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September 30, 2003
Human Scum
It boggles the mind to know that someone could just abandon their child to die.......
Posted by Nukevet at 07:04 PM | Comments (1)
I have a suggestion
For what the "next step" should be......
Posted by Nukevet at 06:53 PM | Comments (2)
Do you believe?
Nope. No similarity to Iraq at all.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:34 PM | Comments (6)
He won't answer me
I have been scanning the stories of my favorite local IMC, looking for old Mos Def, but he hasn't been around lately. But I've been keeping track of another upstanding citizen of the indymedia empire who goes by the name 'Zorro' (no, I don't know why he calls himself that), who I disaffectionately call Z. Zorro is full-on future bulldozer material. Hates 'The Joooos', anyone who disagrees with him is a 'Zionist Oppressor', etc.
Well, someone was kind enough to post pics of the 7 month old girl who was killed by 'those brave palestinians' last Friday on the IMC yesterday.
Zorro's response "I am sure the NAZI have and had nice family photo albums as this too." And then threw in a quick "The Jews are way beyond their 1948 mandated zone for their 'Pure' Jewish state."
Well, I just couldn't let that stand and asked him if maybe he had forgotten a few 'minor details' about the 'occupied territories'.
He responded with your typical "you invaded Palestine" and "the 1967 war was initiated by the jews in israel". Ohh, the ones in Israel. I thought the ones in Hoboken had started the whole thing. And finished it all off with some drivel about jewish bankers, 100 million angry Muslims, etc.
So, I spent some time playing history teacher and then asked him what he liked best about fundamentalist Islam, "Hey Z, do like the part about stoning adulterous women, but not the men? Or do your prefer the gang rape of 14 year old girls by the village council when her 6 year old sister leaves the house without a male escort? I'm dying to know."
I have waited all night, but he still hasn't answered me. I hope he wasn't offended by the name I used to descibe him.
"And by the way Z, I really don't think you're a sack of shit. You're the whole shit sucking vaccum cleaner."
Posted by Nukevet at 04:02 AM | Comments (9) | TrackBack
Ted Turner should just stick to charities.
Ted Turner is without a doubt, among the strangest of billionares, I mean just flat out weird. His latest mutterings aren't of much note, except for this statement.
"The most dangerous thing in the world right now is the fact the Russian and American nuclear missiles, 10 years after the Cold War is over, are still a hair-trigger away with less than 10 minutes response time from two presidents who thankfully are together today," Turner said.
Look, ametuers shouldn't make broad public pronouncements on things they know absolutely nothing about. The ICBM forces of the US and Russia are aimed at uninhabited patchs of the Pacific ocean, by mutual agreement, neither targets the other anymore. The targeting can be changed in about a half an hour, and the launch orders from either man regiures athentification from more than one person. No man can just go nuts and order a strike because he was in a bad mood that day, that's not how it works.
Meaningless, except that some of the chicken little crowd will grab it and run, spreading opinion as if it were fact. I think we need look no further than our resident troll to see that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Better to have all the information, than just the opinions that fit your agenda.
From Drudge.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:02 AM | Comments (2)
Our Zionist Cabal has been discovered!
Remember the Swedish foreign minister who was stabbed on the escaltor of a department store in Stockholm a couple of weeks back? Did you know it was a Zionist Conspiracy?
"THE DEATH OF ANNA LINDH: ANOTHER SWEDISH CRITIC OF ZIONIST EXTREMISM MURDERED IN STOCKHOLM"
"While the controlled press was quick to point out an unidentified suspect, later released, with alleged ties to “neo-Nazis,” it has virtually ignored the historical precedents that suggest that the killing of Lindh may have been an assassination aimed at silencing an influential political opponent of the Zionist extremists who control the Israeli government and wield great influence in Washington."
Damn! They've discovered us!
Posted by Nukevet at 01:41 AM | Comments (0)
This made my evening
Cait was kind enough to send me some images of creatures named pug, or puggsley. I laughed out loud on this one.
While I have little contact with cats, this is pretty good. Here are my finds, this is the dog version.
However, this is more akin to what I'm like in person.
At least that's the consensus opinion.
But thanks again Cait, I'll post a picture of me when my wife picks out a digital camera, she's looking around.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:28 AM | Comments (2)
You learn something new every day
I was talking to a friend at work named Eduard. Ed immigrated to the US shortly after he was released from his 2 year mandatory stint in the Soviet Army. He's two years older than I am, and we used to sit around and think about that if the Soviet Bloc hadn't fallen, we'd could have been shooting at each other.
Anyway, he brought a car magazine to work. But not just any car mag, this one is basically a Russian 'Car and Driver'. It has the glossy pics and reviews like our magazines, but it has cars from all over the world that are available in Russia. And when I say 'all over the world', I mean all over the world.
Including cars like this one,
The Khodro Samand from Iran
It has a large number of features. Like power windows, mirrors and door locks, AC, etc. But they can't import them to the US.
Why, you ask. Well, besides the fact that most of the people who have driven them that Ed knows in Russia say that the car is a total lemon, it also comes standard with a 'Jew Detector'. And the puchaser can also option the car to blow up when the sensor goes off.
Just kidding. But I could see the Iranian Ayatollahs asking for this to be true.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:18 AM | Comments (6)
September 29, 2003
Just casually rotting my brain
When I surf the net, I go places that verge on the WTF variety sometimes. Don't ask me how I got here, or even what country it's in. The languages seem to be English, German, some others......
But damn if this doesn't make me wonder how the Europeans survived past the bronze age. They must have alien crystals buried deep under them to account for some of this. I'm so greatful our ancesters escaped the lunacy.
I bet this has happened to "/" alot.
And they think we can't adapt to their culture....Bwwwwhhhhhaaaaaaahhaaa!
Jesus, I bet the patrons never asked for turtle soup after that.
(Hitching up my belt),......Yep, dun all the carnage around here I kin today. Time fer a nap.
Happy surfin.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:42 AM | Comments (7)
Just as it should be
Gun culture stymies the UN in Kosovo
I wouldn't call what they have a 'Gun Culture'. I'd call it 'Citizens who recently suffered through an ethnic cleansing, arming themselves so that it may not happen again'.
Of course the UN hates that someone may cover their own ass and not need their interference.
And armed populace that is willing to protect itself from harm. Sound like any other country that the UN doesn't currently like that you know of? (For tips in answering this question, see the post below)
Found at Curmudgeonly and Skeptical
Posted by Nukevet at 02:30 AM | Comments (9)
Weekend Happenings
Hope you all had a good weekend.
While it is technically fall, here in the Seattle area we had temps in the +80's over this weekend. So I did what any sane person who was tired of the heat would do, picked up a friend and headed out to the mountains to have some fun (and by fun I mean putting holes in lots of things).
Grabbed this pic on the way up to the shooting spot (click the pic for fullsize)
Approximately 4500ft up. 800 more to go. (he,he,he!)
Once up there we commenced to putting holes in anything we had found at our homes with ITP (Interesting Target Possibilities).
I started in with the 1911 (Again, click for larger pics. And no, that is not a UFO).
And then my friend Jon had to let a few fly. Its addicting, you know.
After that intro, nothing was safe. I let a few fly out of my favorite little carbine (Win 94 Trapper 357Mag cal, 16in bbl)
And then Jon test patterned his new shotgun on an unsuspecting bottle of squeezable mayonaise.
After the first 90 minutes of hammers dropping we slowed down a bit and sent over 1000 rounds of 22lr downrange over the next 3 hours or so. We ended up trying to see who could hit the most number of Starburst chews with help of the Ruger Twins (scoped 10/22 and the MKII 22/45).
All in all, an excellent time was had by all (unless you were reincarnated as a waterbottle). Close to 1500 rounds expended total, lots of objects covered with holes (yes, we picked up all of our ITP and brought them out with us), fresh air breathed, but minus one centercap on my truck (oh well).
Like I said before, I hope you all had a good weekend, and hope you continue to have a good week.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:44 AM | Comments (5)
September 28, 2003
Finally, the truth comes out!
"Yes, I'm bitter and pathetic, ...........because my pecker is this big."---Michael Moore
I'm sure it is Mikey, but there is no excuse for being stupid when the truth is well known. Example.
Recalling that he and his wife met Clark at a neighborhood gathering "12 days ago" where Clark informed his listeners that "certain people, acting on behalf of the Bush administration, called him immediately after the attacks on September 11th and asked him to go on TV to tell the country that Saddam Hussein was 'involved' in the attacks. He asked them for proof, but they couldn't provide any. He refused their request."
The "lying liar" Moore ignores Clark's later admission that it was not the White House that made the calls, as he first implied, but a Canadian calling from Canada. It turns out that the call was from Israeli-Canadian Middle East expert Thomas Hecht, who told the Toronto Star that he called only to invite Clark to give a speech in Canada.
Well Hell, why let a tiny thing like the facts get in the way of a really fat juicy lie, huh Mikey?
Have you considered suicide?
Posted by Nukevet at 08:08 PM | Comments (0)
steady hands
Victor Davis Hanson has again wrote an insightful piece. I don't know about you, our readers, but I'm getting pretty fed up with the running in a blind panic critics. Quagmire, swamp, whatever,...........the same tired calls get made, over and over again. First in Afghanistan, and now in Iraq. The shrillest of them haven't been right on anything yet. Clark has now joined the chicken little chorus, well bully for his side, whichever one he's on today.
The Iraqi people are sensing one party is blowing up its pipelines and roads, and one is protecting and rebuilding them. That is why even in the middle of postbellum chaos, in a recent Gallup poll almost 70 percent of Iraqis thought things were far better now than under Saddam. For all the media hysteria, the American people will accept that in history's terrible arithmetic of conflict, the United States achieved an historic victory at an historic minimum of lives lost � and improved both its own security and gave hope for 50 million in the Middle East.
And Mr. Hanson goes further on the so called friendships that we are endangering.
The French may even cease their overt opposition, not from appreciation that what the United States did in Iraq is for the long-term good of the world, but from a reality check provided by the last few months, which have not been as good for them as they think. There are cracks in the European Union, and the idea of choosing France over the Americans is odious even for most Europeans. Triangulating may for the moment play well in the Middle East, but ultimately Arabs will accept that the United States, not a harping France, risked so much to liberate Iraq. And when 10,000 of its own elderly citizens expired in their apartments while millions lounged at the beach, French claims of moral and political singularity were exposed as a fraud. And France, remember, traffics in images, not power.
France, Beligium and to a lesser degree Germany have become little more than pimps out to sell a tired and shopworn theory. Only a buffoon would believe we somehow need the premission of Europe to act in our own defense, (cough,..... Clark,..cough). They bought their time in the sun under an American defense commitment. Now that the Soviets are gone, they think they just wished it away, and that somehow their pacifism and inate goodness will spare them the horror of terrorism. That, and if they call us enough names.
Most of Europe has played the craven little coward. As Mr. Hanson predicts, in the end, they will crawl back to us because they simply have no other options. We are the power that is, they can't get over their petty differences enough to directly challenge us. They won't win a war of cultures, that surrender was signed long ago. They just do not have any serious way to force us to bow and scrape for them. My only question is what kind of asshole thinks we should?
Oh yeah, this kind of asshole.
Posted by Nukevet at 07:07 PM | Comments (5)
I guess the old saying is true
Love is blind. Scroll down and read all of the comments.
Not sure why the alleged wife of Jonathen Carr decided to comment on a post that is over a year old, but what can you do. Apparently, Jonathon is innocent, what him having a train ticket in his pocket and all.......
Posted by Nukevet at 06:35 PM | Comments (1)
And we remember how well it worked the first time around
Looks like the Dixie Chicks are the new campaign manager for Clark.
Anybody posing with Rangel has no right to feel embarrassed for anyone else, IMHO.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:03 PM | Comments (2)
On our own, well how is that new?
The UN wants control in Iraq, meaning they want to control the money, the power, the ability to pick and choose officials, but they want us to supply the muscle and take all the risks and heat. The whole time tut tuting and telling us how important and smart they are. How vital it is the UN gets the brass ring.
Our president, bless his heart, has in effect suggested they blow it out their ass.
NEW YORK -- To rebuild Iraq after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration wanted control and it wanted international help on U.S. terms. A difficult few days of personal diplomacy at the United Nations last week confirmed that President Bush cannot have both, so he has settled for control.
Neither the United Nations nor the Iraqi Governing Council will have much authority over events in Iraq anytime soon, the White House has decided. Policymakers consider the Iraqi overhaul too complex and the stakes too high to risk surrendering enough responsibility to win significant amounts of fresh international assistance.
"Hat in hand"? This looks a Hell of a lot more like kick in like a man, or sit down and shut up to me. They ignored our security warnings, them is smmartt, no need for any advice from Americans when they are friggin expert on stuff. Well we saw how that worked out didn't we?
The UN, meaning the foriegn policy wonks from various European countries, has determined the "proper" course is to listen to them. Yeah, the same stumblefuck bunch that gave us Rawanda and has stood by and watched genocide, only acting when we we willing to hold their hand. The Iraqi's are better off without their "expert" help.
Britain has always been there to stand with us, but their size dictates that the help is more emotional than real. Aside from them and the Aussies, we have been on our own for sixty years, so why does anyone think we should be intimidated by that? Germany was a largely American effort in the rebuilding, Britain was broke. We did Japan on our own at the same time, and fought N. Korea and China within 5 years.
We are far more than able to do this. We're alot stronger and richer now than we were then. It'll get done.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:14 AM | Comments (0)
Been there, done that.
Europe is sending a probe to the moon. As far as the science goes, sure, why not, you can never learn too much. But I hope they aren't getting too much of an ego boost from this.
Somebody else was there first, and left a couple of cars parked there.
Posted by Nukevet at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)
Support
Posted by Nukevet at 07:51 AM | Comments (1)
Speaking of people with no respect for human life
What are you doing at home today? Its the last day of the 'International Days of Protest' as designated by your enemy and mine, International ANSWER!
So get out there and annoy a hippie. Why? Who cares? 'Cause they smell, 'cause they just don't get it, or hell, 'cause its Sunday and you probably don't have to work.
And remember, everytime you piss off a hippie, an SUV fills up its gas tank. Or is it that everytime an SUV fills up its gas tank, a hippie gets pissed off?
Ahh, who cares! Just take your SUV and Corrie 'em.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:24 AM | Comments (1)
There we go now!
The good doctor put this pic up a couple of days ago.
When I had seen it earlier at LGF I was pissed off to no end. Then Doc put it up and I figured that it must be because there was something missing in the pic.
There we go now! Isn't that much better?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:02 AM | Comments (14)
September 27, 2003
Hey, Look
Posted by Nukevet at 08:19 PM | Comments (0)
Stupid Road Trip
Too much work, not enough time, no broadband access, AND I neglected to tell you about 2 important events:
1) RNS had its 1 year blogiversary on Moveable type on September 24th and, more importantly
Posted by Nukevet at 05:20 PM | Comments (1)
When the enslaved, oppressed masses rose up.
A little reminder to those, OK, the one, who seems to think communism is just a peachy idea.
November 12th, 1989. The Berlin Wall is attacked and destroyed by humble crowds of Germans. The total collapse of communism wasn't far ahead. The debate is done, over. A century of blood, terror and repression, of gulags and mental hospitals, mass graves and forced famines, all are done. The people of the old Soviet Empire destroyed that beast when they tore down the wall and said,....Enough.
The left has much to atone for, socialists, communists and their assorted friends. You get no second chance for an idea that killed a hundred million people. Marx is dead, as dead as the souls of his wanna be followers.
I REALLY LIKE the new nice doggy header Neal...............Just so you know.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:36 AM | Comments (11)
Another Palestinian "VICTORY"
Happy now you sack of shit? Has the blood of a two month old girl and an unarmed man freed you?
JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 -- A Palestinian gunman entered a Jewish settlement in the West Bank tonight and killed two people -- including an infant -- before being shot dead by Israeli soldiers, according to Israeli security sources.
The religion of "peace" has spoken again. How proud you defenders of Palestine must be! Except that when faced with armed resistence to his little murder spree, he just...died. Hopefully in great pain. This was no accident, not a mistake, this fanatic wanted to kill innocents. And I'm tired of the same old excuses. There is NO EXCUSE for this, not even close.
A warrior fights warriors, he does not deliberately butcher innocents. This thug, represented by a stand in from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, planned to murder them. He is no soldier, not a warrior, he's a filthy beast, a vermin, not worthy of anything but extinction.
His grave, I would piss on. Any real soldier, or former soldier would. Pissant terrorist sympathsizers can cry over this freak, as he dances on a spit in Hell.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:53 AM | Comments (2)
September 26, 2003
Speaking of Beneath Contempt
Posted by Nukevet at 08:45 PM | Comments (5)
Update on my Horribleness
As of 15:35 PST yesterday, "Mos Def" from the Seattle IMC had failed to contact yours truly so that he could have collected on his "One Free Ass Whupin' by the Analog Kid" ticket. Which is sad really, I would have thrown him into the back of the truck and given him a ride to the nearest hospital (in Idaho. They'd love him there).
It is almost understandable. Not even I would enjoy walking into certain misery, but a challenge is a challenge. And he made the statement "And as for whomever posted that photograph of that Israeli stormtrooper denigrating a brave woman's picture-I want an address...I will meet you anytime...anywhere", and has yet to follow through. Which shows what worthless piece of carbon he truly is. Just as I had guessed.
I plan on writing a short paragraph detailing his lack of conviction and courage, that I will post every time I see him in the IMC comments. But I must add that he seems to have either stopped posting or has changed his handle (he was so prolific before). But that is the life of a coward.
And of course, Mad Mikey, I would have taken photos. I couldn't stuff and mount him legally, and I would want to have some sort of memory of the experience.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:35 PM | Comments (2)
More Friday Fun!
Found at the Seattle IMC
"The Vicious German-Polish Conflict"
"WARSAW--A Volkswagen delivery bus explosion yesterday destroyed its cargo of 20 crates of premium Kielbasa in the latest round of understandable German reaction to Poland�s audacious attempts to preserve its illegal, oppressive, and probably petroleum-motivated occupation of German lands.
�We demand that the occupied territories of the East Bank of the Oder-Niesse and the East Prussia Strip that were taken by force be restored to the Federal Republic of Germany,� said a man who phoned in a claim of responsibility for the attack. The man claimed to represent the Alles-Aachen Martyrs Brigades, a coalition of German activists and freedom fighters."
"According to the group�s website, the Brigades formed after a Polish EU liaison who stopped in Aachen for lunch last year insisted on Kielbasa instead of Bratwurst to fill his Frankfurt-style sandwich. �Bratwurst is Germany�s third most sacred delicacy, and this Pole�s hotdog was an insult added to the injury of sub-humans�I mean Slavs�occupation of our homeland.�
"A spokesman for the German Authority, the shadow government in the occupied East Bank and East Prussia Strip, held an impromptu press conference and declared, �We hereby tepidly and with many winks condemn this attack, which if it was in any way wrong was the fault of the dirty, stinking Poles and their oppressive policies.�
"Throughout the Western world, the German activists have acquired a panache fueled by the neo-multicultural perspective on modern history held by millions of college-educated activists."
�The Poles are pretty clearly the historical aggressors in the Middle Europe,� asserted Prell, a 29-year-old protestor from Fresno who last year capped a remarkable 10 year undergraduate run by collecting a B.A. in some social science he can�t remember. �For the 58 days that I have been closely following this crisis, the Poles have been in the position of occupying force.�
"Polish efforts to win support in the EU Security Council for a resolution condemning the understandable German actions in stemming from legitimate root causes were stymied by a coalition led by France. �I don�t know,� said the French representative. �Collaborating with Germans just feels right.�
�If the Germans hate them, that�s always been good enough for us,� concurred a third-world dictator�s coat holder via satellite telephone. �The Poles are oppressing the people on occupied territory.�
�We�re not getting involved,� said Sweden�s ambassador in Warsaw, �except maybe to selectively posture about human rights or to profitably keep the Germans awash in iron ore.�
"On the news program �Vannity & Doans,� a high-school dropout Hollywood actress demanded, �Poland must withdraw from the illegally conquered lands, abandon its imperialist policies, and respect the legitimate territorial aspirations of the peaceful German people. That is the only way to guarantee peace.�
"When someone pointed out that Polish withdrawal would recreate the Polish Corridor, an indefensible strip of territory bordered on both sides by the Germans, the actress appeared to become constipated, dribbling out vague allusions to �right-wing hate� and �apartheid,� so Mr. Vannity invited a German expert to comment."
