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June 30, 2004

OH, come now......

Everyone knows that it's only genocide if the US is doing the killing

Many thousands more are at risk of starving due to a lack of food in the camps where they have fled.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has refused to use the term genocide, which would carry a legal obligation to act.

But US Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "We see indicators and elements that would start to move you toward a genocidal conclusion but we're not there yet."

I have no idea what Powell is trying to say.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:48 PM | Comments (0)

Think Bush is the Devil?

No, this guy is the devil.

Michele has lots more.

This horrible crime happened while I was still a resident living in NYC. I think I would have killed this bastard with my bare hands, given the chance.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:35 PM | Comments (0)

Yuck

Yep, Saddam was a real nice guy.

Warning: Not nice to look at.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:17 PM | Comments (15)

I can top that

I'm sure that you've heard Hillary's "For The Common Good" comment from Monday.

I can top that.

Here's the scoop....

If you live in Washington's most populated county, King County (the one I currently live in) and have 1+ acre of undeveloped rural property, the county council wants to be able to tell you that you can only develop 35% of your land. Develop means something like a structure or a yard.

Also, you are only able to 'permenantly cover' 10% of your land with something such as a paved driveway or a structure. Structures include things like homes and outbuildings.

And here's the kicker...

You have to pay taxes on 100% of YOUR LAND.

But they say it is for "the common good".

Don't believe me? Here's their side of the proposal.

Why am I only giving you their side? Becuase none of the media sources in the area have seen fit to write about the taxpayers side.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:35 PM | Comments (5)

All your election will be ours

You can see this as covering our bases or, like the left, you can see this as the Republicans ending this democracy and opening up the prison camps.

WASHINGTON - The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission.

Such guidelines do not currently exist, said DeForest B. Soaries, head of the voting panel.

Yes, it is a bit scary to think about. But sometimes you have to think about the scary things.

Found @ Eschaton

Posted by Nukevet at 07:44 PM | Comments (0)

Coming out

A friend of mine said this a couple of years ago...

"It was easier coming out as a homosexual to my family of heteros than it was coming out as a gun owner to my gay friends."

I couldn't quite believe her at the time, but this helps it sink in (caution: throwable object alert)

Initially three, then later, four members of the Central Ohio Pink Pistols, a group promoting the safe handling of firearms in the GLBT community, were threatened by the Executive Director of Stonewall Columbus, who wielded a 2-foot club, and up to 30 volunteer security personnel at the Stonewall Columbus Pride Event on Saturday, June 26. The Pink Pistols were repeatedly ordered to surrender their legally-owned and carried firearms by a steadily-growing army of guards. Knowing the law was on their side, the Pink Pistols refused to surrender their property or knuckle under to illegal threats of violence, search, and seizure by Stonewall Columbus personnel. Police were summoned at Pink Pistols request. No firearms were surrendered or confiscated, and no arrests were made, as no laws were broken.

Go read the rest.

Found @ Ravenwood's Universe

Update: And on second thought, I am now adding the Pink Pistols to my blogroll.

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

More Scare Mongering

or is it just an attempt to appear brave in dissent?

Can anyone provide me one instance to support the following bit of drivel from the Independent?

Mr Baker's publisher, Alfred Knopf, plans to release the book on 24 August, on the eve of the Republican National Convention in New York. To call it a provocation would be an understatement. The author and publishers have no intention of giving anybody ideas - to do so would be a criminal offence - but they are certainly playing very close to the edge in a United States that, in the wake of the 11 September attacks, has shown no compunction about locking people up and asking questions later, free speech rights be damned. {emphasis added}

Give me 1 instance where someone in the US has been locked up for dissenting speech. Dixie Chicks, Woody Harrelson, Barbra Streisand? Nope, don't think so. This kind of hyperbole does only 1 thing - try and legitimize a book that wants to bash the current President of the US while discussing his assassination.

The left has lost it's f#cking mind. Don't believe me? Then explain this.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:09 PM | Comments (0)

June 29, 2004

I know you've seen this note

Now see the photos that accompany it.

Found @ The Baron's

Posted by Nukevet at 09:58 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack

There's concealment, and then there's cover

This little jihadi has neither.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:46 PM | Comments (4)

Yep, things were definitely better

under Saddam.

Amazing how anyone can even argue that with a straight face, eh?

Ibrahim Idrissi has mixed feelings about the recent uproar caused by the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib under the US occupation. "As a humanitarian organization, we oppose this," he says. "But these are soldiers who have come to Iraq to fight, not to be prison guards. It was to be expected. Of course, if there are innocent people in there ... it is possible, I guess, that some of them are innocent."

If Idrissi seems a bit callous about the fate of the Iraqis in US-run jails, he has probably earned the right to differ. He recalls a day in 1982, at the General Security prison in Baghdad:

"They called all the prisoners out to the courtyard for what they called a 'celebration.' We all knew what they meant by 'celebration.' All the prisoners were chained to a pipe that ran the length of the courtyard wall. One prisoner, Amer al-Tikriti, was called out. They said if he didn't tell them everything they wanted to know, they would show him torture like he had never seen. He merely told them he would show them patience like they had never seen."

"This is when they brought out his wife, who was five months pregnant. One of the guards said that if he refused to talk he would get 12 guards to rape his wife until she lost the baby. Amer said nothing. So they did. We were forced to watch. Whenever one of us cast down his eyes, they would beat us."

"Amer's wife didn't lose the baby. So the guard took a knife, cut her belly open and took the baby out with his hands. The woman and child died minutes later. Then the guard used the same knife to cut Amer's throat." There is a moment of silence. Then Idrissi says: "What we have seen about the recent abuse at Abu Ghraib is a joke to us."

And this is what France, Germany, and the anti-war movement have fought so hard to protect.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:22 PM | Comments (0)

Oh! Canada

A cranky electorate indeed.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:00 PM | Comments (0)

The Soundboard: American Edition

After hearing some disappointing news about one of my favorite bands of my youth, I've decidied to post a song from a band that will never turn its back on the country that made them famous.

Still as feisty as ever, I present...

The Charlie Daniels Band

Always a favorite to the boy racer in me

Stroker's Theme - The Charile Daniel's Band

Lyrics below

Stroker Ace was born to race
He had a mean streak ten feet wide
A son of a gun with a taste for fun and more than his share of pride
Take a dirt road curve with the devil's nerve
Make a car dance across the mud
And haulin shine was his regular line till the track got in his blood
Was a real hot shot and he bragged a lot, but man that boy could drive
Cause he loved the feel of the steering wheel and the girls with the bedroom eyes
And in a race of time or a bar room fight, Ol Stroker stole the show
A back stretch blazer, a real hell raiser and a racetrack Romeo

Mama lock your daughters up
That foul bunch is back in town
And them little girls get frisky when they hear that race car sound
Theyre bringing out the yellow flag, somebody's brakes have failed
There's an oilslick on the inside and a wreck along the rail
You'd better stand on it Stroker cause a bandits on your tail

It's a downright joy for a country boy when he hears them engines moan
But you gotta hang tough and it gets real rough when you're out there on your own
Cause they'll push you around, they'll knock you down, they'll shove you up against the wall
And you always know when the engine blows that a man can't win 'em all
You can push that car just a little too far any Sunday afternoon
And if you break your neck in some damn fool wreck they'll forget about you soon
But Ol Stroker Ace was born to race
And its worth all the trying
Just to drink champagne in the victory lane and to hear that concrete whine

Stroker get your dander up this ain't no time to laugh
You've got to make the lap up if youre gonna take that checkered flag
Number 10 is closin' in to even up the score
Its time to wave bye bye and put the pedal on the floor
Youd better stand on it Stroker cause your blowin off their doors

Blow their doors off Stroker

Stand on it, son

Ahh, you good lookin devil you

Posted by Nukevet at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)

Gone South

A few weeks back I put up a Soundboard post featuring Skinny Puppy.

Now, I've always known that their politics and mine aren't an eye to eye thing, but since they're not blaring hypocrites I've put up with it.

Well, reader James D went to their most recent show in Philidelphia and here is his review.

"As predicted the visual spectacle featured a pretty long montage superimposing American and Nazi imagery. Bush morphed into Hitler, the stars and stripes morphed into a swastika, endless parade of photos of war casualties which no doubt 99% of the audience has at this point in life been desensitized to, etc. The irony of it all was the Nuremberg-like crowd of fist wavers and middle finger flashers in unison reacting in a religious frenzy as orchestrated by their enlightened high priest of the moment, Ohgr.

And apparently the PETA activists at the show didn't seem to be too horrified by the bovine holocaust that had to take place in order to provide pants for at least half of the crowd. I just hope that their calculated move from Canada to Los Angeles has fulfilled Cevin Key's ulterior motive of scoring big in Hollywood. They have the right politics intact so it's a start no doubt."

Why is that the creative ones have weak minds?

Now I have to have an internal debate as to whether to purchase their new album.

Sad as it is, thank you for the review James.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:52 AM | Comments (1)

Michael Moore likes democracy so much

He registered twice.

The Smoking Gun reveals that Michael Moore is registered to vote in two states: New York and Michigan.

Although he has claimed to be an "independent� and not a Democrat, records from the New York City Board of Elections show that in reality he registered as a Democrat, the Web site reported.

"Now here's the good part: Moore is simultaneously registered to vote in Michigan, where registrants aren't even given the option of party affiliation (so he's not an Independent there either)."

And there's more: "as a New York City voter, TSG can tell you it's hard not to realize you are registered, since a voter's mailbox is regularly bombarded with candidate mail, official voter guides, and Board of Election notices about upcoming elections and reminders about the location of your polling place."

Posted by Nukevet at 07:38 AM | Comments (0)

Prespective

To Saddam's prisoners, US abuse seems 'a joke'

One year ago, the organization was still called the Committee to Free Prisoners. In the hectic days after the fall of Baghdad, when people were digging holes all over the capital looking for secret prisons, there was still hope that some of the tens of thousands of political prisoners who disappeared under Saddam's regime were still alive somewhere. That hope has vanished, says Abdul Fatah al-Idrissi, 35, Ibrahim's younger brother. "Now, our work is not about releasing prisoners anymore."

A Lebanese paper, from Tim Blair. The ones guilty of abuse will be punished in our courts. The ones who did what was discribed here, may never be found. I warn you, it's the things of nightmares. So read with caution.

"They called all the prisoners out to the courtyard for what they called a 'celebration.' We all knew what they meant by 'celebration.' All the prisoners were chained to a pipe that ran the length of the courtyard wall. One prisoner, Amer al-Tikriti, was called out. They said if he didn't tell them everything they wanted to know, they would show him torture like he had never seen. He merely told them he would show them patience like they had never seen."

"This is when they brought out his wife, who was five months pregnant. One of the guards said that if he refused to talk he would get 12 guards to rape his wife until she lost the baby. Amer said nothing. So they did. We were forced to watch. Whenever one of us cast down his eyes, they would beat us."

"Amer's wife didn't lose the baby. So the guard took a knife, cut her belly open and took the baby out with his hands. The woman and child died minutes later. Then the guard used the same knife to cut Amer's throat." There is a moment of silence. Then Idrissi says: "What we have seen about the recent abuse at Abu Ghraib is a joke to us."

I just want to not think anymore, not visualize, not remember or feel anything. I'm going to close my eyes, and then when I open them again, I'm going to continue the fight with the only tools I have. But I'm so tired, and the world is a colder place than it was before.

We've no choice but to fight on.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:08 AM | Comments (13)

This, I think,

Is a letter the terrorists should read very, very carefully.

As I've said all along - the first thing the new Iraqi government needs to do is to go after these foreign fighters with a vengeance.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:14 AM | Comments (8)

June 28, 2004

Go ahead, scoff at this

Posted by Nukevet at 11:42 PM | Comments (14)

Why PG-13

I was listening to talk radio host Michael Medved last week. He said something you might be interested in (sorry it took me so long to post it).

If Michael Moore had gotten the PG-13 rating he wanted for Fahrenheit 9/11, the film would have been ok'd to be shown in secondary schools (junior high and high schools) under teacher supervision.

But since he wasn't able to get the lower rating, he has switched to usurping parental supervision.

"I have encouraged teenagers to go see this movie," Moore told MTV News. "Sneak into this movie. Get in by any means necessary. If you see me near a theatre, I'll help sneak you in. Just get into this movie, because it should not be R-rated. And if your parents object, tell them I said it was OK. I'll write you a note or something."

Found at the newly returned Blogs of War. Welcome back, Mr. Little

Posted by Nukevet at 07:41 AM | Comments (1)

Bwaaah!

Poor wittle babies.

One of the things that really pissed the left off about Bush being in the White House is that they lost a little bit of their chokehold on the Environmental Protection Agency (akaThe Office of the Federally Appointed Envirowhacko)

This last week saw a commercial put out by the EPA. It focused on saving energy at home while using exagerrated mockery of greenie freaks and their lame brained attempts at alternative transportation.

