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December 31, 2003
When you have a bad day.
I promise, no more of this for a while. But, I feel compelled to show this information, for a couple of reasons. One, if you have strange and persistent pain, see a doctor ASAP, don't just bite it down, get help, I didn't. Second, I should be specific about the type of damage I have, so that when I say my day sucked, you know exactly what I mean.
Caution, medical information to follow. If you don't care to know, don't read it, I won't blame you for not doing so.
Clinical Symptoms
Pressure on a nerve by a bone spur may irritate the nerve resulting in pain in the neck and arm. Headaches similar to tension headaches that are worse during cervical extension may be due to cervical arthritis. Severe nerve compression or spinal cord compression may not cause pain as the body accommodates to the compression but incoordination, numbness and progressive weakness in the arms and hands. Pressure on the spinal cord can cause catastrophic injury with loss of strength in arms and legs, loss of bowel and bladder control or true paralysis may occur.
Nearly everytime I get tired at work, at home, though the arm and shoulder pain is the worst. This is cervical.
This is lumbar.
Clinical Symptoms
Patients usually complain of a dull pain in your lower back when they stand or walk. The pain often radiates into the buttocks and thighs. The symptoms are made worse with walking and tend to improve with rest. Patients often report improvement when walking if they bend forward and flex at the waist, such as over a shopping cart or over a cane.
As the nerves become compressed, patients complain of several symptoms including: pain in one or both legs, numbness or tingling in the legs, weakness in the legs , or progressive bowel and bladder difficulties. Back pain is very common as the joints are inflamed and the nerves to the joints and back
muscles become irritated.
The third and final area the Thoracic, I have the bulk of my arthritis there, that was where it began. Three crushed vertebre and time did the rest. I can find little on the web about that specific area, because arthritis there isn't very common. I have learned this, it's where your ribs connect to your spine, and mine is unstable there, I can crack my back, just by shrugging my shoulders, and it's not a pleasant sensation. Coughing, sneezing hurt like a bitch, just having someone pat me on the back elicits an indrawn breath most of the time. I somettimes get soft tissue damage in the material between my ribs, as the ribs stretch apart from the instability when I do a no no. Like having a broken rib for a week, hurts to breath deeply.
The good news is I have no aparent spinal stenosis, no compression of the spinal cord itself. I have what appears to be the compression of nerve roots, by inflammation and bone spurs growing on my vertebre. Its not life threatening, it is however, a motherfucker to live with.
And yes, I had a bad day today.
But that's neither anyone else's fault, or problem. I was young and invulnerable once, or so I believed. The damage is a sort of pennance for past sins and arrogance. I can't quit though, my wife and kids, I won't have my children talk of me with shame in their hearts. I can't do that to them. Sadly, as I've said before, you can get used to anything in time, even this. My doctor tells me I'm outside the curve, I shouldn't be able to function as well as I do. I shouldn't be strong still, shouldn't be as mobile as I am. For that I blame my genes, my grandfathers upper body mass, my fathers stiff neck. My wife just thinks I'm pig headed,.....guilty of that too I guess.
So a warning then, if you're young and full of life. Enjoy it, but not stupidly. The price of that kind of pride is more than you would want to bare. I wouldn't, if I had a choice.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:40 AM | Comments (5)
The Soundboard
As promised, something to play tonight while the ball is dropping.
On the bagpipes, of course.
Happy New Year to you all!
I hope that 2004 is happy and safe for all the readers of RNS. May you prosper both in your personal and business lives. May Lady Luck smile upon you.
May the trolls you smash not leave goo in your boots. May the media either finally pull its head out or get it cut off. May Michael Moore not sit on you. May you get a freebie dirt bag to use the firearms skills you are tuning on. May you win a gun in a raffle. May you dog use a lefty/hippie as a fire hydrant. If you don't have a dog, may you get one in 2004. May Rush come out with another album of the quality of Vapor Trails. May they tour behind it.
And here are a couple of personal wishes of mine: May RNS move up on the food chain a couple of notches as we have this year. May my writing skills improve so that if this happens, I won't embarass myself daily.
And finally, may America be victorious in our foreign policy excursions. If it comes down to use of military force, may we get through with as few casualties as possible.
If you have any wishes or hopes to add for 2004, feel free to leave them in the comments. If I get the chance, I'll add them to the list here.
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It's finally here
It is only a couple of inches so far, but I'm happy about it.
Here in Seattle, we've gotten a few skiffs so far this year. But this is the first wide-spread white-out that we've had in almost three years.
The current rate is pretty slow, an inch an hour, but it started at 21:30 and probably won't stop until 5 or 6 in the morning.
I still have to go to work today, but I should be done by 9pm so that I can be home for the dropping of the ball.
This was heard over the radio channel at work last night "Lock and load boys! Lock and load!"
It was said by the first guy to run into the stuff. He was letting us all know to engage the interlocking differentials on the trucks and load them up as fast as we can so that we can get these bohemoths off the road.
60,000 pounds on a hill is nothing to play with.
But on the flats, you can get a little loose. Again, I wish I had a video camera. Some of us may or may not have met at an unnamed business' parking lot and may or may not have did some donuts in the snow. Added points bonus for the 10ft rooster tails that may or may not have come off the 8 wheels of the trucks.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:37 AM | Comments (4)
Person(s) of the Year
I know I promised this on Monday and all, but oh well.
Since TIME took the high road and awarded their POTY award to the soldiers. And since Ms. SondraK is giving her award to her cousin Joe.
I have decided to give my Person(s) of the Year award to:
The families of the men and women in the armed services who are currently stationed 'in country' in Iraq, Afghanistan, and dozens (if not hundreds) of other places in the world.
They have to deal every day with the possibility of getting that dreaded knock on the door by the Chaplin. They have to sacrifice time spent with together with their loved ones. And they have to deal with a mass media machine that can only tell them about the bad things that happened where their loved ones are.
For this, I award them my thanks and best wishes and the safe return of their family members.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:20 AM | Comments (0)
When hatred becomes hip.
The political story of 2003 was, in some ways, the fashionableness of "hate." It became respectable not simply to disagree with George W. Bush or to dislike him and criticize him -- but to go further and declare your everlasting hate for the man. People bragged about how much they hated Bush. This loathing of Bush from the left does not, as yet, seem any more vicious (and perhaps less so) than the loathing of Bill Clinton from the right. But what is different is the willingness to call it "hatred" and to have the label blessed by much of the press, which has concluded that Bush is different from other modern presidents.
The only problem with that, is that the "chic" in love with itself glitter left is so far out on a limb by itself on this, they discredit themselves.
Indeed, among most Americans, Bush doesn't either. Because surveys didn't ask, we don't know how many Americans hated past presidents. But now the question is being asked, and the answers show that only a small minority -- millions, to be sure -- claim to hate Bush. One poll in December found that 3 percent did. The hating may have been slightly higher in the Clinton presidency, because the same poll asked respondents whether they now hate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and 5 percent said they did. But the central conclusion is striking: Most Americans don't see themselves as haters.
The hypocritical part is easy to see, right hatred of Bill was sick, obsessive, or loony. Left hatred of Bush is the highest calling for the annointed. Whatever,....the hatred of Bush is contradictory anyway. He's a moron, yet a criminal mastermind. A failure at making money, yet he's secretly pocketing millions from the "OIL" sales. A fanatical zealot in full Cruesade mode, yet insincere and oppurtunistic. To his haters, he's the sun and the moon, fire and water.
You couldn't come up with a more half wacked point of view if you simply made it up about someone. I quite sure if he cured cancer and ended world hunger tomorrow, there'd be editorials defending the rights of cancer cells and an ode to the perils of a balanced diet.
When someone wants to be a fool, there is no education possible.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:42 AM | Comments (0)
December 30, 2003
Ooooooooh,
That's gotta hurt. Howard Dean, that is.
The US economy is poised for its best performance in five years.
Economists describe an economy that will be "solid," "sustainable," and "entering the new year with a wonderful head of steam."
Posted by Nukevet at 06:22 PM | Comments (0)
Just a wee bit of a double standard from Iran
At least where help from the Jews is concerned.
President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday U.S. aid to earthquake victims in Iran, while welcome, would not alter the state of relations between the two arch foes who broke off ties nearly a quarter century ago.
"I don't think this incident will change our relations with the United States," Khatami told a news conference in the capital of southeastern Kerman province where officials say up to 50,000 people were killed in a quake that struck Friday.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview with the Washington Post published Tuesday that Washington was open to restoring a dialogue with Iran after "encouraging" moves by the Islamic Republic in recent months.
Powell referred to Iran's willingness to accept U.S. aid for the earthquake relief effort, paving the way for the first U.S. military planes to land in Iran in over 20 years.
"There are things happening and therefore we should keep open the possibility of dialogue at an appropriate point in the future," Powell said.
But Khatami, who is viewed as a foreign policy moderate in Iran, played down the importance of the U.S. assistance.
"In incidents like this governments normally do not consider their differences," he said. "But this has got nothing to do with political issues. The problems in Iran-U.S. relations are rooted in history."
"Nevertheless, I thank all...those who helped us and showed sympathy despite our different viewpoints," Khatami said.
Israel offers to help the people of a country whose regime would, if possible, destroy her in a moment. How many Arab/Islamic countries would even offer help if the disaster had occurred in Israel instead?
Posted by Nukevet at 03:00 PM | Comments (2)
Hey, wait a minute......
I thought it was only FOXNEWS that had any kind of bias with regards to the Iraqi war.
And notice the "enlightened" response of the French newspaper. Something like that shouldn't happen in a socialist paradise, right? I mean, it's only is Ashcroft's AmeriKKKa that journalists are fired for failing to support the position of the government, right?
People in Europe that are so worried about our civil liberties should stop for a minute and take a look at their own. At least we can fight back.
Posted by Nukevet at 08:20 AM | Comments (2)
Too Bad, So Sad
Senior BBC executives may be forced to resign when the Hutton inquiry reports, a corporation director admitted in an unusually candid radio interview last night.
Caroline Thomson, the BBC's director of policy and legal affairs, said the Today programme report that led to Lord Hutton's judicial investigation fell short of the "truth and accuracy" that are the "gold standard of the BBC". She said the concessions made by the BBC during the inquiry had been "spectacular".
Her comments were noticeably less bullish than an interview given by the director general, Greg Dyke, last week, when he all but ruled out high-level resignations.
Ms Thomson conceded that the BBC's regulatory structure, in which the organisation's editorial impartiality is upheld by its board of governors, was "out of kilter with modern fashions of regulation".
Over the past few weeks, the BBC has been preparing the ground for the Hutton report by making a number of changes to structures and editorial procedures in response to the expected criticism. Mr Dyke has appointed a deputy to oversee the complaints and compliance procedures, and the corporation is shortly due to announce tighter controls over the breaking of controversial stories.
Ms Thomson, speaking on Radio 4's PM programme, said Andrew Gilligan's original Today story, in which he reported concerns about the September 2002 dossier that made the case for war on Iraq, was not up to scratch. "Truth and accuracy are the gold standard ... but you don't always achieve it and we rather spectacularly had to admit that we hadn't got the entire details of the Hutton story, the Gilligan story right."
I'm sure that this will lead to much whining and crying from the media over the 'unfair treatment' of these folks. I have noticed that the chatter from the left on the Gilligan story had dropped from little to none after conspiratorial charges against Blair and his people failed to register even a blip.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:27 AM | Comments (0)
Does length really matter?
Something I found at The Ville, that he found at blogoSFERICS.
How Long Did It Take?
Some Democratic Party candidates are complaining on how long the war is taking, but consider this:
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the David Koresh compound. That was a 51-day operation.
It took less time to find Saddam's sons in Iraq than it took for Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sunk at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida...
..Amazing.
David Hedlund Newnan
Posted by Nukevet at 01:45 AM | Comments (0)
And they're supposed to be our allies
Sniveling rat-bastards is perhaps a better description for the french.
Journalist fired for book critical of French newspapers
PARIS: Alain Hertoghe believes that in covering the Iraq conflict, French newspapers recreated "the war they would have liked to have seen." That meant concentration on the Vietnams and Stalingrads that didn't take place, he said, and so many more accounts of U.S. difficulties rather than advances that it was "impossible to understand how the Americans won."
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For making assertions like these in a book called "La Guerre � Outrances," subtitled "How the press disinformed us on Iraq" and published by Calmann L�vy, Hertoghe was fired this month from his post as deputy editor at the Web site of La Croix, a respected Roman Catholic daily newspaper.
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The newspaper's management justified the dismissal, Hertoghe said in an interview, by contending that the book demonstrated his opposition to La Croix's editorial line, damaged the reputation of the newspaper and the authority of its chief editors and questioned the professional ethics of some of the paper's staff members.
Jealousy will get you nowhere, frenchy editors.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:40 AM | Comments (1)
Lucky Lady
The short version of this story.
Jayne Painter was thrilled with the pretty new silver ring her husband Steve bought her for Christmas — so thrilled that she removed her old gold ring from her right-hand ring finger and replaced it with her new one as soon as she received it.
When the Yakima woman woke the morning after Christmas, though, she learned her husband had thrown out the ring box with the rest of the wrapping paper and packaging.
She was devastated.
She had placed the beloved old ring — fashioned from her mother's wedding ring — in that box, and the trash had already been collected.
Painter and her husband, along with the help of a city worker, started sifting through garbage at the landfill Friday morning. Standing amid empty beer bottles, boxes, wrapping paper and "gross turkey stuff," they desperately dug in.
They were looking for a white bag, just one white trash bag among the thousands of trash bags that were picked up that day.
To everyone's astonishment, Painter recognized her trash within 20 minutes. Before noon, she had her ring back.
Amid the refuse, she found the box for a crystal vase, one of her other Christmas presents from her husband. And inside that box was her ring box and inside her ring box was her beloved ring.
In the long version of this story, the guy at the landfill says that in over 22 years working there, he has had only 15-20 requests to search for lost items. He is either being very kind to the folks in Yakima or they are a lot smarter than folks in Seattle. In 5 years, I've already had at least 15 of these requests.
Jewelry, 'important papers, wallets, whole purses, etc. You name something valuable and someone has requested to hunt through the trash for it.
The last one was a stack of papers dealing with an inheritance worth more than $800,000. The guy called up and asked about his recycling pickup. We tracked down the driver (he and the truck had just arrived at the processing plant) and had him switch trucks so that the guy could go through its load on the tipping floor.
15 minutes later we found the file box his son had set out for collection day.
After the probate process was through, he bought us all lunch (with dessert) for a week.
I should tell you the one about some 'research papers' thrown out at a local university. But I think that it is still a bit too recent for public consumption. Let's just say that the papers were worth a grant check with a lot of zeros at the end.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:36 AM | Comments (2)
I've never gotten mad over a gift
A woman unhappy with a Christmas present from her former stepmother was arrested Sunday along with her boyfriend on suspicion of arson for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail into the ex-stepmother's Hermosa Beach home, causing $200,000 in damage, police said.
Brandi Nicole Nason, 20, and her boyfriend, Marshal Abram Penna, 24, of Citrus Heights, allegedly tossed a lighted bottle of gasoline through the glass front door of Nason's former stepmother's home about 9 p.m. on Christmas Day, said Hermosa Beach Police Sgt. Paul Wolcott.
Can you say 'spoiled'?
I want to know what she expected and what she actually got.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:17 AM | Comments (2)
December 29, 2003
For a succinct explanation of why we're in Iraq
I figure even our Jarjar can understand this, since it's a cartoon with very few words. What's that? JarJar's gone, you say? Well, that may be true. Or maybe she's just out there lurking in cyberspace. I'm sure she'll be back when the DOW hits 11,000, don'tyathink?
Posted by Nukevet at 08:18 PM | Comments (2)
We all do stupid things
You just hope that you live to adulthood so you can brag about them. Unfortunately, these 7 teens didn't.
Posted by Nukevet at 06:00 PM | Comments (3)
People are screwed up
Posted by Nukevet at 05:58 PM | Comments (0)
My New Toy
I'll dump all the suspense and just tell you what I got from the gift certificate that wifey gave me for Christmas.
This,
A Bushmaster XM15-E2S lower reciever. With which I will create one of these,
Bushmaster XM15 E2S Dissipator 16in Rifle
Here is a link to the Bushmaster website (it will also now be included in my links section).
After wifey's birthday is past in a couple weeks, I can start ordering parts. Actuallly, I went online and ordered this last night.
I am not a big fan of the AR-15 or the 5.56 round, but here is the plan. I build two of these and trade them for a Springfield M1A Scout Squad rifle. Or, if it ends up that wifey likes the AR, I'll build one for her and then work on the other two. For around a $100 a week you can build your own AR in about 6 weeks (kind of like an extended lay-away plan). Hell, I may learn to like the AR and have to make 4 of them.
I got the lower at Federal Way Discount Guns. They simply have the best prices around (I paid $165 for the lower, not the $185 + shipping like at the website). I also picked up some ammo for the January 17th Blogger Meet, Greet and Shoot.
Raging Dave: I found an excellent example of the Springfield 1911-A1 WWII Mil-Spec pistol for $375 (new) there. I also saw a couple of stainless Ruger 22's (1 each MKII and the 22/45) both heavy barrels, for just under $300. The blued versions are $50-$75 less, which is why I bought a blued one.
Mollbot: For you, I saw a 5 screw S&W; Model 19 in 357Mag 4in bbl for $299 there. It is of the same vintage as your 22 S&W; revolver and it is in excellent mechanical and cosmetic condition. It was the first gun I considered buying that evening. I just couldn't convince myself that I'd shoot it enough to justify the expenditure. But I think it would compliment your current revolver very nicely.
FWDG has an excellent lay-away policy if you need it (I know I have in the past and possibly in the near future) and a very knowledgable staff. I drive past 10 other shops to buy from them.
If you want to read where I'm at in 1911 project I started this summer, go to the more section.
So here's where I'm at with the 1911 project.
I bought a frame from Rock Island Armory. It is the damn fattest frame I have ever played with. I should have just bought another Wilson frame, but the price from RIA was just too nice (howmany times do I have to remind myself that you get what you pay for?).
I have only recently got the trigger I want fitted to the frame. I should really find someone with a mill to make all my filing look nice. I'm now trying to get the beavertail grip safety I want to use fit. After that, I'll be working on fitting the barrel and then baking it green.
Everytime I get done filing until my fingers cramp up, I'm tempted to just make some 'modern art' out of this frame and buy a different one. But the funds aren't there for that right now, so I just keep filing.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:54 AM | Comments (5)
And now for something completely different
Last week, in this post, I wrote about one Despina Scott. She is the Nat'l Guardist who went AWOL from her unit when they were called up for service.
In the comments section of that post I mentioned a group of ANG'ers who tried to avoid their call-up by purposly failing their drug tests and Mollbot related a personal experience with some guys abord his ship rumoring to try something like this to avoid a cruise and Dogtulosba spoke of some female members suddenly getting pregnant to avoid the call-up.
I was watching my Python Box Set last night and saw this skit and it made me think of those cowardly types.
(Cut to colonel's office. Colonel is seated at desk.)
Colonel: Come in, what do you want?
(Enter Private Watkins.)
Watkins: I'd like to leave the army please, sir.
Colonel: Good heavens man, why?
Watkins: It's dangerous.
Colonel: What?
Watkins: There are people with guns out there, sir.
Colonel: What?
Watkins: Real guns, sir. Not toy ones, sir. Proper ones, sir. They've all got 'em. All of 'em, sir. And some of 'em have got tanks.
Colonel: Watkins, they are on our side.
Watkins: And grenades, sir. And machine guns, sir. So I'd like to leave, sir, before I get killed, please.
Colonel: Watkins, you've only been in the army a day.
Watkins: I know sir but people get killed, properly dead, sir, no barley cross fingers, sir. A bloke was telling me, if you're in the army and there's a war you have to go and fight.
Colonel: That's true.
Watkins: Well I mean, blimey, I mean if it was a big war, somebody could be hurt.
Colonel: Watkins, why did you join the army?
Watkins: For the water-skiing and for the travel, sir. And not for the killing, sir. I asked them to put it on my form, sir - no killing.
Colonel: Watkins, are you a pacifist?
Watkins: No sir, l'm not a pacifist, sir. I'm a coward.
Colonel: That's a very silly line.
Like Ms. Sondra said "The US military is NOT a job fair."
Posted by Nukevet at 03:07 AM | Comments (0)
A couple of general announcements
Announcement #1: The only Soundboard will be posted on New Years Eve. I forgot that the Doc was going to Canuckistan and didn't send him anything to load up for this week. I did send him the New Year's edition this morning but I think I should let him get caught up on his home thang and not have to worry about uploads right now.
Welcome Back Doc. Hope everything is good to go now that you're back.
Announcement #2: A while back I started up a thing called "The Autoblog". It was going to be posts dealing with maintenance, upgrades and obscure facts on the subject of automobiles. I got one post in and my video card took a crap. I didn't get a lot of feedback on it, and when I got the laptop up and running again, us RNS boys started to work pretty heavily on the Bellicose Women's Brigade and, it fell by the wayside.
Over the last couple of months I have gotten a decent number of e-mails on the subject of "Where'd the Autoblog go?" So.....starting on Sunday, January 5th the second instalment of The Autoblog will be brought online. I hope to then add a new post every following Sunday. Although, I may have to go bi-weekly due to the amount of research time and ill winds coming down the pipe at work about shift changes.
The first post dealt with brake systems. This Sunday I will be teaching you what all those numbers and letters on your tires mean and how to not get taken at the tire store.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:58 AM | Comments (0)
Republicans are Stoopid
Brought to you by your friends at CNN.
For years the University of Southern California has had a reputation for being a politically conservative campus.
Yet even on a campus where most students remain more interested in football than politics, some are beginning to see a shift to the left as student Democrats gain numbers and become more involved in the political arena. "USC itself has changed a great deal over time," said Ann Crigler, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.
"The student body has become much more diverse. ... That diversity has coincided with a much more diverse [and] dynamic political spectrum." Crigler said that when she came to USC in 1988 she assumed the school would be very conservative.
She said through the years, however, she has noticed a shift to the left among students' political preferences and among the political organizations on campus. In the past, she said, Republicans had the strongest political organization on campus; now it's the Democrats.
And here is the proof that 'Republicans are Stoopid'
He said he thinks the political change is probably a result of USC's increasing admission standards, which have changed the demographics of the student body. "USC students are far brighter and much more discerning than they were when I first came here," he said. "A lot of people don't know what's happened here, how the grade point average has gone up."
This bit of subversive editorial sold to you as fact was brought to you by CNN, together with the USC Democrats Club. Who are so influential that they failed keep Davis in the Governor's Office and also failed to replace him with Bustamonte.
Found at MT Politics.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:27 AM | Comments (0)
Thank you Jimmeh Cahtah
Guy and Leslie Camara had high hopes when they moved to their new Habitat for Humanity home in Barrington Gardens five years ago.
They envisioned a place where their children could romp in their own yard, with a mortgage they could afford on Guy's income as an independent video and film producer.
Instead, Guy Camara says, "It's almost like we got a first-class ticket to a ghetto."
Seven years after Habitat officials launched the only sizable Indiana subdivision made up exclusively of Habitat homes, Barrington Gardens is an experiment some residents say is struggling.
Four of the original 47 families have moved out or are trying to sell their homes -- a rate nearly eight times the norm for a local affiliate of the non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry.
Residents like the Camaras say the subdivision's new, vinyl-clad houses and multicolored playground mask an undercurrent of more unsavory elements: crime that has made the neighborhood far from an ideal place to raise children, and declining property values that mean many residents owe more on their homes than they are worth.
The City of Seattle is doing something of this nature. They knocked down an entirely usable neighborhood of 150 public housing project homes and built something called "The Holly Park Neighborhood". I call it "The Paying to Live in a Housing Project" project.
It is 200+ new homes (very nice ones, I might add. 2500sqft, 3 and 4 bedroom, 2 and 3 baths) built by private contractor for the city. Only half of them are available to 'low income' folks, the other 100 are for people who can afford to buy them. The thought was that the 'homeowners' would inspire the 'low income' folks to keep the neighborhood looking nice and possible buy one of the homes in this particular neighborhood (with the city's help, of course).
The trouble is that no one is buying them. After the first couple dozen or so were sold, the city filled the 'low income resident' houses with the folks who had lived in the project previously (this neighborhood took over two years to complete).
And now the neighborhood looks like the housing project did. Cars everywhere, unkept lawns, rampant burglary or bars on the windows, etc. And those nice folks who volunteered for this 'social experiment' owe tens of thousands of dollars more than their homes will be worth.
Found at Right Thinking on the Left Coast
PS - And I don't want to hear and crap about bagging and blaming this on 'low income' folks. I spent years 6 thru 8 in King County housing project #14 on the 900 block of 'L' street in Auburn. Mom got us out of that pit as soon as she could.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:16 AM | Comments (0)
Child Abuse
I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up being a Dean supporter.
Stamford, Conn. - The mother of a 2-year-old model and actor wants the city of Stamford to pay the boy lost wages and other compensation because he cut his head at a public playground.
According to the claim his mother filed earlier this month with the city, Konrad Mader of Greenwich was running toward a treehouse at the playground Nov. 4 when he crashed into a railing.
He received a few stitches from a plastic surgeon to close the wound.
"I believe a design flaw or oversight at this new playground caused this accident," his mother, Deena Mader.
I couldn't possibly be her or the boys fault. It must be the inanimate, non-moving objects.
Found at the recently resurrected Curmudgeonly and Skeptical
Posted by Nukevet at 01:36 AM | Comments (0)
Mobile Home
Wifey and I will be getting pre-qualified for our home loan shortly so that we can spend some time looking for a house in the next year or so.
I doubt that I could talk her into something such as this,
I mean, where would she park her car?
UPDATE: I showed this to the wife and she made the observation, "Instead of being the victim of a home invasion, you could just say you were hyjacked."
Posted by Nukevet at 01:09 AM | Comments (2)
December 28, 2003
Mission Accomplished
I have safely escaped from Kanukistan. Many intersting conversations with my in-laws, primarily centering around how intrusive their government is, etc, etc, etc.
I really, really, really wonder what Dean is hiding with those sealed records, eh?
Posted by Nukevet at 08:17 PM | Comments (6)
More new stuff
Well ladies and gents, I went shopping with my gift certificates/cards today. Want to see what I got? Too bad, you're gonna find out anyway.
I of course picked up the audio disc that accompanies the "Rush in Rio" DVD that I spoke of on Friday. Triple CD Live Album folks! Plus two extra live songs not on the DVD recorded from the soundboard! I'm getting my ass kicked here! But for some reason it is not unpleasurable.
Next I went and snagged "The Cure Trilogy"
Three albums: "Pornography" (1982), "Disintergration" (1989) and "Blood Flowers" (2000) played live and recorded onto two discs (almost 3 1/2 hours of music). I haven't watched it yet (still absorbing the Rush), but I don't have to. I can guarantee that if you have even just a moderate interest in The Cure, this is a must have item.
Does this mean The Cure will make it to The Soundboard. You bet your ass. My melancoly will probably kick in shortly after my birthday and The Cure gets put into heavy rotation along with Reznor and Skinny Puppy and other bands of that genre.
A more contrversial buy would probably be this,
Outkast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" double album. I snuck a listen on the way home and I think that it will probably be even more groundbreaking than their last one. Especially Andre 3000's half.
Does that mean that Outkast will be making it to The Soundboard? Quite possibly. I'm already thinking about track two and the reaction it'll get from RNS readers.
I also spent my free money from the gun shop. But you'll have to wait until Monday for that.
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December 27, 2003
It's all relative I suppose.
Brain Imaging Confirms That People Feel Pain Differently.
"We have all met people who seem very sensitive to pain as well as those who appear to tolerate pain very well," said Robert C. Coghill, Ph.D., lead investigator. "Until now, there was no objective evidence that could confirm that these individual differences in pain sensitivity are, in fact, real."
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess brain function, Coghill and colleagues found that study participants who said that a heat stimulus was intensely painful had pronounced activation of brain regions that are important in pain. In contrast, people who said that the same stimulus was only mildly painful had minimal activation of these same areas
I believe this is merely documenting what people have always known really. I think it's all what you're used too as well. I don't feel small pain much at all anymore. Especially hand injury, the arthritis combined with my lessening vision,....accidents happen. I move my hand sharply to grab, say a falling object, and I miss judge the distance a little. Smash my hand full speed into the edge of a cabinet ot table top. Ten years ago that would have really friggin hurt. Now I barely notice any discomfort at all from it. Almost beneath the radar. It happens more frequently these days, my hands are rarely without some fresh scars. My job requires me to use my hands quickly, and with my balance often messed up.....
The arithritis in my spine always registers, everything else minus the occasional toothache rarely so. The human body and mind can adapt to almost anything. The pain increases, but so does your tolerance of it, never as much as you would like, but it does increase. You get used to it. Sometimes at work a teenager will witness me getting an injury like skinning a patch of skin off a finger and just about wet his pants. "Jesus" doesn't that hurt?" Well,....yes and no. I feel it, but it's usually a dull pain, something small and in the background. If I'm not thinking about it, it isn't there. It doesn't make me proud to be like this now, it just makes me tired. Long term pain does that, it wears you out constantly fighting it. It may make you much tougher than when you were eightteen, but the cost is hardly worth it.
I'm glad they are doing pain research, I'm not sure this study is giving us something that wasn't already apparent though.
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Prometheus update
Remember Bush's announced support for Poject Prometheus? The nuclear propulsion program for NASA?
A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif, successfully tested a new ion propulsion engine design, one of several candidate propulsion technologies under study by NASA's Project Prometheus.
The event marked the first performance test of the Nuclear Electric Xenon Ion System (NEXIS) engine at the high-efficiency, high-power, and high-thrust operating conditions needed for use in large-scale nuclear electric propulsion applications.
Maybe the first trembling steps in the direction of an impulse like drive system....It won't give us the stars, but it may grant us access to the whole of the solar systemn.
A good start.
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Person of the Year
Ms. SondraK awards her "Person of the Year" award over at the Knowledge is Power blog.
I will give out my POTY award and my SEOTY (Sh*t Eater of the Year) award on Monday.
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Bad Choice After Bad Choice
I found this on the Seattle IMC (where I am still fostering my Mad Cow conspiracy theory).
"Inside the shelter, everything is regimented. When we shower. When we sleep. Lights out by 9. During the day, we are free to go outside--which raises simple questions that never crossed my mind before. What do you do for 7 hours in the day, if you have no money, no house to clean, no job to visit, no man to handle?"
"I feel cut off from the world. At every point I try to find some space. Some time to think. Some peace of mind to focus on the larger world, to write. I strain to find the ways to stay connected to the revolution. I sneak out of the shelter, and try to continue my work. But sometimes, I'm just overwhelmed, too tired, and I sleep, and I just can't find the strength to connect."
When I used to voluteer to drive a 'Welfare to Work" program van (AKA The Bratmobile), I met dozens of people. Mostly single-mothers. A good number of them were really trying to get back on the road to independence. But at least 25% of them were totally oblivious as to how bad their situation was. They'd been given so many helping hands that they never changed their behavior. They knew that if they dropped/fell out of this particular program, some other group would take them in.
They used the kids to grab folk's heartstrings to get them freebies. But other than that, it was impossible to get them to realize that their situation was not good for their kids. One woman never had even registered her 8 and 9 year old kids for school. 10% of my pick-ups every morning were no-shows. Usually, the mother would open the door a crack and tell me that the kids didn't need to go to school/day care (100% paid for by taxes) that day. Sometimes an un-identified male (no men were allowed to be in the home without official supervision) would open the door and tell me to "get the f*ck off the porch".
Seeing as how I am the original heartless-bastard, I followed the guidelines set by my agency's contract and reported the no-shows. Three strikes and you're out. If you ain't going to help yourself, I sure as hell ain't going to lend a hand.
I eventually switched to driving the van at the senior center. Older folks generally don't cry if they drop their toys. But they do bum smokes off you.
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A Project for Mr. Puggs
I got wind of this through an obcusre news source.
Terry Anderson to run for state senate
Anderson -- a former Associated Press reporter who was held captive in Lebanon for six years -- says he's going to run for the Ohio Senate next year.
Anderson -- a Democrat -- retired two years ago as a journalism professor at Ohio University in Athens.
He's never run for political office.
He says he wants to provide a voice for the people of southeastern Ohio, where he's lived for the past five and a-half years.
From theses snippets, it doesn't look good so far. Former journalist and journalism prof. But he is a former hostage of the islamofascists.
Your mission Mr. Puggs, if you choose to accept, is to watch what this guy has to say and report back to RNS with the info.
This message will not explode is 10 seconds, but it may flatulate.
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December 26, 2003
Got a moment?
Well, then, go spend it with Easycure.
Welcome to this thing called the blogosphere, EC.
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Post Christmas hoopla
I know that Christmas isn't about the gifts......but the gifts do kick some major ass.
Now, showing off said gifts would be of bad taste. But since I have never made the claim of having any taste....I will show off me gifts.
First, in response to the question from Ms. SondraK in the comments of yesterday's post: the gift went over quite well, both with the missus and the rest of the family when we arrived for dinner.
And just what is Ms. Sondra speaking of? Why this,
Actually, not exactly this. Wifey likes the princess cut you see (will try for live pic when I can get the thing off her hand).
Long story short, wifey doesn't wear much jewelry and went and picked her own ring out for the wedding (a celt woven silver band). But, she took a liking to diamonds after last years earring gift and I went and spoke to the man again this year.
Just a note to guys buying jewelry, if you walk into the jewelers showroom and he and his staff are as well or better armed than you, he is a good guy to deal with in general. Plus, he may trade firearms for jewelry.
Now for my new things;
You all may be in trouble here in the next few weeks as I got exactly what I asked Santa for.
The "Rush in Rio" 2-disc DVD set (which I'm watching on my PC as I type this), and my Monty Python box set (upgraded from VHS to DVD).
That's Right! Every single episode of the Monty Python's Flying Circus television show (and then some). Streuth!
And the Rush in Rio box set contains 3 hours of the best damn live show played by any band in anytime. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that, unless you have a plan for world peace that can be enacted in 3 hours, you're better off watching this concert than doing anything else.
Wifey also gift-certificated me to death (which, by the way, is a wonderful way to go).
$$$'s for new music. Quite possibly the audio disc to accompany the Rush DVD and the The Cure trifecta concert on DVD.
Also, a new firearm is in my near future because of her kindness. (A tip for the ladies, diamonds may be a girls best friend, but guys like things that go BANG!)