�Hey, you can never plan too far in advance,� said the Alles-Aachen apologist.
�German aspirations in the region are realistic,� added Johan Turleywiliger, a legal scholar with no relevant background whatsoever but who likes appearing on TV. �Because, I mean, the USSR was the creator and guarantor of the disputed Oder-Niesse frontier, and where are they now?�
"Turleywiliger�s remarks caused a kerfuffle in Moscow. Fumed a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin: �Who do these people think we are, the U.S.?�
Posted by Nukevet at 12:19 PM | Comments (4)
Brothers in the sky, brothers in the hunt.
The JSTARS
His meaner older brother. The AC130H/U.
This article rings true, I found it via the good gentlman at Occham's Toothbrush. Sun Tzu is well understood by people who make the critical decisions. This makes alot of sense, remember Bush's "bring it on" comment? The goal has never been well hidden, it's to draw the fanatical fringe into the fight in Iraq. We aren't running from it, far from that, we are virtually begging them to come take on the infidel. The author referrs to the "flypaper" plan. I'm sure Sun Tzu would word it in more flowery terms, but in esscense that's what happening.
This President has one defining characteristic, he's resolute, unshakable in his set path. I disregard reports that he's concerned that it's getting out of hand. He manages information more like a general than a president. He holds his cards very close. If you've noticed, he is always percieved as at his weakest, right before the hammer drops. Something is coming soon. I feel it in my bones. Something big, I have no idea what, but I have a certainty that this is the calm before the storm.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:50 AM | Comments (10)
Friday Fun!
Ok, thats enough of the serious stuff.
You have read before about how General Shelton won't give Clark his vote because of 'integrity and character issues' while he was head of NATO.
Now for the pure comical speculation.
What were those issues?
Let me get you started...
Midgets, wesson oil and a chandelier.
Now its your turn....
Update: Bonus round!
How large is the probability that the Clintons have blackmail material on Clark relating to these 'integrity and character issues' and are they making him run against Bush to keep Dean from dragging the party out of the socialist closet in front of the American public so that Hillary can run '08' without trouble?
Posted by Nukevet at 12:50 AM | Comments (10)
Eugenics and the Left
That is the title of this piece from John Ray at FrontPageMag.com
It is a bit long for a FPM article, but if you have some time this weekend, it is worth the time.
"Everybody now knows how evil Nazi eugenics were: How all sorts of people were exterminated not because of anything they had done but simply because of the way they had been born. And we have all heard how disastrous were the Nazi efforts to build up the "master race" through selective breeding of SS men with the best of German women -- the "Lebensborn" project. Good leftists today recoil in horror from all that of course and use their "Hitler was a conservative" mantra to load those evils onto conservatives. But Hitler was a socialist. As he himself said:"
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)"
"So it should come as no surprise that Hitler's eugenics were an intergral part of his socialism and that the great supporters of compulsory eugenics worldwide in Hitler's day were overwhelmingly of the Left. Left-influenced historians commonly blur the distinction between a belief in eugenic or dysgenic processes and actually advocating a state-enforced eugenics program but we can find the facts if we look carefully. And it was American Leftists upon whom Hitler principally drew for his "inspiration" in the eugenics field."
Bet that perked your ears up....
Posted by Nukevet at 12:44 AM | Comments (11)
Why can't this be reported by the mainstream news?
As reported by Memri,
"Huda Al-Husseini : Arafat Should Go"
"Arafat Has Become a Worn-Out Symbol That Has Lost Its Glory"
"Yes, [Arafat should go], but not by expulsion, murder, or any other form of intervention by Israel."
"Why must Yasser Arafat leave his place in the Palestinian political arena? Because the Palestinian cause will never advance as long as he controls this arena."
"The solution to this problem relies on international elements, the most prominent of which are the U.S. and Israel. Arafat is not wanted - neither by the U.S. nor, most certainly, by Israel. Moreover, he has lost his legitimacy even in the eyes of the Europeans, and he is criticized in the Arab world too. It is true that Arafat is a symbol. But he has become a worn-out symbol that has lost its glory."
Here is one of the moderate Muslims that the media commentators are talking about and they just wash right over this. I wonder if it is because she's a she? Hmmm.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:37 AM | Comments (3)
Axis of Evil, part II
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 � Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have found traces of highly enriched uranium at an electrical plant on the outskirts of Tehran, the second site where such evidence of unreported enrichment activities has been discovered in recent months, a Western diplomat with access to the agency's reports said today.
They have weapons grade material, and are getting desparate. Revolution is calling on them, and world opinion is against them, for the moment anyway. All the debate about what Bush said, or didn't say on Iraq now has a context. N. Korea may have the bomb, the Iranian's are driving hard for it. The Iraqi threat is gone now, even if the rebuilding will take years. Contrary to the opinion of our critics, we know how to be patient when we have to. We've shown we can bleed, we've shown we can win, we've shown them that to be our enemy is expensive.
This is the time to push Iran, before they can build a blackmail device. Because they would have no way to battlefield deliver a crude device. It would be a truck bomb in some western city. The Europeans need to ask themselves this, who is closer?
The prospect of a detonation is more plausible in Paris, or at NATO headquarters than in DC. The bomb could be driven there. The days of finger waving and fence sitting are waning, it's time to get in the game, or go back to bed and hide till it's over. It's time for Europe to find statesmen, instead of a fools gallery.
Time is getting short.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:31 AM | Comments (4)
Revisiting a fantastic idea
Anti-gravity is popping up in more media now as CNN and Jane's Defence Weekly have written about it. I posted on CNN's story here. I have since come across more from varied sources. First, this from Chapel Perilous. Then, an article, somewhat more skeptical in tone from Wired. The wired piece is important for the balance it brings to temper enthusiasm and speculation. We have the BBC piece on Boeings research. It mentions the UK research project, named Greenglow. And finally I found this, I'm not sure what to make of it, but it discusses some of the relevant subjects.
It's somewhat confusing, but I do understand the gest of the arguements. Baring any black project surprises, it seems we are talking on a purely theoretical stage here. There doesn't seem to be any prospect of flying discs to appear at the next Paris airshow. It's still in the what if realm. With one qualifer, we have no way to know how far along our military project is. Did it begin in the sixties, the eighties, or the day before yesterday? I don't know, and won't guess. I will say this, the surprises from our national bag of magic tricks have been the stuff of legend.
What can we hope to see in the future?
Posted by Nukevet at 12:01 AM | Comments (4)
September 25, 2003
Wes,....Wes.......Tell us what you really think.
Drudge has found an interesting bit on Wesley Clark. You could say, it highlights some serious problems Wes has with staying truthful.
During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there."
Why Wesley, I do believe you will lose some new friends over that little bit of praise.
It was pointed out earlier that the military men who know Clark, have some unkind things to say. He has issues with integrity, is not entirely truthful, and is generally disliked by other officers. A small issue if you don't trust the military, but to everyone else, it raises some hard questions.
1. Was he telling the truth in the qouted speech?
2. If so, how does he square it with his current remarks?
3. If he says whatever he thinks will please an audience, where does that show integrity?
4. Is he really a democrat, or just shopping for the first open slot on the road to the White House?
Conclusion? Don't buy a used car from this guy........He's brilliant, charming, and those are not the best qualifications when you couple them with character flaws. Generals can be a little off, Patton was, Sherman, but the needs of an army are different than the needs of a nation. We forgive a bastard when he wins on the field, politics aren't the same, and shouldn't be. We judge by different standards for that.
Update.....
More evidence of creative truth as told by Wes..............
Posted by Nukevet at 06:18 PM | Comments (2)
A little bit of a light bulb forming
Post War Iraq is dangerous to journalists, (no shit!) and they are worried about keeping themselves safe.
You have to wonder exactly why they had any assumption in the first place that they were guaranteed any special status. The realization that they face the same dangers as soldiers and the civilian population seems to come as a big shock.
"I get the strong feeling that we are a target," one British television journalist said. "I think the people who are killing American soldiers don't make any distinction between us and combatants."
No kidding? Bet your old Saddam supplied Iraqi handlers always promised your safety didn't they? Course they all also spoon fed you propaganda, but let's not quibble over little things like that when your SAFETY is envolved.
Jeremy Little, an Australian soundman with NBC, died on July 6 from wounds sustained in an ambush in Falluja. Little had been with U.S. soldiers, who were the target of the attack. His death made reporters warier of going on patrol with U.S. troops.
Combat patrols with GI's? Cool............"What the Hell do you mean we get the same risks?"........Look either you have the stones for the job or you don't. If you don't, go home. If you do, then stop whinig about it, soldiers, civil servants or civilians in Iraq all share similar risks. And they can't opt out cause it's dangerous.
Sit in your hotel lobby, you yardbirds in the media rarely get it right anyway. When you have the same courage to do your job as an Iraqi police recruit does just to volunteer,.......then maybe you'll find out what's going on. But hiding under your bed won't get the job done.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:59 PM | Comments (0)
Changing Seasons
It's that time again, the changing of the guard. The year is nearly over and the colors of Autumn will be here soon. There is something good, something grand about the Fall. The parties will begin soon enough, Halloween, then Thanksgiving, followed by the King of our holidays, Christmas, and ending in New Years. But for now, it's time for a quieter period. The fall has a special resonance for me. The feel, quiet, reflective, like the warmth of a good book on a cold evening by the fire. A lover, some fine coffee, maybe some cheeses and goodies on a tray. A warm and inviting sofa with your children playing at your feet. The dogs bringing a favored tennis ball to play with the family. These are my dreams, I've attained them all, except for the fireplace, but give me time, I'll get there.
Autumn as I've mentioned before is the remembrance of our own mortality. That all things must end, it isn't a mournful lesson, it least doesn't have to be. Generations that culminated in us had their times like this. It's a kind of sharing really, I never knew my Maternal Grandfather, he had a hard life, tragicly short. He passed away in 44, 15 years before I was born. But they tell me we are much alike, in manner, in speech, in attitude, even near twins in appearance. He had a shattered family that he struggled to hold together until his mother finally passed away, then at 36 he started a family of his own. He fathered 4 children before he was forever maimed in a house fire. Crippled, he succumbed to Parkenson's at his family home surrounded by his children.
I too held together a dying family, until there was nothing left but to start anew. I began my own family at 37, and a couple of years later, found that an old injury would return to haunt me. My back was broken, and the future for my later years is bleak, there is no cure for arthritis. I gathered what remained of the old family, and joined it with the new. Like him my home has become a haven, a shelter for family with no place else to go. I collect lives around me like treasure. Brothers, sisters of my wife, nephews and nieces, all have passed through. All have a place at the table.
I won't have four children probably, but the parallels between our two lives that never crossed continue to dwell in my thoughts. Are we the same man in different lives? A chance to correct some unknown error? Or maybe just an incredible coincidence?
I don't know the answers, God hasn't spoken to me directly. I know he was a good man, loved and liked by nearly everyone. I'm not so virtuous, not so pure, I have good friends, a great wife, beautiful children, all undeserved. In spite of my past, in spite of his, I don't believe this is preordained. I still have choices, paths to choose. Maybe, being like him, my choices led to the inevitable closeness of our lives.
How will it all end?...........
It's better not to know. But I have to consider, if we are separate souls......what must he think of me? Did I measure up? Is there a task I must complete for him, something left undone?
If there is a task, I feel it's this. He died before his children grew fully. Maybe it's a simple task, to raise my children well, to watch over them as he couldn't. To see them set forth happy to begin their own families. To see my own grandchildren. To break the chain of sorrow and grief, no more broken families for at least a few generations. Heaven knows I cannot control time, or alter physics, but thats my only real goal now. I will be strong, for my wife, for my children, and for a man forgotten by many, even within the family, my grandfather,....Joesph Gatten.
They told me he loved the Fall as well, that's no surprise. Sometimes when it's quiet in the fall, the sun fading and it's getting dark. With a slight breeze whispering, I can almost feel the touch of a hand on my shoulder. Surely only in my own mind, but the weight of past generations lies heavily on me. Duty isn't only a word, it's a way of living. Trust unbroken, because to fail is to fail your children. That I guess, makes me a throwback to generations past..... But I am the product of my genes, of my experiences, I have no desire to change now. If I could be free of pain, healthy again, but alone.....I would choose the pain and keep my family, because without them I'd be hollow, empty inside. I would have chosen falsely.
So I guess you can see why I love the fall, it's embodies much, not least of which is time to think. Also a time to regain your wind for the rest of the journey. It's been a roller coaster ride, and long, so much longer in perception than in years. If life is a precious thing, it's to be spent carefully, not wasted. A life alone is a wasted life, I lived there too much, the price was too high. So I spend my life now as if it was not my own anymore. It belongs to someone else now. That's not such a bad lesson to learn is it? My hair is graying more and more now, and I can see more of my grandfather in me as I age.
I find comfort in that.
It shows the fluid movement from one generation to the next. I still have a good bit of time, and my thoughts aren't always so somber. But I believe our true nature is sometimes revealed in the man who preceded you. Father, grandfathers, greatgrandfathers..........if you look, you'll find someone you recognize well there. I look in my sons eyes, my daughters,........I see their mother. I also see the fire that burns in daddy.
If I bequeath them nothing else, passion for life would be the one I would choose.
So many people exist without really living. If you can look on a Fall sunset and still be moved, you have a bit of poet in your soul. Fishing on a quiet lake, walking in the woods and just being happy to be there, loving the sights and sounds, the memory you will keep of it. This is what I pass on, as it was passed to me. The Autumn is for things like this. Happy memories are made here........
Enjoy the Fall my friends, and take the time to hold your someone. No one knows the future, and you'll never be sorry for it.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:31 PM | Comments (1)
Apologies
I've been quiet for a couple of days because I've had some issues with my computer. Complicated, for me at least, but the short of it is I simply don't know enough. Which makes me greatful for friends. An OSU computer grad, Go Bucks.......
I hope the problems are over today, but I won't know till after tomorrow for sure.
More,
I haven't been idle, I took a little time to retool an essay that I'll post in a bit. I hope you all enjoy it.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:09 PM | Comments (0)
They're watching us
"Let's organize as an undercover group and infiltrate their blogs, newsites, mailing lists, and other propaganda channels. Let's post comments and articles that will incite them to think about, question, and challenge what they are seeing. Let's present far-right ideas that will go out of the comfort range of many in their ranks and create challenges to their status quo."
"Let's combine right-wing rhetoric with intolerably prejudicial remarks and provoke them to defend against our racism, sexism, etc. Let's present clearly illogical arguments with believable conviction and subtly encourage them to point out our errors. Let's confuse and divide them by mixing extremist and centrist views and, thus, cause them to make distinctions between them."
"Let's accuse anyone of showing any centrism as being an avid leftist, a "bleeding-heart" liberal, and try to ostracize them from the group. Let's present extremist views on eugenics, religious fundamentalism, "preemptive" strikes, cultural bigotry, etc as mainstream conservatism and promote the connections between these unpopular views with the popular ones. Let's copy the polemic absolutism conservatives present towards liberals and use it within their ranks, dividing them among issues with their intolerance. Let's make the conservative groups an obnoxious farce, exposed for the repulsive entity it truly is."
Ohhh lordy. I'm seriously considering taking select folks over there to court for causing me to laugh until I'm in pain.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:29 PM | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Hey Wes, you suck
I'm surprised that this reached the surface.
"Retired General H. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, shared his recollection of that day and his views of the war against terrorism with the Foothill College Celebrity Forum audience at Flint Center, Sept. 11 and 12."
"His review of that historic event and his 38 years in the military kept the audience's rapt attention throughout. But it was his answer to a question from the audience at the end that shocked his listeners."
"What do you think of General Wesley Clark and would you support him as a presidential candidate," was the question put to him by moderator Dick Henning, assuming that all military men stood in support of each other. General Shelton took a drink of water and Henning said, "I noticed you took a drink on that one!"
"That question makes me wish it were vodka," said Shelton. "I've known Wes for a long time. I will tell you the reason he came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues, things that are very near and dear to my heart. I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat. I'll just say Wes won't get my vote."
Integrity and character issues, hmmm. No wonder he feels comfortable dealing with the Clintons.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:09 AM | Comments (3)
What's the Air Force's version of Oooo-Rah
Mr. Puggs I'm looking in your direction. But to the rest of the RNS readers, feel free to chime in as well.
This is the reason I'm wondering,
"Boeing and the U.S. Air Force successfully completed their first 80 guided weapon flight test demonstration of the MK-82 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). The drop took place from a B-2A bomber on September 10 at the Utah Test & Training Range, Hill Air Force Base, Utah."
"The B-2A aircraft, based at Edwards AFB, Calif., flew to the test site and released the 80 weapons in a single 22-second pass. The weapons were released from four Boeing-designed and built "smart" bomb racks, flew their planned flight paths and attacked all 80 targets."
I think an 'Ooo-Rah' is called for here.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:04 AM | Comments (6)
More Bwwaaahhhh
It used to be that folks were willing to suffer the consequences of their actions. Read on as the BBC does the whine, bitch and moan routine.
"This spring, the 62-year-old retired schoolteacher decided to travel to Iraq as a human shield. To many she is a humanitarian, but in the eyes of the US Government she is a criminal. For travelling to Iraq Faith Fippinger will now probably lose her house, her pension and go to jail."
And she knew before she left that what she was doing was a crime and that there were punishment. But she chose to go anyway. I won't rip into her for going though. By doing that she proved she had more resolve than the vast majority of the anti-America contingent. But that does not excuse her from breaking a law she knew about before she left.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:04 AM | Comments (12)
September 24, 2003
Nukevet
Has left tha house. Be back next Tuesday. I will blog as time/access allows - but I know AK and Mark will keep things rolling.
Surprisingly, the domain name "pissongrave.net" is still available.........
Posted by Nukevet at 02:08 PM | Comments (6)
But I thought they hated us in Baghdad?
If 2/3rds of the IRAQIS in Baghdad believe they are better off, what about the rest of the country outside of the Sunni triangle. But I'm sure the polling results are "biased" because they don't show what the left wants them to show. If the results were the opposite, you can bet the NYT and WaPo would be trumpeting the headline "Most Iraqis say they were better off with Saddam" loud and clear.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:57 PM | Comments (10)
Another myth
Bites the dust. But hey, if you can't believe something reported by Robert Fisk, what can you believe?
Posted by Nukevet at 12:55 PM | Comments (4)
Some people's children
The debate over which side defames the other most rages on in the comments, but I don't remember anyone accusing Teddy Kennedy or Clinton of being a 'Nazi sex trader'.
"Dear President Bush, during your speech to the United Nations, you casually threw in a reference to the sex trade that exists in our world. I'm not sure if you implicated our country as well in these atrocities, so I would like to elaborate further. I believe the citizen's of our country have a right to know about these "sex trade" programs that operate within and outside of our borders and, since I am a victim/survivor, who better to tell them than I."
"As usual, you are again pointing the finger across our borders to other places around the globe. Mr. President, the finger needs to start pointing in your direction and your father's direction and I believe I can do that now.
"The distraction of war you are waging in Iraq is wearing thin with the people, sir, and the finger pointing at others is getting a little old. Soon, there will be no where else for you to point and the citizens of this great country will look to your history, your father's history and your grandfather's history as well. Then and only then will they see that your heritage and roots lie within the Nazi party. Then and only then will they have a clearer understanding as to why they feel there is something very wrong with your presidency and the people with whom you surround yourself."
"So, I will begin. I was a victim and I am a survivor of one of the CIA's government sponsored "mind control" programs by the name of Project Monarch. I have a butterfly etched upon my left hand, Mr. President, and a Nazi symbol on my chest. I remember as they carved the symbol on my chest, they said, "there, you're one of us now." I, being the fighter I am, spit in their faces and said, "I'm never going to be like you" and, thankfully, I am not."
"I was used in this country, sir, by our government when I was a small child as a sexual instrument to blackmail politicians for swing votes and in order to make these politicians beholden to those criminals within our government then and now to assist them in furthering their agenda of "world dominance" and supporting their policies."
I always thought that the government killed people like her when they they were done with them?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:20 AM | Comments (25) | TrackBack
September 23, 2003
Open mouth, insert foot
Curmudgeonly and Skeptical has an excellent piece on why the majority of the anti-gun crowd is a bunch of assholes.
