be wrong before you learn something?

Right now it hurts to move much, but I'm still strong and I would give a month of my life to just beat the fuck out of this islamicist gally slave. To rip his steaming skull right out of his mushy misshapen head. The resulting sucking sound would be the final, and ultimate statement of both his lifes work and his favorite passtime.

I wouldn't even keep the skull, just drop it in the nearest sewer. Devoured by sewer rats is the only fitting burial for him.

I promise, no more Fisk anytime real soon. Hammering his ass for all his sins would be a fulltime job. It's my hobby, not my vocation.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:38 AM | Comments (0)

July 24, 2003

I may be female

"But that doesn't mean I won't put a bullet through your head".

Posted by Nukevet at 10:18 PM | Comments (2)

Like

I Said.......

Posted by Nukevet at 05:33 PM | Comments (4)

revisiting a complete idiot

Having found a source for my dose of Fisk I went back and found another piece from the 22nd of this month. Fisk has supposedly been covering wars and conflict for his whole career, and I wonder how much of it was done from a barstool? or a mens room stall with his thug of choice? Because, he don't know jack about weapons, and I don't mean some minor difference either.

The latest incident occurred only hours after a ground-to-air missile was fired at an American C-130 military cargo aircraft at Baghdad airport, an attack that was publicly acknowledged. Where the gunmen hide so big a weapon as an anti-aircraft gun is not recorded.

Note to Fisk and assorted fans of his, a missile isn't fired from a gun you idiot. A shoulder fired SAM is easily carried, easily hidden. A triple A gun requires a truck to move it, and a crew to serve it. His willfull ignorance of basic military hardware is Sarah Brady like in it's stunning level of absurdity. He can't even get that right. One last thing,

But the message of all this information - most of it unreported by the media - is that the Americans are no longer safe anywhere in Iraq: not at Baghdad airport, which they captured with so much fanfare in early April, not at their military bases nor in the streets of central Baghdad, nor in their helicopters nor on the country roads.

This wouldn't be the very same Airport he said we didn't capture the day our tanks were sitting at the terminal would it?.............Thought so. Why doesn't anyone at these leftist papers fact check him, he may not care if he's a moron, but he uses up their credibility as well.

So much the better.

Update, I see I forgot the link to the entire piece, it's now corrected.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:23 PM | Comments (4)

All I ask for

Is a little consistency in argument.

So the left screams about how the US losses in Iraq show how Bush "doesn't care about our service men and women". But then, we were supposed to take as many casualties as necessary in order to take the Saddam twins alive.

So the left cares all about our military when they can be used as a hammer to bash away at Bush, but values the lives of 2 murdering/raping scum more than that of our military, because failure to capture the twins alive is also a hammer that can be used to bash Bush.

At a news conference, Sanchez defended the ground commander�s order to kill the people hiding in the house after two attempts to enter drew intense gunfire. Despite arguments that capturing the men alive could have yielded an intelligence bonanza and allowed Iraqis to put them on trial for the thousands of crimes they allegedly committed, the commander, �made the right decision based on the conditions on the ground,� Sanchez said.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:03 PM | Comments (0)

Hot, Blue and Righteous

If you haven't already heard, there is going to be a mini-series by CBS with Ronald Reagan being played by James Brolin. I found an essay by Mr. Reagan's son Michael at FrontPageMag that should be read.

"CBS is planning to produce a mini-series on my father, Ronald Reagan for release in November. I haven�t seen the script, which I understand has been leaked around Hollywood and is anything but friendly to my dad."

"Nobody from CBS has talked to me or any other member of my family which leads me to believe that whatever the series has to say about the Reagans will be from hearsay, and not from family members."

Michael is taking this with a better attitude than I am. And if I know Mr. puggs at all, he is probably even unhappier with this choice than Michael or I.

I am searching Googe News with just the words 'Brolin' and 'Reagan' and am coming up with some very sad results. Most of the articles I am finding are focusing on asking the producers what Babs thought about the choice. Like the folks who think of Reagan in a positive light really give a shit.

But some say things like this,

"In addition to the historical events of his two-term presidency - including the collapse of the Soviet Union - the movie is set to focus on the Reagan's tumultuous family life. "It deals with the fact they didn't get along with their children so well," Moonves said. "It was a blended marriage."

Now is the time folks. Now is when we have to make sure the revisionists do not get ahold of this man and distort his life it until it is unrecognizable. Call CBS. Your local and the national offices. Let them know how you feel about folks taking 'Dramatic License' with your history. It is your history, you know. Keep it that way.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:14 AM | Comments (1)

Fuzzbox Voodoo

The nomination of Daniel Pipes that I told you about before, started yesterday. And it looks like CAIR has gotten into the heads of the usual suspects.

"Several U.S. senators today came out strongly in opposition to the nomination of Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace. The senators expressed that opposition during a meeting this morning of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the body that must take the initial vote on Pipes' nomination. A vote had been scheduled, but was postponed because too many senators left the meeting to maintain a quorum."

"During the discussion of Pipes' nomination to the USIP board, Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) described Pipes variously as a "provocative" and "highly controversial" candidate whose "decidedly one-sided" views would be in "direct contradiction" to USIP goals."

"Sen. Harkin, who said he took the time to investigate the nominee, spoke at length about Pipes' statement warning of the "dangers" posed by the enfranchisement of American Muslims and of his web site (campus-watch.org) that sought to create "dossiers" on academic critics of Israeli policies."

"Harkin said the ongoing controversy generated by Pipes' possible confirmation would "overshadow" the work of the institute. He also said Iowa is home to the oldest operating mosque in America in Cedar Rapids and that Muslims are a vibrant segment of that state's population. "(Daniel Pipes is) not the person that ought to be on the United States Institute of Peace board," said Harkin."

"Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.) said the fact that Pipes would stimulate debate was "hardly a reason" to support his nomination. Only Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) offered a cautious defense of the nominee, saying he agreed with Pipes' position on peacemaking needing to be backed up by strength."

Again, I ask that if you haven't signed this or spoken to you Congressman/woman, please do so soon.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)

Dust my Broom

Here at RNS I've made the comparison of the Dems of 2004 to the Dems of 1972. Jed Babbin thinks they are more like the Dems of 1968.

"The Dems are still the party of George McGovern, and for them it's still 1968. They figure that what worked then will work now, so they are running their campaign to discredit George Bush according to their old Vietnam playbook. For weeks, they've been running the Tonkin Gulf play."

"Remember Yankee Station? It was a spot in the ocean where the destroyer USS Maddox � gathering intelligence for the South Vietnamese � was attacked by four North Vietnamese patrol boats on August 2, 1964. Maddox � aided by carrier aircraft � severely damaged the attackers, leaving at least one dead in the water. The next night the Maddox (and the USS Turner Joy sent to reinforce it) reported another attack. LBJ then demanded, and got on August 7, open-ended authority to use military forces in Vietnam. (The Democratic convention met three weeks later to nominate LBJ as its presidential candidate)".

"In the decades since we've learned that much of what Congress was told about the Tonkin Gulf incident was right, and some was an error but not a lie. After many years of analysis of intelligence and logs, the Navy determined that there hadn't been a second attack. But by 1968, the McGoverniks had already convinced themselves that the Tonkin Gulf resolution was a fraud, based on an entirely on a needlessly provoked and fictionally reported incident."

"The McGoverniks and their pals in the press have been working feverishly to turn the "Niger uranium" sentence in the State of the Union address into the same sort of fraud they attribute to the reports that led Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf resolution. At this point, the story is press-driven without even Bob Graham's ridiculous fulmination. Across the Big Pond, the BBC's parallel campaign to destroy Tony Blair seems to have backfired, and BBC bosses are more likely to lose their jobs than Blair is to lose his."

Go read the whole thing and let me know who you think is right.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:23 AM | Comments (1)

Mushmouth Shoutin'

With the announcement of the Californian Recall Election of Gray Davis last night, Davis seems to have caught 'Foot in Mouth while Head in Ass Disease' from Gephart when Dickie was visiting the other day.

"CNN - Facing the likely prospect of becoming the first California governor placed on a recall ballot, Democrat Gray Davis on Wednesday attacked the GOP-led effort as a "hostile takeover by the right" and warned that ousting him would "slam the state into reverse."

Excuse me Gray-boy, but please explain to us all why when your state is spending $10 million more a month than it takes in, that going 'in reverse' would be a bad thing?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:59 AM | Comments (0)

Arrested for Driving While Blind

The left is always going off about how 'America is a racist nation' or 'The US is a bad place for poor people'. And lately we've been hearing about the Ashcroft Jackboot Brigades 'Sqashing of Dissent'.

I know they're lying. And you know they're lying. But it looks like some folks didn't get the memo.

KEY WEST - "Over the past four decades, Cubans desperate to reach the United States have crossed the perilous Florida Straits in just about anything that floats: Surfboards. Inner tubes. Homemade rafts."

"But it's hard to top the latest entrant in the maritime scramble: A 1951 Chevy flatbed truck."

"The green truck, tires still on, was mounted on a pontoon made of 55-gallon drums. The makeshift vessel even sported a propeller, attached to the truck's driveshaft, and was cruising along at a leisurely eight miles an hour, driver behind the wheel, when it was spotted by a U.S. government plane 40 miles south of Key West July 16."

Go look, there's a picture of this thing.

Sort of blows the left's arguments out of the water (sorry for the pun).

Posted by Nukevet at 09:34 AM | Comments (3)

Waitin' for the Bus

I was cruising around Samizdata and found this tidbit. I only wish there was a full link to the quote, but sadly there is not. So I will just quote Mr. Jonathon Pearce, a Samizdata contributor.

"I have been enjoying the television documentary of the American war of Independence shown over on the BBC (yes, that pinko channel!), presented by military historian Richard Holmes.

"During his trip Holmes asked some locals on a bus travelling near Charleston about what the war meant to them. One elderly lady gave an articulate take, arguing about the issues of taxation, representation and liberty. And then he spoke to a young guy, probably in his early 20s, who came out with this gem. I paraphrase slightly:

"Well, it was all about rich folks, who just did not want to pay their taxes. If it hadn't been for them, we'd be British, and enjoy (!) socialised medicine."

"So there you have it. Some of the younger American generation wish that George Washington had lost so that all Americans could use the National Health Service. Don't know whether to laugh or cry, really."

Let me give you a suggestion as to what I would do, Jonathon. I would laugh. Just a little bit. And then I would hope beyond hope, that this smarmy little fucker got hit by the bus once he stepped off of it.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:17 AM | Comments (0)

Tush

I really don't give a rat's patootie on the whole 'Kobe Bryant' thing. As long as justice is served (preferably cold if necessary) I'll be happy.

But in the 'Things that make you go hmmm' catagory comes this,

"July 24, 2003 -- NBA superstar Kobe Bryant bought his wife, Vanessa, an eye-popping $4 million, eight-carat purple diamond ring."

Hmmmm.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:45 AM | Comments (0)

Master of Sparks

Did I ever say how much more I'm starting to admire the Italians?

First, the backhanded remarks towards the Germans in the EU. And now this,

"Italian navy and coastguard vessels are to be ordered to open fire with live rounds on boats carrying illegal immigrants. Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi said he was sick of illegal immigrants and wanted to hear "the blast of cannons".

"After the second or third warning, bang... we fire the cannon," Mr Bossi told Corriere della Sera newspaper. "Without too much talking. A cannon to knock out whoever may be there. Otherwise, we're never going to put an end to this problem."

Asked whether it would be right to fire on immigrants who are generally unarmed women and children, Mr Bossi was firm. "Whether they're good or bad, one way or the other illegal immigrants have got to be chased away," he said".

I think you could say he's got some big cannolis.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:39 AM | Comments (0)

Two ways to play

There is the Canadian way.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - "A man who tried to protect a group of ducklings from stone-throwing teenagers was nursing his own injuries after the youths turned the attack on him, police said on Tuesday."

"The man was visiting a park in a Vancouver suburb when he discovered the youths throwing rocks at the birds in a pond. When he tried to stop them they swarmed him, throwing punches and hitting him with a rock, West Vancouver Police said. Police said they were looking for five males, all believed to be about 16 years old, who face possible charges for both the attack on the man and on the baby ducks."

And there's the American way,

Seattle, Washington (AnalogKid News) - "A man who tried to protect a group of ducklings from stone-throwing teenagers was released after questioning after the youths turned the attack on him and he returned fire, police said on Tuesday."

"The man was visiting a park in his neighborhood in a Seattle suburb when he discovered the youths throwing rocks at the birds in a pond. When he tried to stop them they swarmed him. The man then drew his legally owned pistol and killed all 5 criminal assailants, Seattle Police said."

"Police said they were not surprised by the actions of the 5 males, all believed to be 16 years old, that caused them to meet their deaths. They all had extensive juvenile criminal records and numerous other run-ins with local authorities."

Which do you prefer?

Posted by Nukevet at 08:28 AM | Comments (2)

Backdoor Love Affair

I always understood that the AMA was an anti-gun organization. Their claim that firearms in the home cause 'a public health epidemic' is one of the most historically stupid remarks put out by a group of professionals. But I hadn't heard about the PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) until this.

"Today the Center for Consumer Freedom called on the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to come clean about its animal-rights motive for attacking diets that feature any meat or dairy foods. PCRM, an animal rights front group claiming to be a medical charity, launched a media campaign this week featuring reckless charges about health risks supposedly connected with eating meat."

"This misnamed 'physicians committee' represents a tiny fraction of America's doctors who place animal-rights ideology above their patients' health," said Center for Consumer Freedom research director David Martosko. "PCRM has asserted itself as a home for anti-meat, pro-vegan nutritionists who are committed to removing beef, dairy, poultry, and other animal products from the American diet for good."

I know they won't read this, but just for being a group of dumbasses, I'm firing up the mini-grill for breakfast. Steak and Eggs anyone?

Posted by Nukevet at 08:11 AM | Comments (0)

Crunchy

This is what happens when enviro-weenies go wild.

"Animal loving German officials issued a warning to citizens that it was now illegal to kill ants and announced at the same time that it had appointed 85 Ant Protection Officers to protect ants nationwide."

"Homeowners and gardeners who attempt to destroy an anthill or subterranean nest will be subject to hefty fines if caught. They must now apply for a permit from their local forestry office to have the ants carefully moved to local woods."

I wonder if eating them is OK?

Posted by Nukevet at 08:01 AM | Comments (2)

July 23, 2003

Charlie Rangel, when in doubt, say something stupid.

I found this transcript of some of what Rangel had to say yesterday in an interview on FOX. Occam's Toothbrush providing the heads up. He found it on Outside The Beltway.

I heard most of the interview, and he was smiling and laughing all the way through it. Charlie is a cartoon character anymore, so knee jerk in his canned responses he yawns through them. Yep criminals, sure Bush is bad, OK but it's always our fault, ....................He's like Pavlov's dog, mention anything to do do with Bush and he just starts drooling like an inbred mouthbreather.

He's a clown brought on because they KNOW he's gonna act the fool. It may make good ratings, but whatever happened to being a serious public servant when you serve in Congress?

Posted by Nukevet at 08:04 PM | Comments (0)

Dennis Miller, the only comedian hated by the left

Here's a nice little piece on Dennis from the Weekly Standard. I only half paid attention to him over the last couple of years, but I always liked his type of humor. It's a refreshing change from tuning out the spit flicked rants of Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams against any and all things republican. Political humor is a single edged sword for most comedians, they only swing to the right. Dennis may be lonely but at least he's in there swinging, and he's not doing badly.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:32 PM | Comments (2)

How could this possibly happen

In a city with some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country?

Posted by Nukevet at 05:46 PM | Comments (4)

Update on Negative reaction to the demise of the wonder twins

A few of us knew deep in our bones that the anti-Bush leftwing lobby just couldn't have a single good thing to say about the killing of Saddam's hellspawn. Mike the Marine and I each noted on it yesterday. Den Beste has an excellent roundup of the most offensive comments. I gave Robert Fisk the back of my hand already, but lord, they multiply like rabbits. Granted my humble critic will have no effect whatsoever on their profound desire to always be wrong on virtually everything. But it makes me feel better to know that the rebuttals are coming fast and furious from many sources.

Update..............

It's nice of USS Clueless to track such distasteful fare, because I tell you what, some of these guys couldn't pass you in the street without being offensive just on principle. Hesiod is a good example, his resident commenters are even worse. For someone who proclaims himself to be a thinker, he comes off as just another leftwing reactionary. Cranking out theories to explain something simple in such a way as to make it complex, and obviously sinister. It's fine he doesn't plan on voting for Bush, I have friends that won't. What really is bullshit is not basing such a judgment on fact, or even feelings, but on the circle jerk conspiracy industry that he helps feed. Hesiod's free to believe whatever little fantasy let's him sleep at night, it would be nice though if he weren't such a public ass about it.

Den Beste also mentions Lambert. While not as outrageous as Hesiod, he doesn't get it either. His line is that we should have just captured these two,.............How nice. Anyone making such a suggestion should catch the next flight to Iraq, grab an M-16 and be the point man on the next entry team to go in a fortifed house. Mind the grenades and AK-47's Lambert. People who say such things frankly don't know shit about house to house combat. Our men do it the way they do because a hundred years of exprience teachs us how NOT to do it, not unless you could give a shit how many troopers lives you piss away in the process. I don't think he would want that, but combat operations are best left to troops in the field. Civilians set policy, they don't plan battles.

He gives the SF IndyMedia clowns a mention too. I know AK is far better qualified to yank out their short and curlies, but Christ this guys need medication. I doubt I could spend ten seconds in a room with them without having to leave before I started collecting skulls like trinkets. There is opposition, there's rabidly partisan, then there's just plain nuts. These fools are just flat out crazy, when they believe Bin Laden and George Bush are the same, it's proof that any capacity that they may have had to make moral judgements is as shriveled and dead as their twisted little souls. I can't even find pity for them, just indifference if they stepped in front of a moving buss.

One thing is certain, the hard left in this country and the world at large, just CANNOT accept good news without twisting it into failure. Cannot accept that Bush is just a man in a difficult position who has risen to the occasion. Cannot accept that the "world" doesn't care about how many of us die as long as THEIR interests are served. Cannot accept that rabid minority to the side the Iraqi people will be FAR better off from an American occupation that they ever could have hoped. Cannot accept that the majority in America can ever be right about anything, all evidence just waved aside as either irrelevant or CIA fiction.

Talking to them is pointless, they wouldn't give up their fantasy. But the verbal battle is important, because when we stop answering them, then only they get heard. The body count from nations doing things their way is far to high to allow them to do that.

Into the arena

An update from USS Clueless.

Hesiod, is crying over the attention he's getting. Look if you're gonna make claims you know will piss people off, have a thick skin.

I find it interesting [but not surprising] that, almost to a blogger, they took the opportunity to look for any comment on their deaths that was not 100% jumping for joy [and contained no negative comments about George W. Bush or his disastrous policy in Iraq], and exploit it for a cynical, neo-MaCarthyite smear campaign.

He fails to explain how qouting him is engaging in a "smear", he can't whine about context because everyone linked to his entire post. This is pathetic, truely, sadly, a sorry assed response. One step below crying in the corner. Somebody tell his mom to call him, he needs a hug, and a cookie.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:08 PM | Comments (4)

Why is the Angry Clam

So fucking, er, ANGRY? Read this, and it all becomes clear.

Next, they'll be rounding us up and measuring our skull dimensions to prove why we are "intellectually inferior" to leftists.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:37 AM | Comments (0)

Groovy Little Hippie Pad

That's what the UK is turning into. I'm not talking about their 'feelings' on gun control. Or their 'feelings' on the free market system, or the free movement of their citizens, or becoming an EU member.

I'm talking about this,

"LONDON (Reuters) - Criminals could avoid being taken to court if they agree to apologize personally to their victims, under plans outlined by the UK government Tuesday."

I can just picture the little gang members over there.
"Go a-ed an kipe it mate. If ya git cott, you jus' 'ave to 'pologize"

Oh yeah, that's a winner of an idea. But, of course over there, it's all about 'feelings'.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:14 AM | Comments (1)

Hey, I'm in Academia

And I still want to hear this commencement address.

Via 4rrws. Not the 3 Amigos, but pretty damn close.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:37 AM | Comments (1)

The Fearless Boogie

Is what the Hussein boys were doing. At least up until yesterday afternoon. And thanks go out to the men of the 101st for scratching that itch.

But that is not what Moammar Khadaffi's son is doing.

He's dancing the "I'm Gonna Wet Myself Shuffle" on CNN.

Saif al-eslam Khadaffi: "Because I'm a Libyan citizen, I would like to send this message to the American people and the American government that we, the Libyan people, we want to have a more constructive and fruitful relationship with the Americans. We want to see Americans visit Libya. We want to go there to study at American universities. We want to invest in the New York Stock Exchange. We want to have Pepsi Cola, Coca-Cola. We don't want confrontation and aggression and, you know, to fight anymore. It's over. It's behind us now. It's dead with the Cold War."

I know he's speaking arabic, so I'll translate. "I know my father is a terrorist supporter and a terrorist himself, but please don't kill me!"

Even though I like GWB because he says what he is going to do and then does it, sometimes he doesn't have to say a thing.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:34 AM | Comments (0)

Doubleback Again

So I get this e-mail from the WSJ Opinion Journal and it has this link you see. So I click on the link. It was a link to an old page, but Taranto said it would be funny if I clicked on it.

"BBC News, World Edition. Friday, 2 March, 2001, 23:52 GMT"

"In the wake of the US and British bombing of Iraq, investigative film maker Gwynne Roberts finds evidence that suggests that Iraq may already have developed its own nuclear weapons."

Hmmmm?

Posted by Nukevet at 05:17 AM | Comments (0)

July 22, 2003

Oh Joy, Fisk is going to explain it all

The rubble is still smoking and Fisk is already declaring that all is lost. I refuse to subscribe to the Independent, to give them money to find out what Robert Fisk has been smoking lately. They can eat shit first. No I found it in a Kiwi paper.

The burnt, bullet-splashed villa in Mosul, the four bullet-ridden corpses, America's hopes - however vain - that the death of Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, will break the guerrilla resistance to Iraq's US occupation troops, all conspired to produce an illusion last night: that the unidentified bodies found after a four-hour gun battle between Iraqi gunmen and US forces must be those of the former dictator's sons - because the world wants them to be.

Translation, he'll claim we missed them no matter what. DNA, physical identification?, no matter, not enough proof to convince him, cause Fisk wants it that way.

Of course, they might be dead. The two men are said to bear an impressive resemblance to the brothers. A 14-year-old child killed by the Americans - one of the four dead - might be one of Saddam's grandsons. The house was owned by Mohamed el-Zidani, a tribal ally of the Husseins.

Qusay was a leader of the Special Republican Guard, a special target of the Americans. The two men obviously fought fiercely against the 200 American troops who surrounded the house. The Americans used their so-called Task Force 20 to storm the pseudo-Palladian villa on a main highway through Mosul.

Jesus Christ, did Fisk ever write about a murdering Arab with a gun he didn't want to BLOW? He oozes sympathy for these guys, while taking great pains to point out the similarities of American troops to barbarians. "A 14-year-old child killed by the Americans", well since we didn't use our X-ray vision to see who else was shooting at us we need to hang our heads in shame.

Thought experiment, is there a single 17 year old recruit in the US military that couldn't reduce Fisk to a quivering pile of pissed in his pants jelly with just a moment of their time? How much less dead would someone be if the AK-47 fired at them was fired by a child?

Fisk is so morally blind, so inately retarded in his romantic attachment to murdering thugs that why, why, why, does anyone print his shit? The only reason I can think of is hatred, of the west, of democracy, of free enterprise, and mostly of America. Because if life was fair in their eyes, we wouldn't exist, and they would rule. If Fisk had any balls at all he'd take up arms against us, instead he coaxes on his readers in the arab world to martyr themselves. He's not even human anymore, he pimps death, and sits back to watch.

The word is ghoul............

Posted by Nukevet at 09:01 PM | Comments (3)

And, while you're in a reading mood

Try this on for size. Many of you may have already seen this, but I found it rather amusing.

My personal favorite "rant":

That one should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a neurosurgeon for spinal paralysis, a computer programmer for Y2K problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:44 PM | Comments (0)

Go read this letter

From a Soldier in Iraq.

At least I think it's the real deal.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:14 PM | Comments (1)

So how is a murderer, a torturer, a rapist, and a baby killer ever a "victim"?

Apperantly when the mode of justice is American gunfire. The AP article is pretty bland, the headline gives you the point of view of Canada.com.

Saddam's sons may be among victims of U.S. attack
4 dead in raid on `high value' targets in Mosul, U.S. officials say

Notice the scare qoutes on high value. Notice the lack of them around victim. Now I know the majority of Canadians are decent people, certainly this fuckwit ain't on the list. This headline says it all, US BAD BAD, anyone else is poor widdle victim.

I've never been to Canada, but I'm starting to like the Analog Kids thought on building a big honkin fence between us. Because anyone stupid enough to ever put Saddam's demon spawn down as "victims" is just too retarded to even talk too. How can you be so bigoted to the US that even Satan's new butt buddies look sympathetic?

Make that fence electric, and we need to toss that writer on it to test the current.

Update, asshats are in full scurry mode;

This piece is pretty even handed, but this qoute stood out.

Even critics of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq conceded that the deaths of Saddam's sons will be welcomed by the people they tyrannized and preyed upon.

"But that does not mean they are happy that the U.S. killed them while occupying their country," said Phyllis Bennis, an Iraq expert at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington.

"To go gunning for political leaders is a violation of international law after hostilities end," she said. "They should have been arrested and brought to trial. Assassination is not an acceptable outcome - even for people as odious as them or their father."

Bennis' sentiments were not widely shared in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Mich., home of the largest concentration of Iraqi exiles in the nation.

Who doubted for a single second that the word "Assassination" wouldn't be thrown out as an indictment. Gosh, we should have sent the UN police guys or somebody to just, you know, like arrest them or something....

AAAAAAAARRGGGHHHHHHHHHHH.................................her brain has the atomic weight of a friggin corn flake!

Posted by Nukevet at 06:24 PM | Comments (0)

Yes, they should. Treachery is worthy of punishment.

This line sounds much like the arguements we hear on this side of the pond regarding PBS. This guy completely misses the friggin point, publicly funded means it's supposed to be in the publics interest, not a hobby horse for every leftwing boob with a cause and a camera. Failure after failure, scandal after scandal, the champions of lefty TV cry about the importance of an independent source of information. That is not what they deliver, when the slant is so obvious, the information so selectively picked as to be distortion, what good is it except as a propaganda tool to people who share it's agenda?

Kill it and be done with it. Taxing people to pay for the airing of views they do not support, do not choose, and sure as Hell don't vote for is extortion. It's regressive too, taxing working poor to pay for rich liberal TV, leftys love their own brand of fatcats.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:09 PM | Comments (0)

And now from the feminist wing of the party

Richard Gephardt speaking out for a softer, make nicer America,

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Richard Gephardt on Tuesday condemned President Bush (news - web sites)'s foreign policy as "machismo" and "arrogant unilateralism," saying his clumsy diplomacy on Iraq (news - web sites) had shattered U.S. foreign alliances and endangered America.

Not over top do you think? NATO hasn't broken up the last time I checked, and invasion barges aren't being built in France. My fucktard meter just pegged out, Mr. I wiped Bill's ass for eight years has some splainin to do about his own role in the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11. Where the Hell was he?

"Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex, and often costlier than winning the war itself," he said. "No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone."

Diplomacy matters when you can accomplish your goals with it, when it becomes a set of leg irons allowing your "friends" to shackle you to protect their own selfish interests at the cost of American lives,........Dick can just go perform an anatomical impossiblity on himself. American policy cannot be dictated from Moscow and Paris, unless your agenda is to do nothing but sound tough. Rearranging the deck chairs isn't a rational option for dealing with killers.

All this time since that day in September and Dick hasn't learned a damned thing. He was an idiot before and hasn't grown an inch since.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:39 PM | Comments (0)

Burn in Hell

While DNA tests results aren't in yet, this looks very near certain.

"We are certain that Odai and Qusai were killed today," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez at a news conference in Baghdad. "The bodies were in such a condition where you could identify them."

Expect two things if this is true, one, the resistence in Iraq will be shaken badly, two, the presidents numbers will start to swing back upwards.

The deaths of the sons could have a major impact on the Iraqi resistance, which has been mounting about a dozen attacks a day against U.S. occupation troops. The guerrillas are thought to be former military officers and Baath Party leaders loyal to Saddam and his family � especially the sons, who played primary roles in the military and feared security services.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:05 PM | Comments (0)

All I Can say is

OUTSTANDING!

Posted by Nukevet at 03:35 PM | Comments (0)

I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide

The leader of the Ashcroft Jackboot Brigades, that's right Ashcroft himself, is stopping by Seattle today and will be visiting multiple spots throughout the week. I hope that this means I'll be getting my membership card soon.

The lefties in town have reached full conniption vibration and are organizing a protest as I type this. You can go here and here to see the flyers they were posting (both are in pdf form).

I just wish I wasn't so damn tired from work. But that's ok, the ISM'ers will probably post pics tonight.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:16 AM | Comments (0)

It's So Hard

The topic of Liberia and what roll the US should play in ousting Charles Tayor is debatalbe. Mind you, not by me mind. This sounds like a perfect roll for the UN to show they're still relevant. But it looks as if I lost that argument.

"Before the shelling began, American HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters landed in the U.S. Embassy compound in a driving rain, dropping off about half of a 41-member Marine security team. Dressed in green camouflage, body armor and helmets, they jumped out and ran up a hill."