And, in some sort of womanly mixed signal, she also got me a chunk of change for my favorite speed shop (must think GTX/Roadrunner. Another MR2/Celica All-Trac is out of the question). Hmmmm. Headers? Forged piston heads? Dual Quad manifold?
Decisions, decisions.
And now for something completely different:
A little red dog on his new pillow under the tree.
And with that image, I shall bid you all adeiu. I hope y'alls Christmas was merry and full of happy happy. We'll see you tomorrow. I must be going now, Neil Peart's solo is about to begin.
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December 25, 2003
Really all I can say is:
Merry Christmas!
Peace, happiness, and prosperity (of whatever type you pursue) in2004!
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The Day
"And how did little Tim behave?'' asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.
"As good as gold,'' said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.''
Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty.
His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs -- as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby -- compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.
Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course; and in truth it was something very like it in that house. Mrs Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last! Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs Cratchit left the room alone -- too nervous to bear witnesses -- to take the pudding up, and bring it in.
Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they were merry with the goose: a supposition at which the two young Cratchits became livid! All sorts of horrors were supposed.
Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! That was the pudding. In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly: with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage. Mrs Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing.
At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chesnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass; two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle.
These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chesnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed:
"A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!''
Which all the family re-echoed.
"God bless us every one!'' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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December 24, 2003
To believe......
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. --Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:37 PM | Comments (3)
Rolling up the sidewalk.
In smaller towns, we still come to a near total halt for Christmas. I like that, and I hope we never grow so large as to loose that old habit. Cities that never sleep are for a different type of person, I'm small town. Proudly so, and I won't be posting anymore after this group of posts tonight. My wife and kids get all my attention tonight and tomorrow, no diversions. I'm free for a few minutes right now as the cildren play, and my sweet runs with her mother to gather a few family members to stay overnight.
My son gets his first tricycle, my daughter gets a pink Barbie bike. The dirtiest words in the English langauge are indeed, "some assembly required". Santa gets the credit of course, but mommy and daddy get the rewards.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:29 PM | Comments (0)
Friendly's inbound......
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Military officials estimate legendary toy-giver Santa Claus will enter Ohio airspace before midnight tonight and said Claus will also make a visit to children in war-torn Iraq.
"Ohio, in general will see Claus between 10:57 p.m. and 11:03 p.m. (tonight). That's when we expect him to cross into the border," said Maj. Doug Martin, a Canadian Army spokesman with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
An intrusion of the most welcome kind.
Each year, U.S. and Canadian fighter pilots report an initial and brief sighting of Santa as his sleigh enters the command's airspace. However, the incalculable speed by which Claus travels makes it impossible for aircraft to keep up, Martin said.
"He slows down so our fighters can escort him and usually gives pilots the thumbs up and takes off," Martin said.
Myth or not, magic or mere hopefulness, I'm glad he's coming tonight. Two little hearts are eagerly awaiting his visitation at the House of Puggs. Cookies and milk will be placed in a gesture of thank you, the dogdogs admonished to greet him warmly.
Magic will live here tonight. Memories made, and kept.
"God bless us all,....everyone!"
Posted by Nukevet at 02:15 PM | Comments (0)
The Soundboard
Christmas Eve edition.
Try playing this tomorrow morning.
Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful) by Bonnie Rideout and Eric Rigler
"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you this day is born in the City of Bethlehem, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men'"
I decided to take a que from Mr. Puggs' post from last week. I bought wifey the Charlie Brown holiday trifecta on DVD on our first anniversary. I catch her watching them in the summertime.
I'll be posting an E-Card tomorrow, even though no one will be stopping by.
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Eat more Pork
Mad Cow found in Washington State.
And I'm not talking about Patty Murray going on a McDermott-like anti-Bush Tirade.
Just one more reason to hunt, kill and eat more venison.
UPDATE: Mollbot just confirmed my sneaking suspicion over at Morpholine. Check it out.
While it is entirely possible that 'Mad Cow Disease' just floated into the US via the jetstream, I would not put it past the PeTA/vegan bastards to poison the food chain so that more people felt the need to stop eating beef and other meat products.
As you can read in the comments on this post over at Morpholine, it was the first thing that came to mind when I first heard the news reports.
Remember the movie 28 Days?
UPDATE #2: I just left my mark over at the IMC on this matter (provided that the comments aren't being monitored). I never thought I would start a conspiracy theory.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:39 AM | Comments (3)
December 23, 2003
Imagine that....
The Bush-haters were wrong. Again.
TRIPOLI, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in an exclusive interview with CNN, acknowledged Monday that the war in Iraq may have played a role in his decision to dismantle his country's weapons of mass destruction programs.
Oooh! Oooh! Owwwww! Ribs hurt. I'm gonna need some 'universal health coverage' if the Dems continue to make me hurt myself from laughing this much!
Oh, and you have to click the link if for no other reason than to see that Gadhafi would win almost any Keith Richards look-a-like contest.
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Pugg's style, round II.
The source material, and the pervious installment.
This is my only post tonight, I'm tired, and my wife's first ultrasound is in the morning. This took a lot out of me, I thought fisking was going to be fun, it is, but it's draining too. The holiday rush is making work even more of a bear, and family does come first. I did promise to finish this, so I did.
I hope you all think it worthy.
AH: I think that's a really very perceptive remark. Bush is a kind of a Dagwood, you know? However awkward and wrong-headed, he's still the head of the family.
I'm old enough to remember the Blondie and Dagwood movies. Arlie's making the same friggin mistake that liberals keep repeating over and over. "Bush is soooo dumb you see." Then why does he keep on beating you arlie? Why does every attempt to stop or blunt him end up in a cluster fuck for your side? Wouldn't that suggest that your friends are utter moron's? That maybe, oh.....if you let yourself get beat by a dummy, you taint so smart yourself then, are you.
AH: Bush is the upper-class mess-up who ends up on top anyway. It is subliminal: If you mess up, don't worry. The reason that becomes important, I think, is that we live in a culture of individualism. And if you lose a job, it's your fault you lost the job. It's your credit if you do well, and your fault if you do badly. And so for him to be the mess-up that gets ahead anyway is sort of an end-run around this whole burdensome ideology of individualism.
Now that's the progressive theology in a nutshell. Nobody is ever to blame for their own condition,...ever. A factory closing is one thing, getting canned because you'd rather party than show up for work, quite another. Arlie fails to make that distinction. It's the philosphy of a loser. No you can't control everything, but you can at least friggin try can't you? The "mess up" who succeeds anyway? Who are you freakin kidding here. Grauate of Yale, fighter pilot, businessman and successful governor.......You call that a man messing up?
How the Hell do you define success?
AH: And that might become all the more important if he begins to feel it's all he's got left. And Bush represents it � since it sure doesn't look like he's earned his title. Look at Bush's adolescence and young adulthood � it's really extended until he was 40. He was careening around in Daddy's car, getting tickets for drunken driving, stealing the wreath off the Macy's front door. He was dragging a garbage can from a neighbor's driveway down the street and careening around.
He's still careening around. That's what he's doing in Iraq � careening around. We are the neighbor's garbage can; he's dragging us with him.
But how that gets to be an asset subliminally for this important swing vote group is that you can mess up and still end up on top. He's not providing any policies to help that happen. That is the sleight of hand. He's actually making the workingman's life a thousand times harder.
Say's you dork. I reject your whole thesis, only a complete asshat could look back on these last few years and say with a straight frigging face that Bush has no plan. Hate it if you like, but to deny it exists is the same as calling the sky purple. Just because you say it is, don't make it so.
AH: If you just take what's happening to the blue-collar guy's kids with Bush's "Children Left Behind" policy, as I would call it, he's basically penalizing schools that have failing kids. If those schools have kids who continue to fail, they get even less funding than they now get. He's actually going to redistribute funds away from the very schools and kids that need it the most, and a lot of those are blue-collar kids. So Bush is taking the future as well as the present away from these blue-collar men. And it's all to sell them a fairy tale.
Oh yeah, and the progressive idea of throwing money down a rathole is so much more insightfull? You want to reward failure? You want to leave zero penalty for being a fuck up?
Great, then go help the democrats some more.
Because life is consequences. You fuck up, you pay. You do not get a wage increase, you do not pass go, do not collect your get out of jail free card. You want another lost generation that can't read or do basic math, so they can feel all better about themselves? How about they should be able to earn a living you witch?
Oh, sorry, I forgot that they are merely blue collar, thus you could give a fuck about them as long as they follow your trail of bread crumbs..
AH: More than I need the home loans, more than I need my kids to have a good school, more than I need the library open for more than two hours a day, more than I need a safe neighborhood or a safe playground, more than I need better staff-patient ratios in the nursing home I send my parents to � more than all that.
Nice that she can read our simple minds so easily isn't it? We would rather be racist sexist homphobes Hell bent on our own personal destruction that to follow the light.
Of course, she could just be full of shit too. Care to lay odds?
On Rush Limbaugh;
AH: Oh, he's huge. He's the push-from-behind guy for three hours a day, nationwide, often during commuter time. We are really subjected to a certain emotional tone of resentment � a recounting of the latest political news in resentment-drenched language. Actually, my husband and I were in Maine this summer, and I did a lot of commuting back and forth and I listened to Rush Limbaugh a lot. And you know what's really interesting is where he puts his anger, and where he doesn't put it. He is the cheerleader for George Bush. In fact, George isn't right wing enough for Rush Limbaugh.
Here is what he will do: He let Halliburton go. Dick Cheney's company has, without any bidding, gotten multi-billion dollar contracts to rebuild Iraq. No bidding? A private contract? This really is kind of immoral cronyism. (In fact, the New York Times today reports that Halliburton is charging twice what other companies charge to truck Kuwaiti fuel into Iraq). Well, not a word from Rush Limbaugh about Halliburton. He's not angry about that. Nothing said about that contract. But when it comes to talk about Hillary Clinton's new book, he lambastes her up and down and around. He said, regarding Wellesley College � I cannot even stand to go on that campus, not even close to that campus, because it produces women like Hillary Clinton.
Here we are being led again, shiney beads and funny music led us astray. We are dittoheads, thus we are lost forever...This bimbo needs to wonder what Al (I'm a worthless sack of puss) Franken is doing to the soft and squishy minds in the ever dwindling ranks of the hold me I'm scared left. Rush doesn't go after his own side, he's a bastard....then that means the left which is far less self policing than the right is populated by a lot of people who couldn't pick their dad out of a line up.
Hypocrisy, lovingly cared for and fed by the left since 1968.
So, what do we have? We have a benign pass and wink for Halliburton � no anger there. And we have this fury at the campus surrounding the college that produced women like Hillary Clinton. We drop the bomb on Hillary Clinton and say nothing about top-level malfeasance.
Did she really say Hillary and malfeasance together in the same sentence and not burst into flames? That's still gotta leave a scar.
That is part of the emotional climate that stirs up the understandably hurt feelings of downwardly mobile blue-collar men. And there's a whole hemorrhage in the economic sector which has provided them jobs. That is a structural reality. We really need a Marshall Plan response to it. The blue-collar guy's upset; he has a right to be upset. We are with him on that. I'm upset too.
It's not his fault that industrial jobs are going to China and Indonesia. We need a structural answer to a structural problem. But instead of that, the blue-collar guy feels privately bad. And the worst side of his bad feelings is being appealed to by Bush.
Ah yes, throw money at them. If we can't be convinced by the dismal intellect of the left, they want to try and buy us. The thing is,...we already are paying the biggest chunk already. So how the fuck do you bribe someone with his own money? I'm dying to hear the explaination of how this works.
Pay the taxman, and then go to the next desk for your handout check, minus a substantial handling fee?
Where did I leave my stick?
AH: Yes, Limbaugh is working up the crowd, inspiring anger, fixing blame on women � especially working women and the very wives that are holding up the families these blue-collar guys are members of. And he's switching it to a kind of market evangelism. Everything about the market is good, so he's getting the blue-collar guy to escape his problems by focusing on the wonders and magic of the market. He's even said he's really hostile to environmentalism � what do we care about spotted owls and butterflies, he asks. The only bird that matters is the Kentucky Fried Chicken, because we eat chickens and we buy chickens. Only those animals matter. So let's protect them and nothing else.
Two feminist fractured facts for the price of one! First Rush attacks our wifes and daughters..........that's why we like him you see. You have to marvel at the mind that came up with that, next up, we love fire because it feels so warm when we
stick our faces in it...Second, we being men of the white oppressive sort, aren't interested in keeping something we can't eat or fuck. The two not being mutually exclusive.
That let's her off the hook, don't it?
AH: Exactly. And Limbaugh doesn't point out that the very people who are outsourcing jobs to Third World countries and leaving high pools of unemployed in our country sing the praises of the free market.
Elimination of overtime required pay. He doesn't point any of this out.
AH: Right. And a reduction in benefits, and job instability � this whole flexible-ization � "we'll give you a half-time job and I won't tell you exactly when it's going to be and how long it'll last. And the wages will be half of what they were five years ago, but you're lucky to have a job. We won't count you as unemployed." All of that is happening due to the so-called free market. And Rush Limbaugh is making it the God, the solution. He's getting the forgotten guy to identify with the CEO of Halliburton, and forgetting that this very market has been rigged to the disadvantage of the working person
Any education on the benefits of free trade would be wasted on a person who couldn't understand that the goal of most blue collar types, is to rise higher than that. It's the old noble savage theory, the happy peasant, the noble serf. We are supposed to stay in our place and not get all upity. Cause the kind hearted left will take care of us for life........It'll only cost us our wages, our dignity, our children and their future,....But what the fuck,...At least we'll get free day care and child leave!
She could't piss on us any harder if a truck was sitting on her bladder.
AH: By appealing to the blue-collar guy's better half, by appealing to his good side. And by exposing this hoax.
I think that the Democrats can appeal to the blue-collar man or the � I won't call him a NASCAR Dad, but the blue-collar voter, male voter � by saying, "You've been exposed to a giant hoax, and here's what the hoax is. It is offering you a make-believe candied apple with one hand and picking your pocket with the other hand. And take your own feelings back. They're yours. And put them behind a vote for someone who's going to really solve your problems. Set about seriously setting up a domestic agenda that makes a difference to you."
This series of wars that's an imperial stretch into the Middle East � how does that help the blue-collar man, except for killing his relatives? The Democrats can say that's Bush's war. That's not a U.S. war. It has nothing to do with U.S. security. In fact, it's a whole "tap the hornet's nest" approach to international relations which makes us all a great deal less safe. So tell the blue-collar guy that this is a giant ruse and a scapegoating.
The war on terror is a ruse and scapegoating?
Fuck that, this dumb cunt has just won the cookie. 3000 dead, and she calls it scapegoating. Time to grab this ignorant hag by the pubic hair and drag her to the pit. Play the tapes, the cellphone messages of the trapped people in those towers as they called for help, as they tried to reach loved ones,........as they left final messages of,.."I love you" to family. Make this harpy sit through all those voices, then if she can still summon up the perversity to claim it's all a ruse, all a con, then drag her skanky ass down to the next lesson. Drag her to the soccer fields of Kabul. Rub her face in the dirt, tainted with the blood of hundreds of women publicly executed by the "scapegoated" Taliban. Drag her filthy self through the 500,000 unmarked graves of Iraq,.....
Keep on driving in the lesson. If at the end of the day she still says the same vile horseshit. Then you know that she isn't deluded. She's just mentally ill.
A straight jacket and cell await her in the end. If the world were just.
AH: There's been a whole hug-the-middle strategy of the Democratic Leadership Council, and that worked for Clinton. But it's not going to work for anybody after Clinton. I think the Democrats have got to go in the opposite direction � stop hugging the middle. Get out there behind the issues we really believe in. And I guess along with that we have to enliven a vision of what life would be like if we weren't just privately rich, but rather, all publicly rich. If we really had great schools, and great playgrounds, and great public hospitals, and then there wouldn't be such a desperate scramble to be privately well off.
This is the ultimate thing � not to be afraid to say there's another America that doesn't leave us hanging, each on our own, and then feeling bad about feeling bad, and that says we can structurally wire it so there aren't failures here. That's the problem we've got to fix � by providing a vision of an alternative.
"we can structurally wire it so there aren't failures here."
Really?
Utopia again? The lunatic left just won't give up on that widow maker. There is no such thing as no failure. There is only it's bastard cousin, equal misery. The Soviet's made that an art form. We also know that failure was rampant for them, they just covered it up and pretended it didn't exist. Suffering was nearly universal, less of course you belong to the supposedly nonexistent ruling class. The one where special services were created to cater to their more,...cultured tastes.
Like for quality medicine
Like for quality food
Like for proper education
Like for freedom to travel
Like for non squalid housing
Like for freedom of choice in entertainment
Utopia is a farce, she's right about there being a huge hoax, she just lying about it's source. The left is offering a cadaver as a model, yet can'r understand why the children of the middle class, the working class,.....see it for what it is.
Slavery.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:19 AM | Comments (2)
Something I missed
I may be able to endlessly troll IMC sites (where I found this article), but the Guardian is generally too much for my stomach.
They will probably be commemorating the wrong people in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, tomorrow. Five months before the Wright brothers lifted a flying machine into the air for 12 seconds above the sand dunes of the Outer Banks, the New Zealander Richard Pearse had travelled for more than a kilometre in his contraption, without the help of ramps or slides, and had even managed to turn his plane in mid-flight.
But history belongs to those who record it, so tomorrow is the official centenary of the aeroplane. At Kitty Hawk, George Bush will deliver a eulogy to aviation, while a number of men with more money than sense will seek to recreate the Wrights' first flight. Well, they can keep their anniversary. Tomorrow should be a day of international mourning. December 17 2003 is the centenary of the world's most effective killing machine.
Monbiot goes on to repeatedly call the airplane a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' and generally whine endlessly.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:37 AM | Comments (3)
First the internet
Now that UN wants your wallet.
From Daniel J Mitchell at FrontPageMag.com
The United Nations wants to create an International Tax Organization (ITO) that would have the power to interfere with national tax policies.
This crazy idea first surfaced two years ago in a report from the world body’s “High-Level Panel on Financing for Development.” Since then, the U.N. has been working to turn it into reality. For instance, U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan recently called for the creation of a global tax commission. But no matter what it’s called, an international bureaucracy with power over tax policy would be an assault on American sovereignty.
An international tax organization, of course, would mean higher taxes and bigger government. Indeed, U.N. officials have been quite open about their intentions. The chairman of the U.N. panel that first endorsed the creation of an ITO said that it would “take a lead role in restraining tax competition.” According to this mentality, it’s unfair for America to have lower taxes than places such as France and Germany, especially if it means that jobs and investment flee Europe’s welfare states and come to America.
For all intents and purposes, the U.N. wants to create an “OPEC for politicians.” Governments would conspire to keep taxes high, and countries with free-market tax systems -- such as the United States, Switzerland, Ireland and Hong Kong -- would be targeted for persecution.
Am I the only one who wants to ship a blue helmet full of bullet holes to Kofi Annan for Christmas?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:14 AM | Comments (5)
I'll leave the judgement up to you folks
I don't know if you've heard of Despina Scott?
Mrs. Scott is an National Guardist who went AWOL when her unit (out of Ft. Lewis) was called up a month or so ago. She has a number of 'excuses' as to why she never showed up.
Both her and her husband were interviewed by local TV and radio stations and here is what I've gleaned from them in addition to the linked article;
She is formerly of Texas. She served in the regular Army for 2 years and then another 13 years in the Reserves there. She is MOS designated by the Army as a cook. Her son was killed in a drive-by shoting 4 years ago in Texas. She decided to move to Washington State 'to get a new start' this summer. Both she and her husband brought their two children along, despite having no job prospects in the area before leaving Texas.
Her Texas unit OK'd her transfer from an Army Reserve unit to a Washington National Guard unit. She arrived, checked in and went home. 10 days later her new WNG unit was called up. She never showed up for roll call.
Like I mentioned before, she has a number of 'excuses' as to why she never showed up. Her first excuse was that she had pink eye. Next she said that she never got a call from her CO to arrange transportation for her since she does not have a car. Now she is saying that she is diabetic.
She claims that her Texas unit knew this and just never conveyed it to the WNG CO. She also never went to Madigan for an examination or treatment. She also claims that since the time her son was killed in a drive-by shooting, her Texas unit never required her to qualify with the A-4 because of PTSD.
Oh, and if I remember right, she is only an E-5 or E-6 after 15 years in service.
On a local news broadcast she stated that her children come before her obligations to the US Army.
Her husband is also a Reservist and says that he stands by her.
She is now being given a 'Medical Discharge' by the Army.
So, what do you all think?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:10 AM | Comments (11)
Footage
Ms. SondraK sent me a link to her site (I hope you're open for business, Sondra) Knowledge is Power.
It is a 2min 45sec bit of video of a light mortar attack on our troops in Afghanistan.
The language is a bit rough, but I'm sure that even the most kind-mouthed folks would probably utter a few choice words when the rounds stated dropping.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:42 AM | Comments (1)
Another reason
That the rest of my family needs to get the hell off the Ilse.
Parents of young footballers who shout criticism from the sidelines during matches will in future be guilty of child abuse, under new guidance from the sport’s governing body.
Grrrrrrrrr!
Posted by Nukevet at 12:34 AM | Comments (0)
I wish I had gotten this judge
Every year, Columbia City Judge Tom DuBois allows minor traffic offenders to sing a Christmas carol rather than pay a fine or court costs.
Yesterday, the hallways of City Hall reverberated with semi-rousing versions of Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Some in the audience joked that the resulting cacophony could very well violate the city's noise ordinance. ''Some people need a little help with their tunes,'' DuBois said and laughed. ''So we sometimes have duets and trios, even quartets. ''And our court officer, Kenny Lovett, sometimes helps people out. He sings in his church choir.''
Jason Bates and Wally Beasley Jr. were the first ''contestants,'' as DuBois termed them.
Other than a 'Negligent' charge in '89, I have only been hit for minor offences such as too short a signal for a lane change or non-movers like no front license plate and/or illegal equipment.
If I could get away with singing carols instead of paying fines and insurance increases, I would do it in a second. Since '96, I have made enough friends in blue that I can get rid of just about any 'infraction'.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:31 AM | Comments (0)
December 22, 2003
Reporting in
From behind (above?) enemy lines. I am stranded in Kanukistan, and have so far evaded detection/capture. Broadband access is not, repeat NOT, available. Munitions limited. I will report in as time/circumstances allow. Maintaining strict radio silence until extraction possible. If I don't make it back, tell my wife I love her.................
Posted by Nukevet at 11:39 PM | Comments (4)
The Soundboard
I took a tip from Mollbot and found an excellent Christmas bagpipes tune for you all this week. He requested a selection that included some fiddle. This song also contains a good rounding off with the Fife Drums. If you hear the combo of fiddle, drum and pipes and don't have your heart race a bit, consider yourself either dead or french. Either way, it sucks to be you.
So here we are,
Emmanuel/ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen from Bonnie Rideout.
Credit goes to Ms. Rideout's fiddle playing, Jon Quigg's Fife Drums and Eric Rigler (the guy from the Braveheart soundtrack) on the Highland Bagpipes.
Stop by RNS on Christmas Eve for an extra special Christmas installment of The Soundboard.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:25 AM | Comments (3)
Santa Security Squad
Successful!
Because you want to make sure that Santa stops by your house Wednesday night, you have to make sure to offer him a secure location to come to. So I got together some of the local Seattle RNS regulars for a practice session to show Santa that our skills were in tip-top shape.
(you can click on the small pics and make the large ones appear)
Here is Ms. SondraK with the Winchester 94 (357Mag)
Here's Sondra's hubby Joe with the shorty AR-15 (converted to 9mm)
And here's Ms. Leigh with her Browning Buckmark (22lr)
Raging Dave about to put two holes right next to one another with his Marlin (22lr)
And Ms. Sondra was acutally able to get one of me with my CZ 83 (380ACP)
Get ready folks. The next 'Blogger Meet, Greet and Shoot' event looks to be on or around the weekend of January 17th. All youz guyz who couldn't make it this time, mark it on your calenders.
Oh, and Santa. I went shooting with Mollbot on Friday but, sadly, we both seem to have forgotten our cameras. His place is secure for your arrival St. Nick. You have my word on it.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:11 AM | Comments (5)
Sneak attack
So the wifey wanted to go out and see some snow on Sunday. How could I pass up a chance to go play in the woods?
We went out to the nether regions of the great unknown looking for the elusive 'snowball material'. First we stopped of at the place where I and some of the folks who stop by here kept "The Great Pumpkin Invasion of 2003" at bay. This was a mistake.
We got about half-way up the mountain when we stopped to see what we could see in the way of scenery and were jumped by a recon sqaud of 'Gourds Rangers'. Luckily for me I had the 45 strapped on and I was able to take out half their crew with my first 9 rounds (some of them took 2 shots to keep them down).
As I was changing mags, I saw a little white flag pop-up from behind a stump. It was their leader. I instructed him and his men to drop their weapons and advance so that I could interrogate them.
What I got out of him was this;
Back in November, we had wiped out most of his invading army in a two day battle that you heard reported here. He knew that I would be back to the area to check up on any further insurgency, so he and the remainder of his forces waited. In a scene like that of George Washington at Valley Forge his force was cut in half by the elements until he only had an even dozen that remained seeking revenge.
He commended the courage of the 10 fighters who took on his 120 strong main force and at the end said that he did not want to go back to Gourdia in defeat. He asked if I could make it quick and painless and I promised him that I would.
See the little red star? I told you they were dangerous!
Posted by Nukevet at 03:33 AM | Comments (3)
Testing....testing
I had about 5 or 6 good, solid pumpkins left for a particular test I want to try out. I cut a small hole in the tops, inserted a funnel and filled them with water. I then lined them up so that I could shoot them.
Here are the results:
Sorry for the crappy pic quality. My current camera take horrible closeups. I will be getting a new one soon.
At the top you see a penny
Next is a 230gr 45ACP Winchester SXT BlackTalon (3 pumpkins)
Then a 230gr 45ACP Winchester Silvertip (3 pumpkins)
A 102gr 380ACP Remington Bonded Golden Saber (2 pumpkins)
And a 95gr 380ACP Federal Hydra-Shok (2 pumpkins)
When I say how many pumpkins they went through, I mean that I found the projectile in either the #2 or #3 pumpkin. What this means scientifically, I don't know. Maybe the Doc might know, but he is on assignment in Kanucistan and is therefore probably not even allowed to speak of such things legally.
I also shot a 45ACP Hydra-Shok and 357Mag JSP at the pumpkins, but by this time the gourds had taken too much damage and the projectiles either went all the way through the line of pumpkins or had otherwise gone astray never to be found.
I hope to grab some old phonebooks when the new ones come out next year. I will be doing more testing on them in the future and showing the results here at RNS. Also, I'm working on a supply of cosmetically abused Kevlar vests to do testing on. If you have any suggestions of rounds you like to see tested, let me know.
Want to know why/how I will be using phonebooks?
Fill a 5 gallon bucket with water and put two phonebooks in the bucket. When all the water is gone (approximately 2-3 days), you are ready to go. You will need more than two phonebooks, which means you'll need more than one bucket.
You then throw some clothes over the books (go to St. Vincent de Paul), put them on some sort of stand (I use 2x4s and plywood to build a trough for them to sit in), and start shooting.
Each set of phonebooks will take 5-6 hits. You can then peel them apart to see how your selected ammo will perform.
The reason I use soaked phonebooks is that, when they become almost pulpy they come very close to resembling the cosistenncy of the human form. You can measure the depth of which the projectiles penetrate and cut about a third off and get your average.
If I can score some body armor, I'll wrap them around the phonebooks. You can the peel them apart and see where the books are dry. This is the trauma area. The force of the round hitting and being absorbed by the armor will push the water out conically.
Happy Shooting!
Posted by Nukevet at 03:22 AM | Comments (3)
'Eh' squire
They'll do anything to make Bush look dumb. Even if it means standing behind an unreliable source.
On October 24, John DiIulio, a former high-level official in the Bush administration, sent the letter below to Esquire Washington correspondent Ron Suskind. The letter was a key source of Suskind's story about Karl Rove, politics and policymaking in the Bush administration, "Why Are These Men Laughing," which appears in the January 2003 issue of Esquire. On Monday, December 3, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said that the charges contained in the story were "groundless and baseless." After initially standing by his assertions, DiIulio himself later issued an "apology." Esquire stands strongly behind Suskind and his important story.
The story is over at the Esquire site. It talks on an on about how Bush is Rove's puppet. But if you got the stomach, have a read.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:29 AM | Comments (0)
Something Else to Get
I can't remember where I found this, but I may just have to get me one of these.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:21 AM | Comments (0)
Something I can actually agree with
Whether you think it is just paying lip service to the soldiers or think that they truly think this in their hearts, you must remember one thing:
They could have just as easily picked Howard Dean.
"...for igniting young people with his grass roots campaign and giving America something to think about...." yada yada yada, or some such drivel. Time has done this before with this award. I'm just glad they actually put them into the hat.
And if you'd like to show your support, head on over to AnySoldier.us
Posted by Nukevet at 02:16 AM | Comments (0)
Priceless
The cost of surfin Yahoo.News.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:14 AM | Comments (1)
Well, I guess we got our own kind of moonbats here in Ohio too.
A Columbus free paper, the kind you find in bus stops and public bathrooms,.... like mildew. These guys must really hate living in Bush country. Why if it wasn't for the safe haven of liberal arts colleges, they'd just shrivel up and die probably. This article by Alexander Cockroach, (Cockburn) let's you see how out of step these asshats are.
"It is better this way," Guevara told Rodriguez at the end. "I should never have been captured alive," showing that even the bravest weaken at times. At the moment of his capture by the Bolivian army unit, a wounded Guevara had identified himself, telling the soldiers he was Che and worth more to them alive than dead.
Back in 1967, most of the world mourned when Che's capture and death seized the headlines. A million turned out in Havana to listen to Fidel Castro's farewell speech. It's been downhill all the way since then. The revolutionary cause has mostly gone to hell in a handcart, and the next time America's Most Wanted came out with his hands up, badly in need of a haircut, it was a mass murderer called Saddam Hussein, helped into power by the CIA a year after Guevara's death.
He's actually friggin sorry that the communist REVOLUTION failed to roll us up like a cheap rug. He's freakin sad about our having won the cold war.
Look, a red is as vile a creature as any that exist. They lie as a matter of course, kill any time they find it useful, and rewrite history texts with the casual ease of a Guardian columnist. They have been responsible for more death and destruction than the Nazi's yet still get good press from fuckin struck dumb colon dwellers like Alex. What does it take to ram it into their friggin skulls that they have LOST! No second chance, no repeat appearence, no forgive and forget. They are scum, pure and simple. The world largely is moving on, but these die hard fanatics still pine for the grand revolution.
Take up a gun alex, please take up a gun,.......come on you puss. Show us how a true revolutionary is supposed to die before capture as you suggest.
He won't of course.
He lives in a pansy assed fantasy world, where the US is the big blue meanie and the handsome Che' will always win out. What a puke.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:55 AM | Comments (0)
December 21, 2003
Damn! I like this guy.
This rocks, just the intro page kicks ass. I know he's been around a while, but this is the first time I've seen his webpage. So ladies, check it out!
Posted by Nukevet at 12:18 PM | Comments (3)
Well good, smack him again for the rest of the world.
This is a good story if it's true, and typical of an American. I don't know too many guys who wouldn't do the same.
New York � U.S. government sources familiar with the accounts given by troops who helped capture Saddam Hussein tell TIME that the fallen dictator apparently made one feeble attempt at defiance, TIME's Timothy Burger and Phil Zabriskie report. As soldiers were handcuffing him after he was extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor.
As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant -- probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood up to him.
Wecome to the land of cause and effect you old sonofabitch, sucks to pay your dues, don't it?
From Instapundit, Tim Blair and Ryne MaClaren.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:13 PM | Comments (3)
December 20, 2003
Red Meat,.........yummy!
This was brought to my attention by a certain friend in the opposition. I was invited to look this over, and,......LOL,.I just don't see the creative thinking supposedly in evidence. Well that's not entirely true, I just don't see the thinking part.
The Puggs school of fisking, lay out the tarps, it's going to get messy.
Arlie Hochschild: Let me back up first before I answer that, though, so I can nail down some poll results. They came as a bit of a surprise to me. A full 49 percent of blue-collar men and 38 percent of blue-collar women indicated in a January '03 Roper poll that they would vote for Bush in 2004. We can now compare that to the smaller proportion of pro-Bush professionals and managers. 40 percent of male and 32 percent of female professionals and managers plan to vote for Bush.
So if we compare occupational groups, blue-collar workers are more in favor of Bush than the white-collar sector. If we compare educational groups, we find the same thing. High school graduates and dropouts are more pro-Bush than people with graduate degrees. And if we compare income groups, we find people with family incomes of $30,000 or less are no more opposed to Bush � about the same � as those with incomes of $75,000 or more.
I'm glad that common sense still rains among the population, I was worried for a second. Arlie falls into the "the great unwashed are stupid" school of thought. Not all edumacataed like himself, failling to consider little things like life experiences and the weight of earning a living outside the upper class.
The surprise is that the people most hurt by Bush's policies are his strongest supporters. We know that there have been 2.5 million jobs lost in his presidency. He's kind of got a "bleed 'em dry" approach to the non-Pentagon part of government spending. He's not doing anything to help blue-collar workers learn new trades, or get a house, or help their kids go to college. He's loosening the Occupation Health and Safety regulations. The plants the guys work at are less safe. His agricultural policies are putting small farmers out of business. So we have to ask: why would they vote Republican?
Why indeed, maybe because you are lying about his Polices? Maybe because they don't expect or want a government check from George, but merely want him to leave them alone?
Ya think?
All the points arlie makes can be refuted, the 2.5 million jobs lost from the CLINTON recession, which was worsened by the disruption of 9/11? The economy coming back in a roaring rush in the last quarter says George's tax incentives are working. The economy is on the rebound, despite the democrats best efforts to strangle it.
Tax cuts are creating budget shortfalls for the schools the guy's kids go to. The library hours are shorter. And, given Bush putting the foxes in the henhouse in environmental posts, the air and water are going to get dirtier. Kids are more likely to get asthma. He's even loosening regulations for nursing homes, so the man's elderly parents are going to have worse care in their later days. All of Bush's military adventures � the ones he's already done in Iraq, and perhaps Iran and Syria, impact the blue-collar guy more than anyone else. His kids are going to go, or his brother is going to go, or he's going to go and possibly be killed.