"For one thing, the bad guys have a lot more experience using firearms against their fellow human beings and are better shots." Joel McNally, The Capital Times
"Wisconsin is verging on allowing its citizens to carry concealed firearms, and Joel McNally doesn't think it's a good idea. So, he does what liberals do, makes up shit on the fly, and presents it as fact (in the mold of the Michaels - Moore and Bellesiles). The above quote is a good sample. "...are better shots." Oh right, gang bangers are regularly found at the local range, honing their 9mm skills. Idiot."
You've got to go read the whole thing. This McNally guy goes on to call anyone who wants to carry concealed a 'Bernie Goetz'. But he left his e-mail address. You may want to give him a piece of your mind. Be nice.
Oh, and the pic for the piece is magnificent.
Maybe I should have named this post 'Open ass, insert head'?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:52 AM | Comments (5)
Yay!
Yesterday was the last day of summer. Yay!
Fall is so much better than summer.
No the pic isn't current. But in 6 weeks, that is what my neighborhood will look like that. Believe it or not, I like rain and fog and snow. The tree hugging freaks get out of the woods so that folks like myself can go kill animals, although I probably won't participate this year (again!). I can have a fire in the fireplace or in the backyard pit. Then there's Halloween (the wife's favorite holiday), Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years (yes I know the last two are technically in 'Winter', but that season is only slightly less cool than Fall). Add to that my wedding aniversary and both my and my wife's birthdays, my secret recipies for both spiced apple cider and real hot chocolate, and you have one hell of a good few months.
Another reason I like the fall is that it depresses the 'shiny' people. I could not believe it when, a couple years back, they actually gave a medical term for the 'winter blahs'. I don't remember what the term was (maybe the doc'll know), but I call them whiny fucks. Bundle up asshole, it gonna be cold as a bitch today. And don't ask me 'Is it cold enough for you?' because I swear I'll find a dirty slushball and make you eat the son of a bitch. No! It's not cold enough for me! It won't be cold enough for me until it is so cold that you move out of state. Of course its cold nimrod, its December and this ain't fucking Hawaii.
Can you tell that I live around a bunch of ex-Californians yet?
Sorry for the vitriol. I would like to wish you all a most excellent Fall and Winter. And remember to bundle up boys and girls.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:30 AM | Comments (11)
September 22, 2003
I must be a horrible person
What is it about me that sets folks off, I wonder?
(hit the link and scroll down)
"Fuck you analog...fuck you.
by mos def 3:05pm Sun Sep 21 '03
address: seattle
Sigh. Analog AND the anti-semites are BOTH imbeciles-so stop fighting! You have more in common than you will ever know. And as for whomever posted that photograph of that Israeli stormtrooper denigrating a brave woman's picture-I want an address...I will meet you anytime...anywhere. You see I'm a little tired of cheap little cowards like yourself..."
I have suggested to him that we meet at the Corrie Memorial at Evergreen State Collage (that is not a misspelling. ESC is an arts and terrorism school. Its credits are not accepted anywhere else. Except maybe Berkley).
Posted by Nukevet at 06:17 PM | Comments (20)
Country Music to Dixie Chicks
Don't let the door his you in the ass on the way out.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:56 PM | Comments (7)
Here's a Globalization Protest Group
I will proudly endorse. Maybe I'll have to start going to the WTO summits and help the folks a Bureaucrash do their thang. Which is pissing off NGO wannabe anarchists.
Go watch the videos. And laugh, laugh, laugh.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:24 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
AK's Photoshopping Effort
Has riled our resident worshipper of St. Rachel, causing them to wax poetic about how mean spirited the "right" is.
Good thing the left is squeaky clean when it comes to things mean spirited. Because otherwise they might do things like
but certainly nothing like this or, heaven forbid,
Oh, Yeah, and not this, or this, or this, either.
Yep, the good old compassionate left. Everything's fine as long as you listen to your betters and do as you're told, right?
Sanctimony doesn't even come close to describing this. Nor does hypocritical. But I find the trifecta of sanctimonious, hypocritical, and jackass comes pretty close to describing this particular phenomenon.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:14 PM | Comments (14)
September 21, 2003
Hair splitting, WP style.
The Washington Post has actually been fairly moderate on most things lately, which makes this even more disappointing from them.
Using "militant" or "gunmen" with terrorist actions, as many news organizations do, may not be very satisfying. But adopting particular language can suggest taking sides and a diminution of the reporter's invaluable role to report what is seen and said and to not take sides. If Israeli officials describe something as a terrorist act, they are frequently quoted in the paper on that point. By the same token, Palestinians who describe an Israeli missile attack on a Hamas leader that also kills civilians as "state-sponsored terrorism" also get recorded.
My, how incredibly fair minded of them. Putting the IDF on exactly the same plain as Hamas is like comparing the Boy Scouts to the Hitler Youth. They still after all this, just ...don't...get...it. Blowing up babies amy be a terrorist act, but Hamas has issues dammit. This is an example of Rectal Cranial Infarction, a common ailment among reporters, it happens when they attempt to be totally fair to even the most thuggish killers at the cost of their humanity and their common sense.
I suggest two of these,..........to help them pull their heads out of their ass.
It may help, but if they are too far gone. Then pulling their heads off works too.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:25 PM | Comments (0)
Good for you girl, don't be a victim.
This seems to have ended badly for a worthless pair of douchbags. While details are sparse, it has every hallmark of a righteous shooting. If the choice is them dead and her safe, as opposed toooo.......... her dead or raped with them back on the block to do it again, I choose answer number 1. Whatever you believe regarding the death penalty, this seems a no brainer.
Some criminals are predaters, hunters of women. They can't be helped, can't be fixed or cured, and if the justice system dumps them out to reoffend,.......then a woman is well advised to protect herself from harm. I shed no tears for these guys, they made the choice to die. They could have left her alone, they could be breathing the wasted air in their lungs..............They made it happen, and I hope this is the end of it.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:02 PM | Comments (2)
Oh, thaaaat's what he meant to say,....
Well Hell, he's been a politician for two days and can weasal as readily as any of them now. If you had any doubt's about his fitness before, your bullshit meter ought to be pegged out now. He really meant to say he was 180 degress opposed to war in Iraq..........oooops. Guess his pro war stance wasn't popular at the Democratic Hitler Youngen at the local college.
So,........do you want to bet his views will change again if he gives a speech to the VFW? Nah, me neither. He keeps turning around on positions like this, he's gonna get tagged as Whirling Wesley.
This is just too funny, to win a primary, he's gonna say whatever it takes.
And now we should trust him?......................................Bwwhhhaaaahaaahaaaaa.
Posted by Nukevet at 08:45 PM | Comments (0)
At least they can't blame McDonalds for this one.
Globalization has felled another business that was a pure and unsullied example of regional pride.
More alarming was the news this week that some of Bavaria's most storied beer brands � including Lowenbrau � are being sold to Belgium's Interbrew conglomerate.
"It's sad," Munich resident Monika Heckel said Saturday, sitting in the late-summer sun in the Lowenbrau beer garden. "In Bavaria, you want to drink a Bavarian beer. I think the tourists do, too."
The Belgians did it, those sneaky little capitolists have struck at the heart of German culture. Life will never be the same.....sob sob..........sniff.
They will continue the name and product lines, leave the brewries in place, yet you just know at the next anti-global rally harmonia will be wearing black. Besides, this has no resonance in America. It's like saying a Hoosier bought Smuckers Jelly company from the Buckeye state. If they change little, the reaction would be a collective yawn......................For all the whining about us all living in a shrinking would where the opinion of foriegners is vital to do anything.....The anti-globalists are awfully provincial about these things. The rhetoric just doesn't match the actions. This will be considered bad, horrible, yet I doubt the Germans will even notice the change.
Crybabies and whiners the lot. It becomes clear quickly that they really don't think through their own positions. I don't really care if Belgium owns the Germans brewries, There's barely a dimes worth of difference between them anyway. But I expect that demands will be made to block the sale. If the companies just die, then at least they die German owned. A serious comfort to unemployed Germans I'm sure.
I await the complaints, this ought to be good.
Posted by Nukevet at 08:00 PM | Comments (0)
I hope I don't get a DUI.
Is blogging under the influence against the rules? A minor surgical procedure but the drugs are intense. Keep that in mind as you read, if I'm any good, then fine. But If I ramble or stumble badly,...it's the drugs I swear..........
So here goes.
The Mirror is one of Britains less than truthful tabloid papers, it's coverage of the war has been selective, biased and harsh. So take this report with a huge grain of salt.
Still, it sounds plausible, possibly likely. Saddam is no martyr, no till the death fanatic out to claim his 72 warm ones. He's a cornered rat, and if true, this piece suggests that Miss. Rice isn't going to sellout the cause of justice. She's headhunting.
Damn I like that woman.
From Drudge.
Posted by Nukevet at 07:34 PM | Comments (0)
Starship troopers
I found an enteresting back and forth at Cato The Youngest's Started by a Quizilla test, it covers the substance of Heinlein's book vs. the movie. I thought the movie was shot though with plot holes and mistakes. I loved the book, and didn't recognize any of it in the film. So tell me, did anyone like the movie? What did you make of the book?
Posted by Nukevet at 02:30 AM | Comments (8)
I've been inspired
My first photoshopped pic.
I'd like to thank the Seattle IMC for this article in particular, Mr. Johnson from Little Green Footballs for the pic of Rachel burning the US flag on foreign soil, and Aaron the Liberal Slayer for the wonderful background pic.
Their inspiration was overwhelming.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:53 AM | Comments (14)
September 19, 2003
Blow me down
There be no bein' a pirate if ye ain't gotta lass.
The fine Lady Salma Hayek be mine lady for the day. While sailing the seven seas, this bloke han't never run across a more talented, easy on the eyes lady than this. Other than the real Mrs (whom Ms. Hayek resembles).
Lo, tho she be a wee lass, I'd let her board me ship and storm me bannisters any day. She be the real latin sensation. I'll be havin me men take that J-Lo wench and lash her to the front of me ship before I'd touch her.
PS And take a look at those cannonballs boys!
PPS Any sexism implied be the curse of the pirate. Lighten up yer mainsail. It's the weekend.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:50 PM | Comments (3)
Europe takes on Castro
EASTERN Europe, that is. Funny how those who have experienced socialism and communism are willing to call a dictator a, er, dictator.
Europe ought to make it unambiguously clear that Castro is a dictator, and that for democratic countries a dictatorship cannot become a partner until it commences a process of political liberalisation.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:40 PM | Comments (0)
Thar she blows!
Mighty good t' see that not everyone is ascair't of a little N'Easter!
Posted by Nukevet at 01:22 PM | Comments (4)
This be sad, a sad end for a poor lass, a sad end to a music legend
Why o why does the tragic have to befall so many what has know the taste of fame? I know little of the private life of the famous, I have little interest. But so many have a bad end, so may canna survive the thing they sought,................why I asks meself?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:17 PM | Comments (0)
Farewell, ye faithfull beastie
Tis a fitting end for the brave little beatsie what has served man so well. Chartin the uncharted shoals so that someday, a brave lad or fair maid may travel the spaceways in it's place. A toast then, ....to ye... me brave metal beast. Ye have the heart of a wayfarer, even if the blood of the sea never coursed your veins. Ye shall be honored, and remembered as a good servant.
Dwell ye among the stars.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:07 PM | Comments (2)
Arrrrrhhhh..A fool methinks
He be seekin the highest Captaincy in the whole of tha lands, but tha sorry weak kneed son of a seadog canna answer the simplest of queries. Wesley the weak is a poor mans substitute for a REAL Captain.....................
The general's remarks in a free-rolling 90-minute airborne interview suggested the extent of the adjustment he faces in becoming a presidential candidate.
"Mary, help!" he called to his press secretary, Mary Jacoby, at the front of the plane, as he faced questions about Iraq. "Come back and listen to this."
At one point, Ms. Jacoby interrupted the interview, which included four reporters who were traveling on the general's jet, to make certain that General Clark's views on the original Iraq resolution were clear.
Go ye back home to yer mother and put on a wenchs garb ye sob sister. This be a mans work, if ye donna know yer own mind, do na be thinking ye can speak for me. Yea, no, maybe, if the answer be hard? This be not the time to start yer educatin, ye shoulda thought the deeper thoughts before ye began this task.
This lad has done the lods work this day, he be scupperin his own chances before he has even begun. Wesley the weak, now there be a fine example to the heathen scum o the world. Attack me, if ye wish to be bored ta death.....
Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 PM | Comments (2)
proving a point
A conspiracy?
It seems that in places on the web, there are people utterly desparate to prove that 9/11 either didn't happen, or if it did, was all a secret CIA plot to give Bush a reason to conquer the world. My friend Bsti at Chapel Perilous has located one such debate. B doesn't give much credence to alot of it, I give none at all. There are poeple who say they see something strange about the belly of the 767 but don't know what it is. That's a fine point of view, perfectly normal, this guy? Let's just say we had better not ever meet.
I explained what I believe the image to show in the comments at b's, but I really had to show everyone this in a more graphic manner. The top image, I took it and cropped at expanded it on my own to show what happens when you have no knowledge and a paranoid mind. My blow up.
The object that they claim is a bomb, FLIR pod, missile and or little green man is what? The white patch of wing between the engine pod and the body of the aircraft reflecting the sun..........and that is all. I see no bomb, no missile, no agents of the CIA or Israel, clearly there is nothing there but the light and the structures of a normal 767. The guy who came up with the flame thrower in the nose theory needs to seek medical help, quickly.
I'm no aircraft expert, but I'm logical, methodical, and I've been a lover of flight my whole life. I've seen bombers loaded, I've seen them manuever, I've been at Air Force bases. When you compare that limited knowledge against someone who gets their info of the military from comic books and the X-files.........Fantasy is not a viable option on something like this. This clown above seems to think nobody else can study a photo and come to another conclusion...like maybe he forgot his meds today.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)
Arrggh!
We'd be better to scuttle ourselves out of Iraq now.
So says the scurvy land lubbers on the looney left. Those sea-hating dawgs have put up a page chock full to the brim of emo-pics (caution:graphic Arrgh!) of civilian casualties from Iraq to try and 'shock and shame' the blokes and wenches of America into thinking that the US of A is a load of cannonshot.
Arrgh, I can see with me one good eye that they do not show any of the photos of those thar mass graves, torture chambers or the gassing of the Kurds. Hmmm, I wonder why? And so does me parrott friend, Chicken ala King.
Also sonny, there be no gold their neither. Nay, not even any diamonds or silver.
The dread page lies at the bottom of Davey Jones locker at a site called 'The Four Reasons.org'. Which gives four reasons why Bush should be impeached. Four is also the number of times I skewered that bastard, Michael 'Scuffy Beard' Moore, with me cutlass in our last battle. Sadly, that was not enough times to cut through all of that blubber and he was able to wedge his way through an open stevadore portal and dive into the briney deep. Some of my men say he never came up, but there are still sightings of the great white whale to this day.
Just to let you lads and lasses know from which direction they're sailin', the mutinous 'Four Reasons' crew also link to the bilge rats who believe that September 11th was a US Government SpecOp production, arrggh, and put the dawg this pirate would like to keel-haul the most, 'Cross-eyed' Bobby Fisk in the "News and Information" section.
Now remember, lads and lasses, remove all throwable objects in the immediate area before entering. Lest your favoite ale wench chastize ye for breaking her best stout flagons and ban ye from your favorite tavern in your home harbor.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:43 AM | Comments (2)
I've called Democrats monkeys in the past but this proves it
From Mr. Taranto,
"In a recent study, brown capuchin monkeys trained to exchange a granite token for a cucumber treat often refused the swap if they saw another monkey get a better payoff — a grape."
"Instead, they often threw the token, refused to eat the piece of cucumber, or even gave it to the other capuchin after viewing the lopsided deal, said Emory University researcher Sarah Brosnan."
"When both monkeys were given a cucumber slice after handing over the token, they completed the trade 95 percent of the time. But when one was given the tastier grape for the same amount of work, the rate of cooperation from the other monkey fell to 60 percent, with the cheated primate sometimes throwing the token, refusing the cucumber or giving the cucumber to the other monkey. And when one didn't have to do anything to get a grape, the other made the trade for the cucumber only 20 percent of the time."
"Brosnan, who said she is now conducting similar studies with chimpanzees, noted that the capuchin that got the grape didn't react at all to the unjustness of the situation. That "probably implies there is still a lot of difference between their sense of fairness and ours," she said."
Mr. Taranto's next quetion was: "If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, would they eventually write a speech for Howard Dean?"
No Mr. Taranto. They would more likely write one for Kucinich.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:28 AM | Comments (1)
Can these people really be considered Texans?
The Dems who left Texas in order to break the quorum on redistricting are back, which means its 'Whining As Usual' time.
Now they are crying about their punishment for running away like little girls, or as we in America like to say, a frenchman.
"A visibly angry Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston, repeatedly questioned A visibly angry Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston, repeatedly questioned , Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on the timeline for deciding whether Republicans will drop the fines levied against the Democrats, now totaling $57,000 each."
"Some Republican colleagues feel that they did wrong, they violated (Senate rules), and they should have to pay for that," Dewhurst said."
"Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, D-Austin, said he would give the opposition one more day to decide."
"I'm tired of being dropped off at the front steps (of the Capitol) every morning like an orphan," he said, referring to sanctions imposed on the Democrats. One of the penalties deprived the lawmakers of their parking spaces on the Capitol grounds"
What a bunch of whiny little bitches. Is it any wonder that they have the capacity to feel sorry for criminals.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:12 AM | Comments (0)
September 18, 2003
a question, when did Powell swear an oath to the UN?
I realize this is a moonbat site, that their sense of reality is horribly impaired by their tinfoil head gear. I understand that we are never, ever going to agree on even the time of day. But this statement is worthy of the village idiot.
That reality is going to be a very bad hurdle to overcome for Colin Powell, who really has lost a lot of the confidence and trust that many people around the world had put in him with his rather cheap way of supporting the President and not being an intermediary between the global community and the Bush Administration.
When the Hell did the Secretary of State of these United States of America take on the role of defense attorney for the UN? When did he stop being OUR representative? This is so bullshit I can hardly keep from throwing things, such ignorance from a supposedly educated man. Does the UN envoy from France have the same brief, explaining the finer points of the world to the stuck up and provincial French? Or is it just us that need to be educated?
This screams elitist asshat in ten langauges. Sure they're the most powerful, but so simple minded. If we just speak slowly enough, they can be led........Up your ass sideways, you slack jawed bastard. Your beloved UN has a consistent history of incompetence and failure in every adventure where it operates without American leadership. Your European pinhead friends can't run the world without murdering millions, so the job fell to us by default. You can keep your dictater of the month club, and if you won't follow, then the UN dies a much deserved death.
We could hardly do worse.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:48 PM | Comments (0)
Excellent idea
Cato The Youngest has added a translation tool to his site. This rocks, I often check foreign sites and papers looking for what's being said overseas. Few of them provide English pages and trying other ways to translate are mostly too troublesome to mess with. I expect to make some serious use of this tool. I can read a tiny bit in German, but not enough to read a newspaper. This is sooooo apreciated, my thanks to our friend Cato.
Now, to see what the French are saying to themselves..........This should be good for some laughs.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:14 PM | Comments (1)
Following David Frum's link
This deserved a second post, as it appeared down toward the end of David's article on a different subject.
"Foreigners had more rights in Iraq than Iraqis did under Saddam," is not an uncommon complaint to be heard here. There is a lot of animosity towards those countries that managed to gain from Saddam's thirst for international recognition and popularity. In this light, the bombing of the Jordanian embassy in August is not difficult to comprehend. It was even more tragic and disgusting an act if you consider that it was mainly Iraqis that died in the blast.
Pan-Arab nationalists will find that their dreams have died in the dusty streets of Baghdad, and the narrow lanes of Fallujah. Iraqis just aren't interested. They have enough problems of their own and just want to get back on an even keel, to enjoy their country as they hoped they were always supposed to.
That's why the resistence will get feebler and weaker, go even farther underground, and in the end will die by Iraqi hands. It doesn't have anything to do with the desires of the people of Iraq, that point is driven home to them with each attack that takes out more Iraqi's than Americans. The so-called resistence is in the game for it's own islamicist agenda and the Iraqi's know that, even if Egyptians and Jordanians do not.