"About 23 foreign humanitarian workers and journalists clutching bags and backpacks ran to the spinning aircraft as Marines and embassy officials shouted: "Go! Go!" Among them were the United Nations last seven foreign staffers, who had returned to Monrovia just two weeks earlier during a lull in fighting."

And what makes this news quite difficult to swallow is this dumbass, One man held up a hastily scrawled sign: "Today G. Bush kill Liberia people."

Oh really numbnuts, how?

And I hope this isn't a bad 'omen'. For those of you who believe in such things.

I just saw a rabbit chasing a squrrel. And I think the sqirrel was losing the race. I didn't think rabbits ate meat.

Found at Amish Tech Support

Posted by Nukevet at 08:27 AM | Comments (1)

Enjoy and get it on

If you've seen the movie '28 Days Later' stop over at Right Wing News and read his take on it and see if you agree. If you haven't, you can still stop on by as there aren't really any spoilers.

The movie takes place in the UK, but Mr. Hawkins does a test script and finds that if the movie had taken place in the US, it would have been rather short.

Jim: What's going on?

Nurse: You were unconscious for 28 days.

Jim: Really? Did anything important happen?

Nurse: Oh yes! There was this horrible infection going around that turned people into living dead killers! One bite and you're raving madman with red eyes -- desperate to kill everyone around you!

Jim: OMG! Is anyone left alive or is America nothing but a giant ghost town?

Nurse: Oh no -- things are fine -- everyone who was infected was quickly shot to death. It killed less people than the flu did last year. Terrible thing though.

Now that's funny!

Posted by Nukevet at 08:03 AM | Comments (0)

I Thank You

Thanks go out to U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein for doing the right thing and reaffirming the earlier jury verdict on the matter of the NAACP vs. firearms manufacturers.

Oddly enough, the NAACP wasn't looking for monetary damages. They wanted to bypass the 2nd Amendment and legislate through the power of the courts "injunctions that would have placed sweeping restrictions on buyers and sellers of handguns."

I found this story over at Right Thinking on the Left Coast and found myself agreeing with Lee when he wrote this, "If the NAACP wants to help black people deal with gun violence, they should provide affordable guns and free training to people in the highest crime neighborhoods."

I'm pretty sure you're all nodding your heads too.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:51 AM | Comments (2)

Manic Mechanic

And I've decided I wasn't done ripping on Canada yet.

I was wanting to post about 'Americans emigrating to Canada' yesterday, but I had decided that everyone else was doing a decent job of saturating the topic.

That was until I listened to a local leftie talk radio guy. He was making the situation sound like there were literally thousands of folks making a break for Canada this week, when in fact there are just a few dozen. And they aren't all leaving this week. The sad part of it is that when someone like myself would call in and remind him that since 1977 the numbers have been at least 5 to 1 in America's favor, they got the 'oops, your cell phone cut out' treatment.

Then I switched to the conservative station (KVI 570), where the consensus could be summed up in the statement posted over at Kim duToit's place of a Slashdot conversation.

GFW: "I wish all you gun-toting fucktards would just go create your own nation."

Gun Nut: "We did. Who the hell let you in here?"

(In Kimspeak, GFW = Gun Frearing Wussy)

OK, now I think I might be done.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:38 AM | Comments (2)

A fool for your stockings

If you haven't done so already, stop off at Ms. Rachel Lucas' place and read as she rips into British social worker after what she said about Tony Martin. Tony Martin is the Brit homeowner who is in jail for killing a burgler and wounding another in defense of his home.

He is finally being released on parole after his second hearing, but he has been denied a preparatory home visit because of what his parole officer said. He was previously denied parole for 'being a danger to burglars'.

Hell, I'm a danger to burglars. And it doesn't even need to be my house or my stuff.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:19 AM | Comments (0)

Neighbor, Neighbor

There is an old saying that goes "Good fences make good neighbors" and I think we can solve America's unemployment problem by having those making the draw build a fence between our northern neighbor (and our southern one after they're done with that).

"Police intelligence officers believe as many as 10,000 former Tamil guerrillas now live in Canada, just one example of how the country has become a haven for terrorists and others involved in wars around the globe, according to a new study by the MacKensie Institute, a Toronto-based think-tank."

"Al-Qaeda members living in Montreal in the 1990s were already veterans of a guerrilla war in Algeria. Other ex-guerrillas, such as those from a Kurdish rebel group, were among rioters who hurled a Molotov cocktail at an RCMP sergeant in Ottawa during a February 1999 demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy, the institute notes."

"Some former combatants present a danger to Canadians," according to the study written by the institute's president, John Thompson, and researcher Joe Turlej. Mr. Turlej has since left the institute and now works as an intelligence analyst with a civilian police force. In an interview, Mr. Thompson said many of the ex-guerrillas are living a peaceful existence for now, but could be reactivated by their former organizations."

"He blamed Canada's failing immigration policies, as well as a lack of enforcement of existing laws, for having allowed the country to become home to terrorists and their front groups. Besides being a refuge for former guerrillas, the study notes that 15 out of 80 identified international terrorist groups have significant supporters or members in Canada. Although the threat of substantial terrorist violence in Canada seems low, it is only a matter of time before the country is attacked, the report warns."

That's what socialism will get you. And I just love this line,

"Part of the problem, according to Mr. Thompson, is that front groups for such organizations have courted politicians on the federal and provincial scene, bringing them much- needed votes from ethnic communities. As a result, politicians are reluctant to act."

And by the way, do they think of anyone but themselves? I'm sure they will when they get attacked and US servicemen and women are needed.

Found @ Right Thinking on the Left Coast

Posted by Nukevet at 07:07 AM | Comments (2)

Deguello

"Goliad, Tex.� In history books, the killing of more than 300 Texan rebels by Mexican troops here has long been known as the Goliad Massacre. But to many residents of Goliad, with its 18th-century Spanish fort and towering monument to the dead, that brutal episode in its history is still open to interpretation.

"At the heart of the dispute, largely between Anglos and Mexican-Americans, is the porous definition of who is a Texan and what is Texas history at a time when Hispanics are growing in number and influence."

"Some of Goliad's Mexican-American residents prefer "execution" to "massacre" in describing what happened here in 1836 because of Mexican law at the time, which was explicit in meting out de facto death sentences for foreigners taking up arms against the government."

What I'm seeing here is an attempt to re-write history. Put a 'kinder face' on a deplorable act. An attempt to ease the guilt of a mass murder. Please, take a look at the title of this post.

Here is the definition: "Deguello" (de-gway-o) is the name of the battle charge sounded by General Santa Anna's buglers when his Mexican army attacked the Alamo fortress in 1836. "Deguello" is also symbolized by a blood-red flag. Roughly translated, it means "No Quarter". No Mercy.

Sounds like a pattern to me. Fuck the revisionists. They lost in 1845.

Found @ Tongue Tied

Posted by Nukevet at 06:50 AM | Comments (2)

Sure got cold after the rain fell

And now that the bombs won't be falling at Vieques, PR, it sure is lonely there. And poor. Seems that the whiners who wanted the US to stop using it as a live fire bombing range forgot to take the PR economy into account. And now they're kinda sorta wishing they'd kept their mouths shut as the 2004 Defense spending bill is just about ready to be signed.

"Stopping the U.S. Navy from conducting live-fire bombing exercises on the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques was a hot cause for leftist activists, Hollywood stars and Democrats in Congress in 2001. The pressure ultimately led to President Bush deciding to end 60 years of live bombing at Vieques � the final wisps of smoke blew in May � and conduct exercises elsewhere, such as the Florida Keys and the North Carolina coast."

"But the victory in the Battle of Vieques came at a steep price to the people of Puerto Rico and created a largely unforeseen consequence, the closing of Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, the island's largest employer."

We are already getting set to pull out and they are just starting to understand that the only reason we spent $250million a year there was for bombing practice. So if we can't practice, we aren't going to be there.

Representative Randy 'Duke' Cunningham - (R)CA "They don't want us there."

I think you can count on just about anybody nicknamed 'Duke' to do the right thing.

Senator James M. Inhofe (R)OK and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he feels sorry for the people of Puerto Rico but that they were "lied to by their politicians" and the protest movement. "That's their problem. The time for them to be concerned about that was when they were kicking us off our range. I told them this would happen."

Of course the PR's and their associates think that the US leaving completely is nothing but punishment for the protests. They think we should keep folks on the base and just use it for something else. But of course they have no suggestions. Other than just giving them the $250mil for doing nothing.

Found @ The Ville

Posted by Nukevet at 06:30 AM | Comments (5)

Support for Bush solid, and this from a San Francisco paper.

Reading the results from this poll, two things become apparent to me.

!. Bush's strength is holding, and the slippage seems to have petered out.

2. Only 29% of those asked believe the dems would do a better job on the war on terror.

He's a war president, that means he gets both the genuine affection of the public and the benefit of the doubt on close calls. Not good news to the democratic field, but what's worse is that such a patheticly small number believe they could effectively manage the war. And make no mistake, the public does support the war, if a democrat wants to edge out W, he's gotta prove he would pursue it zealously. Promising to be a better peacenik as the current crowd does translates in the public ear to the equivilant of promising to be a useless pussy.

I'm sorry, did I just say that?............

Posted by Nukevet at 03:45 AM | Comments (1)

Now, if he's already clocked the biggest bully, don't you think he's serious?

Time for the Syrians and Iranians to change their shorts. What part of I'll kick your ass do you think they didn't understand? They know exactly what Bush meant, and so do we.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:57 AM | Comments (0)

My my, now who's guilty of Sexing up"?

Globe and Mail's columnist MARGARET WENTE, on the Beeb scandal. I fully intend to kick this corpse, drive in a wooden stake, burn it, and scatter the ashs at sea. It's one thing to be biased, we all are to one degree or another. Quite another to exclaim neutrality while deliberately distorting and lying on the subject.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:37 AM | Comments (0)

July 21, 2003

Ohhh, I'm so scared.

Ok, if this guy threatened to kick your ass, would you be scared? More importantly, if he called you a fruitcake, would you kick his?

Notice how the gay "spokesman" gives Stark a complete pass - saying he meant to infer that the person he called a fruitcake was "nutty". As you know, I have nothing against gay rights, but this kind of double standard is just nauseating. I think Florida Republican Mark Foley us it exactly right:

"I trust that you would understand that if a Republican said that, there would be a public lynching," Foley said.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:56 PM | Comments (0)

She's just killin' me

Madeleine Albright is back from the grave to bitch about how Bush's foreign policy is going around and picking up all the trash that she and Warren Christopher left lying around the world.

"Now would not be a bad time to start worrying. Tens of thousands of American troops will be in Iraq, perhaps for years, surrounded by Iraqis with guns. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says this is not a quagmire; I pray he is right. But the practical problems faced by the talented American administrator, L. Paul Bremer, and by U.S. soldiers trying to maintain order without a clear way of separating enemies from friends are daunting."

"It would help greatly if we had more assistance from the international community, but in fairness, the war was an Anglo-American production; it's unlikely we will get substantial help without yielding significant authority, something the administration is loath to do. Meanwhile, U.S. credibility has been undermined by the failure to find weapons of mass destruction and by the inclusion of dubious information in the president's State of the Union address."

"Among other things, the war in Iraq was supposed to reduce the dangers posed by al Qaeda terrorists and prompt resumed progress toward peace in the Middle East."

Blah. blah, blah.

Oh, you say she never died? Oh well.

But in possible good news, and not that Maddy'd be all that sad about it but, LGF is reporting that Idi Amin keeled over last night in Saudi Arabia. But their link to the story has gone kaput.

Madeline link via Lee at Right Thinking on the left Coast.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:51 AM | Comments (2)

Mr. Ten Dollar Man

In a $1500 suit. That's right, I'm taking about Poverty Pimp #1, Jesse Jackson! Seems he has realized that as long as law abiding folks are the only ones voting, he may never get those reparations pushed through.

"Is the NAACP changing it's name to the National Association for the Advancement of Criminals and Parolees?"

"On Friday, June 18, the Reverend Jesse Jackson is scheduled to link arms with NAACP leaders in a Montgomery, Alabama, protest march on the Capitol building. The target of this protest is Republican Governor Bob Riley and his recent veto of a bill that would have expedited the restoration of voting rights to felons who had served their sentences."

"These laws, by one estimate (Northwestern University: Entitled "The Truly Disfranchised"), bar approximately 4.2 million felons and ex-felons from voting. Of these, 1.3 million � almost 31 percent � are African Americans, a demographic group that in the 2000 Presidential election voted more than 90 percent for losing Democratic candidate Al Gore. White felons, according to recent research, disproportionately come from poor and working class backgrounds, have less education than most Americans, and therefore also are more likely to be Democratic voters."

Aww, boo-hoo. Poor wittle fewons. They knew the consequences of their actions. Maybe they should have though of their voting rights before they committed those crimes.

I just don't understand how anyone can let Jackson lead them around. Yeah, he's swimming in money, but that money is sooo dirty.

And I'll be damned before I knowingly let a jerk-off with a prison record cancelout my vote.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:27 AM | Comments (2)

Dirty Dog

What one word make the lefties cry with despair?,
Gitmo, Git-Gitmo
What 5 letters gets moonbats howling in the night air?,
Gitmo,Git-Gitmo,
When this word is said it shakes them down to their roots,
Gitmo, Git-Gitmo,
The Ashcroft Brigades with their big jackboots,
Gitmo, Baby Gitmo.

OK, so that is why I never went into music.

But to make up for that, I offer this article in which Fox News borrows a story from AP Television News as they talk to those just recently released from Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.

"Afghans released after nearly two years in a U.S. military jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday described conditions as cramped and recounted months of repeated U.S. interrogations and physical discomfort"

Oh No! Not physical discomfort! How dare we not supply them with Lay-Z-Boy's and foot massagers.

"Abdul Rehman alleged that during his 20 months at Guantanamo, his captors chained his hands and feet and beat him with a metal rod on his legs and back, but he refused to show scars that may have resulted from any abuse."

Oh, but why? Could it possibly be that you don't have any?

"Zabet Ullah told The Associated Press while walking to the Red Cross bus, "There was very bad treatment of the prisoners in Guantanamo. It was against the human rights of the Geneva Conventions."

Hey Zabet, even if there was 'bad treatment', your sorry ass isn't covered under the Geneva Conventions. Too bad, so sad. Now go home to your goat, I-I mean your wife.

"Nate Gul, 24, from Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, spent 18 months at Guantanamo, and said he was treated well. "They didn't beat us during the interrogation," Gul said. "They wrote down anything we said. They interrogated me about 30 to 40 times." Gul said he was held in a small room that looked like a cage, but he said he had towels, shampoo, a toothbrush, blankets, three meals a day and time for prayer."

Awww, look everybody, an honest soul. We gave him more than the Taliban probably ever promised him. And I bet that during the time he spent at Gitmo, he set things right with Allah for being a dumbass before.

And if you missed it over the weekend, Mr. Hawkins of Right Wing News completes a major dressing down of the folks who truly do believe that Bush is Hitler.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:13 AM | Comments (2)

Heroism, sacrifice, and valor.

I was researching the concept of heroism on Google, to see what others had to say on the subject. When I found this piece of disappointment. I found myself saddened more than angered. Is a higher education merely an ornament for some people? Are basic values so beneath their notice? For them there is little hope I'm afraid, because they have a common failing. They lack not Honor or discipline, but the ability to understand selfsacrifice. Without empathy for others how could they really inderstand the nobility of it. They are the totality of the universe and putting themselves at risk is the last idea they could entertain.The bravado of troops is frightening to them, a throwback to our cave dwelling days. Violence is bad, very bad, and must be avoided at any cost.

Violence is horrible, soldiers know it better than anyone. Any American who watched the bodies falling from the Towers on that God awful day knows it too. It's not hate and rage, though they play a part, it's about justice and never allowing such a thing to happen again, ..........ever. It's many things, but mostly I believe this, it's about refusing to let our spirits be crushed by evil men. We are Americans, which is more a definition of apartness than any I can think of. The French would try and cut a deal, the Russians just would kill everyone they could find, the Chinese who can say, but NONE of them would do what we have done. They wouldn't pursue this with the zeal of tracking a blood enemy to his grave. We will not tolerate this, not a hundred years ago, not a hundred from now. Not when Men like Todd Beamer can organize a fight to the death to try and save themselves, and failing that, to protect thousands they would never know. They knew they were going to die, and they died on their feet, like men. Their's was the courage of the living, they did it for life, and for the lives not taken. They are remembered as our first Honored dead in this fight, and we know they will not be the last.

Courage has many forms, many faces. The bravest man I ever knew was my father, and he left huge shoes to fill, but it's more than just physical bravery. He faced a deadly illness with grace, and an inner peace I wish I posessed. Ther are legions of examples, the courage of someone like a nurse in a childrens ward. The emotional price paid is staggering, the cost overwhelming, yet they keep on going to work. Firemen, police, soldiers sailors and airmen. Teachers, doctors, and on and on. Courage is actually more common than most people imagine.

I think about this alot, guess I'm feeling my own mortality, I've had a bad couple of weeks. Even vicadine doesn't work well anymore, and I'm seeing the doctor again in a couple of days. Think I've ripped up another disc. I can't keep doing that, not and make it to retirement. But I can't slow down, I don't know how. I get by on less than 4hrs sleep a night now......But like an old hound dog with arthritis and few teeth, my blood still pounds for the hunt. As long as I'm still breathing, my wife and kids will know that I can't quit, won't quit, would rather die than give up. But my God it hurts sometimes, and I'm so very tired.

So is it courage? maybe, but maybe too I'm just a little nuts. My friends think so, and often so do I. So I embrace the Honored traditions of my family, and a piece of the faith I was raised in. In the end I do what I do because I don't know to act differently. So that would make it involuntary choice, hardly courage then. Maybe just endurence. I'm winning because I'm enduring, maybe not forever, but that's always the rub. Tomorrow will be better, even if I can't play, I can help coach, I can stay a man. I can keep my dignity. Sorry for droning on at length, but I can sleep now for a bit.

Tomorrow then.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:54 AM | Comments (1)

Apologies to Pearly

And to everyone else. But I just had to show off this site I recently linked to via Indymedia. 'Fight the Octopus' looks to be one of those angry leftie spots where they 'Resist the Corporate Media' because CNN and MSNBC are too far to the right for their liking.

Their site also had this quote posted when I went there "When people fear the government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty" -Thomas Paine. A little hypocritical for socialists, don't you think?

If nothing else, just go there and help me skew their poll.

Now, onto fighting the real octopus. Gun laws.

It looks as though the folks in D.C. might be getting their gun laws repealed.

"Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch fired a shot heard around the District of Columbia this week. Three days ago, he introduced legislation to repeal the draconian gun-control laws that prevent Washington residents from owning handguns. Since 1976, the city has maintained the strictest, or close to the strictest, gun-control laws in the nation. Despite the gun ban, Washington has frequently had the highest homicide rate in the country. According to FBI statistics, it was the murder capital again last year, with its rate of 48.5 killings per 100,000 residents far ahead of other urban centers. Reflecting on this situation, Mr. Hatch said that the District's policy is "as ineffective and deplorable as it is unconstitutional."

Just think about the cain that will hopefully be raised against the Brady Bunch types when the crime rate goes down after these laws are repealed.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:52 AM | Comments (1)

I got the message

And now I'm passing it on to you.

Hop quick to this site and support the confirmation of Daniel Pipes by the US Senate to the board of the United States Institute of Peace.

I am in no way kidding here. Just about every Indymedia site has a post a day go up for the petition to block his confirmation. And not only that, CAIR (The Council on American Islamic Relations) is putting the sqeeze on everyone they can to block this confirmation.

And that alone is reason enough. So go.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:28 AM | Comments (0)

Ten Foot Pole

The very funny and recently converted, Mr. Dennis Miller on the subject of Jerry Springer making a run for the Senate.

From the WSJ Opinion Journal,

"Now that's not to say I don't periodically find the "The Jerry Springer Show" intellectually stimulating. Indeed, how many times have I been walking through the parking lot of a laundromat and seen two obese women in halter tops slap fighting and thought, Wow . . . I wonder what the back story is on that?"

"But at this point, Springer would have to hire a team of sherpas to assist him on the long trek back up to the lowest common denominator. As a matter of fact, the last time I was channel surfing and stopped on the Springer show my channel flicker filed a restraining order against me."

To paraphrase the title of this post "I wouldn't vote for Springer with your ballot"

Posted by Nukevet at 04:04 AM | Comments (3)

If I Could Only Flag Her Down

And if I were a member of the Green Party, I'd tell her to run.

I'm talking Cynthia McKinney. It looks as if the Greens are trying to woo her to switch parties they can nominate her for their candidate for president. They have a website and everything.

I found this at the Grouchy Old Cripple (careful of the 'sicko pic'). And I totally agree with his comment on this excerpt,

"Marc Reichardt, chair of the Michigan Green Party, worries that the party could become too closely linked to Nader. "I think [McKinney] would be brilliant," he said. "Being African-American and a woman . . . I think that's a barrier we would like to break down, see crossed, pushed and forgotten about."

GOC: Except, that's what you people would be running her as: a black woman.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:52 AM | Comments (1)

Lowdown in the Street

AKA: Fight for your right to party (if this was Beastie Boys week, which it may be in the future)

I have long considered the vast majority of french folks to be spoiled children.

This just cements my beilief.

"Frustrated French ravers prevented from throwing a dance party clashed with police in western France, leaving 28 people injured and 12 of them, including a policeman, in hospital, officials said Saturday. One raver had his hand amputed, while another broke several ribs. Morbihan area police prefect Elisabeth Allaire said a total of three policemen were hurt in the violence in central Brittany."

Yep. Children.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:31 AM | Comments (4)

July 20, 2003

You know your position is weak when even Reuters won't back you up

The BBC may have made up out of whole cloth parts of the "sexed up report" story. So sayth Reuters through the Washington Post. You know, those rightwing conspiracist members of the press..............

If that guy hadn't killed himself, this would almost be funny. The BBC claimed it's whole story which it vigerously defended was,
A. All from one source.
B. From a high intelligence official.
Their admission that Kelly was the source proves that B. was an outright lie. A minor technocrat in the defense ministry with no contact with either Blair or Campbell. It also puts them at odds with Kelly who said before parliment the BBC report included much he didn't say. Bottom line.................

That backing of its journalist Andrew Gilligan was at odds with Kelly's own comments to a parliamentary committee that he did not provide the crucial 45-minute claim in the BBC report.

If Kelly was the source but did not make that claim, it would strengthen the Blair government's accusation that Gilligan hyped his report. He and Campbell have a long-running enmity.

The BBC lied, and now they've been caught at it. It has degenerated into nothing more that a screaming moonbat repository, filled with self loathing liberals, radicals and communists who only see the western world as evil. They get on their knees to perform for every third world despot and thug, the whole time bemoaning the "cowboy" and "poodle". It's way past time for the UK to give the Beeb a pink slip, and end the government subsidy. Let these propaganda whores try selling what they do on the street. There isn't a Hell of a lot of difference between selling your body,...........and your soul.

Via Drudge.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:07 PM | Comments (0)

Allright, Damnit,

What's this post doing over at Seattle Indymedia? More importantly, why is it still there a full 24 hours after being posted? It's getting so we can't even trust the barking moonbats to censor anything they don't agree with.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:09 PM | Comments (4)

OK, tell the truth....

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you read this headline:

Burping Stars Fill Cosmos With Dust

Posted by Nukevet at 02:37 PM | Comments (3)

Lott's Myth's Myths

All I can say is, this Tim Lambert dude has a SERIOUS obsession with Lott. Wonder where he get his funding, er, ambition from. Notice he has 226 topics, 223 of which deal with guns, and 218 of which deal with Lott.

I did like this bit, though:

Myth No. 1: When one is attacked, passive behavior is the safest approach.
The Department of Justice�s National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. Men also benefit from using a gun, but the benefits are smaller: offering no resistance is 1.4 times more likely to result in serious injury than resisting with a gun.

As I (Lambert - ed) detailed earlier none of the differences he presents are statistically significant and he has no business making such a claim from the NCVS data.

So, he doesn't refute the claim, just says it is statistically insignificant. In the biological sciences, we make clinical decisions all of the time based on this idea of "clinical significance" vs "statistical significance". If I tell a pet owner "well, your dog is 2.5 times more likely to be alive a year from now if we give him chemotherapy vs if we do nothing", the owner will usually take those odds, even if there is no "statistically" significant difference between, say, a 30% 1 year survivorship and a 75% chance of 1 year survivorship.

If my wife is 2.5 times more likely to be seriously injured if she "passively relents" vs. if she brandishes a gun, then I want there to be a whole lotta gun brandishing going on. And when Lambert says that Lott has "no business making such a claim from the NCVS data" you have to ask - why not - just because he doesn't like the implication? If it's a true statement, it's a true statement. Like I said - for me, it's a big enough benefit to know that there is 2.5 times less chance of serious injury - so intead of a 50% chance she will get hurt, it's reduced to a 20% chance. Statistically significant? Maybe not. But real life significant - it sure seems that way to me.

Funny how Lambert has such a hard on for Lott's statistics, but he doesn't seem to have any problems at all digesting Brady Center drivel.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:06 PM | Comments (4)

Let's see now....

David Kelly, the UK scientist that committed suicide after being questioned by Parliament in a probe of how sensitive classified information was leaked to the BBC, has now been identified as the source of that leak by the BBC. During Kelly's questioning by Parliament, he said he did not believe he was the source (notice he couldn't deny it completely) of the story, because his interview with the BBC and what appeared in the article detailing the "dodgy dossier" were so completely different.

So, was Kelly lying to Parliament to cover his own ass, or did the BBC play fast and loose with the facts to do maximal damage to the Blair gocernment?

Kelly leaks sensitive information to the press. The press appears to "sex up" the information obtained from Kelly. Kelly goes before an official governmental inquiry, and lies. Kelly, possibly realizing his career and reputation will be in tatters once the truth comes out, commits suicide. And what's the first question the press asks Blair? If his government has blood on its hands, and if he plans to resign. The BBC is trying to spin this as if the Blair government killed Kelly by holding him accountable for his actions. They seem to forget that Kelly chose to leak classified information the the press, and they chose to print it with perhaps a few embellishments of their own, Mr. Kelly killed himself because of the pressure? Too bad, he should have thought of that before he started talking to the press.

Actions have consequences. Always have, always will.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:56 AM | Comments (2)

Bar-B-Q

Today is the housewarming party for the family. Starting at around 1pm PST today my house will be filled with people I'm related too in one way or another. We'll probably have one for the friends soon too.

The grill will be covered in ribs, chicken, burgers, hot dogs, corn, salmon steaks, and if I can get it at a halfway decent price, some Mahi-mahi steaks.

But back on the subject of barbeques, I think that like Cadillacs, they are a uniquely American item. If we really cared about what the world thinks about America, we would just start giving away barbeques. Even just little hibachi's. And some charcoal briquettes.

Go to Google and seach images under 'BBQ' or 'Barbeque'. In the pics that include people, everyone is smiling and having a good time. You don't light up a grille when you're depressed or angry. So just imagine if everyone in the world got a free grill from America. They'd want to come here even more. And not to kill us. Plus, it'd piss off the vegans to no end.

OK, maybe it's not as good an idea as Frank J's 'Nuke the Moon'. But I never said I was the 'Idea Guy'.

But I got another idea. Last week's post titles from Morrissey ended Friday. I hope I didn't depress you all. But in sticking with the BBQ theme, since no place symbolizes BBQ like the State of Texas, this week we'll be having all my post titles from none other than that 3-piece Texas homewrecking and heartbreaking whirlwind, the only band I've ever known to play live with a longhorn steer on stage during their 'World Wide Texas Tour', they're badder than Shaft, Superfly, James Bond, and Kung Fu all put together, they're ZZTOP.

Long before their signature beards that help identify them in the 80's they had a reputation for a Texas style boogie blues that only the deceased were able to ignore. With Dusty and Frank working rhythm and Billy taking lead, they traveled the globe and even made some hip french folks 'git down wit they bad selves'. And, IMHO, Billy Gibbons is one of the top 5 most underrrated axemen on the planet. You could do a hell of a lot worse than picking up a ZZTOP album from the 70's and using it to dust off a set of speakers. I'll give out examples as soon as I figure out how.

No, that is not me. Nor is it my grill. Or my yard or my house. But I'm getting there.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:35 AM | Comments (7)

Pics Archive

While researching for another post I ran across this pics archive site called 'Pictures with a Message' where I found this.

Head on over and take a look around. You'll most likely see some things you might have missed. For those of you who, like myself, still get choked up at serious September 11th tributes, be careful where you click.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:32 AM | Comments (0)

He sleeps with the fishes

No I'm not talking about Arafat, although one does get to dream.

I'm talking about my amphibian friend, Pauly. Say HI Pauly.

A little over 2 years ago the wife rescued Pauly from an ex-coworker who was treating him like a land tortise. He could have probably fit into your palm at that time. He now weighs in at over 3 pounds with a shell length of nearly 9 inches.

I'm about ready to rename him 'Abrahms' after the M1A1 since he is usually in a foul mood unless someone is feeding him and has bitten the wife twice. We used to throw a few goldfish into his tank for him to hunt at his leisure, but they ended up making the water all murky. So now he gets a diet of shrimp, crab, bloodworms, chicken, and pork fed to him twice a day. Some day he'll turn into a vegan but I doubt that will be anytime soon with his fondness for shrimp.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:53 AM | Comments (3)

Sunday Stuff

I think I need to stop being introspective. It leads to taking too many quizes. Because I know I can't stop going by Michele's place, where I found these two.

You are a Resident Evil Zombie. You were infected
with the T-Virus, and now you wander through
abandoned buildings looking for living flesh to
munch. Sometimes you mutate into more horrible
things. You can be killed, but it ain't easy.