Federal tax cuts are going to damage education? Really? States control school funding you pinhead, if your High Schools blow, talk to your governor. The feds fund extra programs, not the schools themselves. So at least get that right. Oh yes, let us not forget the Bush wants to poison everybody horseshit, HE wants you to die,....Hahahahahaha... If you really look at the perposals and not at the rhetoric of idiots, you see he's not telling you the truth.
As to the cost of military service,................don't even go there you pussy. The only thing you've probably ever prepared to fight over was the semen encrusted picture of Noam Chomsky at your commune. I bet you hated waiting in line for your turn didn't you?
And yet this blue-collar guy's more likely to be for these wars. Do you think we should go into Syria? There was an item in a poll on that. A blue-collar guy is more likely to say "yes" than the professional or managerial guy who's less likely to go or see his kids go off to war.
So I'm looking at this data and it's a surprise that 50 percent of blue collar males don't seem to be voting in � what we might think they would see as � their self-interest.
Self interest as defined by you?.......Hahahaha, Well shit, let me define your self interest arlie. I see that you really should check into some glasses, cause you sure as Hell can seem to understand what you read very well. I suggest you also take a course in logic, since you don't have any. Follow that with a few days of living among the great unwashed that you condescend to so much and try to see that your ivory tower is built on class bigotry and distortions of fact. Distortions that strangely seem to fit them perfectly to your prejudices, and your hard left gimme all your money politics.
How nice for you.
AH: Right. And this is a delicate point to try to get across. I think we all have feelings and they all can get appealed to. It doesn't mean a person is stupid if their feelings are getting appealed to. But I do think that this is going on, and that there's a kind of a dilemma here that the blue-collar guy, since the '70s on, has been suffering a giant economic downward slide. His paycheck is worth less. His job has become less secure. His benefits have been carved down. And all of this is bad, bad news for him. His wife's had to go to work, and now, 30 years later, the two of them earn what he alone would have earlier earned.
Bingo! You would think the light would go on over his cone shaped head with this bit of knowledge, you'd be wrong, but you'd think so. So it's a long term trend, undented by the utopia of Bill's whore house fratboy years. That makes it Bush's fault because?
I'm waiting........
A clue, it's gotten tougher, and the bite out of my paycheck just gets bigger. You think maybe that a guy who works hard might want to keep more of his money for his family arlie? Is that so fucking hard to understand in leftyland, where sunshine and light follow where ever you shit? You want more taxes and more spending and can't understand why the blue collar worker thinks you are a retard? What's it gonna cost you? A few less bottles of your favorite French wine? It may cost me that new car we need, the new roof on the porch, that swing set my kids want or the emergency money for the time when a major applience breaks and we need a new one.
So fuck you arlie, bending over should be a familar experince for you.
With this economic hit has come a cultural hit. Now I think it's a worldwide story, a kind of economic undermining of patriarchal customs and expectations. And so, with this economic decline may come marital instability � a lot of hard things have hit this guy. And so how he feels psychologically becomes a really important question. And I think the story is that he believes � whether it's true or not � that a lot of people have come up from behind him. Women have come from behind. Minorities have come from behind and gotten ahead; immigrants, new arrivals, have come from behind and have gotten ahead. Even the spotted owl � a lot of them are not environmentalists because they think somebody's now putting animal rights over their human rights. As he's sliding down, he imagines all these groups moving up.
And a very understandable thing to do is to look at them and want them to go back where they came from. The feeling is one of frustration, fear, anger. What he's not doing is looking at Bush, the guy at the top, who's rigging the whole economic game, and who's not doing a thing to support him, and who's actually deflecting blame away from the top. So it comes down to this: those feelings that come with a kind of loss of position, income and status among blue-collar males are being exploited instead of addressed.
OK then, he doesn't see the contradiction in his own words. Bush didn't do any of the things he cites as reasons for the anger, he and his leftwing butt buddies did, now why in the Hell aren't we blaming Bush for that?
Duh....
First I do not blame blacks or immigrants for the sliding, I blame arlie and his ilk for indeed putting the home of some friggin owl over the jobs of working families. That owl could as easily nest in another tree, but those high paying logging jobs are gone now. This asshole thinks I should blame Bush for that?
He's on crack.
This is the most inane.
In this age, when liberals are accused of being politically correct, the right-wing movement is probably even more of a practitioner of political correctness on many accounts. And Bush can't communicate directly to the white male about how he stands for the white male being on top, so there's a lot of coding going on, it seems. And much of this is subliminal, because Bush can't say, well, I keep Laura in her place, but �
AH: You never see her. She's in a lockbox.
It's all in code you see, us on the right have special issue decoder rings to understand the secret messages transmitted to us in the dark of night, telling us who to keep barefoot and pregnant.
Bullshit, my wife would kick his ass for that piece of dumbassery, she would smack the piss right out of him. We keeps our women down don't ya see, mustn't let them think on their own. I get really sick of the projection here, arlie boy wishs he could smack his widdle woman down, so he just assumes we do. Because we are on the right we must be EVIL....
Well arlie must be PUSSY WHIPPED.
Arlie of the undescended nads can talk about his own problems with being submissive, he needn't drag our relationships into his fun little freak show. Where does he get to notion to prove she emancipated Laura has to publicly contradict her husband? That's insane, I wouldn't post here on a disagreement with my wife, I respect her too much for that. Is that arlie the fuckheaded's idea of a healthy marriage? His wife has to bust his balls in public to prove her progressive credentials?
He is pussy whipped.
Part two tomorrow, unless you all think it be a bad idea. I do think my piont was made pretty well already, but so much material, it's hard to stop.
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Can't bring you the news and views now
I've gone shootin'.
What kind of shooting, you ask?
Nope.
Nope.
Close, but nope.
I wish!
YEEAAHHH! OK, maybe not that either.
Oooo, very close.
That's it exactly!
If you cannot join us physically today, join us in spirit and pop off some rounds this weekend. Help your local ammo supplier have a Merry Christmas.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:24 AM | Comments (5)
December 19, 2003
Because they are all free thinkers
I found this at MT Politics.
The Conservative Insult Generator
All the whiny little lefties need to do now to insult us is open a new frame, load this page up and click a button to get a new insult.
Sadly, I think that even this simple process may be too complicated for some.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:57 AM | Comments (8)
More on the Bush Donor List
As Mr. Eric Sivula pointed out in the comments of this post, LGF reported that the Portland IMC published the Oregon donors to the Bush/Cheney campaign. Addresses and phone numbers all.
As I started to say in reply, the hypocritical part of this whole thing is that, back in June/July, the IMC's favorite 'partner in crime', the Communist Party of Washington State was asked to hand over their books to the State and the Federal Campaign Finance Commissions.
The lawyers for the party found some loophole in campaign finance law that say that if a party does not get a certain amount of votes in the last election (or something of that sort) that they do not have to hand over their books.
I am looking for that article now. If I find it I'll update this. I could have sworn I wrote about it here.
UPDATE: Found it. I did write about it here.
Linda Averill Freedom Socialist Party candidate for the Seattle City Council, said she wants the government to impose hefty taxes on large corporations, but she doesn't want the feds, or anyone else for that matter, to meddle in her campaign donor lists.
Communist? Freedom Socialist? Is there really any difference?
And I was wrong. It appears that "In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1979 FEC ruling that exempted the Socialist Workers Party from the disclosure laws, saying that the party's ideas were so unpopular that its supporters could reasonably expect a backlash. The ruling was found to be constitutional because it protects unpopular party supporters' rights of free speech and free association."
Sounds as if Bush/Cheney need to apply for that exemption now, doesn't it?
Imagine the howling from the moonbats!
Posted by Nukevet at 03:13 AM | Comments (1)
That's the rub isn't it?
I read this piece and quickly my eyes began to glaze over. I had to force myself to finish it. It's not really mean spirited, it's merely foolish in the extreme.
I'm going to surprise some people right now. I actually respect pacifists. I mean real ones, where nonviolence is an article of faith and there are no exceptions. Where they don't mean nonviolence for one side only, but turn away from carnage done in the name of non-Americans. I mean real Ghandi style pacifists. They are wrong, hopeless romantics and they are deluding themselves about the nature of conflict between men and nations. I respect them to the point where they live the talk that they talk.
MacArther said once that no one hates war more than a soldier, and I believe that's true. Few if any sign up because they wish to kill, that's not what motivates a man to take that oath. He may have many reasons, all good and all reasonable, but they really boil down to a simple reason, he wants to share in defending something. To protect, his family, his nation, the God he worships or even something he can't articulate. It's not a killers instinct but a father's that motivates a man to use his life in defense of his country. Killing is what you learn to do, but you hope you don't have to. You also feel the deaths of GI's strongly, because you can often put a face in a uniform where a lot of civilians see just a symbol. You know a man has died, not a faceless drone of a policy you hate, but a real breathing person, just like the men you shared the trials of service with. You know the cost, and you know the nature of such a death.
So yes, you do hate war. But you hate something else far more. You hate the cost of doing nothing, the cost to your own people, your family, your nation. You won't suffer them to be a victim. Not while you breathe.
What people like Bernice do not grasp is that evil is a very real thing. It's not a misunderstanding as she and others seem to think. Nor is it purely poverty, that's projecting your politics on a situation where they simply don't apply. The Iraqi's had oil wealth, a thriving culture, and a monster smothered it for his own gain. So how would feeding the poor have changed this? And what justice was served by Saddam's treachery? Bernice is a fool to make that arguement when it's so plainly and easily disproven.
I wish it was as simple as she seems to think. I wish we didn't have to shed blood, ours or theirs. I wish we could just spend a little more and just make it all go away.
It won't, and pretending that it can, is suicidal.
It's a foolish view she has, but I can respect her having it. Just that she should remember one thing. She couldn't exist, couldn't survive, if it weren't for millions of people who find the courage to risk their lives so that she could have such a safe haven to dream her dreams in.
I don't expect her to thank us, but it would be nice if she acknowledged the debt.
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The sons of Abraham, rising from the past.
I'm sorry, but this is a great story. Thee Soviets tried to eradicate the practice of faith, to replace it with some verson of a new kind of belief. We still see the rubble of that effort. Marx, to Lenin, to Stalin and on, the wholely secular communist state wanted to kill religion, to bury it.
The Soviets are gone now, and we see what has come back from the attics and basements where it was driven. It's Marxists who have fallen, and how they must hate this. It strikes me as just, and more than a little funny.
Lenin must be spinning in his glass box right now.
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Surely this can't be right?
My reaction on reading this was , Huh? How can you live in the west and not know this? Have they gone too far in the PC drive so zealously persued in Europe? Taken the real reason for Christmas away entirely?
I don't now, but it's sad really.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:03 AM | Comments (1)
One step at a time, making friends.
This is what Americans do, sharing something we love with others. It won't make them Christian, that's not the point. It does show that friends are where you find them, and when shown a need, we will make an effort to help.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Christmas time is near. I always liked Charlie Brown, was frustrated by his passivity, but I always rooted for him. Always hoped he'd one day kick Lucy instead of that stupid football. His life is one long string of dashed hopes, but somehow, he always keeps on trying and dreaming that maybe, someday, he'll be liked. This is the best of his specials, not because he preformed any great task, or saved the world. He just found something we all look for, a moment when he could truelly forget his troubles and smile for a time.
The music sets the scene, and I can remember playing in the snow when I was that age again. Remember it? The dark grey skies, the crisp cold in the air, the smell of wood fires and pine? The clean smell of winter, fresh and still....like it was brand new all over. The laughter of friends, and the warm smiles of parents? The smell and taste of that wonderfull hot cocoa that nobody could make as well as your mother did? Remember those days when the world belonged to you and your friends? When magic was a real as your mothers touch on your hand and your awe at the vast star fields of the night sky? Christmas was like a wonderous dream made real by the beating of your heart, you wished it would never end, never change........
It did of course, the romance of a childs heart gives way to more adult concerns. Little by little, it fades. Until it becomes like a half remembered dream. Thought of fondly, yet you can't quite grasp it as tightly as you would hope. You feel sad for the child locked away inside you, wishing,....wishing for just a taste that time again. When you could allow yourself to freely feel the joys of this season.
Of Christmas.
No childhood is perfect and we all have our old fears and ghosts of one type or another. But maybe I've found the key to unlocking that hidden portion of your soul. Christmas is going to be so sweet this year for us. Not because of the number or price of gifts, or the number of people envolved......It's the intimacy of family, Mommy, Daddy, daughter and son........and the precious one still to come. My brothers, my wifes sisters, her parents. All the grandkids,...........Watching them shine as they play. That's the secret, the key. I see Christmas as a child does again, through the eyes of my children and nieces and nephews. I see the wonder, the sparkle of the Christmas magic rise up once more. I end up feeling as the dear Mr. Brown did at the end, and I'm not sorry.
Things like this can sometimes help us unlock old memories, old innocence. I don't long to be a child, I just long to feel renewed, to once again feel the freshness of a new and young heart. This year I hope to, at least for a time.
Merry Christmas my friends.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:37 AM | Comments (0)
Friday Fun
I found a blank DARE graphic. Give me some ideas for more.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:07 AM | Comments (4)
Put this dingleberry on the 'barby'
A couple of weeks back I told you about feeling 'burned out'. It is things like this that add fuel to my fire.
Five articles published in the Australian Sydney Morning Herald that epitomize the phrase "Too Stupid to be Published in America". They are all on one page, so that you don't have to worry about breaking your mouse out of anger clicking to the next article.
I'll give you the 'Cliff's Notes' version.
#1 One man, 68 votes: The Senate is a bad idea because it is unfair to people in California. We need to get rid of it.
#2 Expensive silence: Because my ideas are either so stupid or extreme, most people won't listen to me whine. Laws should be passed so that they have to. And we should capitulate to those who seek to attack us. Anyone who doesn't want to promote that idea is practicing censorship.
#3 Rote Hypocrisies: No rich person has ever worked hard for he money they make. They have never worked 80-100 hours a week to get their small business off the ground so that later in life they wouldn't have to. Plus they should all have 90% of the money they make taken away at the point of a gun so that people who don't want to ever work can stay home and watch Springer and Ricky Lake.
#4 Downshifting: Living in destitution and being miserable is happiness.
#5 Constitutional Dreaming: The US Constitution is an out of date and morally reprehensible document. It needs to be lit aflame and a new one written so that we can be more like the rest of the world.
If this doesn't get your heat rate up, you're so cool headed that you may be dead.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:03 AM | Comments (1)
Mr. Head in the Sand
Sometimes, a 'Cluebat' just isn't enough.
But it would be a good start.
Derrick Z. Jackson, one of the most left-wing columnists for the left-wing Boston Globe, wrote today: "The invasion was still a lie. The capture of Saddam Hussein changes nothing about that. There were too many forked tongues in the road to his lair. The way we removed the dictator, we became a global dictatorship."
According to dizzy D.Z.: "With no weapons, no ties, and no truth, the capture of Saddam was merely the most massive and irresponsible police raid in modern times.
We broke in without a search warrant.
Civilian deaths constituted justifiable homicide. America was again above the law. We have taught the next generation that many wrongs equal a right. In arrogance, we boasted, 'We got him!' The shame is that we feel none for how we got him. The capture of this dictator, driven by the poison of lies, turned America itself into a dictator."
Posted by Nukevet at 12:52 AM | Comments (0)
7 Nation Whupass
You may have heard of the band, 'The White Stripes'.
Well, it seems that you don't want to piss off singer/guitarist Jack White.
(click the more section for a pretty brutal visual definition of "Ass Kicked")
These are photos of Von Bondies lead singer Jason Stollsteimer after the alleged brawl between him and White Stripes lead singer Jack White
Posted by Nukevet at 12:48 AM | Comments (2)
December 18, 2003
WARNING!-
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Be careful with this one
Drink alert!
Saddam's plans for his money.
Sent to me by Ms. Cait from Caiterwauling
Posted by Nukevet at 01:32 AM | Comments (3)
I like how this guy thinks
I was wandering around Ravenwood's Universe yesterday and happened upon a post on the issue of property taxes in Virginia.
About halfway through the post he comes up with a brilliant idea.
The Earned Income Gun Credit
Every year, you get $500 dollars back for every gun you own.
In the past you may have heard of a couple of small towns somewhere in the country passing laws making it mandatory for everyone citizen of the town to own a gun. Those citizens that choose to not own a weapon pay a moderate fee every year for the privledge of not having to provide for the towns defense.
Usually, these laws are taken down later by a town official doesn't think this is fair to the non-gun owners. Which is why I think that this is a much better idea.
Remember, according to the 2nd Amendment, you are a part of the 'well regulated militia'. You are responsible for your own safety since the police do not have a legal obligation to protect you and yours. In the case of a natural disater, you and your firearm may be the only thing standing between your home (or your neighbor's home) and looters.
You are providing for the common defense. Why should you not get a benefit for it for a change instead of being made to feel like a criminal?
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Chompsky thinks you're stupid
Like you didn't already know that.
From Nick Cohen at FrontPageMag
Noam Chomsky is the master of looking-glass politics. His writing exemplifies the ability of the Western Left to criticise everything from the West - except itself. He is immensely popular; but his popularity is mystifying on the first reading. His work is dense and filled with non sequiturs (here he seeks to use the Cuban missile crisis to explain the Iraq war, which is a little like using the first Moon landing to explain the dotcom boom). He claims to confront the comfortable with uncomfortable facts they don't want to face. Yet his audience is primarily a comfortable Western audience.
The appeal lies in the simple argument that underlies the convoluted prose. Capitalism, particularly American capitalism, is responsible for the world's problems, it runs. Resistance, however perverted, is inevitable. If the resistance is barbaric the barbarism is the fault of capitalism.
Most of the time, the argument is hidden because, although it can stand up in a many circumstances, it is an absurd universal claim. But every now and again, the veil lifts and the professor is explicit. 'Recognition that control of opinion is the foundation of government, from the most despotic to the most free, goes back at least to Hume,' he writes. 'But a qualification should be added. It is far more important in the most free societies, where obedience cannot be maintained by the lash.'
Got that? Not that propaganda is more subtle in the United States than, say, China, or harder to detect in Britain than say, North Korea, but 'more important'. To the far Left, accustomed to decades of defeat, Chomsky's account of the brainwashing of the dumb masses provides an excuse for failure. For others he presents a curiously ethno-centric and soothing view of the world.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:05 AM | Comments (1)
The Angriest Dwarf gets his mellow on
You just gotta wonder if this man is insane.
So what does it take to get the Howard Dean juices going? A few days later, the governor was on CNN and Judy Woodruff asked him about his admission that he'd left the Episcopal Church and become a Congregationalist because "I had a big fight with a local Episcopal church over the bike path." I hasten to add that, in contrast to current Anglican controversies over gay marriage in British Columbia and gay bishops in New Hampshire, this does not appear to have been a gay bike path: its orientation was not an issue; it would seem to be a rare example of a non-gay controversy in the Anglican Communion. But nevertheless it provoked Howard into "a big fight." "I was fighting to have public access to the waterfront, and we were fighting very hard in the citizens group," he told Judy Woodruff. Fighting, fighting, fighting.
And that's our pugnacious little Democrat. On Osama bin Laden, he's Mister Insouciant. But he gets mad about bike paths. Destroy the World Trade Center and he's languid and laconic and blas�. Obstruct plans to convert the ravaged site into a memorial bike path and he'll hunt you down wherever you are.
I know that I'll be a government target if Dean get elected. I can't stand bikes or bike paths.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:00 AM | Comments (0)
VRWC still alive and well
At least in Hillary's mind.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused the Bush administration Tuesday of nullifying the success of her husband's administration and urged party activists to retake the White House next year.
I could only hope!
"I shouldn't take it personally. Because what (the Bush) administration was attempting to do was turn back the progress of the entire 20th century. They were not just after Bill Clinton - they wanted to undo Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt," Clinton said.
Carter? You bet your ass. Johnson? Uh-huh. Kennedy? OK. Truman, Roosevelt? Eh.
"They were on their way to Teddy Roosevelt. It was a bipartisan right-wing extreme agenda," she said.
Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Hillary!? Bipartisian? Some of your office staff can't even spell bipatisian! The only reason you can say that word without spitting is because you had your forked tongue surgically repaired.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:57 AM | Comments (2)
Bad S.U.V.
No Premium Grade Gas for you!
In another one of those 'SUV's are evil' articles, Hal R. Varian of the NYT says that everyone buying more and more SUVs is equal to another arms race.
Michelle White, an economist at the University of California, San Diego, estimates that for each fatality that light-truck drivers avoid for themselves and their passengers, they cause four fatalities involving car occupants, pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. "Safety gains for those driving light trucks," Ms. White said, "come at an extremely high cost to others."
So they're saying that for every accident from which I avoid injury, I'm might be able to kill 4 hippies?! Then fill up the tank, Martha!
Hey Michelle and Hal, the 'others' need to get the f*uck out of the way!
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Doh!
From the "What was he thinking!" category,
Dean Taps Clinton Aide Who Bungled Bin Laden Deal
Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean has tapped former Clinton administration Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice to be part of his foreign policy team, CBS News.com reported Monday - despite Rice's reported role in bungling a 1996 offer from Sudan to hand over Osama bin Laden to the U.S. on a silver platter.
In a May 2002 radio interview, Clinton White House diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz strongly condemned Rice as a leading force behind the U.S.'s decision not to take bin Laden into custody.
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He must have gone for the beaches
Or maybe he was polishing up Lewis and Clark fact sheet?
A license plate was found in one of Saddam's automobile garages.
Is the 1984 license plate genuine? Chatterbox ran the number by Oregon's Department of Motor Vehicles and was told that no such plate appears in its records. It's possible that it slipped between the cracks when the 1984 records were transferred from paper to a computer, but the greater likelihood is that the license plate is a counterfeit. How Saddam or his sons would have acquired a counterfeit American license plate, however, is no less a mystery than how they would have acquired a genuine one.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:42 AM | Comments (1)
December 17, 2003
And now,
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And the winner is.....
Well, was there ever any doubt?
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Santa Security Squad Update
If you were listening to The Producers radio show on KVI 570 last night at around 18:50hrs you would have heard me on the radio.
The fastest hour in radio, The Producers show, had a dilemma. Their board engineer, Matt, had just moved into his and his new home two weeks ago with his wife. They came home last Friday night to find that their home had been burgled. The thieves took everything, including his locked fireproof file safe.
Producer #1, Travis Box asked Matt if he had plans to buy a firearm soon. Matt said yes. Producer #2, Luther Haigs immediately went ballistic and said that buying a gun in anger or fear was a bad idea.
Being the kindhearted fellow that I am (hee hee), I called up and offered a compromise. I said that until they feel comfortable owning a firearm they shouldn't get one. They should get a good sized dog or other guard animal (someday, I'll tell you all about the Komodo Dragon some guy in Florida had), some good pepperspray and a big club or batt.
I also offered to help Matt and his wife get started in feeling comfortable with firearms by offering them a spot at our little get-together this Saturday. I haven't gotten a confirmation from Mr. Matt yet, as he wants to talk to his wife about it. But he has my cell number and will get ahold of me later this week.
As for the plan for this Saturday, Wade's in Bellevue seems to be the place. 10am is when I'll be there. 14:30-15:00 is when I'll be leaving. Y'all can arrive anytime that is convenient for you. If you guys want a two-fer, I'll be meeting Mollbot at Wade's this Friday at 10am as well.
If you need directions to Wade's or can't make either of those times and need a third option, let me know and we'll pull a three-peat.
Hello Ironbear or TrooperJohnSmith?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:50 AM | Comments (13)
The new Mrs. Kucinich
Madelene Albright seems to be reading out of the Kucinich/Dean/McDermott political hay playbook.
Albright thinks Bush is hiding bin Laden
Tells Fox News' Kondracke she suspects political dirty tricks
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke yesterday she suspects President Bush knows the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and is simply waiting for the most politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
Quit laughing!
I wonder which former employer of hers may have committed some 'political dirty tricks' that leads her to project this crap.
My G*d, what is in the water supply over at the DNC Headquarters?
UPDATE #2: Found at LGF. MAdeleine 'Fighting Mad' Albright now says "She was just kidding"
Posted by Nukevet at 01:40 AM | Comments (3)
Ungrateful Bastards
You may have heard about the new display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum that includes a restored Enola Gay. You may also have heard about a group of Hiroshima 'survivors' who were angry about the display. But you may not believe what those ungrateful bastards did to Lady Enola.
Six survivors and about 50 peace activists visited a new museum, where the restored Boeing B-29 Superfortress has just gone on public display, holding pictures of hideously burned victims among tens of thousands killed or injured by the 1945 blast.
Two men were arrested after a bottle of red paint, meant to symbolise blood, was thrown, denting a panel on one side of the plane - parked in a new annex to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
One was charged with destruction of property, while the other faces loitering charges, police said.
The ungrateful bastards seem to want to forget that their country attacked us on December 7th, 1941. They also seem to want to forget about the atrociies that their country was commiting in China. Those santcions being levied against their country were the major reason that Japan launched their sneak attack.
They also seem to forget that if we had not dropped the bomb on them, that we would have invaded their island nation and, by very conservative accounts, would have killed 3-4 million Japanese citizens. Not to mention the US casualties that were estimated at 500,000 minimum.
I can guarantee that the '50 Peace Activists' were members of groups such as ANSWER International or MoveOn. Anything to make more people hate America.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:22 AM | Comments (2)
And you thought
That commies didn't celebrate Christmas.
Looking for a perfect oliday gift for that lefty on your list? Try shopping at the Communist Party USA online.
On its “Shop ‘till Capitalism Drops!” website you can find “Commie Bear” for that red diaper baby. It’s a cuddly teddy bear complete with the CPUSA logo, a red hammer with crescent sickle to its right and crescent machine gear to its left, only $17.99.
Or there’s the Karl Marx lunchbox, with Karl’s face and wisdom on one side and the CPUSA logo on the other, $18.99. Or for computer users, get the CPUSA or W.E.B. DuBois mousepad, a mere $15.99 to revolt your fellow proletarians at the office.
You can also paint the town red with a People’s Weekly World messenger bag ($23.99), a Political Affairs Magazine coffee mug ($15.99), or a shirt with the image of a protestor carrying a sign that reads “Bush Out 2004.”
That’s right, the Communist Party USA has gone capitalist. It now exploits its brand name, built by years of anti-communist attacks, and now it is turning its brand into a cash cow.
I hope that 'Bush Out 2004' thing isn't a no underwear plan for communist women. That would be terrorism.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:07 AM | Comments (0)
Brown Shoe to Super Chicken
The turkey has landed.
Chicago has Boeing's world headquarters, but Everett has the 7E7.
In a major economic boost for the region, and a badly needed morale boost for The Boeing Co.'s commercial jetliner work force here, the company's board of directors yesterday approved Everett as the final assembly site of the new jetliner.
If I sound anti-Boeing here, it is because I am. I don't like the company, the way it treats it's employees, the way it bows to the machinists union, the way that Western Washington is dependant on these guys staying here or the way the Lazy-B lets the government step on it's supplier businesses.
A few years back, the story was of how Boeing merged, or aquired, McDonnell/Douglas. It is actually the other way around. The McDouglas boys seem to want the commercial part of Boeing to die off so that they can go after more military contracts. And I refuse to ride an AirBus.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)
Got Gas?
Montana voters generally support more oil and gas drilling along the Rocky Mountain Front, a new Gazette State Poll shows.
Just over half of respondents - 51 percent - said they support allowing more oil and gas drilling along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains running from the peaks of Glacier National Park to Augusta.
Thirty-four percent of voters said they opposed drilling, while 15 percent were unsure.
You might remember my trip back to Big Sky Country last August. Part of the reason I went was to check out a couple of job prospects. Let me tell you this, there weren't any. Wal-Mart is the state's largest employer, followed by the government. People are leaving the beautiful state of Montana to find work. If the damn Eco-Nazis would get off their high horses and let the drilling begin, hundreds of good paying jobs would be created and this state would grow by leaps and bounds.
And to all you anti-war (read: anti-America) types, 51% is the number you need for a majority. 20,000 hippies/college students in a park or 50,000 America hating Euros in Trafalgar Square does not constitute a majority. That make you a minority. A very loud and annoying minority.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:33 AM | Comments (1)
Look Ma! No Spine!
And this man wants to be President.
"I've just finished my first session in the trial at The Hague of former Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. The last time I had seen him was 1999," Wesley Clark told reporters outside the tribunal.
It's closure with a man who caused the deaths ... or is alleged to have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the homelessness and refugee burden throughout Europe," Clark told reporters.
"There were murders and rapes and thousands expelled and people imprisoned and bludgeoned and murdered, including the slaughter at Srebrenica. This is the sense of judicial closure, that the world community cares, that it took action, that it brought to justice the alleged perpetrator," Clark said.
Clark spoke to Milosevic for more than 100 hours over a period of almost four years in the 1990s when he was a U.S. negotiator at Dayton and later NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Every time this man opens his mouth I am more and more convinced that Hillary is blackmailing him to be a spoiler for Dean.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:28 AM | Comments (0)
You are the winning bidder
New York State has been quietly selling surplus items for more than a year through the highly successful online auction house eBay, officials said Tuesday.
"You would be amazed at what people will buy. It's been great," said Jennifer Meicht, a spokeswoman for New York state's Office of General Services.
Using the seller name "nyssurplus-albany," the state OGS is currently peddling a host of items including eight new Goodyear tires and a bunch of storage lockers.
"We started as an experiment, selling some surplus property and, based on our initial success, we've been slowly adding more items," Meicht told the New York Post, which first reported on the eBay sales in its Tuesday editions.
OGS sales on eBay have already earned the state almost $300,000 on hundreds of items, she said.
Imagine that! Capitalism works!
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In more stupid local news
Another example of a group that needs to take a long walk off a short pier.
King County Council backs Patriot Act changes
The Metropolitan King County Council yesterday joined a growing bipartisan movement to soften some of the most controversial provisions of the anti-terrorist USA Patriot Act.
In a unanimous vote, the council called on Congress to pass the Security and Freedom Enhanced (SAFE) Act, sponsored by a group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators.
Among other changes to the Patriot Act, the SAFE Act would restrict the use of so-called "sneak and peek" search warrants in which suspects are not informed at the time that a search is being made of their property.
County Councilman Rob McKenna, R-Bellevue, wrote the revised resolution that passed 13-0 yesterday. Republican council members had objected to provisions in an earlier proposal.
How many times do I have to tell these people, if they thought government wouldn't snoop on its citizens until the PA got signed, they need to grow up.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:16 AM | Comments (0)
They've won
The Eco-Nazi's have taken over the Seattle City Counsil.
We'll all recycle or else, City Council decides
While I think that recycling is a great idea, I do not believe that it should be mandatory. The new rule coming in 2005 is that if the person doing the curbside pick up opens your trash can and sees recyclables, they can refuse to take your trash. And until you separate your trash it will not be picked up. And you will still be charged your regular rate for them to stop by stop by and check.
Add this to the fact that the city tells both it's residents and businesses who they have to go through to get their trash and recyclables collected (depending on where in town they live in), they also tell the providers the minimum and maximum that they can charge.
Oh, and just to let y'all know, don't waste your time separating your glass by color. It all goes into the same truck and then into a big pile to be separated (in Seattle at least). One of these days, I'll get a pic of our recycle pile. You could hide a 2000 sqft house under it.
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December 16, 2003
Gimli
Pointing a finger at the media, Rhys-Davies went on, �What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow journalists do not understand how precarious Western civilization is, and what a jewel it is� The abolition of slavery comes from Western democracy. True democracy comes from our Greco-Judeo-Christian Western experience. If we lose these things, then this is a catastrophe for the world.�
Rhys-Davies revealed that as far back as 1955 his father had predicted that �the next World War will be between Islam and the West.� The actor recalled his response: �I said to him, �Dad, you�re nuts! The Crusades have been over for hundreds of years!� And he said, �Well, I know, but militant Islam is on the rise again. And you will see it in your lifetime.� He�s been dead some years now. But there�s not a day that goes by that I don�t think of him and think, �God, I wish you were here, just so I could tell you that you were right.��
Looking at the lone female journalist at the table, Rhys-Davies said pointedly, �You should not be in this room [according to Muslim custom]. Because your husband or your father or your husband is not here to guide you. You could only be here in this room with these strange men for immoral purposes.�
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Sometimes all you can say is
And the raving moonbat disintigration continues.
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What's Wrong
With this picture?
The caption from the MSNBC story:
An Iraqi medic checks an X-ray of Bata Thaer Shallal's chest at the general hospital of Samarra on Tuesday. She was allegedly wounded when U.S. troops opened fire in the al-Khadra area of the city.
The "medic" is holding the radiograph upside down. And not looking at it through light (you can't see squat if you hold a radiograph down towards the ground - just a black piece of film).
But surely they wouldn't stage this for our benefit, eh?
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When you've been wrong for a thousand years, why break your stride...
This really pissed me off. I apologize in advance for the bent feelings of anyone I respect who happens to be Catholic. I've had many friends who were staunchly Catholic without any trouble, but this speaks of a dark past that the Vatican should best not bring back to the fore.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican official said Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein and criticized the U.S. military for showing video footage of him being treated "like a cow."
Really?
This from the same Vatican that opposed the reigning in of the Serbs love of genocide?
This from the Vatican that turned a blind eye to the rounding up of Jews on "cattle" trucks and packed into trains to be shipped off to death camps?
This from the Vatican with a long history of covering up and defending boy abusing priests?
This from a Vatican that only a couple of years back apologized for the persecution of Galileo? Nice of them since he's only been dead for over five centuries.
"I felt pity to see this man destroyed, (the military) looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. They could have spared us these pictures," he said.
"Seeing him like this, a man in his tragedy, despite all the heavy blame he bears, I had a sense of compassion for him," he said in answer to questions about Saddam's arrest.
Fuck your pity old man. Save it for yourself.
Save it for the day in which you have to answer to God for why? Why, did you turn your eyes away from the death and destruction, why did you make excuses for it, why did you oppose stopping it, why did you feel compassion for the butcher but not the victims? God's vicars are supposed to represent him on earth, which like a doctor, the first order of business should be, "First, do no harm". You haven't done the worst harm yourself, you've merely held it's coat while it happily murdered and sprayed the blood of millions.
Your fancy cloaks and titles have made you comfortable with standing close to power, yet the power that you and your kind choose to defend is the most horribly shamefull kind. Wether the PLO, the Serbs, the Nazi's or your own ass plundering Priests,....you always pick the wrong side.
Everytime.
Better you should go back to bible school you old fool. Try reading the passages about protecting the meek. I think you'll find there is no part about protecting the meekly caught after thirty years of savagry. No part about sucking up to the worst elements in power just because it's easy.
Turn in your collar old man. The "shoes of the Fisherman" are being poorly served by the likes of you. You forget who you are sworn to serve.