The critics in Europe are so eager to see us fail, they aren't even paying attention to what's going on on the ground. They screech quagmire, as if that were a position, and not a desire of theirs. The Iraqi's say different, our soldiers on the ground say different, so any carping from the peace no matter what crowd rings hollow. It'll take awhile to rebuild, but the work has started, and wishing it away won't do the Europeans any good.
Have I said that Chirac can go fuck himself today?
Posted by Nukevet at 02:37 PM | Comments (1)
Taking a closer look at Clark
National Review online, deconstructing a myth before it gets airborne.
Likewise, Wesley Clark for President of the United States is all wrong. Democrats think they can inoculate themselves from the charge of being weak on national security by hiring a general to express their weakness for them. It�s an old antiwar fantasy. Back in the 1930s, the U.S. Communist Party recruited a former Marine Corps general, Smedley Butler, to give speeches on the eve of World War II denouncing military preparedness as a capitalist racket. The idea was that by persuading an individual man of valor to propound shameful views , those views would somehow become less shameful. It didn�t work then. I doubt it will work now.
Nicely done............and an excellent point. Finding weird retired generals is easy, making them a presidential candidate when you don't really know jack about them is shooting dice with your chances. If Clinton had him fired as NATO chief, then what makes democrats trust his judgement now that he's running, when even the top democrat didn't trust his judgement in Kosovo? This jihad against Bush goes way past differences in policy, it's become a holy mission to them.
Oh well, the more they try to make it a matter of leadership on war, the worse they will loose.
If any one figure sums up the illusions and errors of the 1990s, it is Clark. Clark was the general who led the U.S. into a purely humanitarian war in Kosovo � at exactly the moment that the Clinton administration was disregarding the gathering threat to the United States from Middle Eastern terrorism. Clark has criticized the supposed and alleged errors of U.S. planning in Iraq � notwithstanding that his campaign in Kosovo was based on an unending series of errors, above all his claim that his air campaigns could destroy Serbian military capabilities without harming the Serbian civilian population.
Bring it on. The democrat general has his own questions to answer, and he can't get away with just a Kerry like dodge anymore. It's all acedemic, he won't win the nod, but he will drain money and resources away from the others.
That's a plus in my book.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:15 PM | Comments (0)
OK, what is it?
Some of you may know, but it was a fixture of military service for a long time. I still have one on my key ring.
Here's a clue.
C-rations, the terror of the cold war servieman, it would keep you alive, just not very happy about it. If you have lived on these for a while, then nothing much fazes you when it comes to food. I know good food, and I know maintenince fare. I can eat hash cold out of the can, and have when I was single and in a hurry. But I was kind of sorry to hear they were gone, that the MRE has totally replaced it.
I know nothing of MRE's, but I found this and it took me back.
From their research so far, they said one thing is certain.
�Hands down, the U.S. meals have won the MRE war,� Paston said.
�Not only was the taste of our MREs preferred, but the majority of more than 25 participants said they are much more convenient to eat from, and portability is easier. They are lighter, produce less trash and (are) more compact.�
But then, US rations always have won that contest, I heard horror stories of Brit rations, read my WWII history. The Japanese troops just carried a ball of sticky rice with some seaweed and vegetables in it. Maybe some dried fish. The French find mention here in the article.
�We found that many people enjoyed the taste of the French MREs over most; � particularly the lamb,� Paston said.
Well some people eat Brie too, which I consider one step below paint chips. Pity the French don't spend more time worrying about fighting to win as opposed to the size of their field kitchens.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:15 PM | Comments (8)
Have you heard this one?
From Cigar Dave, a little story.
THE BUNNY AND THE SNAKE
Once upon a time in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth.
Once day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit.
�Oh my,� said the bunny, �I�m terribly sorry. I didn�t mean to hurt you. I�ve been blind since birth, so I can�t see where I�m going. In fact, since.
I�m also an orphan, I don�t even know what I am.�
�It�s quite OK,� replied the snake. �Actually, my story is much the same as yours. I, too, have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are, so at least you�ll have that going for you.�
�Oh�that would be wonderful� replied the bunny. So the snake slithered all over the bunny and said, �Well, you�re covered with soft fur; you have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony tail. I�d say that you must be a bunny rabbit!�
�Oh, Thank You! Thank You!� cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The bunny suggested to the snake, �Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw and help you the same way that you�ve helped me.�
So the bunny felt the snake all over and remarked, �Well, you�re smooth and slippery. You have a forked tongue, no backbone, and no testicles.
I�d say you must be French!�
Badaboom daboom,..................................
Posted by Nukevet at 03:42 AM | Comments (4)
Hey, so I made up parts of my story,....oooops?
For anyone who still thinks the BBC has any integrity at all, the following story, and admission from Andrew Gilligan.
Mr. Gilligan said today he stood by the central thrust of the story, but he conceded that the language he had used was inexact and implied that that was a routine occurrence at the BBC when reports are not scripted in advance.
"It was not intentional, it was a kind of slip of the tongue that does happen quite often during live broadcasts," he said of his mistaken charge that Dr. Kelly had accused the government of falsifying intelligence. "It is an occupational hazard."
He admitted that the view that the government was manipulating intelligence was his own, not Dr. Kelly's, though he defended it as a "logical conclusion" of his reporting.
He accepted that he had erred in identifying Dr. Kelly, a scientist attached to the Ministry of Defense, as an "intelligence source," explaining: "It was a mistake. It was the kind of mistake that does arise in live broadcasts."
Game, set, and match to Tony Blair. So Gilligan admits in not so many words he put out his own opinion as "fact", and acted the craven coward when he was challenged on it. Had Blair been less Honorable and just resigned, then history would have been changed by a worthless little lying weasel, that is a monsterous crime. When you have the responsiblity of the BBC, the supposed impartial voice people can trust, and treat it as a personal hobby horse to wage a vendetta campaign of lies and slanderous libel, you should be flogged at the least. This fleabite will probably retire and write a book, lovingly collected by the Indymedia orcs. The hard left's case has been built on a lie, I expect they won't even notice.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:24 AM | Comments (10)
An honored soldier, hero, and now, a citizen.
A True American
Wounded Soldier Becomes a Citizen After Giving a Lesson in Courage
His sacrifice and yesterday's simple act of patriotism were so powerfully symbolic, with the nation still at war in Iraq, that his citizenship ceremony drew two members of President Bush's Cabinet: Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge and Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi, both Vietnam veterans.
Welcome home Hilario, we're proud to have you among us. You are American now, as your children will be. They will be as proud of you as we are. I served with a S. Korean E-5, a Jamaican airman, and a couple of Philipino's. Their love of this country was an inspiration.
Again, welcome my friend.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:03 AM | Comments (3)
You got to know when to hold 'em,
And know when to fold 'em.....
It's the "52 Most Dangerous Liberals in America" card set.
Fun for the whole family!
You're new 'Poker Face' will be a smile!
Includes the always popular,
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
-Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents
Along with these laugh a minute folks,
"Which Senator vowed to "overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does" when he's elected President"
"The former Vice President who takes credit for creating the Internet"
"A newscaster who thinks "you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things"
"The Media Mogul who called his employees "Jesus freaks"
"Which Representative wants Bill Clinton to run for President again"
"The actress who loves Communism (okay, one of the actresses who love Communism!)"
And many more outrageous liberal ideas
Posted by Nukevet at 12:34 AM | Comments (0)
They will incur the Wrath of...
Oprah!
"Sweden TV Watchdog Censures Oprah for Pro-War Bias"
"Sweden's broadcasting watchdog said Wednesday it was censuring an Oprah Winfrey talk show for showing bias toward a U.S. military attack on Iraq."
I wonder if their punishment will include her making them fat, and then skinny, and then fat, and then skinny.....
Also found at Samizdata.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:23 AM | Comments (1)
Found at Samizdata
"ASI is the UK's leading innovator of practical market-economic policies. For over 25 years it has been a pioneer in the worldwide movement towards free markets, public-sector reform, and free trade."
"The Institute's main focus is on reforming governments and state enterprises in order to promote choice, competition, enterprise, and user-focus. It works through research, reports, conferences, advice, and media debate."
Posted by Nukevet at 12:18 AM | Comments (0)
Schools in Washington suck so bad....
You :'How bad do they suck?'
They suck so bad that kids are stabbing themselves in pairs to have to keep from going.
"Two boys on their way to Sumner High School on Wednesday said they were slashed in a confrontation with a man, then later admitted to authorities the report was a hoax."
True 'Darwin Award' potential here, folks.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:14 AM | Comments (1)
In other local news
Since yesterday's vote that turned down the 10cents per latte tax and OK'd the low-prioritizing of marajuana possesion, one of our local talk show hosts put forth the idea to put a 10cent tax on each baggie of weed sold in the city.
Making them true 'Dime Bags'.
Just thought I'd share.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:09 AM | Comments (0)
September 17, 2003
Heh
Posted by Nukevet at 06:12 PM | Comments (0)
Best I can do on short notice.....
Posted by Nukevet at 05:08 PM | Comments (1)
Nice Analysis
On the "roots" of suicide terrorism, and how to combat it.
Posted by Nukevet at 10:00 AM | Comments (4)
Hey Man,
Keep your hands off my drugs, man!
"Leave pot smokers alone, and don't mess with our coffee."
In the eternal wisdom that is Seattle voters, yesterday we voted down a 10cent tax on 'Lattes' (which I don't drink by the way. ewwwww) and made that wacky tabacky a 'low priority' for law enforcement officials (cops and prosecuters).
This is also the city that approved of not allowing city employees ask about the status of someone's citizenship (cops and DMV workers. Yeah, motorvoter!)
Like I said a couple of days ago, with Patty Murray collecting money on Sept 11th, this dumbass town will re-elect her. Unless I can find someone who can fake some pics of her in bed with say, Michael Savage, dressed as a kinky Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause. Hmmmm.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:36 AM | Comments (1)
Pou Pou on You
Monseuir,
Hey aren't the US airline companies in need of some $$$?
"Corsair, which has been chartered numerous times to transport UK forces around the world, pulled out of a contract to fly reinforcements to Basra at the weekend."
If Bush is such an "Imperialist Dictator" why doesn't he just go ahead and ban all French flights from landing is the US? Keep those froggy bastards from being at their meetings in the UN. Or at least make them have to take the long way around.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:30 AM | Comments (3)
September 16, 2003
Ecxllnet Nwes!!
We don't need no sutip Sepllcechker.
Via Barry's Talks!
Posted by Nukevet at 06:28 PM | Comments (0)
A Judicial Observer's View of the Situation in Iraq
This link contains the text of a speech given by Judge Don Walters, a federal judge from my adopted state (Shreveport, LA to be exact). Judge Walters was part of a 12 man judicial observation team sent to Iraq to evaluate the justice system. It's hard to abstract his speech, so best to just go read it in its entirety (after all, wouldn't want to be accused of just selecting quotes that support my worldview)
Via Instapundit
Well, OK, maybe just 1 select quote from Judge Walters:
Despite my initial opposition to the war, I am now convinced, whether
we find any weapons of mass destruction or prove Saddam sheltered and
financed terrorists, absolutely, we should have overthrown the Baathists,
indeed, we should have done it sooner.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:46 PM | Comments (17)
I just thought
Y'all might like to know a coupla things.
1. The laptop has returned. Just the video card was bad, not the whole shebang. (way to go nVida)
2. Somebody still hates Reagan enough to write about it.
"In 1981, a crazed rich kid shot Ronald Reagan. For many folks in Berkeley it was a dream of revenge come true. After all, it was Reagan who called for a bloodbath in the town after he ordered the National Guard into Berkeley in response to the 1969 Third World Strike at the university and the People's Park insurrection the same year. It was Reagan and his henchmen who had helped imprison, murder and isolate the Black Panthers and the radical left in the Bay Area. It was Reagan who was partially responsible for the rightwing resurgence in Americaa resurgence that has yet to ease it deadly grasp. As the television screen showed the assassination attempt over and over again, we wondered if the old fascist would make it through. Like our buddy Loren said as we watched, it's not that he would wish anyone dead; it's just that he wouldn't shed any tears if Reagan ended up that way--sooner rather than later."
I guess they figure that hating only one person will make the shallow.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:55 PM | Comments (1)
Yeah, another super extra special dream candidate, heh.
Wesley Clark is running, oh boy, moderate democrats, the 4 or 5 still left think he has the heft to unseat George. That's nice, he has little money, NO political experience and does anyone believe for a second the hardcore peacenik vote would ever consider him? He has zero chance among their parties activist base. He's a former warrior,...gasp.... shudder. Ike was a great general, but a mediocore president, as was Grant. Generals tend to do badly in civilian office. The skills are too different to be a success.
My problem with Wesley is his ass kissing of the Europeans, his total lack of initiative in dealing with issues of the War on terror. He basically seems to think we should just unlease INTERPOL on it. Well grumbling from the ranks, allow me, Wesley ain't got the stones to do the job. I don't want a handwringer in the White House, I want a decisive leader. Being a general is no promise of courage and talent. Ask any vet, he can tell you of a general who should have been a E-2 clerk. Maybe he's a great planner, maybe a good soldier, but that doesn't automatically make him Presidential material.
I'm really eager to see the same people who have derided the military for years suddenly tell us they are all gung ho for Clark. He has no hope of winning, but he could ensure that Bush wins in a walk.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:20 PM | Comments (4)
choice quote of the month....
CNN just can't stop sticking it's head in the oven and turning on the gas.
Amanpour, a guest on last week's "Topic A with Tina Brown" on CNBC, set off shockwaves in the TV world over the weekend when she said she thought her employer, CNN, was "muzzled" in its war coverage by a combination of the White House and its competitive position with the higher-rated Fox News Channel.
To it's credit FOX replied.
A Fox News spokeswonman said: "It's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."
Rimshot.........Look, obviously Christiane has rather conviently forgotten her own network's admission that they submitted to every single Iraqi demand and censored any coverage deemed too critical of Iraq. FOX certainly isn't perfect, but at least you can say they are clearly American, Can you really say that about CNN? They are based in Atlanta, but their heart is in Paris.
That's not a compliment. From Drudge.
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Can you see the steam coming out of my ears?
She of the Osama bin Laden Day Care Center, Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray, was kind of busy on September 11th. See wasn't in NYC commemorating the victims, nor was she at the field in Pennsylvania or the Pentagon.
This will win her re-election, at least with the hippies in her home district. They are too stupid to figure out that if she saw them walking through her neighborhood, she'd call the cops. So would I, but I don't pander for their votes.
Actually, I'd probably chase after them with an axe handle. In fact, if I were to run for public office, I'd run on a "I beat hippies with axe handles" platform. For every vote I got, I'd promise to whack a hippie. And if I ran out of hippies (yeah right, I live in Seattle) I'd switch to Communists.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:00 AM | Comments (13)
Is this supposed to be a compliment?
Also pointed out by Mr. Taranto,
You'll remember McDermott as one of the dingbats the Seattle patchoulli stinkers voted into the House (again). He, like Kerry, likes to call himself a Vietnam Vet. Of course he was stationed in a California VA hospital (San Diego I believe) practicing psychiatry the whole time.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:53 AM | Comments (2)
All in the Family
Via Mr. Taranto at Best of the Web comes this wonderful analogy.
"The nine Democratic contenders for president remind me of a big family.
"You have your four older siblings (Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean) who are always fighting with each other; their little sister (Carol Moseley Braun) whom they ignore; and their kid brother (John Edwards) who would do anything to get noticed."
"Next you have the angry uncle (the Rev. Al Sharpton) who could snap without warning and begin beating you with the sock full of nickels he keeps tucked away in his pocket; and the weird cousin (Dennis Kucinich) who used to eat paint chips as a child and now spends most of his time playing in the dirt under the back porch."
"Finally there is crazy old grandpa who shows up to Thanksgiving dinner every year without his pants and thinks it's cute to drop his dentures into the sweet potatoes when nobody is looking. That's our Bob Graham."
"Now everybody in the family may love grandpa, but nobody is going to give him the keys to the car -- if you know what I mean."
I can picture Kucinich eating paint chips very easily.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:42 AM | Comments (2)
September 15, 2003
Don't forget September 19th
You didn't forget, did you? Well, did you?
Posted by Nukevet at 07:22 PM | Comments (3)
Another underappreciated benefit of capitalism
No more kaidangku!
Posted by Nukevet at 07:12 PM | Comments (1)
Sew on another stripe
OK, I know it is sort of blatant self-promotion, but we (the nuclear wife and myself) just got notified that we have been granted tenure by the university and promoted to Associate Professor. There are only 3 academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor), so I'm not too sure what the military analogy would be. From private to captain? Major? All I know is that it's done, and I don't have to contemplate moving unless I want to!
Posted by Nukevet at 06:43 PM | Comments (9)
He can't spell
But he can do math.
One of the IMC minions took the US military casualties and dived the Iraqi civilian and military casualties with them and then proceeds to advocate the killing/suicide of US soldiers in order to 'save lives'.
"By statistics about this military raid, official 7836 Iraqi civilians were killed and by approximation 60000 Iraqi draftees till September 2003. Proportional 345 U.S. & UK mercenaries were erased."
"This means that statistically viewed any U.S. mercenary soldier can save 196 lifes in the future by his own erasement. It means also that to kill an U.S. soldier will be a good humane act by saving human lifes."
"These following U.S. mercenaries are now irrevocable and forever unable to kill more humans."
Yes, I know that this is all flash and no substance (hopefully), but take a peek at the site linked in this post.
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Just thought you'd like to know
As seen in Calgary,
Posted by Nukevet at 02:49 AM | Comments (7)
Weekend Happenings
Howdy all,
Hope you all had a good weekend. I did, despite my musical choices best efforts. I spent all day Sunday listening to my Cure cd's from 1985 through 1992 (thanks to Mark for the Cure post a while back). As I type I am sitting through my 4th consecutive listening of their 'Disintergration' album (better switch up to the 'Wish'album. Where's the Darvoset?). I will be refraining from posting song titles from them until the world is truly dead (November 1st), but you may have to blog through other groups that fit this Autumn (NIN, Skinny Puppy, etc).
On Saturday I met Raging Dave from 4 Right Wing Whackos at one of our local ranges and had a bang-up time. Howdy Dave! Give me a call when you want to meet up again, sir. Ialso had the pleasure of being introduced to the Ms. Raging Dave and Dave's friend Ari. Maybe next time we can take some pics and put them up.
Mollbot, you're next.
Have a great week folks.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:47 AM | Comments (4)
Censorship as praticed by the left
This piece in Esquire has already been covered by Neal. The subject isn't over yet though, it seems some people are taking offense with the viewing of images like this.
Instapundit took some heat over it, and the issue is still simmering at Timshel Arts.
It seems that either some are too squeamish, or too sensitive to deal with it. To them I'm sorry. But the other side, the "don't enflame the idiot masses with that" crowd, they can just go away quietly. I WANT TO REMEMBER..........I want the anger to stay real and focused, I want to see that and know in my gut who the real fascist bastards are. I want to burn it into my mind and never forget, because if we do, then these assholes win. They want us to calm down like good little sheep and accept the spoonfed answers from decadent old asshats like Chomsky, like Gore Vidal, like that idiot Dennis Kucinch who wants to be president. Because if we are angry, then the same tired old answers of play nice and appeasement look exactly as they are,.....suicidally stupid.
These guys are in the people must be led cause they're stupid school of thought. It's the kissing cousin of socialism, of communism, of monarchies even. Everyday men and women are just not able to understand the purity and beauty of their magnificent thoughts. Us humble earthy types being so easily swayed by shiny trinkets and beads. They act as if we were monkeys to be trained. OK then buddy just stick your hand in the cage again, see if you can recognize what you jerk back. This is largely a nation of wolves, not sheep with a few notable exceptions, certainly not lab monkeys. We don't follow messiah's, we don't trust old failed ideas no matter how condescending the delivery. We do understand that a threat is a threat, not an invitation to a debate. We'll bring brass knuckles, they can bring the briefing notes.
These pictures sear your soul, because you look at them and know deep down inside what utter hopelessness is. They are going to die, nothing is going to change it. They stare death right square in the face, and give it the finger, choosing to die quickly by their own doing, rather than slowly in the smoke and fire. This is the kind of horror that few Americans had known before,......we all know it now, sweeping the visual history under the rug will not undo that. I guess the real complaint is that we aren't going to be fooled if we remember. Fooled into retreating and putting the "beloved" UN in charge. Trusting them to care about the lives of Americans when the only thing they really want is to constrain and control us. The French are snottily jerking themselves off to the notion that they REALLY know better. Unable to recall their own nearly two centuries of failure and defeat. The europeans are awash in fictions that the CIA did it, the Mossad, that somehow we didn't really suffer an attack, it's just an excuse to conquer the world. These are the morons we're supposed to trust with our security?