What kind of Zombie are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

After my last 15 years of either making my mother's hair turn gray or my wife's, I knew I was hard to kill.

But what if I lived that 'Alternative' lifestyle? No, not that one! I'm talking about piracy!

What's Your Pirate Name?

Your pirate name is: Iron William Read

"A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you are that person. Even through many pirates have a reputation for not being the brightest souls on earth, you defy the sterotypes. You've got taste and education. Arr!"

Now, Sunday's are days for looking deep within yourself. So go take some quizes, arr!

Posted by Nukevet at 02:32 AM | Comments (4)

July 19, 2003

Is english his first langauge?

My job is done, there is no more havoc to be wrought today.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:55 PM | Comments (1)

I may be doing some hunting

While I'm on vacation in Montana in a few weeks.

"In Montana, activists train to live in trees in effort to halt Bush logging plans"

A literal 'training camp' for eco-terroists is happening right now in Montana. They want to stop Bush's "Healthy Forest" plan. The plan includes the thinning of National Forest Service lands to help slow-down forest fires from raging through and the sale of these trees to logging companies. The eco-terroists are willing to do just about anything to stop the plan in its tracks because A. It's logical and B. in their twisted little minds, they see this the same way they saw the oil issue during the build-up to the Iraq War.

One of the funniest lines from the story,
"One of the most empowering things you can do is to know that you can effect change when you sit in a tree or blockade a road."

Why is this funny you ask? I know guys who drive logging trucks. They do 45-60 mph on single lane dirt roads. I've seen them hang a 4 wheels of one side of a loaded trailer off the side of the road and use the momentum of the tractor to bring back on the gravel. If these eco-dorks set up a tri-pod stand too close to a corner, the only 'empowerment' they're going to feel is that of a Kenworth punting them into a Ponderosa pine. The real funny part is that most these guys probably wouldn't stop. Giving these tree-huggers a true Alaskan 'gone missing' experience.

I found this at MTPolitics. If you haven't been there in a while, you might also want to check out this post and the one it relates to (this post).

They talk about a forest fire that almost cost people their homes and the thinning project that has been stalled in the court system. Luckily, the home owners thinned their own property and the fire wasn't able to spread and get their houses. Make sure to read 'patricks' comment on the original post. He either didn't read the article or doesn't care. Either way, he thinks everyone should live in the city or suburbs.

A short anecdotal logging truck driver story below.

About 20 years ago, my friend Don was driving up a logging road for his first run of the morning. The sun is just coming up and as he rounds a hairpin corner he sees a 12-point bull elk standing in the middle of the road.

Now, Don didn't know this, but it was the rutting season and he had just pissed this bull off. He came to a complete stop and was waiting for the elk to move when it turned and charged his KW. It layed all twelve points into the grill of Don's truck. He sat there in amazement (and amusement since it was the company's truck) as the bull repeatedly charged his truck. In about a dozen hits it knocked off all the lights and broke chunks of the fenders off.

After about 5 minutes there were so many punctures to the radiator that he had to shut off the truck to keep it from overheating. When he did this, the bull must have figured he had killed it because he stopped charging, let out a couple of huffs and calmly walked away.

P.S. If you ever have the chance to go to a "Logger Rodeo" do it. It is just about the most you can have with axes, handsaws and chainsaws without shedding blood.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:28 AM | Comments (4)

But Wait,

I thought the Democrats were the "champions" of gay rights? How does that reconcile with calling someone a "fruitcake".
As long time readers know, I have no problems with gay rights. I'm not sure what I think about gay "marriage" just yet, but I do think gay couples should have the smae kind of protection under the law that straight couples have. Not "special" rights, but equal rights.

However, I wonder what would be happening if a Republican called someone a fruitcake in the heat of battle.

And notice the "poor little Dems as victims" ploy by some of their congressional members:

"We will not be intimidated. We will not be immobilized. We live in a democracy and not a police state," said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.

Hmmmm. Didn't you guys START the intimidation by having one of your memebers threaten to kick the ass of someone he didn't agree with? Oh, yeah, and then calling him a fruitcake. If the guy he threatened to assault actually is gay, then isn't Stark guilty of a HATE crime? (no, I don't support hate crime legislation, but we gotta uphold the laws on the books, after all).

"This is what Republicans have come to in the running of this House. If they don't like what we say even in a private meeting, they'll try to have us arrested," said Rep. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

Again, the Sergeant-at-arms and Capitol police were only called AFTER one of your members threatened violence. But the Dems choose to ignore any part of their actions that led up to the situation in question.

And finally, the Mummy returns:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., introduced a resolution that not only says the House "disapproves of the manner in which Representatives Thomas conducted the markup of legislation," but finds that the bill that started the whole conflict be considered invalid because it had not been properly ordered out of the committee for a full House vote.

In other words - we didn't get our way, one of our members was way out of line, so now we want to get another bite of the fruitcake. Er, apple.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:45 AM | Comments (0)

Conspiracy Theorists

Start Your Engines!

Posted by Nukevet at 09:28 AM | Comments (0)

Must be too many businesses

In New York City.

Why do I think this? Because Bloomberg just signed into law, a new sidewalk ordinance.

"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law Wednesday a provision that transfers liability for personal injuries on public sidewalks from the city to the adjacent building owner. In addition, a companion bill the mayor signed will require property owners to carry liability insurance that provides coverage for sidewalk injuries. Owners of one-, two-, or three-unit residential buildings are exempt from the insurance requirement."

"The measures are intended to reduce the city's liability for sidewalk injuries, usually caused by people falling because of uncleared snow and ice. New York paid $189 million in judgments from such injuries in the past three years, the city said. "This legislation transfers liability for sidewalk accidents from the city to the property owners who already have the duty to keep the sidewalks in good repair," Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement."

So, as I see it, if the city was paying out over $60 million a year for sidewalk injuries and it is now the problem of the building owners, that is $60 million a year out of the pocket of businesses in NYC.

Bloomberg's NYC may have just taken Washington state's crown of 'Worst Business Environment'.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:22 AM | Comments (0)

Things the Brady Campaign Hates

Facts.

And speaking of facts, I've got a few right here.

From John Lott, the author of 'More Guns, Less Crime', comes the 'The Cold Hard Facts About Guns'. or as I like to call it, 'Top 5 Myths About Guns'.

Myth No. 1: When one is attacked, passive behavior is the safest approach.

Myth No. 2: Friends or relatives are the most likely killers.

Myth No. 3: The United States has such a high murder rate because Americans own so many guns.

Myth No. 4: If law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry concealed handguns, people will end up shooting each other after traffic accidents as well as accidentally shooting police officers.

Myth No. 5: The family gun is more likely to kill you or someone you know than to kill in self-defense.

Click the link to find the answers to these myths. I will permalink it in my links section.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:06 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

A Fair Fight?

Remember the story about the loopy-leftie high school teacher, Kathy Eder, who made up her own deck of 'wanted' cards, calling them 'Operation: Hidden Agenda' ?

Well, besides including folks from the White House, Bush's Cabinet, the State Dept. and the Dept. of Defense, she also covered some more obtuse subjects in her deck.

Like the 7 of Spades:

"After using UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed the "Allies" sent in an invading army!"

Must not be a history teacher that one.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:53 AM | Comments (1)

Unfortunate, but necessary

There have been several reports of possible punishment for the troops involved in the Good Morning America interview. It's a violation of the rules for military people to speak out in the media and has been for a very long time. Criticism of the chain of command is more than just speaking your mind, it gives aid and comfort to our enemies. It was wrong when MacArthur did it, it was wrong when I served and Carter was president, and it's wrong now. There have been critics bitching that Rumy and Bush personally ordered reprimands, that's bullshit frankly. It would never make it that far up the chain of command, it would be handled at unit level, discipline is always done that way. The troops acted rashly, they knew better.

Why not let the troops bitch on TV if they like? Because of stuff like this. Propaganda by the truckload for people who could give a fuck for either the troops or America itself. It now is established "fact" that the troops want Rumy gone. It dosen't matter that the statement came from one enlisted man, it doesn't matter wether his fellow troopers agree or not, it doesn't matter if the guy was pissed and just spoke out of turn. Because he said it, it now will take on a life of it's own, qouted from now till the end of time as "proof" that Rumy doesn't have the support of the troops. It proves only that one man was angry, but that won't stop shitheads from painting with a six foot wide brush.

This is why troops shouldn't speak to the press on the record. Off the record, if they like, but since what you say can and will be used to push an agenda, you have to be very carefull.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:44 AM | Comments (3)

July 18, 2003

Where's Nukevet?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)

Hold on to your friends

I don't know how many of you caught Tony Bair's speech in front of a joint session of Congress yesterday, but if you didn't, you missed a good one. I found a link to the whole text.

Here is an excerpt:

"The threat comes because, in another part of the globe, there is shadow and darkness where not all the world is free, where many millions suffer under brutal dictatorship and poverty ... and because in the combination of these afflictions, a new and deadly virus has emerged."

"The virus is terrorism, whose intent to inflict destruction is unconstrained by human feeling; and whose capacity to inflict it is enlarged by technology. This is a battle that can't be fought or won only by armies. Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs."

"The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack. In some cases, where our security is under direct threat, we will have recourse to arms. In others, it will be by force of reason. But in all cases to the same end: that the liberty we seek is not for some but for all. For that is the only true path to victory."

Posted by Nukevet at 09:36 AM | Comments (3)

Alsatian Cousin

I found this over at Frank J's IMAO, last night. It is a story of one of our fine young servicemen being made to be nice to the french. With semi-disasterous, but hilarious results.

"I took General Jannier on a tour around the base, to an orchestra concert, and various other festivities culminating with a walk down a static display of equipment. What is a static display? It is where you put stationary equipment (like tanks, helicopters, hum-vees, weapon systems, etc.) on display for guests to view. Usually, you have a Sergeant stationed at each piece of equipment, and the Sergeant, in a docent-like role, will describe the equipment in great detail. Almost always, it is the Sergeant's actual equipment - meaning, the Sergeant is the subject-matter expert on the equipment."

"General Jannier did not speak English. He had an American Army Captain as an interpreter. As I walked with the General, the Army Captain interpreter stopped each Sergeant from talking about his equipment - instead, he insisted that I describe what we were looking at and then he would translate it for the General. When I asked why, the Captain just said, "Lieutenant, just do as the General asks."

"As we moved along, it became more and more apparent to me that General Jannier did not think very highly of enlisted soldiers. This thought began to grind on my nerves because I was a "mustang" - meaning that I had been a Sergeant before becoming an Officer. Sergeants (Non-Commissioned Officers) in the American military were more educated, motivated and dedicated than ever before - and they served for a pitiance and most could qualify for welfare/food stamps. Couple this with the fact that the General would mutter things in French while I was describing the equipment and you can probably tell why I was getting a little irritated. I kept getting the impression that he was criticizing the US Army with American Sergeants looking on."

Go read to find out what happens next.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:24 AM | Comments (1)

The Last of the Famous International Playboys

Even though he never leaves his country.

He may be crazy, but he's not stupid. OK, not too stupid.

"A military source tells us that Kim Jong-il, the brutal strongman of North Korea, spent time in hiding during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The source said Mr. Kim suspects he is next in the U.S.-led war on terrorism. He moved from bunker to bunker for 40 days until apparently deciding he wasn't next � at least not now."

I like that 'not now' part.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:05 AM | Comments (1)

Suedehead

While I may not be part of the club, this just doesn't sit right with me.

"Millionaires should pay higher taxes to help erase the nation's deficit, stimulate the economy and lower taxes for those who make less money, U.S. Sen. Bob Graham said Thursday."

"It is appropriate that those who have benefited the most from America make a contribution to paying the cost of America," said Graham, who announced his economic plan in New Hampshire, where the nation's first presidential primary will be held next year."

"Florida's senior senator, himself a millionaire, proposes raising the former top rate to 38.6 percent and creates a new "millionaire's tax bracket" of 40 percent. Under President Bush's recent tax cuts, the top tax bracket is 35 percent"

OK, 40% doesn't sound like much, and maybe it isn't to him. But we all know that those 'evil millionaires' don't just stack up their money and put in jars and bury those jars in the back yard. Let them keep more, they give out more.

And another thing, I forget who exactly it was who said a 'progessive' (there's that word again) tax scale was a good thing.

Oh wait, I remember! It was that bastard Marx.

Screw you Graham. Didn't the Rolling Stones teach you anything?
(explanation below)

If I remember correctly, during the late 60's and 70's, the members of the Rolling Stones, along with a couple of the Beatles lived here in America. Why? Because of the confiscatory tax rates in their home countries. They were tax exiles.

They were not allowed to come home until they paid off their share of income taxes. But they couldn't because they had spent a large deal of the money. For example, Keith Richards bought large portions of Pakistan and Tennessee in the form of individual shots of heroin and bottles of Jack Daniels.

And where did they spend the money that they kept making throughout the years they didn't go home? America.

If you let them keep it, they'll just spend it. Hopefully here.

On a side note, isn't it funny that Lennon didn't like paying his taxes?

Posted by Nukevet at 08:26 AM | Comments (2)

Nobody Loves Us

Yes, us hated SUV owners are taking the blame again. But this time there's a twist.

Remember Hurricane Claudette. It swept into Texas and promptly had it's ass kicked back down to a 'Tropical Storm' (Note to Hurricanes, don't mess with Texas)? Well guess whose fault it was. You got it, SUV's.

"Hurricane Claudette recently lashed the Texas coast, and some environmentalists claim to know why: The SUVs did it."

"According to an increasingly popular theory among greens, global warming caused by carbon-dioxide emissions is sending the world's weather spiraling out of control, spawning tornadoes, hurricanes and other violent storms to punish us for our environmental sins."

I always wanted to have world-wide influence.

But seriously, the green-weenies are actually getting lawyers lined up to sue car manufacturers for damages caused by bad weather. Do you live in Sri Lanka? Well, just get ahold of GreenPeace to put you name on the lawsuit.

In other dumb-ass enviro-jerk news"
"Woman Changes Her Name To GoVeg.com"

"A Norfolk, Virginia, woman has taken her love of vegetarianism to the extreme by changing her name to GoVeg.com. The-vegan-formerly-known-as Karin Robertson changed her name to the same as that of a vegetarian information website to encourage meat-eaters to become vegetarians."

"The 23-year-old GoVeg.com, a Youth Project Specialist for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, says her new name is a great conversation starter."

I could see how that would be true. Myself and most folks I know would start a conversation with her off with something like "My G*d, you're a dumbshit" Granted, the conversation would be short, but it still counts.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:58 AM | Comments (2)

Maladjusted

That is what I'd say is wrong with Joe Lieberman's mind.

"Lieberman urges Kweisi Mfume for High Court"

I think that hanging around AlGore twisted something in his medulla oblongata. What the hell is he thinking?

"A few days after being declared "persona non grata" by the NAACP, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman suggested in a speech to the group that its leader, Kweisi Mfume, would make a good Supreme Court justice, the New Republic reported. Mfume, however, has never been to law school."

Trust me, I wouldn't care if he was the dean of Harvard Law. That guy would make a mockery of the SCOTUS. He can't be serious?

"We didn't realize at the time, Al Gore and I, that we not only needed Kweisi Mfume fighting for justice here in Florida counting votes," Lieberman said, according to the New Republic. "We need him on the Supreme Court where the votes really counted. Maybe that'll happen some day."

And the moment it does, I'll be leaving the country for a while. Damn, some people are stupid. Just because you want to kiss some ass Joe, doesn't mean you have to start spouting off crap like that.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:44 AM | Comments (2)

July 17, 2003

When is a scientist almost certainly wrong?

When he tells you something can't be done. I have great respect for research scientists, for people who seek answers to problems. What I find galling is when a group of "experts" who do not work in the field of study in question, weapons research, pass judgment on the viablity of a program they have been hostile to since it's birth. Look, we know that military research on college campuses is as popular with the academic left as GOP fundraisers. They see Dr. Strangelove and evil designs on the world behind every military dollar spent. I not only question wether they truely believe a defensive system is unworkable, but wether they believe it's even desireable.

I'm just a laymen, but I know a few simple things,

"Predictions of Lord Kelvin,
president of the Royal Society, 1890-95

Radio has not future
X-rays will prove to be a hoax
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible"

One, even the most prominent scientist can be flatass wrong.

Natural Climate Change Report - A report on the new views of natural climate change.

Failed Climate Models - A couple of articles about the failure of scientific models to simulate climate change.

Collapsing Cornerstones of Global Warming Theory - NASA member explains flaws in global warming theories.

Two, they aren't fussy about where they are wrong.

As I said I respect science, but really when have the naysayers on anthing usually been right? I remember as a child listening to men on TV saying a moon landing would never, ever happen. I remember being told we were headed to a new ice age back in the seventies. I remember hearing that mankind was too petty, mean, and downright stupid to survive the possiblity of a global thermo nuclear exchange. Well we landed, I haven't seen any glaciers, I don't have webbed feet and don't have to dodge fallout.

I'm not so much an optimist as a realist. There is always a way to get something done, and the fool is the one who says the next hill is just too far away to reach.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh.
--Psalm 2:4

Posted by Nukevet at 10:40 PM | Comments (0)

"Daring" Jailbreak

Or just really stupid? I bet the wife is really wondering if she made the smart choice right about now. I wonder what the husband's last words were?

"Thanks for breaking me out honey. Jail was horrible, and I'd rather die than spend 1 more minute in that hellhole. I'm going off to kill myself now. Oh, yeah, enjoy your time in jail........"

There are all kinds of useful idiots, I suppose.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:09 PM | Comments (0)

Wide to Recieve Pt II

I want to help couple of folks here in the 'sphere with their calls out for assistance. Both are quite important items.

Mr. Kim du Toit has a call out for volunteers to help folks learn to shoot. It is a part of his "Turning America back into a nation of Riflemen, one person at a time" campaign. I had volunteered in the past and have gotten someone involved in the shooting sports already and threw my hat in the ring again for the Seattle/Tacoma area.

And I would like to ask your assistance in connecting the learned to those wanting to learn.

For the unfamiliar, going to gun range, alone, for the first time, is a very imposing prospect. Espescially for women. What he's really looking for is people who would be willing to meet folks who want to get into shooting get over that hump. We're not looking for just full-on certified instructors here, but something more along the lines of, if you were going to the range anyway, adding another person to your party. Some folks may only need to know which ranges offer what in a local area. There is little better you could do with your time than help someone out in learning how to defend their life, liberty and property. And since they're local to you, maybe yours too.

And now to Ms. Michele from A Small Victory. Her, Ms. Meryl Yourish of Yourish.com and Mr. Lawrence Simon of Amish Tech Support fame are going to be doing the Blogathon again. This year they are blogging to gather funds for an ambulance to donate to Magen David Adom. Don't know who MDA is? Well, in a nutshell, they are a corps of emergency workers in Israel. And if I remember correctly, they're also all volunteers. They help out the victims of the bombings and other violence there. And they will help anyone, they don't take sides. These folks are the best.

There are only 10 days left before the Blogathon starts. I'm in the process of counting my pennies and doing the math to see how much I can put towards this (my truck's tranny decided it hates me and blew the rear seal, 3 weeks before I will be driving to Montana), and if you can, please do.

You can click on any of the names above to get more information or donate.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:09 PM | Comments (0)

Roy is Keen

But Martin Kettle is not. Who is Martin Kettle you ask? He wrote this article in Al-Guardian in which he claims that he has definite proof that Tony Blair tricked his country into going to war against Iraq. And Martin wants to tell us that it has been right under our noses for over two weeks.

�The deception was always political. It concerned the true reasons why Britain went to war, stuck by America's side, abandoned its principal allies and interests in Europe, and played fast and loose with the United Nations. Like all deceptions, this was not admitted in public. But it was certainly discussed in private. And now it has been revealed. Ladies and gentlemen, it looks as if we have a smoking gun�

�The evidence for this has been sitting unremarked in a book published at the start of this month. Peter Stothard's book, 30 Days, is an inside account of what the subtitle calls "a month at the heart of Blair's war". It is exceptionally well sourced. The former editor of the Times was given remarkable access to the inner workings of 10 Downing Street for the build-up and duration of the conflict in March and April.�

He goes on to tell us that the author found six points that Blair and his aides regularly went over. Marty then grabs two of them, numbers 4 and 6, and begins to run.

#4 Gulf war 2 - President George W Bush v Saddam Hussein - would happen whatever anyone else said or did.

#6 It would be more damaging to long term world peace and security if the Americans alone defeated Saddam Hussein than if they had international support to do so.

�It is therefore not a bolt from the blue to conclude, as Blair did in point four, that the US would go to war whatever anyone else said or did. Bush came extremely close to saying it in the 2002 state of the union. But it is a revelation to have Blair admit it, and then for him to add that it was in the interests of "long-term peace and security" for others - ie Britain - to do the same, whatever the circumstances�

He should have just kept herself at brisk walk, since it is here that he trips and falls. He fails to take into account that Blair knew it would be an uphill fight to get anything close to a resolution for war. And letting the US go it alone, while not offering any opposition, would yield the same results and be much easier. He also doesn�t think that maybe Blair thought that Saddam was real trouble that needed to be stopped, and the sooner the better. And since I doubt that loyalty is one of his stronger traits, I understand how Martin forgets to factor this into Blair�s thinking.

I wish people like Mr. Kettle would just drop the mantra of �The Illegal Iraq War� and resign to the idea that what happened there was a good thing for the Iraqi people, is still a good thing and will forever be known as a good thing for the Iraqi people and leave Blair alone. They just do not seem to understand that anytime you have a chance to erase something evil from the face of the earth, you are morally obligated to do so. But then again, these folks are true socialists. Not exactly known for their morals.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:34 PM | Comments (2)

Sing Your Life

Oops, you can�t because you�re dead.

Now, I think she deserved some type of harsh punishment for running out on her family 2 days before Christmas. But this might be a bit harsh.

�A mother who walked out on her husband and children for a stranger she had an affair with over the internet dropped dead within hours of meeting her new lover in person.�

You see what I mean? I was thinking more of a divorce, she gets nothing, and pays half of her salary in child support. That sounds fair to me.

Do you want to know what mystery disease she died of? I'm sure you do.

�The inquest said she probably fell victim to "sudden death syndrome", which kills more than 3,000 adults under 40 every year.�

Now that�s some science. �Sudden Death Syndrome�? When you get crushed by a piano that fell from a 4 story window, is that �SDS�? When someone tries to steal my truck and I catch them and leave their corpse in my front yard while I call 9-1-1 and tell them I have a pick-up ready for the meat-wagon, is that �SDS�? When Bush wins the 2004 presidential election and gains a majority in the Senate, and shortly thereafter O�Connor and Rhenquist both turn in their resignations and you�re head explodes because you�re a toe-tag liberal, is that �SDS�? C�mon! I need answers here!

Goddess, please enlighten me. You are my only hope.

Come to think of it, when a �pali� puts on a C-4 vest and blows himself/herself up, that could be considered �SDS�. I think we need some isolated scientific testing. And Arafat should closely supervise.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)

A new job for the BBC?

Enough air blowing to make this work?..............Bring on the Beeb. Finally something constructive for them to do.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)

Why we shouldn't give the British detainee's back to the UK

Blair is under pressure at home to ask for the return of two UK citizens in Cuba who are up for a military trail. Read the article and you can see why we shouldn't.

"He should be brought here and tried here," he said.

"(Tony Blair) should assure the Americans that our system of justice is quite good and this country is the mother of the democratic world with the oldest legal system in the entire Western world, internationally accepted as a fair and objective legal system."

Yeah sure, daddy just wants a "fair" trial. Now for the money shot.

Reports have suggested that Home Secretary David Blunkett is reluctant to seek extradition of the Guantanamo Bay detainees because of fears that there is insufficient evidence to charge them in a British court.

Case dismissed isn't exactly a "fair" trial, not when American evidence may be excluded because British courts are squeamish over how we may, or may not have gotten it. I trust our military to do a better job than the British courts, which can be even more political than ours. I doubt daddy will love us anymore even if we released his spawn, so forget him. British Muslims have been at the forefront of Islamicism so I really could give a rats ass how they percieve us anymore.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:41 AM | Comments (0)

The Operation

The one in particular I'd like to talk about right now is the British 'Project Blue Peacock'. Talk about them doing a bang-up job!

"British plan for nuclear land mines is revealed"

Hey Doc, check that out! Bet you never thought of that!

"Britain planned to bury huge nuclear land mines in Germany in the 1950s to prevent its occupation by Russian troops."

"Plans for the seven-ton weapons, with half the destructive power of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, have emerged in declassified army documents. Ten land mines would have been buried or submerged in water to devastate key sites such as oil refineries, power stations and railways."

Now that's a nuclear deterent!

Posted by Nukevet at 08:25 AM | Comments (3)

The BBC, impartial?....Nah...

Tony Blair is coming over to visit, and just so as people don't get the wrong idea about things the Beeb sets the record straight.

The Washington visit comes at a difficult time for Mr Blair and he is at risk of encountering a problem that Margaret Thatcher once faced - being received better abroad than at home.

He will be lauded at the White House as America's dependable ally and warm statements will be made about him in Congress, which specialises in political hyperbole.

They barely attempt to conceal their prejudice anymore.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:22 AM | Comments (0)

Why don't you find out for yourself

This is happening in my home town yet I had to go to the Daily Pundit to find it. Man, I need to lay off world news for a while.

FOX News SEATTLE � "A Socialist political candidate is stirring controversy in Seattle over her desires to keep her campaign donor lists off the record."

"Linda Averill, Freedom Socialist Party candidate for the Seattle City Council, said she wants the government to impose hefty taxes on large corporations, but she doesn't want the feds, or anyone else for that matter, to meddle in her campaign donor lists."

I know why too. I could probably find the names of half of the Seattle City Council and a good number of the professors at the University of Washington on that list. But I'll probably never get to see it.

"Like Socialist candidates before her, Averill is seeking an exemption from donor disclosure laws, claiming that identifying her supporters could expose them to harassment." But critics claim that Averill is benefiting from biased exemption laws that favor organizations on the political left."

"In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1979 FEC ruling that exempted the Socialist Workers Party from the disclosure laws, saying that the party's ideas were so unpopular that its supporters could reasonably expect a backlash. The ruling was found to be constitutional because it protects unpopular party supporters' rights of free speech and free association."

If they are too afraid to stand up for their beliefs maybe they shouldn't be donating. "Oh how horrible it was of me to say that" would be the first thing out of their mouths after they got done yelling 'Nazi' at me a couple of hundred times. But living where I do, I have to stand up for my beliefs weekly (daily during election season). Maybe I should pipe down if I don't want to be called a racist for being against affirmative action. Maybe I should keep my mouth closed if I don't want to be called a McCarthyite for calling Communists "traitorous bastards". It's a two-way street.

And here's why I call them that. But you already knew this, right?

"The Socialist Workers Party advocates a Marxist proletariat revolution to overthrow the government and wants to replace the country's free market system with a government of workers and farmers, similar to plans by Cuban and Russian revolutionaries."

Thank you Fox News. I doubt CNN, MSNBC or any of the other alphabet soup channels would have put that into an article. They're just reporting the facts, I'm deciding.

"FEC spokesman Ian Stirton said that the Socialist Workers Party is the only group to claim the exemption, but exemption advisories are not issued on partisan lines. "I'm sure that the advisory opinion was based on the circumstances of the case, but I don�t think it would have anything to do with political bias," Stirton said."

"Almost all exemptions go to candidates on the extreme political left, like Averill. Fox News was unable to find a single instance of exemptions going to candidates on the fringe right, no matter how distasteful the platform."

"There's a lot of hypocrisy going on because the Socialist Workers Party is one of the groups that actually has supported all these campaign finance laws," Moore said. "So they want disclosure for all these other parties but don't want disclosure for themselves."

The folks who run that part of the political spectrum have alot more hypocrisy where that came from. Talk about the have's and have-not's.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:14 AM | Comments (2)

Um, Excuse Me?

Trust the BBC to find out that America is responsible for a sharp increase in rape in Bagdad. Also trust them to offer no proof of such a claim, and trust them to be totally uncritical of an absurdly bizarre report from a human rights group.

Human Rights Watch says the fear of sexual violence is such that many women in Baghdad are too scared to leave their homes, even to attend school or go to work.

Its researchers say there has undoubtedly been a rise in the number of rapes in the city since the end of the war.

And for the first time, there are reports of girls and women being abducted from the street, sometimes in broad daylight.

As opposed to the previous government policy in Iraq of taking women and girls straight out of their friggin homes. When rape wasn't a street crime but a source of amusement for Uday's goon squads.

Human Rights Watch says that Iraqi police officers tend to give a low priority to allegations of sexual violence.

As they were so vigilant when Saddam was in charge and all.

Human Rights Watch says it is vital that the recent breakdown in Iraq's policing system be addressed.

You just can't make this shit up. Human Rights Watch is lamenting the overthrow of a Facist government, because the crime rate may be up? Well excuse the Hell out of us, we'll just put the thugs and torturers back in power. Heaven forbid that we should think transition to democracy might be a good thing. Thanks to Human Rights Watch for pointing out the error of our ways. Though some proof of these charges would be a refreshing change from them. You know, actual statistics and stuff.

These guys are certified morons.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:01 AM | Comments (1)

Break up the Family

That's what Russia could do to the Kyoto treaty. At least according to a guy named Colby Cosh.

"It's not mentioned much, but it's becoming increasingly probable that the Kyoto Protocol will never come into force. Seems startling, after all the hype on one side and dread on the other, not to mention the billions of dollars spent on promotion, argument, lobbying, and diplomacy. But there are signs that the Protocol may in fact be doomed. Consider Article 25 of the text:"

"This Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I which accounted in total for at least 55 per cent of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession."