In a 60-second version of the public service announcement, a woman named Suzanne says she is concerned about pollution and global warming, but laments the homegrown efforts of her husband, Mark, to cut emissions from the family car. Mark - nerdy, pudgy, harried - is shown rigging up their car, first with a sail, then a microwave contraption using huge satellite dishes, and finally a helium tank with a bulbous hose.

"The E.P.A. says the energy we use in our home can cause twice the greenhouse gases of a car," Suzanne says, adding that she has started buying energy-saving household products.

Both the Kos IMC and Atrios whined about how the government should be giving these folks medals, not making fun of them.

But here is some truth; Your home produces twice as much pollution as your car.

So, are they pissed because they were made fun of or are they pissed that the EPA is breaking showing that there is actually something that pollutes more than an SUV?

Ah, who cares. They're pissed. That's enough for me.

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

And yet they refuse the title

When you say the phrase "Eco Terrorist" around a hippie sympathizer, they freak out and try to admonish you for doing so.

That is why I carry a sledgehammer in my truck. To knock some sense into them.

Eco-terrorists have placed PVC bombs with mercury- detonators in the lock cans of metal gates that block access to forest roads to all those without keys, the story goes. Reach into the metal bell-like covering for the gate�s lock and, boom, there goes your hand.

Oh sure, they're all just peace-loving forest pixies.

My ass!

Posted by Nukevet at 06:37 AM | Comments (0)

And he deserves it

Congratulations Sherrif!

King County Sheriff Dave Reichert will be honored as Sheriff of the Year at the National Sheriffs' Association's convention in Seattle Sunday night.

Reichert was chosen from nearly 31-hundred sheriff's nationwide. He was the lead investigator when the Green River Killer started targeting prostitutes in 1982. Nearly 20 years later, he was sheriff when Gary Ridgway, who later confessed to 48 murders, was arrested in late 2001.

Now he's running for the Republican nomination to run for Jennifer Dunn's seat in Congress. He's been the sheriff of Washington's largest county since 1997.

Reichert is a good guy and a good Sherrif. I will be sad to see the top cop in my jurisdiction leave if he does win the nomination and the office. Mostly because of his record but also because we have no idea who will be taking his place.

And that is scary.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:28 AM | Comments (0)

Exactly who are the racists here?

The decision to name a new Police Athletic League center in South Jamaica, Queens, after a certain slain cop has stirred anger and resentment in the community.

The Edward Byrne Center does not yet bear the fallen officer's name, though the dedication ceremony took place a month ago. And if a group of community leaders and residents have their way, it never will.

The reason? Edward Byrne was white.

But blacks can't be racists because "they have no power".

Yeah, right. Tell that to Reginald Denny.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:15 AM | Comments (0)

Dissent in the Ranks

It seems the left can't get itself together.

Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn have stated many times that they favor ousting Bush this election, even if John Kerry is �Bush-lite.� And that stand has been repeatedly used by progressives opposed to Ralph Nader�s campaign.

However, Chomsky and Zinn, both residents of John Kerry�s home state of Massachusetts, say they plan to vote for Ralph Nader.

The godfather and his Igor-like sidekick are breaking ranks with Kerry.

Run Ralphie, Run!

Found @ the return of The Blogs of War

Posted by Nukevet at 06:01 AM | Comments (1)

June 27, 2004

Just what are you defending occam?

Could it be this?

Like Hemingway, Moore does his boldest thinking while abroad. For example, it was during an interview with the British paper The Mirror that Moore unfurled what is perhaps the central insight of his oeuvre, that Americans are kind of crappy.

``They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... in thrall to conniving, thieving smug [pieces of the human anatomy],'' Moore intoned. ``We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.''

It transpires that Europeans are quite excited to hear this supple description of the American mind. And Moore has been kind enough to crisscross the continent, speaking to packed lecture halls, explicating the general vapidity and crassness of his countrymen. ``That's why we're smiling all the time,'' he told a rapturous throng in Munich. ``You can see us coming down the street. You know, `Hey! Hi! How's it going?' We've got that big [expletive] grin on our face all the time because our brains aren't loaded down.''

Naturally, the people from the continent that brought us Descartes, Kant and Goethe are fascinated by these insights. Moore's books have sold faster there than at home.

Before a delighted Cambridge crowd, Moore reflected on the tragedy of human existence: ``You're stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe.'' In Liverpool, he paused to contemplate the epicenters of evil in the modern world: ``It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.''

So, you are defending a film by a man who thinks you are both incredibly stupid and in cahoots with a happy band of multinational thieves, you have to be if you're an American, by Moore's standards. So if you aren't offended by this, either you are stupid, or like Moore, you think you can count yourself as being above your fellow citizens. Somehow far more intelligent and special, gifted with the insight denied to the sheep. If you fall into that category, then fuck you.

Let's talk ignorance then, how bright about America is the average German? The average Brit? How about the French? When the best selling book about 9/11 in France two years ago said that 9/11 was all a fraud created by the CIA to support Israel against the Palestinians,......

How fucking dumb is the average Frenchman?

Moore is exactly the smug nose in the air elitist snob he claims to hate, he's a worthless piece of shit who I wouldn't piss on if he was on fire. He's a liar and a hypocrit conning his way into the big bucks while pissing and moaning about thieves in high places.

How about thieves in low ones?

Occam, either you're a fool or a useful idiot, which one makes you feel better about yourself? If you are simply a Bush hater hoping that Mikey's movies will somehow unseat the president, you are seriously kidding yourself, right up to the point of delusion. He's not going to change anyones mind, you go to see him already convinced, and swing voters find him offensive. Hell more people will see Garfield the Movie than Moore's opus, and 5 year olds have better judgement than the run of the mill toesucking Moore fan. And they are just as likely to vote.

So go hump someone else's leg, I carry a newspaper.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:34 PM | Comments (8)

Hamburger

Thats what My left arm feels like after this

My arm feels like someone took a tiny hammer and a tiny needle and whacked my arm about 50,000 times over the period of 4 hours or so.

Oh wait...someone did. And I paid them to do so.

But enough with the bitching.

In the coming months, the colours will flatten out a bit so that they match up.

And just like real ivy, the plant will thicken, multiply and grow up my arm, across my chest and back and down my other arm.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:46 AM | Comments (7)

June 26, 2004

Suddenly, I feel all warm towards Cheney

Vice President Cheney on Friday vigorously defended his vulgarity directed at a prominent Democratic senator earlier this week in the Senate chamber.

Cheney said he "probably" used an obscenity in an argument Tuesday on the Senate floor with Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and added that he had no regrets. "I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," Cheney told Neil Cavuto of Fox News. The vice president said those who heard the putdown agreed with him. "I think that a lot of my colleagues felt that what I had said badly needed to be said, that it was long overdue."

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Cheney said yesterday he was in no mood to exchange pleasantries with Leahy because Leahy had "challenged my integrity" by making charges of cronyism between Cheney and his former firm, Halliburton Co. Leahy on Monday had a conference call to kick off the Democratic National Committee's "Halliburton Week" focusing on Cheney, the company, "and the millions of dollars they've cost taxpayers," the party said.

"I didn't like the fact that after he had done so, then he wanted to act like, you know, everything's peaches and cream," Cheney said. "And I informed him of my view of his conduct in no uncertain terms. And as I say, I felt better afterwards."

Good for you Dick, Leahy is an asshole. He was one of Reagan's worst opponents, and has been on the wrong side of history often, he never once failed to accuse republicans of being crooks while somehow never noticing the bulging pockets of his friends.

This is a good thing I think. Piss on comity, when you say a man is a crook on national television then try and chummy up as if it's just game talk and let's talk deal, you reinforce the cynical notion that they are all the same. Politicians are all bastards and crooks. I don't believe they ALL are, but Leahy's behavior gives that idea legs. So if you are going to play that game, then have the stones to follow through.

A hearty "Fuck you" is what's called for when an idiot say's you are a thief in no uncertain terms to the press. Cheney did what any of us would do in that position, (well, I'd break his face, but I'm bad tempered that way.) Leahy can kiss his Senate brotherlyness goodbye, he and his partisan colleagues have created this tone, he can just damn well eat it. You cannot shout from the rooftops that your opponent is a liar theif and fraud, then be best buddies in the coffeeshop afterwards in the real world.

Welcome to the real world Leahy, mind the light, I know you aren't used to it.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:05 PM | Comments (3)

Drudge over the top

'FAHRENHEIT' ROCKS THE BOX OFFICE That's the headline Drudge used, but come on, what's the reality of it?

$8,200,000-estimated, well that's respectable, but certainly not earth shattering. It's about what you could expect from a nonblockbuster with a huge buzz among the dimocrats, (sorry, that was rude). But when the big boys can do over 40 million in a weekend, Moore has done OK, but hardly the stuff of legend.

First, can he sustain it? I believe not, unless he plans to get the same one million people to go back to see it thirty or forty times. It's not a kids movie, not a summer film escapist fare, not a ready made to cover the Star Wars Star Trek fan base type of film. It's a hyped rant film, a gutteral snarl of rage against all things not leftwing. It's got the ready made audience of the dims hard left, and the college age gold card socialists, but that's about it. Let's see if in three weeks he takes in more than a couple of hundred grand, then we'll see just how much attention he's really getting.

Moore has made himself fatter and far richer by playing to the mouth breathers on the left, they exhibit all the traits that they themselves would decry as being trailer park or ghetto. Glassy eyed acceptance of spoon fed pap, chosen enemies selected for them and served up with side order of groupthink. Moore plays them like a cheap banjo, and they just keep on whistling that tune from Deliverance.

Any Ned Beatty and Michael Moore comparisons are to be done at your own risk. Can you squeal Mikey?

Update, it seems that Sondrak and I were thinking on the same lines. I must be doing something right today.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:38 PM | Comments (7)

Hitler Hysteria

So, MoveOn.org has an ad contest, gets entries that directly compare Bush to Hitler, and that's OK. An appeals court judge goes off on a rampage and compares Bush to Hitler, and that's OK. But when the Bush campaign responds to this nonsense by showing the public what is being done, all of a sudden it's unacceptable?

MoveOn makes ads with comparing Bush to Hitler, complete with images of old Adolf. Bush then questions the level of civil discourse going on, and uses this ad as an example. John Kerry then screams about Bush using an image of Adolf in one of his attack ads, and accuses him of "having no decency". All in all, pretty disingenuous and dishonest. I can see why Harm is so in love with the Democratic party.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:45 PM | Comments (3)

Today's the Day

Yes, today is the day.

For those who know, no telling please.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:01 AM | Comments (2)

Between the eyes

Would be too kind for this jackass.

George Galloway yesterday ridiculed British servicemen seized in Iran and declared: �I just have to laugh.�

The ex-Labour MP sickened TV viewers with his twisted rant � just as the eight men were celebrating the end of their ordeal.

Galloway was asked by Five�s Matthew Wright about our photo of the blindfolded troops being paraded on telly.

He replied: �Well, it�s The Sun. I just have to laugh at this. I�m sorry it�s serious for the families of the men concerned.

�But they�re working themselves into a fury about British soldiers having blindfolds on when we are blindfolding thousands all over the world."

He takes money from dictators and then taunts ex-prisoners of islamofascists.

What does he do for an encore, rape children?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:00 AM | Comments (2)

June 25, 2004

At least give them

a fighting chance.

The Saudi Interior Minister, Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, said foreigners would now be allowed to apply for a permit to carry a gun in the manner of Saudi citizens.

"In principle, a Saudi has the right to carry a weapon, if he has a permit," he said.

"Likewise a foreign resident, if he felt in danger, he could get a permit to carry a weapon."

Posted by Nukevet at 07:33 PM | Comments (3)

illuminating

Belmont Club,

Iraqi blogger Hammorabi's breakdown of the the foreign fighters killed in one US strike on Fallujah underscores the point:
Nationality & Number
Saudi 5
Somalia 2
Emirates 1
Yemen 1
Morocco 1
Algeria 1
Syria 1
Libya 1
Kurdistan 1
China 1
Mauritania 1

If the insurgency is so widely popular in Iraq as some claim, why is al-Zarqawi importing talent from outside Iraq? They're getting themselves killed to no serious effect, Sadr is done, his rabble shot to pieces, and when they have trouble recruiting even in the Sunni Triangle, you have to wonder. You have to wonder if the biggest boosters of this so called insurgency aren't the anti-US protesters outside Iraq. Since suicide by chain gun seems to be less and less popular in Iraq these days. So unpopular that they have to scour the back alley's of the Bekka Valley to get recruits.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:47 PM | Comments (2)

Talking the talk

Now, will we walk the walk?