So if the posting of these pictures so offend them, then they should turn away. They lost the debate on Afghanistan, and on Iraq, now we are being told that both are hopeless quagmires that only the selfsame Europeans can save us from. Huh, this would be the ones who suggested that we couldn't beat the Taliban and that Saddam would attack Israel and drag the entire region into open war, that regime change is illegal, but that getting rid of Bush would be just fine..............
This is IndyMedia level stupidity. Blindness so profound that you get the feeling they would kiss the feet of the terrorist who's chambering a round to blast them straight to sheep Heavan. There are easier ways to kill yourself. I resent that they think the rest of us need to share the ride.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:49 AM | Comments (2)
September 14, 2003
What happens when Muslims rule and Jews are in the minority
We've all heard it before, "evil zionists", "occupiers", "murders of arab children". Every lie, slander and libel that can be commited is commited. All in the name of a "Free Palistine". "They want to live in peace, they want a just settlement." Just pull back, give in and all will be sweetness and light. All the good things will happen if we just restrain and disarm Israel,..........that is the line isn't it?
Here's another, "Don't try and blow sunshine up my ass!"
Because this is a graphic example of the kind of scum we are dealing with.
Violent Islamists have murdered two members of Morocco's shrinking Jewish community in the past four days and look set to drive out most of the remaining members of a community whose history stretches back centuries.
The stabbing to death of 75-year-old Elie Afrat as he left his house in Meknes, 90 miles east of Rabat, to go to the synagogue on Saturday has finally shattered what the Moroccan authorities had always held up as a model of coexistence between Muslims and Jews.
The killing of Mr Afrat, one of just 120 Jews left in Meknes, came two days after a similar murder in Casablanca. On that occasion the victim was Albert Revivo, 55, a timber trader in the city's Lakria market.
What did a Moroccan citizen who happens to be Jewish have to do with Palistine? Or Iraq, or anything at all?............................
This is why Jews trust no one but themselves to protect them, why Israel was founded. The pogroms of Europe drove them out or murdered them, homes for centuries abandoned because it became popular to target and kill Jews. The only real friend Israel has in the world, is us, for which I am very proud.
But I've had it with the ISM types, the arab delusions and fanatical hate, and the tut tuting, the rolling of the eyes in Europe whenever Jews are murdered. For nearly the whole of their history, Jews have been hounded and persecuted for merely being alive. We are supposed to forget history, forget Israeli suffering, forget muslim bigotry and lies, forget that shooting a terrorist is justice and bombing children on a bus is not. We are supposed to forget everything except the lies and halftruths of anti-semites and islamicists. Them we are supposed to believe. When even in a country where Jews have lived peacefully since 586BC they are hunted just because they are Jewish, the veneer is stripped away. this is about genocide. The more honest arabs admit it, Hamas admits it, Al Quadia admits it, it doesn't have shit to do with money oil or the burned out moonscape of Palistine. It's about killing the infidel and establishing another mullahtocracy like the one in Iran, and the one in Afghanistan we ground under our heel.
It is a war of cultures, and there is no opt out for the squeamish, no running and hiding under the bed. We can tolerate "other" just fine, after all Micheal Moore is still alive. The Islamicist do not, we didn't make it ' Either you are with us, or against us." they did. They declared the war, we are merely acting accordingly now. So anyone stupid enough to believe that some kind of retooling of Oslo will fix everything, when one side has the complete extermination of the other in mind,...........well shit, I've got some property on the Moon I'd like to sell.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:47 PM | Comments (10)
So,
Whaddya see?
Any of these guys?
Posted by Nukevet at 11:51 AM | Comments (5)
Song about Sibbie
Strong Bad, OK, so it's a weakness.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:34 AM | Comments (1)
Instapundit always finds the good stuff
Sums things up rather nicely, I think. Of course, I'm sure there are those who will call him a "crybaby American", eh?
Posted by Nukevet at 09:34 AM | Comments (0)
September 13, 2003
Just leave
Arafat is still thinking he can keep up this act forever.
An Arafat aide said Thursday the authority also plans to consolidate its security apparatus under Arafat, not Qorei. During his four months in office, Abbas was in a power struggle with Arafat, particularly over control of security forces needed to rein in militants conducting terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
Hasan Rahman, the chief Palestinian representative to the United States, told CNN that the expelling Arafat is "illegal, it is immoral and it is particularly counterproductive."
He said no power should be able to remove the elected leader of a people, asserting that Sharon "is personalizing the conflict" to make it look like Arafat is the problem
He won't share power, won't stop the militants, won't even hide his own naked grasping at power. This pathetic sack of snot would sacrifice every living thing to hold on to his throne. His time is up, and if the Israeli's take him out, then the world will be a lot cleaner for it.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:14 PM | Comments (11)
Caught one.
Remember ELF? Well it seems the FBI and local police have tagged one of them for the SUV fires and vandalism that's been going on.
WEST COVINA, Calif. - Federal agents arrested a 25-year-old member of a co-op dedicated to peace and environmentalism in connection with arson fires and vandalism that did $1 million in damage to a Hummer dealership.
Well I'm glad he was dedicated to peace, so he can now peacefully serve his time. He should have remembered the old adage, keep your hands to yourself.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:02 PM | Comments (2)
September 12, 2003
"Olde Skool"!
If you've ever skimed a cookbook then you know everything generaly is reasonibly safe. Exact times, exact measurements, exact temperatures. If you pay attention, you'll do fine. For the adventerous experts, take a peek at this set of online recipes from an 1896 cookbook.
Afraid, be very, very afraid........
1. Forcemeat Balls. I'm so not gonna touch that one.
Cut fine half a pound of veal and the same quantity
of suet, and beat them in a mortar. (You'll go blind beating your meat like that.)
Shred fine a few
sweet herbs, a little dried mace, a small nutmeg grated, a
little lemon-peel cut very fine, some pepper and salt, and
the yolks of two eggs. Mix all well together, then roll
some of it into small balls, and some into long pieces. (Sigmund would have a stroke reading that.)
Roll both in flour, and fry them of a nice brown. (Right, fry your long meat and balls, may I never type that again sober!)
If they are
to be used with white sauce,(heh...)instead of frying them pour a
little water into a stew-pan, and when it boils put them in,
and they will be done in a few minutes.(You really have to wonder how they survived to raise a family, it's no wonder they were so thin in those days. They had to choke the food down.)
This find from The Great Team. They were found via my friend bsti at Chapel Perilous. If you happen to visit bsti, keep in mind that he is no friend to Bush, but he disdains the left with equal ferver, so please keep it friendly. He's a truely unigue individual, and that is a great thing to say of anyone.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:30 PM | Comments (3)
Just fooling around.
Inspired by a friend, I took a UFO photo that I found on the web at this site, and played with it some. This is the original picture.
Update..........
Here is the cropped and greyscaled altered image.
A less dark crop.
While I'm no expert on photography or aircraft, I do know aircraft recognision. This isn't any type I know of. No visible wings or control surfaces, no shadows to indicate their presence. It fits the light well so I doubt it was photoshoped in. It appears to be a flying cylinder, it also appears to be large using the mountain for scale. No detail is evident, so it's impossible to say for certain exactly what it is.
They say it comes back sometimes. Well I have one major suggestion. Get a telescope and record the images through it. If I'm to believe anything, I want far greater detail, and with optical equipment as good as it is, the UFO people can get better pictures.
What continues to trouble me about these images, is that like pictures of Nessy, they are always at very long range and indistinct. Are we being visited? I have no idea, but the failure of UFO documenters to provide better images than these is a major cause for skepticism. The desire to prove a visitation may be so strong that people read into the blurred image what they wish to see. I think this set of images is a wash, neither proving, nor disproving anything. There just isn't enough clearity to judge.
One thing is certain, UFO researchers need to invest in much better optical equipment if they wish to dispell the doubts about their work.
Posted by Nukevet at 06:05 PM | Comments (0)
Still a simplton........
Robert Fisk, the wholesome spreader of propaganda and prevayer homoerotic wishfullfullment, has once again proven that he is without a doubt, the stupidest white man on the face of the Earth.
Who could ever have conceived of an American president calling the world to arms against "terrorism" in "Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza"? Gaza? What do the miserable, crushed, cruelly imprisoned Palestinians of Gaza have to do with the international crimes against humanity in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania?
Oh, little things...........you know Bobby, like maybe............BLOWING UP INNOCENT CIVILIANS YOU RETARD! I swear if I ever met muttface I would push his face inside out. He goes on at length, bringing up that lame old line about the Jews in Washington being involved in a dark cabal for world domination. Hell he thinks the Afghans were better off under the Taliban! Because now that they have freedom, look at how they abuse it. This is a light bulb moment.
In Bobby's world, people are sheep to be controled, by the right sort of leaders of course. Radical left, and totalitarian are good, because that saves people from making decisions Bobby doesn't like. It explains everything, his love of arab governments, his hatred of the west and America in particular. Taliban executions were merely excesses, the new government? Why they are EVIL, EVIL he says................His mom must have done heroin.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:53 PM | Comments (0)
Oh No?
On Thursday night, Arafat emerged at the same spot and declared before thousands of supporters that no one will "kick me out."
Mr. dyed in the wool baby killer is again sending off his followers to die for the cause. At the same time his UN envoy is desparately trying to get the UN to demand his personal safety.
The Israeli decision prompted widespread international condemnation, and the Palestinians urged the U.N. Security Council (search) on Friday to demand that Israel not expel him and halt any threats to his safety.
A depraved old man sending boys and girls off to murder civilians, to wallow in the blood, and now he's afraid for himself. Years late, but a little balancing of the scales would be a good thing. It may not be punishment enough, but it's final, and well deserved. Wether by a 50cal. snipers bullet, or by the devastation of a Hellfire, Justice is coming for you Yassar, better start running now....
Posted by Nukevet at 04:08 PM | Comments (1)
Suffer the little children.
This may be the most moving memorial of all, a simple bed of flowers.
American-Iranian September
"Things will Never be the Same Here" was the title of an article I read in the following weeks of 9/11. This was the best way one could describe not only America but the whole world on the days to come.
The 2nd anniversary of September 11th Tragedy and the Iranian Nation
"America, America.... Condolences, Condolences!" and "Death to Taliban, whether in Kabul or Tehran" they chanted while holding their candle lights despite the brutal attacks of Hezbollahi thugs!!
They weep for us when they suffer so much themselves, that kind of humanity deserves our thanks, and our promise to help. They mourn for us, when it's expensive, when executions are on the rise, and the Mullahs become more desparate. The virtue shown here is unselfish, and uncommon.
We have many obligations now, to ourselves and to our friends and dependents. It seems very hard to attempt to take on more when the burden is already heavy. But I saw that picture, and thought that maybe we can save one more. Afghanistan will be mending a long time, Iraq is still in surgery, but to pull one more people to the light, isn't that worth a little more of our time and treasure? The Iranians have started the journey on their own, maybe an outstretched hand is the boost they need to finish.
I hope we can help, they've earned it.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:46 PM | Comments (0)
Funny, I thought his critics said the troops were angry at him?
Via Drudge a report on the president's visit to the 3rd Infantry Division.
Members of the 3rd Infantry, which suffered more casualties than any other American military division Iraq (news - web sites), stood at attention in desert fatigues and black berets as Bush strode onto a stage at Fort Stewart. There, an estimated 15,000 troops, families and area citizens burst into cheers. The troops repeatedly yelled "hoo-ah," a universal Army response, in approval of Bush's message.
If you believed the New York Times, you would have thought his reception would have been more sullen. The Times just can't ever seem to get it right, can they?
Posted by Nukevet at 12:38 PM | Comments (0)
So long, Johnny
Posted by Nukevet at 11:58 AM | Comments (5)
Not exactly the way
To win friends in Iraq. If you're one of the new Iraqi police, you're probably starting to get quite a complex. Baathists want to kill you. Americans mistake you for bandits and fire upon you.
Posted by Nukevet at 10:04 AM | Comments (6)
One of the reasons I live in the country
Is because I want to have my own land, and my own property, and be able to do with it as I please.
Posted by Nukevet at 10:00 AM | Comments (2)
Now they hate the Dalai Lama
Since he doesn't believe what they believe.
The Dalai Lama was interviewed by the AP's Scott Lindlaw on Wednesday Sept 10th.
WASHINGTON (AP) - "The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan may have been justified to win a larger peace, but that is it too soon to judge whether the Iraq war was warranted."
So I go to the various IMC sites to see, A. if it was even posted (it was) and B. what they foil-hatters had to say about it. Most sites just let it slide or trash canned the comments or the entire entry.
"Do you watch Fox News, Mr. Lama?"
"The Dalai Lama has been courting celebrity for a while now, and is within the clutches of the elite completely. Very difficult to resist the lure of fame and power, even if one is a birth-right spiritual leader."
"Dalai Lama, CIA asset"
"Why doesn't the dalai llama criticize the US for using depleted uranium, cluster bombs, and killing thousands of innocents? It's not like we went in there with the intention of liberating anybody, we just killed anyone who got in our way."
"His Holly Rolly Pollyness... the most high and divine Dalai Lama Mamma Samma, met with his Excellency... the Great Leader of the Free World and Lord and Master of the Universe. The two leaders, who are touched by God's grace and wisdom... met at the White House Wednesday, September 10, 2003, and used big words to discuss world politics. The Great Leader offered his Holly Rolly Pollyness a six pack of Bud, but the divine one declined. However, he did accept a bag of Pork Rinds."
"The two magnificent leaders... who are filled with the pure light of God, and are surely the reincarnated souls of the most blessed, are shown here shaking hands after his Holly Rolly Pollyness made a statement to the lap dog press that the Great Leader's war on Afghanistan was "justified." A small handful of demonstrators outside the White House who were chanting "Free Tibet!" looked confused and bewildered when the most high and divine Dalai Lama Mamma Samma came outside to share his bag of Pork Rinds. One protestor... whose mind and soul were surely possessed of the Devil, began to chant "Free Afghanistan!"... but he was quickly thumped over the head with a bible wielded by John Ashcroft and sent off to Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray for questioning. (AP Photo/Anti-Christ Newsboys)"
It makes me smile now whenever I see a 'Free Tibet' bumpersticker.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:43 AM | Comments (7)
Some People Lack the Understanding of a Child
Lee over at Right Thinking on the Left Coast shares a piece of reader mail he recieved.
The writer of this message was at a September 11th Memorial site. And his children were curious as to what daddy was watching on the computer.
"Well, this time, as I watched it, I was joined by my daughters, ages 5 and 4. The pictures upset them, understandably. They started to ask me questions, and this is what I told them:"
"When they saw the WTC Towers on fire, I told them that, “…bad men crashed the planes into the big, tall buildings.” They wanted to know why they did that, and I said, “Because they wanted to make us afraid of them, and they wanted to hurt our country, and the buildings.” They got that."
"They saw the President a couple times. The younger of the two said he looked sad, and I agreed. I also told her a lot of people were sad, but that a lot of people went to get the bad man. “Soldiers, like you, daddy?” , asked the older one, and I said that I was a soldier a long time ago, and these were new soldiers, and that they were very, very brave. I explained that they got a lot of the bad men, and that went over very well."
"See, there is something here that I think deserves sharing. My kids were frightened, sure (my oldest saw it happen on TV, and remembers that), but they both intuitively know who was bad, who was good, and they trust ‘Mr. Bush’. They also know that we are still fighting ‘the bad men’, and that we will for a long time….my oldest told me that we will, “…always go get the bad men…”. What does she get that Howard Dean doesn’t?"
Posted by Nukevet at 12:55 AM | Comments (0)
September 11, 2003
All you America and Bush haters
Go read this. And then bite me.
Short by Bill's Standards, but still germane.
Europe. Disarming her citizens and placating islamic extremists. How can they not see what's coming?
Posted by Nukevet at 10:33 PM | Comments (1)
Ooooops
More stupid scientist tricks.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:26 PM | Comments (2)
Beware the White Elephant
Or, as I like to call them, the Kyoto Accords.
Canada is learning this the hard way, and now even poor little Brussels is finding out that someone has to pay the bill.
Posted by Nukevet at 10:39 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The first battle, Flight 93
They were the first to fight back, they will not be the last.
I'm so tired now, so tired, the temptation to sleep is strong. To sleep, and dream of a world where evil is fiction, merely a scary story. Where good always wins and evil always easy to conquer. Where peace is what we all want, and war a distant memory. But it's never that easy.
Good people die, evil has it's victories, and we are left to wonder why as we carry on the fight. We are left to endure, and find strength in each other. It's enough, it's always enough.
It is time to sleep.
But my dreams are dreams of struggling, of surviving, of winning until the next trial. My dreams are too real, because life is a battle, and tests are unending. But to sleep as a child sleeps again, that would be nice, even if it's only an illusion.
To give in is to die, in spirit if not in the flesh. We'll fight on.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:39 AM | Comments (0)
To Dream of better times.
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
T'was Grace that taught...
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear...
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares...
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far...
and Grace will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me...
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be...
as long as life endures.
When we've been here a thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
The full mp3 can be found here at the bottom of the page.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:39 AM | Comments (1)
Untitled
September 11th 2003.
There is no way I can write anything about this day that won't be written better somewhere else in the blogospere. I am not a man of words. At least not kind and thoughtful ones.
I will be spending my day the same way most of you will. In thought and contemplation on what happened that day and what has happened since. I will not be wishing for times to return to the way they were September 10th like some others do. Those folks need to realize that we will never return to those days until the horror that is religious fanaticism has been treated to a good dose of either logic and reason or high powered munitions. And maybe not even then.
My thoughts go out the victims and the families of the victims of that sad day two years ago. My thoughts and thanks also go out to the members of our armed services and their family members who are fighting the good fight in foreign lands so that we do not have to do so here in America. To the constabulary, firefighters and other emergency professionals out there, I thank you as well.
I will save my ire for those who would not give thanks to them for a later date, for this is not the time for that.
That is about all I think I can say without dragging this out too far. Have the best day you can out there folks.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:49 AM | Comments (27)
Death as old as time, and new life.
Sometimes the immensity of suffering is just too much to bear. So overwhelming that the mind just turns a chilled numb rather than burn out from the sheer horror of something like this. But that gives way, to rage, grief, and then to resolve. A resolution that no matter what, we will not let these deaths have been for nothing. That was the hope of the beasts that did it, we would recoil, shrink from fighting back. Then they would hit us again, and again, and again.....Driving us to collapse from fear and pain. Forcing us to submit.........
That was their plan. But if they had understood us at all, they would have known that was a pipe dream. What kind of nation are we? A nation of survivors, of fighters, of people who would NOT SUBMIT. We araise from people who fled tyranny rather than just submit, from people who survived that horrible journey from Arica in chains, who never had their spirit broken, and later, fought to win their own freedom in our bloodiest war. We come from peasant stock mostly, the humble peoples, the ones who always were stepped on, always abused by those with a gun. We come from the strong ones who said no, not my family, you can't have my children for fodder. They came here.
They were from every land, every culture, they were every creed and calling. We were rough and often banged heads, but together we forged a nation unlike anything mankind had ever known. Something new in history. A nation forged of a people saying You may not do this to me, and creating a government that allowed them to reclaim it when they felt the need. A Constitution that promised that we would be a nation of individuals, of people,.....not a herd, not a flock. We have leaders come and go, parties, trends, prejudices and failings. The Constitution endures........It defines us in every respect, and if you know how to understand that, you can understand us.
Our more sophisticated critics say we're warlike, that is a half truth. We are actually pretty peaceful, if left alone. And that is the phrase, left alone, it's all we've ever really wanted. To live and grow free of the war every generation of the tired old empires, to forget the religious bigotry and hate of the old world. We have our failings true enough, but they are our own, and we have learned to improve and move on.
So now the raging fanatics of Islam have choosen to wage war on us for being the leading example of the west. We exist outside their rules and that enrages them, a far greater sin, we thrive and flourish. Almost all the grievences they cite for the why of 9/11 can be laid at the feet of old Europe, the crusades, the petty fifedums of the middle east, those maps were drawn in London and Paris, not Washington. Yet we draw the hate, the rage of the street. So be it.