"There are thus two hurdles for the treaty to clear. For a graphical depiction, you can visit the UN Convention on Climate Change's handy-dandy "Kyotometer". The second criterion is the relevant one: it gives a Kyoto veto to any group of countries which were responsible for 45% of the world's greenhouse emissions in 1990. One such group could consist of the USA (36.1%) and the Russian Federation (17.4%). And we know the U.S. Senate isn't going to reactivate President Clinton's signature on the treaty, which leaves Kyoto's fate in the hands of Russia."

"Since its heavy industry has contracted rapidly since 1990, Russia already meets the Kyoto criteria for greenhouse-gas reductions with room to spare. European enthusiasts for the treaty have been promising Russia that, if Kyoto were passed, it would become ground zero for a lucrative trade in emissions credits. But it's been five and a half years, and there has been (a) little (though some) progress toward a serious international framework for the trading of such credits, and (b) no legislative progress at all toward Kyoto ratification within Russia."

I wonder what the socialist enviro-loons will have to say if it is the former USSR that blasts their dreams of a 'Spring-Fresh Scented World'?

Posted by Nukevet at 07:41 AM | Comments (0)

Dial-A-Cliche

Leftist cliches about America, capitalism, the Bush administration, etc fill the pages of Indymedia. I go by there everyday to take a peek at what kind of junk they're spewing and generally get a chuckle or two in.

Lately, I have been trying to bring up the subject of Liberia, since they don't want to talk about it. Responses range from 'we only want their oil and diamonds' to 'Taylor is a bad guy and we should kick him out'. Both of which are predictable and one is extremely hypocritical, which I point out to them.

But I swung by there today and found a post on a subject I had thought about posing in the form of a question. "Where is the support for the Iranian students on Indymedia?". Yeah, I know stupid idea. But I'll take the punishment and the death threats for just the opportunity to watch the bums seeth.

But somebody beat me to it with this post.
"International Appeal for a Free and Democratic Iran"

The post goes on to describe the non-violent student being beaten for demonstrating for democracy, how repressive the mullahs are, and how closely related the 'protesters' here in the US are with them. I know what you're thinking, two out of three. Not too bad, right. Well, the iMC'ers weren't even that nice to the guy.

"1- No student movement exists in Iran as you claim it to be.
2- Iran is a democracy as any bourgeoise democracy gets.
3- the recent demonstrations in Iran amounted to no more than a hundred students and a couple hundred more paid rioters (from cia-mossad) who want to revert back to monarchy.
4- International news agencies including UPI, have revealed as to how the U.S. allocated funds of millions are being allocated for this, just as coupe of 1953. Except the masses of Iranian people are organized, armed, and ready.
5- riot of a few hundred pro-monarchists and 'left-islamic' (cia front groups) does not compare with the tens of millions who came out against U.S. occupation and war on Iraq.
6- the so called 'democratic' student movement above is backed and financed by the neo-cons.
7- in the end it is part of media-generated reality that is used as weapons of war rather than communication by Imperialists, Colonialists, Zionists."

I am still stunned. And there's more where that came from.

"1- 'grievences' of young people or women in Iran, you sitting in U.S.A. claim to be standing for is noting but support for Imperialist war in a cloak. No wonder your call is to override the national-sovereignity of the Iranian people, it's the same thing all war-mongers destroy in their call to war. George Bush made similar calls on Iraq under the guise of 'freedom'."

"2- Iran is not a theocratic state, but where the theocracy has rights too. And, we have heard of Jewish Orthodoxy, Christian Fundamentalism, however, Islamic Fundamentalism is just another misnomer conjured up by the likes of New York Times to make an affinity and similitude, in the minds of Americans, between the two. Whereas the difference between the two is as between right and left."

"3- As is Iran is a democracy where rational discourse and criticism is allowed. It sure is not the democracy of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll". However, under the Patriot Act most Americans are waking up to the fact as to what a farce that is."

"4- As for the student protests you are reiterating BBC and American media wave of disinformation that is nothing but a media war itself. Such media lied to us about 9/11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, you want to tell me they are telling the truth of the nature of your 'studen struggle'."

Sometimes, I ask these folks to tell me about the "Military Bases on the Moon". They usually turn to the 'Zionazi' remarks and then whip out the threats.

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July 16, 2003

Reader Meet Author

I would love for the Founding Fathers to come back and stop this.

"For students stumped by �ex post facto� and put off by �thereofs� and �hereins,� a congressional staffer has translated the Constitution into modern, plain language."

At first I thought that this may be a good thing. Because it would get more kids interested in American historical documents.

But then I remembered who teaches the kids. And those crappy textbooks they use. And the way the Bill of Rights can be mis-interpreted. Like how the comma in the 2nd Amendment is used by some to say that the word 'Militia" describes a governmental entity and not one comprised of private citizens.

The burning of the flag. OK with me. It is the ultimate expression of your freedom of speech. And everytime the lefties do it they prove their claims of a 'Police State" to be wrong.

But the blatant re-writing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights based on someones interpretation. Someone who is not a Supreme Court Justice. Even if I agree with their interpretation. And then pushing it on the young as a way to 'popularize' the document. It should be punishable by hanging.

Make the kids smarter and stretch out their attention spans. These are future Presidents, Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices' and, more importantly, voters were talking about here. I don't want no "funkin' around" with those words.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:54 AM | Comments (0)

Used to be a sweet boy

That is what folks'll be saying if something like this ever goes through and I've got Blue Helmets knocking on my door.

"U.N. seeking global gun control? Conference moving toward plan that would regulate U.S. arms"

"A U.N. group is working toward establishment of an international system to register and regulate civilian possession of firearms, according to a former congressman. The ultimate aim of many members of the conference on small arms is to outlaw personal ownership of guns altogether, said Georgia Republican Bob Barr in an interview yesterday on the newly syndicated."

Whether you like Barr or not, this is no bullshit. The UN has been batting this idea around since the 80's and they are quite serious about it. What with the semi-recent happenings in Australia, the UK and Canada's 'National Firearms Registry".

Never mind that these programs have all been absolute failures. The folks in the UN see them as successes that this type of thing can be pushed through.

Remember the report that came out last week about how the US was the most heavily armed country in the world. That was these fuckers getting a headcount. They say it is all about 'small arms trafficking', but if they cared about that, we wouldn't be finding huge caches of AK-47's in Iraq.

Don't believe me? Think I'm just a wee-bit paranoid? Read this one about 'A Global Tax on Firearms to Prevent World Hunger". Or this one about a gun control event sponsored by the UN that held as one of it's edicts "A system of tracking 'Officially Held Guns". What is an 'Officially Held Gun' you ask? Why one that you recieved permission to own, of course.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:07 AM | Comments (0)

The Loop

Sorry that was supposed to say, 'The Poop'.

Because that is what New Zealand farmers are sending to the tax man.

"WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) -- New Zealand postal workers are pooh-poohing a campaign by local farmers who are showing their disgust with a "flatulence tax" by mailing envelopes filled with manure."

"Postal workers would contact police if a return address was given, New Zealand Post spokesman Ian Long told Reuters, adding it was illegal to post objectionable material. "When somebody comes across it, it's going to be smelly. It might smell somebody else's mail and then there's just the nature of it -- if it actually bursts and starts contaminating other people's mail. It's not a very nice thing at all," he said."

"The Rural News newspaper launched the 'Raise a Stink' campaign this month after the government said it would levy farmers to help pay for research into livestock emissions of methane and nitrous oxide. The gases account for more than half the country's greenhouse emissions."

"Long said about 20 manure-laden envelopes have been intercepted with several others believed to have been delivered to parliament."

I was telling people that Kyoto stank years ago. Now I have proof.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:45 AM | Comments (0)

Ammunition

I'm pretty sure the guy is just being snide towards the Brady Bunch, but I can see this as a headline published in something like the NYT. This is an actual headline from a local paper called The Olympian.

"Shooters practice safety, civility. Despite presence of guns, friendliness abounds at state championships."

We had the Washington State Trapshooting Championships last weekend at the Evergreen Sportsman's Club. I don't shoot trap much and had other obligations, so I didn't attend. But from a couple of folks I talked to at the range on Sunday, it seems to have been a great event.

Funniest line from the artcle: "An old-timer describes the adjustment of learning to shoot from the seat of his electric Victory scooter". God, I hope I'm that feisty when I reach old age.

In other Northwest News: "Gnome thefts vex Roseburg homeowners"

"A group calling themselves the "Gnome Liberation Organization" has been swiping the elfin lawn ornaments all over the Roseburg area.

"Effie Hagedorn discovered her gnome was missing on Monday. A note from the "GLO" was left on her porch. "We have received intelligence of an enslaved gnome at your place of residence," the note said. "Whether you have come across this gentle woodland creature through deliberate actions or innocent ignorance, we care not ... It is now in a better place."

In my opinion, 'a better place' would be the 'ol sun don't shine location.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:38 AM | Comments (0)

Ambitious Outsiders

I remember last fall, when a report came out showing that french Jews were leaving for Israel because they said they felt safer there than on the streets of Paris. And just a couple of weeks ago another one came out saying that the they were also heading to Germany, where anti-semitism is as close to illegal as you can get.

If you didn't know this, here's why. From the WaPo:

"The phone message is one of 10 waiting for Sylvain Zenouda at the local office of the Jewish Community Council of greater Paris: A gang of 15 North African teenagers, some of them wielding broom handles, had invaded the grounds of a Jewish day school on Avenue de Flandre in northeast Paris the previous evening. They punched and kicked teachers and students, yelled epithets and set off firecrackers in the courtyard before fleeing."

"Elsewhere on this steamy July afternoon, he will meet with a businessman whose kosher restaurant was torched recently, a young man assaulted for wearing a Star of David necklace and a congregation of frightened synagogue-goers, some of whom are talking seriously of emigrating to Israel."

Again to Israel. They would rather take the chance at getting blown up in a bombing than face the constant harrasment and violence they get daily in France.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:10 AM | Comments (0)

Hairdresser on Fire

She must have been standing too close to Hillary's pants.

I had never heard this particular lie. Luckily, I happened upon it over at the Grouchy Old Cripple, where it is 'Cute Cat Pictures' week.

'Hillary Clinton when visiting New Zealand: "My parents named me after Edmund Hillary".

'Bullshit or not? Bullshit! Hillary was born in 1947. Sir Edmund had not climbed Mt. Everest yet and no one had even heard of him.'

Shoot and score for the GOC.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:59 AM | Comments (0)

The Loop

Do you Yahoo? The terrorists do.

"It's no secret that al Qaeda and terrorist groups like it have availed themselves of the Internet to spread their propaganda, plan attacks, and recruit new members. The Internet is perhaps al Qaeda's most effective way of communicating and continuing their jihad given the world's increased vigilance on their activities."

"Yahoo! has become one of al Qaeda's most significant ideological bases of operation. Utilizing several facets of Yahoo!'s service, including chat functions, e-mail, and most importantly, Yahoo! Groups, al Qaeda and its supporters have inserted themselves like a cancer into a company that screams, "American pop culture," and made it as much their own as a training camp in Khost."

"With Yahoo! Groups called "Jehaaad" and "The Jihad Group," for example, al Qaeda supporters chronicle the terrorist group's victories, disseminate hatred of non-Muslims, and provide a multimedia jihad frenzy for sympathetic viewers and other al Qaeda members. Through these Yahoo! Groups, one can view sickening media presentations posted by al Qaeda zealots. Videos of Russian soldiers being tortured by Chechen mujahedeen, mujahedeen vehicle-bombing operations, sermons by jihadist sheikhs, homages to bin Laden, and glorified, mutilated bodies of mujahedeen fill these Yahoo! Groups. The groups are almost all exclusively in Arabic, making their discovery very difficult for most Americans."

I cannot think of a place more in need of a deep working virus. Maybe one that automatically changes all the disusting propaganda pics and vids to gay porn.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:48 AM | Comments (0)

Interesting Drug

I wonder where they get this stuff?

"Muhammad said in his Hadith: "The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'" said Hassan Khader, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia."

They are also forgetting one of the primary rules of handling firearms.

'Never do so when under the influence of alcohol or drugs'

AKA: When the trees and rocks start talking to you, you need to put the gun down, dude.

But on a more serious note, a Palestinian academic says tradition makes it religious obligation for Muslims to kill Jews? Go read from WorldNetDaily.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:36 AM | Comments (0)

Cold Steel and the fire of conviction

I watched the Film Gods and Generals last night with my wife, and while it was more detailed than Gettysburg, it wasn't quite as moving. With one strong exception, the Battle of Fredricksburg. My Yankee blood could feel empathy for the confederate men, but not their cause, not their passion for the war that was to come. But Jeff Daniels portrayal of Joshua Chamberlain strikes a cord in me. He evokes the sorrow and determination to follow through, to fight to not just preserve the Union, but to build something that would shake the very ideas that the world was based on.

Blue and Grey, they fought and died by the tens of thousands, and in doing so they made us what we are now. No family long in this country doesn't have stories of men lost, of medals and battles. We remember our honored dead, and the ones who came home.These are the regiments that Ohio sent into the fight. So many brave men, so much was lost, but somehow I think we've managed to hold on to a piece of the convictions that served them so well. This story is the one I grew up with. A boy soldier, from my home town, he belongs to our common history now. But browse through your own states history and see if you don't find reasons to be just as proud.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
--Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

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July 15, 2003

Now where exactly have the N. Koreans been dumping their nuclear waste?

I've never heard of this before. I don't have an opinion on Nessie, could there be a species of animal living in these giant lakes that is still unknown?

Posted by Nukevet at 04:46 PM | Comments (0)

Mr. Governor Sir to you bucko!

Well why not, Ron was such a success. True he can never be president, but the entertainment value in watching political opponents try and deal with this is just TOO SWEET!

Might make negiotiations with foriegn governments a touch easier. Let me introduce the new Secretary of Defense. You can stack your weapons in the corner as you sign the surrender, and whatever you do, don't make eye contact.......Remember you're standing on plastic.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:32 PM | Comments (4)

Yeah, we're just stacking em up like cord wood

It must really suck being an American Muslim, aside from freedom of speech, of travel, of assembly, the right to vote, live and work where you like. Yeah it's just so hard living amongst the infidels. CAIR is cited as the source for this article, which like asking the lawyer if there is a need for lawsuits. You kind of know the answer before the question's asked.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Islamic civil rights group, said its office received 602 reports of discrimination against Muslims in 2002, an increase of 15 percent over the previous year

With all due respect to any really innocent victims here,................BOO FUCKING HOO................. 602 in a nation of nearly 300 million, is that the worst they can cite? Oh come on, I venture to suggest that American Jews would like numbers so small, or Americans of any race that get shit because of who they are. The fact is that their parent cultures have chosen to make war on the west, that people would look on them with some doubts is natural, and frankly justifiable considering that that favored mode of attack is murdering civilians. As long as there is no violence against them, they're gonna have to live with it.

They could do what Italian, German and Japnese Americans did. They could stand up and embrace their country, they could make clear who's side they are on. But no they demand untouchable status while bellyaching and badmouthing their country for an old land that they left behind. One that wants us and the Israeli's dead.

Some people need their head extracted from their ass, CAIR would be a good start, but a Hell of a lot less selfpity from Muslim Americans would help.

To an Muslim American I would say this:

I'll be your friend if you love America, but if you come here to make a pile then run home with a bagfull of money and a line of shit. Forgive me for not caring if you fall off a tall building. The whole idea is that you become American, not a hyphenated one, but a real working love your country, help your neighbor, send your kids to to school one. Get out of the arab part of town and live as one of us, we won't care how you pray. That's how it's supposed to work.

You have a right to disagree, not a right to be free of rebuttal. If you can't understand that, then you fail the test.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:10 PM | Comments (0)

Not so Clueless methinks...

Imagine my surprise to find Den Beste covering this ground.Not that there's anything wrong with it, just that I never thought of him as having any interest in anything like it. Good for him. I on the other hand have very earthy tastes. Women, and the things that cause them to purr. This isn't hentai, or even ecthi, but something naughty without getting too graphic. I like some graphic as well, but not in this context. No this is something called "Fan Service", I have known about it for years, just never by that name. A harmless diversion, a 12 year old male fantasy put to images.

Some people say it's a bad thing, but I never could control my whims very well. So like it or hate it, anime boobs are here to stay. And thongs, don't forget the thongs.......................

Posted by Nukevet at 01:29 PM | Comments (0)

Hehe

Wonder if Jimbo ever came across this site? It might help him deal with some of his "inner woman" issues.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:53 PM | Comments (0)

Makes you wonder

If Media Whores Online actually believes their own propaganda?

With (presumably) a straight face, they describe their mission as:

Welcome to Media Whores Online

Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists." MWO casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television, the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy print media reporters and columnists

But, you don't have to read very far before you get to such things as:

In the current era of Republican power abuse and media complicity and corruption, some "technical accuracies" but actual falsehoods are embarrassing and serious.

Others merely lead to the brutal killings of thousands of innocent human beings, and the complete dissolution of great nations' credibility.

And:

As the lying Bush White House continues to attempt to obfuscate its way out of its credibility crisis, Senator Carl Levin repeatedly articulates the case against the regime - a case not diminished by the "big picture" of whether "it's good that Saddam is gone."

Yep, completely unbaised, those guys. The screeching and caterwauling is at a ysterical pitch, however. Of course, what can you expect from a site that starts it's links off with a pointer to Bartcop?

Posted by Nukevet at 12:47 PM | Comments (0)

So, Who's the Victim here?

SURPRISE!!

UPDATE:

This story seems to verify that the girl claimed to be 19. It bothers me that the man in question is still being described as a "predator", especially since the girl returned home unharmed within a few hours of their meeting.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:23 PM | Comments (3)

Truly Disappointed

If they had learned from history, this would have never had happened.

From the UK Mirror - "UK Violent Crime Rate Soaring"

"Tony Blair is losing the fight against violent crime, new Home Office figures will show this week. The annual Government study will show on Thursday that overall violent crime is up 20 per cent."

"Drug crime has rocketed by 18 per cent and two-thirds of robberies are now committed by addicts. The number of murders is rising with a 22 per cent jump in London during the first half of the 12 months to May."

"Gangland crime, including kidnapping and extortion, has shot up by 72 per cent and sex crimes are up by 10 per cent. The depressing picture comes hot on the heels of a Daily Mirror poll showing that 60 per cent of voters feel Labour has betrayed them on the issue of law and order."

Sad. Truly sad.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:08 AM | Comments (0)

He knows I'd love to see him

In my crosshairs.

Crazy 'ol Moammar Khaddafi does the foot-in-mouth trick.

"Libyan leader Moammar Khaddafi told a conference of African leaders Saturday that Africans who are "straight" need not fear AIDS, which is ravaging many countries on the continent. Speaking through a translator, Khaddafi drew some laughter with his reference to AIDS only affecting homosexuals."

"He told the closing session of the eight-day annual African Union conference, "All you have to do is observe the rules. If you are straight, you have nothing to fear from AIDS."

I hate to think of the support this ignorant camel's ass would get from the peaceniks if we ever decide to have the Marines visit his piece of real estate. Even after saying this. Yet Bush is taking my tax money to try and put a dent in the AIDS epidemic and gets slammed. I'll never figure it out.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:40 AM | Comments (0)

Nobody Loves Us

From the NY Post on the subject of the 'quagmire' in Iraq.

"During the war, unseasoned journalists reported every minor exchange of fire as if it were the Little Big Horn, Part Two. Now, the obsession of reporters with every sprained ankle in our occupation force ignores the tremendous good we have done, the strategic advantages we have gained - and the potential, at last, for a measure of meaningful progress in the world's most politically, culturally and morally backward region."

"If we took the criteria for instant failure that the media and our most self-interested politicians apply to Iraq and applied them here at home, the U.S. government would be obliged to evacuate California and abandon Mississippi, since two shooting incidents in those states last week killed more Americans than did the low-level violence in Iraq. Clearly, our 150-year-old annexation of California has been a failure - likewise, the reintegration of Mississippi in the years since our Civil War. Let's just pack up and go home."

Kind of puts a little perspective on it.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:19 AM | Comments (0)

He Cried

A little snippet from Hollywood.

"If Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp's kids want to smoke pot when they're older, they can count on Dad to score it for them."

"And Depp declares he plans to make Paris his permanent home because the United States "mortifies" him with its "childish" "freedom fries" and "freedom toast."

Dammit! I want to go see this movie! Oh well, if he promises to use my money to facilitate his move to frogland, I'm OK with it. Good riddance Depp. We don't need you here anyway. We've got Skeet Uhlrich.

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Piccadilly Palare

It wasn't enough that they had to screw with english. They had to go and muck around in one my favorite languages.

Ochone! The curse of political correctness hits Gaelic language - Murdo MacLeod

"No Language, not even Scotland�s oldest, is safe from the modern-day curse of political correctness. Gaelic is being purged of a host of words which are age and gender specific in an effort to make it acceptable to sensitive 21st-century ears."

What! Sensative ears shouldn't hear any part of Gaelic. When spoken properly, you sound as if you're trying to curse at someone but have accidentally taken in a healthy dose of ether.

"The �sexed-down� words include the Gaelic version of chairman, fear-cathrach, which has been replaced by chairperson, cathraiche. Fireman, fir-sm�laidh, has become fire-people or luchd-sm�laidh, and the traditional word for lawyer, fear-lagh, literally law-man, has become law-person or neach-lagh. Procurator-fiscal fear-casaid (literally man who accuses) has been reborn as neach-casaid, or person who accuses."

"Other words which have been quietly thrown on the sitig (rubbish heap) include words which make people feel old. The traditional words for old man bodach and old woman cailleach have been replaced by the literal, but less colourful seann dhuine and seann bhoirreanach, both meaning man or woman who is old."

Grrrrr! Deoghail air m� m�r ball, do bruchag ithan chac!

What I just wrote is too dirty to even translate in the 'more' section. E-mail me with your guesses and I'll let you know how close you came.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:47 AM | Comments (0)

That's Entertainment

From Cyber Alert #1537 at the Media Reasearch Center:

"During a segment on the uranium from Africa controversy, Couric asked Tim Russert, as transcribed by MRC analyst Ken Shepherd: �As we look at background video, Tim, of an ad that's being put out by a group called MoveOn. It was started by two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs frustrated by the political process. This drumbeat will be heard more and more loudly, don't you think, in the weeks to come?�

She used kind of odd language to describe one of the more far out leftist activist organizations this side of NaziMedia. If MoveOn.org was a conservative tool, she would have peppered her sentence with words like "right wing", "hardliners" and "neo-con freaks".

There are 5 other examples of media bias there. Go read.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:14 AM | Comments (0)

July 14, 2003

Wide to Receive

I want to help couple of folks here in the 'sphere with their calls out for assistance. Both are quite important items.

Mr. Kim du Toit has a call out for volunteers to help folks learn to shoot. It is a part of his "Turning America back into a nation of Riflemen, one person at a time" campaign. I had volunteered in the past and have gotten someone involved in the shooting sports already and threw my hat in the ring again for the Seattle/Tacoma area.

And I would like to ask your assistance in connecting the learned to those wanting to learn.

For the unfamiliar, going to gun range, alone, for the first time, is a very imposing prospect. Espescially for women. What he's really looking for is people who would be willing to meet folks who want to get into shooting get over that hump. We're not looking for just full-on certified instructors here, but something more along the lines of, if you were going to the range anyway, adding another person to your party. Some folks may only need to know which ranges offer what in a local area. There is little better you could do with your time than help someone out in learning how to defend their life, liberty and property. And since they're local to you, maybe yours too.

And now to Ms. Michele from A Small Victory. Her, Ms. Meryl Yourish of Yourish.com and Mr. Lawrence Simon of Amish Tech Support fame are going to be doing the Blogathon again. This year they are blogging to gather funds for an ambulance to donate to Magen David Adom. Don't know who MDA is? Well, in a nutshell, they are a corps of emergency workers in Israel. And if I remember correctly, they're also all volunteers. They help out the victims of the bombings and other violence there. And they will help anyone, they don't take sides. These folks are the best.

There are only 12 days left before the Blogathon starts. I'm in the process of counting my pennies and doing the math to see how much I can put towards this (my truck's tranny decided it hates me and blew the rear seal, 3 weeks before I will be driving to Montana), and if you can, please do.

You can click on any of the names above to get more information or donate.

Thank you. I will be reposting this, probably daily, to make sure any and all see.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:43 PM | Comments (0)

Ouch

Man, this must have been some crash. Beloki, one of the main contenders for the Tour de France title, broke his femur in this crash. The femur is the large bone of your upper leg, underneath your thigh muscles.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:37 PM | Comments (0)

Alumni Evergreen State can be proud of

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One of the reasons I miss living in NYC

is the NY Post, naturally.

Via LGF.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:42 PM | Comments (0)

OK, Read this

And then reconcile yourself to the enemy we are facing.

"From a religious point of view I believe that this Bali bombing has had a great effect, all throughout the world, especially in Indonesia and more specifically Bali," he said.

"Because of this incident, God willing, many people will have realised that they have forgotten their God by not joining in religious activities and by avoiding worship places like mosques and churches which have become empty. Monasteries and temples have become very quiet, with no one visiting to pay respect.

"Meanwhile adulterous places, like bars, nightclubs, casinos, brothels and other disgusting places, are always crowded and people are queueing, whether young or old."

A highlight of Amrozi's 22-minute statement was his bizarre claim that an American/Jewish satellite may have played a role in directing a nuclear bomb to the Sari Club.

Of course, Amrozi saw nothing wrong in killing Australians hanging out at a bar. I wonder how he feels about the fact that the alleged mastermind of the Bali attack, Imam Samudra, had pornographic images of white women on his laptop computer? Kind of takes that air right out of that old "morality" stance, doesn't it?

Posted by Nukevet at 04:32 PM | Comments (0)

Why don't you find out for yourself

Hmmm.

You know this whole thing with the 'Niger Uranium, bad intelligence, SOTU Address' gaffe that has Bush's people in hot water, yet the Brits let Blair slide and keep saying how they stand by their information?

Well, according to the Washington Times, we can blame this one on the frenchies as well.

"The French secret service is believed to have refused to allow Britain's MI6 to give the United States "credible" intelligence showing that Iraq was trying to buy uranium ore from Niger, U.S. intelligence sources said yesterday."

The french's secret service is so secret, I didn't know they had one. If this ends up being true, there is no reason we need to keep diplomaitc ties with these sorry bastards anymore.

Found @ Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:01 AM | Comments (0)

Satan Rejected My Soul

I found this at Haganah via LGF and immediately wished I wouldn't have. This is one of those things i don't like remembering.

"At 1:30 am on November 19, 2002, Officer Dave Mobilio of the Red Bluff, California Police Department was refueling his patrol car when he was shot twice by a gunman who was waiting in ambush. The gunman then walked up on Officer Mobilio and shot him a third time, at point blank range, in the back of the head."

"The gunman was quickly identified as Andrew McCrae (born Andrew Mickel). His identification and arrest was due in no small part to the fact that after the murder he bragged about it to family, and friends, and in a statement he posted on IndyMedia."

But that's not all. Take a look at what Haganah found out about this loser.

"According to a second report, McCrae's family told an investigator that McCrae is an idealist. He traveled to the Middle East last Christmas to act as a human shield between the Israelis and Palestinians and may have been arrested in the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle last spring."

"To repeat: He traveled to the Middle East last Christmas to act as a human shield between the Israelis and Palestinians. Can you say International Solidarity Movement? I knew you could."

Wha? Why those peace loving terrorist-enablers would never do anything like this. I guess he figured he was already going to hell, and just wanted the trip to be on the government's dime. Oh wait, he's in California. that means he'll be waiting a while.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:28 AM | Comments (0)

Sorrow will come in the end

If you want to refresh your ammo load on the travesty that is the Kyoto Treaty, Take a look at this story from Samizdata that talks about the estimates that "by 2010, Kyoto will cost the UK around US$35 billion a year, and result in the permanent loss of half a million jobs".

But the earth will have that "Spring-Time Fresh Scent" year around, right? Nope. Airplanes landing in the major cities in Asia, who are virtually unaffected by any of the Kyoto restrictions on western countries, will still have to fly through smog so thick that the pilots must be experienced in instrument only landings to be able to land safely.

The figures used in the story above come from this study (in PDF format) entitled "Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: The Economic Cost to the UK". Scary stuff brothers and sisters.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:23 AM | Comments (0)

Such a little thing

Makes such a big difference.

From NYT: "Iraqis Set to Form an Interim Council With Wide Power"

What?! You mean those eevviill capitalist Amercians aren't going to demand that the Iraqis bow to a pork eatin' paleface Christian mo-fo anymore? Oh the humanity!

"Representatives of the major political, ethnic and religious groups of Iraq � some of them skilled politicians, some of them exile leaders coming home and others political neophytes united by their suffering under Saddam Hussein � will declare the first postwar interim government in Iraq this weekend, Western and Iraqi officials said tonight."

"After eight weeks of negotiations with the American and British occupation powers, a "governing council" of between 21 and 25 members will be granted extensive executive powers. The new body of Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis, Christians and Turkmen will share responsibility for running the country under a United Nations resolution that will continue to vest Washington and London with ultimate authority until a sovereign government is elected and a new constitution ratified, the officials said."

But since this is the NYT (all the news that isn't fit to wipe yourself with), there must be a catch.

"There is no clear timetable for a transition to an elected government"

I knew it. They then spend the entire rest of the article in the doom and gloom reporting that they love. Oh well.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:05 AM | Comments (0)

Girl Least Likely To

Care about those who give her the ability to say such thoughtless things.

Cruising FARK and found this from the SFGate Letters to the Editor:

SANDY JANE WONG - Mountain View

"Editor -- The constant loss of U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- after the war is "won" -- is a tragedy. However, if this is what it takes to retire the Bush administration at the next election, the sacrifice is justified."