The new interim government should ask the US to deal with these groups in as aggressive a manner as possible, as soon as possible.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:10 PM | Comments (0)

The big I

By now, I'm sure you've heard about the remarks made by Judge Guido Calabresi, 71, of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, comparing Bush to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.

He has apologized.

But that is not enough.

Keep what he said in mind as you read this...

Partisan Political Activity. A judicial employee should refrain from partisan political activity; should not act as a leader or hold any office in a partisan political organization; should not make speeches for or publicly endorse or oppose a partisan political organization or candidate; should not solicit funds for or contribute to a partisan political organization, candidate, or event; should not become a candidate for partisan political office; and should not otherwise actively engage in partisan political activities.

That is from Section A of Canon 5 of the Code of Conduct for Federal Judicial Employees

Sounds like impeachment time to me.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:39 AM | Comments (0)

Kerry in a pinch

Get this. Kerry was invited to the premere of spewfest, Fahrenheit 9/11, but he didn't go. All of his friends went. Many of his political cohorts went. But kerry did not.

Here's why.... He Can't Go!

If he sees the movie, someone will ask him what he thinks of the movie.

If he says he likes the movie, that would seem that he approves of the hate and propaganda slung by Moore.

If he says that he didn't like the movie, a decent number of those on the left will lay waste to his campaign.

He's caught between a rock and a very hard place.

The only person this movie will help is Ralph Nader because even the Kerry supporters who see this movie have to figure out (in their empty little heads) that Kerry is more like Bush than they care to believe.

I'm laughing so hard right now.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:23 AM | Comments (1)

Duh!

What would we do without the press?!

Iraqi insurgents seek Saddam's chemical arms

Insurgents in Iraq are seeking chemical arms and expertise left over from the regime of Saddam Hussein for possible use against U.S. and allied troops, an intelligence official in Iraq said yesterday.

Oh really! I never would have thought that those insurgents would be looking for the WMD.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:11 AM | Comments (2)

Friday Fun

Would you like to play a game?

Dog Toy or Marital Aid?

The Doc should be able to get these all correct.

Because he's a veterinarian, not because....umm...nevermind

Found @ Sondra K's place.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:00 AM | Comments (2)

June 24, 2004

In the Mail

The Analog Wife went out to get the mail and came back with a flyer sent to us by the local police department. If I had a scanner, I show it to you. But I don't, so I can't.

Here's the scoop...

A level 3 sex offender moved in just over 10 blocks from my residence.

His name is Billy Mack Ervin Jr.

His offense? He sexually assaulted his girlfriend's 4yr old daughter.

He served 6 years for doing so.

sarcasm on/Way to go justice system!/sarcasm off

I'm going to have to up to caliber I leave for the wife.

You can go here and see a list of sexual offenders in the Seattle Metro area.

Billy Mack is on this list. At least until the police take him off now that his location is known.

Because this is just the HOMELESS OR TRANSIENT SEX OFFENDERS.

I'm going to have to hire a private helicopter to protect the wife when I can't.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:02 PM | Comments (1)

Annan has no room to talk

Kofi Annan, UN secretary-general, last week said that approving the renewal would send "an unfortunate signal any time, but particularly at this time" - an apparent reference to the Abu Ghraib scandal.

So the UN Security Council wants to be able to prosecute American nationals in the International Criminal Court. They say it's only to be used as a LAST resort and only in the case of a host country being unable, or unwilling to prosecute crimes commited by their own people. They say we can trust them to not abuse it and indulge in purely malicious political persecutions.

They say we can trust them to be fair.

(Deep breath),....No, I don't trust them, don't like them, wouldn't believe them if they said the sun rose in the east. The international community as evidenced by the UN has lied, cheated, put terrorist nations on it's Human Rights Commision and robbed it's way across dozens of impoverished nations for decades. A twisted, sorry collection of semi-literate butchers and drawing room socialists all joined together in a brotherhood of thievery and lies. They bend over backwards to stand by while genocide happens and only react when forced to by US pressure. They take our money and insist on demanding more while hiding the books so no one can see where the money goes. They allow forced brothels and prostitution where ever they send their blue helmits and just don't bother to worry about it. Annan did nothing in Rawanda when he could have, and will do nothing over the Sudan because he won't dare to anger the Muslim enclave of thugs that provide his amen blame the Jews chorus. He has stone walled the Oil for Food investigation, the prositution Scandals in Africa and Bosnia, and has never missed a chance to harshly criticise the US while making excuses for everyone else,...it's poverty that makes them do that.

We're supposed to trust asswipes like him? Asswipes like some varsity communist activist lawyer in the Hague as somehow having only the interests of justice in their pointy little heads? When we have years of experience to show they cannot be trusted? In a word.

Bullshit.

Try again. We will find our own justice, thank you very much, you can keep your grubby little unwashed paws off of it.

Even without the Security Council resolution, the US is unlikely to find any of its soldiers facing prosecution in the International Criminal Court, The New York Times reports. First the US has signed ICC exemptions with 90 nations for its soldiers � and since Iraq has not signed the ICC treaty, US soldiers could not be tried for any of their actions that took place there. While Afghanistan is a signature of the ICC treaty, The Washington Times reports, it had already signed an exemption agreement with the US.

So, suppose some asshat bureacrat in the Hague decides today is a good day to launch a witch hunt against America. Care to guess how severe our reaction will be? Congress has already passed a resolution granting the President the power to use force to retrieve Americans siezed for trail by such a court last year. If the ICC wants to play ruogh, my friends, they have no idea how rough we can play.

No American will be tried by these fools and pirates. We police our own.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:50 PM | Comments (4)

The guy that Michael Moore Ate

Take a look at this. Borrowed directly from Mikey's website.

I know that the guy on the right is Bush.

But who the hell is the guy on the left?! That is not Michael Moore!

It looks like the guy that Michael Moore ate.

Photoshop magic works a lot better for his ego than TrimSpa will do for his ass.

Found @ Right Thoughts

Posted by Nukevet at 07:47 AM | Comments (7)

Environmental Hijinks

In a two-fer, for your entertainment....

1. Mother Nature is apparently hazardous to the Spotted Owl.

It illustrates how sharply protections for the owl have curtailed logging of federal forests in the Northwest and the rising influence other forces may have over the owl's future.

The 2002 Biscuit fire in Southwest Oregon was responsible for about two-thirds of the owl habitat eliminated by natural events on public land from 1994 to 2003, said Richard Bigley, a forestry consultant on the panel.

The science panel said logging of the owl's forest habitat poses less threat to the species than a decade ago, but other dangers including an influx of aggressive barred owls, disease and wildfires in overgrown forests make its survival uncertain.

Timber industry officials said the results show that forests need to be managed with some logging to keep them useful to owls, while environmental activists said it's more important to protect owl habitat in light of the newly emerging threats.

Save a chicken. Eat a Spotted Owl.

Found @ Some Poor Schmuck

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2. For some reason, PeTA decided that Billings, Montana was a good place to try and do some recruiting.

Luckily, Craig at MTPolitics was on the ball and decided that that would not do.

I just learned that PETA has managed to purchase advertising on a couple of local TV stations � the only market that is airing them.

I don�t usually get too worked up about stuff like this, but I think that today, I�ll be contacting the managers of the station, as well as compiling a list of advertisers who patronize the stations. Stay tuned.

Good work Craig!

But I have to ask...

What in the hell was PeTA thinking? Missoula would have been much more receptive.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:43 AM | Comments (2)

Yes! Let's be more like France!

I mean, why do we need a freedom of speech when we can be loved by the world!

France to ban sexist insults

France's conservative government has approved a draft law against sexism and homophobia that has worried press freedom watchdogs and angered feminists, who say it puts gays' rights over respect for women.

The bill, due to be submitted to parliament in July, aims to change France's 1881 press law to punish insults based on sexual orientation, including comments against homosexuals as a group.

"Oui, oui madame! Yew are loooking tre chic!"

"Yew are going to la jail now jaqueass!"

Found @ Judicious Asininity

Posted by Nukevet at 07:32 AM | Comments (0)

Blackout!

The major media are still ignoring the statement Puting made last week.

I guess their objectivity is on vacation.

Putin referred to Saddam's "special forces" as the instruments of his planned terror attacks. But no country in the Middle East has genuine special forces, certainly nothing to compare with what the US or the UK can field.

Moreover, Saddam would never have been stupid enough to use 'special forces' that could be directly traced to him. So who was going to carry out his terror attacks? Who had the network and the necessary fanatics for such tasks? Guess who? That's right, al Qaeda.

The same people who would deny this conclusion and call it nothing but self-serving speculation is the same crowd that deny any al Qaeda-Saddam links. They will admit that al Qaeda operated, and still does, in South East Asia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, etc. In fact, just about any place, including Toyland, except Saddam's Iraq.

But unless Putin is lying, and I doubt that even the most pathological Bush-hating journalist would even suggest that, then we must turn to al Qaeda as Saddam's 'special forces'.

Found @ The Junk Yard Blog

Posted by Nukevet at 07:25 AM | Comments (0)

Words On Reagan

Lee @ Right Thinking links to this excellent Reagan Retrospective in the New Yorker by biographer, Edmund Morris.

To excerpt it wouldn't do it justice. Just go read.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:21 AM | Comments (0)

I thought they were all criminals anyway

But Raging Dave straightens me out on the subject.

Democratic group crucial to John Kerry's presidential campaign has paid felons � some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary � to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in at least three election swing states.

America Coming Together, contending that convicted criminals deserve a second chance in society, employs felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio and perhaps in other states among the 17 it is targeting in its drive. Some of the felons lived in halfway houses, and at least four returned to prison.

You'd think they'd run checks on these folks beforehand. But I guess when you have a presidential campaign to run, you have to cut corners somewhere.

Thankfully, it seems no one was hurt.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:11 AM | Comments (0)

Back

Made a quick trip to Mexico City to meet a new graduate student and to join the graduate faculty there. It is an amazing city - 20 million people.

Not really any time to sightsee. Just in, a couple of meetings, lots of tequila, and then back to the US.

Did ya miss me?

Posted by Nukevet at 02:23 AM | Comments (4)

June 23, 2004

Nationalists, or just street thugs?

I have heard the arguement made, that the ongoing war in Iraq is just the Iraqi's way of expelling the hated occupier. Partly no doubt for some, a minority. But with the hand off to a soveriegn Iraqi government fast approaching it becomes obivous pretty quick it's not our exit that's the goal, but the establishment of another mullahtocracy on the Taliban standard.

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two Iraqi sisters working for a big U.S. firm were killed in a drive-by shooting on Tuesday near their home in the southern city of Basra, relatives said.
Their father, Sadah Audishow, said he had been waiting at the window for his daughters to return from work when he heard gunshots and saw a white pick-up truck speeding past.

"I had been waiting for my daughters to come home at five o'clock," said Audishow, an Assyrian Christian who works and lives in the church with his family.

"I picked one of them up and she was dead. I went to pick up the other but found her dead too," he said Wednesday, his shirt still stained with blood from the night before.

Two women, no soldiers, no contracters, no weapons and no excuses. Two women who were just trying to feed their families. Their crime? The same crime that a million other Iraqi's share, dealing with the coalitition to rebuild. The crime was trying to live.

Janet and Shatha, aged 38 and 25, worked for U.S. company Bechtel, the father said. Bechtel has been awarded major infrastructure reconstruction contracts in Iraq.

The driver who had been taking the sisters to and from their jobs at Basra Airport, was wounded. Bechtel officials in Iraq were not immediately available for comment.

The family was taking the bodies of the women to the northern city of Mosul for burial, the father said.

"We had received no threats," he said. "We are peaceful people, just making a living."

Attacks on Iraqi translators and others working with U.S. companies in Iraq are common. There have been numerous reports of attacks on Christians and shopkeepers selling alcohol in largely Shi'ite Muslim Basra since the U.S.-led war last year.

Insurgents have intensified a campaign of assassinations, bombings and attacks on oil infrastructure ahead of the transition from U.S.-led occupation to Iraqi rule on June 30. Most of the victims have been ordinary Iraqis.

If we pulled out completely today as our resident troll wants, this kind of thing would run riot, the shooting, stoning and slaughtering of anyone crazy enough to utterly reject sharia law. Women banished to barred rooms, honor killings and being reduced to chattel property. Political disputes settled by private armies as opposed to the ballot box. Terrorist traing camps sprouting up like weeds ala Afghanistan (pre-war) and Iran. Wether you supported the war or not, it's not an intelligent arguement to suggest we simply leave. Unless you don't care what is left in the wake.