I said that the lament we are warlike is a half truth, here is the full one. We are peaceful, until our homes are threatened, our families, our children. Then my friends, the Gates of Hell itself cannot hold back our fury. We felt that threat before, and on Normandy Beach we paid for our freedom with thousands of our own lives. The cost of this war is already high, we have lost much, yet no one can reasonably say, we wouldn't have passed on 9/11 to avoid this war. We are determined and resolved, and we are ready to pay the price. We have before, and we won't turn away this time either.
I also mentioned new life, and that my friends is the ultimate victory. All around us families are bearing the next generation, a testement to life, to hope, to knowing we will win. Because there is nothing else left to us. In Iraq, and Afghanistan the first new children of a new age are being born. With the hope they will not be the fodder and carrion of the next Jihad, that tired old fanatics in robes won't sell their lives for false pride. They are the hope and redemption of a people who have suffered too long.
So it comes to this, starting in death, yet returning to life, new and untainted by the sins of the fathers.
If we can give them this gift, then the dead of 9/11 will have meaning, a catylist in the birth of a new beginning. That isn't a bad legacy, it's a sad and mournful one, but really the only good that can come of their deaths.
New life, and hopefully, new freedom. God Bless them all.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 AM | Comments (2)
September 10, 2003
Go ahead. Justify this.
THEY BEGAN JUMPING NOT LONG after the first plane hit the North Tower, not long after the fire started. They kept jumping until the tower fell. They jumped through windows already broken and then, later, through windows they broke themselves. They jumped to escape the smoke and the fire; they jumped when the ceilings fell and the floors collapsed; they jumped just to breathe once more before they died.
Posted by Nukevet at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)
Al Jazeera has a tribute to the WTC attacks
One I'm sure you'll find enlightening. I guess it really was all about the oiiiillllllll.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:35 PM | Comments (4)
How many people were affected
by the August 14th blackout?
Posted by Nukevet at 04:54 PM | Comments (0)
Deal with it, welcome to the future
The Saudi's are bent over Barbie. Sweet, innocent, socially aware and mall dwelling little old Barbie. No country probably does do sex without at least a touch of hypocrisy, but I'm sorry, this is funny.
The issues involved, namely female sexuality and repression, are what everybody deals with. You can't lock it in a box, you can't ignore it, it'll find you. Female sexuality is one of natures great and wonderous things, diverse and compeling, it both inspires and moderates male behavior. We are what we are because of women, and because of the eternal quest to find, please and keep the love of the right one. The only real darkside to it, is imposed when certain men, (cough,...Saudi...cough), try and impose limits and controls on it. Then the whole nature of it gets distorted, and women suffer for it, and by extension men as well.
We have had our issues with it as well, but we are getting better, learning. But the differences between us and the Saudi's is the difference between the chivalres knight who means well, and the caveman with a fistfull of hair. We can do better, they need a time machine.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:47 PM | Comments (1)
Their crime rate is ballooning, but at least they don't worry about morality
However you feel about abstinence, the tone and cant of this opinion piece tells us alot. You see, the problem is that us hick, backwards Americans care what kind of morals we instill in our young,.........I shit you not.
There are, needless to say, a lot of things wrong with this. First, many of the campaigns are absurdly scaremongering, which puts the wind up teens who inevitably do have sex and makes them less likely to seek medical help for treatable conditions. Second, most of the dumb slogans (like "If you don't aim to please, don't aim to tease") put the onus on girls to act as gatekeepers to sexual experience, which is misogynistic. Third, the overwhelming emphasis on teenage pregnancy expressly excludes homosexuals from the debate (at a conference organised by the rightwing Medical Institute of Sexual Health, in 2000, a young female doctor was asked how she would apply the abstinence message to a young homosexual coming into her clinic. She said: "I would tell him that he was sinning against my Lord!").
Well excluding homosexuals from abstinence programs might be bigoted, except that senior citizens are excluded for the same reason. They can't get pregnant and be forced into early poverty you bimbo! Well she doesn't like all this moral stuff, how nice. So how exactly do you instill in your kids that carjacking and sleeping around like an English Ferret are bad, if you preclude such judgemental things like morality?
So she's an alley cat, fine, I can accept that. But she's old enough to face the consequences of what she does, old enough to pay for a child, or an abortion. How poopooing the effort to teach children that some choices aren't in their best interests helps is beyond me. This paragraph shows where she's coming from clearly.
As Alastair Campbell memorably remarked: over here we don't do God. We don't do God at all. This must be the most valuable distinction still extant between us and America, that we have yet to fall back on bogus concepts of morality to explain why some teens sleep around and shoplift, and some don't. Sorry if that sounds like triumphalism, but, God knows, we don't have much.
"Bogus concepts of morality" this from a woman living in a city that makes New York seem like Disneyland. Where carjacking and muggings are not only rampant, but growing. Where self defense is a crime, where criminals get lighter sentences than the citizens who do fight back. Maybe your attitude explains why you "don't have much" compared to us,......Thinking seems a lost art at the Guardian.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:15 PM | Comments (2)
how defiant will you be with a toe tag chuckles?
Another Bali bomber faces the Hangman.
After hearing the sentence, Mr. Samudra, who has shown a belligerent demeanor throughout his three-month trial, shouted, "America, Australia go to hell!"
I'm so hurt, sniff......I may take some solace in the fact that this protohuman will never, ever kill again. While I take no pleasure in death, I feel nothing for this guy's date with a dirt nap other than relief.
And now,.......we'll get his friends too.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:49 PM | Comments (0)
September 09, 2003
Now HERE'S a shocking report....
Who knew that kids might be exposed to a "left leaning" agenda while in school? Shocking. Just absolutely shocking.
Oh, yeah - ./Sarcasm off
Posted by Nukevet at 05:04 PM | Comments (2)
Anti-gravity?
Black programs are the stuff of legend, what are the best research scientists in the world working on? Uncle Sam ain't saying, and speculation is rampant. CNN say's that the military is working on, and may already possess a functional anti-gravity device.
Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer says it is working on anti-gravity propulsion, which could revolutionize conventional aviation.
If the science underpinning the program can be made into reality, it will be the biggest thing to hit the aviation industry since the Wright Brothers.
"GRASP," or Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion, was only recently reported in Jane's Defence Weekly, but the U.S. military may have had the technology for years.
The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), based in Nevada, say that mysterious U.S. military craft using this kind of technology have been skirting the skies since the 1980s.
I've seen stuff on Zero point generaters, (I have no clue what that means), invisablity camouflage, death rays, weather control, flying saucers, areospace planes and secret orbital stations, and Moonbases. I believe it's mostly crap, wishful thinking or wild eyed conspiracy mongering. However, there is sometimes a grain of truth in the media hype. I do believe most of the important stuff is no longer at Area 51, too well known know. I also know that secrets are well kept in the Air Force as well as the other services.
I was a mere SP, and when I was discharged I had to sign a secrecy agreement. Any and all secret information that I may have come into possession of while serving was not to be disclosed, ever, under pain of imprisonment for a length of time not to be less than ten years. I can say what my job was, where I was, more or less, but not one specific detail. Not the ABC's of it. I've told no one, and never will. I will only say that I worked in Nuclear weapons secrurity, and that's all I can say. For obvious reasons. No, I have no extra juciy knowledge. But if the code is that strict for me, can you imagine what it's like for someone on a black program? I know that first termers are not assigned to them, trusted, experienced people only. There aren't leaks. Not on these programs.
Could the military already have something like anti-gravity? I'm not well versed in physics so I can't say. Could such a secret be kept? Yes, I believe it could. The SR-71 was active for several years until LBJ screwed up and let the information slip in 64. The F-117 was unkown until Bush Senior unveiled it in his term, it had been flying for six years. Could the Air Force be flying into space with currently unkown technology? I would not rule it outside the possible.
We are seeing things coming onto the horizen that were mere fantasy only decades ago. Some may not pan out, but if even a small percentage do, it's the stuff of Star Trek. I have a distinct feeling that the mid 21st century will look nothing like we expect. Scary knowledge, but I think if we hold onto the basics, keep faith with the Constitution, mind our Freedom, guard our Bill of Rights, we'll do OK. We went from 13 minor colonies to the most awesome power to ever exist on the globe, with the same basic set of principles to guide us. We haven't done so badly with them. So whatever the near future holds, we shouldn't fear it. Not if we stay true to ourselves.
It so rocks to be an American right now.
From the sharp eyes at the Voodoo Lounge.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:33 AM | Comments (6)
Good Men Fighting the Good Fight
As September 11th, 2003 approaches, take some time to think of how far we've come since that day. We have taken the enemy head on and are now in his backyard. Hopefully keeping him so busy that he cannot take the time to strike here.
I found a link to this letter from Lt. Col. Steven D. Russell, Battalion Commander, 1st Bat, 22nd Infantry, 4th ID, stationed in Tikrit, over at Right Thinking from the Left Coast.
It is, of course, a must read.
"But the arms still flow into the city. Locals had told us so and the merchants from the market complained to the governor and police about it. They said that the weapons were being used to attack them and the Americans. We decided to set daylight ambushes on the Friday market to curb the flow. At 7:30 a.m. on Friday the 8th, we finally confirmed that the complaints were true. Our snipers noticed two men in a red car pull into the field surrounded by the market shops along the streets. The field is also used as a flea market where anyone can vend his wares or produce. These two men decided to vend weapons. They laid out wheat sacks filled with AK-47 magazines and grenade launcher attachments. Next, they set up various other small arms items on the now empty sacks. Finally, they pulled an AK-47 out of the trunk. The men reported it but wanted to be sure these were weapons dealers. After small devices and electronic switches for bomb making and then more AK-47s appeared, the men engaged."
"The sharp crack of a sniper rifle drew little attention at first. A vendor selling crackers not ten feet from the arms traders took little notice, thinking the men were testing the weapons. But then he noticed that one man holding a weapon jerked and suddenly dropped it, his arm bleeding profusely. The driver of the red car, unaware of what was happening watched as one of two other men present handled weapons. The man turned around with an AK-47 seeking the direction of the fire. A round ripped through him. He ran forward, weapon in hand. Another round found its target. Then he slumped to the ground. The driver ran frantically to the car attempting to flee. Our sniper squad leader gauged the approximate location of the driver through the hood the car was facing away from him and fired. The round perforated the hood and then hit the man in the head. He stumbled out of the car and died. The last armed man stood little chance. A round through his leg cut him down and he dropped the weapon. The engagement was now over."
"The Recon platoon then rushed to the site. A sea of confusion billowed among the locals. A clear path parted around the arms dealers as the crowd receded from the site. A bystander had already stolen one of the AK 47s but everything else was still there when the scouts arrived. Soon soldiers from A Company cordoned the market. We secured the scene. The two wounded were transported to the Tikrit hospital. Iraqi police appeared and assisted in crowd control and body recovery. The press arrived and we gave a full account of our ambush."
"Not waiting for the details, the French AFP media went to the hospital and found two boys from a village about 30 kilometers across the river that had been injured by an unexploded shell of some kind in an unrelated incident. Assuming that the boys were somehow connected to our actions against the enemy, they flashed pictures around the world stating that we had wounded the boys with grenades at the market. Fortunately, the rest of the media not only have higher standards, but also reported the facts. Some (not many) in the media asked me why we did not give the arms dealers any warning. I stated that they became combatants as soon as they produced weapons and that no such warning had ever been afforded my men. Our actions sent shock waves through the town and effectively curtailed illegal arms trade in the city. The governor thanked us for our actions as well as the mayor. The police chief stated that the two men we killed from the red car were known thugs that smuggled weapons from a major military complex on the outskirts of Baghdad. They would show samples, fill orders and arrange deliveries. What is certain is that we see no more weapons traded openly in Tikrit."
Posted by Nukevet at 02:25 AM | Comments (9) | TrackBack
Being a Brit will kill ya
I found the link to this over at Samizdata.
"US surgery safer than under NHS"
"Patients who have major operations on the National Health Service are four times more likely to die than Americans undergoing such surgery, according to a new study."
"The difference in mortality rates was blamed on long NHS waiting lists, a shortage of specialists and competition for intensive care beds."
"The joint study, carried out by University College London and a team from Columbia University in New York, found that patients in Britain who were most at risk of complications after major surgery were not being seen by specialists and were not reaching intensive care units in time to save them."
"The study followed 1,100 patients at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and compared them with 1,000 patients who had undergone similar major surgery at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan."
"The results showed that just under 10 per cent of the British patients died in hospital after major surgery, compared with 2.5 per cent of the American patients."
"Each year, more than three million operations are carried out on the NHS and about 350,000 of these are emergencies which carry a higher risk of complications."
"Professor Monty Mythen, head of anaesthesia at UCL who led the British side of the research, said: "The main difference seems to be in the quality of post-operative care and who cares."
"Prof Mythen, who also oversees the critical care facilities at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: "In the Manhattan hospital, the care after surgery is delivered largely by a consultant surgeon and an anaesthetist. We know from other research that more than one third of those who die after a major operation in Britain are not seen by a similar consultant."
"In America, everyone would go into a critical care bed - they go into a highly monitored environment. That doesn't happen routinely in the UK."
"Health ministers, meanwhile, will present new figures this week showing another annual rise in the number of intensive care beds - although Britain still lags behind America and much of Europe in critical care facilities."
I hate to laugh at something like this, but I can snicker and still feel OK.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:09 AM | Comments (3)
Banning the loopy Left
I found an excellent little treatise over at The Ville called 'Peace and Justice, My Eye'.
Heres the opening line,
"There is no longer any distinction between liberals, socialists and democrats. I invite you to refute that charge if you can."
I don't think I'll bother to refute that. I'm pretty much in that frame of mind already.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:58 AM | Comments (0)
Condition Update
I'm still w/o a home computer. Dell says that they're done with my laptop and will be shipping it today, but who knows. I'm still trying to post from work depending on how much actual work I have to do (or how long off the clock I want to stay afterwards).
Doc was in town this last weekend, but very, very busy. That's OK though. It just means we'll have to double up on our range time the next time he's here. And maybe the beers afterwards too.
I went out 4 wheelin in my 4X2 this last weekend. Bad idea. Cooked my brake pads, possibly warped my rotors, bent my receiver hitch and ripped up my underside. But I never got stuck. Improvements will have to be made. Oh yeah, I found two very nice out-of-doors freestyle range locations. Hehehehe.
Hope y'all have a good week.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:53 AM | Comments (0)
9/11 thoughts from a friend.
From our friend Dr. Dna at the Voodoo Lounge.
I sincerely hope bin Laden had a similar horrible epiphany as Japan's Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbour. He is said to have said "I fear we have woken a sleeping giant".
Well done Doctor, Thank you.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:49 AM | Comments (2)
I think I'm going to be sick.
Why, how?, and may they die horribly.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:37 AM | Comments (1)
This is lame, and shows just how low some people will stoop.
From Drudge. It seems that Arnie's wife Maria Shriver was set up as the target of a serious protest.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A crowd at a mall in California's capital greeted Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver with hostility on Monday as she made her first solo appearance in the unpredictable gubernatorial campaign.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:31 AM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2003
Fustercluckage
OK, through a combination of my own stupidity and Verizon wireless craposity, I managed to be in Seattle for a week-end, and not go shooting with AK. This after the guy even left freshly smoked salmon filets as a tasty snack.
All I can do is express my regrets, and they are many. I was looking forward to shooting with AK at the local range. But I was even more interested in meeting him.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:47 PM | Comments (2)
The best sleeping pill
The Columbus Zoo, we had a family excursion there yesterday, the wife and kids, two nephews, a niece, one neighbor child, and a sister inlaw. Two neighbor ladies as well. I haven't had to organize a road trip like this for a while, and I may let someone else do it next time. My son being 21 months old, he didn't want to ride in the stroller, uh huh, nope only daddy could carry him in the proper manner. He doesn't weigh much, about 35lbs. But it was all day, kind of like a forced march with a pack. When we got back yesterday it wasn't till about nine, and after putting the kids and wife to bed, I put me to bed. and didn't wake for a lonnng time.
It was fun, but I really am getting old for this. Next year, the heir to the throne will be old enough to walk most of it himself. I'm looking forward to that. I hope he still wants one of these as a pet,
His other choices were even more impractical. Sigh,.....but that's m'boy.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:49 AM | Comments (7)
September 07, 2003
If you're one of those people
boycotting wine based on ideology, you might want to include this vintner on your blacklist.
Via LGF
Posted by Nukevet at 11:23 AM | Comments (2)
September 06, 2003
Born ignorant, and destined to die stupid
Jimmy (my brain hurts when I think) Carter is up to his usual blame everybody BUT the tyrant tricks.
"Unfortunately, both sides have violated some of those agreements," Mr. Carter said, criticizing Pyongyang for enriching uranium in order to make bombs. "At the same time, the United States has refused direct talks, has branded North Korea as an axis of evil, has declared an end of no-first-use of atomic weapons, has invaded Iraq (news - web sites) and has been intercepting North Korean ships at sea."
Just exactly how calling the Norks what they are, and how Iraq factors into any agreements with them is left to the imagination of everybody concerned. He thinks direct talks are vital? Mr. multilateralism is my religion says we should exclude the Japanese and the South? Has he forgotten to wind the little propeller on his beany hat today? I hate to break it to his toe sucking peanut chewing self, but not swearing off first use of nukes has been our policy for twenty years. A threat severe enough will not be allowed to fester. Even Clinton understood that. Nork ships at sea, yeah, you remember, the shipment of scuds to yemen we intercepted last year? How friggin uncoth of us, huh Jimmy?
This man is a moron, a certified, born again, please Mr. bad guy do me up the butt asshat of the first order. The older he gets, the farther his brainwaves seem to get apart from the plain of reality. He can take his shiney knob polished Peace Prize and insert it sideways. with lots of peanut butter if he must.
His words clearly show, once again, he takes the side of a murdering tyrant over his own country. If we would just be nice and not scare the Norks, give them nice things, then everything would be just fine.........
This guy needs to stop trying to think, he's embaressing himself.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:50 PM | Comments (8)
Whispering in the dark sometimes
Just paint your face and shadow smile
Slipping me away from you
Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep awhile - you must be tired
Some of you may recognize the lyrics. Burn, from The Cure. I was exposed to them a little from the soundtrack to The Crow movie. But it came during a dark time for me, I was working through some issues on death. Music sometimes has a very theraputic effect, allowing you to drain off some of the pain, to release some of the emotion. I listen to Meatloaf's Objects in the rearview mirror may be closer than they appear, for similar reasons. I chose music to fit my mood. Tonight it's quietly dark, sad, but not hopeless. Tomorrow I'll feel differently.
But for now, it's The Cure.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:53 AM | Comments (4)
How much are the tickets?
"Pa. to Host Nude Volleyball Tournament" now this is funny, and quite harmless. It does raise,...sorry, bring up, sorry again, some interesting questions.
Some members of the nudist park admit a few of the spectators who will attend the tournament will do so to take in the sights. But event organizers said the tournament's a seriously competitive event. The competition is divided into six skill levels, from novice to college caliber.
"And people do dive. Even on the asphalt courts," White Thorn spokesman Scott Coatsworth said. "The ones who know how to do it don't even get skinned."
Is there a bandaid concession? How do they deal with, to put it mildly, a moment of........intense excitment? A Howard Kosell voice over could make this a magic moment in sporting history.
I'd never go to such a thing, but it's fun to think about.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:36 AM | Comments (1)
Oh what that guy would have given for a shotgun.
I hadn't heard of this before. I know gun control is the mantra in the UK government, but do you think anyone has second thoughts after hearing of this?
She added that he would only be released in the future if the Home Secretary or a tribunal headed by a judge were satisfied that he no longer posed a risk to the public.
I cannot foresee a time when you will be safely released into the community," she added.
Jones escaped after suffering serious injuries to his hands as he tried to fend off Ashman's two-foot-long sword. The attacker then turned on Pennington, stabbing him six times.
A good handgun, or even better, a 12 gauge would have ended the issue completely. That bastard gets to hum to himself during basket weaving classes while a brave man is dead, and another maimed. This guy should assume room temperature, after being properly ventilated of course.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:25 AM | Comments (0)
???? I don't think this is very funny.
From the olden days of Kings and Princes, a tale that's actually extremely sad when you get below the surface. At first glance what guy wouldn't find this appealing?
LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of bare-breasted young maidens danced in front of King Mswati on Friday -- many hoping to catch his eye and become his next wife.
Read a little deeper and it isn't funny any more.......
"I am tired of being poor. I want to be a queen. I hope the king sees me," said 17-year-old Nomsa Gama, wearing the traditional dance costume of a small piece of beaded fabric around her waist.
"There have never been this many girls before. They all want to catch the king's eye," Thulani Dlamini, a traditional warrior assigned to chaperone the maidens, told Reuters
This especially.
"I want a limousine, and a house like they give the queens. I want my children to school in England," said 14 year-old Phindile Thwala, one of this year's dancers.
No dammit, no.....not children, not desparately poor young girls doing this just to try and survive. Sex between adults has many fun flavors, many nuances. But this is extortion, the waving of a fifty over a straving little girls nose. Be my whore and I'll give you nice things. He has many such wives.
I believe in marriage for love, and he has used it to wench.
Damn him to Hell for it.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:11 AM | Comments (0)
Men of Iron, horses of steel
The US Army boasts the finest armored units in the world. The Third and Fourth Armored are the heavy lifters in Iraq.
This is the type of war my Uncle Alonzo fought in Vietnam. he served two full tours, and was sent to Japan, then stateside after having his tank shot out from under him in the middle of his third tour. An RPG took his tank, his crew, and nearly his life. He lost three good friends that day, and was forever haunted by it.
For those who know nothing of armored warfare, the life of a tanker seems soft, easy. It isn't, you may be immune to gunfire, but you are a magnet for RPG's, artillery, sappers, other tanks, aircraft........Being King of the battlefield has it's downside. Everybody wants to kill you first, you are the deadliest, the most feared, there is no fading into the crowd, you are the number one target for every enemy on the field. And being hit? I know what the inside of a hulled tank looks like. Uncle Al one night in a bout of bourbon and tears told me in vivid detail, of that day in Vietnam, I was 12, and he needed to talk. We sat in the night on the front porch and he gave me an education in death and remorse. I've never forgotten.
So when you see our tanks rolling into harms way on the news, say a little prayer for them.
Please?
Posted by Nukevet at 02:01 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack
September 05, 2003
If you didn't already think that
California was tweaked out of it's gourd, here's this nugget,
"Support for Arcata, CA resolution targeting Bush looks strong"
"The overwhelming consensus of those who spoke during the two-hour gathering said the City Council should pass Councilman Dave Meserve's resolution calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney."
"The resolution, which Meserve sponsored on behalf of Veterans for Peace, says Bush and Cheney waged an illegal war in Iraq and lied to the American people to justify it. Meserve, the only councilmember to attend the meeting, said after it was over he will bring the resolution back to the City Council for a vote."
"I'd like to say to the people who want to wait until the next election, the last election wasn't authentic," said activist Brian Willson, a Veterans for Peace member. "The call for impeachment is not going to come from the top, it's going to come from the bottom."
"Bush was called "a liar," "a war monger" and "a murderer." The president was accused of waging war in Iraq for oil, passing tax cuts for the rich while beefing up the military and stealing the 2000 presidential election. One man said the Arcata Police Department should issue an arrest warrant for Bush."
Oooooo, oooooww, ooooh. My sides hurt. Stop it!
Posted by Nukevet at 02:07 AM | Comments (9)
The fabulous Mr. Taranto
From his lead off story yesterday,
If we were conspiracy-minded, we'd have to wonder if the Republicans are behind this. A Web site called Counterconvention.org promises protests outside the Republican Convention in New York next summer:
"Imagine: A million people on the street, representing the diversity of New York, and the multiplicity of this nation--community organizers, black radicals, unions, anarchists, church groups, queers, grandma's [sic] for peace, AIDS activists, youth organizers, environmentalists, people of color contingents, global justice organizers, those united for peace and justice, veterans, and everyone who is maligned by [President] Bush's malicious agenda--on the street--en masse--An overwhelming, festive, and poignant showing with the entire world bearing witness."
If this gathering goes on as planned, it's certain to get wide media attention, and it's hard to imagine such a freak show doing anything other than enhancing the president's re-election chances. Making a similar point is Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the British magazine Prospect. Wheatcroft, who opposed the liberation of Iraq, argues that the idiocy of "antiwar" intellectuals in the wake of Sept. 11 undermined the case for regime continuation:
"Because the critics of the Bush administration and Blair government made themselves so ridiculous in the aftermath of 11th September, the proper case against the Iraq war was subsequently much weakened."
AK (Like it ever had any depth to begin with Mr. Wheatcroft. Make sure you hit the link to CounterConvention.org. Hilarity shall ensue.)
Posted by Nukevet at 01:51 AM | Comments (1)
September 04, 2003
heroes and pretenders
The price of dissent, a night in jail, maybe, if you cross the line and break the law. A summons, a hearing, a fine. All of which occur only if you have done more than merely dissent. Dissidents, real ones, are barely known in this country. Protesters yes, more often than not, they just throw a public fit over the fact they didn't get their way in a democracy. I guess that life is just so unfair when you are so sensitive. Often as well the word dissident is used as cover, camouflage, to mask the fact that your agenda, if known, would be soundly rejected by the mass of your countrymen.
So my friends a painful lesson, in the cost of defiance of real tyranny. In a nation ruled by real jackbooted thugs. Where you can disappear for a wrong word, a careless thought. Where fear is the law, and standing against it very costly.
Photo From Student Uprising [June 10 - June 19, 2003]
This is the cost of defiance in Iran.
The body holds about 12 pints of blood on average, we can guess the fate of the student who bled here. Maybe he or she is alive, maybe this person was saved,...........but I think that is an empty hope.
So Indymediakids thump their chests and proclaim their bravery. How fearless they are, how noble, they got arrested, they were forced to eat cold food, they had to pay a fine. I suppose the younger people would use the word "poser", I would choose cowardly fraud, but pretender will do. Real students, real patriots for their country are doing the heavy lifting in Tehran.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:35 PM | Comments (1)
The focus of my talk tomorrow
Any questions?
Posted by Nukevet at 11:26 PM | Comments (4)
Deep Cover, and the arrival of "the package"
OK, so I have successfully infiltrated myself into downtown Seattle. Unnoticed, unobserved, the perfect insertion. Checking out the hotel of the conference, I note that the "20th Pursuit Squadron" is having a reunion. I check in, and go up to my room. I'm frantically reading obtuse scientific literature that pertains to my presentation tomorrow, because there might actually be someone there that can trip me up on details. I order delivery Thai food (no place within walking distance, and I don't want to leave the room and relax until after the presentation).
So, It's about 8PM EST. I'm starting to doze of, when there's a soft knock at the door. I look out the peep-hole, and see a hotel employee standing there. I open the door, and he hands me a package - saying simply "this is for you". He leaves, and I close the hotel room door. What could this mean? Has my cover been blown? Has Seattle Indymedia discovered my subterfuge? What's in the box? A bomb? Anthrax? Marxist leaflets? With trepidation, I open the box, and find some Salmon fillets, vacuum packed, possibly marinated. Smoked and ready to eat? Cooking required? There's no note. Just newspaper wrapping in a plain brown box. But wait, the box isn't so plain - I notice the green lettering, the lettering that says "Galco, For those who demand the best, and know the difference". And then I know. AK - it's gotta be AK.......
PS - AK, I notice that I gave you the wrong room number (a little dyslexia) - it's 453, not 543.
PSS � thanks for all the fish
Posted by Nukevet at 10:16 PM | Comments (3)
How to alienate the religious right and the looney left in one easy lesson.
Brittainy Spears, while I'm not a fan, I don't run screaming from the room when she's on the radio either. About the now infamous Madonna kiss, well here's what Brittainy says.
"I didn't know it was going to be that long and everything," explaining that during rehearsal Madonna had told her they'd just play it by ear during the performance. She also said that she'd never kissed a woman before, and wouldn't again--unless it's Madonna.
Well there was no Teehee! at the end, I'm somewhat concerned that the poor girl has the brain of a poptart. The torchs in Farwell land are no doubt being lit. In case she hasn't seriously pissed off enough people,...........
Carlson then steered the interview to politics, asking Spears if she'd supported the war in Iraq. Spears answered, "Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." She declared that she trusts President Bush, but when asked about the president's political future, Spears told Carlson that she doesn't know if he'll get re-elected
Well now the poster makers in Berkley are going to be reaching for the black markers, why the nerve, trust the president, such betrayal..............
You know, I really feel sorry for this girl now. As for the kiss........well, like I've never kissed a girl myself before, ...........I'm not throwing any stones.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:21 PM | Comments (2)
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All volunteers are accounted for.
Final results.
Emily Nelson.
Her answers can be found here.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:22 PM | Comments (2)
Face on Mars
In my 5 questions I asked this.
4.Do you believe or disbelieve the faces on Mars are real? Please explain your answer.
If you don't know what I meant I was referring to this. It's been disproven, but a good story always lives on. Some people cling to it like a sacred icon, brushing aside the evidence that there is nothing to it. There were a couple of good reasons to ask, first as I mentioned to Mollbot, it's an ink blot test, a way to get an insight into how you think. Secondly, it was whimsical, a kind of do you believe in elves and flying reindeer sort of question. I'm not surprised that everyone basicaly said no, it's a trick of the light and terrain. No bad answers, and considering the quality of our readers, again, I'm not surprised.
But imagine for a second, what if the evidence had proven that the face was real? How would that alter the way we percieve the universe?
And that my friends is the real wonder, someday we may meet another intelligent species. How will we react?
Posted by Nukevet at 03:09 PM | Comments (3)
Screaming Eagles
The Ranger motto is, "Rangers lead the way." The 101st Airborne Division is leading the way in northern Iraq. SUCCESS isn't what the world's media wish to report, but it creeps in anyway.
A five-day trip through the 101st Division's large area of operation showed that American military, not the civilian-led occupation authority based in Baghdad, are the driving force in the region's political and economic reconstruction.
Contrary to some revisionist opinion, the US can get things right, and in this case despite shrill predictions of defeat and failure. These success's may not be writ large like Bastogne, or Normandy, but in the lives affected and goodwill aquired it may turn out to be that important.
One month after jumping into Europe, the 101st mission in Normandy was complete, 1 in 4 men had been killed or wounded.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:58 PM | Comments (0)
Reflections on a greater loss
Neal has followed this, and the AnalogKid has posted on it.
The saddest part of the fiasco in froggy land is that the losses are in their elderly population. The folks who were around in WWII and are more likely to remember American's as liberators of their country. Unlike the current middle agers who only think of the US came into WWII for profit.
I was reminded of the words of AK, when I read this. No one is more contemptous of French behavior than I, but this news really hits hard.
Chirac paid tribute at the simple ceremony Wednesday for Parisians whose bodies were never claimed after they died in a brutal heat wave that killed an estimated 11,435 people in August. Despite the state honor, they were buried in a part of the suburban cemetery usually reserved for the destitute or homeless.
No one to cry over them, no one to mourn their lonely deaths. Buried in a paupers grave to be forgotten. France is France, but there were once Frenchmen who remembered how to be proud, to be true friends.
Rougeyron worked as an automobile engineer and experimental race car driver in Normandy before the war. After Germany�s occupation of France, he organized a network of resisters who rescued, sheltered, and conducted to safety British and American fliers. In 1944 he was arrested and sent to various concentration camps, including Buchenwald.
Have the French merely forgotten? So easily? Rougeyron's generation is the one that has just suffered so badly, they deserve more than a moment of silence to remember them. If France cannot properly feel this loss, then their time maybe really is past.
If they will not say a prayer for them, I will.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:23 AM | Comments (1)
when you think Afghanistan is too much trouble, think of this.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban set fire to an elementary school south of Kabul, scattering leaflets saying girls should not be allowed in the classroom, an official said Wednesday.
This is evils face, and God help you if you go against them.
In the latest violence, unknown assailants tossed two grenades into a home where men at a segregated wedding reception were listening to music, also banned during Taliban rule. Two people were killed and 14 were wounded, said Hazrat Ali, the regional military chief.
Murdered, for listening to music.......marked for death, for teaching a little girl to read. How can anyone doubt the rightness of our, and the Afghan peoples cause to rid themselves of this? Because it's difficult, because it's hard? Look your own children in the face, and you will know the rightness, the mercy of what we hope to accomplish in the world.
There is no excusing this. No arguement for cultural tolerance ever made can justify turning away and allowing this to reclaim Afghanistan. Is it imperialism to believe that a man and woman in Kabul just want the freedom to raise their children certain in the knowledge that they won't be killed as an example to cower the rest? Is it racist to know that people love their children enough to want to be free? Is it?
Once, monsters roamed the earth, they were born in Berlin, and mankind will bear their scars for all eternity. Half of a proud people were put to death for the crime of being different, for being other. Many others were so horribly persecuted. The world could have stopped it, could have intervened early, but it was difficult, it was hard. And ultimately forty million people paid the price for it. If we have learned anything from history, surely we have learned this.
We can make a difference now, early, before they absorb more nations, more cultures. Because you look at the face of a Taliban, and you see an executioner in the raw. Don't tell me it's hard, or difficult. We as a species have made that mistake before. It's time to end it.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:46 AM | Comments (2)
Hey, at least it is a slow suicide
"A diplomatic confrontation between American authorities and much of the rest of the world intensified yesterday as senior officials at the United Nations insisted on their right to smoke in the organisation's headquarters."
"Casting aside petty differences and forging new allegiances, UN ambassadors said they would ignore New York's smoking ban, imposed five months ago and extended to the UN this week."
"A directive signed by Kofi Annan, the secretary-general, demanded that "no smoking shall be permitted in any of the UN premises at headquarters", in line with the anti-smoking fixation of Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor. But at the UN building, Mr Annan and Mr Bloomberg faced rebellion. Despite warnings from UN officials that anyone caught puffing in the building would face "disciplinary action", smokers lit up and inhaled deeply."
"The Russian ambassador, Sergey Lavrov, seen marching to the delegates' lounge for a smoke, said Mr Annan "doesn't own this building".
What's Bloombeg going to do, cite them? They won't even pay their millions of dollars of parking tickets.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:50 AM | Comments (0)
And now for something completely different...
I know I gotta have some Python fans out there.
I'd expect to hear this from the John Cleese character sitting behind a desk in the middle of a squirrel milking plant.
"Israel Bombed Baghdad's U.N. Headquarters and the Jordanian Embassy"
But, believe it or don't, it was the Syrian government (I'm pretty sure that you won't have too much of a hard time believing that).
Posted by Nukevet at 01:45 AM | Comments (3)
I hope this helps Israel
"A columnist for an Egyptian government journal has called into question the established Muslim belief that Jerusalem is a sacred Islamic city."
"Writing for the weekly Al-Qahira, published by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Ahmad Muhammad 'Arafa rejects the Islamic doctrine that the Prophet Muhammad's celebrated "Night Journey" took him from Mecca to Jerusalem."
"The passage in Quran 17:1 - known as the Sura of the Night Journey - does not refer to a miraculous trip from Mecca to Jerusalem, but to the prophet's emigration from Mecca to Medina, Arafa asserts in his Aug. 5 article."
"MEMRI said the column constitutes a "dramatic departure" from a standard Islamic belief held for more than 1,300 years."
"The fact that this article was published in a government journal adds to its political significance," the Washington, D.C.-based group noted."
But sadly, I doubt it will.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:39 AM | Comments (0)
Are your papers in order?
With all of the lefts complaints about how we need to be more like Europe and how the 'Patriot Act is taking away all of their rights', you'd think that they would pay more attention to the place.
"Britain must introduce personal identity cards for all citizens if it is to combat the threat of terrorism and organised crime, according to the country's most senior police officer."
"We are sure they would have a massively beneficial effect for us in fighting organised crime, human trafficking and terrorism," Sir John Stevens, London's police commissioner, told Reuters."
And you can tell he's a controlling bastard with this line,
"It would be nice if people listened to the professionals on this one," Stevens said."
Too bad the Queen didn't miss with the sword when she knighted this ass.
Found at White Rose blog. A subsidiary of the excellent Samizdata crew.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:36 AM | Comments (1)
Messing with Talent
Sometimes, kids do think more clearly than the adults.
"West Boynton� He began at 15 by mowing a few lawns for neighbors. Within two years, he landscaped entire gardens from scratch, built waterfalls and ponds and, until recently, raked in around $2,500 a month."
"But in recent months, board members of The Colony, west of Boynton Beach, have been trying to clamp down on their community's youngest entrepreneur, 16-year-old Bishy Tannous, saying his landscaping business violates association rules."
"You wouldn't believe they're adults," said Tannous, reflecting on the controversy. " ... They should worry about something that's worry-worthy."
How much do you want to bet that this whole thing started out of jealousy over someone elses yard? Kind of like the 'Christmas Lights' competitions in some neighborhoods.
Some folks have entirely too much time on their hands.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:21 AM | Comments (0)
Poetry
Also in my travels through the NW IMC's I found this lovely little poem about our favorite little person, St. Rachel of the Dozers.
"Whenever Rachel Corrie went down town,
The people on the pavement looked at her:
She was an idiot from sole to crown,
Jew-Hating scumbag to be sure.
And she has always violently protested,
And she was always burning flags as she talked;
But still she fluttered pulses when she said,
"Kill Jews" and she glittered when she walked.
And she was rich - yes, richer than a king -
A spoiled white trash girl in all her grace.
In fine we thought that she was everything
To make us thank we weren't in her place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Rachel Corrie, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a DOZER through her head."
Now go read the comments from the worshippers of the Saint.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:14 AM | Comments (0)
Out of the Blue
I don't know how this got onto IMC, or why it hasn't been electronically round-filed by their webmasters, but it is a decent read. And it gets the hackels up on the IMC crowd.
"Because of hunting I learned; more about myself, respect for my dad and mom, respect for nature and all the critters, to be a good person, and to serve my country and go to war to protect our freedom."
Posted by Nukevet at 01:10 AM | Comments (0)
And now, the results of our survey.
Earlier I asked for volunteers to answer some questions as part of the task Cait set for me. Thank you all for your kind participation.
I'll take them in order of arrival.
SlimyBill, of Four Right Wing Wackos
Next up Emily Nelson, frequent reader and friend to RNS. I'm posting her's here for her.
Update,....Mollbot has posted.
>1.Who was the greatest man in history, the one who's life had the greatest
>impact on the course of human events.
>
Moses
>
>2.If you had it within your power to go back and rewrite history just once,
>what would you change? Would you still do it even if you could not know the
>outcome?
>
>
Make sure the Holocaust didn't happen. My personal favorite favorite:
Have some Israeli F-16s shoot down German planes and strafe the
concentration camps.
>3.If you could toss a pie in the face of anyone on earth and get away with it, who would you pick? And what would you put in the pie?
>
>
Bill Clinton . Turds.
>4.Do you believe or disbelieve the faces on Mars are real? Please explain your answer.
>
>
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I disbelieve the faces on Mars. I think it's about as real as the Man
in the Moon.
>5. Do you believe a person controls his own fate within the limits of events, or do you think we are all pawns in the hands of others?
>
>
Man controls his own destiny within God's plan.
emily
I'll be posting links as the additional answers come in. No hurry , there is no time limit. Thanks again, Tim, Emily, Mollbot. I appreciate that you took the time.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:01 AM | Comments (3)
September 03, 2003
All extremist rhetoric
Sounds exactly the same, doesn't it?
�The sooner I am executed ... the sooner I am going to heaven,� Hill said Tuesday in a jailhouse interview. �I expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to glory. I don�t feel remorse.��I believe the state, by executing me, will be making me a martyr,� he added.
Hmmmmm. I wonder if he is expecting the same 72 virgins as the Islamic extremists?
Posted by Nukevet at 04:19 PM | Comments (3)
Off to enemy territory
That would be Seattle, WA. I have been getting my butt kicked trying to prepare for several upcoming seminars. This is the first of many road trips in the near future.
It actually just dawned on me today that I am heading up into AK's neck of the woods. Maybe I can buy him a beer while I'm in the neighborhood.......
Posted by Nukevet at 01:26 PM | Comments (4)
Hope from disaster.....
It's coming, the second anniversary of that day. I needed something to express my mood on this, and forgive me, but this is what I am, what I feel.. A call to rest.