While I am sure that this is a common sentiment held by a good portion of those on the left, it doesn't make it any easier to swallow.

And if my memory is good, Wong is a name common to northern China (unless her relatives had it changed from Hwung, which is southern). I wonder if Sandy Jane would like to go to her ancestral homeland and publicly speak this way of their soldiers?

Some folks have no decency.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:41 AM | Comments (0)

Little Man, What Now?

You may soon be seeing more from the Dems in their attempt to woo the "Hispanic Vote" to stay by their side in 2004 like they have the "Black Vote". In fact, Tommy 'Can you feel me?' Daschle held a press conference announcing the introduction of their plan. But oddly enough, there was someone there with a tough question. (Daschle's press screener must be on stike).

From CNSNews: "Daschle claimed the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress have "abandoned Latino families and our Latino neighbors".

"The progress we've made over the course of the last several years has been set back," Daschle said. "So we're announcing today that we are redoubling our efforts in working in this partnership with our Hispanic leaders to see that every Latino has a chance to make a better life and to contribute to the life of this country." Those who choose to make that contribution through public service, Daschle said, should be able to do so unhindered by discrimination".

"We believe that every Latino who wants to serve in government at the highest levels ought to have an opportunity to do so," he stated. CNSNews.com asked Daschle later if that opportunity would be extended to Miguel Estrada?"

Ouch! That hurt all the way over here.

You should really go read this whole thing. Tommy Boy goes on about how Estrada 'hasn't been forthcoming about his background'. Never minding that Estrada doesn't have control over those records anymore.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:05 AM | Comments (0)

Alma Matters in Mind

Why do they even have Universities in California? Nowadays, they only turn out bunk like "Social Ecology". And then some know-nothing writes a thesis on it and it becomes a course you can get a doctorate in.

"What exactly is �social ecology?� Perform a quick internet search of the term and you might get the impression that it�s what you get when you mix socialism, anti-modern utopianism, and environmentalist fear-mongering."

"The �Institute for Social Ecology� offers this definition: Social Ecology n 1: a coherent radical critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends. 2: a reconstructive, ecological, communitarian, and ethical approach to society."

"The same search will also uncover an essay republished on the �Anarchist Archives� website titled �What is Social Ecology?� The answer according to the essay�s author, Murray Bookchin, seems to be the study of society�s �growing environmental crisis,� a crisis that he believes results from - you guessed it - capitalism."

But at least there are folks attending said California institutions who will rail against the wackos. Go here and you'll find the story of a kid who actually got his undergrad student government to pass a resolution addressing the problem. I know, it's only a resolution. But it actually got passed unanimously through the student government at a UC. That is damn near close to raining toads.

Of course, the Dean of the Department blames the kid for his baises instead of recognizing his own. Read on.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:44 AM | Comments (0)

Everyday is like Sunday

I wish.

Howdy y'all. My apologies about not getting back to you yesterday, but I spent way too much time at the range. I then came home and grilled up some Johnsonville's while cleaning the 1911. And then passed out in the chair. The wife was kind enough to let me sleep off the day.

I took my friend Jon with me today. He has not had any formal shooting training but is a damn quick learner (damn whipper-snappers). I swear this guy can pick up anything with a swiftness. I also brought along my Winchester 94 Trapper in 357mag. But I am horribly out of practice with open-sighted carbine rifles and it showed. So there are no targets from that (Note to Self: Must go back soon).

Anyway, here's the evidence. There were both better and worse results. The worse outnumbering the better by a slight margin, but it was a good day none the less.

The first one is two 8rnd mags in a draw and rapid fire drill, emptying the magazine after each draw. It scares the hell out of the unassociated in the next booth, but that is their problem. The distance is 30ft (10yds) and the target is a 9in bullseye. UPDATE: Someone e-mailed me to say that T-2 targets have a 7 1/2in bullseye. I measured and he's right. (I may have to go about remeasureing everything now. Just kidding.).
Rapido I did end up fixing the walk to the left. But those targets were in the above average category and shall not be featured.

And the other drill I visited with a vengance today was the draw and double-tap(firing two shots in quick succession) and then reholstering. Rinse and repeat. Again two mags, 8rnds each, 30ft (10yds). The flyers aren't really flyers, they're my #2 shots for some reason. Oh well, works for now.
Double Taps I have always had a problem with throwing my second shots at least 3 inches from the first when doing double taps. It was worse when I had my Glock 30.

Now onto a slightly different topic. You may recognize the title of this post is also the title of a Morrissey song. Sorry folks, I woke up, and for some reason, went straight for the Smiths/Morrissey section of the CD collection (discography upon request) and have been doing nothing but listening to them since I woke up 4 hours ago. I don't know why I still have them, I am married now and really have no use for these CD's (although I would still kick ass in a Morrissey kareoke contest. Is that a bad thing?). But I am grateful I'm not in a Reznor/NIN mood. That would be scary after a day at the range.

But back to my point. I will be getting post titles this week from Morrisey song titles. Just to be an ass ('cause I'm good at it). If you have any requests, I'll try and find a story that fits the song title (yeah, like folks who come around here listen to Morrissey). Otherwise, I'll make the titles fit the stories I find.

Have a good week, folks.

PS Speaking of the wife and marriage. I hung the targets on the cabinet doors in the kitchen to take these pictures. They're still up there and she'll probably let me keep them up there for a while. Not because we're slobs, but because the fridge is already full of targets. I am so lucky.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:11 AM | Comments (3)

A good reason to beat the F**K out of somebody

Ever get a ticket you thought was out of line? Ever exchange harsh words with a cop? Ever feed your anger over slights or rudeness from our boys in blue?

Imagine going to work and on top of wondering if you'll get to stop a bullet that day, now you have to worry about this.

Take this into consideration the next time you get angry over something that a cop has done. Think about seeing the world through his eyes for a day before making a snap judgement. Because the stresses of the ordinary 9-5 are a walk in the park compared to something like their average working day.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:34 AM | Comments (0)

Sex, drugs and a really bad hangover

I've heard the Woodstock stories, the drugs and lewd behavior, but that was the sixties. When wild was expected of hippies, when outrageous was a lifestyle. I didn't realize that they had such a lasting effect as this story indicates.

LONDON (Reuters) - No wonder this year's Glastonbury Festival was billed the best ever -- almost 25,000 people said they had sex while also enjoying the music at Britain's biggest open-air music event

Exactly how said acts were acomplished in an open crowd is probably best left unexplored.

NME said 66% called the 2003 festival mind-blowing.

Oh sure, minds were blown too............well, it had to be a Hell of a party!

Posted by Nukevet at 02:13 AM | Comments (0)

Protesters who actually have brains.

A protest we can be proud to support. No stilts, no funny makeup, no mock funerals, and not even a Bush is Satan sign anywhere. They do however demand democracy, real democracy, not the warmed over halfassed token kind offered by Bejing.

I still haven't heard of any in support demonstrations anywhere in the west by our professional protest camps. If they happened I must have missed it. But we all know they didn't happen, and they won't either. Because the politics of Bejing, the politics of Mao, are their politics. If it reachs the point where Bejing once more sends in the tanks, they will still remain silent. Because it was never about freedom of expression or the right to protest. It was about their opinion, their right to control. No other opinions need apply, and if anyone thinks they actually have compassion for the oppressed, why the thundering silence, why the apathy?

Their lack of sympathy tells us everything we need to know about them, and it isn't kind.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:55 AM | Comments (0)

July 13, 2003

If you don't like the poll results

then kill the pollsters. Pretty simple paradigm that Palestine operates under: agree with us, or die.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:55 PM | Comments (0)

Off to the range

Instead of getting the parts fitted on my latest 1911 project last night, I toyed with my carry piece. The trigger started to feel crappy so I replaced some parts and took the stone to some others until I hit the magic 3 3/4# butter mark. So off to the range I go. I hope to have pics to post later this evening, but I'm not sure of the range's policy. But I'll at least have targets to post, so check back. Today feels good.

Part of the reason I opted out of working on my project gun is a problem I've run into with the frame I bought. It has to be the meatiest damn frame I've ever dealt with in my life. The guy running the machine had to have been crosseyed. I have been filing until my fingers are sore just to get the trigger I want to use to fit (It is a big trigger but, damn). Now I have to whip out the grinder to make the mag release cut out large enough to put one in.

One I get past these stoppages, things should cruise right along though.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:46 AM | Comments (0)

Flag Flap

Some folks, like Kim and Mrs. duToit, homeschool their kids because they know what a crappy education the public schools fork out.

Others do it because the public schools don't lean far enough to the left for them.

"ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) � For some people, the American flag represents freedom. For Tracy Bungay, it no longer does. For that reason, Bungay does not want the flag raised this fall at the Willow Wind Community Learning Center, an Ashland School District-funded center that supports home-schooled students."

"I want to raise my children to be citizens of the world, and the flag does not represent ideals I want to instill," Bungay said. "It represents dominance, greed, corporate power and not freedom. I think it even represents commercialism and consumerism."

About the only part of that I agree with her about is the word 'dominance'. Of course, what she doesn't realize is that without that dominance, her precious little gift to the world of a child with the mind that is to be twisted at her whim would be learning to memorize the teachings of "the little red book". But for some reason, I don't think she'd mind that too much.

"The flag flap began when Jesse Stanton, a 13-year-old student, contacted Willow Wind Director Debi Pew about placing a flag at the site. According to Stanton, Pew said it wasn't going to happen because the flag might offend some students. "It was disappointing, but I wasn't completely surprised because I know there are a good deal of people there who don't look at the flag or America favorably," Stanton said."

"Pew told the Ashland Daily Tidings that she had no comment".

I'm sure she didn't. Pressed for a real answer to a real question, most school district officials nationwide come up speechless.

"Jesse, who won a national Elks essay contest for his essay titled "What Does Freedom Mean To Me," went to district officials in June to make his pitch for the flag. "It's fairly frustrating because at the learning center, I'm one of the only ones who speaks out on my views that support patriotism and pro-Americanism," he said."

An intelligent, patriotic 13yr old. Sounds like a good start to me. But probably not to his schoolmates parents. He may make them responsible for their values and mores. Their children may even, perish the thought, question them.

"He received a U.S. flag from former Republican State Chairman Perry Atkinson, and requested that it be flown on the Willow Wind campus".

I want to know why this guy has the word 'Former' in front of his name.

"Superintendent Juli Di Chiro said state law requires schools to display the American and Oregon flags. While the learning center is not technically a school, it is supported with district money. "The question is, is the emphasis on school or on building?" Di Chiro said. "The only decision we had to make was what does that mean, what is a public school building?"

Figures. The school superintendant has to go for the Oxford dictionary for words like 'public school building'. I think that the word 'funded' should acctually be the second word in that phrase. Maybe that would have helped her out. But that is just one fellows opinion.

"Willow Wind will erect a flagpole this fall. But some parents say the decision goes against what the flag supposedly stands for. "One person does not have the right to go above everyone's heads," said parent Julie Bedford. "It's completely the opposite of democracy."

I know this is Oregon and all, but jeez! He isn't going abouve your pointy little heads, ya dumb broad! He's making the district follow the law. You know, the same type of thing that gives you the ability to not have to give your child up to a public school education. Bet you'd be pissed if they did away with that one.

"But district officials said there's no freedom when it comes to the flag. "It's really not their choice," Di Chiro said. "They can't change this law."

Again with the stupid Superintendant. Yes, Juli with no 'E', they can change the law. This is America you dumb *unt. You can change any gotdam thing you want. You just have to convince enough people to want to get it changed as well.

Why did they put you in charge, exactly?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:23 AM | Comments (0)

Delivery of Clue

I don't know how this got printed at the BBC. Must have been electronic sabotage.

It looks as though some of them are getting it.

"One of the world's most influential Islamic leaders has condemned all attacks by suicide bombers at an international conference for Islamic scholars."

"Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of the Al-Azhar mosque of Cairo - which is seen as the highest authority in Sunni Islam - said groups which carried out suicide bombings were the enemies of Islam."

"Speaking at the conference in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, Sheikh Tantawi said extremist Islamic groups had appropriated Islam and its notion of jihad, or holy struggle, for their own ends. He called on Muslim nations to open themselves to dialogue with the West saying Islamic nations should "wholeheartedly open our arms to the people who want peace with us".

"I do not subscribe to the idea of a clash among civilizations. People of different beliefs should co-operate and not get into senseless conflicts and animosity," he added."

Unfortuantely, just like a someone with common sense ideas at an ACLU conference, he will be shouted down by his fellow Muslims.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:28 AM | Comments (0)

Hatred, bigotry, anti-semitism and outright lies

I saw where Nelson Mandela has once again opened his mouth to bitterly denounce Blair and Bush. While Bush tours Africa, Mandela gives a speech in Europe demanding more help with AIDS and greater economic aid. Is he even aware of Bush's trip? I think he's lost what little sense he possessed. But his opinions aren't rare in South Africa, no the rabid leftwing is alive and well there. He merely parrots the voices he listens to, and brother you thought the British press was vile. Take a peek at this editorial from the Mail and Guardian, and see if you think we have a hope in Hell of getting a fair hearing from them.

Warning offensive images from said newspaper follow.

These are editorial cartoons from the paper. You know for people who suffered under discrination and bigotry for so long, the only lesson they seem to have learned is hate harder than the other guy. If you read the rest of the paper it becomes clear that the African National Congress is Hell bent on evening scores regardless of the damage they do to their own country. It's a mess and getting worse.

Africa is suffering, from disease, poverty, war and famine. It suffers horribly because much of it's leadership is either currupt, or hostage to stillborn sixties leftwing chic. The revolutionary struggles may gain them power, but when they turn on each other in civil war, or just enrich themselves by starving their own, the result is death on a massive scale. There are success stories, but like the arab world they are more victims of their own leadership and elites than of anything else. The Europeans created the setting for disaster, then let it happen. Again we may well be stuck with their mess to clean up.

I'm definitely sure of one thing, if the writer of that editorial is representative of the elites in SA, then the brain power to save Africa will have to come from Africans outside the elite. Because the elites are failing them, badly.

A very tired continent, and maybe some hope.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:10 AM | Comments (0)

July 12, 2003

The Road Map

I was tooling about the LGF archives and turned up this little gem.

It is the complete text of the Bush's "Performance Rased Roadmap to Peace". Also refered to at LGF as the "Roadmap to Murderville".

I'll link to it in this post and make a permenant link to it in my Blogroll.

Something funny, I just don't see a 'release of all prisoners' provision that the 'palistinians' keep refering to anywhere in the text. Skim once for me and let me know what you find.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:51 PM | Comments (0)

Neighbors

Plan on vacationing or visiting good 'ol Canuckistan anytime soon? Bring a weapon.

"Squamish, B.C. � Three Americans say they were beaten because of their nationality by a group of drunken teens in this picturesque community north of Vancouver."

"Ian Barklay told BCTV News on Global that a group of about 20 teenagers attacked him and his two friends by throwing rocks at their tents, smashing their car windshield and slashing the tires. "I had gotten out (of the tent) to ask them why they were throwing rocks at our tents and pretty much from there on it was 'Yankees, Americans, go home, we're going to gangbang you'."

Of course, the RCMP say it was all the Americans fault.

"But an RCMP investigation suggests the Washington state residents may have provoked the fight at a campground near the resort town of Whistler. RCMP Staff Sgt. Cliff Doherty said the tussle was instigated by one of the Americans. "One of our Squamish youth was grabbed by the leg by one of the campers from the U.S.," Mr. Doherty said."

You may think we Americans are a war like people Mr. Doherty, but we aren't quite dumb enough to have 3 of our citizens pick a fight with 20 of yours, asshole!

But, go ahead, blame the Americans. You don't want other potential tourists to think you have roving bands of pillaging locals wandering about, right?

"Squamish Mayor Ian Sutherland downplayed the allegations. "It's not a good thing whenever this happens in any community," Mr. Sutherland said. "It's a very small portion of our community that was involved in this. Overall, the community is very friendly toward outsiders and tourists."

Riiigghtt! Please come to our town. It didn't snow well last ski season and we need the money, eh.

Having been to Squamish, I can tell you that it is a full-on tourist pit stop. If you live in town, you serve tourists in one way or another. Mostly skiers in winter. But the summer camping season money isn't bad either.

And having spent some of my formative years in a town like this one here in Washington, I can probably tell you 100 tourist skier jokes.

What this sounds like is, a group of locals was hanging out (AKA kegger) at the campgroud and they decided to cut through campsites to get where they're going. I've seen this in my travels up and down the NW Coastline. One of the American campers took a dislike to 20 fucking people traipsing through his rental and took matters into his own hands. Why? Because even though the Canucks hate us for it, some American still don't like to take shit from nobody.

The one time I've had this happen, there were about 15 of the little bastards and I saw them coming. Luckily I was in a state park and not a federal one (you can't take firearms onto federal land) and had my 870 with me. I pulled it out of the guncase and proceded to clean it. Of course to clean it, I had to start stuffing the magazine tube full of 00Buck while scowling.

If I remember correctly, they used the paved roads as walkways for as far as I could see them.

In the town I grew up in, the town council had an under the table deal with the state park that let us have parties there so we wouldn't go way into the back country, get Schlitzfaced and try to take one lane dirt roads home at 4 in the morning. They usually gave us a spot way in the back of the campgrounds away from everyone else. And as long as we didn't bother the rest of the campers or try to leave, we were good to go.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:44 PM | Comments (0)

Old soldiers fade away, old tyrants believe they are eternal

Arafat scared? Seems so when he falls back on old habits to squash younger smarter and more moderate leadership. While I trust nothing from the Independant, this is worthy of note, in that it gives a glimpse of what may be going on behind the scenes in palestine.

Quick he's crawling back out of the hole, hand me a shovel.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:12 PM | Comments (0)

Why must the US be impartial?

This opinion piece in the Toronto Star shows clearly the obstacles to peace that Israel faces. They aren't the ones that the author says they are.

That's an ironic way of saying that Egyptians, along with many others in the Arab world and Europe, have little faith in America's much-vaunted impartiality: There may be still too much bias in Washington to broker a genuine peace.

America's overwhelming support for Israel comes from the powerful Jewish lobby in Washington, which leans to the political right, and from the equally powerful American Christian Zionists, who relentlessly pressure both the Bush administration and Israeli government not to give up one inch of the occupied territories.

Ok, it's all the JEWS and CHRISTIANS fault. Strange that he clearly wants America to be impartial(IE, restrain the Jews), yet open pro-palestinian bias is perfectly fine in Europe. (Insert the sounds of goosestepping at this point). Also his preoccupation with the influence of Jews and the Christian right is touching, and dead wrong. Jewish voters are overwhelmingly democrat, hardly fodder for the GOP, and the Christian right has no real influence beyond the ability to annoy fellow Americans. He pontificates on American internal politics as if he understood them, and sadly this is a common opinion among those in the world who claim to want peace.

The Israelis have already begun their withdrawal from Gaza and some West Bank areas. In addition, there are promises to release thousands of Palestinian detainees from Israeli jails and end the siege of Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah.

This hopeful d�tente will allow the Palestinians, with the help of the international community, to rebuild their PNA (Palestinian National Authority) infrastructure from the ground up after 2 1/2 years of almost daily attack.

However, if American and Israeli pressure convinces Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, and his security minister Mohamed Dahlan, to completely "dismantle" Palestinian factions � including Hamas and Islamic Jihad � before any final settlement, the road map could be doomed to failure.

So let me get this straight, Israel keeps it's commitments, gives back territory, and stops all aggresive action against palestinian terror groups. In exchange the pali's do what exactly? The good professor seems to suggest they give up nothing and allow Hamas and the others to go on their happy way. Oh horseshit, here we go again with the drumbeat of it's all Israel's fault before the plan even gets a chance. And if Professor shit for brains thinks that leaving terrorists like Hamas alone will achieve peace, I got some beach front property in Kansas for him.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:50 PM | Comments (0)

Ooooooh, Yeah

CNN and MSNBC doing their job!

Namely, making the situation in Iraq sound as dire as possible. Nothing like demoralizing the home front while your troops are in harm's way.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:50 AM | Comments (0)

Summer pleasures

On a lighter note, Nukevet has alluded to the glories of Southern cooking. I freely admit I adore sourthern food, with the exception of grits. The French may have an old culinery history, but really, compared to us they don't know jack about good food. Our way of enjoying food is constantly changing, embracing new ideas and techniques. New flavors, new styles, and it's almost all good.

This is my idea of a great summer afternoon, good food, good beer, friends and family. We may not have the souths reputation for BBQ, but we Buckeyes ain't too shabby in that department either. I like most things, but summer grilling is just about the best.

Oh BTW, yes we do corn alot. Since Ohio is queen of the corn belt, we feed a lot of people. You DO like cornbread, DON"T you? If you don't than I'm a callin you a communist.................................

Posted by Nukevet at 02:55 AM | Comments (6)

Is Iraq really going badly, or would some just like us to think so?

The Weekly Standard, where I found this interesting piece. Since the BBC, the New york Times, The Boston Globe and numerous others were dead set against the war to begin with, how much should we listen to them now? Might this be a case of using every setback as justification for their previous position, when they ignore the whole of the situation in Iraq? They go there looking for failure, so that is what they see. Regardless of the true situation.

Are they hoping we fail, or do they believe it's inevitable? I think both. They dream of a popular liberal to rid the country of that "cowboy", and I think they'll play up any news that push that agenda. I also think they turn a blind eye to any positive developments, can't give the sheep any confusing information. Because that's what they seem to think voters are, sheep to be led.

Have at.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:51 AM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2003

One of the reasons

That Cost of Government Day is just a little bit later this year..........

Posted by Nukevet at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)

Cost of Government Day

In case you didn't know, today is the day you stop paying for government and work for yourself.

It's 4.5 days later than last year. More tax cuts please, Mr. Bush.

Go here for the numbers. It's in pdf form.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:10 PM | Comments (0)

Kill The President

Only in the Bay Area.

Let's see now - telling your students to type the words "kill the president" in an e-mail, and then having them send it to their congressional representative is supposed to prove that an "aura of fear and paranoia" infuses how many people in the US view their government? I don't know if it does that, but it certainly shows how incredibly stupid some allegedly "smart" people in academia really are.

Oh, yeah - the professor in questions believes everything should be OK because the student who actually carried out the assignment (prompting said congressperson to alert the Secret Service) wrote "kill the president" with a small "p" instead of "kill the President". Still, doesn't the use of "the" rather than "a" sort of suggest that Bush was the focus of the e-mail? The FBI and Secret Service certainly thought so.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:39 PM | Comments (0)

I think it was the guy's hat

That endeared him.

Go here and take a look at Ratko Mladic and tell if you think it was the hats too.

Have no idea what I'm babbling on about? Well apparently, the Bastion of Weasel, Jacques Chirac made a deal with a real, honest-to-gosh war criminal. The deal was to sabotage the guys extradition to face charges of genocide for his planned role in the extermination of the Bosnian Muslims (something the 'religion of peace' has forgotten about us being the only ones willing to step up and stop, I might add).

But don't take my word for it, go read.

Found at Lucianne.com

Posted by Nukevet at 07:27 PM | Comments (0)

They looove kids

Remember when Senator Rick Santorum who, about a month or so ago, compared homosexuality to, amopng other things, pedophilia and was shouted down for doing so. Well, I don't know if he gave them the idea to do this or if they'd of tried it anyway.

"Cultural experts who agree with claims that the Supreme Court may have opened the door to legalizing pedophilia in its Lawrence v. Texas decision on private homosexual behavior point to the growing movement within academia to de-stigmatize pedophilia."

"On its website, NAMBLA Director David Thorstad claims: "Pederasty, like homosexuality, has existed, and exists, in all societies that have ever been studied. Homoeroticism is a ubiquitous feature of human experience, as even efforts to repress it confirm. Men and youths have always been attracted to each other, and, like homosexuality in general, their love is irrepressible."

The key word that we need to watch there is 'irrepressible'. Base word 'repression'. It is the one they will start focusing on.

"During its annual convention in May, the American Psychiatric Association hosted a symposium discussing the removal of pedophilia along with other categories of mental illness (collectively known as paraphilia) from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)."

"Mary Eberstadt, research fellow at the Hoover Institute: "The evidence is plain: there is indeed an ongoing attempt from within the psychiatric and psychological communities to de-stigmatize pedophilia by de-classifying it as a paraphilia in the first place."

Now don't get me wrong, I could give a less than a rats ass what adults do in their bedrooms. But these truly sick fucks are now emboldened and are taking Lawrence vs. Texas as a victory in their fight to legally have sex with children.

I keep thinking 'Island. we could put them all on an island.' Then I think 'The Bikini Atoll would be a good island'. Then I think 'New rounds of nuclear testing'. In that order.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:50 PM | Comments (0)

Pre-Revisionists

I'm sure we've all heard about Revisionism. The taking of the past by those in the present and making sire that those in the furture think about the past the way that those in the present want them to. Don't worry, after that last sentence, now is still now.

But that is not how a group called 'Historians Against the War' want it. They have already started recording things so that when they get around to putting it down for the record, it wasn't how it really happened at all.

From FrontPage Mag.com:

"Historians Against the War was formally founded at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), although planning for this meeting had been going on for weeks. Professors and graduate students in history departments across America distributed organizing e-mails promoting the event, well-publicizing it in advance. The drive to establish Historians Against the War was primarily led by a professor well-known for his radicalism, Van Gosse of Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Franklin and Marshall College. This cheerleader for the Latin American far-left, former political activist for the Ralph Nader-led Green Party, and director of the leftist Peace Action's Peace Voter Fund would be joined at the founding meeting by approximately one hundred other historians from forty different colleges, many with similar activist credentials."

"Some historians and interviewers have mildly questioned Historians Against the War's legitimacy, only to be glibly rebuffed by Van Gosse, the lead organizer. He claimed that today's leftist historians "are critical intellectuals providing a vital democratic function," but this desire to engage in militant editorializing conflicts with the obligations historians have to their profession. While it's possible to both write history and comment on current events, the Historians Against the War attempt to present their political commentary as history, and transfer their reputations as history professors to their political activism. The two are separate, often conflicting roles, and should not be mixed. And as far Van Gosse's claim that Historians Against the War is "not a partisan thing," the calling of the President 'brainless' and the debate over 'electoral work' proves his statement wrong."

"Further attempts to subvert the humanities were outlined in Historians Against the War first official organizational meeting, held May 31st in New York City. They declared themselves "a network of historians who are opposed to the current empire-building and war-making activities of the United States government at home and abroad;" instead, they stood for "global justice." They then agreed to use their academic positions to influence public opinion, and set out five practical aims:"

1) "to work at both the K-12 and the college/university levels" to develop curricula and other resources. This is a politicized nightmare waiting to happen. Responsible historians know it's impossible to teach history on events happening just months ago; and developing curricula on past events (say, Vietnam or the first Gulf War) with a predefined political purpose in mind is 'presentism,' one of the foremost sins of historical scholarship and an invitation to corrupted, partisan work.

2) to further target professional association meetings, "where Historians Against the War will raise issues about Iraq, empire, etc., as well as about repression." This includes future attempts to persuade professional associations to take political stances. Another disaster in the making - those groups adopting Historians Against the War's stance will also bring home skepticism about the objectivity of their own scholarship.

3) to research and investigate potential U.S. war crimes in Iraq, as well as "resistance to the American Empire." Here we see something extremely contentious and debatable - that America is an empire - offered up as a given, as a point to begin. With such an introduction, there's hardly any point in doing the research - no matter what's found, with such radical premises we already know how the conclusion's going to read. It's the Queen of Hearts school of writing history - sentence first, verdict later.

4) to engage in more public outreach. The Historians Against War vowed to use their positions for political purposes by producing op-ed pieces, 'educating' media editorial boards, and placing "anti-imperialist, historical analysis before the public." Do they really expect the public to take them seriously, when they're only offering up one pre-selected, quite narrow point of view?

5) to engage in international work - primarily by bringing in anti-American historians from abroad to join them on the steering committee and in their work.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:12 PM | Comments (0)

Alternate reality

Consider this scenario:

A group of white students is having a bible study meeting in a public "multicultural" center. A black man enters to hang up fliers advertising a meeting for a WHITE speaker, a speaker with views some of the students in the bible group dislike. The white students prevent the black man from putting up the fliers, telling him that he can't hang the fliers up without permission from the director of the Multicultural Center. The black man leaves in search of this permission, and the white students promptly call police and report a "suspicious black male" in the vicintiy. When the black male returns, he is questioned by police and charged by the university with disrupting the bible meeting and offending the white student members with his racist flier.

Can you imagine the hew and cry that would go up from the PC crowd if this really happened? Horrible injustice, they'd say. Just more examples of the racism prevalent in white society, they'd howl. OK, now let's leave the alternate reality for the "real". It's an easy trip, all you have to do is change the race of each of the players in our little drama, and you're here.

You won't be surprised to learn that the university has deemed that it is the white student guilty of wrongdoing - and has ordered him to "apologize, IN WRITING" to the black students he offended, as well as having the affair become part of his permanent transcript. The white student, Steve Hinkel, has refused to apologize, and is going after the university administration.

So, in the alternate reality scenario, the white students would be at fault. In the "real" reality scenario, the white student is at fault. At least the PC crowd is consistent - only whites can be racist. If I were Steve Hinkel, I would also be going after the bible group for filing a false police report - isn't it a crime to call in a tip on someone that you know to be untrue? They knew exactly who he was and what he was doing - they just didn't like his viewpoint, so they tried to crush it.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:00 PM | Comments (2)

Have you been following the

Dissident Frogman's photo holiday of London?

If not, you really should. Where else you gonna get photos like this?