Harm's beloved Iraqi socialists would have a very short life, jihadists don't care if the infidel isn't white, they kill everybody, including their own if they happen to be in the way. They can survive only in a pluralistic democracy, which is what they'll have if we succeed. If we succeed, then Iraq will have the burden that every democracy does, the existence of socialists, if we fail, then I suggest that harm get a spare room ready, cause the refugees will be coming. I wouldn't buy a doghouse just yet, but the line that we can pull out today and everything will be just peachy is just not serious.

It boils down to what is your goal? What's best for Iraq? Or, defeating America no matter how greiveous the outcome for everyone else? If you pick the second one, then you aren't a very good human being.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:51 PM | Comments (10)

Moore distorting?...do bears potty in the woods?

Sarasota principal defends Bush

But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly.

"I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"

"Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film Festival, portrays the White House as asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11 attacks. Moore accuses Bush of fanning fears of future terrorism to win public support for the Iraq war.

No doubt the priciple will no longer be welcomed at facualty meetings.

"The president bit his lip and clenched his jaw," she said. "I didn't know what happened, whether it was something with his wife or children or something with the nation. I remember praying that God would watch over our school and protect our children."

She said the video doesn't convey all that was going on in the classroom, but Bush's presence had a calming effect and "helped us get through a very difficult day."

Tose'-Rigell said she plans to publish her account of the morning of Sept. 11 from pages she wrote in her journal following the attack. The principal said she didn't vote for Bush. "But that day I would have voted for him."

Nope, definitely not.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:13 PM | Comments (0)

oh yeah, to be a fly on that wall

WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader had a testy meeting Tuesday with black members of Congress and rejected their request that he quit the presidential race. At the same time, Arizona Democrats prepared to challenge Nader's qualifications to appear on that state's ballot as an independent candidate.

So then, the dems believe that it was Nader who made Gore loose, and that he will cost Kerry as well. I don't really agree with that, but it's a fair view. What they are doing about it, is anything but fair, or democratic.

"We have never been moved by Nader's repeated assertions that it was Al Gore (news - web sites) and not he who was at fault for the outcome of the 2000 election and apparently the Arizona Democrats seem unconvinced by his explanation as well," Cabrera said.

Nader said any challenge in Arizona has "a lot of mischief potential" because "there are very partisan Democrats" in the Arizona secretary of state's office.

"If this becomes a pattern of harassment in other states, we will ask John Kerry to disown and disapprove of these antidemocratic tactics," Nader said.

Kerry campaign officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Democrats using legal manuevers and monkey shines to get their way? Playing fast and loose with democracy to achieve a desired outcome? Oh, say it ain't so John. Obviously, Florida was no aberation, they do this whenever they don't get their way, and have for years. It's just refreshing to see that the progressive fringe is now the victim of this instead of the GOP and country at large. It's also curious that it won't become a big issue in the media.

Can you imagine the hue and cry if Bush's people actively worked to have a name REMOVED from a states ballot? The accusations of "tyrant", of "dictater"? The revulsion that the talking heads from the left that strangely they don't seem to have for that tactic when their guy benefits from it.

I'm having waaay too much fun with this. Nader is a self agrandizing nut sure, but that's not a disqualifier in a democracy. This kind of backroom chicanery is politics at it's worst, and this from the people who complain the loudest because so many people have turned away from voting. So if they succeed, will they have "disenfranchised" the Reforms and Greens? Will they have preverted the peoples will?

For all the flowery rhetoric of brotherhood and diversity, this is the face of the democratic party. Win at any cost, by any means, and if you don't? Lie about it. Then line up the lawyers for the next time, rather than work harder at getting the vote.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:43 PM | Comments (0)

Eye on the left

Just to keep you in the know without getting your feet too dirty.

Over at the Kos IMC, Kos himself blames Bush for the beheadings.

Bush's failures on terrorism make me physically sick, literally. Now, when I think of "Bush's War on Terror", I associate it with "beheading". And I really, really wish it hadn't come down to that.

Of course! It must be Bush's fault. It is just those poor terrorists way of saying they need love too.

And over @ Eschaton, Atrios is trying to crank up the "Bush was AWOL" crap all over again with the help of the always neutral Associated Press.

It's about time. I mean, when the Bushies did their little document dump and official Washington decided the story "was over," it was still the case that many of the important questions were left unanswered - including, of course, whether or not all the records were actually released.

I just keep wondering when the left re going to figure out that you have to officially be charged, by the military, as AWOL before you can be considered AWOL.

I guess missing 118 out of 134 votes in the Senate is only considered tardy.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:33 AM | Comments (0)

What's This?

Go here and find out.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:23 AM | Comments (1)

I'm might be a redneck

But you might be a liberal if...

You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.

You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

You have to believe that criminals don't cause crime, but guns do.

You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.

And these are but a few of the things you must believe if you are a liberal.

Go read the rest over at Rivrdog's Harbor Place

Posted by Nukevet at 08:20 AM | Comments (0)

counter-productive

Death doesn't alter local Koreans' support for war on terror

The brutal death of a 33-year-old South Korean civilian beheaded Tuesday by terrorists in Iraq stunned members of Houston's Korean community but did not shake their support for the war on terrorism.

"We should completely wipe out that barbaric, inhumane group," said Francis Lee, 75, president of the Korean American Senior Citizens Association.

I've known Koreans, and I can tell you that if they thought murdering one in a savage manner would cower the rest into retreat,...then the terrorists who did this don't know any Koreans. They are proud, and now, they're angry. South Korean Rangers are among the fiercist soldiers in the world. They fought with us in the fiftes, sent men to Vietnam, and now are going to send in 3000 more troops to Iraq.

His captors, who claimed to be linked to Jordanian-born terrorist and suspected al-Qaida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had threatened to kill Kim unless South Korea abandoned plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq. South Korea has 670 medics and engineers in the country.

The jihadists have just picked a fight with someone who can bite back. Not very bright was it? The Koreans may have been willing to help before out of a sense of obligation, now, they have an emotional motive.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:15 AM | Comments (6)

I like this kid

An issue of free speech, the crushing of dissenting opinion, and bucking the statue quo, all wrapped up in one High School Social Studies class. From Instapundit, and worth a read. How tolerant is the left when they hold positions of power, and how tolerant when that power is challenged by a few students who have simply had enough of the halfwitted theories of Greens and Choamskites thrown at them as fact by teachers who should know better?

The slur "redneck" is used to refer to whites as a blanket indictment of ignorance and racial hatred. Actually, it's rather funny when you consider that a racial slur can be used by a leftist any time they like. Since apparently, they think "correctly", at least in their own minds. Redneck is really rather lame, since many wear that name with pride, as a counter to the PC mindset of the elites. In my family, the proper term would be Hillbilly, and brother, I would put my IQ against their's any day of the week. Only a leftist would believe that a political point of view is indicative of intelligence. Only a leftist would assume, that being a particular color preordains what you should believe. And only a leftist could believe you are oppressing them by stating an opinion.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:52 AM | Comments (0)

June 22, 2004

Complimentary Arm-Cannon Pic

Since Kim du Toit is a bit too angry to post today, I'll be filling in for your daily fix of firearms.

One gun I would love to own in the future is the 1874 Sharps rifle

Preferably the Quigley Buffalo model.

Sadly, the price for the base model starts at the "couple weeks pay" level and goes up to the "sleeping on the couch for a month" level rather quickly.

Also sadly, the Ballard Rifle, Remington Rolling Blocks and Winchester High Walls aren't any cheaper.

But are just as desirable.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:00 AM | Comments (1)

Probably too much freedom

At least according to the left.

Iraq's first independent talk radio station has begun transmissions in Baghdad, bringing Iraqis a lively mix of music and the uncensored opinions of ordinary people.

I mean, according to the left, the Iraqis are too primitve to handle something as complicated as democracy, how dare we give them something as fundemental as the ability to speak their minds without fear of reprisal.

And as Karol @ Spot On says; "How long before there is an Iraqi Rush Limbaugh?"

Posted by Nukevet at 10:13 AM | Comments (10)

Oh, That Liberal Media

MSNBC's Keith Olbermen, commenting that Fox News was the most watched cable news outlet during coverage of Ronald Reagan's funeral....

And I quote

"Shallow, phony patriotism will always draw a crowd - like dogs humping in the street."

Oh, that liberal media.

Found @ The Junk Yard Blog

Posted by Nukevet at 09:36 AM | Comments (8)

Huh? Illegal? Wha?

Coming soon to a town near you.

In a push to get more immigrants involved in their children's education, San Francisco officials are considering asking voters in November to give parents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in school board elections.

Under the proposed ballot initiative, even illegal immigrants would be able to vote, so long as they are parents with kids in public schools.

And I'm sure they wouldn't think of letting the illegals vote for, oh say, the Presidency? Right?

Found @ Right Thinking

Posted by Nukevet at 09:19 AM | Comments (0)

June 21, 2004

My Father's Day

Since I'm not a dad, I didn't have anyone to attempt any of the usual Father's Day activites for me (which is odd, because the wifey is not a mom, but she got presents and dinner and stuff).

Anyway, I made my own presents.

I took this

And made this

I have decided to go with the stubby stock on this version. To be truthful, the wifey likes this gun (no recoil, not too loud, etc) so I am trying out the shorter stuff that fits her (and this stubby stock is perfect for smaller framed folks).

I'll be ordering the parts for this upper in the next couple weeks.

More updates to follow.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:46 PM | Comments (1)

Blastorama review

Ahhh. The last Blast for June is done.

You'll have to pardon me for not remembering to put my camera in my range bag and only having a written report.

I arrived at one of the nicest rifle ranges I've been to in a long time, The Kenmore Gun Range at their 0900 opening time. When I started unloading the Ananlog Truck I noticed a large group of children and their parents walking from an outbuilding towards the rifle range. The children were carrying their rifles perfectly vertically and their parents were walking a couple paces behind them.

As I was walking to the range with my second load of equipment, I had my suspicions confirmed. It was a Hunter Saftey Class. And when I said it was a large group, I really meant that it was a huge group.

There were at least 40 kids in this class.

In contrast, my HSC had 11 students.

Kewel.

Anyway, Mollbot arrived shortly thereafter with Victoria (A Number 1, Mark III Short Magazine Lee-Enfield in .303 British). Raging Dave, the Raging Girlfriend and their friend Hodge rolled up not too long afterwards.

I wish I could tell you how well their day went, but with me only getting small amounts of sleep these past couple of weeks combined with 80+ degree temps and humidity you almost had to swim through, I wussed out after three hours of shooting to go home and eat and take a nap.

I can tell you that I made an error when I assembled the A2 sighting system on my Bushmaster that made it shoot almost 2 feet high at 100yds. The error is fixed and I'll be going to the range again this weekend to try again. Otherwise, the SKS and the 10/22 did halfway decently in the accuracy department despite using some of the crappiest ammo ever manufactured.

If you didn't go to the range this weekend, make sure to go on the next.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:27 PM | Comments (3)

Another point where the left is wrong

John Kerry made up his own 'Misery Index" since the numbers from the actual index didn't make Bush look bad enough.

Maybe he should run the figures on his 'Misery Index' with the people he would rather have running the US.

The EUros.

While many Americans, including the putative Democratic presidential candidate, admire European ways, Europeans themselves aren't so cheery.

In recent years, it's finally dawned on them that they're living in a fool's paradise. So far, however, they lack the will to do anything about it, preferring instead to revel in their sense of moral superiority, looking down on Americans as overweight, gun-toting rubes and mindless workaholics, hooked on commercialism, violence and religion.

Funny thing, though: Americans are happier and more optimistic than Europeans, and we have reason to be.

A giant 2002 Pew Research Center survey found Americans comfortably ahead of Europeans in satisfaction with income, family life and job. More important, when asked how they see the next five years, 61 percent of Americans were optimistic and just 7 percent pessimistic (and this was just 12 months after the attacks of 9/11). By contrast, only 35 percent of Germans were optimistic, 19 percent pessimistic.

Europeans have good reason for gloom. Their economy is sick, and so is their society.

Economy first: Over the past year, the GDP of the Euro Zone countries (the large European nations, except Britain) grew just 1.3 percent, while American GDP grew 4.4 percent. Unemployment in France is 9.8 percent; Germany, 10.5 percent; Spain, 11.4 percent; the United States, 5.7 percent.

Oh yeah! Those Euros are really a joyous people. Watch them go!

Down the drain.

Found @ Judicious Asininity

Posted by Nukevet at 07:43 PM | Comments (0)

This is all America's fault

Of course.

Seven years after hosting the Kyoto Protocol conference and pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent by 2012, Japan finds itself in the embarrassing position of having increased levels of emissions and being uncertain over what to do about it.

This makes Japan, what, the ump-teenth country to find itself in violation of one of the dumbest documents ever put into an international treaty?

If this thing even gets reported by the lamestream media, how long until they blame it on Bush pumping up the US economy?