Both in Heaven and on earth.
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James McDermott strikes again
I wrote about Mcdermott a long time ago. I wrote how, in my opinion, he was a treasonous bastard aiding and abetting the enemy with his trip to Iraq.
Well, it turns out that old Jimbo wasn't done.
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., told a Seattle radio station Monday the U.S. military could have found Saddam "a long time ago if they wanted." Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said: "Yeah. Oh, yeah."
The Democratic congressman went on to say, "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing."
When interviewer Dave Ross asked again if he meant to imply the Bush administration timed the capture for political reasons, McDermott said: "I don't know that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they've been in contact with people all along who knew basically where he was. It was just a matter of time till they'd find him.
"It's funny," McDermott added, "when they're having all this trouble, suddenly they have to roll out something."
State Republicans immediately condemned McDermott's remarks, saying the Seattle Democrat again was engaging in "crazy talk" about the Iraq war.
"Once again McDermott has embarrassed this state with his irresponsible ranting," GOP state Chairman Chris Vance said in a news release. "Calling on him to apologize is useless, but I call on other Democrats to let the public know if they agree with McDermott -- and Howard Dean, who recently said he thought it was possible that President Bush had advance knowledge about 9/11. The voters deserve to know if the entire Democratic Party believes in these sorts of bitter, paranoid conspiracy theories."
Last year, Vance and other Republicans labeled McDermott "Baghdad Jim" for comments he made during a trip to Baghdad that President Bush "would mislead the American people" but that Saddam could be trusted.
On Monday, Democrats joined the criticism of McDermott.
"With all due respect to my colleague, that is a fantasy," Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said of McDermott's comments. "That just is not right. ... It's one thing to criticize this administration for having done this war. I mean, that's a fair question. But to criticize them on the capture of Saddam, when it's such a big thing to our troops, is just ridiculous."
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The Soundboard
As I promised you all last week, I now give you 'Christmas songs played on instruments made out of dead animals' (screw off PETA).
This week's song is off an album I started listening to the day after Thanksgiving. It consists of 15 traditional Scottish Chirstmas songs played on one of my favorite instruments in the world. Yep, the Bagpipes.
Now, I don't want any whining about how 'annoying' or 'dreadful' sounding bagpipes are. If you think that, you haven't heard good pipes. When I mailed this weeks selection off to the Doc, I got an e-mail back from him saying that the song was loaded and ready with a note saying 'I love this!'
It starts out slow with an english horn and a guitar and then picks it up with the addition of some lowland pipes and wood flute.
So give it a click. If you don't like it, your delete tag is only a couple clicks away.
So here ya go,
'What Child is This (Greensleeves Jig)' by Laura MacKenzie
If you have the urge to hear about my 'Christmas past' look in the 'More' section.
I'm fussy about my Christmas. I don't go shopping after Thanksgiving week because I have all mine done by then. Hell, if I don't have my shopping done by Halloween I consider myself running behind.
I'm also fussy about my music. The wife goes for the Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra stuff while I only listen to Celt instrumentals or acappella songs sung in Gaelic.
You may ask why. (everyone else does)
One of my earliest memories is taking a loooong plane ride with my father, grandmother, grandfather, aunts, uncles and cousins and landing in Edinburgh during Christmas time. It was 1978. I was 6.
We met up with some people who talked like grandpa and went on a loooong drive. It is daylight out, but everyone is tired and I fall asleep. I wake up and there must be 30 people besides the dozen of us at this big house in the middle of nowhere.
It ends up we were near a place called Oban and I was somehow related to all of these people. Grandpa and dad are sitting at a table with a group of men and talking funny.
As the week goes on, I get used to the time change and then Christmas day comes around. My G*d! There must have been eighty people at the house that day. People had come from all over to see the American relates. And they all either spoke like grandpa or talked in some funny code.
We ate, and ate, and then ate more. Some of the food was a little odd, but I couldn't refuse anything and just ate. Gifts were exchanged and songs were sung. And then we ate some more.
A few days later we flew back home and I had to get used to the time again. The next week at school all my friends said I talked funny.
This happened every other year for the next twelve years. I got very excited everytime it came around. In later years we got to travel to different relatives houses and the celebrations weren't so big. But they were still as fun.
And that is where I got my love of the pipes. Especially at Christmas. Maybe in the future I'll share more.
Until then, Meadhrach Nollaig
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No, I'm not Kasey Kasem
But I do have the 'Ace in the Hole' hit parade for you.
From MT Politics,
'Ace of Spades' by Motorhead
And from The Ville,
'Down in a Hole' by Alice In Chains
Both of these guys just went and redecorated recently. Stop by for the music. Stay for the atmosphere of freedom (and then come back to RNS).
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If they knew what popular support was
They wouldn't be claiming to have any.
From Drudge comes the story of how Dean and Clark are getting money for their campaigns from people and organizations that reside outside the USA via that sorry group of losers at MoveOn.org.
Frustrated with the lack of domestic support, left-leaning website MoveOn.org has apparently been reaching beyond American borders to generate cash revenue over the internet!
The provocative international fundraising strategy threatens to embroil the presidential candidacies of General Wesley Clark and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.
Both men are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to MoveOn.org. Meanwhile, MoveOn.org, which has been running ads critical of the Bush Administration, has named an "International Campaigns Director".
I hope that this gets big. And I don't mean 'Enron' big, I mean 'Watergate' big. I want it so that both of these dweebs and all of their soft money contributors have to open up all of their books.
Because then they will both have to drop out and Kerry will be the frontrunner in the race.
Dean says he wants $100 dollars from 2 million Americans. But if you're not an American, he doesn't really mind. Just the $100 dollars will do.
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Waving Goodbye
In case you haven't heard, Mrs. du Toit is hanging up her keyboard.
We here at RNS owe a special thanks to the Mrs. in that she helped us with the Bellicose Women's Brigade. She contributed more than just a couple of articles that she wrote and for that we are grateful.
Stop on by and wish her well, won't you.
I will be keeping her on the blogroll until the lights go out over at her place.
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The Return
Of the Seattle IMC
The Seattle IMC has resumed electronic publishing. The staff are still working some of the bugs out and the site is a little slow to load up, but then again, most IMCer's are a little slow anyway so they don't really notice.
A couple of news articles from the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network (here's one and here's another and here's another) were some of the first things to be posted once the site was reopened, but no, the IMC doesn't support radical agendas.
The one other article I would like to point out was posted by someone from the site named 'In Defense of Marxism' (aka marxism.com) (sorry, but I refuse to link directly to their site).
It is about calling America an 'imperialist nation' and a group of cowards as many times as possible in an article. Oh, and the capture of Saddam Hussein.
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Another Sucessful Operation
This one is of the medical variety.
Secretary of State Colin Powell's surgery for prostate cancer went well on Monday and he is expected to make a full recovery, the State Department said.
The doctors report though, they were not able to remove the stick from his ass and that his balls were not to be found.
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December 15, 2003
Yet more evidence
Not as good as getting an extra roll of toilet paper from the "worker's paradise co-op", but almost....
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Following the capture of Saddam Hussein
We now return you to our regular programming.
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After all, the media's gotta find some way to get Dean back on the front page.
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Answer to an unasked question.
We are pariah's, outcasts among the world community, so sayeth the leftwing faithful. That we have enemies is not in doubt, never has been. But their contension that the feelings against us are universal are just absurd. As was recently pointed out to me by a libertarian, AWolf, we have always been considered pariah's and outcasts. By the governments and elites of the world, but not so much their citizens, they vote with their feet. Nobody had to climb over barbed wire to get INTO the Soviet bloc, but they sure as Hell had to to get out didn't they?
We are the bad guys says the hard left, the world hates us for what we've done in Iraq. Explain this then please......
Care to guess which ones are
Iraqi journalists?
In Stockholm
Ottawa
South Korea
Our own imigre population
And finally in Iraq itself.
These images are plain enough, no fancy words can deny the joy in the eyes of people who have been freed of a fear. Saddam the boogeyman is no more, it's Saddam the coward, the betrayer, the butcher, the tyrant.
And now Saddam the inmate.
Justice and mercy have had a good day on Sunday. Try as they might, the monkeys of the radical left can't pull down what many people feel, can't change what's clearly in their hearts. Their bitterness is their own, it's not something a great many people choose to share.
I think they have been pretty elequent here already, don't you?
Photos courtesy of Yahoo news.
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You are all cordially invited
Ain't got your Christmas shopping done yet? Too Bad!
Are you already full of yule and can't stand anymore on your log? That is also too damn bad!
Why?
Because you're going shooting!
I'm calling all Seattle area people to a 'Merry Christmas Shootathon' (aka the Santa Security Squad).
Because after all, what says Merry Christmas to a loved one or friend more than a new firearm or ammo?
The prospective date is Saturday, Dec 20th. I don't know where everyone is at so we'll have to get everyone's base location and center on a range that is kind to all. RSVP me via e-mail or in the comments. If you cannot make it Saturday, let me know what date you will be available. I absolutely do not mind going to the range 2 or 3 days in a row and I'd like to meet as many local folks as I can (Ironbear and TrooperJohnSmith, I'm looking in your direction).
I will be bringing my usual collection of pistols and small caliber rifles for all to shoot (e-mail me for a caliber list) and some ammo for them.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:17 AM | Comments (12)
Slam Canada
My husband and I left Canada six years ago to start a new life in the United States. Tens of thousands of university-educated, middle-class Canadians leave Canada for the U.S. every year. The Canadian government even has a name for us � "The Brain Drain."
Why do we leave?
I think it is because America ROCKS! and Canada smokes monkey pole. But that is just my opinion.
If you read only one thing today, make it this .
Mrs. Meeks reasons (the 'Cliffs Notes version):
#1 Taxes - Fifty percent of the Canadian paycheck goes to taxes.
#2 Official Bilingualism - Forget about that textbook Parisian you learned in high school. My husband speaks French fluently but not by Canadian government standards. He'd be passed over in employment by someone who speaks a government-approved level of French.
#3 Employment - Salaries are much lower than in the U.S. When we moved to the U.S., my husband almost tripled his salary.
#4 Health Care - I hear Americans complain about the cost of medical bills but I would rather my child be alive and have a bill to pay than to be dead at no charge.
#5 Political Oppression - Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien's regime has been in control for more than a decade and the average Canadian is fed up and glad to see him go. Even then, it was his decision to allow an election. Living in Canada made me feel like a barn animal in George Orwell's "Animal Farm."
Sadly, she moved to Seattle. AKA the Little Frisco.
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300,000 dots
From 4 Right Wing Wackos
Liberal friends say Saddam's capture is no big deal?
Tell them to fuck off. Then point them to The 300,000 Dots
TrojanHorseshoes puts up 300,000 dots. One for each of the people in the recently uncovered mass graves.
And if some left wing turd tries to tell you that their deaths were Americas fault, remind them that they are Saddam Hussein's fault.
If they want to add a second party to the blame circle, they can look straight to the UN. It was their plan, their arrogance and their desire to not let American Coalition forces go straight to Baghdad in 91. Fuck the UN.
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Fisk You, Dean
Mr Puggs' post about needing volunteers for the remaining '51 Reasons' took me by surprise. I thought I'd missed out. Oh, well. Here we go. 31-40 above, 41-51 below.
31) Dean thinks it's doubly wrong that some of the war profiteers are actual members of the Bush administration.
But he has no problem giving the real 'war profiteers' contracts to rebuild the country that they helped oppress for over 3 decades.
32) Howard Dean wouldn't award no-bid contracts to Halliburton and let them charge the US Army $2.64 per gallon of gasoline while limiting the pay of the new Iraqi army they're building to $60/month.
But I'm sure that he has no problem with charging US drivers $2.64 a gallon if it means pricing us out of being able to drive our cars. And if you still need to be educated on the Haliburton issue, just shoot yourself in the head. It's easier than coming to the realization that you've been lied to by ANSWER.
33) George Bush claims he won't allow the US government to be limited by international organizations like the UN. But he sure backed down on steel tariffs when the World Trade Organization told him what to do. Dean feels the WTO should have labor protection and environmental protection rules which protect lives and would limit the pace of corporations moving companies and jobs to countries that don't have these safeguards.
I understand that Dean would throw away the US Constitution. That is why I won't vote for him and will tell as many people as I can to do the same. The simple fact about the steel tariffs is that they didn't do what Bush wanted them to. The were also wildly unpopular at home. Imagine that! A President doing what is good for his citizens.
36) Howard Dean wouldn't keep stiffing allies.
No, he wouldn't. He would however, give their 'stiffies' a good licking if it'll make them like us.
35) Howard Dean would help overcome all the jobs lost since Bush became President.
By charging all of us who still have jobs so that those folks could stay on vacation.
36) Howard Dean would restore funding to Americorps so its members will serve Americans while gaining an affordable college education.
Because Mr. Dean knows that there is no better campaign tool than Americorps. Heck, they'll not only print his election flyers for free, they distribute them. Just like they did for Clinton. Paid voluteers. It must be a Democrat creation.
37) Howard Dean would would support better benefits for military veterans and their surviving spouses.
By disbanding the military and making them find work in the private sector.
38) Howard Dean would repeal the limits on overtime pay that Bush is imposing.
If Dean has ever worked an honest hour of overtime, I'd be surprized. And if you need to have the job market explained to you, e-mail me.
39) Howard Dean doesn't want government restrictions on the earnings middle-class Americans can earn.
Yep, he'll wait until they become upper-class Americans and tax the hell out of them.
40) Howard Dean supports fair wages and progressive taxation for all Americans, not just the super-rich ones.
More proof that he has never taken an economics course and is unfit to run the country.
41) Howard Dean knows that when employees earn healthcare benefits for their partners and families that it's simple fairness to let gay people earn exactly the same.
Because, l*rd knows that both of them cannot work and earn their own benfits.
42) Howard Dean knows that when one partner dies and the inheritance laws protect their partners and families, it's simple fairness to let gay people have equal economic rights.
So that he can double tax that inheritance. And because going to a lawyer and drawing up both a will and a living will is sooo difficult.
43) Howard Dean knows Karl Rove and George Bush will make gay marriage a campaign issue when the real issue is economic fairness.
Yes, but does he know baseball? If Dean can name one 'economic fairness' issue that cannot be handled by a trip to a lawyer, I'd be surprised.
44) George Bush thinks economic fairness means protecting his biggest campaign contributors like Ken Lay from Enron, who's still at large. Howard Dean thinks that's unfair.
Don't even bring up Dean and Enron until he releases those papers from when he was governor of Vermont. Then we'll see which end Dean is talking out of. And to add, I can guarantee that his version of 'economic fairness' would include his family. You know, the "Dean' in "Dean-Whitter" family
45) George Bush thinks we're safer with 8,000 Iraqi civilians dead while Saddam Hussein is still at large. Howard Dean thinks that's unfair.
Umm, December 14th, 2003. An early Christmas gift to Iraq, America and Britain from the 4th Infantry. Oh, and Dean would prefer if Hussein was still murdering 30 Iraqis a day. As long as he was able to blow Europe's 'stiffies'.
46) George Bush's administration caused an intelligence agent to be exposed because her diplomat husband told the truth. Howard Dean wants to know who exposed Valerie Plame and throw the book at them for this breach of national security.
And yet, her and her husband appear on television every chance they are able. Allowing more people to see what a CIA analyst looks like.
47) Howard Dean thinks intelligent agents should trust their president so they can focus on catching Osama Bin Laden, instead of worrying about their jobs and spouses.
He would do this by firing all of the agents and having more satellites built. Having people on the ground is so......messy.
48) Howard Dean won't let fatcat corporate CEOs tell him how to run the government. He's trying to raise $100 from each of 2 million Americans with some support from worker's organizations. Bush's campaign is funded by the super-rich and you can guess which ones he'll pander to. Howard Dean will represent all of us.
Nope, he'll let fatcat lawyers run the country. Effectively making everyone liable for everything and making sure that we pay for a winos wine if it'll make the wino happy. 'Some support from workers organizations'? Oh you mean 'UNIONS'. Soft money is so much kinder. That must be why they call it 'soft'.
49) Howard Dean won't let the corporate media spin the myths about who he is. Howard Dean will let the world's greatest interactive media get the truth out via the people of the United States and will mobilize the largest volunteer voter mobilization force in the history of the world.
Yep, old Dean-boy would shred the 1st Amendment rights of anyone who says unkind words about him. Under his definition, RNS would probably qualify as a 'corporate media outlet'. He would leave 'corporate media' groups like Hearst Publishing alone because they refused to print Charles Krauthammer editorials that say 'mean words' about Dean.
50) Howard Dean doesn't believe in torture or promote its use. Howard Dean thinks the Patriot Act went too far, invading the privacy of hundreds of millions and denying due process to prisoners, hundreds of whom turned out to be innocent. Howard Dean thinks we're safer when patriots act than with this Patriot Act. Howard Dean thinks before we can establish democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq, we need to restore democracy in America.
If he really didn't believe in torture, he would stop talking and drop out of the race. He would prefer if you would please let the police know if your neighbors had been saying mean words about him. That way, they could send the secret speech police he plans to establish out to 'talk' to you. Democracy is OK, but freedom of speech is not.
51) This isn't just about the election of Howard Dean. It's about Americans, you, your family, me, saying we reject the anti-progress gang of old-cons who prefer to keep us living in fear and favor the country that inspired the world, the country whose losses on 9-11 made the world mourn, the country of fairness and opportunity, the country of possibility, the States of America, united again.
Of course this is about the election of Howard Dean! Why lie? What Howard Dean doesn't realize about Americans is that they work long and hard (something he has never done) and don't want to have to worry about being pushed around by another country or group of countries. Or whacked out Islamic militants that want us all either dead or under their boot heel. He would rather convert back to paying 'danegeld' to keep them off our backs. But he is too stupid to see where that leads.
With Howard Dean, we no longer have to settle for less.
Nope, Uncle Howie will make all the bad stuff go away.
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New blog Announcement
You may have seen 'RJ Baxter' in the comments section around these parts, but did you know he got himslef a blog?
Don't that have a ring to it?
He wants to know where you'd keep Saddam until his trial? Stop by and let him know.
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Be careful out there folks
Do not try this at home.
A while back, I said "I think I can agree with the readers here that government is something not to be trusted. And neither is anyone involved in politics. I am going to carry that a little further and tell you all that I do not trust George W. Bush as a polititian."
I would walk a pheasant line with the guy and trust him to not accidently shoot me or my dogs. I'd let him borrow my vehicles (and if you knew me and my vehicles, you'd know what this means). Hell, I'd trust him alone in a room with my wife. And those three things, espescially the last one, I would never trust to any Democrat."
Why do I bring this issue up? Well, two days after Thanksgiving, one of my co-workers named Dan was shot while walking a bird line. This pic was taken last Friday, when he was cleared to come back to work in 'light duty' tasks.
You will have to click on the pic for the larger version.
He took a 2 3/4in 12ga loaded with #7 shot from 12 yards away in the right upper body.
The shot came from the 13yr old son of a friend of his. The kid got excited about seeing a bird, but couldn't line up the shot until the bird flew in between himself and Dan.
#7 shot is barely bigger than grains of sand, but one of the pieces of shot was moving hard enough that it pierced his tricep (the bottom muscle in the upper arm) and went into his chest. He has 76 pieces of shot still in him. The doctors think that they'll be able to get about half of them out. The rest is so deep that it will cause more damage to remove them than to leave them in.
Be careful out there people.
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December 14, 2003
"What fun, What a great job I've got!"
Mike the Marine threw down a challenge. A tag team fisking, of the 51 reasons to vote for Dean. Semi-intelligent Thoughts picked up the second round, I humbly take up the third.
Anymore volunteers? We need to spread the love. #31-40 and 41-51 are open.
Udate, I missed on the first read that it was CD at Sem-Intelligent thoughts that came up with the idea, It was Mike at From the Halls to the Shores that got it rolling.
21) Despite the privileged background, he and his wife well understand the challenges and sharing necessary to balance a two career marriage successfully, providing time for family and time for those they serve. That is clearly evident in the available articles by reporters who've interviewed his wife.
Really? He's all in tune with working America because the press likes his squeeze? How does that work, she get's possesion of the family strap on on Tuesdays and Thursdays? Maybe heaven forbid, he should have to pick between being late on the gas bill versus the power bill?............Oh, not THAT in tune then.
22) In the last article in that last link, where it speaks of Dean's critique of the press coverage of Bush's children, he displays a belief in something more important than politics, the protection of family, even if the family is his political opponent's. There's something fair and decent and principled in that. I find it very refreshing.
Very nice, but how does that separate him from Bush? You think Dean is the only one who thinks their kids should be off limits? You really need to get out more.
23) Pundits, particularly on the right, love to warn us he could be the next McGovern. You remember McGovern. He was the decorated WW2 bomber pilot whose career in the Senate was spent passing bills that alleviated hunger all over the world, which simultaneously provided a ton of demand for the products of American farmers. He fervently believed hunger in the world could be wiped out completely. And he also was convinced the Vietnam War was wrong and promised to shut it down. His principled position forced Nixon to counter by promising the same thing. Nixon's administration proved to be the most corrupt in history, with many convicted, and both he and his vice-president forced to resign.
Oh yeah, I see the parallels to Dean - and Bush - now. In the scheme of important things in life, McGovern lost the battle, but Nixon lost the war. Several wars, now that I think of it. Dean as the principled McGovern... I like it.
He likes the comparison?......Jesus Christ it doesn't get any easier than this. He likes the guy who lost bigger than Mondale did, the guy who after all those years in the Congress bemoaned the rule he piled on small business's when his went bankrupt. That McGovern? The pied piper of the yippie crowd? The guy who promised to half our military budget at the peak of the cold war, that suckhead? What a retard.
24) Dean is cast as an 'angry liberal' by media pundits who keep trying to box him in with simple definitions. They keep on forgetting to mention his messages of hope and his reminders that the race is not about him, but about all of us. It's a powerful message about hope, but all the pundits can see is anger. This is journalism? Go figure.
I take it this guy hasn't seen the pictures of Dean that his very own supporters wave around? The spittle still flying in the air, .....those pictures. Dean's protrayed as an angry spit talker, because he is an angry spit talker. I bet the press have to wipe off the camera after every interview.
Next stupid statement please.
25) Dean took on politics as a parttime profession, as many positions in Vermont state government are. He wanted to stay a doctor while providing some public service. It was only when he served as Lieutenant-Governor and the Governor died that he was thrust into it fulltime. And he did it so well that he was repeatedly elected by comfortable margins.
Vermont is a one party state, like several old new england states. The dem party could have run a stalk of celery and still won there. That proves nothing. His practicing medicine while in politics has a lot less to do with mercy than money I suspect. State political positions rarely pay as well as celebrity doctor status does. Why all the greed, why the selfish pursuit of manna you capitalist pig?
26) Dean wants to undo the devastation Bush has caused by relaxing rules to permit more pollution and to allow more wilderness to be exploited. Dean understands the damage mercury can do especially to pregnant women and their fetuses. He protects life.
Uh huh, now point out to me the words Bush uttered where he mandates the force feeding of pregnant women with mercury you asshole. As a doctor Dean knows that's a false charge, but he makes it anyway. We are talking about parts per trillion as opposed to parts per billion. The original guidelines were so strict that we get a pennies worth of difference for a grands worth of spending. The money is better spent on buying your kids quality food over the wandering molecule of mercury that may get into a whole friggin lake.
27) Just as Dr. Dean expanded healthcare coverage in his state to cover 91% of the population, he'll do as much or more for all Americans. And unlike the prescriptions of the Bush administration, every gap in coverage will be filled and not by HMOs.
So, that's why everybody is rushing to settle in Vermount right,........(crickets..)
28) Dean knows the healthcare costs problem is not caused by lawsuits for damages caused by medical professionals and doesn't want to arbitrarily legislate limits on damage awards for the pain and suffering caused. He has faith in the courts to provide justice and set their own reasonable limits.
Translation, he's in the employ of the Trial Lawyers Association. He is also in disagreement with virtually every other doctor in the practice of medicine. He doesn't read the AMA's own journal? Struck blind by the campaign money huh? Mustn't speak ill of wealthy liberal attorneys now, they won't hold up bright shiney coin.......Dance little monkey, dance for the pretty penny.
29) Dean knows the healthcare costs are caused by big corporations putting ever higher profits above healthier people.
Oh yeah, the evil McMedicine theory. Silly me, and here I thought that hundred million dollar lawsuits had a widdle to do with it. That the hundreds of accountants and lawyers employed by medical companies for lawsuit protection, the millions spent on research and testing, the perfect outcome or I'll sue your ass off mentality of tort lottery winners?
I take it allllllll back,.........sap.
30) And speaking of higher profits, Dean doesn't think the crony system that lets the Bush administration's friends become war profiteers.
What?
Couldn't finish the sentence? Talk to Gephardt, seems the crony system in Vermont with Enron is alive and well, thank you very much. Seems that Dean isn't all that fussy about where his money comes from after all does it? Dean's an ass, you defender of Dean, are a sucker of ass. Dean's prospects for the White House are seeming as small right now as the size of Saddam's cell. You remember him right?.........The bad guy that your side held up as the uncatchable criminal mastermind, the one who wasn't really our enemy anyway, but as long as he was loose.........Was proof of our "failure"?
That means this is a success right?
I won't hold my breath waiting for that admission. Or for the realization that you have backed a loser.
So, have you considered Canada?
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Here's a laugh.
From Instapundit to Oxblog, in which this link is displayed. Josh is right, it's still funny.
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Damn you Neal! I just took a drink of coffee....
When I reloaded the page. That freakin burns dammit. Breakfast blend goes out poorly through the sinus's.
Great cheesecake though. Like noseart.
I owe you one now.
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Well at least the moonbats have eachother to cry with....
True to form, the lunatic fringe just can't decide wether to cry or just explode in anger.
Poll question: How Long Will It Be Before Ashcroft's Goons/FBI Comes Knocking At My Door?
Edited on Sun Dec-14-03 03:10 PM by Bertha Venation
In response to *'s comment (thank you, trof) warning us Americans that "The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq. We still face terrorists who would rather go on killing the innocent than accept the rise of liberty in the heart of the Middle East." I wrote*:
"PRICK! I swear to god if I did not have so much to live for I'd go spit in that mother fucker's face! BRING OUR TROOPS HOME RIGHT NOW, YOU GOD DAMNED WARMONGER!"
How long will it be before I'm carted away by the Befucked Administration's goons?
(Yeah. I'm a little angry. This may be a lame thread but I am pissed off! I despise what the Bush Admininstration has done to the world!)
It must really suck to be such a mindless drone of the hateful fringe. Spitting is a filthy habit usually associated with trashy people, you surely qualify.
And this gem of a thread. The more level headed among them spoke against it, but were quickly drowned out in th rush to paint Bush as just as evil.
This is sick...
we can watch video clips of Saddam getting a medical exam. Yes, he was a bad man, but this is just makes me sick. We treat him like an animal.
Oh the humanity, we gave him a check up, bring out the crying towels. This string produces some really insightful looks at what they really think about their own country. Why they can never be trusted to run things.
If the majority vote for him...
...I have no sympathy for them. They deserve what they get.
The next election will be about what this nation values most: people or corporations. If the majority trusts corporations to do what's right for America, they will get screwed! Granted, they will get screwed while embracing the almighty God and wrapped in the the almighty American flag, with images of eagles on all their conservative websites to make them feel mighty, and listening to all their patriotic speeches, meanwhile America will be increasingly scorned (and feared) by the rest of the world, but the masses will have a big smile on their face the whole time they're being screwed.
GOPFighter
If you know what Jesus REALLY taught, you know that Bush is the Anti-Christ !!
REeeoooooowwwrrrrr,.....phiissssst! Bad kitty, bad bad kitty. These assholes always threaten to......
Hello comrade frog! Welcome to DU!
Edited on Sun Dec-14-03 03:49 PM by sexybomber
I may be joining you in the Great White North soon... the day Bush wins is the day I submit a transfer application to a Canadian university.
But they never freakin do it, glad they put so much stock in keeping their word. You know also that while most accept the capture as real, the diehards must scream fake and conspiracy as loud as they can.
If the left picture and the right picture were both taken today...
these are two different men.
Look at the left eyebrow. In the "after" picture, the left eyebrow is bushier at the outside than it is in the "before" picture.
It never ends.
These guys could take a sunny day and make it sound like a thunderstorm. All Bush's fault don't cha know. Small minds unable to grasp that life exists beyond their little theories and dark dreams. That maybe they might not have any, let alone all the answers. This is a good event, and they can't accept that at face value and just move on. That would be too mainstream I guess.
Much as they say it, Bush is not the same as Saddam. America isn't a "rogue" nation any more than any other, and the truth be told, far better than almost all. Iraq will be far better in ten years than they have a right to expect, and will these guys then say it's all wrong, all built on a lie because they lost the debate? I think they will.
The hallmark of a small closed mind is the inability to assimilate new information and adapt to it. Refusing and denying it is hardly going to change the facts as presented.
What a wretched little tribe they are.
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Joyous Video
Here's a link to the video to the Bremer press conference where the Iraqi Journalists got up and cheered "Death to Saddam!".
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My Thoughts
Congrats Doc, on being able to get this news up so quickly and so well. I woke up at 11am PST to NPR's hourly news report. I can honestly tell you that I have not gotten out of bed so quickly since some drunk knocked on my door at 3am a few weeks back.
I really only want to say this right now (I'll be updating my thoughts in the 'More' section in a minute).
Oh, and I knew that there was a reason I bought this last night.
A tip of the bottle to all the men and women in our armed forces.
From the reactions of the Iraqi news agents at the news conference where the capture was announced (if you haven't seen their reaction, I'll try to find a vid link soon) to the reactions of the Iraqi refugees in Dearborn, MI, this is a great moment in history. I have see so many pics of Iraqis and former Iraqis whose smiles you couldn't pry off with a crowbar.
Some will try to bring the moment down and say that it means nothing in the overall sceme of things. Screw them! We will watch history play out and they will be proven wrong.
As I mentioned above, I woke up to NPR's hourly news broadcast. You could say that the announcer was missing the 'oomph' in her voice that she normally has when she announces attacks in our soldiers in Iraq.
I have stopped by the usual suspects places (Eshaturd, DUh, and IMCommunists) and what I read got me so pissed, I cannot even comment on it here. There are just no words. I am trending towards pulling a 'Frank J's Rumsfeld.
Anyway, I would like to wish well to Iraq and her people. I would like to congratulate the 4th and Ft. Hood.
I would like to wish an early Merry Christmas to our service men and women.
And I would like to thank President Bush for having enough gumption to get up and do something about the festering boil that was Saddam Husein and his regime.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:20 PM | Comments (0)
Comparo
Last week I compared pics of Dean to McGovern.
How about this one?
The father of modern socialism vs. a typical socialist leader
Posted by Nukevet at 02:13 PM | Comments (1)
the usual suspects.
Reaction in Iraq seems rather enthusiastic, as you would expect if you weren't blinded by partisan and pathelogical bigotries. If you care more about justice than posture. The normal grumbling from the other side in this war is already being heard.
But this image says all that needs said about this day.
Proud of her country of birth, proud of her nation of choice. This is her day to be sure, and try as they might, they just can't quite steal it from her, from us. Justice be done.
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Fear the Daywalker.
WIND OF CHANGE
I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
Listening to the wind of change
The world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change
Walking down the street
Distant memories
Are buried in the past forever
I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change
The wind of change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring the freedom bell
For peace of mind
Let your balalaika sing
What my guitar wants to say
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change
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From the BBC comments board
Hmmmmmmm, some of JarJar's friends aren't so pleased.
Capturing Saddam doesn't make any difference unless the US can prove he has connection with Osama and most importantly, whether Iraq actually possessed WMD.
Sophia Britannia, Singapore
I'm a bit sad that it puts an end to this battle of David against Goliath. We must acknowledge that Saddam Hussein is a cunning, if not a talented leader. He may look defeated, tired, dejected but when you think of all the means deployed to get rid of him, it's just a tremendous achievement to have been able to survive.
Bernard Franck Dehlinger, Ris-Orangis, France
I am very sorry to hear the news. I believe that he was the leader of not only the Iraqi people but also the Muslim people against the USA.
Iqbal Chowdhury, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Although Hussein's capture is wonderful news for the Iraqi people, it still does not provide justification for this war and my country's continued Empire building throughout the world - most recently through the seizure of Iraq's oil. Bush has finished what his Daddy started and I'm sure the family will be especially grateful to their Good Lord at this Christmas.
Robert Lattanzi, New York, USA
Funny how Saddam Hussein appears in the news just when both the American and British Governments are struggling to gather support for their respective 'Presidential' campaigns. This fantastic piece of detective work has the same smell as the reason the war was 'inaugurated'.
David, Rome, Italy
My favorite, though, is from a moonbat of the USA variety:
I was happy to learn that Hussein was captured, certainly good news from a human rights point of view. But, I am left wondering - does the end justify the means? Does this mean that the US should wage war with every other horrible dictatorship around the world in the name of freedom, democracy, and peace?
Lori Wilson, Washington, DC, US
Why yes, Lori. Yes it does. What ends and means are you talking about? Stopping the rape, torture, and murder of the innocent people of Iraq by deposing a murderous thug by war? Or should we have "waged peace", hoping that Saddam would see the error of his ways.
Oooooh, alright. Just a few more:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, WE got him" Possibly the worst, most crass and counter-productive way to announce joyous news. It sends out the wrong message about America and the coalition to the world, especially the Arab world.
Adam Stimson, Sheffield, UK
Oh. That boorish and evil cowboy Bush and his administration. Whenever will they learn to speak in a fancy, edumacated way.
And, of course, it wouldn't be a proper moonbat fest if we didn't manage to equate Bush and Blaire with Hussein:
The American administration must now be very nervous. If a proper war crimes tribunal is allowed, Saddam will implicate most of them (and previous UK administrations as well). I think we should think where Saddam's support, funds and weapons came from when he was actually committing the worst atrocities for which he may now stand trial.
Peter Budek, Bedford
What's the major recurring theme? After months of making the capture of Saddam a mainstay of theirr criticism against Bush's prosecution of the war, now the focus turns to convincing us that it really wasn't all that important, and that his capture changes nothing. Really? Think a few more people with intimate knowledge of the regime might be willing to talk, now that Saddam and his 2 devil spawn are unable to threaten them?
JarJar must be SOOOOO depressed. The US economy rebounding at a rate not seen for 20 years. The DOW over 10K. More and more material evidence of the link between Saddam and 9/11. And now, the capture of her hero.