Oh, Yeah - the Dissident Frogman also has some suggestions for your Christmas shopping list.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:08 AM | Comments (0)

Dutch's yacht

How did I miss this?

Tomorrow! This Saturday the 12th of July the Navy will hold the Official Commissioning of the aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan.

From Newsmax.com:

"WASHINGTON - Former President Ronald Reagan is to be honored this weekend by a military that has never wavered in its respect for him, just as he stood by them as the guardians of our freedoms."

"The official commissioning of the Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, is Saturday at the Norfolk Naval Station."

"Reagan, still revered by millions of Americans years after his exit from the White House and even as he, the “great communicator,” is no longer able to communicate with his countrymen, will be honored as the ship is the centerpiece of a 90-minute ceremony."

"The Ronald Reagan, the ninth Nimitz-class carrier, will be home to more than 5,550 sailors. It will support approximately 80 aircraft. Other ships in the Nimitz series include carriers honoring Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt."

I hope someone televises this. Maybe C-SPAN? Who am I kidding, I'll be lucky to be able to find a picture of it.

Anyway, head on over to Newsmax.com. They have the official USS Ronald Reagan cap and many more things Reagan in the Newsmax store.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:38 AM | Comments (0)

Save the M-14's

Read below, then go sign this petition.

"A petition drive is underway to convince lawmakers to "civilianize" hundreds of thousands of M-14 military battle rifles so they can be legally sold by the government to the general public as a way to pay for the Iraq war."

"According to the online petition, "there is a strong demand for an M-14 DCM [Director of Civilian Marksmanship] program, which will curb government waste by providing up to $300-600 million [for] deficit reduction."

"The petition, which is being spearheaded by Robert A. Yoder, says as many as 300,000 rifles could wind up in the scrap heap without the government getting any return on its investment."

"The DCM program to save the M-14s could work like a similar program involving another venerable military workhorse, the M-1 (Garand) and M-1 carbine series of military rifles."

"The DCM sold those through the Civilian Marksmanship Program, a course that promotes firearms safety training and rifle practice for all qualified U.S. citizens with special emphasis on youth."

"The Civilian Marksmanship Program also offers for sale AR-15-type match rifles, M1917 Enfields, M1903 bolt-action rifles (a former U.S. military weapon) and .22-caliber target rifles at subsidized rates."

Go sign the petition.

Found at World Net Daily via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Posted by Nukevet at 06:21 AM | Comments (0)

why couldn't he be from another state?

Jerry Springer will officially file for a U.S. Senate run in Ohio, but he hasn�t made up his mind on a campaign just yet.

Via Drudge.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:27 AM | Comments (1)

July 10, 2003

Iran-Contra Redux

Taranto is on target with a comparison between the Iran-Contra hearings of the late 80's and the left's current fascination with the 'No WMD's yet/Bush lied' diatribe.

"Surely the nadir of Ronald Reagan's presidency came on Nov. 13, 1986. His party had lost its Senate majority nine days earlier, and now President Reagan was forced to admit that his administration had secretly sold arms to the mad mullahs who ran Iran--and whose attack on the American Embassy in Tehran was instrumental in Reagan's victory. Suddenly Reagan looked as ineffectual as his predecessor. This could have been a gold mine for the Democrats looking ahead to the 1988 election."

"But then a funny thing happened. On Nov. 25, the White House revealed that members of the administration had been involved in diverting money from the Iran arms sales to the contras, Nicaragua's anticommunist freedom-fighters. The president impaneled a commission to investigate, Attorney General Ed Meese requested the appointment of an independent counsel (who would be on the job until 1993), and Congress held heavily publicized hearings in the summer of 1987."

"The political fallout of all this was pretty much nil. Michael Dukakis tried to make Iran-contra an issue against Vice President Bush in the 1988 campaign, but Bush won 40 states and a majority of the popular votes--both feats that have not been duplicated since. Watergate brought down a president, Monicagate arguably brought down Bill Clinton's vice president, but Iran-contra didn't stop the elder George Bush from becoming the first sitting vice president since Martin Van Buren to be elected president."

"What went wrong for the Democrats? They made a strategic error in emphasizing the contra part of the scandal at the expense of the Iran part. Most Americans were indifferent to the Nicaraguan conflict, but the fashionable left--the same sort of people who are now supporting Howard Dean--romanticized the communist Sandinistas and were outraged at the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow them. (The Nicaraguan people disagreed, turning out dictator Daniel Ortega when he held elections in 1989.) The Democrats thus fixated on the possibility that the Reagan administration had violated a pettifogging law called the Boland Amendment, which barred U.S. aid to the contras. America yawned."

"The Democrats might have been able to make some hay of Iran-contra if they'd resisted their pro-Sandinista urges and instead emphasized the Reagan administration's dealing with the ayatollahs. The Iranian regime was (and remains) a avowed enemy of America, and in 1986-88 memories were still fresh of the Jimmy Carter hostage humiliation. For normal Americans, going soft on Iran was a much worse sin than helping the anticommunist side in a war in far-off Central America."

"Democrats seem to be just as out of touch today. Rather than celebrate the overthrow of a tyrant and enemy of America, they are trying to discredit it by retrospectively niggling over the nuances of the argument for war. It's as if they were defense lawyers arguing an appeal on behalf of Saddam, trying to get him off on a technicality."

Hopefully with the same election results in 04 as in 88.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:05 PM | Comments (0)

A kind a loving human being

Who just happened to be a racist and who committed mass murder before taking the big dirt nap.

Hey, it's true what they say - racist mass murderers need love, too. Can't imagine the girlfriend is going to get too many invites to social functions in this small town after a performance like that.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:31 PM | Comments (1)

Finally, somebody appreciates

The BBC.

At the end of the program, the editor thanked the BBC for telling the truth about true source of danger in Middle East, namely, Israel.

Boy, I bet getting praise from Egypt just makes those Beeb boys blush with pride, don't ya think?

Posted by Nukevet at 06:21 PM | Comments (0)

The UN pays LGF a visit

Not surprisingly, anti-semitic slurs are involved.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:16 PM | Comments (0)

Progressives vs Liberals

Two tastes that don't go with anything.

From the Angry Clam

"What distinguishes progressives from liberals is that while liberals tend to view the dangers of an over-oppressive state as the most serious obstacle to the attainment of such a world, progressives, while agreeing that some obstacles emanate from the state, argue that for the most part the most serious impediments emanate from unjust concentrations of private power -- the social power of whites over blacks, the intimate power of men over women, the economic power of the materially privileged over the materially deprived. From a progressive perspective, it is those concentrations of private power, not state power, that presently riddle social life with hierarchic relationships of mastery and subjection, of sovereignty and subordination. Hence, it is those concentrations of private power that must be targeted, challenged, and reformed by progressive political action. That action, in turn, will often involve state intervention into the private spheres within which hierarchies of private power are allowed to thrive, and that simple fact will commonly pit the progressive strategy of ending private domination against the liberal goal of minimizing the danger of an oppressive state."

While I agree with all that is said here, let me pare it down to a couple of sentences. 'If you are white and male and make enough money to be self-sufficient or more, in the liberals minds, you're the problem. In the progressives minds, you're the disease. You will be fought on every front until you surrender or grow old and die, whichever comes first.'

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

Found the Angry Clam via Mr. Quick.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:22 PM | Comments (0)

Speak no evil

Here we go with a little ditty that shows how the left, with all of their PC catchphrases, have made 1984 more of a reality than GWB and both of the 'Patriot Acts".

"The Supreme Court recently ruled that universities could favor minority students for admission as long as no race was automatically favored. The ambiguous decision might seem to encourage open discussion but political correctness sometimes seems determined that debate will not occur. PCspeak, like Newspeak in George Orwell's classic novel 1984, forms an effective barrier."

"In Orwell's dystopian world, Oceania, Newspeak serves the ideological goals of Ingsoc -- English Socialism. It gradually replaces Oldspeak in defining politics and culture. Without the words necessary, complex thoughts simply cannot be expressed."

"The evolution of PCspeak parallels that of Newspeak. Consider the evolution of public debate on affirmative action or, more broadly, "diversity."

"First, there is the introduction of doublethink. Doublethink occurs when someone simultaneously accepts two contradictory beliefs as true. A common argument for affirmative action: It is wrong to judge people on the basis of skin color or gender; therefore, universities and employers should give preference to people based on skin color and gender."

"Second, euphemistic "doublespeak" makes doublethink positions acceptable. The term "affirmative action" strongly implies a positive and correct action."

"Third, language is controlled to define the ensuing debate."

And the article goes on to describe the different methods of control. Go read it all. You may think you know how bad it has gotten, but trust me, it's even worse than you think.

Found at Inoperable Terran vis the USS Clueless

I once tried to speak at a city council meeting here in Seattle. Talk about a PC fest! If you didn't use their terms, phrases and wordage to describe a group, idea or object, you basically were not received.

The council was acting as if they were granting you an audience with royalty and if you did not give the proper respect to The King (aka PC language), you should be dragged out of the meeting hall by the royal guards and flogged.

This particular meeting was about an ordinance that would make it illegal for City of Seattle employees (including member of law enforcement) to ask a person about the status of their citizenship (read: no asking for green cards during criminal investigations or traffic stops).

I actually used the phrase 'criminal activity among illegal immigants' and was told by a council member that if I wish to continue to have my opinion heard, I would have to drop the word 'criminal' as it is judgemental against low income peoples, and the phrase 'Illegal Immigrants' because it made folks sound criminal.

So basically, to be able to speak at the meeting and try to get my point across, I had to say 'unknown activity among the undocumented'.

Doesn't quite hold the punch that I had intended.

And just to let you know, the ordinance did pass.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:17 PM | Comments (0)

poor wittle fwenchy

I knew the french to be utter children, but this is just stupid.

"French Government bans email"

"The French government, in a bid to turn back the tide of English words in the field of technology, has banned its civil service from using the term "email" instead of its approved French equivalent, the culture minister announced."

"All government ministries, websites, publications and documents must now use "courriel" - a shortening of "courrier electronique" (literally: electronic mail) - when they are referring to the messages sent via the internet, the ministry said in a statement."

"The move, made law by its publication in the official government gazette on June 20, will put the French administration out of step with the majority of the French public, who still prefer to use "email" to communicate between computer accounts."

When will the just figure out that they are too stupid to live by themselves and get along with the rest of the world?

And is it just me, or did anyone else notice the phrase 'Official Government Gazette" in there. I wish the left, with all of its 'Imerial America' BS, would please let me know which 'Official Government Newspaper" here in America I have to read to make sure I keep up with all of the current new legislation.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:48 PM | Comments (1)

My God, It's Ilsa, She wolf of the SS!

Wonder why Euro business's always seem to be a couple of steps behind? Tuetonic discipline! That's what they need. I wonder if riding boots, crop and leather corset are optional? I'm sure Frau Blucher has the situation in hand.

She might want to rethink this practice though.

"We are planning to have our own Hall of Fame in the toilet, decorating the walls with newspaper articles about the firm."

There's no accounting for what some people regard as good taste.

Kommen Sie. miene liebchen.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:24 AM | Comments (0)

File this under, that would SUCK.

Think somebodies in trouble over this one?

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Check her for fangs..

Is there any doubt that the Paris designers are out of their minds? Don't expect Sharon Stone to wear one of these on Oscar night. Like a cross between Victoria's Secret and a Japanese Super Villan. Don't you suspect any woman who would wear this would also have a jar holding her prized testicle collection at home?

Hold me honey, scary woman frightens me!

Posted by Nukevet at 10:22 AM | Comments (2)

July 09, 2003

True Fascism

The student protests that were scheduled for today in Iran have been cancelled.

But that wasn't good enough for the Mad Mullahs.

"Islamic Vigilantes Seize Three Iran Student Leaders"

"TEHRAN (Reuters) - Armed Iranian Islamic vigilantes seized three student leaders on Wednesday as they left a news conference where they announced they had canceled protests to mark the anniversary of 1999 university unrest, witnesses said."

If you pray, please do so for these kids. All they want is freedom.

Found @ LGF

BBS forum question:

How much of an influence is the US presence in Iraq on the current student movement in Iran?

Posted by Nukevet at 01:46 PM | Comments (0)

Ignorance or malice?

The Washington Post on Bush's visit to Africa. You can't read this without feeling the utter absurdity of dealing with entrenched third world leftists. Facts don't matter, actions are meaningless. No it's all about saying the right things to suck up. They demand things from Bush they never did from another president. The reception is childish, the venom hypocritical. Because the people doing the loudest complaining know better.

The reception for Bush in Africa is not as overtly hostile as those he has received in places such as Germany, where tens of thousands filled the streets to protest what they called his unilateralist and militaristic policies. At the same time, however, the reception contrasts markedly with the large and adoring crowds that greeted former President Bill Clinton five years ago; some still have photos of Clinton in their homes.

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Other criticism comes from the nature of Bush's fast-paced sprint through the continent. Sitting in a caf� in downtown Kampala, Agnes Tiisa, a station manager at Mama FM, a popular women's radio station in Uganda, complained that Bush "is going to come here for only four hours, praise AIDS and not help with any of our real problems. People feel he is using us to get re-elected in his own country. We Africans care about spending time."

Of course Clinton volunteered in AIDS clinics for weeks, changed bedpans, fed people,...........Now this is just freaking bizzare, Clinton never visited most of them, never gave them anything but lip service, and they think he walked on water. Bush gives them their first chance to really fight AIDS and he's a "devil"?

I guess if your politics aren't acceptable, then the death toll is a small price to pay.

Kick the corpse?

Posted by Nukevet at 01:45 PM | Comments (0)

Hey look, we caught Boris Badenoff!

Remember this tough guy?

Come my brethern, and laugh at a fool.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:21 PM | Comments (0)

They're 'in it for the kids'

If only they'd act like it.

Another example of teachers wanting power instead of educated kids.

"Teacher union fights to hold Sacramento High down"

"Californians from all over the state ought to be watching the nasty fight playing out this summer in the Sacramento city schools. It shows what reform-minded administrators and a supportive community can do to try to turn around public education in low-income neighborhoods. It also demonstrates, unfortunately, how far the state teachers union will go to block such changes."

"The district has been trying to re-invent Sacramento High School, a troubled school in the city's largely minority Oak Park neighborhood, a few miles south of the state Capitol. The campus was officially on the list of the state's "low-performing" schools and participated in a state program targeting new resources at such failures. But Sacramento High didn't improve, and faced a possible state takeover."

"Instead, the district school board voted earlier this year to close the campus and hand the grounds to a nonprofit corporation headed by former NBA basketball star Kevin Johnson, who graduated from Sacramento High before going on to lead the Phoenix Suns as an all-star point guard. Johnson has returned to his childhood digs and is using his money and connections to try to spur an economic and spiritual resurgence in the area."

This is a must read for any and all who have kids.

Found @ MT Politics

Posted by Nukevet at 01:01 PM | Comments (0)

It's OK to be a psycho

At least that is what this Canadian woman says that the move 'The Hulk' is telling kids.

Head on over to Meryl's Place and read her excellent fisking of this diatribe.

Excerpt:
"OK. So he's had it tougher than the rest of us. That's no excuse for "hulking out," says Joy Muller. Not in the movies, and definitely not in real life."

"On a recent trip to Ohio, the Edmonton chartered psychologist, who works with kids and families, slipped into a darkened cinema filled with "a gazillion" kids to catch the movie version of The Hulk, the comic book hero of her youth."

"Beepbeepbeep! Idiot alert! Supposedly educated woman cannot estimate the size of a movie theater audience, despite the fact that many theaters actually have crowd size limit warnings on the doors to the theater."

Posted by Nukevet at 12:49 PM | Comments (0)

Funny

I found this at a couple of different places last night, but I don't remember where.

Go here.

This is what you get when you go to Google and enter 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' and hit the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button

Posted by Nukevet at 12:38 PM | Comments (0)

As if we needed proof

That men really do still rule the world.

The new fashon this year

That's right guys, nipples.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:28 PM | Comments (0)

Now dammit, these puppies get all the fun.

The Tomahawk, not the missile, but the hand weapon. I liked the K-bar, carried it, as well as a Gerber boot knife. This is so annoyingly cool I'm turning a shade of Hulkish green.

Me want one too..................

Posted by Nukevet at 02:13 AM | Comments (0)

July 08, 2003

Now I feel unworthy

From Quizila
Would you die for someone or something?

Posted by Nukevet at 11:47 PM | Comments (0)

Bill talked the talk, George walks the walk.

From the Globe and mail.

The administration has proposed a $15-billion (U.S.), five-year AIDS initiative for the 14 hardest-hit countries in the world, 12 of which are in Africa. Mr. Bush also has proposed a $1-billion famine initiative, including a $200-million emergency famine fund, and a five-year $600-million education initiative.

Come forth and bleed.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:53 PM | Comments (0)

Another Illusion

Shattered

Posted by Nukevet at 03:19 PM | Comments (0)

Tell me again

Exactly what were the circumstances surrounding Rachel Corrie's death?

Brave, or stupid?

Posted by Nukevet at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)

Forum

Do you trust the new electronic voting machines?

I have the opinion of the looney left. (Warning: contains more accusations of GWB stealing the 2000 election.)

But I want to know what you all think about this. Let me know at the BBS.

Personally, I like this

Posted by Nukevet at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)

Let me see your papers.

You're papers are not in order! Guards!

"A leaked memo revealed that David Blunkett is pushing the Cabinet to back national identity cards for everyone aged 16 and over, carrying biometric information, such as fingerprints, to allow police to confirm the holder's identity. Under Mr Blunkett's scheme, the card will cost �39 for most people between the ages of 17 and 75."

If this goes through in the UK, I wonder how long until it catches on with the EU.

Can you say "Euronazi"?

Image and tip are both from Samizdata.

I hope you all like the Euronazi flag. I borrowed it from a post @ Samizdata and am putting in a request to it's creator to be able to use it on my posts on the EU.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:40 PM | Comments (0)

The inmates

Are now legally running the asylum.

From Samizdata:

"In response to another European Directive, the supine government of Her Majesty, will later today impose Workers Councils upon all companies employing 150 workers, or more. In 2008, the same regulations will apply to all companies with 50 workers, or more."

"Employers will be obliged to consult these councils on any change of company ownership, or on any change in the numbers of staff employed by the company."

You heard that right. If you took the risks and initiative, built yourself a successful business, and 10 years later get an offer for twice what it is worth, you have to ask your employees permission to do so.

And Samizdata read my mind with this statement:
"This will, obviously, usher in a period of wealth, happiness, and economic harmony, as they currently possess in the rest of the mainstream EU. Like in Germany, and in France, for instance."

Posted by Nukevet at 01:24 PM | Comments (0)

Exploding Muslims Threaten Violence

Israel says "Bring It On".

With the bombing earlier today, there is some confusions whether or not Islamic Jihad is actually claiming responsibilty or if it is a splinter group with IJ making the call. But with statements like this, does it really matter.

"Release the prisoners or the consequences will be grave."

LGF will point out here, that releasing of 'palestinian' prisoners is contained nowhere in the 'Roadmap'.

And you can go to LGF here and read about how the newly formed "Flying Palestinian Police Force" is playing catch and release with those who would pose a threat to Israeli civilians.

I was hoping that the 'palis' would at least make a half-assed attempt at honoring the 'Roadmap'. But just like last weeks lottery drawing results, it looks as if I was wasting my time.

UPDATE: Yep, I was wasting my time.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:10 PM | Comments (0)

Lotta Bum

I don't know about the 'homeless' problem in the town where you live, but Seattle seems to be behind only San Francisco in both bums and their enablers.

And if you listen to the mainstream media here recently, you may start to think that GWB is personally showing up at families homes and throwing them and their stuff out on the lawn. But it is simply not true.

From the Media Reasearch Center:
"Most Homeless Ever, Numbers �Not Seen Since Great Depression�

"Last week CBS and NBC simultaneously discovered a new crisis of a record number of homeless families, though neither cited proof for the dire warnings other than the self-interested claims of homeless advocacy groups."

Yep, you got it. They don't have the numbers to prove their proclamations, but their saying it anyway. With reports fueled by represenatatives from the 'homelessness' cottage industry, they make claims that cannot be proven.

I wonder why they would want to do this? Could it be......Media Bias?

Found @ Right Thinking on the Left Coast

Posted by Nukevet at 12:44 PM | Comments (0)

Putin acts Unilaterally

Read Putin's words. Then explain to me again why he opposed the US action in Iraq? Oooooh, I get it - if the US acts unilaterally or looks out for its own interests, that is imperialistic. But if Russia does it, that is "combating global terrorism".

Posted by Nukevet at 10:43 AM | Comments (0)

First Spoken in 1907

But still true today:

While teams representing the United States won the rifle and revolver championships of the world against all comers in England this year, it is unfortunately true that the great body of our citizens shoot less and less as time goes on. To meet this we should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services, by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving the peace of the world. Fit to hold our own against the strong nations of the earth, our voice for peace will carry to the ends of the earth. Unprepared, and therefore unfit, we must sit dumb and helpless to defend ourselves, protect others, or preserve peace. The first step � in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come � is to teach our men to shoot.

Found via Instapundit.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:09 AM | Comments (0)

July 07, 2003

Why is it

That liberals get all warm and fuzzy when talking about socialism, while people who have actually lived under socialist regimes have a decidedly different reaction?

Mao's little red book

Posted by Nukevet at 09:09 PM | Comments (0)

OK, so it's too late to qualify for the

"whoring for hits" contest that occured while Instapundit was away on vacation. But, this would have been my entry, incorporating a nice Louisiana flair:

Posted by Nukevet at 07:18 PM | Comments (0)

Simple. Succinct. Direct.

I was reading through the comments of this post over at Pej's place.

One individual is trying hard to make the case for the "Bush lied about WMD's" argument. Lots of comments (including one from a person that tries to bolster this argument by quoting "facts" from alternet). As I was wading through all of the comments, I came across the perfect response to the "Bush lied because we haven't found the WMDs yet" crowd, provided by the Daghtator:

If I tell you today that I have hard evidence of a beer in my fridge, and then tell you tomorrow that I cannot find it, does that mean that I lied?

Hehe, yep. I want to be on the UN team assigned to look for the beers in Daghtator's fridge.......

Look for the Beer

Posted by Nukevet at 06:41 PM | Comments (0)

All Hat and No Cattle

Heh.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:20 PM | Comments (0)

Man, I tell you

Sometimes I really, really, really hate people.

Nope, no link for comments. Why do I have to do all of the work around here. Sometimes, I feel like you just don't put any effort at all into our relationship. If you want a link, make the damn thing yourself.

I'm sorry, was that out loud?

Posted by Nukevet at 06:02 PM | Comments (0)

Offended by Bush's "bring em on" remark?

How about getting the opinion of someone being asked to cash that check?

The truth? You can't handle the truth!

Posted by Nukevet at 05:35 PM | Comments (0)

The Matrix, Reloaded

**SIGH**

Guns don't kill people, People kill people

Posted by Nukevet at 04:20 PM | Comments (0)

Comments

OK, I have now disabled open comments as the default for RNS. I have also disabled e-mail authorization for the bulletin boards, so you can enter a fake name and e-mail if you want to.

The authors can choose to allow open comments on a post if they want to, but otherwise you will have to use the BB to leave a comment or start a topic. Please note that ANYONE can start a thread or initiate a discussion, not just 0ne of the 3 Amigos.

In other words, use the effin' boards, people!

Posted by Nukevet at 03:44 PM | Comments (0)

Forum

The Kid here.

I need folks to go over to the BBS (yes, click on the explosion there on the right) and help me with a question. Or, here is a link.

With the bombings in Moscow over the weekend, I wondered:

Why is there no large outcry from the left, either in Europe or the US over the Chechen situation like there is for the 'palestinians'?

Is it the Jewish/Zionism angle? Or is it because the oppressor here is a former (some say) socialist empire?

I also have another not so serious question on this subject I would like to have answered if y'all would be so kind. Just look in the 'Things Non-American' forum and give me something to ease my worried mind. Thank you.

Well, get crackin' skippy. This question isn't going to answer itself. Here is another link.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:19 PM | Comments (0)

Blair Government Cleared of Wrongdoing

As reported by that propaganda conduit of the Bush Administration, the WaPo.

But, of course, the non-believers will choose to dismiss it as partisan politics, just as they dismiss the supreme court decision regarding the Florida recount(s). Never mind that every study of the recounts has reached the conclusion - that Bush won. Never mind that, had the shoe been on the other foot, they would have been perfectly happy with the outcome. Nope, all that matters is that you didn't get your way, and you're going to scream and pout about it as much as possible.

The BBC, of course, chooses to stand by it's attempt to compromise Blair's government during a time of war.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:54 AM | Comments (1)

More BB nonsense

I have changed the BB so that it does not require activation - we'll see how this works out. A lot of people are reading the boards, but not very many are commenting.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:54 AM | Comments (1)

Oh Canada!

Seeing as how this last weekend was the celebration of all things American, my local weekly paper "The Stranger" decided that they had already had enough of that, what with winning the war in Iraq and all. So, pray tell, what do they decide to do? Praise Canada.

With the recent laxing of the drug laws and Canada's decision to legalize gay marriage, it seemed to them like the perfect thing to do.

"As the Prime Minister of Canada, I've watched in amazement as right-wingers, homophobes, and Christian fundamentalists destroy your country. From health care to gay marriage to pot, Canada is now the land of the free. In this special issue of The Stranger, Canadian writers gloat over their good fortune and mock the sorry state of your pathetic union. Read it and weep, suckers. - Jean Chr�tien"

Lets see you have this article: "Flags, Fags and Big Ideas. Why Canada is legalizing same-sex marriage and not going to war"
I really have no opinion yet on the first item, but I've got plent of thoughts as to why they can't get it up for the second one.

Or maybe this article: "If it ever came down to it, Canada would kick your ass".
A truly 'tongue-in-cheek" look at the numbers, proving why Canada would win a war between us and them. I won't tell you which set of cheeks I think this guy's tongue is between though.

And lastly: "Get out while you can. A guide on how to emigrate to Canada".
You know, you just aren't feeling like you get taxed enough in America and want to give more of your money away while making less. Move to Canada. Also for those who believe the previous guys reasoning that Canada would be able to beat us is an all out war and want to be on the 'winning' side.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:42 AM | Comments (4)

More media bias

Tying in with the Doc's reports over the weekend on the subject of media bias, I have found this little tidbit at FrontPageMag.com (which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to read).

"Palestinians Blow Selves Up, Blame Israel"

It talks about the 'Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)', the responsibilities of members of this group, and how their biases are ignoring said responsibilites.

The example used to do this is a June 22nd incident where 4 'pali peace bombers' blew themselves up and how the world media took the PA's word that it was actually an Israeli tank that killed them. Then, when it was shown that there wasn't a tank anywhere near there, how most of the agencies only gave half-assed corrections or none at all.

"While ABC�s and NBC�s broadcasts reflected the Palestinian version of events, without even mentioning Israel�s position, other news organizations, such as CBS, were much more careful, acknowledging just after the incident occurred that the events were disputed."

"CNN, like ABC and NBC, initally reported that an Israeli tank shell killed the three Palestinians. But, unlike ABC and NBC, the next day CNN updated viewers, making clear that initially the circumstances were disputed, and that later Palestinian officials ultimately seemed to agree with Israel�s version of events."

The media's fascination with anti-zionism is getting harder to hide.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:27 AM | Comments (0)

You may already be a bigot

Sorry ,Ed McMahon, for paraphrasing the line next to your picture on letters you send me in the mail, but it just fit so well with this next topic.

Since most on the left believe that all Americans, other than themselves of course, have some sort of prejudice against some other group of Americans, they created the group Tolerance.org. This group makes it's living telling those that can be thought of as victims that they are victims whether they know it or not.

Tolerance.org has made various programs for finding out just how much of a victim you are. You've may have heard of some of them: 10 Ways to Fight Hate, 101 Tools for Tolerance, Make Each Victim Count and their favorite program, Screw Whitey. Now while I understand the first two, the third and fourth ones sound kind of pointed to me. Hold on, let me check them out. I'll be right back.

Ok, it seems that the third one is a real program that does not, in any way, invlove the counting of victims as in 'a competition of how many white folks you can kill in one sitting'. Because, no matter how many you do kill, you will still be the victim. And I just made the fourth one up. Sorry 'bout that.

Now Tolerance.org is unveiling their newest program 'Test for Hidden Bias' or, "You May Already Be a Bigot". It is a series of twelve tests that check for hidden biases. There are seperate tests for hate of the diabled, indians, homosexuals, arab Muslims, blacks, asians, the elderly, women vs. men and fat people. Along with a test to see if a black person with a gun scares you more than a white person with a gun. Oddly enough though, they didn't include a picture of me with a gun. Which, I guess, is understandable. Because if I am pointing a gun at you, it is already too late to be scared.

But enough about tests for us white folks, they have a 'skin tone' test. Obviosly aimed at the "African-American" population. It checks to see if they are more prejudice against the 'hi-yellas' or the 'blue-blacks'. I don't understand how they judge that test and I doubt if I ever will.

So head on over to Tolerance.org, ya bigot.

PS. I wouldn't put too much stock into these tests. I took them all and, while I feel I hate just about everyone equally, the tests showed me to be one of the most tolerant people on the planet this side of Jesus.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:37 AM | Comments (0)

Right......?

You have undoubtably heard the news that Vancouver BC has won the bid for the Winter Olympics in the future (something like 2010 or 12). Well the wingnut Canadian left has started their campaign to make sure that it doesn't go off without their approval.

The plan: To have the homeless bankrupt the city. Seems that the 'shooting gallery' for heroin junkies, and a non-existant anti-drug policy, and numerous hand tying measures for the police wasn't enough to keep them satisfied. And now that the eyes of the world will be upon them, they want the world to see their utopia. They are going to 'squat' on the land that the city plans to use for the Olympic facility.