Found @ Right Thinking

Posted by Nukevet at 07:31 PM | Comments (0)

Nope

No evidence at all.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:57 AM | Comments (14)

June 20, 2004

Hey criminals,

Why don't you move on up to Washington State?

Here in Washington, we have a state supreme court that thinks they are the 9th Federal Circuit Court. Or at least they look up to them like a little brother does a big brother.

Last summer, they came down with a ruling that basically said; If you kill someone during an assault, you cannot be convicted of murder.

Go ahead. Read that again.

I know, it is hard to believe. But the progressives who fill the seats on the Wasington State Supreme Court do not think that beating a person to death is murder.

Well, this last week, someone got up the gumption to challenge their ruling.

They refused to budge.

So, not only will they not treat care theft like a crime, but you can beat someone to death in the process of stealing their car and still serve less than 5 years in jail.

And they wonder why I take my 1911 everywhere I go.

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Oh yeah, lets get us someof that socialized medicine!

How the hell does stuff like this happen?

An Oregon City doctor will spend two months in jail after he advised a patient that having sex with him would help her pelvic pain, then billed the Oregon Health Plan for his time during their sessions.

What the hell is wrong with people?

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They're crying in their cappucinos

And not paying their tabs.

The assets of Air America are reported to be sold to a new corporate entity, leaving creditors of its existing corporate parents, Progress Media and Radio Free America, high and dry. Supposedly, millions are owed by the current corporate parents.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:00 AM | Comments (2)

A Sorry State

France, that is.

How bad is anti-Semitism in France?

A French Nazi hunter says it's so bad, the best way to keep up the fight is to leave the country.

Six decades after the end of the Holocaust, the prominent French Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld told the Jerusalem Post that French Jews should pack their bags and get out.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:53 AM | Comments (0)

I wasn't going tp post more tonight,

I stumbled onto this resource however, and couldn't let it go over the weekend. With all the gala remembrences of D-Day, the warm reports, against the harsh criticism we have been getting over Iraq...You would think that America was once a good and noble country that has morphed into a Satanic cult after the 2000 election. That we were widely loved and respected, till George came along and gummed everything up.

Least that's the impression you would have if you weren't paying attention to facts or history. So, here's some history.

War for Oil? 1953, the eastern block view of a miserable sidekick England toadying up while Uncle Sam guzzles oil. Familar isn't it.

Liberate Europe?...No, you see we came to loot and pillage, obviously no benefit to Europe could come from such a "liberation", could it?

The US as a global military bully, over extended and burned from interferring where we should not, nothing new in this view. As this was also from 53.

Konrad Adenauer, Quisling? Colaborater for a foriegn occupier and traiter? Or greatest German statesman of his age? Contrast this with the press the new Iraqi leadership gets and maybe a bit of prespective shines in.

A imperialistic all consuming America, bent on conquest, absorbing and consuming everything in it's way. You get the idea.

When the anti-war people tell you that America was once worthy, and could be again, if we'd just be more like we once were, remember what was being said about us by the same political side two generations ago. It's an old con, and it's pretty obvious that the views expressed on us by fifties communists isn't a whit different from the views expressed by their modern descendants. The hard left tolerated us in WWII, only to encourage relief for the left being hammered by the Nazi's. That battle won, we reverted to the natural enemy of socialism.

Still it's striking isn't it, that the arguements haven't really changed in fifty years? Blood for oil, imperialism, Britain being our poodle, America as a rampaging giant. It's all been said before. We knew better than to listen then, so why take them seriously now? I don't believe most of us do take them seriously, when Moore apes these sentiments, when the leftwing elite does, it shows them for what they are.

A little history is a dangerous thing, when you don't know what a particular voice chooses to leave out. So here's alittle context. Make of it what you will.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:30 AM | Comments (0)

A new kind of fathers day

Freedom from Fear-- Norman Rockwell

This work perhaps seems dated to young eyes, but sometimes, so do I. Rockwell has always been my favorite painter, he gave us snapshots of ourselves that were moving, funny, spiritual, and on occasion, troubling, in his later years. This one is important to me, at least right now. Tomorrow is Fathers Day.

Freedom from fear, I haven't really known personal fear well, always too stubborn, too full of fire to feel it much. I have had moments when I could see that my life could end quickly, few of us don't at some point, but not really fear in the sense I shriveled up inside, or felt the urge to run, I have never felt that. But now, what was once just a nagging worry in the darker corners of my mind has come to pass. We're dealing as best we can, and the healing continues. But why does Fathers Day have to be so soon....

I find myself checking in on Mandy and Nate often now in their sleep. My wife shares this with me, the need to check often. I know that as time passes we won't be quite so anxious or worrying, but for now, I think we are entitled. We've earned the right.

Mandy and Nate know nothing of this of course, as it should be. The best thing a father, or mother for that matter can do for their kids is to let them be kids. Leave them their innocence for as long as we can protect it. They'll learn of worry, of sorrow later, but not today, and hopefully, not tomorrow.

I raed this article on Fathers Day, and while it was pretty tongue in check, I have no humor for this, not now. It's not about ties, socks, cards or presents. It never has been, and only a mercenary heart would think that is the goal, a kind of popularity contest with mom. I refuse to play.

My Fathers Day will be expressed in the glowing eyes of a bright and shining daughter, bubbling over with "I love you Daddy!", with my son's halting "Me love you Daddy<" as he grins that sly little Daddy's boy grin. My wifes eyes say everything that needs said between us, and that is how I measure the day. I'm not in competition with my lover, never that, children express the love they feel in many ways, most non verbal. My son will climb up on my lap and ask "what cha doing Dad?" and Mandy will follow her mother with incessant requests of "Can you read to me Mom, please?" We complement eachother, each with a niche, a talent to make the kids happy in one way or another. Sometimes our talents cross over, but really, I don't begrudge my love the flowers and gifts of Mothers Day. She will always hold the special place in their hearts that a mother holds, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

A fathers place, now that is a grand reward too. I have found myself granted equal status to pawpaw now. I never noticed the shift before, but I'm to be the co-guest of Honor at a family gathering tomorrow with my father in law. So many women in his family, and sadly, few lasting marriages, save his and my mother in law's. So I'm the favored uncle, as well as father, and do you know, I really like that. I burn to teach, to pass on things that I've learned, or been taught. So a father's place isn't a bad one. Not if you use a scale that measures beyond material things.

Father is a title, so be worthy. So much is lost to you and to small hearts if you don't at least make the effort. Tomorrow will be a happy/sad day, but it is mine, and I won't trade that for anything. Mother's Day, Father's Day, both a testement to love, devotion, family, and to life. Always to love and life.

Have a good Father's Day.

Posted by Nukevet at 01:46 AM | Comments (4)

June 19, 2004

Gone Shooting

Join us, won't you.

If you're in the Seattle area, we'll be here.

If you're not, join us in spirit at your local range.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

Still looking for some consistency from the left

I wonder if Mikey Moore is going to pay any attention to this.

Miramax Films is considering a number of cost-cutting measures, including layoffs, as it nears the end of its fiscal year, a source familiar with the studio's plans said Friday.

Miramax is owned by The Walt Disney Co. and operates on a fixed budget of about $700 million a year to make and market films.

With four months left to go in its fiscal year, much of that budget has already been spent on expensive projects such as Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes film "The Aviator," the Johnny Depp film "Finding Neverland" and two films starring Jennifer Lopez, according to the source, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The middle class employees getting laid off so that the rich can get millions of dollars for doing considerably less work and the studio heads can get take home their million dollar salaries.

Sounds like something the left rails against on a daily basis.

I just want to see a single protest led by Moore. That is all I ask.

Found @ Right Thinking

Posted by Nukevet at 09:11 AM | Comments (0)

I think he got it about right

From Jim Geraghty @ National Review

The Left: The war on Iraq is a disaster! The world hates us! You did it unilaterally! You should have gotten Russia on board. You should have gotten Putin to support a U.N. resolution. The support of Russia would show this isn't just America being imperialist, but the whole unified world coming together to face Saddam.

The Right: Well, Putin says Saddam was going to attack us with terrorists.

The Left: Well, who the hell trusts Putin and the Russians?

Yep, just about right.

I found this, of all places, in the comments section @ Eschaton.

I also found it later @ The Spoons Experience

Posted by Nukevet at 08:55 AM | Comments (3)

no socially redeeming value what so ever

I know the Chinese have far more men than they need,...

but this job would........SUCK!
I would call in sick on rookie day. I hope this is faked, I really, really do.

Some content on humor link is not family safe.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:56 AM | Comments (3)

the difference between a sunburn, and walking into a furnace

The nature of our enemy, and the press that ignores it.

The swordsman-torturer, not sufficiently satisfied with his first effort, raises the sword again and drives down once more on the man's immobile hand. This time he severs the fingers closer to the knuckles as blood spurts cartoonishly from his hand spilling over and down the concrete slab. The victim emits a wail I have never heard � could never imagine hearing � from a grown man, this time louder, harder than the first.

The camera then turns to the assembled Fedayeen as they continue rhythmically chanting.

Instapundit pointed this out, and frankly it's the most comprehensive detailing of the video in question I've seen yet. So, when the only thing evil needs to win is for good men to do nothing, I need someone to explain to me how leaving Saddam alone served a higher moral purpose. It certainly isn't obviously true, not when you know that he did things like this as policy, as do his followers and Islamicists in general. We have to win this war,unless you wish that kind of rule to be your gift to world peace. It's an easy peace to get, it's the peace of the grave, of the gulag, it's pretty cheap too,

It will only cost you your children.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:53 AM | Comments (0)

the republican that the democrats love

Has just endorsed George W. Bush. After all the whiddling and whining the Kerry people have done over a proposed Kerry/McCain ticket, this has got to sting. Kerry hates Bush, has called him a liar and accused him of criminal behavior, McCain likes Kerry, McCain personally dislikes Bush,.....Yet, wether he dains to criticize Kerry or not, this endorsement is in effect a repudiation of Kerry's stand on the issues.

He stepped away from a friend to support Bush on principle, now how are the Kerry people gonna wish that away?

McCain carries little weight with either the die hard GOP or Liberal camps, but swing voters like him alot. This endorsement is gonna cost Kerry more than he knows.

Via Drudge.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:46 AM | Comments (0)

June 18, 2004

couldn't resist

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, has been killed, Al Arabiya television reported Friday.

Shot down like a dog, well, that's one reason to warm to the Saudi's, but only one.

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Drudge has the pictures

Warning,....gruesome photo link.

For those who wish to see what kind of evil we are fighting, follow this link. I warn you, it's entensely graphic.

FOX is reporting that the Head of the Saudi wing of Al Quaida has been killed by Saudi security forces. I hope he squirmed and begged as he bled out. I also hope he hates the 72 sodomisings he gets in the basement of Hell. Roast in Hell you bastard. Alot of your friends went on ahead already.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:09 PM | Comments (0)

Why you don't walk away from a war with vermin.

Body of U.S. Beheading Victim Found in Saudi Arabia, AP Says

This is how the enemy wishs to be seen by us.

We're supposed to be afraid, to run away, beg for mercy, convert to islam, beat our women,....whatever passes for thought in these sewer dwellers misshapen heads. The opposite reaction is what they'll get, we aren't Spain, the sooner they learn that....the better. This is what they've just earned from us, they've earned death, just as swiftly as we can deliver it. Any KOS retard or Michael Moore fuckhead that says we should just go home and make peace with these guys should be clubbed, hogtied and dropped into a militant neighborhood of islamicist cavemen. Let them cut their own deal.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:16 PM | Comments (3)

Who's the least talented of the Pythons?

My vote goes to perpetual 5th wheel of Monty Python, Terry Jones. Perhaps it is because of things like this.

It never ceases to amaze me how many non-Americans have advice for us. I especially like it when we get told to "get over" the 9/11 attacks.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:04 PM | Comments (2)

What the headline should be

Commission members said today there were links.

What in fact is reported instead.

CBS Evening News said the commission -- "directly contradicted one of President Bush's justifications for going to war against Iraq."

ABC said the report -- "unequivocally" disputed the Bush administration's claims of an Al-Qaeda-Iraq link.

NBC reported that -- "the Commission is sharply at odds with what leading members of the administration continue to claim."

A front-page headline in today's New York Times reads -- "Panel finds no Qaeda-Iraq Tie,"

Washington Post says -- "Al Qaeda-Hussein Link is Dismissed."

Very nice, playing directly to their anti_Bush democrat base, it's also misleading as Hell, because it's not exactly what the 9/11 panel said.

But commission members said today there were links, just not a working relationship and no evidence of any Iraqi involvement in September 11.

Bush claimed there were terrorist links, not a direct working relationship. But having built this strawman, the left procedes to demolish it anyway. This piece of news however knocks that tactic right off the table.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday his government warned Washington that Saddam Hussein's regime was preparing attacks in the United States and its interests abroad - an assertion that appears to bolster President Bush's contention that Iraq was a threat.