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If I may paraphrase Shakespeare:
As you might expect, the blogosphere has erupted over this. Several independent news sites seem to be confirming it.
Oh, yeah, why are these people so happy? I thought Saddam was beloved by all, and it was just a matter of time before the American oppressors were driven from Iraq.
UPDATE
Of course, not EVERYONE is pleased. Read the comments for the full effect.
Jeff Jarvis responds to the Atrios post. And look how unhappy the Iraqi bloggers are.
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Is there anyone else on Earth as totally messed up as a French Canadian socialist?
Heather "My panties are wet over Noam Chomsky" Mallick is drooling on herself again. Bad enough she's stupid, bad that she's vapid, shallow and as deeply thoughtful as a layer of bird droppings on an old car....Now she professes to speak for the "little man".
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH...........!
The man who mends my shoes says his dentist reproved him for not bringing the kids in for two whole years. "I couldn't afford it," the man told me. Can a man with a country house as lavish as Mr. Martin's comprehend this? Does he understand that it is a disgrace for Canada to define children's teeth as skinless and therefore not part of the body, just so medicare doesn't have to pay for their fillings?
Did you tip him well you bimbo? Or just suggest he vote socialist?
I really can't stand this harpy. All full of gushy praise for idiots like Chomsky and full of venom for all things American. She's told in past columns in lavish detail about her frequent trips to Europe, her spending sprees, her collections of designer labels. Her kept self has it just rosey and pink, spending what she will when she wants, the entire time imagining herself the covert revolutionary champion of "The man who mends my shoes" and his family...
Freakin reality check already. This bimbo is the damned enemy in class warfare for crying out loud. How many tax shelters has your old man got Heather? How many lawyers to see to it that your lavish lifestyle is well funded?
What's that? Can't hear you with your mouth full like that. But it pays well don't it? She speaks of conscience as if she freaking understood what it means. As if being a fashionable leftwing fanatic was somehow elevating her above the fact that her very existence is an abomination to the politics she spews.
The far left is so friggin dumb, she doesn't even see the irony of a jetsetting socialite pushing a marxist agenda, doesn't see how if the world she wants came about, she would be in the first group of prisoners stood against a wall and shot, by those very same revolutionaries she gets all wet over.
The really sad part is, she would thank them for it.
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It did look cool in the movies
The German MP40, also known as the Schmeisser. Here's a list of international weapons pics. I have no opinion of the weapon as to it's effectiveness, I simply don't know enough about it to comment. I just remember that it was the sexy weapon of choice in WWII films during the sixties and seventies. Everybody used it on film, the bad guys, and often the allies as well. Remember the Dirty Dozen? 9mm, with a thirty round box magazine, it had a good reputation.
Does anyone have a first hand opinion?
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Where Eagles dare
Clint Eastwood and Sir Richard Burton, not on the best fifty guy films maybe, but my first pick. A very old movie, and it's probably been on TV a tousand times. I still watch it when it's on. Great guy film, lot's of action, a bit of cleavage, and tons of explosions and dying Nazi's.......
Posted by Nukevet at 03:39 AM | Comments (3)
Is that all you got?
On Wednesday, Lee over at Right Thinking was showing off this pic of the concept Hummer H2 based truck.
While it may be sharp looking and all, I cannot stand H2's. I don't like the look of them, I don't like the mid-life crisis/wannabe offroader/spoiled teenager types who buy them. There is even a site dedicated to people dislikeing H2's called F U and your H2 .
The vehicle is funtionally illterate (a term I also use for any hopped up front wheel drive vehicle, especially civics/integras) and cannot compete in the arena for which it was designed.
Already twice this year, I've laughed my ass off at two people who got their H2's stuck/ditched/high centered (and I refused to help them any further than calling a tow truck). Now, to be honest, I also got my truck stuck twice in one day (while alone) this year. But I was prepared and got myself out.
If I had the means, I would build up something like this
only bigger. Possibly an Excursion or a Dodge and if then, probably with duals.
And I would write across the tailgate
"Oh look! You have an H2! How cute! Is that for the wife?"
Posted by Nukevet at 03:31 AM | Comments (6)
I guess they do need help with the big words....
What do you call it when the two richest and fatest kids on the block try and tell you that you should join their club? But only of course if you agree to allow them to run it forever, make all the rules and promise to stay silent and bow and scrape alot?
Does it sound like a Constitution? Or a version of the Cosa Nostra's protection racket?
Thankfully, the smaller Euro states are saying not a chance. They find the prospect of France running their lives as repulsive as we do. And you have got to love the Poles, courage and principles.............my, how that must really gall the French. France and Germany want an empire by proxy, they provide all the brains and half the money, they just want the others to pony up the balls and men. What a deal, and now why do you suppose the Poles and Spanish think it's bullshit?
Maybe because it is?
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Greetings
From ELF
Via IMC
"No, the IMC's never promote radical agendas!"
Posted by Nukevet at 02:57 AM | Comments (1)
Duh!
Only 'metrosexuals' couldn't have guessed this one,
Men's Journal: The 50 Best Guy Movies Of All Time
#1
"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"
Posted by Nukevet at 02:54 AM | Comments (0)
Well now,...........so the Iraqi's didn't have a direct connection to 9/11?
If this turns out to be real, then there are going to be huge amounts of crow force fed to the anti-war types who screamed over and over again,....."Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, has nothing to do with the war on terror." Instapundit pointed me to this one.
The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day "work programme" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's base in Baghdad.
In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta "displayed extraordinary effort" and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be "responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy".
If it pans out as real, it turns the arguement over Iraq on it's head. Bush never said there was a direct connection, not once. His was a more general "drain the swamp" point of view, which I share. But the anti-war types kept on saying that he did make that point, well, now that line of arguement is going to bite them in the ass. Because the majority of American's always suspected he did have at least a partial connection, and if true, this confirms that that gut instinct was correct. Score one for instinct over wasted education.
They opposed us in Afghanistan, saying we had no right to root out the Taliban supporters of Al Quada. They lost that arguement in a devastating manner, even the most dense of fencesitters now give grudging acknowledgement that we have a valid right to pursue this war on terror. Now the anti-war types try to say we can't do Iraq or any single other thing because it detracts from the very same war they opposed, they seem to say it's all unconnected. We know that it's all interwoven. This memo may be the first piece of evidence that proves that terrorism is a Gordian Knot, that it's all connected at some level. That we need to go after all of the safe ground that any country provides, wether they go after Americans or Israeli's, or Turks and Brits, it's the same nest.
Good thing we gots napalm.......huh.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:50 AM | Comments (0)
What is wrong with this picture?
This was pointed out to me by Cait, and you just have to roll your eyes at the pompous pigeyed dumbass at the ACLU who had a problem with this.
If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the
Marines pictured are bowing their heads. That's because they're praying.
The incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the
corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. "These are federal employees," says
Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on
federal time. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and
we must nip this in the bud immediately." When asked about the ACLU's
charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said
(cleaned up a bit), "Screw the ACLU."
Allow me.
Update..............
I apologise to everyone for posting what has been revealed as a hoax. Mollbot pointed it out. I am sorry for incorrect information conveyed. My own fault, and I blame no one else but myself. Cait, no worries, I still luvs ya. Neal is quite right in the comments, it so looks like something they would do that I took it without question.
Now,....that said. I take back nothing on the ACLU. They can simply rot in their little utopian PC Hell. If I have inadvertently insulted them by mistake for something they didn't do, oh well. If they dislike my tone and candor in the level of contempt expressed.....
Good. I made my point then.
Fuck them. They can wrap themselves in the mantle of protecting the world from backsliding into a theocracy from now till Hell freezes over, it won't change what they really are. They are censors, bigots and intolerant fools. They protect the most gawdawfull shock speech you can imagine. Wallow in it's filth and smile the smile of a canary with a mouthful of kitty fur.
Just try and say a simple prayer of thankfullness to God, and they shriek in rage and torement.
Marines, Sailors, Army and Air Force have chaplins because.........they want them. Nobody is compeled to pray, and guess what? They choose to. The ACLU will defend the most outrageous of choices, save the choice to be normal and humbly Christain, or Jewish. Be a Muslim and toss people out of windows, you will find them ready to say the Evil Bush cabal drove them to it.
I'm sick of it. Right up to my eyes I'm sick and tired of the double standards, the hypocrisy and distortions. The hyperbole and wailing. I'm sick of them.
These Marines are doing something that Marines have always done. They are Honoring the Corps. It's an almost holy thing for them, Never a Marine, I understand and deeply respect them for their fidelity, the deep traditions of sacrifice and brotherhood that they have. What kind of a grinch souled shriveled little cretin do you have to be to tell them that they shouldn't be allowed to do it?
The ACLU steps forward here, again.
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December 13, 2003
Ho-Ho-Ho
After all of the hyperbole Dean has used to vilify anyone even remotely acquainted with Enron, he better hope this bit is not true.
Hmmmm, I wonder what IS sealed away under lock and key in Vermont?
Posted by Nukevet at 03:20 PM | Comments (1)
Reconstructing Iraq
From the Iraqi perspective.
Let's just say that the whining from France, Germany, and Russia about reconstruction contracts does not playing to rave reviews.Yes there're dangers in Iraq, but what about us? Whom terrorism lives next door or block. Yes you can't afford the loss of your men and your money, but Iraqis? Well... they're used to it, death is a daily routine to them. They don't appreciate life as you do. Let me tell you something, you coward hypocrites, this may surprise you, but I love life, and love my family and friends. I can't bare it if something bad happens to them. Yet I don't intend to run away. I and a lot of my friends could get a job any where, with much better income, but I’m not leaving, not because I’m a patriot, as I don't believe in your classification of human beings; Iraqi, Indian, German, black, white, Jewish, Muslim…etc.
I’m a human being, and I feel responsible towards all mankind, and I will fight this battle with all the good men and women on earth. And you keep watching from a distance, and don't even think of coming near, and carrying the risk of smearing your fancy clothes with (our cheap blood). I don't need you, and even if I did, I won't ask your help, we've had enough of it. Go somewhere else, go to Africa, and relieve your conscience by donating some pennies to the poor, starving people there, and don't bother how their dictators will use the money, and don't even bother asking why they are so poor. I will stay here and fight for freedom and democracy with the good and brave Americans (yes..the good and brave.. Eat your hearts), and with all the honest soldiers and people of the coalition.
Bon voyage to Africa...have some conscience.
Interesting that Omar sees the "pro-saddam" machinations of these countries and the peace protestors as cowards, too. I guess my choice of adjectives was appropriate.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:09 AM | Comments (1)
A simple plan
In response to Mark's post below about Lt. Col. West, I propse a 'solution' to the problem of having our military personell getting hung out to dry by 'certain people' in the Pentagon.
Now, we have all of these contracts in Iraq that need to be filled. We also have three of the countries who actively fought America's going into Iraq holding the majority of the the IOU's from the Hussein regime.
The contracts need to be filled and the debts need to be cleared or forgiven.
But, we also need to be given the ability to clean up Iraq of the remaining Baathists and fehdeyeen.
So, here is my plan,
If the countries that are currently barred from the higly lucrative contracts in Iraq want to be able to toss their hats in for bids they have to do two things:
#1 Forgive all of the debts run up by the Hussein regime. If they want, they can enter the country to reposess the equipment they sold to him. We will be awaiting them at the borders to inspect said equipment and it manufacture date.
#2 Let America write up a fifth accord to the Geneva Convention that covers soldiers actions in the new style war that we are seeing. They must the sign it and help us push it through.
In it we will include things such as the new rules for prisoner interogations, new rules that define the Gitmo prisoners, new rules that clear forces of wrongdoing in the case of human sheilds, and convenants for pre-emptive actions against terrorist states or those who sponsor them.
It is time for the fifth.
(That is a link to the four Geneva Conventions an the two protocols as published by the Red Cross. It is now, also in my links section.)
Posted by Nukevet at 03:47 AM | Comments (2)
Was it legal? No. Was it just? I think it was.
If you haven't heard about Lt. Col. Allen B. West, then read this.
�"Lt. Col. West's impeccable service record in tough jobs combined with his prior unblemished character support this decision. Many of his soldiers testified to his positive, proactive leadership style. The soldiers felt like a team and would go out of their way to support him and many stated they would work for him again.
Did he break the rules? Yes, clearly he bent them somewhat. Was he out of line? Well now that is a whole nother story. In his place, I would probably have kneecapped the bastard. We are talking about a war zone, where death is cheap and easy to find. It's also the ironclad duty of an officer to care for the lives of his men. Suppose he had followed the rules exactly, played it safe, minded his career over the safety of his men? Suppose he played Pentagon politics and just punched his card and waited for the Generals stars?
Some of his men would be dead now.
He did what he did, clearly in the face of a known threat. He got results, and the craven little bastard he gave a Depends moment to is still breathing. I call that a good day. We are in a grey area here, where truth and justice sometimes conflict with law and regulation. Legal is not necessarily moral, and laws are sometimes better read as guidelines rather than scripture.
In my fathers time, the beat cop was sometimes,........creative, in law enforcement. Say a man was known to beat his wife, and say,........oh, he was quietly asked to stop, to seek help. Suppose then he ignored the friendly advice and kept up the beatings. Now,...........the beatings stop suddenly. Said abusive hubby has a broken arm, busted lips, and a limp from that terrible fall he took down three flights of stairs. He spent days in the hospital, and it will be a long time till he's pretty again.
He must have been drunk, they stumble alot, get clumsey and such don't cha know.
Strangely though, he now has learned to not beat on his wife anymore. Call it a revelation, an enlightenment. The fact is, it was a come to Jesus moment, brought courtesy of..........persons unknown. That was a form of justice in it's own right, and you will never convince me it was wrong, or immoral. Against the rules.....Just look away if you are squeamish.
It got the job done. West got the job done, and by God I'll hold the coat of any man in his command who wants to "instruct" anyone who says different. A man has to know when doing the right thing, trumps doing the "correct" thing. I believe West knows.
Enjoy your Honored retirement Colonel. I'd love to buy you a drink and just say thank you. We'd be graced if all officers took as much effort in the safety of our fighting men, if they all cared more for their men's lives, then their careers.
Lt. Col. West is a true warrior, and I believe, an Honorable man.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:09 AM | Comments (1)
The enemy
Quoting Instapundit, "THEY'RE NOT ANTI-WAR -- they're just on the other side:".
Just when you thought the German �peace� movement couldn�t get much more hypocritical they take things to a whole new level. Last week the unbelievable lack of protest at the German government�s plutonium and arms deal with Communist China made it seem as the peace freaks had all rolled up into a big ball for a long winter hibernation.
Not so! The German TV news program �Panorama� uncovered some of the wonderful activities that particularly dedicated cadres of the German peace movement are currently engaged in. In the spirit of peace, a number of groups have started a fund-raising campaign entitled �10 Euros for the Iraqi Resistance�. The money will be provided to the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA) a group dedicated to carrying out attacks against US soldiers in Iraq in collaboration with Saddam loyalists. The common goal is to "liberate� the Iraqi people from the evil imperialist American occupiers. On their website these groups gush with enthusiasm about turning Iraq into another Vietnam for the USA.
Cover your ears pumpkin,.......................Daddy's gonna yell.
What do you call someone who funds terrorists and provides aid? I call them the walking dead. A target rich enviroment, wether by JDAM from 20,000 ft. or from the K-bar of a SEAL, death needs to seek them out. They are not American, are making themselves players in a game where the prize in collected in blood and bone, so they get's what they get's. YOU RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS, GET READY TO FEEL SOME TEETH IN YOUR THROAT!
Oh man, for a locked room and a bat, a chain, or my bare friggin pawlike hands. They really get a giggle from playing at this. How hard will they laugh when they are choking on their own blood? How friggin funny would that be? I WANT THEIR STEAMING GUTS STRUNG LIKE TINSEL, THEIR MICRO-TESTICLES HUNG ON DISPLAY, AND THEIR EARS STRUNG LIKE POPCORN STRINGS.
DID I LEAVE ANYTHING OUT?
Like some I have a dark side, these Che' ass-suckers bring out the beast in me. This isn't romance, not politics, not even wildeyed fantasy. It's playing at war.
Well OK then, let the lessons commence.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:40 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Excuses, excuses
So I stopped by my local IMC tonight, looking for someone to kick in the nuts. It didn't take long to find a couple of worthy subjects, but when I went to submit my comment I got this message.
You would have been publishing a story...but...
Publishing Has Temporarily Been Suspended.!
While server and code migration takes place, publishing has been "frozen."
We regret the inconvenience.
Feel free to go out, get offline, and perform some anti-capitalist action.
So, since I can't get any action there tonight, I'll just show off this comment I put in caling bullsh*t on a poster who goes by the name of OzzyTeppics.
I got to him early and actually got a pat on the back from a couple of people for it.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)
December 12, 2003
Who is Rick Rescorla?
Well, go here and find out.
Via The Mudville Gazette. I have nothing to add after reading this, and paraphrasing does it a disservice. Just go read the whole damn thing, OK? You'll be glad (and sad) that you did.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:50 PM | Comments (2)
Friday Fun
In the comments in this post over at Four Right Wing Wackos, a question was posed that got me thinking.
Can you imagine how many years it would take them just to figure out where to build the new headquarters? And then they'd need to figure out how many countries they should contrasct to build it?
And that is your question.
In the comments section here, let us know your answer to this question:
If we actually did kick the UN off the continent (please G*d), how long would they argue amongst themselves about where the new UNHQ would be, AND, how long would they argue over contracting? Please also give the year in which the building would be completed and occupied.
BONUS question, depending on the location you choose, how many times would the site be attacked during construction or how long after completion until the building is destroyed.
I will get together with Raging Dave over the weekend and we will compile your answers and give you the answer on Monday. You have all weekend to enter your answers.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:43 PM | Comments (3)
Thinking about being deployed to Iraq?
Well, then you better go read the primer, Sparky.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:58 AM | Comments (0)
So, do you have the stones?
I went to this story, expecting to be less than impressed. But the guy saved 4 lives (his included), at a pretty significant cost to himself.
The question is, if reporters see one of their own as a hero for doing something like this, why are they so reluctant to see soldiers, who potentially face the same situation (or worse) on a daily basis, as such?
I'm not trying to detract from what this guy did. He was in a life threatening situation, he thought fast (although not fast enough to escape unscathed), and he came through. For that, in my opinion, he deserves to be commended.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:53 AM | Comments (3)
How many is too many?
Military planners �overall made extraordinary efforts to avoid civilian casualties,� Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth told NEWSWEEK. �But they fell short of doing everything feasible to avoid� civilian death.
The distinction sounds small. Civilian casualties are a grim reality in any large-scale conflict and while military planners may speak euphemistically about �collateral damage,� so long as war is fought where the innocent live, it seems inevitable that some will die. Still, under the Human Rights Watch�s interpretation of Geneva Convention protocols, military combatants are required to do everything in their power to preserve innocent life. �Everything feasible� meets the standards of international law. �Extraordinary efforts� does not.
Where did the U.S. military go wrong? As bombs dropped on Baghdad in March and April of 2003, Pentagon officials assured global audiences that while shock and awe was putting the pressure on Iraq�s Baathist leadership, the U.S. arsenal was so sophisticated, it could minimize the effect on the Iraqi people. �The weapons that are being used today have a degree of precision that no one ever dreamt of in a prior conflict,� Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assured reporters days after the outset of the war. The implication seemed clear: U.S. forces could wage violent war without widespread violent death.
And nowhere does the article talk about how many of these civilians died because Saddam placed them in harm's way. Of course, the real, unsaid focus of the article is that "everything feasibly possible" meant no attacks at all.
Posted by Nukevet at 09:33 AM | Comments (1)
Do you read "Day by Day"?
Posted by Nukevet at 07:37 AM | Comments (5)
What's that?
Looks like their special ops guys are after Hugh Hewitt.....
Posted by Nukevet at 07:33 AM | Comments (0)
Thought so.....
Had to be more than one.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:41 AM | Comments (0)
Thanks Doc
I'd heard this while climbing in the truck yesterday, but couldn't get to a computer until now.
Champagne all around
From what I heard, Europe was not happy about our economic recovery
Now, as for my original question,
"I wonder if there will be the same hoopla around the DOW hitting 10,000 like there was when it hit originally?"
There wasn't. I understand that the last time was 'the first'. But this 10,000 is not an inflated/overrated number like it was 'the first time'. It is a solid setting.
I realize that it will dip back below 10,000 for readjustment either today or next week. It'll then go back up. And then back down. And then back up, etc, etc until we reach a solid 11,000 (which I think we will by next summer).
But what irked me were the radio and television news reports saying that "the market really doesn't want to focus on numbers right now" or "but is this really a sign of recovery?'. Leave it to the naysayers to take the air out of the room.
Just to let you all know, I now have $50 more for my Christmas shopping. It was donated by the shop steward from the union local (read: staunch Dem) in a bet we had that it would hit 10,000 before Christmas (it was the inspriation for my original post).
Oh, and just to let those who would wish my finances ill know, my 401K didn't lose a penny in this 'recession'. I am actually way ahead now.
Tip#1 Take care of your own business. Package deals suck.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:35 AM | Comments (1)
Got a minute
Take a lookee here
Saddam of Iraq vs Asad of Syria: The Twin-regimes of Terrorism
It has juicy comparos like this;
Baath Rule of Iraq:
The opposition figures were persecuted, arrested, executed and even assassinated abroad. Iraq became a police-state ruled by fear and brutality.
The dictator of Iraq was running fake elections were he was ‘re-elected’ as president with 99.99% of the votes for consecutive terms until he was overthrown in April 2003
Baath Rule of Syria:
The opposition figures were persecuted, arrested, executed and even assassinated abroad. Syria became a police-state ruled by fear and brutality.
The dictator of Syria was running fake elections were he was ‘re-elected’ as president with 99.99% of the votes for consecutive terms until he died in 2000. His son Bashar inherited his father’s position and policy in 2000 and started his own 99%-vote elections.
And much, much more.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)
And it has begun
The Democrat Party is stabbing itself in the back.
Former Clinton war room capo James Carville is trashing ex-Vice President Al Gore's decision this week to endorse Howard Dean, saying that Gore looked like "a corpse" at Tuesday's announcement ceremony in Harlem.
"It was the perfect picture of a doctor and a corpse standing there," Carville told radio host Don Imus Thursday morning.
The Clinton hit man also derided Dean's decision to bring Gore to Harlem in a bid to appeal to African-Americans, saying Gore could never compete with his old boss.
Keep at it Dems.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:54 AM | Comments (0)
Update
On the 'Sad News' post from Tuesday.
Pentagon Identifies Stryker Brigade Soldiers Killed In Iraq
The Department of Defense on Thursday identified the dead soldiers as:
Staff Sgt. Steven H. Bridges, 33, of Tracy, Calif.
Spc. Joseph M. Blickenstaff, 23, of Corvallis, Ore.
Spc. Christopher J. Rivera Wesley, 26, of Portland, Ore.
They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis near Tacoma.
I've heard that a service will be held today at Ft. Lewis, but I do not believe that the general public is invited.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:51 AM | Comments (0)
Step by step
I found this over at Ravenwood's Universe and I share his sentiment on the subject.
Coalition chairwoman Samantha Lee says the use of a stolen semi-automatic Glock pistol in a gunfight at a Hurstville carpark in Sydney on Sunday shows that legal handguns can easily become illegal guns.
Ms Lee says the ownership of such guns outside the police force should be banned.
"We question why anyone within Australia requires a semi-automatic handgun for civilian use," she said.
"The high increase or number of guns moving into the illegal market actually fuels the number of hand guns into the illegal market.
"So it's like stopping a leaking tap."
And what was RW's sentiment?
When someone tells you that the plans for American firearm registration will never lead to confiscation, kick them squarely in the nuts!
Posted by Nukevet at 12:41 AM | Comments (2)
On the job training
Say you work at a convenience store. Your boss wants you to know what to do in case of a robbery. Who does he call?
Armed Robbery Trainers, of course.
Hugging the floor of the convenience store and cradling her head in her arms, Kristin Johnson waited to hear the click of the trigger.
One image seared her mind: Norfolk, Neb., where five people were killed last year in a bank massacre.
"My first thought was, 'Oh, my God, I am going to die.'"
But the terrorized Johnson wasn't physically injured. She and six other managers were unknowing participants in an armed-robbery training session organized by their employer, the Lincoln-based Gas 'N Shop convenience stores.
While I support the employer in being able to train his employees for situations suck as robberies and I know that it was all set up so that no one was hurt, I fear what would have happened to someone like myself had I walked into that store.
I don't go to the range often for nothing, ya know.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:36 AM | Comments (2)
More cool science stuff
So the Doc goes and tells us all about that new prime number with 6.3 million digits yesterday, but I have the real good science news.
Canadian scientists have found that "Pretty women make men behave irrationally"
Leave it to the canucks to just figure this out.
Must be the parkas and touqes.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:26 AM | Comments (0)
December 11, 2003
I, for one, am shocked, SHOCKED I say
To learn that the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president might "leave out" certain inconvenient facts when attacking Bush.
It seems to be a universal leftist phenomenon, eh?
Posted by Nukevet at 07:11 PM | Comments (1)
Ahhhh, yes
Sure is easy to see why we should all be running towards the beautiful utopia that is communism, no?
Posted by Nukevet at 07:01 PM | Comments (3)
But wait,
Posted by Nukevet at 06:36 PM | Comments (0)
Oh, Yeah
And then there's this
Posted by Nukevet at 03:58 PM | Comments (1)
As if we needed it
Here is another reason to not give into the UN in Iraq and to cheer their departure.
Crime, terror flourish in 'liberated' Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing, smuggling rampant under UN's aegis.
Four years after it was "liberated" by a NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo has deteriorated into a hotbed of organized crime, anti-Serb violence and al-Qaeda sympathizers, say security officials and Balkan experts.
Though nominally still under UN control, the southern province of Serbia is today dominated by a triumvirate of Albanian paramilitaries, mafiosi and terrorists. They control a host of smuggling operations and are implementing what many observers call their own brutal ethnic cleansing of minority groups, such as Serbs, Roma and Jews.
In recent weeks, UN officials ordered the construction of a fortified concrete barrier around the UN compound on the outskirts of the provincial capital Pristina. This is to protect against terrorist strikes by Muslim extremists who have set up bases of operation in what has become a largely outlaw province.
Now take that last sentence and subsitiue 'Israel' for 'UN'.
Hmm, as usual, the UN says 'for me, but not for thee'.
Bastards.
Found @ Right Thinking from the Left Coast.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)
Now it's not Christmas without.....
Nat King Cole
A tribute site. I know he's from a time long past, but his music is as much a part of the season as Santa Claus is anymore.
That's a pretty decent legacy to have really.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:38 PM | Comments (0)
Cool Science Shi.., er, stuff
New "largest" prime number. Over 6.3 MILLION digits.
A new meaning for the term "stop light". This one is actually tough for me to fathom.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:16 PM | Comments (2)
Have you had your dose of Lileks today?
But the Democrats want revenge. For Florida. For Bush's refusal to let France and Germany decide American foreign policy. For invading poor, helpless, never-hurt-a-fly Iraq. For making the Dixie Chicks feel uncomfortable. Not for drilling in ANWR, but for wanting to. For this and a thousand other sins, Bush must pay -- and if al-Qaida detonates a nuke in the Baltimore harbor during President Dean's term, it'll be Bush's fault for toppling the fascists of Iraq without the approval of Syria and China.
Nicely done don't you think?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:00 PM | Comments (1)
Dude, what would you do for a free veggie wrap?
Satire or Serious? You decide.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:52 PM | Comments (4)
Speaking of ideologically driven hatred
The left's advice to Islamic terrorists in Iraq: kill more civilians (especially westerners).
While Iraqis have every right to shoot and kill occupation soldiers, that isn't necessary the most effective way to influence George Bush. Quite a few of the people who fund Bush's election campaign are involved in the latest corporate gold rush ("reconstruction") in Iraq. Attacking their interests might be a quicker way to get the president into listening mode. The lives of American soldiers are dear, but four more years in the White House are priceless.
Notice that Gabriel Ash chooses to live in the United States. Seems like there would be a lot of places he would prefer. Funny that he focuses on the steel tariffs, while ignoring the EU stance on things like GM foods. There's those old ideological blinders again.
Via Right Wing News
Posted by Nukevet at 08:16 AM | Comments (3)
UH-OH, Time to be scared
EU countries shut out of reconstruction $$ are angry.
Is there any better example of exactly how blatantly cynical France, Germany, and Russia are with respect to this entire process. Obstructed the war effort - not because they were necessarily opposed to war, but because they didn't want to disturb their sweetheart deals with Saddam. In fact, their anti-war/pro-Saddam stance all but insured that war was inevitable. Contributed nothing to the coalition. But now want to profit from the reconstruction.
Posted by Nukevet at 08:07 AM | Comments (0)
Madeline who?
Oh that's how it's played, give the Europeans the respect of an upraised middle finger in response to their back biting craven behavior, and end up with the dreggs of past democratic adminstrations wailling over it.
Several times this year, Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned that countries that did not assist in Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein could not expect to be rewarded.
Still, Germany called the decision unacceptable.
Right..............they may feel free to go fuck themselves now. It's OK, we'll wait, I got a newspaper here somewhere.........What goes around comes around, these pissant hypocrites have been making a fortune off Saddam's mafia state, they threw away their only chance to do the right thing. Now they are upset because they are getting their proper level of respect?
Screw them, the proper level of respect that they deserve is laying on the bottom of as many as 270 mass graves. They can dig for it themselves. Nobody else cares anymore about their pride.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:14 AM | Comments (0)
The Media Lies
Imagine that!
When hear the words "Israeli Security Fence" do you think of this?
Or this?
Fully 97% of the barrier will be a chain-link fence.
I found this report at Dangerous Liberty Blog. Another who linked to the Pro Troops Rally post. He found it at Allah Pundit.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:06 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Amazing how when oppression is real...
The call is for America to help. Neal's right the western protester is a coward, a sniveling, whining little bitch with no common sense or reason. Because what they are protesting against, is what many thousands of people are protesting for in Iran and Iraq. Democracy, freedom, the very things these anarchist and commie rats hate so much.
Maybe if they took off the red colored glasses, they could see just how unpopular their "vision" truely is. Communism is nothing but a retro-fringe movement in the west, barely worthy of notice, which is why they try and hide behind front groups. When exposed for what they are, the room empties pretty fast.
Maybe they should take a peek at what real protesters look like.
Posters and tracts that were distributed had many slogans in favor of US intereference in Iran. A poster read "Establish democracy with American boots", another one read "foreign oppression is preferable to domestic oppression" . The cover of a student magazine carried by everyone stated "Establishing democracy and freedom has the highest value even if its through occupation and foreign interference".
A tract read: "Our main enemy is not the US, our main enemy is inside of our house".
People who want to be free always come to us for help, for stinky cheese and lessons in back biting, there's always Europe.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:16 AM | Comments (1)
In local news
Here in King County (aka the Seattle Metro area) our police officers are called 'Sheriff's Deputies". Their boss is the King County Sheriff Dave Reichert. Sheriff Reichert is a good man. Earlier this year it was rumored that he was contemplating a run for the soon-to-be-open Governor position. I not only would have voted for him, I would have worked for his campaign. But alas, he has come out denying all of those rumors saying that, for now, he likes his position as Sheriff.
Reichert is a rough and tumble guy. During his time as a Sheriff's Deputy, he was shot, had his throat cut and was run over in two seperate traffic stops.
He is also a straight talker.
His Sheriff's Department is/was the one investigating the Green River Killer cases. Recently, the investigation's budget was looked at by the King County Council. And they were not happy. Over the course of the investigation they have run over budget by $1.7 million dollars.
He sent them a letter;
Reichert wrote: "For 20 years, there were some county officials who believed that these girls and young women did not deserve justice. The ... Sheriff's Office was often on the losing side of those battles over resources. Some felt that county money was better spent on pet projects or to advance political careers instead of to bring justice to these families and our community."
Ooooh, that had to hurt.
Because it is so true.
Normally, I would be incredibly pissed off about my county government losing $1.7 million. But I think that in this case, the catching of the longest running mass murderer the US has ever seen is a good excuse for a budget blowout.
And while I would like to see Ridgeway swing for the crimes he committed, I'll let the families of the victims pass judgement in this case.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:45 AM | Comments (1)
Jarjar/harmonia's pet cause, heh...
Scottish Socialist Party , ass end of the communist world movement. He claims they made huge strides in the last election, well when you start from zero, anything is better. But in this case, worse than pathetic. In the last parlimentary election they garnered, drumroll please,...............a whopping 1.81% of the vote. The got a whole six seats. Conservatives are a minority there and they got eight times the support these ivory tower commie inbreds got.
Let the laughter begin.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:35 AM | Comments (6)
I like the way this guy thinks
Posted by Nukevet at 01:09 AM | Comments (0)
Blindfold and cigarette, sir or madam?
Should be the last thing these bastards hear.
MSNBC Producer: Reporters "Feel Vindicated" By Setbacks in Iraq
A month ago MSNBC producer Noah Oppenheim traveled to Iraq to "find out if things had really gone as horribly wrong as the evening newscasts and major print dailies reported." In the latest Weekly Standard, he recounted how found that "the mounting body count is heartbreaking, but the failure of American journalism is tragic." Oppenheim discovered that "America has brought to Iraq the notorious Red State-Blue State divide. Most journalists are Blue State people in outlook, and most of those administering the occupation are Red." Since "most journalists did not support this war to begin with," Oppenheim observed, they "feel vindicated whenever the effort stumbles."
I've got something else for them to 'feel'. At least for a second or two.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:05 AM | Comments (0)
The Lefts definition of 'diversity'
One month to the day after the Republican club at Wells College (an all-women’s college located in Aurora, NY) published a study revealing a grossly disproportionate number of left-wing professors on its faculty, the student government denied recognition to the club as an official campus organization.
On November 7th, the Wells Republicans issued a press release describing the study they had conducted of the political party registrations of the members of the social sciences and humanities faculties at the college. The study revealed that members of parties of the Left (Democrats, Greens, Working Families) outnumbered Republicans by a ratio of 92 percent to 8 percent.
A Wells professor responded to the study calling Republicans "stupid" and calling for Republicans to be forcibly lobotomized.
I am waiting for a good 'Affrimative Action' story to come down the pipe. I have a comparison that I think you will find 'incitefull'. ( I do not mean 'insightful')
Posted by Nukevet at 01:01 AM | Comments (0)
Today's version of 'Blame Bush'
Another reason to laugh at Kerry,
Kerry blasts president over carcinogenic fuel additive...