Some may think I cross the line to obsession, possibly, but are many of us unscared by this? Half the world thinks we've been driven mad, insane with grief and rage. I don't deny the feelings are still as deep as the depths of despair in 2001. But so far I think we've escaped the trap of useless rage. As the day approaches, I hope we all still feel it hard, we need the strength we'll draw from it. Times are difficult now, the initial successes have given way to the harder rebuilding, and holding on to what we've won. There is no turning back, we will finish what was begun, to do otherwise is to deny our own memories.
It seems like yesterday,and like a lifetime ago. Future generations may have detachment, but not us, not now. I thought I had no tears left inside, somehow though, they still come. I'm not sure how best to remember the day when it comes, I am sure that we will. In our own ways, all of us.
May God shield the souls of those we have lost, and those we will lose. We remember you.
Images, and music provided by God Bless America.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:57 AM | Comments (0)
The Twisting of the Arms
You may have heard of Patty Murray. She is the the dingbat who told a group of Washington high schoolers that the reason Osama bin Laden was liked better than the USA in Afghanistan was because he built day care centers for Afghani women.
Well, now she is so full of herself that she thinks that she can twist the arm of Washington State lobbyists.
"Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is warning K Street donors that she will interpret PAC contributions to Rep. George Nethercutt (R-Wash.) as a hostile act, even if the donors also give to her campaign."
K Street is the group term for our state lobbyists.
And read this quote:
"Gary Ruskin, director of the Congressional Accountability Project, said Murray’s behavior was surprising because she is a Democrat and it is Republicans who have a reputation for monitoring the flow of PAC checks to candidates."
Sounds like bias to me. Why is he director of the CAP if he thinks like this?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:26 AM | Comments (0)
Thank you sir.
After showing off his photoshop skillz with this pic, I asked the gentleman over at The Ville if he could whip up a burning UN flag for me.
Check it out!
Glad you enjoyed making it sir!
I would also like to thank him for two links yesterday. Since he is a mortal enemy of PETA, he thoroughly liked the moose on the billboard from Sunday, Mr. Puggs. He also said, "RNS gets my vote for best name for a blog."
See doc, you're a trendsetter.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:09 AM | Comments (9)
I needs me one of these
Look! Look! And it keeps your beers cold.
I have made fountains out of blocks and heads. I have even turned used Formula 1 tires into end tables. But this never occured to me.
I will have to talk the wife into letting me make one of these. If anyone wants one, I'll price it out for you.
Pic found at Curmudgeonly and Sceptical.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:53 AM | Comments (3)
New Police Chief for Portland
If you read yesterday's post on the resignation of Portland's Police Chief, you might just like to know that his replacement has the hippies in a tizzy.
"Foxworth Is an Unacceptable Choice for Chief. He is entrenched in the violent and illegal police misconduct that pervades the entire bureau. There was no public input and this political move guarantees no reform and is unacceptable."
"Some Ignominious Highlights from Foxworth's career at the Portland Police Bureau compiled from Oregonian articles (those are the dates listed)"
I think I'm going to like the guy. Maybe Portland isn't going to be so bad off as I previoulsy thought.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:46 AM | Comments (0)
Enemy With A Human Face
"As a young woman in 1968, I worked briefly with Christian leaders to fight mass starvation inflicted on Biafra’s Ibo people. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan also raised money for the afflicted Biafrans. In this, my family and I followed the late Father Aloisius Dempsey, a Jesuit priest who had spent his life tending to sick and impoverished disaster victims worldwide, may he rest in peace. Never did Father Alo or his peers call on peace activists to engage in “resistance.” Peace activism then consisted of marching and raising funds to feed the starving."
"Now “peace activism” ironically sides with jihad, at least as embodied by the International Solidarity Movement, which claims a Palestinian Arab “right to resist …via legitimate armed struggle,” including murder by suicide. ISM is just ending its six week “Freedom Summer Palestine Campaign.” Ostensibly to “challenge Israel’s brutal occupation policies,” this sought to halt construction of Israel’s security fence, which ISM derisively labels an “apartheid wall.” To Israel, the fence represents a life-saver to keep suicide killers out. ISM wants them to get in. A fence can be removed; lives cannot be replaced."
Posted by Nukevet at 12:31 AM | Comments (0)
Heeeee's Back
You probably already know this, but Mr. Taranto has returned from vacationing in Europe.
You should read what he has to say about their so-called 'hate' towards the US.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:25 AM | Comments (1)
Got an Axe?
This tree-hugger is a crafty one. But he should still start hugging.
"A short walk from a gravel logging road in the Willamette National Forest, an “A” for Anarchy within a circle made from a branch of vine maple hangs from a string that disappears into the crown of a towering Douglas fir.
“That there, it’s just a doorbell,” said a young, bearded man in overalls who calls himself Fawn. The doorbell hangs from a 10-by-4-foot plywood platform suspended from ropes strung between eight surrounding trees. If any one is cut down, the platform falls."
“Attention destroyers of ancient ecosystems,” reads a note tacked to the tree. “If any tree in the area is cut, the platform will drop, effectively killing the person in the tree.”
On the Portland IMC, I have seen stories about some dingbat treehugger (I can't remember his name but it includes some small species of bird, like a starling) who got a tree felled on him in this section of forest, so this is 'hallowed ground' for these freaks. They have taken the owner of this property to court multiple times to stop them from logging it.
Their latest ploy:
"Not satisfied with the Forest Service surveys, environmentalists did their own, and found more red tree vole nests. Their lawsuit demands that the Forest Service do the surveys again, with more public involvement."
Basically they want to be involved with the counting so they can skew the numbers again. You may have heard about a study done by these folks with a report on the local Lynx population (sorry, I couldn't find a link)
So I say again, anybody got an axe?
Update: Thanks to Raging Dave, I've got a linky here to that story about the envirowhackos messing with the numbers on the Lynx population to stop logging.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:23 AM | Comments (3)
September 02, 2003
Brother, you have noooo idea.
You'd make it to the ripe old age of... 27! Long
enough to marry, be a widow(er), marry again,
fight in 6 wars... must have burned up all your
life force fast.
How long would you survive in the ancient world?
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I sometimes feel like I've cramed two full lifetimes into a half of one. This doesn't make me feel any better about it. I see life through an old man's eyes, that's what's a great comfort about my children, they let me glimpse the world as a child again, if even for just a fleeting moment.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:14 PM | Comments (0)
Oh please, at least act as if you have a clue.
John Sutherland is the Guardian's resident America columnist. We are throwing away our freedoms and barring the gates against the universe! Why? Because we are making foreign students prove they are who they say they are, and making schools prove they are actually attending...................The Nerve!
The Patriot Act impacts painfully on American universities. Campus police are obliged, under the pretext of "homeland security", to liaise with the FBI. So, to their indignation, are college librarians ("What is Ali reading?"). The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) requires universities to provide confidential information about their Middle Eastern and Muslim students - those from countries suspected of "harbouring" al-Qaida ("Who is Ali emailing?").
In February 2003, the INS began fingerprinting 44,000 immigrants from specified Arab and Islamic countries. Students were overwhelmingly targeted. Those I spoke to felt grossly humiliated by the experience of being treated like drunk drivers. The net is widening. At the beginning of this month, American college officials were required to register all foreign students with federal authorities under the provisions of Sevis, the newly established student and exchange visitor information service. The aim is to compile a comprehensive and "dynamic" (ie, constantly updated) database, monitoring every overseas student in the US.
He admits this,
university officials curse the fact that those murderous 9/11 Saudi terrorists were, many of them, in the US on student visas.
And then this.
From her office, Stimpson can see the ugly gap in the skyline where the twin towers used to be. But Sevis does not make her, as a citizen, feel safer: it makes her, as an educator, feel poorer. One third of all "American" Nobel prize- winners, Stimpson points out, were not born in America. Nearly 50% of graduates in subjects such as engineering have, traditionally, been "international". No more. It is sad to see a great country systematically divesting itself of some of the very qualities that made it great. They should rename it the Statue of Security.
Stimpson is an idiot, no restrictions and free reign by arab "students" gave us this.
Maybe if the target had been London, then a clue might start to form in John Sutherland's head. Carry on as before as if nothing had happened is the answer of a fool. How many dead do we have to accept to get your approval John? Give me a number, do we close out the gaps only when 10,000 are dead, 20,000?
Stop wasting your time John, students still come, they just have to be real students. Why do you have such a problem with that?
Posted by Nukevet at 07:34 PM | Comments (1)
A good reason why other nations should be glad our technology is advancing so quickly.
We've seen or heard about the films Sudden Impact and Armegedon. Pure fiction, but what is the real potential for such an event? I don't know, having no background in such things. I know that our chances are not even as good as they were in those movies, and they weren't great in them, if such a thing were about to happen.
Maybe the militarization of space is inevitable, and maybe,.... vital. Those of you who have a background in the sciences can give a better understanding of the technical problems involved in diverting a massive hunk of rock traveling at enormous speeds, but I believe it's something we should plan for. Something we may consider developing tools to guard against. We know earth has been savaged before, and will be again, wouldn't it be smart to get ready?
Just in case?
Posted by Nukevet at 05:34 PM | Comments (1)
Looking for a few good victims
To continue on the task Cait has set for me, I'm asking for 3 volunteers to answer questions somewhat similar to the ones I answered for Cait. No pressure, I won't be annoyed if everyone chooses not to participate.
The answers can be as serious or humorous as you like, and you need not agree with me to play. I'm working on a list of questions now, so if you are of a mind, leave me a comment.
Update, Mollbot is giving it a shot.
Update Emily Nelson wants in.
Update, Raging Dave is onboard.
Update, SlimyBill is on.
Alright the bidding is closed. However If anyone else wishs to participate, here are the questions.
1.Who was the greatest man in history, the one who's life had the greatest impact on the course of human events.
2.If you had it within your power to go back and rewrite history just once, what would you change? Would you still do it even if you could not know the outcome?
3.If you could toss a pie in the face of anyone on earth and get away with it, who would you pick? And what would you put in the pie?
4.Do you believe or disbelieve the faces on Mars are real? Please explain your answer.
5. Do you believe a person controls his own fate within the limits of events, or do you think we are all pawns in the hands of others?
Cait did better, but I think this fills the spirit of the survey. Enjoy my friends.
Additional.........Dave, Bill, Blogspot is not loading for me tonight so I can't pull up email address's. Please accept my apologies for not sending more info privately.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:49 PM | Comments (10)
Questions, questions,......
Cait from Caiterwauling has asked me to answer some questions from a survey, and to post my replies. Chiviralry may be long in the tooth, but it's one of the finer male qualities so I can't refuse a gracious lady. Besides, it might be fun, so lets see.
1. What do you consider the greatest invention of all time?
Easily, the invention of movable type. That made printing of books in mass possible, making knowledge widely availible for the first time in human history. Meaning not just the rich or clergy could now learn to read. We've largely moved forward since then, at an ever increasing rate. It hugely increased the availible pool of educated people, and that is always a good thing.
2. Give us step-by-step instructions on how to construct a tinfoil hat.
?.......Do I get bonus points for fiction?
Let's see, assuming that one morning I wake up and suddenly realize that Ashcroft really does want to beam signals from Mars into my brain,.........First, I'd buy some explosives from this guy my brother knows..., right, ..the hat. I'd get extra heavy duty foil, only the best. Then I'd triple layer it, in a length of about two feet, then I would fold it carefully in two lengthwise. Then fold down the outside corners back to the fold. Take the two outside points and fold them into tight little balls, open up the fold leaving a cap with two little balls displayed on the top of the right and left side of the head.
Then I'd find Ashcroft and make him wear it, with a sign around his neck saying, "I have been a Baaad Boy Today."
3. What was the most significant event of the 20th Century?
Now that's a tough one, the prospective of the moment may not be the appropriate one with which to judge something like this. Too soon, with immediate concerns coloring my judgement. But I'll give it a shot.
From a historical prospective, I'd say the Moon landings. Wars as horrible and inhuman as they were, are in effect a continuation of standard human behavior carried to the extreme. Stepping foot into the Heavens? That was brand new, never even dreamed of seriously until the 20th century. In five hundred years they may say that was the only truely epic thing to happen in the last century. So I'd say the Moon landings.
4. What do you think the afterlife (life after death) should be?
You are really not throwing softballs are you Cait?
I'm the first to say, what ever it is, or is not, mankind almost certainly has it wrong. All of our preconcieved notions weighing less than air.
As to what it SHOULD be? Kindness and compassion rewarded, fidelity and Honorable conduct given consideration. And one small thing.......A chance to undo the hurts and sorrows I can never forget, a chance to talk to my mother again, my father, my sister. My grandfathers who I never knew, I would hope that they would approve of me, I would dare to hope.
As to a Hell, there should be one. But not the Christian Hell of everlasting burning in damnation. I think the God I pay to isn't that cruel, I hope he's not. No what greater punishment to give an evil man than to expose him to paradise, then simply bar him from it, and remove from him the chance to ever harm anyone else ever again. The punishment should include time in a form humble and suffering, so they may, in time, earn their way out of Hell.
I dare to believe in redemption, a chance to make a wrong right again. I think that's what Heaven should be,.... about eternal hope.
5. What person, agency, or organization do you believe was responsible
for assassinating JFK?
I subscribe to the lone nut theory of history, I'm reasonably sure it was just Oswald, though I'm open to real evidence that's not the case. I mean REAL evidence from credible sources.
By lone nut, I mean something like this. In WWI over sixteen million people died. The war spanned Europe, touched Asia, Africa, and was fought in every one of the worlds oceans. It envolved every great power on the planet, each caught up in treaties or their own interests. Some went happily off to the carnel house, some reluctantly, but they all went because one deranged, disturbed Serb shot a minor Arch Duke in a back water country.
One other way would be to say I'm envoking the notion of chaos theory. Minor events of seemly minor consequence, can lead to undreamed of carnage. We've seen it too often in the history of the last hundred years. A failed house painter, a failed writer rose to lead the Third Reich to the Gates of Hell. What if he'd succeeded in writing? What would have been different?
I believe life isn't fair, or even ordered. I believe it was Oswald, because the evidence points there. Also because why not him, I know many loved JFK, but looking for more conspirators to punish won't bring him back. People should be able to accept that fate can be horribly arbitrary and unfair, there's almost never a conspiracy, because life is a crap shoot.
Alright Cait, I won't do the second half of the request until tomorrow. I'll tend to those emails when I have some more time. But this was kinda fun. I hope you enjoy the result. As to wether everyone else thinks I'm half cracked, you'd be right, but address the issues above first.
This kinda tapped a vein I never really considered before tonight on a couple of points. Thanks for asking Cait. It was fun.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:40 AM | Comments (3)
W-w-w-w-w-hat?
Please read this and see if you can understand it.
"Egyptian Government Daily Al-Ahram: The U.S. is Behind the Najaf Bombing"
"Regardless of the details of the terrorist crime in Najaf, it is essential that the Iraqi people and its true religious and political leaderships, not those imported from abroad, be wary of slipping into internal conflict. They must close ranks to work for the liberation and independence of their country on a general national basis, removed from any elements and factors that rip apart their national unity - [the unity] that is the most important pillar in regaining their independence and building a democratic state in the Land of the Tigris and the Euphrates."
I think he is basically saying 'We cannot prove that the Americans did it (because they are crafty), but they did it. None the less, we need to make sure that Iraq becomes a theocracy. Because if our people see freedom, they will like it.'
Am I close?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:51 AM | Comments (2)
Portland is Lost
Rest of Oregon soon to follow.
At the end of last week, Portland lost it leading law enforcement officer to pressure from the lefties in the city. Both the socialists in the streets and the ones on the city council and in the mayor's office.
"After more than a year watching the rising police state take over our little town as well as the rest of the nation, we have one small victory. Kroeker, the man who allowed officers to rampage through this city, is finally gone. Yes, we can celebrate for a moment. But let us not be deluded into thinking this is enough"
Make sure you go through the comments.
If you read the IMC post, the woman they describe as being 'unarmed' and 'brutally murdered' by a Portland officer was a multiple-offending crack-head who tried to run down the arresting officer with her friend's car.
Here they campaign for IMC crowd volunteers to run for the office:
"Just think how much better things would be if we RAN a policing agency here, rather than having some powerless "citizen oversight board" or other neutered group of people. The problem? We have to chose a candidate!"
Make sure to notice what they have crafted the new badge to look like.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:43 AM | Comments (5)
Hippies learn Photoshop
They're getting better at they're propaganda.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:58 AM | Comments (0)
Here we go again
From the Seattle IMC
"If George Bush Junior’s comments calling Iraq, North Korea, and Iran the “axis of evil’ before the war on Iraq are any indication, North Korea has reason to fear U.S. aggression."
"Earlier this year, facing these provocations from the U.S. North Korean President Kim Jong Il scrapped nuclear treaties that had never been honored by the U.S. anyway. The U.S. has responded to North Korea by conducting provocative military maneuvers and organizing the “negotiations” that just concluded in Beijing. The governments of Russia, South Korea, Japan, and China participated in these talks where the U.S. made clear its intentions of carrying out an economic blockade against North Korea if the North does not scrap its nuclear program. Yet from the outset North Korea made clear its intention to continue to build a nuclear deterrent to defend itself from U.S. aggression and announced that it intends to test nuclear devices. In response to U.S. threats of an economic blockade North Korea has responded that such an action would be an act of war"
I would love to take up a collection to send this numb-nutted tumblefuck off to his version of 'The Happiest Place on Earth'. But when I went to hand him his plane tickets, I'd probably just kick the shit out of him.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:47 AM | Comments (1)
September 01, 2003
It lives.............
It's built and in testing, grounded for the moment while it's laser modules and mirrors are installed and tested. Early in 2004 the ABL will be burning down targets. Warfare is about to change, again.
Advancement on the F-16 mounted laser is progressing as well, simulaters and wargames are in the works. " Named the high-energy laser fighter, or HEL Fighter" Hellfighter?.........Yes,yes,yes........................Somebody tell the French to crank up their Mirage sales, we'll need more targets.
Freedoms light has always been strong, it's about to get as intense as the surface of the sun. The 21st century looks like it'll be ours as well. I am sooo proud of this.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:35 PM | Comments (9) | TrackBack
When the shoe is on the other foot
Howard Dean was a strident believer in campaign finance reform, until he could sniff front runner status. Democrats paint this as just being pragmatic, which it is, but it's also a 180 from his previous position.
Ultimately, President Bush may leave him no other choice. As he did in 2000, Bush is forgoing matching funds, freeing himself to spend the record $200 million he hopes to raise for the primaries � in which he is unopposed � to beat up on the Democratic nominee.
Any Democrat who accepts matching funds must cap his spending at $45 million, leaving the candidate broke and defenseless from mid-March until the party conventions in late summer, when both nominees will collect roughly $75 million in public financing for the general election.
Democrats can never be as good at raising money, so they passed laws hoping to cripple republicans, they did leave in a provision to let you opt out and run without public matching funds, and guess what? Republicans still raise more money. So in order to compete Dean violates the spirit of the law he expounded.
Now, I'm waiting for a democrat to explain how this little dance of hypocrisy isn't what it looks like. Was Dean a LIAR when he said what he did before? Is he being a LIAR now? If you think that's too harsh, imagine for just a second what they would say about Bush if he was in that exact same position.
Personally, I think Dean is an ass, weak on policy, weak on defense, all let me give you a hug sappiness. What I always wondered about is this, why is the rethoric used against the GOP always so much shriller and harsh then the rethoric they use against someone like Huessein? Are they morally blind when they do that, or just stupid?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:01 PM | Comments (0)
Exposed, not betrayed
This news article says that Kelly, the man who killed himself over the "Sexed Up" scandal at the BBC, felt betrayed by his government for being named. He probably did feel that way, but that doesn't mean he was correct, and not selfserving.
Betrayal implies a broken trust, no such promise of privacy existed here. When Kelly spoke to the BBC he didn't say what they claimed he did, that made him the only source for the government to use to prove the BBC was distorting the story. I'm sorry he didn't like the spotlight, but the choice to be a source for the BBC was his. That Blair's government would choose not to allow a slander to go unchallenged is hardly a betrayal. That the BBC gives hack journalists free reign without any oversight IS a betrayal of their public trust.
I don't care how much they sugarcoat it, the BBC is the father of this bastard child. Kelly's family would do themselves and Britain a favor if they could get the target right. That they don't tells me politics in the worst partisan form is what they practice.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:33 PM | Comments (0)