"Their target is Gordon Campbell and the Liberal government of British Columbia: for dismantling social services and privatizing public utilities. The groups have two demands. The first is that welfare is a right and that the government must not sever the benefits of 38,000 people in April 2004 as they have scheduled to do. The second is that there should be social housing for all in need. Both welfare and housing are the responsibility of the provincial government."

Woo-hoo folks, here you go, free houses. Yours to destroy if you want. The government will have to give you another one when you sell off the appliances and rip the copper plumbing out of this one to pay for your drug habit.

Is there any reason these folks cannot be declared legally insane and put away for a while?

Posted by Nukevet at 04:49 AM | Comments (1)

Heerree's Johnny

Now that I have made a successfull return from holiday-land, it is back to the salt mines with me. It was a weekend of fire, red meat, reaffirmation of love of country and a gift. A death threat from an IMCer.

It seems that my pointing out of the hypocrisy of their views reguarding the Christian right and the Muslim right caused a disturbance in the force and made one of them poop purple twinkies. What I received included references to me having homosexual oral sex with certain members of the current administration and its cabinet members, how I have both hetero and gay sex with animals (namely, the other white meat), a comparison between myself and a member of the great ape family, another comparison of me and a crustacean (which was crushed by the foot of said e-mailer as he passed by), a comparison of myself and Falwell and Robertson (which I took to be the greatest, though thoroughly unimaginative, insult), and finally a wish of death with the caveat of the e-mailer saying he was going to have my IP info within 24 hours.

Now, far be it from me to sit back and let some ignorant psycho start hunting me down. I took affirmative action (it is so much fun to say that phrase without it having regard to anyone's race) and made a few calls myself. Well, stark-raving moonbat lived south of my domicile and, knowing what needed to be done, headed south. Small world, I am only separated by 2 degrees from this guy.

Sorry to seem as if I unassed the area on y'all, but as I told Doc, 'shallow graves still mean you have to dig'.

Moving on, If you look to your right and scroll down a bit, you'll notice that the good Doktor Nuke has given Mr. Puggs and I our own links section. Puggs has added some as have I. I'm sure that some of the links we each put in will crossover one another, but all that means is that it is enjoyed by all. Please feel free to partake in any of our choice links when the mood suits you.

PS. No actual moonbats were harmed during the writing of this post. I took care of that a day and a half ago.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:27 AM | Comments (0)

How do you kill a lie when it's popular?

Apparently you don't, because those who believe it, enjoy believing it. Once more someone called this to my attention, the breathless rumor that Bush deserted, or was AWOL, and that it's just being covered up. Well I went to some of the websites purportedly breaking the story and frankly I wouldn't trust any of them enough to bet they could hit the ground with a rock. I went looking for the real deal, people who investigated rather than soak up a slander because it fit their prejudice.

This is what I found.

But a review of records by The New York Times indicated that some of those concerns may be unfounded. Documents reviewed by The Times showed that Mr. Bush served in at least 9 of the 17 months in question.

Yeah, that great defender of GW the New York Times says the charge is bogus.I found it from a link on Trojan Horseshoes. Look I don't care if people don't like the president, I don't care if they hate him. What I won't stand for is being handed a pile of horseshit wrapped in a pretty ribbon under the banner of alternative news. Don't vote for him if you can't stand him, but don't try and sell me a bill of goods about his past. Not when such a thing as fact checking exists.

I probably shouldn't post when I'm angry, but dammit enough is enough. I doubt this makes a dent in the views of people who believe the charge, but they do not get a free pass anymore. Any outrageous charges will be treated to a fact check. Oh one point I stand corrected on, he flew the F-102, not the F-106.

UPDATE;

Following a lead from our esteemed team leader, if you disagree, let's step outside and settle up. I'll be as friendly as you are, so en garde.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:47 AM | Comments (2)

July 06, 2003

While I have no experince with being female....

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I'm a guy, and all guys are slutpuppies, any who says different is either castrated or has his mom standing next to him. We crave sex and contact, as often as possible, I hesitated about posting this, I wasn't sure of the reaction. But I'm going to use a humorous link to take a somewhat serious stand. Flat is great too, trust me, all women are fallen angels, and my friends they can all curl your toes. Big or small is like having to choose steak or lobster, either choice is a winner.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:39 PM | Comments (4)

Great Author, or just another leftwing Crank?

Norman Mailer, the beloved giant of the literary world has once again proven that having a gift for words does not mean you have anything intelligent to say. When you read this steaming pile of dog excrement you find that it's not about any of the things you believed the war to be about. No, it's about poor dumb ignorant white man America! Once again proving it's manhood to itself by conquering brown people! Jesus Christ, even the hippies give us credit for being smart enough to pursue self interest, but not Normie.....nooooooo.

Of course, there were sports fans who loved the stars on their favorite teams without regard to race. Sometimes, they even liked black athletes the most. Such white men tended to be liberals. They were no use to Bush. He needed to take care of his more immediate constituency. If he had a covert strength, it was his knowledge of the unspoken things that bothered American white men the most�just those matters they were not always ready to admit to themselves. The first was that people hipped on sports can get overaddicted to victory. Sports, the corporate ethic (advertising), and the American flag had become a go-for-the-win triumvirate that had developed many psychic connections with the military.

See it's racism, you can't be white and not a liberal and be anything but a bigot, Normie says so. Normie also needs to have his head extracted from that overused highway of an ass of his. See how easy it is to explain away how a majority of people disagree with you when you just tag them as knuckle dragging boobs. Only really smart people like Normie can see the truth, everybody else is just stupid.

I can't let this go either,

The carrier was easily within helicopter range of San Diego but G.W. would not have been able to show himself in flight regalia, and so would not have been able to demonstrate how well he wore the uniform he had not honored. Jack Kennedy, a war hero, was always in civvies while he was commander in chief.

Is Normie on crack? Bush never "honored" the uniform he wore? He flew F-106's in the Air National Guard, I'm sure that all the ANG units who flew in our last two wars consider their service dishonorable. Compared to what, Bill (pussyboy) Clinton ducking the draft? Al (mr. internet) Gore securing a decidedly non dangerous media position thanks to daddy? He mentions Ike and JFK as if he didn't know they would probably spit on almost all his stated positions. It's not required that everybody like Bush, what pisses me off totally is the thought that hating him isn't enough for him. Nope he has to imply and insinuate shit that is a damned lie. Vote for Dean if you like Normie, but save your personality projections for the assholes you know. I doubt he even knows a republican, I also doubt he knows anyone not wealthy, think he debates politics with his household staff? I'm also sure the only nonwhites he sees everyday are the people who cut his grass, and do his laundry.

Rich white liberals are as predictable as death, and half as pleasant.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:45 PM | Comments (4)

Yep, another quizilla poll

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Posted by Nukevet at 02:44 PM | Comments (0)

Fisk has trained his minions well

Read Nukevet's piece, "Well, Duh!", then this one. What is it exactly that causes people to not only look for failure, but to try and create it out of whole cloth? The mass media have no excuse, they know that the frequency and tone of coverage can make the messenger part of the message. They know exactly the effect.

The new Iraqi press seems to suffer the same sickness as the rest of the arab world. A grand belief in gremlins and little green men, all made in Israel or the US. They love of fantasy over fact is very much like that of their arch hero Robert Fisk. When will these idiots grow up, and stop acting twelve?

Posted by Nukevet at 01:52 PM | Comments (0)

Let's sanitize death

As a follow-up to Pugg's post "Pretties", go look at this photo:

No, your eyes don't close so you "look like you are just sleeping" after you are suddenly and violently killed by a splodeydope. But, the moral equivalence brigade sees these kinds of actions as heroic, not horrific.

You talking to me?

Posted by Nukevet at 12:43 PM | Comments (0)

Well, DUH!

CNN's Brown Admits Focus on Iraqi Attacks Skewing Public's View

By focusing so much on day by day problems in Iraq, former Army officer Ralph Peters argued in a New York Post op-ed on Tuesday, the media are obscuring America's overall success. Tuesday night's network newscasts illustrated Peters' point as all led with the latest incidents of violence and contrasted them with the Bush administration's �insistence� that conditions are improving in Iraq.

�It was another violent day on the streets of Iraq for U.S. troops and Iraqis alike,� warned CBS Evening News anchor John Roberts. �It has been another dangerous and bloody day for American forces in Iraq,� echoed NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.

CNN's Aaron Brown conceded that �it is undoubtedly true that the reporting of these attacks are changing the country's view of the war.�

In his July 1 op-ed Peters, who has appeared on FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume, proposed:
�A relatively small number of foreseeable attacks...have been blown wildly out of proportion.
�Our troops are doing remarkably well -- but the headlines make it sound like a disaster. Last weekend, almost as many Americans died in a residential balcony collapse in Chicago as have been killed by hostile fire in 'postwar' Iraq. �As a former soldier, I don't discount any American casualties as unimportant. But the fact is that, despite real errors and miscues, reconstruction efforts in Iraq are going surprisingly well...�

Yep, it's only the people that think you can reverse 12 years of infrastructure deterioration with a snap of the fingers and swish of the old magic wand that are hysterical. But the post-war era is definitely being shaped by these kinds of attitudes, so we need to be sure that our attitude is voiced loud and clear - we started this, and we ain't leaving until it's done.

You talking to me? Stop by and take the poll.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:03 PM | Comments (0)

Hmmmmmm, Remember Turkey

and the pre-war fears about how they may try and cross the border into Iraq and claim parts of Kurd territory? Well, Mollbot found a story suggsting that they may still have some plans for northern Iraq.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:44 AM | Comments (0)

This pretty well sums it up.

Cox & Forkum strike again, no prisoners will be taken and the wounded will be shot. Mangled, flayed, flattened out and fed through a wood chipper.

Good thing too, I'm almost out of red paint.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:54 AM | Comments (0)

"You use yer tongue purtty'er than a $20 whore"!

Since Slim Pickens has now joined us as a devine muse, I thought I'd share my favorite line of his from the film Blazzing Saddles. By the way Neal the new graphis rock.........

Here's a little Blazzing Saddles info if you're interested. while I loved Pickens character, I must confess my fondness for a more kindred spirit.

MONGO.................................

I've said hello that way a time or two.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:15 AM | Comments (5)

Pretties..............

Some people are intimately familar with death, having seen way to much of it. Some have seen fewer die in numbers, yet felt it more intensely in that the ones who died were loved ones. Some know death barely at all, and a few see death as an abstract. Something they take entertainment value from. They see horrible death in movies and laugh, if the carnage is cartoonish enough, I do too. But that happens rarely. I see something like this and wonder what kind of culture can send their children out to do these things.

A diseased one.

I grew up to be a warrior, I learned of Honor and duty, I learned of sacrifice and the cost of battle. I found family obligations that pulled me back into the civilian world when my heart was elsewhere. The code is embedded too deeply for me to forget. Warriors kill warriors, not innocents, not children. They may die by happenstance, but not by design. A man does not commit the crimes that these abominations do. The reason is meaningless, nothing justifies mindless slaugther, nothing, no prise is worth the butchery of innocents just trying to live their lives.

No Heaven will accept them, not the Christian one, not even the bastardised Heaven as a whorehouse fantasy of Bin Laden's followers. No faith sanctions these terrorist acts. This is pure evil, currupt in mind and soul. It's the same as the evil of the Gulag and the death camp, and it will have the same end.

I'm not a trophy hunter, just a hunter by nature. But I tell you this, I could easily collect pretties from the ranks of these neolithic protohumans and sleep just fine. If an example could put fear in them, I would support it. I don't fear their anger or hate, we already have that. I want to teach them fear, I want them to live what time they have left in mortal terror of what will be done to them. Because Old Testement justice,.........is still justice.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:26 AM | Comments (1)

July 05, 2003

Once again

The Estonians dominate the world!

Posted by Nukevet at 09:36 PM | Comments (2)

Damn

Speaking of writing for a living.

I wish I had even a fraction of that skill with words. I'm not even going to excerpt it. Just go read the whole damn thing.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 PM | Comments (1)

BB Update

I've added links to the RNS bulletin boards over there

Posted by Nukevet at 11:48 AM | Comments (0)

Once again,

The BBC is furiously backpedaling. This time, away from a claim that Blair "sexed up" the British intelligence dossier on Iraq.

But wait, you might say. This article says that 6 of 11 changes WERE made to the report. What about them?

Yes, damning stuff, indeed:

Among changes made were the removal of the words "vivid and horrifying" in the human rights section of the dossier after Mr Campbell deemed them to be unnecessary.

He also questioned why the draft report said Saddam's sons "may have" the authority to launch chemical weapons, instead of "have". But Mr Campbell's request for the removal of the word "may" was turned down by the JIC.

He was also told there was no intelligence to suggest Iraq had secured uranium and that the phrase "sought to secure" would have to remain.

Meanwhile, in a passage dealing with Iraqi dual-use facilities Mr Campbell successfully argued that the phrase "could be used" be replaced with "are capable of being used".

Significantly, Mr Campbell denies allegations that he personally "sexed-up" the 50-page dossier by insisting it state that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.

"The chairman of the JIC has also confirmed and authorised me to say that it [the claim] reflected recent intelligence already in the JIC's classified assessment and that I played no part in the decision to include the intelligence in the dossier," Mr Campbell wrote.

So, even though the changes were minor and primarily editorial - the Beeb tries to bring down the Blair government with accusations that the case against Iraq was "fabricated". But even with this information now public, look at the title of the Aussie article:

Blair's spin-doctor admits tinkering with Iraq dossier

Nope, no bias here at all.

And, after trying to bring down the Blair government for "failures in intelligence", do you think the Beeb will close up shop because of theirs? I'm guessing no.

Thanks to the Voodoo lounge for the pointer.

Got something to add?

Posted by Nukevet at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)

He's Back

And practicing a little Danish militancy (mmmmmmm, danish)
Go say "Welcome back" to the Daghtator, and read his letter to the WaPo.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:01 AM | Comments (0)

Stay the Course

Never let it be said that the lefty British paper The Independent ever missed a chance to be both insulting and over the top. I found it on Drudge. I went looking for alternate opinions and found this in a Google search.

Reading both pieces it becomes obvious that you can find the views you want to hear if you look around. Those against the war have already begun the "quagmire" dance, all is lost, those arrogant yanks, ugly American, the whole bag of tricks comes into play. Thinking back on the Independents track record,think Jenin massacre, and you really wonder if they can even make it home at night since hard left turns are the extent of their ability to move. The happy line from pro involvement sources is easier to take, but remember that it's a partisan view.

I choose to do my own analysis, what are the hard facts, look at a map, at resources and manpower. Judge resolve, ours and theirs, and mostly look at need, we have to win here. Failure and walking away isn't only not an option, it's unthinkable at this point. We are committed. We now have both Baathists and radical Islamicists trying to bleed us into walking away. Aided and abetted by western media like the BBC and New York Times. Every attack is further proof in their eyes that we just can't win in Iraq. Every tiny ehredd of bad news is blasted from the rooftops.

This is the deal, we will win and Iraq will be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world like it or not. Every time they attack the lose resources that they can't easily replace. As various improvements in the daily life of Iraqi's come online the resentment slips. Foriegn troops will soon join in the ground work making it more difficult to paint it as just a Jihad against America. About 70% of Iraqi's want us to stay, even if they don't love us. All we need is courage and resolve. The President is unshaken as is his staff, the military is proud and professional, and the country still supports him in huge numbers no matter how much some claim it can't last.

Just ask yourself this, if the current world media were covering the reconstruction of Germany in the spring of 46, how good do you think they would have made our chances out to be? How much do you think the Germans loved us? Yet the rain of disaster reporting continues. Patience, they can't win without popular support, and that outside a few enclaves they don't have.

Stay the course.

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July 04, 2003

RNS Bulletin Boards

Heya, posters and lurkers.

I have been playing around with a couple of bulletin boards. I may switch over to this rather than unmoderated comments, if you guys think it is easy enough to use. You have to provide an e-mail and password the first time you register, but it is really no different than leaving a comment using MT. If the general concensus is that you want to stay with unmoderated comments and forego the bulletin board, I might be able to live with that, as long as we don't get too big of a troll infestation.

Anyways, try out the BB here, and let me know what you think. You can also just open your browser and type:

nukevet.com/bb to open the boards.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:34 PM | Comments (3)

Enjoy those 72 raisins, splodeydope

Posted by Nukevet at 11:17 AM | Comments (1)

See, If you show that you are willing to use force

You don't always HAVE to use force.

BTW - I think if we are going to use the "the liberation of the Iraqi people justifies the war" argument (and you know I believe this to be true), then we must apply the same argument to Liberia, and go in and try and help those people.

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Another Country's Citizens

Say "Thank You" to the UN.

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Unheeded Warning

I am glad the Brits got a little arrogant here. I helped make sure I was born a citizen and not a subject.

"Papers Show Spy Knew of Delaware Crossing"

Through a spy, the British were tipped off that George Washington would be making his famous Christmas night crossing of the Delaware, but the information went unheeded, according to newly reviewed papers of the British commander.

The papers from the archive of Gen. James Grant were found in the tower of his Ballindalloch Castle, northwest of Aberdeen, Scotland.

A day after Washington's 1776 victory at Trenton, Grant wrote what apparently was a draft of a report to an unnamed superior. He said that he had relayed good information on Washington's plan at 5 p.m. Christmas Day to Col. Johann Rall, who commanded the Hessian garrison at Trenton, but that Rall had failed to take precautions.

"It is some comfort to me that I gave them previous notice," Grant wrote. "It was rather better intelligence than I could be expected to have so soon after I was appointed to this command. No man in America knows the channel through which it came except the Genl. who I let into the secret before this cursed affair happen'd."

Grant's spy is still unidentified.

Some historians say Washington had a spy of his own, John Honeyman, who supplied food and liquor to the Hessians for a Christmas party. There is no mention in Grant's account of the party or its effects, usually given as a cause of Washington's easy success early next morning.

After the war, a British intelligence officer said Washington had not been militarily superior to the British commanders but had prevailed because he had a better spy network.

Three weeks after the Battle of Trenton, Grant drafted another letter saying his worst fears after the British surrender there had come true. Washington, who had foreseen possible disaster before Trenton, got reinforcements and was on his way to attack Princeton. After a short campaign he won back New Jersey, which he had given up the autumn before.

Grant seems to have run several spies on Washington's headquarters. Another of his papers records:

"Mr. Wharton is gone to Philadelphia for Intelligence will be at Washington's tomorrow. Lowrie is to meet him there, will be in the Jerseys next (day?) & I shall hear from him immediately. Lowrie is to purchase Rum to the amount of twenty thousand Dollars at Philadelphia with Continental money & to store it there till the (money?) arrives."

He also records information "given by Genl. Mercer's deputy." American Gen. Hugh Mercer died at the Battle of Princeton. Wharton and Lowrie are not identified on this page of short notes. Nor do they say what was to be done with the rum.

The Library of Congress learned of the collection at Ballindalloch in 1999. Its owner, a descendant of Grant, said the library was welcome to look. James Hutson, head of the library's manuscript division, went to Scotland and had Grant's 12,000 papers copied onto 50 rolls of microfilm now at the library.

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We're looking

For a few good men (and women).

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What the left doesn't get

I know it can be 'taboo' to politicise the 4th of July. But I have come to the conclusion that there is a portion of the population that despises this day even more than Christmas. So here I go.

I have stated before about why I support GWB. His character. And with every attack put forth by the left both in this counrty and around the world, I see that they don't see that this is why myself and others like me do so, for they do not recognize it. Character is not on their list of things that someone needs to be sucessful.

And so I give you this from the Hilldale College site.

"The Character of George Washington"

"I want to talk today about two qualities of George Washington�s character. The first is persistence. There�s a line in the song �America the Beautiful�: �Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears.� It means that the cities of America, unlike those of Europe, have not been torn and destroyed by war. That�s not quite right. The city I live in, New York, has been attacked twice in American history."

"The first attack was in the summer of 1776, and George Washington, commander-in-chief of the American army, was responsible for the city�s defense. The Declaration of Independence had been read for the first time in New York on July 9. That very week, Americans on Long Island saw a British fleet moving toward New York Harbor. The British, who made camp on Staten Island, had at their command ten ships of the line, dozens of other ships, and 32,000 professional soldiers (including Hessians). To oppose this force, Washington had no navy, no ships, and 19,000 soldiers, most of them militia and most of them untrained. Over the next few months, he and his men fought two battles: the Battle of Long Island, in what is now Brooklyn, and the Battle of White Plains north of the city. They lost both."

The second attack on New York was on September 11, 2001. I live about three miles north of the Trade Center site. It was a primary day, so I was out to vote, and I could see the plume of smoke quite clearly from both of the towers. It was a beautiful fall day. Then I had to go to work at National Review, where I watched the towers burning on television. I have a friend in upstate New York who�s an artisan. He makes and designs furniture and builds houses, and when he saw the towers burning on television, he said to his father, �Those buildings are coming down,� and he got up and left the room. I�m not an artisan, so I didn�t know they were coming down. I watched them fall, and then I left the room to write about it for National Review.

New York lost 3,000 men and women on 9/11, far more than the several hundred American soldiers who were killed in the battles of 1776. But for the rest of the Revolutionary War, the British kept all their American prisoners on ships in the East River, where they were not well fed, had no good air, and were given barely any water. Every morning the British would say, �Rebels, throw out your dead,� and corpses would be pitched overboard. Eleven thousand men died on those ships, and for years people in Brooklyn found skeletons on the waterfront.

We lost the two Trade Towers on 9/11, along with several smaller buildings. George Washington lost the entire city, which the British occupied for the remainder of the war. The British could also be said to have used weapons of mass destruction: They encouraged slaves to run away from their American masters with the promise of freedom, but any slave who had smallpox was sent back in the hope that he would infect his fellow slaves and rebel masters.

It�s been less than two years since 9/11 and we�ve fought two short wars: Afghanistan was about six weeks, Iraq about three weeks. The American Revolution lasted eight-and-a-half years. It was the longest American war until Vietnam � longer than the Civil War and our part in World War II put together.

So we have our problems, but Washington had his. And in many ways his were worse: America was much weaker then, and the enemy it faced was much stronger. Washington�s persistence through the Revolutionary War was remarkable. But it didn�t end there. When the war was over and he retired to private life, he was called upon to serve again. He presided over the Constitutional Convention in 1787, was inaugurated as the first president in 1789, and served as president for two terms. So the full time of his service � including the war, the Constitutional Convention and his eight years as president � was 17 years.

Franklin Roosevelt served 12 years as president and died a month after his fourth inauguration. Jefferson, Wilson and Reagan each served eight years as president. Lincoln served four years as president and was murdered a month after his second inauguration. Washington served 17 years at the center of American life � a record that has not been matched. Washington�s mother is supposed to have said, when told of one of his Revolutionary War victories, �George generally completes what he undertakes.� He certainly did, and he did so through a lifetime of public service.

The second quality of Washington�s character I want to mention is the ability to let go and knowing when to let go. This quality, in a way, contradicted Washington�s persistence, and largely for that reason it is even more remarkable. It is more remarkable because it was a new thing at the time.
Nowadays, we know that in a republic, the military power serves the civilian power. We know that elected officials serve for set terms, and that if they don�t win reelection, they have to go home. This is part of our life today. It is what we expect. But in George Washington�s lifetime, these were new ideas. Most of the rulers in the world were kings or monarchs of some sort. Holland and the Swiss Cantons were exceptions, but all of the major countries and most of the small ones were ruled by people who ruled them for life.

Washington lived in a time when royal rule began to be shaken. During his lifetime, the King of France was deposed and executed, and other monarchs would follow that path. But the new rulers who took their places did not, generally speaking, believe in letting go. Napoleon Bonaparte was a Corsican artillery officer who became first consul of France, then first consul for life, then emperor. His career as emperor was eventually ended, but it took a world war to end it. And that pattern has been repeated over and over again around the world.

Thus, at the end of the Revolutionary War, when Washington returned his commission to Congress, it was something very new. It was similarly new when, at the end of his second presidential term, he announced that he would not run a third time. These actions touch on a paradox of republican leadership. The paradox is this: If you are a leader, there are times when you must simply take charge and be superior to the people you lead. This is most common in military situations, but it happens in peacetime as well: A leader must use his charisma or some other transrational force to get his way, and if he doesn�t, things will fall apart. Every leader understands this. But a leader in a republic must also understand that those times are temporary, that their term of leadership will pass, and that they must then pass from the scene. And the reason they have to pass from the scene is that the people they are leading are in fact their equals.

Washington kept both of those thoughts in mind throughout his career, which explains a feature of his rhetoric that comes up again and again. This feature is so common in his letters and speeches that I think of it as the �turn� in his rhetoric: it occurs when Washington takes the attention and the adulation that comes to him, and turns it back to his audience. He does this to remind himself, as well as them, that he is a temporary leader of equals. We can see this in his Farewell Address, where he starts off by saying, �My friends and fellow citizens,� and goes on to say that he has succeeded as president only because of the help the people gave him during his administration. We see it also in the last message that he wrote as commander-in-chief, where he said that the future happiness of America would depend on the people themselves � that their government was a good government, but that its survival was up to them.

One of the most striking instances of Washington turning attention from himself to others is what I believe to be the only authentic utterance we have from him on a battlefield. Of course, after he died, old veterans remembered a lot of things he said in battle. But much of this was embroidered: There was a General Scott, for instance, who remembered Washington at the battle of Monmouth cursing at General Charles Lee. �He swore like an angel from Heaven,� Scott recalled. �He swore �til the leaves shook on the trees. Never in my life have I heard such wonderful swearing.� The problem is, General Scott at the time was two miles away, so unless he had bionic ears, he didn�t hear anything. There is one phrase, however, that comes up over and over again in the accounts of many different people, for which reason I suspect it�s a real quote. It�s a phrase Washington used to address his troops � �my brave fellows.�

At the battle of Princeton, Washington is reported to have said, �Parade with me, my brave fellows. We will have them soon.� Before the battle of Trenton, when he was trying to get the troops to re-enlist, he said: �My brave fellows, you have done more than could be expected of you. But I�m asking you to do this one more thing and re-enlist.� Time and again he uses this phrase. And in doing so, of course, he�s asserting what remains to be seen: The soldiers, at the moment he addresses them, are not necessarily showing bravery. They may be confused. They may not know what is expected of them. They may be on the point of panic or fear. But he addresses them as �my brave fellows� to motivate them.

This is not the only way to motivate troops. Other generals have done it differently. Frederick the Great would say to his troops, �Do you dogs want to live forever?� That�s one way to do it. But Washington�s way was to say, �my brave fellows,� which means, �My fellows, be brave.�

This leads me to a final point about Washington�s character, which is that it�s unfinished. It�s not completed, and I think that�s by design. Washington made a bet with his life that the American people could bear the burden and responsibility of living in freedom. That bet is on the table in every generation. The completion of Washington�s character, then, always rests with us.

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I think this fits well today

Ronald Reagan 1964. "The Speech"

I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.

It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government."

This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we're always "against," never "for" anything.

We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem. However, we are against those entrusted with this program when they practice deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that any criticism of the program means that we want to end payments....

We are for aiding our allies by sharing our material blessings with nations which share our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward I restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.... But we can not have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure....

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? . . . Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of -very dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits-not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:02 AM | Comments (1)

Thank those who made this day possible

With the holidays approaching, thousands of Americans are again asking what they can do to show their support for servicemembers, especially those serving overseas in this time of war. Below are Web sites for several organizations that are sponsoring programs for members of the Armed Forces overseas.

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Heart, and strength

Download file This music exemplifies strength of hope, pain and sorrow, and something else. Courage, against all odds, against all logic, when men seize the moment and change everything. Once upon a time in the Hills of a Pennsylvania town men did this. And not so long ago in the skies of Pennsylvania men again stood up to fight when their moment came

We haven't changed all that much. We remember.

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Have a Happy 4th

One of the fireworks displays that took place on the 3rd here in Newark.

I have to drop my wife and kids off at her grandmothers for a BBQ Friday before I go to work. They should have a pretty good time, especially the kids, Moo Moo's got a pool. That's what it's about isn't it? The day is yours to do with as you choose, celebrate, or not. I've thought before about this, do you remember the National Day of the Soviet's, and the Chinese? May Day, the day of tanks rolling in formation past reviewing stands, party officials looking on, a blustering show of brute force. Look at our power, aren't we a great nation.......

In contrast look at what we will be doing today. Cookouts, parades of floats and clowns, boy scouts and Kiwana's. Family gatherings, special messages to loved ones serving far from home. Playing with the children, food and drink, fireworks and laughter. We celerbrate our independence with friends and family, and with a smile.

Our way may not be the only one, but am I wrong in believing that we may have pretty well have gotten it right. Are we so wrong to believe that other people might want a little piece of this for their children, where a national day of celebration doesn't look like an Orwellian nightmare? I think our harshest critics are missing the point and the appeal of America. They hear the thunder, but never feel the rain, they see the lightning, but never the rainbow.

I feel sorry for them.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:13 AM | Comments (3)

July 03, 2003

So,

Do you like our holiday banner?

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RNS gets Linky Love

From unexpected places.

Apparently "the mutant" of post-atomic.com considers RNS to be the anti-mutant. That's OK - I can deal with that. Apparently we owe this bit of linkage to Chapel Perilous (AKA Sylvaine)

Posted by Nukevet at 01:20 PM | Comments (0)

Hey lookey,

Jimbo/Harmonia's also a "Fluffy Bunny".

Funny, I seem to remember Jimbo leaving, not getting banned. But that's fairly consistent - change the story to fit the worldview. Maybe in his circles you get extra points for being "banned" from a "right wing looney site".