Having opposed the war, why would Putin lie about this now? It smacks of the truth, coming with the better economy and the hand off of the Iraqi government to Iraqi's, People are staring to feel better about Bush. The big media will have to try harder to spin for Kerry.

Pew Research Center Director Andrew Kohut says the survey shows President Bush's approval rating was 44 percent in interviews taken before President Reagan's death.... but rose to 50 percent in polling conducted during the following days.

I'm sure that Rather, Jennings and Brokaw will give flowery excuses as to why they distorted what the report said, but the fact remains, they did distort it. Tell me again how the press isn't largely leftwing, when liberals will sink to this level to win an election, what else will they sink too?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:15 PM | Comments (0)

I could think of a few dozen

Groups or individuals who would fit this description.

''A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.''

--Marcus Tullius Cicero 42B.C

But I would rather you leave your suggestions in the comments.

Found @ Dr. Horsefeathers

Posted by Nukevet at 07:49 PM | Comments (1)

Want to see something funny?

Head on over to the Kos IMC and watch them scratch their heads over the new revelation from Putin.

It is like monkeys and fire.

Hateful moneys. But monkeys none the less.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:16 PM | Comments (0)

Want to see something not so funny?

A little while back, Mollbot sent an e-mail to his (and my) senator on the subject of the Assault Weapons Ban being brought up again for renewal. He was, of course, asking a Senator who would love to flush private gun ownership down the toilet of history to vote against it.

Needless to say, he did not get the response he wanted.

Go here and read some formal doublespeak.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:14 PM | Comments (1)

Just something quick

It is "New Contract Time" at my place of employment. At "NCT", the Washington State DOT has the wizz quiz people show up at our operations building for the "Pee in the Cup" game. This happens at every new contract. Every single one.

Everyone at our establishment passed. But we found out tonight that our main competitor lost almost half of their workforce due to, ummm, not passing.

I found this hilarious.

Yes, I know. Someone losing their job shouldn't be funny.

But I have been kicking my competitors ass for the last three years I have worked at this employer and this will only help me increase my company's marketshare.

If my competition wanted this to not happen, the should have done their own testing beforehand to weed out the dopers.

Now, on the topic of drug tests, I do not like them, nor do I support them for all employees.

But the guys who were subjected to the testing drive 50,000lb trucks for ten plus hours a day on the same roads you drive on. Kind of makes you want them to pee in a cup, huh?

I had to take the test when I got hired on. While I do not like the test, the job pays pretty damn well for the braindead map monkey work I do and the only horrible part is the people.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:57 AM | Comments (4)

June 17, 2004

Computer issues

Heya, all - I have had a couple of computer issues to deal with, but I hope to resume regular posting in the next day or so.

So, how many scandals does the UN have to be implicated in before they lose the unwavering support of the left as the only true moral authority? I'm just asking.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:16 PM | Comments (3)

the company you keep

Instapundit pointed this interesting article out,

Meanwhile, in the United Arab Emirates, the film is being offered the kind of support it doesn't need. According to Screen International, the UAE-based distributor Front Row Entertainment has been contacted by organisations related to the Hezbollah in Lebanon with offers of help.

Emphasis mine, but you get the point.

When you make a film that viciously attacks the president of your own country when you are at war, and the enemy offers to help distribute it and give it a seal of approval, just whose interests are you really serving? Whose side are you on?

The hate Bush at all costs movement is just reaping what it's sown. They've been so rabid and illogical in their hatred they don't even care about what kind of followers and friends they attract. I don't think Moore intended to attract terrorist interest to his cause, but he has. If he were a decent human being, he would take a serious pause in his antics because of things like this. Maybe get his priorities straight.

If he were a decent human being,...... so I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:36 PM | Comments (13)

Una Mas

Here we go again....

This Saturday, the Blastorama crew will be meeting at the Kenmore Range (one of the slickest range websites I have ever seen). (map)

I'll be there around 9AM to partake of the rifle range for a few hours. The pistol range opens at noon, so I will be heading over there at that time.

Once again, I would like to make the offer to anyone who wishes to join us, novice, expert or anywhere in between. Now, I didn't see anything about gun rentals at their place, but no matter, I will be bringing a host of different rifles and pistols with me and I think the same could be said for others who will be showing up.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:57 AM | Comments (6)

June 16, 2004

The Soundboard: Screaming Crotch Rocket Edition

I've been too busy lately to write anything decent on this, but a little over a month ago a friend called me up and invited me to take part in some two-wheeled Speed Therapy.

I, of course, accepted.

Now, when I ride sport bikes, I get in the mood for music that sounds as if I'm in the middle of an anime film. Metal just will not do. I don't know why (I'm thinking it was that week I spent watching Akira).

Here's a selection off my Crotch Rocket Soundtrack.

Something Good - Utah Saints (1991)

Posted by Nukevet at 10:20 AM | Comments (2)

Seen the light

Even the left of Canada have figured it out.

Two Liberal candidates running in rural ridings in B.C. are calling for an end to the controversial national gun registry.

Doug Stanley, the Liberal candidate in the riding of Southern Interior, told an election forum in Trail the registry was a "definite mistake."

I'm hoping that this isn't just some election stance because they're trying to get elected in farm country and that they actually believe this. They still favor the registration of handguns. But Canuckistan's laws have had that on the books for decades (I'm pretty sure it is almost as old as our 1932 creation of registration of Class III's, but I could be wrong).

Hopefully though, pols like these two will be the beginning of a movement to get rid of this cheeseheaded scheme. And maybe it'll lead to the repeal of some of their other stupid gun laws.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:56 AM | Comments (1)

Who I'll be rooting for

This summer in Athens, the Oympic Games will be taking place. While I don't plan on watching much of it (who does?) I will, of course be hoping for as many wins as possible from the American teams.

I will, however, be rooting for one non-American team.

In London the other day the Iraqi national football team met a team made up of MPs, mostly opponents of the war, for a friendly match.

The Iraqis won 15-0.

Six months ago the team did not even exist. But in August, after defeating several opponents, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, the men will stand to attention as Iraq�s new flag is raised at the Olympic games in Athens.

Go Iraq.

Found @ The Cool Blue Blog

Posted by Nukevet at 09:45 AM | Comments (1)

June 15, 2004

Ewwwww

I simply have no words for how butt ugly these new uniforms are.

I thought that the Army wanted people to volunteer to join. I am afraid that this will make things harder.

Found @ Right Thoughts

Posted by Nukevet at 07:40 PM | Comments (10)

Yay

Ms. Sondra K has posted a pic of her new CZ83

Yay Sondra.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)

Busy Busy Busy

Not a whole lot from me after another 14hr work day.

But I would like to leave you with a question.

Is the Pacific Northwest the only area of the country where gas prices have fallen over a nickel a gallon over the last weekend?

And if not, why is this not front page and TV news bulletin worthy?

UPDATE: Thanks to all who have responded to my query. I was pretty sure that I wasn't the only one who was seeing this.

And, while there seems to be a CNN report on this that someone put into the comments section (sorry, no link) it doesn't seem to have garnered the reverse of the "Gas Prices Still Rising Under Bush Watch" headline.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:34 AM | Comments (20)

June 14, 2004

tieing in with the post below...

Reagan's Vision

The election of Ronald Reagan (search) in 1980 was a triumph for conservatives. It was also a defeat for the intellectual establishment in the United States, most of whom declared that a vote for Reagan was a vote for disaster.

Established politicians, academics and virtually the entire media warned that Reagan was at best na�ve and at worst a dangerous war monger.

A column by the Washington Post�s David Broder just before the election doubted whether America could ever match Reagan�s vision of it:

�[Reagan�s] picture is more a romanticized notion of the 1920s than a reflection of realities in the 1980s.�

The New York Times editorial board belittled Mr. Reagan�s �romanticized image of America. Mr. Reagan seems truly to cleave to the verities of the 50's.� (The New York Times, October 26, 1980).

But the American electorate, much like Reagan, didn�t put a time limit on America�s ideals. They believed those ideals, though not in vogue, remained a living reality. And that�s why they rejected the collective wisdom of the elite and twice elected Ronald Reagan president.

Together with their new leader, the public and President Reagan turned that vision into reality.

I've seen recently an attempt to portray Bush as Carter and Kerry as Reagan, (stop laughing, the argiement was actually made.) Reagan was a titan and when a lobster liberal's allies try to paint him as worthy of that mantle, you can see how complete Reagan's victory actually was.

Beware the establishment when ever they claim that voting for strength and character are a greiveous mistake. After all we know how well their advice worked out before, don't we?

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

rocking the boat

When you consider that whole generations of generals and diplomats made their bones during the cold war by doing the cocktail circut in Paris and Bonn, this is utterly predictible. It's also sad, that a group of "learned" men can be so frivilous with issues of security, boiling it all down to saying, in effect, that since Chirac doesn't like Bush we should give in to him.

A group of former top U.S. officials is urging Americans to vote against President Bush in the November election.
The 26 retired diplomats and military officers plan to issue a statement Wednesday condemning Mr. Bush's foreign policies.

Spokesmen for the group accuse the president of alienating key allies and endangering the nation's security through his decisions regarding Iraq and the Middle East.

This election isn't between those who want to want to win the war on terror and those who want to loose. It's between those who want to win, and those who refuse to acknowledge that it even exists. The consequences are the same however. Kerry is an ass, unpredictible except to be counted on to do what's in his very own personal interests. Bush love him or hate him operates on guiding principle. That the spineless and egocentric Euro's have a problem with him is more an issue of their bigotry and close mindedness than anything Bush has actually done.

Kerry could preform exactly as Bush has done, and their reaction would be far different. Why? Because he drinks wine with dinner, speaks a little French and has a greater fondness of elite tastes than for BBQ with the neighbors. He's a snob, so the Euro's identify with that. Bush could give a damn for style over result, which is why we like him mostly. That group of former officials falls into the same league. They can suck up to the decadent Euro's all they like, they rest of us see them for what they are.

We don't take our orders from Europe, any president who thinks we should will find the sidewalk hot on his ass.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:52 PM | Comments (17)

Thank you all

I can't express how much your thoughts mean to me right now. Cait sent me a very special link, and while I didn't intend to post any more on this, this did put a tiny piece of light back into my soul.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:53 AM | Comments (1)

Yippie-Ky-Yay

And so passes the first of the June Blogger Blastoramas.

Good Times.

We got to see Ms. Sondra K and her husband JR again. We also got to see Ms. Leigh again. Want proof? Here you go.

If you followed Sondra k's posts last week, you saw that she was in the market for her first pistol. She spent the day trying out the rental guns in the case at Wade's and shooting the personal pistols that other folks had brought.

Here she is shooting my CZ83.

And here is Leigh with the first of my two Bushmaster XM-15s

After a few hours of shooting, it became apparent to Ms. Sondra that the CZ was the gun she liked the best. I wasn't really surprised, everyone who has shot it likes it.

Sadly, Wade's didn't have any. We proceeded to another retailer where they not only had a CZ83, they had three. Including one in a very nice stainless steel version that I had never seen before and isn't even offered on their website.

So now Ms. Sondra is a gun owner. Congratulations, Sondra K "Queen of F*ckin' Everything".

I'll be posting the info for the next Blastorama later this week.

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The Good Man Speaks the Truth

All this last week we were subjected to those who were very disrespectful of President Ronald W. Reagan. The range from the clueless yokel to the highly educated who should know better.

Later this week I hope to write about those who blame the spread of AIDS on Reagan, but today, I'm going to concentrate on the fall of the Sovite Union for little bit.

Those on the left will go on and on and on about how it was Gorbachev, not Reagan, who ended the Cold War. I suppose 'tapping out' of a fight could be considered 'ending it'.

For some real perspective on this topic, I think it would be pertinent to speak to someone who was in the middle of it all. His country was the lynchpin that was holding the Soviet Boc states together. When it fell, the USSR and it's corruption, oppression, evil and hunger for world dominance were not long for this world.

I present to you, Lech Walesa:

When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can�t be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989.

Mr. Walesa, many happy years are wished to you from America, sir.

Found @ LGF

Posted by Nukevet at 07:41 AM | Comments (0)

First hand

Mr. Preston of the Junk Yard Blog went down to D.C. last week to President Reagan 'In State".

Here's a snippet....

The line itself was like nothing I'd ever seen. It stretched from the Capitol down the Mall to the National Air and Space Museum, but it was only that short because it snaked in and out of dense cues that extended nearly half the Mall's width. Had it stretched out straight from end to end, I have no doubt that it would have crossed into Virginia and continued for several miles. Tens of thousands of people, from infants to geriatrics, teenagers in little packs or with their parents, military members in full dress uniform, men in suits and ladies in dresses and people in shorts and sandals, and all waiting patiently to pay respects however brief their opportunity.