That Kerry helped promote in 1990
In a classic case of the political pot calling the kettle black, Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration over failing to be accountable for the disastrous fallout of the use of a fuel additive deemed carcinogenic, without mentioning he was behind legislation that mandated its widespread use.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:55 AM | Comments (0)
In more Kerry News
While I generally try not to believe anything written in El Guardian, I have no trouble believing this.
Kerry Asks FEC to Block NRA Media Plan
Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry doesn't want to tune in to a National Rifle Association channel anytime soon.
The Massachusetts senator sent Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub a letter Tuesday asking the commission to block any attempt by the NRA to get a media exemption to campaign finance rules.
The gun-rights lobby is considering acquiring a television or radio outlet and seeking the same exemption from campaign finance rules that news organizations have. If the group won a media exemption, it would be free to say whatever it wanted about candidates at any time and spend unlimited amounts doing so.
"We urge you to prevent the NRA from hijacking America's airwaves with the gun lobby's money,'' Kerry's letter said. "If the NRA has something to say, it can play by the rules, just like the millions of people in America who do every day.''
Because only MoveOn.org has the right to tell the people what to think, right John?
Posted by Nukevet at 12:54 AM | Comments (1)
December 10, 2003
I wonder what would happen if these people
Iraqis protesting Islamic terror in their country, ever met up with these people:
leftist "peace protestors", who wanted to leave Saddam and his thugs in power to brutalize the populace of Iraq forever?
Personally, I think the Iraqis would kick the proverbial ever-lovin crap out of the "pro-Saddam, pro-terror" group. But that's just my opinion.
For a lot more on these protests, go here.
And now, some Nukevet commentary:
Give people a chance at freedom and the right to live unafraid and most will jump at the opportunity. Yet STILL we hear the screams of "no blood for oil, it's all about Halliburton", while the leftists and America haters steadfastly ignore the silent witness of half a million bodies in mass graves. That they are unable to overcome their ideologically driven hatred of the US to show any empathy for the innocent victims of Iraq is telling, indeed. But of course, to show sympathy for the suffering endured by an entire people, and to acknowledge that the suffering was, if not abated, at least alleviated by the actions of the coalition would be to admit that the removal of Saddam was the correct path. It is pathetic to see a group whose hearts are so hardened and whose souls are so shriveled that they cannot, even for the briefest period, feel happy for the Iraqi people. But, of course, that might suggest that America was in the right, an admission they will never make.
Here's a question - if all we wanted was Iraq's oil, why didn't we just make a deal with Saddam to buy it (like the French and Germans, in open defiance of "international law". Law, apparently, that is only important when America is somehow involved. But I digress). Let's get Bush, Halliburton, Saddam, whoever else together in a big room, pay Saddam whatever he wants, let him terrorize the entire region, and just sit back and drive our big, air conditioned SUV's to the mall and back, where we buy as many electricity guzzling gadgets as will fit into the back of said vehicle.
When you watch 10,000 people put their lives at risk to march against the regime of Saddam Hussein and the Islamist terrorists that have infiltrated their country, you can only feel contempt for the �peace� activists who tried mightily to condemn them to further torment. These �anti-war� groups are composed of people who risked nothing (including the human shields, who ran when it became obvious that Saddam was going to use them as, you know, human shields) while standing by and watching thousands (tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?) of Iraqis be raped, tortured, murdered. These �peace activists� used the war as a vehicle for their ideological war against the US, supporting Hussein and abandoning the people of Iraq without so much as a backward glance. Never has the full meaning of the term �useful idiots� been more apparent than now.
Pathetic. Nauseating. Despicable. Vile. Perverse. I don�t know, you pick the one that fits best. Of all the fitting adjectives one could apply to this group, I think COWARDLY is the most appropriate. What else would you call it when you are willing to stand by and let a nation suffer at the expense of your ideology?
Posted by Nukevet at 09:59 PM | Comments (0)
Do you know what "The Project" is?
Posted by Nukevet at 09:14 PM | Comments (0)
Hahahaha!
To those countries that accepted none fo the risk, but now want to "profit" from the reconstruction of Iraq: ppppbbbbbbbbtttthhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Let's see: shared none of the risk: check.
Have contributed little, if anything to the Iraqi reconstruction: check.
Threatened to pull out if they don't get lucrative contracts: check.
So tell me, who are the REAL war profiteers here?
UPDATE:
OK, so I see that I have double posted for 2 consecutive days. Once on a post of Mark', and now AK beats me to the punch. That's what I get for being a daywalker.
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The Soundboard
It was a difficult choice, but I finally made it. This weeks selection was picked partially due to Mr. Brent's song that I linked to on Monday. I would love to hear a band like his cover this song.
This weeks song is from ZZ Top's sophmore effort, 1972's 'Rio Grnade Mud'. While I liked their first album pretty well, this album hooked me. If all you've ever heard from ZZTop is "La Grange" or 'Gimmie all your lovin'" or just about anything else that was popular on FM rock radio, you definitely need to load this baby up.
And here you go,
ZZTop's "Just Got Paid"
(lyrics below)
If y'all are nice, maybe sometime this summer I'll whip out my 18 minute, live version of 'Cheap Sunglasses'.
NEXT WEEK: Christmas songs played on instruments made out of dead animals!
I just got paid today,
got me a pocket full of change.
Said, I just got paid today,
got me a pocket full of change.
If you believe like workin' hard all day,
just step in my shoes and take my pay.
I was born my papa's son,
when I hit the ground I was on the run.
I had one glad hand and the other behind.
You can have yours, just give me mine.
When the hound dog barkin' in the black of the night,
stick my hand in my pocket, everything's all right.
I just got paid today,
got me a pocket full of change.
Said, black sheep, black, do you got some wool?
Yes, I do, man, my bag is full.
It's the root of evil and you know the rest
but it's way ahead of what's second best.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:54 AM | Comments (1)
Even more gratuitous linkage
Yet another Pro Troops Rally likner, Spot On @ Alarming News, put up a 'Thinker' post this morning.
Because women are naturally less violent.
We're getting used to seeing children with guns and bombs, but it's easy for us to blame that on their fathers. Their teachers. The men who "control their societies." Apparently, it's harder for us to think of terror as a force that can be women-driven.
In Russia, not long ago, Chechen women in black shrouds kept watchful eyes on terrified would-be theater-goers. But they were not in charge of the project, and some expressed a desire not to be there. Generally, they seemed to be more compassionate than their camo-clad counterparts. I hadn't thought much about female-driven terrorism in Russia since.
Until today, when a women suspected of intending to blow up the Parliament building detonated herself in Moscow.
Give it a read. Let her know what you think.
UPDATE: The link works now
Posted by Nukevet at 01:41 AM | Comments (1)
For your review
I actually found a sane person to talk with over my local IMC.
He goes by the name of 'The Chocolate Fireball' and he was taken with this statement of mine, "Your witch hunt for useless facts is even more childish than anything the Repubs did to Billary."
He is wondering how I came to this theory. I don't know why he chose this particular statement, but here is my question to you;
Do you believe this?
We have gone through the motions of defining words and both agreed that a group with hate is inferior to one without. I contend that since the anti-Clinton crowd only had disdain for him, that they are superior to the Bush-haters because they actually do hate him.
I have settled on this sentence to explain my earlier statement,
"The anti-Clinton group was superior to the Bush haters because it's members did not have hatred for Clinton."
The link to the post on which we are discussing this is here and the Fireball comes into the discussion about halfway down the page.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:39 AM | Comments (0)
The Scrooge Patrol
Got some nut bugging your school administrators about the 'Christmas Songs' that are going to be included in your childs 'Winter Concert'?
Is your company having a 'Holiday Party' instead of a 'Christmas Party'?
Who you gonna call?
I was listening to the radio last night and head from a representative from the ADF. You could call them 'The Anti-ACLU'.
Did you know that the majority of the time, when say, a school changes their 'Christmas Concert' to a 'Winter Concert' it is not because of case law, but because of the misunderstanding of case law by school officials. Or because some small group of whackos mentions the ACLU.
Well, these guy have a nationwide network of over 700 legal eagles that can counter the ACLU's legal beagles (all apologies to any beagles out there).
Generally, all it takes is one ADF's guys sending a letter to said school or workplace desk jockey to straighten the whole thing out.
Last year, An Army SF officer came home from Aghanistan to his home town for Christmas. His town had a community "Holiday Tree" in the town center and citizens could donate ornaments to have hung on the tree. The officer presented a red, white and blue ornament that had three words on it. It said "God Bless America'. The person behind the donation counter said that he couldn't accept the ornament because of what it said. After a short discussion, the officer left and went home and called the ADF.
The ornament was up the next day.
Now, I have stated before that I am what most would call a deist heathen. But this 'anti-Christmas' crap really hits me in the wrong place. And I really don't like to be hit.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:34 AM | Comments (1)
Two weeks ago
Japan showed us that they had some extra soccerballs.
Now, they're showing us that they have some real balls.
Japan decided today to deploy ground troops to join the American-led war in Iraq, in what will be its most ambitious military operation since its surrender to the United States at the end of World War II.
After months of agonizing, punctuated by the weekend state funeral of two diplomats gunned down in northern Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet approved a plan to send up to 600 ground forces to southeastern Iraq, in a mission to last from six months to one year.
The troops, though considered non-combat, will be the most heavily armed since Japan began tentatively dispatching its Self Defense Forces overseas a decade ago. They will engage in humanitarian efforts, including establishing water and medical services, and rebuilding schools and infrastructure.
The Defense Agency is expected to set a timetable for the dispatch next week, though the mission is likely to get under way early next year.
Both links were found at Right Thinking from the Left Coast
Posted by Nukevet at 01:12 AM | Comments (1)
When you lie with dogs
You may get fleas.
But you sure as hell ain't getting no reconstruction contracts.
The Pentagon has barred French, German and Russian companies from competing for $18.6 billion in contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, saying the step "is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States."
The directive, which was issued by the deputy defense secretary, Paul D. Wolfowitz, represents perhaps the most substantive retaliation to date by the Bush administration against American allies who opposed its decision to go to war in Iraq.
The administration had warned before the war that countries that did not join an American-led coalition would not have a voice in decisions about the rebuilding of Iraq. But the administration had not previously made clear that French, German and Russian companies would be excluded from competing for the lucrative reconstruction contracts, which include the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure and equipping its army.
So, hows that unemployment rate goin' for ya frenchie?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:05 AM | Comments (3)
Arguing with 'intellectuals'
Chrisopher Hitchens, in an article at FrontPageMag.com, talks about why arguing with the anti-war/anti/America crowd is so mind-numbingly painful at times.
The truly annoying thing that I find when I am arguing with opponents of the regime-change policy in Iraq is their dogged literal-mindedness. "Your side said that coalition troops would be greeted with 'sweets and flowers!' " Well, I have seen them with my own eyes being ecstatically welcomed in several places. "But were there actual sweets and flowers?" Then again, "You said there was an alliance between Bin Laden and Saddam, and now people think that Saddam was behind 9/11." Well, the administration hasn't said there was a 9/11 connection, but there are reams of verifiable contact between al-Qaida and Baghdad. Bin Laden supported Saddam, and his supporters still do, and where do you think this lovely friendship was going? "But there's no direct link between Saddam and 9/11." Finally, "You said that weapons of mass destruction would be found, and they haven't been." Well, what I said in my Slate/Plume book was that the programs were latent—which is why we wouldn't face WMD in case of an invasion, as the peace movement kept saying we would—but that I had been believably told of stuff hidden in a mosque and that I had every reason to think that Saddam Hussein was trying to make up for what he'd lost or illegally destroyed by buying it off the shelf from North Korea. Incidentally, if the Iraqis destroyed the stocks they had once declared, they were in serious breach of the U.N. resolutions, which stipulated that they be handed over and accounted for. "But they said they'd find actual stuff."
This is not just tiresome in itself. It convinces me that, if the Bush and Blair administrations had not raised the overdue subject of Saddam's hellish regime, nobody else was going to.
Yep. Go read the rest.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:01 AM | Comments (1)
Reason #28
Not to piss off the garbage man.
Want to know what I've been doing so far this week?
Showing the snow virgins how to chain up their trucks.
Do you think I could pass this off as modern art?
Oh, as for the title of this post. Reason #28 not to piss off the garbage man is because his vehicle has 'Schwarzenegger' tires.
You are puny. They will crush you.
Even off the truck, the assembly you see in the pics weighs over 300lbs. I had one guy crunch his hand while practicing the instal. That is why we don't let them go at it for the first time when the snow falls.
More reasons to follow at a later time. I'll see if I can find the pic of what happens when you piss off a guy with forks and he knows which car is yours or the ones that show how the grapple arm is a weapon.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:54 AM | Comments (0)
Dude,
Where's my ticketbook?
Premise,
County Sheriff's Deputy pulls over the mayor and a councilmember of a small town because said mayor had his car windows tinted darker than regulation. Deputy steps up to car to and asks mayor to roll down the window. Mayor does so and Deputy then sees an open container of alcohol.
Deputy then says "Dude, had me the alcohol."
Mayor files a complaint against deputy that ask that he be fired.
Why? Because the deputy called him 'Dude'.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:40 AM | Comments (1)
December 09, 2003
Ssmmokin'
This weeks entry for the Soundboard post has been selected, the doc has loaded it up lickety split and will be presented to you tomorrow morning.
Caution: This one cooks!
Posted by Nukevet at 02:17 PM | Comments (0)
Malvo has "disorder"
Sure he does. It's called being a f#cking psychopath.
Sayeth the psychobabbler:
�He is, in my experience, a very unusual, rare case,� said Cornell, of the University of Virginia.
Translation: I really don't know what, if anything, is wrong with him. But if I couch it in enough psychobabble AND claim that it's so rare that no one has ever written on it before, how are you going to prove that he DOESN'T have it.
No shit he's got a "disorder". He helped kill to random people in a sniper attack meant to do nothing more than instill fear and extort money. I don't care if he was the spotter or the trigger man - he is equally culpable in these deaths.
I wonder if I cold make big bucks on the "professional witness" circuit? No one would care that I was a veterinarian, as long as I said the right stuff.........
Posted by Nukevet at 02:00 PM | Comments (3)
Oh, yeah
Shortly after trading began, the Dow briefly topped the psychologically-relevant 10,000 level for the first time during a session since May 31, 2002. But the industrials quickly gave back that level, struggling in rangebound trade for the rest of the morning. The Dow had closed Monday's trade within points of 10,000. The last time the Dow closed above 10,000 was May 24, 2002, when it settled at 10,104.26.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:54 PM | Comments (1)
Redux
Back in May I entered this post about how Howard Dean looks like McGovern and how I thought that he was going to play McGovern in a replay of the '72 election.
Back then, with less than 3 weeks under my blogger belt, I didn't know how to post a pic. So here is the pic I was describing.
You be the judge (c'mon, give Dean some sideburns and thats it).
Also, when the election is over next November, I plan on using the graphic below at the IMC sites. I don't remember where I got it, but I think it will be suitable.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:43 AM | Comments (1)
Thunderbirds are........go!
AK, this is your fault, I followed your link to the good Watcher of Weasels, then to the esteemed Pave France: The British need more parking. Where upon this Hasbro Toy of an aircraft carrier came to my attention.
Mr. Moll.........pay special attention please.
Flaws in the "de Gaulle" have led to the use of propellers from it predecessor, the "Foch," because the ones built for "de Gaulle" never worked right. Worse, the nuclear reactor installation was done poorly, exposing the engine crew to five times the allowable annual dose of radiation. There were also problems with the design of the deck, making it impossible to operate the E-2 radar aircraft that are essential to defending the ship and controlling offensive operations. Many other key components of the ship did not work correctly, and the carrier has been under constant repair and modification.
I must congratulate the humor of Gunsniper in the comments section, it was his idea. For those of you who do not remember the Thunderbirds..........
A reminder.
Kind of makes sense now doesn't it. The French have been getting their design ideas from a Brit sixties kid TV show for Christ's sake. Weren't the French supposed to have been good sailers once upon a time?
Posted by Nukevet at 02:54 AM | Comments (5)
Censorship anyone?
If you zipped around the blogosphere yesterday, you probably saw people talking about the latest Charles Krauthammer article.
It spoke about Howard Dean's helping spread the myth that 'George W Bush knew about the September 11th attack ahead of time, but did nothing to stop them so that he could go to war and enrich his friends' across the airwaves of (surprise!) NPR.
You may have even read it in your local newspaper. But I didn't.
Every Sunday the Seattle Times carries Krauthammer's artcles. Except for this Sunday.
You see, Charles wasn't very kind to Howard in that article and the Times loves Dean with a passion. It must have saddened the newspaper's staff to have to read Krauthammer's piece that morning.
I know it pained them. Because they refused to publish it.
With all of the BS 'censorship' claims coming from the left lately, I just figured I pass one around as well. I do not actually believe that this was an example of censorship because I was able to read the article elsewhere.
It just shows where their heads are at.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:49 AM | Comments (0)
Code Pinko
In an article from FrontPageMag.com we read about the founding members of the 'Code Pink' activist group. Namely, Jodie Evans.
Evans rose to prominence via her role in Code Pink for Peace, a self-described “grassroots peace and social justice movement” formed just one year ago to organize public protests against America’s impending war in Iraq. Though its leaders benignly present themselves to the public as ordinary, concerned women who would simply rather “wage peace” than go to war, this group was in fact founded by four experienced activists and hardcore communists - Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself Starhawk. Code Pink works closely with United For Peace and Justice, whose leader Leslie Cagan is a longtime devotee of Fidel Castro and the Socialist Party USA.
Another Code Pink ally is Medea Benjamin’s group Global Exchange, which has strong ties to the communist Workers World Party. Imbued with a deep hatred for the United States and capitalism in general, Benjamin is a pro-Castro activists who lived in Cuba (and was married to a Cuban) was a principal organizer of the 1999 Seattle riots in which some 50,000 protesters wreaked havoc and tried to shut down the World Trade Organization meetings.
Are you really surprised?
UPDATE: I found this report filed by Starhawk at my local IMC. She is claiming victory at the FTAA riots that took place in Miami.
Miami: A Dangerous Victory By Starhawk
For those of us who participated in the protests against the FTAA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, in Miami the third week in November, it's a bit hard to feel victorious. We are bruised, battered, worried about companeros still in jail, and grieving for the Jordan Feder, a young medic who died of meningitis after the action. We've been harassed, arrested, tear gassed, pepper sprayed, hit, beaten, assaulted, lied about, and in some cases literally tortured and sexually assaulted in jail, and we've stared directly into the naked red gaze of the New American Fascism.
Nevertheless we have had a significant victory that we need to understand and recognize, not least because it throws us into a new and very dangerous phase of activism.
I guess Starhawk is a frenchie
Posted by Nukevet at 01:38 AM | Comments (2)
More gratuitous linkage
Another linker to the Pro Troop Rally post, The Watcher of Weasles, gives us some new figures about how peaceful life is in france.
Long considered a dangerous country, the United States has recently seen its violent death rate decrease to the point that it is now inferior to Japan's or France's violent death rate.
Nice wording there, frenchie. Inferior? Inferior? If there was one classification in which I'd like America to be inferior to france, it would be this.
Have fun frenchie. Those Islamofascists are just a kick in the pants aren't they.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:32 AM | Comments (0)
Sad News
Three Fort Lewis Stryker Brigade Soldiers Killed In Iraq
Three soldiers were killed and one was injured Monday when two Stryker vehicles they were riding in rolled into a canal, Army officials said.
The Stryker Infantry carrier vehicles were traveling on a rural road during combat patrol northeast of Ad Duluiyah, Iraq, when an embankment collapsed, causing the rollover, Lt. Col. William MacDonald said from Tikrit.
They just arrived in country last week.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:22 AM | Comments (0)
VWRC in action
Hillary Clinton: 'Right-Wing Apparatus' to Blame for Troop Comment Firestorm
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she was right to tell U.S. troops that Americans back home were starting to doubt President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, calling complaints that her comments undermined military morale "the latest flaming charge by the right wing."
"Let me correct the record. It didn't happen," Clinton told CBS's "Face the Nation." "I know that's the latest flaming charge by the right wing, but that's not what happened."
The top Democrat claimed instead that she was merely responding truthfully to a question from a soldier with the 10th Mountain Division when she told him, "There are questions being raised about the administration's policies."
Of course it wasn't her fault that she said demoralizing things to the troops. A soldier made her do it.
Talk about blaming the victim.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:07 AM | Comments (1)
21st Century Rumble in Brighton
I wonder if this will catch the British left's attention?
Thirty years after Afro-Caribbeans in Walsall successfully fought off white skinhead thugs, their children face a fresh wave of attacks - this time from Pakistani gangs
Pakistani gangs are targeting us, say fearful black youths
In recent months Pakistani youths have threatened and assaulted dozens of Afro-Caribbean teenagers, according to leaders of the black community. Some have been roughed up; others seriously injured.
The town's 4,500-strong Afro-Caribbean population is increasingly concerned: they say that the attacks are racially-motivated and are becoming more frequent and more vicious.
Now, the Telegraph article identifies the Pak gangs as 'Asian', which technically they are. But you would think that they could get a little less 'intellectual' about it.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:01 AM | Comments (0)
Hmmmm
President Vladimir Putin profited from a nationalist tide to win powerful control over the Russian parliament in legislative elections Sunday, as his party dealt a crippling blow to Communists and may have ousted two pro-Western democratic parties.
Leave you opinions in the comments.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:50 AM | Comments (0)
Oh Canada
Get over yourself.
The Canadian government is warning its citizens not to appear "boastful" to Americans, who it says suffer from insecurity over the war in Iraq.
The report was compiled from focus groups held this fall in four U.S. cities where Canada is opening consulates, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper reported.
Once again: Canada, leading the world at being just north of America
Posted by Nukevet at 12:19 AM | Comments (0)
It's all the elves fault
You might have heard about this billboard in Spokane
I was listening to a radio show last night and got to hear from a couple of parents who got the opportunity to tell the 7 year old what impotence was. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Another mother had to calm her kids down (while in a moving vehicle) and tell them that Santa would still be stopping by their house this year. He had just dropped some of their toys down his pants.
Hey PETA, go brainwash your own kids. Leave everybody else's out of it.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:15 AM | Comments (1)
December 08, 2003
lonely child no longer
I think so. Wether secular or religious or some combination, Christmas is the best holiday for the child in you. When you can be a little more giving, a little nicer, a little more of the person you wish to be. My favorite is Dicken's Christmas Carol. A ghost story, yet one built on hope, not on dispair. It highlights the singular human aspiration, you can change for the better, you can walk among the "better angels of your nature". Fleetingly maybe, but for a time at least.
Redemption is one of my favorite themes. The criminal, in a moment of revelation makes a choice, sees the burning home, hears the cries, takes a risk and saves the child from the preverbial fire and is transformed. Scrooge is a sympathetic figure to me, because he is what he is, not because he's inherently bad, but because he's simply forgotten his humanity in the bitterness of life. Lost it along the side of the road. He makes the journey back, and all is saved and good again.
It's never that simple of course, but the principle isn't so wrong. I have had two lives really. the one where I was alone, no lover, no children. Life was all responsibility and the drudgery of work. I had an emptiness the size of a heart in my chest. I fell into depression after finally one death too many, and was just about ready to let it end. Not actively, but to just pull inward totally and shut down. I had had enough, my arthritis was undiagnosed in those days, I hurt in mind and body without really knowing why. Only that my life was empty. I would as easily have stepped in front of a moving train as pour a coffee.
Somehow, somewhere I found the strength to make a decision. Rejoin life, or continue down the road to a lonely death forgotten by everyone.
I chose life. I knew I needed to see someone, maybe find that certain person that was destined to complete my soul, join ours together. I stumbled around a bit, of the sweet ladies I knew who I would consider asking for their time, who would I be afraid would not say yes to allow me to see them? Not that I'm such a catch, but if there is enough of a concern that she would say no, then maybe, just maybe, there already exists a certain spark. I knew right away who I would ask.
She said yes.
You all know how this ends up. Child number three to make it's appearence hopefully in July. When we were engaged, it was in december. So maybe now you understand why I believe in redemption. Not just from bad behavior either. But the journey from darkness to light in your own soul. We can make amends, can make an effort to do the right thing. I do not claim sole credit in my shift to the light, I just took the first step. She made the difference, making me burn to keep her love, keep her faith in me. The credit is hers, and now, her's and our two proud children.
A man is not a solitary achievement.
Many hands come into play in our construction, many lessons, many mistakes to overcome. No male is born to be a man, that is something that takes effort. Just being male and thinking it's enough is a job half done. Too many remain boys their entire lives, never knowing the difference.
And it's never too late to learn that.
Merry Christmas to us all, and to those of you follow a different path, enjoy the seaon. It truely is a magical time, open yourself to it and the joy of life will find it's way to you. Sometimes on tiny feet, with brown eyes and a heart as big as love itself.
Posted by Nukevet at 08:22 PM | Comments (2)
the math of moralism
It's been pointed out lately that our loosing one or too men a day on average denotes another Vietnam, "quagmire" was said. I refuse to use the bastard number 1.55% that was qouted. no one is ever 55% dead, or 90% wounded. I won't use the numbers like that. Like many veterans, when I read or hear of a serviceman killed, I think of a face, a uniform, and a family. Maybe it's being foolish but I will never qoute decimal figures on death.
Give them at least that much respect.
But the statistics aren't as friendly to the anti-war crowd as they would have us believe. Not when the math gives us figures like this.
The U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq has said that at least 300,000 people are buried in mass graves in Iraq. Human rights officials put the number closer to 500,000, and some Iraqi political parties estimate more than 1 million were executed.
Without exhumations of those graves, it is impossible to confirm a figure. Scientists told The Associated Press during a recent investigation that they have confirmed 41 mass graves on a list of suspected sites that currently includes 270 locations.
I hope we loose no more people. I hope no more innocent Iraqi's suffer. But what kind of fool can say with a straight face that this war is immoral? The kind that doesn't actually oppose all war, just the ones where we are the good guys.
And we're winning.
Posted by Nukevet at 07:00 PM | Comments (0)
Now THAT'S a Quagmire
This from the people who want to know why democracy in Iraq is taking so long.
Posted by Nukevet at 06:30 PM | Comments (0)
When courage was all they had to hold the line.
The Curtiss P-40, strong, rugged, with a punch like a train wreck from it's battery of six Browning 50cal. machine guns. Amored, well protected, it was slower in a climb, not as nimble as it's enemies, but in the hands of skilled pilots.......It became a legend.
It didn't have the familar tiger paint scheme that day at Pearl, just standard USAAf olive with the early white star markings on the wings. I missed posting on Pearl on the 7th, no excuses, I simply failed to do so, family obligations cut short my time online. But I will not let it pass completely without comment.
So many accounts of that day have been written, all moving all important. But this one story always stuck with me over the others. Those two young pilots accomplished a miracle that day. They took on the second wave of the Japanese Imperial Fleet by themselves, and were credited with seven kills. They had no chance, were almost certainly as doomed as the dozens of pilots killed running to the scramble, cut down before they could get in the air to even the odds.
I can imagine the rage, the flood of boiling hot blood surging in their veins as they clawed their way into that morning sky through the smoke and flames. Roaring past the burning wrecks of their brothers who hadn't made it off the field. Who had been not killed in war, but murdered in the end of a false peace. Vengence, certainly, but also the frantic need to drive off the Zero's and Vals murdering their fellows, savaging the Navy. The urgency of fighting back.
Not all those sonsabitchs were going home.
Imagine too the stark Horror of Battleship row, all the terrible losses. The men were torn and ravaged, fighting on, desparate to get away from the docks, to fight their ships in the open seas. The never ending rain of bombs and bullets, the whine of aircraft engines. We were loosing, so many dead, so little to fight back with.
Fighting their way to the anchorage at Pearl, 2nd Lt.'s Ken Taylor and George Welch could see the smoke and fires. See the sinking ships. Out numbered a hundred to one they leaped to engage the bombers and Zero's. Think of it, a hundred to one and they dove in regardless of the very real certainty of their own deaths. Two planes could not end the attack, couldn't save the Fleet, but they did save the men who would have died at the bombs of the Vals they shot down.
They saved something else as well.
They saved the heart of a nation. Amid the disaster of Pearl Harbour, they fought back, fiercely pressing in, ripping one plane after another from the skies. They were defiance, a shining, glowing example to the survivors as they pulled eachother from the burning oil covered waters. The sound of an Allision engine they say was unique, deeper, stronger than the lighter ones of the Japanese. As they bore in, those sailors looked up, their ears telling them something was different. Imagine one more time, the explosion of hope, the radiance of strength they recieved as the Warhawks blasted through the smoke to pour hundreds of rounds into their tormenters. They cheered from the decks of burning vessels at the David and Goliath match they saw.
Courage is something that inspires, that gives hope.
The aftermath of Pearl was hard on everyone in our nation. The heroes of that day were so many, so very many, and we needed them all. The victory in 45 was a very long way off. We won, because of who we are, who they were. We aren't so different. Flight 93 proved that. We fight back, no matter the odds, the cost.
We can't not pursue victory in a battle of survival. The example of that day alone should give our enemies pause. We know pain and sacrifice, we know loss.
We also know courage, devotion. We know heroes.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:41 PM | Comments (1)
just for fun
This is a baby name finding site, my wife and I have settled on both a girl's and boy's names, but more on that in a bit. My name's meaning is listed here as defender,....ok, but here it's defined as,
MARK (English) Warlike
Much better. It's the classic definition. Supposedly traced back to the Roman God Mars, commonly Marcus in that time. The first site lists Neal as--leader. I won't show AK's since he chooses to remain unknown. But it's sort of appropriate as well. He can put it up if he likes, but I'll not violate his privacy.
What did we choose?
Well, these our our two children already.
AMANDA (Latin) Beloved
NATHAN (Hebrew) Gift from God
If it's a girl, it's to be Rebecca Cathrine.
REBECCA (Hebrew) Joined together
A boy, then Douglas Garret.
DOUGLAS (English) Thoughtful
I know that theres no serious connection between a persons name and what kind adult they turn out to be, but it's fun to play with. We are kind of a mind that it's going to be another girl, won't find out till maybe April, but we were both right twice before so who knows?
Rebecca was my mother's name. I like to think she's somewhere nice and smiling over her grandchildren, I hope so. Maybe there's a Guardian Angel position for her...........she would like that.
I believe there are....angels among us.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:57 PM | Comments (6)
Memories, in the corner of her mind,.......of the way she was.
So.............um,.............You don't think she MEANT to lie do you?
Me too.
Bab's, recipient of the Hoisted by her own Petard Award. Hollywood Looney Left Catagory.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:27 PM | Comments (0)
Actions have consequences
And note this bit from his "publicist":
BUT NOW Eminem�s rep is fuming that those lyrics were not necessarily going to be included on one of his CDs.
�That was from an unfinished track that was lost or stolen,� the rapper�s rep told The Scoop. �It was not anything we released, and may not have ever been released at all.�
Not sorry they did it, just sorry they got caught.
Don't get me wrong - Eminem can write and sing whatever he wants. But if it results in a few less albums being sold, or a visit from the secret service - whose fault is that?
Posted by Nukevet at 11:17 AM | Comments (0)
Really?...
From Drudge. Aren't these the same knuckleheads that are sore we haven't gotten a constitution ratified and in place in Iraq like so, oh......the day before yesterday? Clue to the clueless, democracy is hard work, you don't always get what you want, horse trading is a reality and thumbing your nose at the situation in Iraq when those yardbirds can't even do it on their own is really funny.
Poor little EU, would you like some help on the big words?
For a bunch of would be world leaders, they seem mired in the second grade a long time. The though (dream) of some in Europe that they can unify to counter balance the US is a joke. They can"t even agree on the time of lunch, let alone the menu.
I suggest crow.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:05 AM | Comments (0)
Give
If you read the comments from my final post on Saturday about the televising of the 2003 SCCA Run-offs, you probably saw Ms Sondra K's post about her activities that day.
She attended the South Sound Toy Run.
Every year, thousands of northwest motorcycle riders get together to collect toys and money for the Salvation Army's Christmas drive.
I haven't attended a run for a couple of years, mostly due to time constraints. But I do give.
To the The USMC Toys for Tots program
You mean to tell me that you didn't know that Santa is a Marine, boy?
P.S. Mike the Marine, you get first crack at this guy.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:34 AM | Comments (2)
Just a couple of quick Items
Item #1
Mike the Marine has a blog. From the Halls to the Shores.
Byline: The inane ramblings of a US Marine who thinks he knows it all, is aware of the fact that he doesn't, and has difficulty telling between the two.
Glenn Reynolds quote: Let Mike the Marine win your hearts and minds, or he'll burn your damn village down.
Good stuff.
Item #2
I'm still trying to choose the song selection for this week. So much music, so little time.
But in the meantime, I would ask that you swing by Mr. Brent's 'The Ville' and listen to his new tune.
It is a hotstepping rock and roll instrumental that his band, The Shooting Gallery, recorded with Mr. Steve Freguson of NRBQ fame, entitled 'Ohio River Sludge'.
From now on, I will be giving out recommendations on a scale. Any good rock fan knows the phrase "Play it until your fingers bleed". So I will be awarding up to 5 Bleeding Fingers to songs I recomend (yes, I know this isn't that original, but what do you want).
My Soundboard Posts will always be 5's.
Ohio River Sludge gets a solid 4 Bleedin' Fingers. The reason I only gave it 4 is because, like Mr. Brent says, it is not yet CD quality.
Update: I have spent the last hour updating my horribly neglected blogroll. Mike is now on it, as well as a few mre new ones. If you're not there and want to be, let me know via e-mail.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:09 AM | Comments (2)
Blog on
If you stop by Emperor Misha's place frequently, you probably have seen his post late Friday linking to a post by LC & IB Denita Twodragons' who posts with a guy you've probably seen in the comments section, Ironbear, over at Who Tends the Fires. I have to say that I agree with what she wrote.
Especially this paragraph;
Any experienced blogger knows all-too-well that feeling of desperation, as all that is selfish and base and evil in this world screams at the top of its proverbial lungs, drowning out and swallowing up the quiet and humble stories that take place. That agonizing moment of doubt as jackasses with nothing better to do than question you to a fare-thee-well leave you momentarily wondering whether anything you do will have the effect you hope for, or are you just slaving away at the keyboard for nothing. You go to bed with a lump of doubt in your throat, so tired and worn out from just...plain..trying to be good. You read page after page of bombings and mass-murders, and watch as clueless idiots casually state that the dead brought it on themselves, completely ignorant and morally dead to the possibility that there are in fact victims in this world. Compassion is pass�. Self-defense is a dying dinosaur, defending your friends is becoming even more extinct. The police will make all crime go away. If you ban guns, criminals will behave by the law. Love your enemy, even as he is tearing apart your family. You had that rape coming to you because you were dressed wrong, you are being suspended from school because you dared to say the wrong word out loud, you are being sued because you had the audacity to shoot the burglar who was brutalizing your friend...