How many fanatical right wing sites have a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, atheist commentator? Just wondering.

And as for you Hermit's Cave lurkers (and there are quite a few of you), feel free to lurk, comment, whatever. Sure, we have conservative views on a lot of things (and not so conservative on others), but that should be the foundation of a debate. If you have neither the cognitive skills to engage in a debate nor the desire to actually formulate a position and then defend it in a logically consistent manner, then please don't waste all of our time.

UPDATE:

SO it looks like Jimbo might be from the UK after all, but maybe not scottish. Definitely not female. Doesn't live in Texas, but says that is where the "home office" is located, and seems worried that we right wing looney types might start calling up. Also likes to post on the "media watch" bulletin boards. At least I found a note by a JD that refers to www.whatreallyhappened.com - which you may remember being a sight our own little Harm liked to point to every once in a while. And also a post pointing to a place called "the memory hole", a term Jimbo used in his last post here at RNS. Finally, all of the things this JD points to would make our Harmonia proud - all conspiracy theory and America Hating diatribes.

No, I'm not going to look any more for our little Harm - even though he "outed" me by posting my personal information in an open forum. Of course, if I was really that concerned about you finding out who I was, I probably wouldn't have posted my photo on this site. I will, however, keep tabs on the Hermit's Cave crowd since Jimbo basically asked them to come over and wreak havoc. There have been lots of visits to RNS from the Hermit's Cave site, but no comments so far. I thought perhaps AK was going to get to fight with the UK Indymedia group........

Yes, I have too much time on my hands. But reading all of the Hermit's Cave comments telling harm how to keep posting here anonymously are pretty funny. Since Jimbo was never banned, this advice doesn't seem to be all that pertinant.

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Still Hatin' Whitey

And I used to wonder why I was having second thoughts of going back to school.

Found at NewsMax, Via the Inoperable One.

"The thought police at California Polytechnic State University have found a white student guilty of "disruption" for trying to post a flier in a public area where black students were eating pizza. The flier advertised a talk by a black conservative."

"Authorities at Cal Poly say it was not the content of Hickle's flier, but rather his very presence that was "disruptive."

You know, blond hair, blue eyes and believing that a person should be judged on their merits, not on the color of their skin.

"A group of black students were in the area eating pizza before the start of a Bible study session when Hinkle approached the bulletin board. Some of those students recognized the flier and objected. One told Hinkle not to put it up because it was "disrespectful."

"Hinkle asked, "How do you know it's disrespectful to everyone?" He invited them to attend the talk. One student told him to leave or she would call the police. He left without posting the flier. She called police."

Oh no, he used reason. And that offended her.

"In a written statement, California State University police officer Alan N. Darrow said he and Cpl. C. Montgomery were dispatched "to investigate a report of a suspicious white male passing out literature of an offensive racial nature." Hinkle was identified later."

"In a letter dated Jan. 29, University Judicial Affairs Director Ardith Tregenza notified Hinkle that a student disciplinary hearing was being initiated against him. He was charged with violating subsection (d) of Section 41301 of Title V of the California Code of Regulations, which prohibits "obstruction or disruption, on or off campus property, of the campus education process, administrative process, or other campus function."

Eating pizza in a open area is a campus function?

"The university scheduled a disciplinary hearing and informed Hinkle that he could not bring an attorney."

Isn't that like saying 'We hope you're dumb and intimidatable, white boy.

"Tregenza wrote that Hinkle could waive his right to a hearing and accept two "recommended sanctions" without admitting that he engaged in the conduct charged. One recommended sanction was to write a letter of apology to the offended students, the contents of which would be subject to the approval of the Office of Judicial Affairs. "There is no parameter or guarantee regarding the confidentiality of the letter sent," Tregenza wrote."

"The second recommended sanction was for Hinkle to meet twice with the university ombudsman "to discuss additional approaches to promote your initiatives and additional campus resources and strategies for accomplishing your goals."

In other words, cease and desist, honkey.

I only want to go back to school to increase my 'earning potential'. Yes, I'm a greedy cracker.

My fear is that I'll save up my money for school only to either get sick of the attitudes and quit or get caught up in something like this when my opinions surface as I know they will.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:20 AM | Comments (5)

I knew it wouldn't be the last word

Wandering through link after link (starting @ CrooooowBlog), I landed in a peculiar place. Oliver Kamm's blogspot site. He found something in my hometown that I missed on Monday. An 'Opinion' piece from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board.

"Israel has concluded that the death of a peace activist from Evergreen State College was a total accident. That could be."

It could also be that, while landing, a spaceship extended one of it's legs and crushed her. But I digress.

"But we ought to withhold final judgment. Some statements and photos seem to contradict a military prosecutor's conclusion."

No, his conclusion contradicts your preconcieved conclusion based on propaganda. So he must be wrong. Or a lying Jew.

"She was engaged in an inherently dangerous undertaking when she tried to prevent a bulldozer's destroying the home of a doctor in a Gaza Strip refugee camp."

If I may correct you, There was no doctor and there was no house owned by a doctor. The CAT was interested in what was under the gorund. Take a look at the dig pattern. And she was engaged in a foolhearty activity of staring down a CAT D-9. What did she think she was going to do, 'Hulk-Out' and stop it with her righteous whiteness? I apologize, I just get agitated when someone propagates a lie to promote the agenda of an undeserved's martyrdom.

"It's clear that this was a young woman of uncommon compassion, committed to fairness for Palestinians."

No, she was a girl of uncommon hate and stupidity.

"However she died, she left an impressive legacy, as the Evergreen State students made clear in remembering her at what should have been her June 13 graduation."

Again no. Those students are what happens when you go to a public school and to a college that offers a 'paper-mache puppetry building' class instead of one in analytical thinking.

You turn out stupid idol-worshipers.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:43 AM | Comments (4)

I don't like talking about this so early

But here is an article about the 2004 elections.

"Democratic base needs anger management"

"I cite the recent successes of far-left candidate Howard Dean in his quest for the nomination, which many originally dismissed as quixotic. Dean handily won an online primary conducted by MoveOn.org with nearly 44 percent of the vote, and even more ultra-liberal Congressman Dennis Kucinich garnered almost 24 percent."

"Dismiss this if you choose as an unscientific sampling, but then how do you explain Dean's raising over $6 million in the second quarter of this year, $2.8 million of which came in during the last eight days of the quarter? We are talking here, folks, about the Sean Penn/Alec Baldwin/Susan Sarandon wing of the party -- and it is obviously energized by Dr. Dean's message."

I've got some energy for those turds. I'll hook 'em up to a truck battery. Just like their little angels Saddam and Uday used to do.

"What is his message? Well, it's certainly not that he can lead us better in the war on terror than President Bush. It's not that he can provide better homeland security for the American people. It's not that he can restore a healthier level of growth to the economy. It's not even that Bush is incompetent and that he can do better."

"No, his rallying cry is that Bush is a crooked, power-mad, unilateralist, neoconservative imperialist bent on manipulating the country into supporting his globalist designs."

Dun-da-da-da! Its, Conspiracy Man!

Once thought to be a white redneck who plays with his gun in the woods too much, his disguise has been removed and it is show that the real terror of the population is......... A Socialist who beilieves in the 'The Council on Foreign Relations runs the World' Theory. Watch out or he'll hit you with proof that there are bases on the moon.

I sooooo hope the figures from this election turn out to be like 1972.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:04 AM | Comments (1)

I hope none of these guys are in

Canada's Navy.

"Malcolm Scott is driving a motor home across Canada this summer, encouraging people to take off their clothes. He says one in five Canadians are interested in naturism, but many don't know where, or how, they can do it."

I'd want to take a year off too.

Found @ FARK

Posted by Nukevet at 07:49 AM | Comments (3)

Pride

I wanted to wait until tomorrow to post this, but couldn't hold back.

A Gallup poll found at Lucianne.com

"The June 27-29 Gallup Poll asked Americans: "How proud are you to be an American?" A solid 70% of respondents say they are "extremely" proud, with an additional 20% saying they are "very" proud. A January 2001 poll, conducted prior to the events of Sept. 11, found somewhat lower levels of pride, as 55% of Americans said they were extremely proud to be Americans. After the attacks, however, pride in the country increased substantially, with upwards of two in three respondents saying they were extremely proud to be Americans in two 2002 polls. The current data show no decline in patriotism almost two years after the terrorist attacks."

Posted by Nukevet at 05:58 AM | Comments (1)

Kinda surprised actually

I'm just watching a bad dream I'd never wake up from.
Find out what anime bad boy you are.You're most like laid back bounty hunter.

You're the cool headed Spike. Not much gets to you...seemingly. You hold some inner pain, but you keep it hidden as best as you can. Inner pain or not, you are incredibly bad-ass

Posted by Nukevet at 12:57 AM | Comments (14)

July 02, 2003

Rabbit testes?

I don't know how many of you ever go to Lileks, but he's got more than just the Bleat.
He is also an incrediable culture critic. The Gallery of Regretable Food is a lot of fun. The pictures are scary, but the comments...........

Start here, but not on a full stomach.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:39 PM | Comments (1)

Just shoot me now

Once in a while an old childhood memory surfaces to rekindle nightmares of the past. An experience so horrible, so unspeakably evil you can't ever be rid of it.

The smell, my God I can't forget that awful stench of seared meat. The slime dripping over everything. The jagged edges of metal that cut many a hand, and that horrible sound of moans..............

.

.

.

Yes, we're talking about SPAM. There is no escape, it's gone mobile. This is truely Hell on Wheels!

Run now, save yourselves..........It's too late for me. Quickly, run, run as fast as you can before it gets to you as well!

That music.....................................................................MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Nukevet at 10:12 PM | Comments (2)

Now THIS had to really hurt

"Police report that a 17-year-old boy showed up at the Mary Washington hospital emergency room over the weekend with a gunshot wound to his penis."

Looking cool never felt so bad.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:48 PM | Comments (2)

Maybe RNS can sponsor

a dB Drag Racer.

OK, I gotta admit. I don't understand why anyone would want to do this.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:41 PM | Comments (2)

Yeah, Sure

"Stolen"

Posted by Nukevet at 05:30 PM | Comments (2)

Sure, NOW the UN wants the US to handle things

One minute Kofi Annan condemns the US, the next he decides that we should be the ones to send troops into Liberia. The UN wants us to be the policemen for the world, as long as they get to pull all of the strings.

Boy, look how disheartened the Liberians are to learn that the US may be sending in troops. I guess they're so happy because the UN sanctions this action against a brutal dictator.

But wait, where have I seen this picture before?

Posted by Nukevet at 04:46 PM | Comments (4)

Hey, I can hear you asking

Did Neal get that AR15 at the gun show this past week-end (no doubt taking advantage of the "gun-show" loophole)

40 Yards, prone, with rice bag, 15 rounds in less than 25 seconds.

Yeah, I know not that far, but will have to wait until later to travel to the range with up to 300 yard shots.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:55 PM | Comments (3)

Hardball

It seems that proponents of the ICC are shocked, "SHOCKED" that the US would dare to play rough in protecting it's own. See we can trust them not to politicize the court or to make absurd prosecutions, no really, they say that. This piece only has one paragraph of note, but it illustrates exactly how most of America views this.

US ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte outlined what Friday's accord means. "Should the ICC eventually seek to detain any American, the US will regard this as illegitimate and it would have serious consequences," Negroponte said.

Oh no they wouldn't turn the ICC into another trumped up kangaroo court to settle political scores. No they wouldn't do that, would they? Yeah, it was in Belgium, and it got slapped down,.....this time. But these self righteous assholes are not going away or giving up. The cost of endless legal battles, and the possible attempts of kidnapping American personel has led us to demand exemption. Only a moron would trust the world not to abuse it, since the UN has been such a shining example of how things work when pointy heads get together. No I agree with this gentleman.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:54 PM | Comments (0)

Any reports of Michael Moore

Swimming off of the Chilean coast?

He was certainly the first thing I thought of when I read this description:

mass of decomposing lumpy grey flesh apparently was an invertebrate.

Throw in the fact that they estimate the creature weighed 13 tons, and it sounds like a dead ringer to me.

Michael, is that you?

Posted by Nukevet at 12:56 PM | Comments (2)

BIG Update

Worthy of it's own post (No, Harmonia and I are not running off together).

The Dissident Frogman has a lengthy post up relating to his "what's missing" game. A game that many blogs, including RNS via little old me, played.

Amazing how something like this can burn out of control on the blogosphere. But, if you start the fire, you are obligated to try and help put it out.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:29 PM | Comments (0)

I've stayed away from the whole

"Religion of Peace" thing. I believe that the vast majority of Muslims just want to be left alone to practice their faith, provide for their families, and be free from persecution. But their fanatics currently get all of the headlines, and they ain't pretty.

Imagine the hew and cry that would go up if the US had actually bombed this mosque in Fajullah, as was originally claimed by a member of the mosque. The picture of events that is emerging is quite a bit different, as one might expect.

But no, there is no evidence at all of Islamic fundamentalists operating inside Iraq.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:17 PM | Comments (1)

Hey, it's a start?

This looks like progress. Until you read the comments made by the GreenPeace Moron.

Environmentalists welcomed the vote. Greenpeace (search) said it would give the EU, "the world's strictest and most comprehensive rules on the labeling of genetically modified organisms."

Skeptical European consumers can continue to shun biotech products, the group said.

"This vote is a slap in the face of the U.S. administration, which thought that by bullying ... Europe, and eventually others, would swallow its GMO policy," said Eric Gall, Greenpeace EU adviser on genetic engineering.

I wonder if these "strictest" rules will say anything about how there is no scientifically documented evidence that these foods are harmful to those eating them? Probably not. I'm betting it will be as much scare language as possible, whether there is any scientific basis for the claims or not.

It's all about a "slap in the face for the U. S. administration", not about doing what's right.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:47 AM | Comments (1)

"I don't know if someone with such racist views can change..."

I'm guessing the answer is NO.

I'm sure this will invoke more"crushing of dissent" screams from the academic left.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:36 AM | Comments (7)

Let's see now

It's OK for EU beaurocrats to compare Bush to Hitler, but if one of them gets called a Nazi, it's reason for an EU uproar?

Pretty interesting how the socialists and greens set the tone by decideing he isn't a fit candidate and jeering him from the outset. I guess calling an Italian a "godfather" is OK, but calling a German a Nazi is not (at least as long as that German is a leftist, that is)

Posted by Nukevet at 10:11 AM | Comments (7)

Ooooohhh, Man

This had to Hurt

But not for very long, I bet. Still, this dude had a bullet pass through both cerebral cortexes, but missed the brainstem. Not very nice of the sniper.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:12 AM | Comments (3)

Reprint of a reprint

But still a damn fine read. It is sad though.

I'll just give you the intro and the link.

From Front Page mag.

"In an article titled "The Silence of Arab Parliaments," Abd Al-Rahman Al Rashed, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, criticized the Arab regimes for their silence in face of the Iraqi mass graves. The following are excerpts from the article:

"Mohamad Jasem Al-Saqer, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Kuwaiti People's Council, made a surprising comment recently. He said that the Arab parliamentarians at their meeting in Beirut refused to condemn the mass graves found in Iraq. Is it possible that the representatives of the Arab nations refuse to abide by even the most basic duties of their profession - representing their people? Is it possible that they fail to utter a single word of sympathy for the thousands of victims of the Arab dictator?"

"If the Arab parliamentarians really refused to condemn these mass graves, that is a mark of shame in their history and in the history of Arab politics, which in any case is subject to world ridicule. At every conference these parliamentarians fail to express a single word of regret for what happened to the Iraqi people - many of whom were lost in graves dug around mosques, schools, and prisons. A word of sympathy is not a lot to ask for Iraqis agonized by the sight of the mountains of bones that were the thousands of citizens killed and buried in their clothes."

Now you go read the rest.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:13 AM | Comments (2)

Europeans and hippies kill for profit

I'm sure you remember the protests in Sacramento over genetically modified foods. Well, seeing as how the protesters have no scientific evidence of there being anything wrong with GM foods, I was having a difficult time figuring out why they were so unhappy. And you know I'm all about making hippies happy, right? From Front Page mag.

"While the dignitaries met inside, the protesters rallied outside with puppets and signs bearing catchy phrases like �Feed the needy, not the greedy.� Hey, the war�s over. The professional protesters have to protest something."

"And the various studies on the safety of GM foods generally show no deleterious health or environmental effects. Far from it�the use of GM crops reduces the need for potentially carcinogenic and environmentally destructive pesticides."

But I thought pesticides were bad?

"As for the American Left, the �Frankenfoods� vitriol is more ideologically driven. Some GM opponents hate globalization and fear technology. Others so fetishize the environment that they�re willing to let �nature� run roughshod over starving Africans, even while they chomp on GM soyburgers and dance around naked in celebration. Others still detest the prospect of US business opening new markets in Africa, as though death and misery are better that letting the benighted continent deal with the Great Satan."

So I guess its that they're either the "Hate America crowd" or they're racists, right"

Right. (see below)

"For the most part, Africa has been denied the use of GM farming, thanks to the vestiges of Europe�s old colonial regime. EU powers, heartily opposed to GM technology, has campaigned to keep food out of the mouths of starving Africans, with a high cost in human lives."

But they seem to 'CARE' soooo much.

"In Europe�where experimenting with and even cloning human embryos is permitted in some countries�tinkering with the DNA of fruits and vegetables is considered some sort of grave offense. The European Union has banned the import of GM products (much to the consternation of U.S. agribusiness and President Bush, who has fined a WTO protest)."

That's right, I forgot. Humans bad, Earth good.

"In most of Africa, which still relies heavily on Europe as its main trading partner, the EU�s hard-line stance on GM products has scared governments and farmers away from this technology. EU activism has allowed famine to go without As David Almasi, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., told Wired: �Governments like Zimbabwe are willing to risk famine rather than lose a future trading partner in the European Union.�

Cause they're soooo powerful. Snicker, snicker.

"So Africans continue to starve; and the continent routinely suffers from droughts, poor nutrition, and sundry environmental dangers�in no small measure because of European Luddism cheered on by eco-radicals in the American Left."

But my question is still unanswered. Are they America haters or racists?

"Yet at least the European position, unconscionable though it is, makes sense in light of naked self-interest. The continent�s professed aversion to GM foods is its justification for a de-facto ban on $300 millions worth American corn imports. Old European leaders want to protect their farmers from foreign competition, no matter who starves, just as they wanted to maintain their Iraqi oil contracts, no matter who suffered."

I should have known. They're both. It's easier to do when you're greedy.

One again Europeans take the 'high' road. What is it to them, only a few (million) Africans will die. Makes the 'Feed the Needy' chant seen ridiculous.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:05 AM | Comments (0)

Nap Time

I'm wondering who Canada thinks will patrol the waters around it during their wittle nappy-poo.

"Worn-out navy says it's taking a 'pause' for a year"

It seems that Canuckistan thinks it's Navy should 'take a time out' from battling terrorism. At least they'll have free psych and massage therapy visits to help relieve the stress.

Not to worry, those mean old Americans will be out keeping the free world free. Take a breather, eh.

"Tired and broke, the Canadian navy is slowing down for a year, cutting back on major training exercises and delaying a return to NATO's Atlantic fleet, senior officers say. "We're just taking a pause here," said Rear-Admiral Glenn Davidson, commander of the navy in the Atlantic.

Yet another reason, when you're out and about and you see 'em, to buy an American service person a beer. They don't get 'a pause'.

I know we have a large number of Canadians who support the US and GWB, and I know that alot of them are in Canada's armed services, and I thank them for their support. I'm sure they all know what Canadian's I'm poking fun at here.

And I also think they need to move south.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:57 AM | Comments (7)

They're emulating the wrong country

From the CBC News, comes a story about a shop owner from a city that wishes it was Paris, who did the right thing with a burgler but ends up getting treated as if he was still a British subject.

"Shop owner faces assault charge after burglar beaten"

"A Montreal-area convenience store owner who police say defended his business with an aluminum baseball bat, faces charges of aggravated assault."

I will keep my eyes open for the lawsuit. Why do I think they'll be a lawyer involved?

"Sid Stevens of Sun Youth, a community organization working to install cameras in stores, says he understands the owner's frustration, but says vigilantism isn't the answer. "If you use a weapon, chances are very often the thief will use it against you," he said. "I always feel that the price of one's health is worth more than the contents of the till."

I really don't think the burglar stood a chance Sid. And I can't see how this dimwit thinks that cameras actually deter crime. They are only useful as proof of a robbery for the insurance companies. If you don't mind your premiums going up.

Found at the Keep and Bear Arms site which I found at The Ville.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:36 AM | Comments (2)

Real Living History

Tying in, a little bit anyway, with the doc's last post from yesterday and Pugg's first this morning.

It is story about some wise words from a man that could have been one of those Amercans who landed at Normandy.

"At one of the hearings up in Concord I attended last year in order to stand on politician's feet, grab their lapels, and yell up their nostrils, a doddering old WW2 veteran got up to testify. The fellow must have been in his 80s; his voice wasn't that strong, and he had trouble walking."

"He read several passages from a couple of books he had with him into the record, detailing what had happened in several different totalitarian regimes right after whichever nasty faction history remembers came to power. Without exception, within months of seizing power, ALL of them had liquidated the people Lenin called "useful idiots" who had supported them. Teachers, low-to-middle level politicians and bureaucrats, civil administrators - the list went on and on. In place after place, through many different periods of history, and in the service of many different ideologies, ordinary working people had paid the ultimate price for what they thought was "doing the right thing".

It is an article on the subject of the 2nd Amendment, and my jury's still out on the Libertarian mention, but it is still worth a read.

Found at The Ville.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:00 AM | Comments (1)

Set Sail..........

The really nice thing about being on the right, is that you are allowed to have a sense of humor.

We are just so scary, dibs on judging the bikini contest. Do you think Ann Coulter will be there?

Posted by Nukevet at 04:57 AM | Comments (1)

More damming allies

When I put up this post I thought the point was clear. If heroes condem you and bastards defend your Honor, then you don't have any to begin with. When a Guardian columnist bitterly attacks,

A Blair
B. Murdoch
C. The intelligence of Americans.
D. The private press in Britain

But fails utterly to address the facts of the case, or confront the possibilty of error. He goes on and on and on and on..............But never mentions the singular reason for the BBC to exist. TRUTH.......The vaunted reputation of the BBC was earned half a century ago in the worst days of WWII. They have allowed a God like faith in their own infaliablity to piss away what trust was left. Objective doesn't mean distorted. It doesn't mean report only the half of the facts that fit the image you want to paint, it means the whole truth, even if it doesn't fit all the neat little BBC preconceptions. Even if it shows you got it wrong.

Journalists are supposed to present the truth as is. When they begin to embelish and "sex it up", they become guilty of the sin they condemn. We all know the Guardians reputation, rah rah cheerleader for all things leftwing. We know their fondness for selective facts and slanted interviews. We know that for them to defend the BBC is a lot like having David Duke tell people that someone is not a racist. It immediately makes you think they probably are.

That would be a fair assumption.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:34 AM | Comments (0)

July 01, 2003

The Dissident Frogman Has a New Game

It's called "what's missing at Normandy". See if you can guess.

UPDATE:

Sofia Sideshow helps explain the game, and makes some suggestions for replacing that which is lost. Be sure to read all of the comments, or you might miss posts like this:

The old American absent mindedly arrived at French customs at the airport in
Paris and fumbled for his passport.

"You have been to France before Monsieur?" the customs officer asked
sarcastically.

The ancient Yank admitted that he had been to France before.

"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready for inspection",
snapped the irate official.

The American said that the last time he came to France he did not have to
show his passport.

"Impossible, old man. You Americans always have to show your passports upon
arrival in France."

The old American gave the Frenchman a long, hard look. "I assure you, young
man, that when I came ashore at Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day in 1944, there wasn't a damn Frenchman on the beach!"

Posted by Nukevet at 04:33 PM | Comments (0)

Harmonia Imposter?

It looks like Harmonia has a new ISP - perhaps she got booted off of the last one. Or maybe she is spoofing the IP address from a Houston based ISP.

Anyways, conservative Guy, Nukevet's Love Slave, not harmonia, and probably a couple of others are all broadcasting from the same Houston based IP address.

Someone tell me again why she is anything other than a bandwidth wasting troll?

UPDATE

As I look further into the case of the changing IP addresses - it appears as if it never changed! Certainly the e-mail address has changed a few times, but the IP seems to be consistent. Not sure where the "I'm from Scotland" thing comes from, unless that is where the IMAP server for the web based postmaster.co.uk is located.

I did come across one post from "harmonia" where he/she lists his/her e-mail as j****.d******@**.com. Hmmmmm, maybe a little slip-up and use of the real e-mail rather than the anonymous UK address? Maybe Harmonia has a compatriot in arms over on this side of the Atlantic. Maybe drop Mr. Doleman a line and ask if he is in fact a barking moonbat. If he is appalled by the suggestion, then perhaps he should know that someone is spoofing his e-mail and IP address. If he stutters and stammers, then say hello to harmonia. I could always contact the IT guy listed in the traceback and ask if there is a James Doleman with an e-mail account there at IP ###.###.###.###. That might be sort of fun. I don't find any J**** D******* in Houston, but there are a couple in Beaumont/Sour Lake. That is a loooooong way from Scotland.

But whatever, it certainly proves the point of harmonia's intentions - just wants to flame, no intent on discourse of any kind.

FINAL UPDATE

I have edited our little trolls name and IP address, since we apparently got a little too close to home. Beating a troll with a clue bat is one thing, but making them cry is another, especially if they are an adult man masquereding as a Scottish woman. Let's just say that we need to have a new contest to choose what harmonia looks like. My entry is this:

Could be either one of these, I suppose. Do you suppose Harmonia still has hair?

Posted by Nukevet at 11:08 AM | Comments (21)

When being accused of acting like Rome,

You may as well just prove them right.

The Atlantic Monthly interviews Robert D Kaplan in a keeper.

Mr Kaplan lays out his '10 Rules for Managing the World'.

1. Produce More Joppolos
2. Stay on the Move
3. Emulate Second-Century Rome
4. Use the Military to Promote Democracy
5. Be Light and Lethal
6. Bring Back the Old Rules
7. Remember the Philippines
8. The Mission is Everything
9. Fight on Every Front
10. Speak Victorian, Think Pagan

History buffs will know the name Joppolo. If you don't know it, click the name.

I cannot stress enough the need to read this.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:48 AM | Comments (8)

Set aside some time for this

I mean it.

From Front Page Magazine

'Who Wants to be a Palestinian Refugee?'

Author Steven Plaut goes to the way-back books (you know, the late 1940's) and pulls up some interesting facts about the 'palestinain' "Right of Return". Actually he goes even further back and makes comparisons between the 'palis' and the bastard 'Tories' from the American Revolution.

My, my, my this is a good read. A definite deposit for my WORD file.

"The United Nations proposed partitioning Mandatory Palestine into two new states, one Jewish and one Arab, in a manner that was similar to what was being proposed for the Indian subcontinent. There had never been any independent Palestinian Arab state ever, and no Jewish state since the time of Jesus. Palestine had been a colony of assorted outside invaders and colonialists, the most recent being the British and before them the Turks."

"The Jews accepted the proposal. The Arabs, including the leadership of the "Palestinian" Arabs, rejected the proposal. The Arab countries illegally annexed the territories of the proposed Palestinian Arab state and then attacked the newborn Jewish state, in exactly the same manner as Britain and its Hessian allies attacking the newborn United States in 1776. The Israeli Arabs served as a fifth column, joining the invading forces and engaging in terrorist atrocities, just as the Tory Loyalists did in the United States. And like the Tory Loyalists, the Arabs lost."

Mmmmm, tasty. Eat it up folks. Some may want to eat more slowly than others as it may give them an upset stomach.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:07 AM | Comments (5) | TrackBack

When is a cease-fire not a cease-fire?

Apparently when Palestinians are one of the parties involved.

If the Palestinian leadership isn't willing to police themselves, and they've shown time and again that they aren't, then a small radical faction can continually derail the peace process.

But, as I pointed out before, this isn't really a cease-fire, it's a hudna. It will be used as a chance for strategic re-armament by Hamas et al, and then they will find some reason to restart hostilities.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:38 AM | Comments (0)

The BBC, friends and enemies

You can tell a lot about someone when they get in trouble in one simple way. Who accuses them, and who defends them. The BBC stands accused of blatant propagandizing against the war, and the west in general. That's a pretty serious charge against a government funded entity. The accusers are in this corner, the Blair government, and the Royal Army. For the defense, we have a freelancer writing for the pro-Arab Gulf News.

So should we hang em now, or just beat em with a stick some more first?

Posted by Nukevet at 01:47 AM | Comments (20)

Real courage of conviction

I found this article on Google News. Read it and ask yourself a simple question, how much alike are anti-capitolist protesters in say San Francisco, and the anti-communist Chinese in Hong Kong? Ansewer, nothing alike, not even close. The tactics may be similar, but what about costs?

San Francisco has declined to even prosecute most of the protesters arrested, even for simple infractions. In China we know what this could cost them. An anti-globalist here if he doesn't hurt anybody will never go to prison. China isn't so tolerant, these people are risking real punishment, death, imprisonment. They are risking everything.

You can also bet that the internet contacts that allowed world wide protests against the war will be stone cold silent about this. There will be no solidarity with the downtrodden of China, no common cause for justice. There won't be mass protests in Paris or Milan. Because it's not about freedom or justice. It's about hate and power. Hatred of A system they can't control, power that they want over everyone else. The anti-capitolists and anti-globalists share more in common with the party hacks in Bejing than with the people of Hong Kong, that's why they will say nothing.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:20 AM | Comments (5)