Go here to read the rest.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:31 AM | Comments (0)

Poor Kid

First he was shot by an idiot, now he's being brainwashed.

Brandon Maxfield was 7 years old when he was shot by a 20 year old family friend who was playing with a pistol. Instead of suing the jackass who shot him, Brandon's parents went after Bryco Arms. The clueless jury awarded him a $51 million judgement and Bryco filed for bankruptcy.

The reasoning used by the jury for the award was that, in order to unload the gun (which is what the family friend claimed he was doing), you have to put the safety in the 'Fire' position.

I guess this makes anyone who has made a 1911 liable as well. You try racking the slide back with the thumb safety engaged.

Anyway, Bryco is liquidating it's assets and putting them up for bid in order to pay the judgement. Brandon is hoping to raise enough money to be the high bidder.

His plans, to melt down the supposed 60,000 unassembled guns still at the factory "to save lives".

Let me fill you all in on a little background here.

Bryco Arms used to be known as The Jennings Pistol Corp. They made compact, inexpensive 22LR and 25ACP pistols under the Jennings name and also as Raven Arms.

My mom, the Dean supporter, has one of each of these. With chrome finishes.

When they became Bryco Arms, the doubled the size of their design and made them in 32ACP, 380ACP and then an even larger 9mm compact handgun.

The guns were as reliable as you could expect from a gun that costs under $150. And some that I have seen exceeded even my expectations. The safety on the smaller guns is a front to back slider that blocks the trigger mechanism. On the larger guns, it both blocks the trigger mechanism and the slide with an up and down sweep, so you do have to push the safety down into the off position to be able to rack the slide back and remove the cartridge.

But there is no safety that blocks an idiot from putting his finger on the trigger while playing with it. And that, according to the family and 12 jackass jurists is Bryco's fault.

Not that I wish little Brandon any ill will, but his parents need to stop feeding his head with crap. And for his sake, I hope that Brandon keeps all of the money he has already received from Bryco and doesn't foolishly spend it on the unassembled guns.

And speaking of their unassembled guns, I seriously doubt that Bryco has 60,000 of them sitting around, unassembled. I'd bet money that the reporter got the figures mixed up (I know, SFGate, go figure) and there are 60,000 unassembled PARTS sitting at the factory.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:20 AM | Comments (1)

Michael Moore, Running Scared

Yeah, I know. Michael Moore running is damn near an impossibility. But he is scared.

So scared in fact, that he has hired a couple of Clintonista spinmeisters to cover his lying ass when his new mockudrama with the stolen title (you know which flick I'm talkin' 'bout here) hits theaters.

Anticipating increasing attacks from Bush campaign and supporters, Moore said he has formed a group to counter any future attack on his movie. The group will operate 24 hours a day, monitoring TV newscasts, news reports and other publications for statements discrediting his movie.

Moore said he has hired two political advisers to former Democrat President Bill Clinton's campaign to establish a "war room" that will immediately support any claims made in the movie that come under attack.

If pointing out hyperbole, innuendo, half truths and outright lies that Moore puts into his POS fictional celluloid is an attack, then I wonder what Mikey calls a hemmoroid?

Oh, that's right. He doesn't call them anything. He just calls his Park Avenue doctor.

Link found @ Right Thinking.

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

What are they bitching about then?

Headline from the June 9th edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

State ACLU membership surges; group credits Patriot Act's backlash

And I keep reading on left wing websites that it is the Republicans who campaign on the fears of the people.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:43 AM | Comments (0)

June 12, 2004

Our son

I have been silent for a while now, and will probably only post this, at least
until a little more time passes. This is the first post on the subject and the
last. Garret Douglas, our new son, third child, was stillborn on Monday June
7th 2004. The reasons were natural causes, an example of the complete
frailty and unfairness of life. We have suffered the pains of Hell, the
desolation of grieving parents, and our son was laid to rest early this
afternoon. Maybe I shouldn't speak to this just yet, our journey through grief
is barely started. We have crashed and slammed all the long way down that hill,
we have stopped falling for now and the climb back up has just begun. Tears
come easily, and often, without warning. But if I could send a letter to Heaven
for our son to read one day, this is what I would say.

My dearest son:

Your mother and I would gladly have sacrificed everything, including our own
lives to keep you here on Earth, never doubt my son that you were wanted and
loved. Never wonder if we let go of you easily. From the moment of your
conception, you were the greatest monument to the love your mother and I share, along with your sister and brother. You three are the culmination of a kind of love that exists but once in a thousand years. We planned your conception, your birth, and were prepared to share our lives with yours, to share ever triumph, and every sorrow with you. We were prepared for everything, except the devastation of your passing. We yearn for you son, deeper and harder than anything, we wish you could be here with us now. I hope someday in the here after we will know you son, and you will be glad to know us as well.

Let me tell you son, of your mother. She's the rock of my life, the basis for
all that I aspire to be as a man. She's so very beautiful son, with a smile
that could break an angel's heart. She's smart and intuitive, and she has a
wiley sense of humor. She has a loving heart, and she's a caring, inspiring
mother. She adores you, and the pain of your passing will forever dwell deep
inside her. I can love her son, but I can't remove the pain we share over you,
it's beyond a mortal's power. Your sister, she's very beautiful as well, with
her mother's dark eyes, her mother's smile, and her daddy's offbeat sense of
humor. She's so smart, sophisticated beyond her mere five years. She misses you too son, and she's still to young to understand the unanswerable questions that we all have to face someday. She's hurting too son, and for the first time in
her young life, she has seen her father cry. She dosen't know the detail's,
just that her new bubby has gone to become another star in the night sky. A
star like my mother, father and sister, like her great grandparents. She would
rather have you. Your brother Nathan, he's far to young to realize the loss
he's suffered, and for that I'm greatful. He's handsome, a strong bull headed
yard pirate to make a father proud. He's like me Garret, pigheaded and willful,
stubborn and savy, he's going to be a force of nature one day. His ready grin
disarms the hardest heart, he's a good soul like his mother and sister.

Me, I'm older now than a man should be, to witness the death of his son, and I
miss you so very much. I hang on son, I endure, that's my hidden talent. I will
be strong for you, for your mother, for your sister, and your brother, they
need for me to be.

You would have been better than me Garret, I have no doubt of that.

I will always wonder until the end how you would have grown son. I like to think
you will have favored your mother. I would like that. Her finely honed
features, her dark eyes, her shining smile. Her love of books, her humor, her
good sense. I feel that I have failed you son, I should have protected you,
shielded you. It's irrational given that the circumstances prevented you from
even laying your eyes upon us, even briefly. It's also quite human, I can't
forgive myself, and really, I have no desire to.

I can only wonder how you will grow and develop beyond the veil, only imagine
what you will be. I have faith that you would be a good man, a fine man. I only
ask that you accept our love my son, and I hope you can feel it, feel the
warmth of it as we send it to you. I ask that you accept us son, and know that
we haven't let go of our love.

It was raining all day today, as we said our goodbyes to your physical being. I
guess even angels can cry sometimes. But our goodbye was to your form, not to your soul and spirit, and we will always hold you dear in our hearts.

I look forward to seeing you son, someday.

Your father:

Mark.

This was written on Friday evening, June 11, 2004. Look after us son, watch over us, and know we can never forget you.

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Again with the VRWC

Here's the set up...

Burt Cohen is a New Hampshire Democratic Senate candidate. He is having to drop out of the race.

Why?

Because his campaign manager absconded with half of his campaign funds and hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Why am I posting this?

Because I found this at the Kos IMC.

It took only two, count them, TWO commentors to accuse the Republicans of having a hand in the managers absconding with the funds.

I wish they would quit projecting.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:26 AM | Comments (0)

Piss Off, John

That was Senator John McCain's response to John 'FrenchFace" Kerry's offer of the Vice Presidential spot on his ticket.

McCain may be on the wrong side of the gun control debate. And he may not know jack squat about campaign finance reform.

But he sure as hell knows when he gets called a child murdering rapist by a complete and utter jackass.

Good on ya McCain. For not selling out to try and step up the ladder.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:16 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

June 11, 2004

Everyone say

'Thank you, France'

If not for your stalling for Saddam, we may have gotten to these BEFORE they were dismantled and dispersed. As I've maintained all along - the problem is not the lack of WMDs found in Iraq, the problem is - where are they NOW?

The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003.

The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program.

The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:59 PM | Comments (0)

Feel the love

Posted by Nukevet at 07:16 PM | Comments (6)

Fun at All Costs

By now, I'm sure you've heard of the "J12" demonstrations that will be taking place tomorrow.

I've got at least two of them within 150 miles of me. Sooooo....

If someone has a spare 30K they could lend.......

I promise to drive this through at least one throng of smelly hippies.

And the icing on the cake....

Posted by Nukevet at 10:24 AM | Comments (8)

Playing Hide and Seek

With their heads shoulder deep in their ass.

Carol Rose, executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the police raised constitutional concerns because the Fourth Amendment would require that the bag searches be either completely random or the result of officers having a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

"It's an excuse to exercise discretion without cause, and it becomes a guise for racial and ethnic profiling," Ms. Rose said. "If they are going to instead institute a random policy, that means they cannot use any discretion at all in a random checks. The problem with total randomness, if it is totally random, is that it's unlikely to catch terrorists."

She knows that what she is doing will make it much harder to prevent another September 11th, but she doesn't care.

Just so long as whitey only searches grandma's and kindergarteners.

She is hoping the terrorists are playing "Hide and Seek".

Instead, they're playing "Pin the Tail on the Donkey"

And the "Tail" is a WMD.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:45 AM | Comments (0)

June 10, 2004

Thank you

Brother Ray

For everything

Tears (live 1958) - Ray Charles (link removed)

Posted by Nukevet at 09:34 PM | Comments (0)

It has been decided

The Blastorama Mama, Ms. Sondra K, has decided that we will be going to Wade's of Bellevue for the first installment of the Blastorama for June.

The usual terms apply. Breakfast at IHOP @ 9am (map).
Wade's @ 10am (map).

I again, want to invite any local bloggers or blog readers to join us for one or both meet ups. Novices and experts alike are welcome to attend. If this is your first time shooting, fear not. Every single person who will be meeting this weekend has been in that boat and I can say that your first time out will be instructive and positive.

And if anyone else around the country goes to the range this weekend, take pics and send them to me. I'll get them put up here at RNS.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:20 AM | Comments (1)

Moot Point

For folks such as us in the VRWC.

But back in the early 80's there was a serious discussion going on about the stability of the Soviet Union.

This discussion has started all over again with Reagan's passing.

I've found an older article (2001) on the topic from folks on both sides of the ailse that doesn't contain the shrill jibber jabber we have seen this last week and probably will continue to see for weeks to come, if not forever. If nothing else, it has a number of very good quotes.

To many at the time, the outcome seemed neither obvious nor imminent. Historian Arthur Schlessinger said in 1982 that people who thought the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse were "only kidding themselves." Other academics agreed.

"There was a general belief that the Soviets were going to be around forever and we just had to put up with them. Reagan came in and said we can bring them down." William Daugherty, professor of government and public administration at Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:35 AM | Comments (0)

I'm going to have to agree with this

The Gipper would have been a blogger
By Johnathan Pearce at Samizdata (London)

Ronald Reagan was, as we know, dubbed among other things as "The Great Communicator". Through his speeches, radio broadcasts and writings, Reagan had a wonderful knack of communicating important truths in clear-cut ways.

What intrigues me is wondering what he would have made of this new field of blogging. I reckon he would have loved it and could easily imagine the old fella writing one. As a talk-radio host, he had a lot to say that would have fitted in perfectly with the weblog format. I have recently been reading a collection of his radio show broadcast transcripts and it blasts the idea of him being a dope. Anything but, in fact.

Reagan was eager to make full use of the modern technologies of his time in spreading his views about the role of government, capitalism, the evils of communism and the like. I don't think it impertinent to imagine that this great man would have loved our medium and enjoyed the fact of its challenge to Big Media. I wonder what he'd have called his weblog. How about "Shining City on a Hill"?

Posted by Nukevet at 08:20 AM | Comments (0)

Hmmmmmm, no house razing

Just clearing of shrubbery hiding a tunnel. And this from Corrie's ideological brother in reporting, the Seattle PI.

"The bulldozer was there as part of an effort to prevent terror-related activities," said Amir Segev-Sayag, a media officer for the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. In this case, the bulldozer was attempting to clear away shrubbery to expose these tunnels, he said, and not trying to raze a home.

Pretty simple. The bulldozer was there trying to prevent terrorist activity. Corrie was there trying to protect terrorists.

But of course, we should discard the findings of the official investigation and accept the ISM version at face value, right?