Is it all worth it...?
Now, I do not consider myself an experienced blogger just yet, (especially when I stop by folks like Ms. Michele's A Small Victory) but I have experienced thie feeling Ms. Denita described. In fact I hit that wall on Sunday night last week.
Did you all notice the results? I did what I do everytime I hit a wall. I put my head down and move forward. And I can guarantee you who is going to win that fight.
Blog on sisters, blog on brothers. (yes, that is a rip off from Mr. Hendix)
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check this out!
A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) that would ban mind control weapons in space. Among the weapons that would be banned by the new measure are �psychotronic� devices that are �directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of ... mood management, or mind control.�
Dennis must have been slow to get this domain name. A cute parody site. www.kucinich.com. I think it's funny, but the funniest thing of all?
They aren't making this up................... Dennis really is crazy.
Update.......
I take it back,.....there is a funnier Kucinich site.
Only I doubt they think so.
Dr. David Leffler
Wappingers Falls, New York
Web: https://www.invinciblemilitary.org
Message:As a veteran and a military scientist, I endorse Dennis Kucinich because he interested in investigating alternatives to military action such as Invincible Defense Technology (IDT). The Department of Peace proposed by Dennis Kucinich would investigate new approaches such as this human resource-based technology for creating peace. IDT has been tried out in many war zones and conflict-prone areas with excellent results; the success has been scientifically validated and documented. Lt. Gen. Villamil, a former Ecuadorian Vice-Minister of Defense, used IDT to end Ecuador's war with Peru. Maj. Gen. Israni, editor of Combat Journal, argued that IDT could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. Please visit https://www.invinciblemilitary.org to see what presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has done and is doing to investigate Invincible Defense Technology.
Jesus make it stop, my ribs hurt...................
Why the Hell hasn't somebody tossed a big rubber net over Dennis yet?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:33 AM | Comments (2)
Last stop in weenieville
Found at my local IMC, the nitwit Lance Miller thinks he has found the answer to the "United States Conservative Agenda" in three sentences.
You can e-mail him with your suggestions if you like.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:32 AM | Comments (0)
You've won an exciting vacation!
In North Korea.
No Questions? Good. Now Enjoy Your Stay
In the surreal world of North Korean tourism, you can feast on local delicacies served by glamorous lady comrades, watch an acrobatics show infused with Stalinist humor and climb a storied mountain covered with plaques and monuments celebrating the totalitarian Kim clan.
But be back indoors by the midnight curfew -- or face fines, questioning by authorities or, well, worse.
But that is where the 'excitement' part comes from.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:18 AM | Comments (1)
Another pass is given
By the media, to a Dem canidate
The Viking Pundit finds something untrue on John "those weren't MY medals" Kerry's website (go figure).
Did anyone catch the fact that Kerry stated that "he voted no" on the medicare bill. He stated this in Florida yesterday before thousands of people, not once, but at least 3 times that I counted. Of course, I realize he was against the bill. However, he did NOT vote at all.
Led there by The Innoperable One.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:15 AM | Comments (0)
Talk about thugs and killers?
They don't even hide it anymore.
Hamas founder and spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin has told a German magazine that a Jewish state could be established in Europe. In interview excerpts slated for publication on Monday in Der Spiegel, Yassin opposed a two-state solution in which a Palestinian state would coexist next to Israel.
"That would not work," he said. "The Israelis claim 80 per cent of the territory and will only let us have 20 per cent. It would only be an interim solution."
It gets worse, the have the utter gall to demand all Israeli military actions cease immediately, yet want to reserve the option of killing Israeli's in the West bank and Gaza at whim.
Israeli officials have rejected an agreement between Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo to halt attacks on civilians inside Israel, but without declaring an end to attacks against soldiers or settlers in the territories.
The officials said the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will reject any cease-fire offer that does not include a complete halt of violence against all Israelis, and does not dismantle the Palestinian terror infrastructure in line with the demands of the road map peace plan.
So explain to me someone why this doesn't suggest that the Palestinian's supports in the west aren't at best incredibily stupid, or at worst, Jew hating pieces of shit? They don't even want peace, they say so openly. They want Israel destroyed, .......period.
The wall Israel is building looks more and more realistic doesn't it?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:06 AM | Comments (3)
Gratuitous Linkage
Another fellow who linked to the Pro Troop Rally post was Some Poor Schmuck.
And today we highlight this jem from last week.
But the UN should take over the fight in Iraq?
From the Washington Times:
108 nations decline to pursue terrorists
A U.N. monitoring committee complained yesterday that 108 nations have failed to file required reports on their actions in the war against terrorism, such as freezing assets and reporting the names of suspected terrorists.
Frustrated committee members said they are considering asking for a stronger Security Council resolution with "more teeth" to force compliance from member states.
Oh yeah, thats worked in the past.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:06 AM | Comments (1)
Just like Dolly Parton
They're workin' 9 to 5
(AP) The killers kept bankers' hours.
They showed up for work at the barley field at 9 a.m., trailed by backhoes and three buses filled with blindfolded men, women and children as young as 1.
Every day, witnesses say, the routine was the same: The backhoes dug a trench. Fifty people were led to the edge of the hole and shot, one by one, in the head. The backhoes covered them with dirt, then dug another hole for the next group.
At 5 p.m., the killers - officials of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party - went home to rest up for another day of slaughter.
Of course, according to left's moral relativism, it was all GHWB's fault. The barely restrained hostility of the 'International Community' threatening the US with sanctions if we drove on to Baghdad in '91 couldn't be responsible.
And in their minds, neither was Hussein.
Also found @ Some Poor Schmuck's blog
Posted by Nukevet at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)
More Progressive Math
If you remember my post on Progressive Math last week, you'll find this hilarious. If you don't remember, click the link.
Despite freezing temperature, plus snowy and slushy conditions on the ground, about 50 stouthearted protesters rallied at the York County, PA prison and also at a distribution plant owned by the Caterpillar Corporation. The Convergence for Human Rights sponsored the event, which was held on Sat., Dec. 6, 2003, and endorsed by over 66 groups (www.october18.org).
"We are out here protesting the government's treatment of immigrants, the USA Patriot Act and the erosion of our rights since 9/11," said Keith Dobson of York, PA. He continued, "We are also here to protest Caterpillar profiting from people's misery by selling its bulldozers to Israel."
How many groups endorsed this event?
How many people showed up?
This is known as 'The World is with Us' equation.
In honor of the Doc's Tigers, I think this calls for the all new 'Corrie' play (click the links)
330C - 527 - 937C - D9 - D9 - hut - hut - hike
There might be a pic below.....
Posted by Nukevet at 12:49 AM | Comments (0)
Oh, Yeah
Geaux Tigers
Posted by Nukevet at 12:41 AM | Comments (0)
No Cause for Alarm
I'm sure these were just misplaced. No reason for concern. Really.
Of course, according to the philosophy of some, we really shouldn't even start looking for these babies just yet. That's only allowable after one is detonated in Denver......
Posted by Nukevet at 12:18 AM | Comments (1)
December 07, 2003
Unsure if Kucinich is crazy?
Posted by Nukevet at 07:27 PM | Comments (2)
62 years ago
I remember.
On December 7th, 1941 this happened
Why did it happen?
Because the USA was imposing sanctions on Japan for doing things like this
That is live bayonet practice on civilians.
Sound familiar?
Editorial below
While looking for this photo I found many more horrible pics that beat the snot out of anything the media of today will release.
Caution: these site contain pics of children hacked to death by wannabe 'Samurai', women with their hearts cut out for refusing gratify officers, a pic of a rape in progress taken by a japanese soldier, more pics of live bayonet practice and things worse that what I have just mentioned.
The people who have not learned from history want us to ignore September 11th, 2001 and blame ourselves for it occurance.
They do not see that because we were imposing sanctions on Iraq, that Hussein could have possibly been involved. They hate the USA and everything it stands for. It's wealth and opportunity. The freedom that we alone in the world have.
And they can, in my personal opinion, go fuck themselves. I did not train tirelessly in my youth so that I would be able to defend myself and my beliefs against any foe who would attempt to take them away, just to allow some piece of shit who doesn't have the balls to actually stand up for what they believe in give it away.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:25 AM | Comments (5)
A crack in the solid left, and a peek of sunlight.
I wonder if they still talk to her in the Hallways at the Guardian?
To contemplate the thought processes of such individuals makes any decent person want to wash their hands until the slime of hypocritical hatred is swept away. But when whole sections of society peddle such lies, it's scarier still. And when carriers of the disease are shielded by those who govern us, you start to believe the lunatics have taken over the asylum: the EU's racism watchdog recently suppressed a report on the rise of anti-semitism because it concluded that Muslims were behind many incidents. What sort of world do we live in, when racism is "allowed" to be reported only if it comes from the white and the right? What about a stubborn, shimmering little thing called truth?
Jarjar would not approve of this piece. The Guardian has, as leftwing as it is, exhibited a touch of sanity on occasion. I'm sure they'll get over it as soon as they can.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:33 AM | Comments (1)
Ain't they cute........(Hooooccccck...pthew!)
That was very crude of me, and I suppose I should apologise, and I would, except...................it's parody! That means I have license to make up any lie, any slander, any insult I choose about public figures and you had better respect me for it. Just ask Tim (Hollywood revolutionary) Robins about it.
Oh, that's right, he's not talking to anyone now because he's being repressed. So repressed that he wears tux's and has millions in the bank, so distraught that he felt the need to fly down to Cuba and strike a deal with Castro to forment communist revolution in California. So heartbroken he's started righting Dennis Kucinich's speechs, so depressed, he's buying Philipino boys and flying then to Michael's Neverland ranch...................
Yeah, of course it's all bullshit. But that has never got in the way of a good oppurtunity to push an agenda now has it Timmy. I mean, Hell, that's how you do it right?
I am so tired of hateful personality disorders disguised as art. When actual fact is irrelevant to "truth" as portrayed by anyone. We all suffer. Fantasy is fantasy and should be labeled as such. Don't paint it in political dissent and put bows on it to push a lie.
If what Timmy believes is true, why is he still breathing?
Posted by Nukevet at 03:19 AM | Comments (2)
Oh Hell no, Did I really see her say that?
Hillary the first, Grand Dame of liberalism has just made a startling confession. This report from Drudge concludes with this bombshell.
"This administration is in danger of being the first in American history to leave our nation worse off than when they found it."
My emphasis, well this sheds a whole new light on the 92 campaign now doesn't it? Bill was lying about Bush 41's record all along! Thanks for clearing that up your Hillaryness, and here from the rhetoric coming from you and your dem friends, I thought you were saying no republican president ever did anything good. Everytime there's a race for president your side starts bitching about how "THEY WILL ROLL BACK THE CLOCK ON A CENTURY OF PRORESS!"....
Stop the lies already, nobody has been put against a wall today, no one has been locked away for slandering Bush, and Social Security will go bust because idiot whiners and oppurtunists like you will not allow any corrections to save it. It will run out of money because you keep people too afraid to accept changes, and it keeps your fat pink ass in the Senate.
So what will you say in twenty years when the money runs out Hillary?
Ooops?
Posted by Nukevet at 02:50 AM | Comments (2)
December 06, 2003
Thats It
For today.
I'll be watching this
SCCA Valvoline Runoffs at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Ya ever been, Mark?
I've only run a GT-3 car like these a few times and, while fun, I liked my ITA/ITB class.
Turn on your Speed Channel now. Yeah the commentators won't stop flapping their lips so that you can hear the cars and two of those lip flappers are arguing, but it is still 'Must See TV'.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:59 PM | Comments (1)
My response.........
I see it, and how do I respond?
You know there is such a thing as so low, so beneath the dignity of a garbage crawling earthworm, that words almost fail to convey the repulsion. They aren't worth my time, much as the desire exists to make them feel the shame that their mothers never imprinted on them for doing the unspeakably vile. They won't get the satisfaction of my rage, just the reality of my contempt for their barren frigid little souls.
I want to think of something like this.
I've been thinking a bit at that window. I've been reflecting on what the past eight years have meant and mean. And the image that comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical one - a small story about a big ship, and a refugee and a sailor. It was back in the early eighties, at the height of the boat people. And the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most American servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were refugees from Indochina hoping to get to America. The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck and stood up and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man."
Posted by Nukevet at 04:39 AM | Comments (0)
It's Raining, It's Pouring
The Dems are still whoring.
Sorry 'bout dat.
Anyway, it is raining here in Seattle (big surprise). But this rain has some sort of demon force winds behind it. I woke up yesterday to find about 10% of my neighbors roof in my front yard and the wind just hasn't died down. Over the last couple days, we have had sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of up to 70. And now the rain comes in.
I just drove home from work down 10 miles of Interstate 5, just south of Seattle. The average speed was about 40mph (as opposed to the normal 60+mph). Visibility was down to 100 to 150 feet with your high-beams on. Turning your wipers up to high just threw the water around on the glass without really making your windshield any clearer. Unless you count being able to see the sheets of water you were about to run into.
Man that was fun!
If I didn't need to get home and scarf some feed, I would have stayed out until the tank ran dry. I put in something with big beats, turned up the stereo, and tried not to smile too much.
I wish I had a video camera so I could show you some of the weather drama going on outside. I'd take pictures, but it is quite dark out. Oh well, at least the wind blew my leaves into the greenbelt across the street. Nature at work folks.
I hope you all have a good weekend, folks.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:31 AM | Comments (1)
Hey Frenchie,
Quit checking out the man's ass.
This pic gratuitously stolen from Rog over at Curmdgeonly & Skeptical. Apparently, Rumsfeld arrived in france to deliver our list of demands or something. Otherwise, we nuke 'em 'til they glow, and then shoot 'em in the dark.
A question: Would anyone donate money to a fund set up to build Rumsfeld a 1911 that would be presented to him? Possibly on behalf of the Blogosphere.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:02 AM | Comments (6)
December 05, 2003
Eye on the Left
Points out some more remarks by the "compassionate party".
Puggsly - do not follow this link if you have access to a lethal weapon nearby. Let's just say that these morons are, openly and proudly, celebrating what is happening to Ronald Reagan. Hateful stuff, indeed.
Posted by Nukevet at 07:34 PM | Comments (3)
Stay strong Dutch
I don't want to ruin your weekend, but I think that this is something that needs to brought up.
Former President Ronald Reagan, who suffers from advanced stages of Alzheimer's Disease, is now confined to a bed, rarely awake and unable to walk or talk, People magazine said in a report issued on Thursday.
In an essay accompanying the article about the former president's condition, daughter Patti Davis said people may still think Reagan, 92, is somewhat mobile and active, despite his well-publicized illness, because his family has guarded his privacy so zealously.
"When he is awake, which is not that often, he can gaze at the trees outside the window," Davis said.
And let's hope that he sees only saluting Americans standing in the treeline.
Somebody out there has to have a way that people can send holiday wishes and good thoughts to Mrs. Nancy or her people. Does anyone know?
Posted by Nukevet at 03:45 AM | Comments (2)
Something for your Christmas list
From an e-mail I recieved from Mollbot, I give you this link.
A State of Disobedience, a book by Tom Kratman
It is the story of the United States of the near future, after the election of a strongly left-wing President at a time when the Patriot Act and similar legislation has made that office more powerful than it has ever been. The President begins to move to extend the Executive Office's personal control over the organs of the Federal government, especially such agencies as Homeland Defense, the FBI, CIA, ATF, and EPA, among others. The President creates several other agencies as well, essentially as covers for building a Praetorian Guard for the Executive. One of the agencies' offices in Texas makes a fatal blunder while "investigating" a vocal anti-abortion group, and winds up bringing the Lone Star State to a boil. Outnumbered, outgunned and with little hope of winning a fight against the Federal Forces, Texas makes its stand anyway.
Take a look at his site to see the other book he bought too.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:47 AM | Comments (1)
Mea Culpa from the IMC
You have probably read about the pending closure of the brick and mortar portition of the Seattle IMC. Doc posted about it on Wednesday.
Well, with all the stories flying around, someone from the IMC decided to step out on the balcony and pull an Eva Peron. This should be read to the tune of "Don't cry for me Argentinaaaaa!" Please substitute 'Seattle' for 'Argentina'.
Now to more personal business. I have not gotten a response from either Moonbat #1 or #2 on the subject of the Friday Night Fights. My gauntlets are getting dirty from throwing them down so often.
But some peace weenie calling him/herself Elisabeth was so mentally bruised by the activity that she felt the need to pull a Rodney King/Reginald Denny "Can't we all just get along?"
Well, sorry Elisabeth, but there is no way I'm running from one (or two) of these guys.
I've even made up a 'Moonbat Tag'
Posted by Nukevet at 12:44 AM | Comments (2)
Apologist or Peace Seeker
I found this at the IMC. Take a read when you get a chance and then leave your answer in the comments.
Snippet,
Many Palestinians are blinded by the rhetoric of a small, vocal group of Palestinians who, from their luxury in America, Europe and even the Middle East, continue to argue rejection. These "coffee shop commandos" are good at telling the refugees that they must continue the struggle against Israel and Zionism, while screaming down Palestinian voices of reason. They are willing to fight to the last Palestinian. Not themselves, other Palestinians.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:22 AM | Comments (0)
Hey Dean Supporters,
What's he got to hide?
Dean Wanted Records Sealed for Quarter Century
Whatever it is that Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean is trying to keep from the American public, the secret must be a beaut.
It turns out that the Vermont Democrat - who ordered his state records sealed for 10 years when he left the state's governorship earlier this year - initially wanted the telltale documents kept under lock and key till 2026 - just one year short of a quarter century.
Put your best guesses in the comments.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:18 AM | Comments (5)
Justice is going blind in Canada
Canadian civil servants have been condemned for inspecting sex shops and adult cinemas while apparently ignoring a flood of consumer complaints.
Ontario's provincial auditor says the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services officials have carried out almost 1,600 inspections of adult video retail stores after claiming to have received eight complaints - none in writing.
Those inspections involved checking whether the stores had valid licences "and were selling adult videos only with proper stickers indicating their ratings," the report states.
In the same time there were about 4,000 complaints and inquiries related to debt collectors last year, including 800 written, formal complaints.
One day, the Canadian Air Force will be fully funded and the Consumer and Business Services Department will have to hold a bake sale to buy their porn.
Found @ Samizdata
Posted by Nukevet at 12:10 AM | Comments (0)
It's about time
Now, Seattle rules the world!
West Virginia becomes last state to get a Starbucks store.
Some junkies ya just gotta love.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:08 AM | Comments (0)
December 04, 2003
Caption Contest
OK, so exactly what is the guy identified by the arrow thinking as he looks at Hillory? He seems a bit nauseous, like he might spew on his boots. Another possiblity is that he thinks he could snap her neck like a chicken, and get away with it. But, I could be wrong. I'm not a milblogger, I just support what those guys (and ladies) do to preserve my freedoms.
Posted by Nukevet at 11:07 PM | Comments (11)
Hey look! There really IS a Moonbat Party
Let's see. You combine Monbiot, Galloway, and the Muslim association of Britain and you get......THIS.
Pretty damn funny.
Posted by Nukevet at 06:26 PM | Comments (2)
More on Nathaniel Jones
Ahhh, already the ambulance chasers begin the run-up to having it all be the fault of the police.
The attorney for Nathaniel Jones' family said he believes the man would have died whether or not he had drugs in his system because of the prone position in which police placed him.
Jones' death after a violent struggle with police that was captured on videotape has sparked racial tensions in the Ohio city.
"I think with the enlarged heart and the ability not to breathe ... the pressure that's put on him at 350 pounds when he was laid down on his stomach, I think the lack of oxygen still would have probably generated a heart attack," attorney Kenneth Lawson told CNN's Paula Zahn on Wednesday night.
Yep. Forget the drugs. Forget the fact that cocaine is a well known cardiac toxin - causing irregular/erratic heart rhythms and even cardiac arrest. Forget the fact that this guy was morbidly obese.Forget the fact that he initiated the aggression. He just wouldn't have died if those mean old police would have not done their job.
The family, of course, agrees:
Members of Jones' family Wednesday denounced the officers' actions and said they could have restrained themselves. They called for an independent investigation.
Here's an idea. He would still be alive if he didn't have intoxicating levels of 3 different substances in his body. He would still be alive if he hadn't attacked police. He would still be alive if he didn't weigh 350 pounds on a 200 pound frame. He would still be alive if he had RESTRAINED himself. Classic "poor victim" syndrome. We overlook everything that the "victim" did to get himself killed, while being sure we take down the guys on the job. I think the police were remarkably restrained - they fought with this crazy junkie hand to hand trying to subdue him, rather than unloading on him. The fact that he was too fat to withstand the stress of the combat he initiated is no ones fault but his own. Perhaps the attorney for the family can also sue White Castle for contributing to his client's obesity.
As you can tell, this kind of crap makes me insane. Personal responsibility - try to be mature enough to take some.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:17 PM | Comments (1)
The Paratrooper of Love
But, of course, we can't believe this account of Bush's visit. Since, you know, it's only recounted by someone who was actually there.
Notice the "local time" the Captain was asked to be ready - 1600. Sort of blows the shit out of the "Bush forced soldiers to eat turkey at 5am for a photo-op" scenario, eh?
Posted by Nukevet at 04:38 PM | Comments (0)
Hmmmmmmmmm
I'm going on holiday (actually a conference + holiday) to Scotland. I have a friend that will let me stay at his place in Glasgow. Number 5 Crown Circus or some such. Anyone ever been to Glasgow?
Posted by Nukevet at 04:07 PM | Comments (7)
Friday night fights
Heya Dave,
You up for some late night coat holding?
If your stomach is easily turned and you don't want to follow the link, it went like this:
I've been kicking this guys ass all week on the IMC board. He comes along and calls me (and each of you) a chickenhawk. So I call him chickenshit and list out the reasons. He asks if I'm 'feeling froggy' and I let him know that I work swings.
I'm hoping for a Friday night meet at a rarely used football field near my work so that my commute home doesn't get screwed up.
I also hope he has insurance.
UPDATE: The original coward 'Mos Def' has raised his head up in this IMC post entitled 'The kill Analog Kid Movement begins'. Here, he not only proves that he is an anti-semetic coward, but also a homophobe.
I have offered in the original post to take both he and JCB on, in that order, in the same night. Still no takers.
What does a guy have to do around here to be able to give out ass whuppin's for Christmas.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:25 AM | Comments (18)
So, do they favor waxing or razors?
If you have visited WorldNetDaily you have probably seem the 'Babes Against Bush' article.
I really have nothing to say about this, except that it won't be the first time in history that men have promised women something in return for that form of gratification and lied.
Sorry ladies, but some of your sisters are stupid (and not very attractive).
Posted by Nukevet at 03:01 AM | Comments (2)
HEY, You wanna piss off bab's?
Looky, see this picture? She sued a group for ten million dollars to keep the unwashed masses from seeing it. Sniff her privacy is DESTROYED NOW, sniff,....whimper, whine, moan.......
Drudge was kind enough to point this out. The super rich aren't really human are they? I could care less about her personal life, where or how she lives, I just enjoy the fact that our seeing this picture pisses her off.
Some posters maybe? T-shirts?
Posted by Nukevet at 02:14 AM | Comments (1)
A follow up to AK's treehugger post.
Is the Kyoto Treaty Dying? Maybe, but it's supporters should consider this, if nations big and small are now rejecting it, it could be that the treaty was a BAD DEAL for everone envolved from the beginning. If you want perfection, try walking on water, if you want a deal, try using numbers and information that are real and is accurate. The treaty was a con game by single issue fanatics with no clue as to how badly it would hurt people to make it happen. Or worse, they just didn't care.
Everyone wants a clean enviroment, but the pet theory of global warming makes me remember the ice age theory in the seventies, then acid rain, nuclear winter and then this.........The theories change with the wind, chasing the junk science money train.
Color me skeptical.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:56 AM | Comments (0)
Losing? So why then are Iraqi's rallying to the cause?
We heard that boneheaded statement recently in the commentssection, that we are losing in Iraq. Pointedly absurd, as if the fact resistence merely exists is cause to hang our heads and just give up. This little bit of news puts the lie to that on several levels.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi political parties and coalition authorities are discussing the creation of a 1,000-member militia to bolster the U.S. military's fight against a guerrilla insurgency, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
The militia would be formed by uniting fighters from five Iraqi political parties under the joint leadership of the U.S. military and the emerging Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, American officials in Baghdad and Washington said on condition of anonymity.
They want more security, they want to end the resistence which is killing more Iraqi's than Americans. They want to work with our military and have a chance to govern themselves for once in their lives.
The current president of the Iraqi Governing Council, Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, a Shiite Muslim, said the idea of a joint militia was a good one. He said the country's five or so individual militias have won credibility for fighting Saddam's regime for more than 20 years, and could root out that regime's remnants now.
"At this stage, we should try to make use of any force, any tribal clan and any individual that can help," he said, adding that the militias should be centrally controlled, as the Americans have stipulated. "They will have a role to play in the fight against terrorism."
Look, this means better intelligence on the ground, better liason with the Iraqi population, and it give the Iraqi's access to firepower equal to the job. One other benefit is to rob the bastards of their claim to be just fighting America. They've already pissed that away mostly by the Red Cross and UN bombings, as well as attacks against various tribal groups. But this is the nail in that coffin. The Iraqi's want their country back, and they know that they won't get it as long as the rebel Baathists and their islamicist cannon fodder get in the way.
The Iraqi's plan to remove that obstacle. If that's losing, then , more please.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:26 AM | Comments (10)
Why
In reference to the Doc's post yesterday on the Nathaniel Jones case, this is why I have utter confidence and totally support the officers, their Chief and Cincy's Mayor.
White officer/s being violently attacked by a black criminal under the influence of multiple narcotics, etc.
I am glad that the situations ended differently in the Cincy case.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:24 AM | Comments (0)
A Minor Fisking in proper order
Sorry folks, I took a dip in the IMC slime pool again to make some minor adjustments on a twit and now I want to share.
Someone is unhappy that we can take the battle to the enemy.
A quick analysis of the "Samarra Battle" and some peculiar aspects of same suggests the following scenario:
FIRST: The U.S. got its butt kicked during the month of November: Five helicopters knocked down; a cargo plane hit and forced to do an emergency landing; dozens of U.S. soldiers killed in ambushes; numerous car bombs and truck bombs. Dozens of Iraqi officials (working with the U.S.) and/or police officers assassinated; dozens of U.S. allies (Japanese, Italian, Spanish, British, etc.) killed. Sadam is nowhere in sight, but continues to issue communiques.
#1. Butt kicked? I seriously dounbt it. You are forgetting that the cargoplane was landing when it was it. 3 of the 5 helicoters were determined to have mechanical failures. Do you consider 8 'numerous'? No wonder you can call 10,000 people at the last D.C. ANSWER Hate America demonstration 50,000. When the foreign diplomats and forces refuse our security, they get what they gets. Notice that they are taking us up on our security offers now.
SECOND: Word comes down from the Pentagon- "We need a big victory and we need it NOW. Fake one if you have to."
THIRD: U.S. psychological warfare operatives go into action. They concoct a plan for a "great victory" brought to you by your sponsor: The same folks who brought you the Jessica Lynch "rescue" and cooked up the Jessica Lynch story of heroism.
#2 & #3 Pure speculation (fantasy) on your part.
FOURTH: U.S. troops enter a town. Heavily armored and "ready." U.S. troops allegedly "know" that an ambush is likely or imminent-- But this time the main "attackers" are U.S. special forces. NOTE the "fadeyeen uniforms" the attackers were alleged to have worn: Iraqi witnesses saw NO Iraqis walking around with such uniforms that day. Note also that part of the "fadeyeen uniform" involves wearing black or dark clothes with black ski mask-like headgear: How Convenient. Perfect for white special forces operatives pretending to be Iraqi.
#4 When you are in a war-zone, ambushes are always imminent. That is why is is called a war-zone. As for the fedeyeen wearing 'ski-masks'. They wear them for the same reason that the black bloc members do. So that they can raise a stink and them blend back in with the population.
FIFTH: The "massive attack" launched simultaneously on two different fronts resulted in NO deaths among the U.S. troops.
#5 If you had any knowledge of military activity, you would know that an ambush is 'a massivie attack launched simultaneously from two different fronts'. The fact that soldiers train to beat an ambush from a lightly armed enemy is the reason that there were no US casualties. Much to your dismay, I see.
SIXTH: Hospital personnel said they saw virtually NO dead fighters, only dead civilians, including women and children. The number of such was under a dozen.
#6 The fedeyeen are civilians, you dumbass.
SEVENTH: The U.S. produced NO dead bodies (this should have been easy to do if 54 Iraqi "fighters" died as the U.S. claimed). Not a single person has seen ANY of the "dozens" of Iraqi soldiers the U.S. said it captured. Where is the usual photo op after such a "great victory?" It should be easy to arrange one (showing Iraqi soldiers handcuffed and sitting on the ground, for example).
#7 Even if they did produce pics or video, you would still believe it was fake. Unlike the Saddam communiques that you mentioned in point #1. Those have to be real because it helps your argument.
CONCLUSION: The U.S. faked a "big victory" for world-wide propaganda consumption because U.S. troops got the shit kicked out of them during the month of November. The goal was to end the month having the world thinking about America's "big victory" instead of thinking about all the U.S. soldiers that died. The high number for enemy "dead" was essential: It was meant to "even the score" between the U.S. and Iraqi fighters in the minds of the consumers of western media. Brilliant.
Conclusion: You know little to nothing. You hate Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld so badly that you are willing to cheer as our troops are killed in a war-zone so that you seem 'in the right'. Go f*ck yourself.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:56 AM | Comments (0)
Bad week for treehuggers
With the delivery of the bad news from Russia about them not signing Kyoto, this news should make all the tofu-eating flower children of the forest double up on their daily yoga exercises.
Bush Signs Healthy Forests Legislation
Found at Blogs for Bush, who also linked to the Pro Troop Rally post.
He was even so kind as to snag the best Bush line on the subject,
"For decades, government policies have allowed large amounts of underbrush and small trees to collect at the base of our forests. The motivations of this approach were good. But our failure to maintain the forests has had dangerous consequences and devastating consequences. The uncontrolled growth, left by years of neglect, chokes off nutrients from trees and provides a breeding ground for insects and disease...... As we have seen this year and in other years, such policy creates the conditions for devastating wildfires. Today, about 190 million acres of forest and woodlands around the country are vulnerable to destruction. Overgrown brush and trees can serve as kindling, turning small fires into large, raging blazes that burn with such intensity that the trees literally explode."
Posted by Nukevet at 12:29 AM | Comments (0)
No Fly Zone
A while back I posted about the Canadian Navy 'taking some time off' due to budget shortages.
I knew this couldn't be far off.
And again, I would like to say 'You're Welcome' to every Canadian for their relative freedom, their socialized medicine programs, and their worry free world view that stems from being next door to the best and greatest military power the world has ever seen.
Canada, leading the world at being just north of America
Posted by Nukevet at 12:26 AM | Comments (5)
Dissention in the Ranks
I wonder if Hillary is behind this?
Democratic donor says he won't give more to state party
One of Washington's most generous Democratic donors says the state party won't get any more of his money because it is playing favorites for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In the past four years, Vashon Island attorney Matthew Bergman, his wife and his law firm have given more than $250,000 to the state and national Democratic parties and to Democratic candidates here and around the country. About $40,000 of that went to the state party.
And that'll be it, says Bergman, a supporter of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, "unless and until it stops supporting one good Democrat over another in party primaries."
As for my lead question, with an ass as big as Hillary's, it is hard to be behind anything.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:19 AM | Comments (1)
Get Lost
Hey Doc, you can stop looking for that 'Cure for Cancer' thing. The hippies in Oregon have it all figured out
Medford to get healing labyrinth
Putting her energy into building a memorial labyrinth keeps Jenny Lee, 20, from feeling despair over the deaths of three Medford friends in 10 months, one of which occurred last week.
"It keeps me distracted from dwelling on: ‘Oh, what is the point?’ " she said.
Lee is one of nearly 30 young adults in Medford working on Jacob’s Memorial Labyrinth, a 50-foot-diameter concrete and tile meditation path proposed for Medford.
Yep, being confused as to which direction I'm going is always comforting.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:15 AM | Comments (0)
You have to pay to play
A good local idea that should go national.
County to charge inmates for jailing costs
Grants Pass, OR - Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel plans to begin billing inmates for room, board and other expenses.
"They have to pay back to the citizens of this county what it costs to keep them locked up,'' Daniel said.
Inmates will be charged $60 of the $63 a day it costs to keep them behind bars, Daniel said.
This is the correct interpretation of the 'paying your debt to society' ideal.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:10 AM | Comments (1)
NORK News
No wonder Jimmeh Cahtah wants to play 'Let's Make A Deal' with the guy.
Kim Jong-Il honored as a deity
You have to click on that link just to see the pic.
And if that is not enough for you, go to this Korea News Service page. About 2/3 of the way down the page (sorry, no permalinks) it tells about the bill that 'ol Kimmy Boy wants to send to America for "The total amount of human and material damage the U.S. imperialists have inflicted upon the South Korean people for nearly 60 years since their occupation of South Korea"
Total tab: $43,139,020,630,000
The sick part is that if Hillary or someone of her ilk (I'm looking your way, Dean) gets into the White House, even with a national debt, they probably pay it.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:06 AM | Comments (4)
Why do they do this to themselves?
I am asking this question about my local Indymedia. They already have a corner on the market of being a nutball, but do they really need to connect themselves with NAMBLA (aka the little boy f*uckers).
David Sellinger who has used his authority to block access to the NAMBLA web site and other sites with NAMBLA in the title was told to remove the firewall and did so. A small win for freedom of speech.
Maybe I'll just back-off on my attempts to get inside. I really don't want to know what they're doing in there that bad.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:05 AM | Comments (0)
December 03, 2003
Damn, who knew
Posted by Nukevet at 11:04 PM | Comments (2)
I guess the cocaine, PCP, and methanol
Posted by Nukevet at 02:23 PM | Comments (0)
Democratic Movers and Shakers
Or just another optical illusion?
This is pretty cool, but it made me nauseous. Er, more so than looking at a picture of all the Democratic candidates for the presidency usually does, that is.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:04 PM | Comments (0)
Jimmah's Freudian Slip is Showing
Whoa! Someone might tell Jimmah that talking about dealing with Jews using the words "final solution" is just we wee bit, um, un-PC.
Remember - what people say on the "spur of the moment" very frequently reveals what lies at their core.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:01 PM | Comments (0)
Fiscal Responsibility
Since some of our commenters have expressed concern over the, um, "welfare" of the US economy, I thought I better add a little stock ticker into the mix.
After all, we would hate to miss the DJIA surging above the 10,000 mark, now wouldn't we?
UPDATE:
OK, so some of you non-browser updatin, no JAVA havin MoFos had trouble with the ticker. It has now been axed. Relegated to the "it was a good idea, but....." bin of history.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:45 PM | Comments (3)
Dean, hot head, loudmouth, and now.....He wants to shred the first Amendment.
: Howard Dean says he'd "break up" media companies. This is the worst of political pandering: Big media companies have been made into the boogeymen du jour and so he announces he'll go after them. No legal basis. No constitutional justification. Just because they're there.
He doesn't LIKE FOX News. Seems having the liberal CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS aren't enough, not even NPR and PBS are enough, no he simply must silence any hint of conservatism from the airwaves. He wraps it in a canard of anti-corparate populism, but it's the same jackboot that progressives always wield when challenged. He's a liar, a hypocrite, smalltime brownshirt aiming for the bigtime and only a fucking moron would believe otherwise.
The problem is, that the left knows exactly what he is, what he intends to do, and they are just fine with it. Sure put him in power, remember what happened the last time a socialist with a disdain for free expression came to power?
For those Dean supporters who find the comparison offensive? I suggest you look at your own behavior first, then go stick your head in an oven.
You asshat Dean supporters can dish it out, but you can't take it.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:39 PM | Comments (2)
Study of Contrasts
OK, let's contrast this behavior with this.
Remember the "haircut on the LAX tarmac" incident? Anyone doubt that this latest story is true?
Posted by Nukevet at 08:57 AM | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Duh, my name is Howard Dean
I heard this interview on Monday and went looking and looking and looking for it. I finally found it at LGF. It is the transcript of Howard Dean's interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews. I know LGF covered this issue, but if you haven't read their post, please tell me what is wrong with what he said in this paragraph;
Iran is a more complex problem because the problem support as clearly verifiable as it is in North Korea. Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons. That is also a country that must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons much the key to all this is foresight. Let�s act now so we don�t have to have a confrontation which may result in force, which would be very disastrous in the case of North Korea and might be disastrous in the case of Iran.
Find it?
He said 'The Soviet Union' 5 times.
He wants to run my counrty and yet he hasn't figured out that The Soviet Union has been 'out of service' for over a decade.
And why hasn't the mainstream press picked this up? They made such a fuss over Bush's lack of travel outside the US in 2000, and yet this Sh*t-eating F*cknugget can't even give countries their proper names.
Read the entire thing. Just like a good novel, it'll make you want to laugh and cry.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:02 AM | Comments (4)
Pounding it in to their heads
With a very large sledgehammer.
Mr. du Toit posts a timely short essay on "Why an electoral college?"
Why is it timely? Because as the election in 2004 gets closer, you will hear this question asked over and over again and I want you to have the answers. That, and because I said so. Neener.
Key line:
We are not a democracy, we are a representative republic.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:43 AM | Comments (4)
The Bush/Saudi connection?
He linked to the Pro Troop Rally post, so he gets some linky love in return.
The Junk Yard Blog posted this on Monday.
So Much For That Whole Saudi/Bush Thing
He is talking about this NewsMax article that references the official Saudi Arabian press report that speaks of Hillary's trip to Afghanistan and Iraq and that it means that she will be running for presidential office. And that 'many' in the middle east have 'high hopes' of her victory.
Gee, I wonder why?
Oh, and NesMax included this snippet;
What the paper's editorial didn't say is that the Saudi royal family has pledged to give ex-President Clinton between $1 million and $20 million for his presidential library, according to a report by columnist Robert Novak last year.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:37 AM | Comments (0)
Kill Whitey, PtII
University sponsored racism takes another path.
Sister Souljah was brought to the University of Louisville in Oct. as part of the Bank One Diversity Lecture Series. Bank One donated $50,000 to the university after some of the company"s representatives were found passing out racist t-shirts on campus. A committee of students, faculty and staff decided to earmark this money for programs addressing diversity.
'It was decided that the fund would be spent to develop a diversity lecture series and the whole idea behind that was that we would be able to engage the university community with thought-provoking speakers that would really give us some opportunity to engage in a dialogue on some difficult issues related to race and race relations,' said Taylor-Archer at the Nov. 20 forum on Sister Souljah"s lecture.
�According to Taylor-Archer, Sister Souljah"s appearance on campus cost $11,000, including expenses. Taylor-Archer also stated that Sister Souljah was chosen to speak on campus because of the positive message she would bring to campus and not because her views on race and race relations are controversial.
Not everyone got a positive message from Sister Souljah"s lecture. Jill Adkins, a junior political science major who spoke on WHAS radio on Nov. 18 with Yates, felt very uncomfortable at the lecture. 'I respect African-Americans. I respect Asians. I respect all people. But I do not respect the fact that I came there for a diversity speech only to hear examples against white people. I had to sit there for two hours and listen to this speaker say nothing but hateful remarks. I felt hated,' Adkins said.
You were being hated Ms. Adkins. That woman gets paid to do so, so why should she stop.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:26 AM | Comments (1)
Humpday funnies
Well, it's Wednesday. Only two more days to go. So here is something to make you chuckle. Unless you're a chuckle-head, then you can smirk.
John Buchanan - the independent journalist who broke the story of the Bush family's investment in Nazi Germany during World War II (see the New Hampshire Gazette, https://www.nhgazette.com), is going to run against Bush on the Republican ticket! Note he is NOT to be confused with Pat Buchanan the right-wing libertarian. John Buchanan has been endorsed by John McConnell, the founder of Earth Day and Minute for Peace. His platform is centered around ending corporate rule of the government and restoring a free media.
And as if that isn't enough to make you laugh your ass off, here is a link to his website, JohnBuchanan.org.
UPDATE: Holy crap, he's got a blog!
Posted by Nukevet at 12:43 AM | Comments (1)
More Funnies
A "miracle baby" boy born in Bethlehem is drawing crowds by the thousands. Palestinians in the West Bank town revered by Christians as Jesus' birthplace have been thronging to the adjacent Aida refugee camp for a glimpse of the 11-day-old infant many are calling a "miracle baby."
The boy has gained attention for being born with a large birthmark across his cheek that roughly forms, in Arabic letters, the name of his uncle Ala, a Hamas militant killed by Israeli troops after he was alleged to have masterminded a bombing that killed 12 people on a Jerusalem bus in November 2002.
On a serious note, the "Aida refugee camp" is actually an apartment complex. And "refugee" = anyone who does not own land.
UPDATE: Attention all 'palestinians'! I have just noticed that one of my pancakes has a pattern that resembles Muhammed. You are all invited to come to my house and worship my "miracle pancake". Please do not mind the pile of bodies wearing Arafat's pattern of keffiyeh over there in the corner. They were not true Muslims and my pancake became angry.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:41 AM | Comments (3)
Even more funnies
If you can stand more, here is a satire piece from FrontPageMag.com, depicting a fictional report from professional fool, Sean Penn reporting from Iraq for the San Francisco Chronicle.
A snippet;
I bounded off the plane this morning at the Saddam Hussein Airport, which they now call Baghdad Airport. It’s a freakin shame to give such a marvelous facility such a crappy name. It is always so much more interesting to name a place after a person rather than for another place. The new regime here seems very grounded in the mundane. No sensibilities. But more about that later.
The first thing I noticed on the way to the hotel is how bumpy the roads are. They’re a freakin mess. I thought Bush was going to see to it that the infrastructure was repaired, but nothing has been done yet. I thought it was obvious that smooth roads would show the Iraqis that we care about them. It’s a freakin shame that nobody cares.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:31 AM | Comments (0)
December 02, 2003
How do you counter a "Hate Bush" Hollywood party?
Why, with a "Lovya Dubya" love-in, of course.
Via GHR.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:28 PM | Comments (0)
Found by a fellow Texan
And a "liberal" to boot. I'm not sure that this "People's Republic" is exactly what our little leftists Utopian trolls have in mind, though.....
Hehe. "Garlic is not a perfume". Indeed.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:10 PM | Comments (0)
Before you leftists
get too excited about the US defeat in Iraq, perhaps you should go read this analysis (and follow the links).
Nothing like viewing the world through commie colored glasses to give you a distorted view of the world.......
Posted by Nukevet at 04:13 PM | Comments (1)
Well, he sorta LOOKED like Lincoln
More anti-war propagandist dishonesty? Or just plain stupidity? Sort of like getting La the state mixed up with LA the city, don't ya think?
Posted by Nukevet at 01:26 PM | Comments (2)
Test for Echo
And now for a new feature here at RNS. The Soundboard Posts.
Every week I will be posting a new musical selection of my choosing (provided I can make a decision as to which song I want to post in time to get it to the Doc for the upload). The posts and the downloads will only be available for two days until we see what this does to our bandwith.
For the unfamiliar I have two options for the download:
1. Right click on song and save target to folder or desktop.
2. Click directly on song to play.
Depending on your download speed, patience is a virtue.
I'll start off with my signature song. Originally from Rush's 'Signals' album, this version is from their llive album, the three disc extravaganza 'Different Stages'.
The studio version of this song really never cut it for me, but the live version, as it is with so many of their songs, really takes it up a notch.
So, here we go.
The Analog Kid - Rush
Lyrics below.
RUSH
The Analog Kid
A hot and windy August afternoon
Has the trees in constant motion
With a flash of silver leaves
As they're rocking in the breeze
The boy lies in the grass with one blade
Stuck between his teeth
A vague sensation quickens
In his young and restless heart
And a bright and nameless vision
Has him longing to depart
Chorus
You move me
You move me
With your buildings and your eyes
Autumn woods and winter skies
You move me
You move me
Open sea and city lights
Busy streets and dizzy heights
You call me
You call me
The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs
Dances on the edge of his dream
And her voice rings in his ears
Like the music of the spheres
The boy lies in the grass, unmoving
Staring at the sky
His mother starts to call him
As a hawk goes soaring by
The boy pulls down his baseball cap
And covers up his eyes
Chorus
Too many hands on my time
Too many feelings
Too many things on my mind
When I leave I don't know
What I'm hoping to find
When I leave I don't know
What I'm leaving behind...
Posted by Nukevet at 03:53 AM | Comments (1)
Soundcheck
Something I forgot to post yesterday.
Mr. Brent at The Ville has posted some songs he has recorded with his band, The Shooting Gallery.
I have downloaded them and given them a listen or two (or three or four) and can tell you that my review will be quite favorable. Why don't y'all do the same and let him know what you think.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:14 AM | Comments (3)
A French First
And I'm not talking in terms of always being first to hoist the white flag.
In continuation of posting links to those who linked to the Pro Troop Rally post, I present to you 'Spacecraft: Discussion of Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control, and News'
In this post, it is reported that SPOT-1, a french satellite that has had it orbit lowered to help it 'de-orbit' (in 15 years or so), was 'first spacecraft to fly with an attitude control flywheel supported by magnetic bearings'.
For some reason, I think that the Doc and this guy could have a wonderful conversation on the topic of the Van Allen Belt. But seriously, the guy has good posts on news and politics along with some learning possibilites for the rest of us who can't figure out the square root of the leading edge dynamic of a basketball.
If you do know the square root of the leading edge dynamic, please leave your answers in the comments.
UPDATE: The answer is not 42. I tried that. Oddly enough, 42 is the answer to the square root of the drag coefficient of a large flying office building containing an extremely disreputable cocktail party now heading into its fourth genration of party-goers.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:49 AM | Comments (0)
Sometimes, being right
Dow Ends Up 117; Stocks Hit 18-Month High
Investors sent stocks surging Monday, propelling the Dow Jones industrials up more than 115 points and into the shadow of 10,000 after a pair of reports showed better-than-expected growth in the nation's manufacturing sector and construction spending.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 116.59 points, or 1.19 percent, at 9,899.05, its highest close since May 31, 2002. The S&P; 500 ended up 11.92 points, or 1.13 percent, at 1,070.12, which marked its highest point at any time since June 3, 2002, and its highest close since May 28, 2002. The technology-focused Nasdaq Composite Index finished up 29.56 points, or 1.51 percent, at 1,989.82, its highest close since Jan. 15, 2002.
Of course, these numbers will drop down a bit, for re-adjustment. But so far, my timing is right on schedule. Late spring/early summer 10,000 party anyone?
And speaking of parties, hey France and Germany, how you doing with that 10% unemployment rate? Keeps going up, huh? National debt too? But you guys aren't even spending billions on fighting terrorism? That's too bad. Must be your welfare state. Sucks to be you, I guess.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:06 AM | Comments (9)
Doktor Kidd's Rectal-Cranial Impaction Clinic
Mr Greg Dyke, BBC General Director, is in need of a glass stomach.
"News organisations should be in the business of balancing their coverage, not banging the drum for one side or the other. This is something which seemed to get lost in American reporting of the war,"
What Mr. Dyke does not see is that, his method of reporting isn't as 'unbiased' as he believes it to be. When you only report the bad news coming from the war zone, you are helping break down the morale of both the soldiers and those on the homefront. Which means that you are helping the enemy.
My diagnosis: His ideological differences with Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush combined with his preference to only publicize news stories that are demoralizing and his statements above leads me to believe that he is suffering from a severe case of Rectal Cranial Impaction that is proving to be contagious to those who read his agencies work.
Nurse: Jarjar, the doctor will see you now
Posted by Nukevet at 12:55 AM | Comments (3)
Dances with Hamas
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich headlined a fund-raiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group with ties to the Mideast terrorist organization Hamas and an agenda for an Islamic USA.
CAIR announced its national fund-raising campaign had topped its goal of $1 million thanks in part to the standing-room-only banquet Saturday evening attended by more than 1,000 people, including Kucinich and Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.
And don't forget, if he gets in, he'll make the locations of our moon bases public.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:34 AM | Comments (0)
What would we do without editors?
In my impersonation of Mr. Taranto over at WSJ's Best of the Web;
"Free meal programs in big demand"
No kidding, maybe because they're FREE?
Posted by Nukevet at 12:17 AM | Comments (0)
December 01, 2003
Rage?.........
So how much rage can a millionare doctor have against Mr. Bush? This much?
Oh, please,......................spare me the theatrics. Let me share a little bit on rage. Rage is the burning anger that comes from deep inside, so dark and hot that it barely knows restraint. Dean has a hot headed temper and a talent for throwing tantrums, hardly the stuff of rage. He's lived a privilged live, the best schools, the best excuses to stay out of Vietnam, (his own admission), the best clothes cars and lifestyle. What in the Hell has he known of rage? His rage is the fiegned righteous indignation of a richman's realization that there are POOR people out there. Not that he wants to give them his money......he wants to give them ours. Typical limousine liberal horseshit. Cruising through life doing good works by beating up on people who have far less and work far harder than he does.
He wants rage, then how about this kind of rage? The rage of growing up poor white trash, of being thought inferior because you didn't have the "right" family? The rage of guarding your two brothers backs through the school years, because they were mentally retarded and easy targets for bullies and thugs? The rage of fighting everyday of the school year, alone and always outnumbered? The rage of having illness strip your family away from you, one painful horror at a time? The rage of having your own body fail you when you need to depend on your ability to work and feed your wife and kids? The rage of getting up everyday and biting down the pain, fighting back the urge to throw up because your spine is damaged and going to work is akin to being beaten in your mind? The rage of knowing that maybe, just maybe, if you're lucky you will still be able to walk in your retirement years?
Rage? He has no idea what true rage is. It burns white hot in your veins, giving you strength, but constantly battling your mind for control. Rage is a beast, a rampaging thing of darkness that you bury deep down inside until you can vent it in harmless fashions. Pouring it out in torrents of pain and frustration. I do it away from my wife and children, I don't want them to see it, don't want them to ever fear me. I know rage very well and I truely doubt Dean fits the profile.
Rage is born of trauma, emotional, physical, it's not a stage prop for a crowd of mouthbreathing college richkids. Not a reasonable plank to run a campaign on. It's a deadend in and of itself. Dean uses it like it has merit,..........it doesn't.
You control it, or it controls you. Dean's too stage managed to make me believe his rage is real.
UPdate,.........
Just to reassure,...I'm not unable to control it. Everyone has a dark side, I just know mine when I see it. The trick isn't to deny it's there, but to channel it as a resource. My wife, my kids need not fear me, I would end my own existence before allowing them harm. The reasoning mind over the instinctive brute is an age old battle, won most of the time by most people, but sadly, not by all. I just wished to allow a peek at what some turn away from, channeled correctly a man's rage is the source of strength and endurance when it would be all too easy to just quit.
Loved ones are perfectly safe as are innocent bystanders. But I truely am bearlike, in that if I percieved a threat to my family...........have you ever seen what a bear does to a deer carcass? Then the limits come off, the civilization, the reasoning,.......But I've made it through the first 44 years without loosing control, I don't intend to start now.
Posted by Nukevet at 06:31 PM | Comments (5)
Interesting, and potentially very useful
NEW YORK � It's called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops.
The program is still in the research phase, so the self-balancing scooters aren't expected to report to boot camp anytime soon.
Obviously we aren't going to see a return on this tomorrow, but it raises some eyebrows. Not to replace human soldiers, but to assist them, kind of an expendable point man. But with large military lasers already developed and in testing, with computer power doubling every few years, materials science progressing, power sources...........How many decades before something like this makes it's debut?
No other nation as far as I know has nearly so many irons in the fire on military research. Not in variety or in levels of funding. It looks like we plan to own the battlefield in the 22nd century as well.
Works for me.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:40 PM | Comments (4)
update on an earlier post
Well it seems our guys did even better than first reported, 54 "good" baathists now. Must have had to gather arms and legs and divide by four. It was nice of the AP to include this local yahoo.
"No one wants these Americans to enter this holy city. We don't want them to defile (it), and that's why this battle happened," said resident Mawlud Jassim. "Many Iraqis were killed and the Americans sustained big losses in lives and equipment."
First, this town is in the north, Saddam country, second I guess the Iraqi Minister of Disinformation had a cousin. Why tell a small lie, when you can sprinkle pixie dust and make Abrams tanks just disolve on cue, huh Mawlud? Run that last line by me again,....yeah, it sorta shreds your credibility somewhat doesn't it?
This is as absurd as if AP reporters had rushed into Remagen the day after the Allies took it, then lined up the Nazi loyalists for a good bitch session. OOOOh, they only killed civilians, but took loss's dumble the number of men involved doing it............right. Mawlud needs to seek out his brother Qay-luud and take a pill. The whole bottle actually, but I'm just mean.
"American forces opened fire randomly on passersby and on (people) in the marketplace," said Shaker, interviewed Monday at the town's general hospital.
Sure they did, people were just calmly walking by, going to market, just casually meandering by A FRIGGIN TANK BATTLE YOU BRAINLESS MORON! DO YOU THINK THEY DIDN"T NOTICE AND MAYBE LIKE TRY AND TAKE COVER?..........Not according to jerkweed, nope they just milled around waiting for our guys to gun them down. I know that wild exageration is a common arab practice, they don't consider it lying, just the start of a back and forth. But JEEBUS Christ they suck at the propaganda stuff. Little lies they could get away with, but these whoppers have no wieght outside the arab world, unless you are a lefty brain donor type.
Update....
From CNN, this interview with one of our men.
JONES: Well, what they attempted to do -- and we don't know if it's actually civilians. I called them all terrorists. If they're blocking the streets or if they're attempting to block the streets, then obviously they're not a civilian. They're some sort of combatant. They're helping out the terrorist projects with that. I'm a true believer of that. These guys were trying to throw vehicles in the way, taxi cabs, a couple of white pickup trucks and everything, to actually block the roads as we tried to egress out with the convoy.
We did have to -- we did have to ram some vehicles out of the way to get our people out, to get our people out of there safely and securely. But civilians in the area, you know something's going to happen as soon as you get in there and all the civilians basically clear out of the way. So if you go into a street or part of the city that's normally busy and there's nobody around, you'd better get your guns up and ready to go.
Pretty much as I suggested yesterday, the civilians in question had already cleared out and men in civilian attire were putting up barricades to try and trap our people. The Sgt. is quite right, you take an active role in the fight, you are a combatant, and a target. The civilian "witnesses" are never going to admit that they were part of it, that they are lying through their teeth.
So, Jarjar...............go fuck yourself.
Posted by Nukevet at 05:02 AM | Comments (15)
Progressive math
So there is this thing called the "Blogosphere Eco-System' run by the NZ Bear. It measures the number of hits you get and delcares where you sit in the 'whole scheme of things'. I don't know where RNS sits, and frankly, I don't rightly care. We have some good folks who stop by and read and comment and that is just fine with me.
Well, it seems that there was a guy named Barry who had multiple blogs he listed under the auspice of 'The League of Liberals' and each of them had their own counter but also collected the hits off of all the other blogs. This gave him an unnaturally large amount of hits, you see. NZ Bear found out about this and became unhappy and stripped off all of Barry's other blogs, leaving only his main one "Rush Limbaughtomy".
I found all this out while visiting my favorite new left of center blog 'Speedkill'.
I have deduced that the left has come up with a new form of arithmetic called "Progressive Math" and have determined that the method Barry was using to count his hits is the say formula that International ANSWER uses to count the attendance of it's "Hate America" rallys.
What do you think?
I am currently trying to figure out the formula. As soon as I do I will update this post.
UPDATE: I believe that I have discovered the secret to 'Progressive Math'. Now, there are a number of differrent formulas out there that depend on the application. The 'Demonstration Formula' (which is what we will focus on today) is going to be different than say, the 'Blog Formula'.
But nevermind that, let's get down to the numbers. Now, I tried to be fair here, so no shooting the messenger. Besides, he shoots back.
Here is the basic formula:
A/BxC+D+ExF=G /(MxN/O+P/Q=R) = V
A = The number of people that you wanted to show up = 1,000,000
B = The number of people who actually showed up (this number is always rounded up to the nearest thousand) = 10,000
C = The number of speakers you had = 30
D = The number of times Bush was called a Nazi or Hitler by those speakers = 500
E = The number of signs declaring Bush is either a Nazi or Hitler = 6500
F = The number of speakers who included the name �Haliburton� in their speech = 20
G = The Whole number AKA the number of people who, if they had shown up, would have made you quite happy = 200,000
M = The average age of an ANSWER board member = 45
N = ANSWER board member�s self-appointed IQ = 200
O = The number of tables/stands that were selling �The Little Red Book� = 20
P = The number of �Little Red Books� the sold = 350
Q = The number of people who do not read past the first 10% of those books = 200
R = The Mean number (it is called this because it is mean to the Whole number) AKA The number of good looking women at the demonstration = 4
V = the number you tell the press
Please, if you feel that there is something I forgot to take into account, leave me a note in the comments. This is very important scientific research we are conducting here folks. All contributions will be taken into consideration.
Posted by Nukevet at 04:31 AM | Comments (3)
More controversy
Speaking of controvsial essays by Mr. du Toit, he goes and issues another one.
I'm only going to give you one line because it could prove to be that volatile,
"Frank Sinatra couldn't hold Harry Connick Jr.'s jockstrap."
While I tend to agree with what he says, the speaking of a bad word against ol' Blue Eyes around the wife will have me spending a night on the couch.
No Shit!
I prefer accuaracy, talent and perfection more so than style. Harry has more of the former (hence my preference for his music) and Frank has a lot more of the latter (hence the wife's preference for his music).
But that is just one music snob's opinion.
And yes, I just said my wife prefers style over substance. How the hell do you think I caught her eye?
And no, I'm not going to tell her I said that. If she finds out on her own, I'll deal with it. Otherwise, fuggetaboudit.
Posted by Nukevet at 03:04 AM | Comments (4)
Do you have anything to declare?
Are you an American between the ages of 18-25? Do you care more about what is going on with BenLo or Justin Timberlake's hair than what is going on in the country you live in?
Then do we have a website for you! Declare Yourself.com!
From the mind of Norman Lear comes something for those so apathetical towards politics that they're willing to believe whatever they're told by Drew Barrymore, they're first spokesperson.
Ms. Barrymore says that she used to be 'so uneducated about politics, that like, she didn't take part. And that was bad' (I can only paraphrase her from a quote I heard on Medved a while back. But I distinctly remember the "that like" and the "that was bad" parts).
Declare Yourself.com has sections for 'Voter Tools', How to file for an absentee ballot, A 'Register to Vote' section, a short film titled 'Let's Go Voting' starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn (it is described as 'exciting'), and a 'Get Informed' section that includes pages on the candidates, the parties, political news, and political organizations.
They'll be conducting a couple of college tours next year. One will feature poets and the other is a reading of the Declaration of Independance by a "Hollywood Star".
Oh Looky! They also have a blog! (I have to include this snippet)
The Declare Yourself campaign, dedicated to helping young people learn how to empower themselves politically -- how to register to vote, how to vote, how to learn about and stay on top of issues you care about, and how to make your elected officials accountable to you.
Now, while I do see the education of younger voters as a noble thing to do, if they don't give enough of a crap to, oh I don't know, ask their parental units about voting, then just why should they be peer pressured to do so? And Ms. Barrymore, it is called "24Hour News Channels" or something called "A Newspaper" or this neat invention you seem to have just found called "The Internet". OK Sweets?
This site should have finished the sentence. By going here for your info, you should 'Declare yourself ignorant'.
Posted by Nukevet at 02:30 AM | Comments (0)
Like you didn't know this
I spent part of Sunday night going through stories about the Bush visit to Iraq. As you can probably guess, I found very little news and quite a few accusations that 'he only did it a photo op'. I then went and looked for stories about Hillary's visits. Lots of news, very few accusations of 'playing politics'.
Here's what I did, I went to Google, typed in 'Bush Iraq Visit' and went into the first 3 pages. I stayed away from the 'non-mainstream' agencies like The Nation.
Here's some headlines that I found:
ABC News headline - Bush's Iraq visit a pre-election PR stunt
USA Today headline - Afterglow fading on Bush's PR coup in Iraq
Reuters headline - Aides Prodded Reluctant Bush on Iraq Trip
The rest of the stories included quips about how Bush never served in Vietnam, reminders of recent deaths in Iraq, and quotes from 'professionals' about Bush's 'Showboating'. One guy was accusing him of 'lying' to the American people about his whereabouts, CNN was complaining about not having been included in the press pool, while another guy was whining about how this was only done to overshadow Hillariy's visit to the ME.
Speaking of Hillary's visit, here are a dozen stroies I pulled off Google news. I entered "Hillary Afghanistan" and looked through 5 pages of news stories, again staying away from the 'non-mainstream' sites like WND and NewsMax.
New York Times (posted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Boston Globe
CNN
Newsday
MSNBC
New York Post #1
New York Post #2
New York Post #3
And even a couple Fox News stories,
Fox News #1
Fox News #2
Geez, if you go through the Hillary stories, you'd think that there was nothing but love coming out of her heart for our troops. That she is only doing this for them, not to flood the media with pics of her eating with a bunch of people dressed to blend into a sand dune.
Of course both visits were political. But I believe Bush's visit was a bit more sincere, whereas Hillary's was more transparent. If she does end up running next year, I can guarantee you that photos of those visits will end up in her campaign ads, just like ones from Bush's visit will end up in his.
But what I am trying to point out is this, where was the mainstream press and their accusations of a 'PR Scam'? How can these people honestly say that they are 'Reporting' 'The News' any longer?
They reported her word for word, even when those words were disparaging to the troops around her. Hell, even Lieberman could see the politics in her visits.
This is where High Blood Pressure comes from.
Posted by Nukevet at 01:44 AM | Comments (2)
A New Genocide?
I know I took of the latter part of last week of in returning links to folks who helped spread the word of the Pro Troop Rally, but everyone was focusing on Thanksgiving and I was having a hard time finding something to link to.
Not today. I stopped by 'Just Some Poor Schmuck' and found his post about a horror emerging in South Africa as reported in The Spectator. Per usual, you aren't hearing any of the 'Human Rights' organizations crying about it.
South African farmers and their families are being slaughtered. The murders are accompanied by torture and rape. The sadism of the attacks suggests either dark perversion or systematic terror. Dr Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch has even suggested that the killing could be classified as genocide.
There are two opposing theories. At one extreme, these attacks are seen as being directed as part of the �Second Revolution�. The First Revolution was the takeover of South Africa by a black government. The Second Revolution, using terror, is the establishment of a radical black communist society and the expulsion of whites. Driving the white farmers off their land is part of this process. At the other extreme, the attacks are seen as being purely criminal and without political guidance or motives. The white farming lobby is inclined to believe the former; it points to Peter Mokaba, a prominent young ANC politician, who chanted, �Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!� to cheering black crowds. The ANC government says that it believes the latter.
To explain the sadism, violence and the rape in the farm attacks, you need to understand only two things: the attacks are happening in an extremely violent country with very high unemployment, and the attackers are poor, ill-educated, fatherless, jobless, rootless young men � who happen to be black. South Africa�s murder rate is 58 per 100,000, perhaps the world�s highest. (The rate for England and Wales is 1.3.).
Please take caution before reading the whole thing. There are descriptions of very violent crimes that should not be read by the sqeamish.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:57 AM | Comments (1)
The Useless Debating Society
� The 114 members of the Non-aligned Movement voted against U.S. supported positions 78 percent of the time. This group includes all the world�s dictatorships and terrorist states. It considers Cuba�s Castro, Libya�s Gadhafi and Syria�s Assad heroes.
� The 22 members of the League of Arab States voted against U.S. supported positions 83 percent of the time.
� The 56 members of the Islamic Conference voted against U.S. supported positions 79 percent of the time.
� The 53 members of the African Union voted against U.S. supported positions 80 percent of the time.
The U.S. authorized over $12 billion in direct financial aid to 142 countries in the FY 2002 Foreign Operations Appropriation. Six countries: Israel, Afghanistan, Colombia, Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan received the greatest amounts, about $6 billion. Israel voted with the United States 93 percent of the time. The five others collectively voted against the United States 79 percent of the time.
And what about votes cast by the United States so-called European Union friends? These 15 weak-kneed allies collectively voted against the United States more than 50 percent of the time.
Let's see, we are the largest contributer of troops whenever they ask, we give out more 'foreign aid' than the rest of the world combined, we take in more refugees than any other country in the world, etc, etc.
And yet, as a group, they still want to see a mushroom over one of our major cities.
Found at Judicious Asininity
Posted by Nukevet at 12:40 AM | Comments (0)
My Take
Remember Kim du Toit's essay from a couple weeks back that got a large number of people all worked up? Well, I attempted to try and add clarity to it by writing my own short essay about what I believed Mr. Kim was talking about.
Sadly, I suck at that. I got a beginning, a half-assed middle and no closing.
I tried to take the long weekend and flesh it out a bit more, but after an hour or so, I decided that it wasn't pertinent any longer and bagged it.
If you want, I have put it in the 'More' section of this post for you all to read. Read on, and if get the urge, let me know what you think.
A couple weeks back, Kim du Toit wrote an essay titled �The Wussification of the Western Male� to much applause. And condemnation. While I admit that I did agree with a great deal with what he said, I�m pretty sure that most of the folks who didn�t, either didn�t read the whole thing or couldn�t get past the analogies to see where he was going.
When was the last time you heard this word?
Gumption.
Go ahead and think about it for a while.
While you�re thinking, I�ll go through a couple of dictionaries that I have handy,
New American Webster of 1972 says it is a noun defined as �1. initiative, self reliance. 2. common sense�
Webster�s II New Riverside of 1996 says it is a noun defined as �initiative : enterprise�
Have you figured out where you last heard this word yet? I don�t rightly remember either. But keep trying to remember while you read.
Oh, and did you notice anything about the two definitions? Amazing what 24 years of �social engineering� does to people.
I don�t like to say this but, I believe that this word is slowly being phased out of the American language by the language police. To them, having gumption means that you can take care of things and that you don�t need help. And I believe that this ties in with what Kim wrote.
When I think of gumption, I think of a John Wayne character. I think of someone who is ready, willing and able to do what needs to be done. No matter the cost.
People with gumption know what is right and they are willing to stand up for it. They hope for the best but prepare for the worst. They know, deep in their hearts, that no ill shall come to those that they care about so long as they have breath.
They don�t waste their time yelling and screaming and you�ll never hear someone with gumption whine. They see �protests� or �demonstrations� as a waste of resources. They�ll rally behind something they support or write to the person who can best help them with their opinion. But gathering thousands of people together just to complain about something seems so useless as to be unnecessary. And if you do ever see a gathering of thousands of unhappy people with gumption, you�ll want to get out of the way. Because something is about to change.
Folks with gumption don�t go around blaming their problems on others. They look at the problem and figure out a way to fix it. Neither do they go around asking for a handout. At the very most, they�ll ask for the opportunity to work for what they need. And then they�ll follow through and do the work.
People with gumption get called �hard headed� or �old fashioned� and lately they have been called �hateful�. But this is where those with gumption are misjudged by those without. They may dislike someone, they may not respect them or their position, but they do not hate them. The only thing that people with gumption hate is evil. They believe that there really is such a concept as good and evil. Just like there is such a thing as right and wrong. And they don�t go treating that word lightly, throwing it at everyone they disagree with. They reserve it for those people who commit truly horrendous acts such as genocide or for ideas that preach hate.
I have stated in the past that my personal motto is this; �I take no sh*t, and I kiss no ass. Please treat me likewise and we�ll be fine�. This has served me well for thirty-plus years so far. I can usually spot someone who won�t treat me likewise at a distance and just steer clear of them. They aren�t worth my time. I don�t hate them, but I have no reason to respect them and by the way they conduct themselves, I have no reason to believe that they�ll give me one.
Sadly, I am seeing fewer and fewer people with gumption lately, especially in our leaders. Bush has some gumption. Laura, I think, has more. Rumsfeld has loads of gumption, and I believe that it is a big part of the reason why he is so hated. From what I�ve seen of Rice, she has a good deal of gumption as well. Did the ladies notice I put two women on my list of leaders with gumption? Gumption is sexy, gals.
Gumption is neither a male or female idea. The whole idea is being dependant only on oneself. Having a large number of self dependant women is a necessity to having a large number of self dependant men.
So, have you figured out where you last heard the word �gumption�? How old was the person who said it? Were they talking about someone?
Try using it sometime in the near future. Take notice of the reaction of those around you is.
Posted by Nukevet at 12:16 AM | Comments (5)