Posted by Nukevet at 03:57 AM | Comments (4)

June 09, 2004

The Gipper's Wisdom

"Communism is neither an ec[onomic] or a pol[itical] system�it is a form of insanity�a temporary aberration which will one day disappear from the earth because it is contrary to human nature. I wonder how much more misery it will cause before it disappears."

Ronald W. Reagan, Reagan, In His Own Hand (written 1975, collected 2001)

Found @ ArtsJournal.com via Dr. Horsefeathers

Posted by Nukevet at 09:29 AM | Comments (0)

Hey! Remember that War for Oil?

The UN Security Council unanimously endorsed the US-British resolution on transferring sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government today. Coalition authorities also handed over complete control of Iraq's oil industry to the interim government.

Found @ Ipse Dixit

Posted by Nukevet at 09:25 AM | Comments (11)

The One That Got Away

The first draft of the report from the September 11th Commision is out. It appears to be a complete and utter waste of time.

Oh, wait. This is the government were talking about. Nevermind. Carry on.

Oddly though, Jamie Gorelick never testified.

Hmm. Must be the VRWC.

From the AP,

Draft portions of the Sept. 11 commission's final report offer a stinging rebuke of the FBI (news - web sites) and intelligence agencies but refrain from assigning blame to individuals in government to avoid the appearance of partisanship, several commissioners say.

From the JunkYardBlog,

The article goes on to discuss George Tenet and Condi Rice as names the Commission left off, but never quite gets around to mentioning the donkey in the middle of the room, Jamie Gorelick. And while it slips around the issue of cuts and restrictions placed on the FBI, it never quite brings itself to mention how and why those cuts and restrictions happened. They happened because in the wake of Watergate a tide of left-wing zealots got elected to the Congress, and those zealots emasculated both the FBI and the CIA.

Ms. Gorelick, there are some flowers waiting for you in the lobby. They're from someone named Al Kyda.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:22 AM | Comments (0)

Funny Title, Serious Topic

From Samizdata

Book Review: Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures

While not completely an expose on what a huge waste of space the UN has turned out to be, it does contain gems like this:

On April 6, 1994, one week after US forces withdrew from Somalia, a plane carrying the president of Rwanda was shot down over Kigali and massacres of Tutsis and moderate Hutus began within half an hour. UN peacekeepers withdrew while a radical Hutu militia, the interahamwe, engaged in an orgy of killing over ninety days at a rate three times that of the Holocaust ... when it was over, 800,000 had been slaughtered. Having failed to intervene in genocide on the ground for the second time in two years, the UN again choose to prosecute it in court instead, creating the second war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg.

And this:

One day someone at UNHQ will commission an official report about this disaster, replete with mea culpas and lessons learned. But for me there's only one lesson and it's staring right at me every day as I eat lunch: If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs. I learned that the day we were evacuated from Haiti.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:14 AM | Comments (7)

Truly Disappointed

I am going to have to agree with Michele on this topic.

While what Morrissey said was abominable, I knew he would end up saying something like he did. I've heard snippets of his new album.

And, while I have forever sworn off the Beastie Bitches, I cannot give up The Moz.

First, Morrissey is a Brit who now lives in LA. The Beasite Boys are from NYC. If either group should understand, you'd think it would be the Beasties.

Second, Morrissey is too deeply ingrained upon the thing that occupies the inside of my skull. Both his solo work and the music from his time with The Smiths. Hell, I can even blame him for one extremely fun, though short lived, relationship in the early 90's. The Beastie Boys have never had anything to offer me other than their repeated expressing of how great they think they are.

Third, I've actually met Morrissey. Twice. Once in Seattle and once in Portland. Some people say he comes off as a pompous ass. I didn't see that. The Beasties shut down their after party. I guess they though that someone would try to drink up all their Evian.

And fourth, I know that in a couple months after Morrissey's album comes out, I'll be able to pick it up for half price in the used bin. I won't even spend that for Beastie CD.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:55 AM | Comments (0)

June 08, 2004

Thank G*d it's fiction

I found this scary piece of fiction over @ Samizdata.

Today, we commemorate one the most glorious chapters of German arms: the lightning-fast response of 21 Panzer Division to Eisenhower's overconfident thrust, a response that rolled up the British left flank and culminated in the annihilation of the British and American invaders.

How appropriate it is that, lacking the the confidence in race-destiny that comes so naturally to the Germanic peoples the Allied commander had actually composed his memo taking responsibility for failure beforehand!

Despite the somewhat tense international situation, the commemorative ceremonies have proceeded with our customary German precision. It is certainly a sign of how the bitter memories associated with the dawning of the atomic age over Hamburg, Smolensk and Manchester all those years ago have faded that for the first time we have welcomed to our remembrance the President of France, speaking from Vichy by audio-visual link, and the General Secretary of the British Communist party speaking from London. Many have seen in this technical and political triumph a sign of a possible convergence between the two great systems, National Socialism and Communism, that currently dominate our world.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:42 PM | Comments (9)

Another Liberal BWOMM

What's a BWOMM, you may ask?

Big Waste Of My Money.

A database designed to match handguns in New York state to crime scene evidence has not solved a crime more than three years after its debut.

Pataki administration officials cite difficulties local police can face in getting crime scene evidence to Albany, where the database is housed. But state officials say they are close to solving the problem through a deal that would allow inquiries made around New York to piggyback on a federal ballistic network.

Perhaps you may have heard about the "Ballistic Fingerprint" program? It was the talk of the town when John Mohammed and Lee Malvo were getting their kicks while killing people at gas pumps a couple years back.

The theory is that you take a bullet fired out of every new firearm sold and put it in a computer database. Then, when a crime is committed, you find the spent projectile and match it in the data base.

The problem is, this system has never worked in three years of use in both New York State and Maryland. In fact, they've only had 6 'hits' on any case. And all of those turned out to be false.

Actually I lied. That is not the problem.

I've taken a few classes on the subject of firearms and ballisitcs forensics before running out of funding for school. I've also had over 20 years dealing with firearms very close up.

1. Finding a projectile suitable for forensics use after a crime is not a simple task. Clothing, bone and human flesh disfigure a projectile. And if the bullet hits, say, a wall before or after it hits a target, you can pretty much count that projectile out of being usable to 'fingerprint'.

2. Everytime a bullet passes down a barrel, the barrels 'fingerprint' changes every so slightly. After as few as 500 rounds, a barrels 'fingerprint' can change dramatically enough so as to be unrecognizable to the computerized 'fingerprint' system.

These two facts render a system such as the one used by New York and Maryland a very large, and expensive, machine whose only use is collecting large amounts of dust.

The real problem is that the gun grabbers are blaming this failure on the other 48 states for not buying and using this system and then legislating new laws around it.

While money spent in a state that I do not reside is not "My Money" per se, if they start spewing this crap, repeatedly , it will only be a matter of time before the chuckleheads in my state decide to seriously follow suit. Hence, My Money.

And when enough states incorporate a system like this, it will only be a matter of time before it leads to a National Bullet Fingerprinting System. Leading to more of My Money being spent to call me a criminal before I even have the chance to commit a crime.

But it is the Republicans who want to take away my rights.

Yeah. Sure.

Found @ Ravenwood's Universe

PS - Also, get ready for this.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:34 PM | Comments (2)

Everyone's entitled to an

opinion.

I wonder if Morrisey plans on touring the US anytime soon?  I really enjoyed the Smiths as a group...

Posted by Nukevet at 08:13 PM | Comments (0)

Big Surprize Here

From Bond, Julian 'Jackass' Bond. NAACP Chairman.

In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists Wednesday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan.

Bond's remarks came at an opening of the liberal Take Back America conference, a three-day event that has drawn more than 2,000 liberals from across the country to the nation's capital. Bond spoke moments after MoveOn.org founders Joan Blades and Wes Boyd received a rousing ovation from the partisan crowd.

Bond called the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 two of America's greatest achievement. He then went on to attack Republicans.

Nevermind, Julian, that without Republicans, neither of those Acts would have passed through Congress. And maybe Mr. Bond should remember which party supports keeping the American Blacks in ghettos and on welfare (hint Mr. Bond, it's not the Republicans).

I'm am so tired of these poverty pimps calling me a racist.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:06 PM | Comments (1)

And the Grand Experiment begins again....

How this little "social experiment" is going to turn out?  Or, more directly, how many millions will die in this latest attempt at "utopia"?

 Since 2000, the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms, along with erratic rains, have been blamed for disrupting production in the agriculture-based economy, leading to acute shortages of food, hard currency, gasoline and other imports.

Critics say much of the best farmland was given to supporters of President Robert Mugabe and is underutilized or is lying fallow.

Production on many resettled farms has dropped sharply as new farmers lacked money and loans and also reported shortages of seed, fertilizer, fuel and farm machinery such as tractors and plows.

 

And this:

The nationalization program is likely to further hurt the ailing economy by frightening away what little investment Zimbabwe still receives, Robertson said. It also would also cast new uncertainty over general property rights including home ownership rights, that likely would undermine already struggling businesses and commercial activity, he said.

"It is a very big step away from a market economy to the communist-style command economy of state control of the factors of production," he said.

Land seizures have slashed production of food and tobacco - once the nation's biggest hard currency earner.

 

But the best is this bit:

The government does not intend to "waste time and money" in disputes on seizures of individual farms whose owners held title deeds and other legal documents, he said.

 

Ahh, those wacky communists - never letting civil rights or the law get in the way of things.  Great strategy, by the way.  Take productive farms away from their owners - give them out to political cronies in the form of entitlements, and then starve to death when the new owners either can't or won't keep the farm running.

 

 

Posted by Nukevet at 06:51 PM | Comments (5)

And even more Reagan Hatred

From Robert Parry @ Consortium News

Rating Reagan: A Bogus Legacy

Yet absent from the media commentary was the one fundamental debate that must be held before any reasonable assessment can be made of Ronald Reagan and his Presidency: How, why and when was the Cold War �won�? If, for instance, the United States was already on the verge of victory over a foundering Soviet Union in the early-to-mid-1970s, as some analysts believe, then Reagan�s true historic role may not have been �winning� the Cold War, but helping to extend it.

If the Soviet Union was already in rapid decline, rather than in the ascendancy that Reagan believed, then the massive U.S. military build-up in the 1980s was not decisive; it was excessive. The terrible bloodshed in Central America and Africa, including death squad activities by U.S. clients, was not some necessary evil; it was a war crime aided and abetted by the Reagan administration.

And from the Greg Palast website

Killer, coward, con-man
Good Riddance, Gipper...
More proof that only the good die young

This one is so vile, I won't put any more of Palast's words on the pages of this site.

I know that the Doc has put a link to this jackass below, but I just heard they guy being interviewed on the moonbat wing Mike Webb radio show. You could almost see the bile oozing from the speaker of the radio.

Webb is currently asking his tinfiol hatted callers for suggestions for an epitaph for President Reagan's headstone.

You really don't want to hear any of these ideas.

And he can't even keep Nancy out of his discussion.

Here is Webb's blog. Sorry, the coward won't put in a comments section.

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

June 07, 2004

More Reagan Hatred

Pretty vile stuff from the "compassionate" liberal party.

Posted by Nukevet at 11:31 PM | Comments (23)

Where do youngsters get some of their crazy ideas?

I don't know - maybe at school?

Posted by Nukevet at 09:18 PM | Comments (1)

Wow, couldn't even wait

until after the funeral, I guess.  This is just mean spirited.

 

I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard.

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You're not a liberal,

You're an idiot.

I got a clue for you, you so-called liberal. You're not a liberal. You're an idiot. A fool. A disgusting moron demonstrating your inability to think. You're anything but liberal; you demand (demand!) that I agree with you and get very angry with me when I don't. You do not really believe in liberal ideas, because if you did you wouldn't be supporting people who want to kill you only because your last name ends in "berg". I don't know what you are, but you ain't liberal. Got it? You're a self-deluded moron, a selfish bastard, an inarticulate jerk. You scream and cry and moan and wail, and expect me to be convinced that I should do what you tell me to do. You're a bully, a punk, a spoiled child. And you can't be a liberal if you support fascists.

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

The evolution of a headline

Not that I'm suggesting that anything like this actually happens.  I'm sure all of the news professionals out there would never let ideology drive their reporting.  Right?

 

Two boys in Boston were playing basketball when one of them was attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off a near by fence, wedged it into the dog's collar and twisted it, breaking the dog's neck.

 

A newspaper reporter from the Boston Herald witnessed the incident and rushed over to interview the boy.. The reporter began entering data into his laptop, beginning with the headline: "Brave Young Celtics Fan Saves Friend From Jaws Of Vicious Animal."

 

'But I'm not a Celtics fan," the little hero interjected.

 

"Sorry," replied the reporter. "But since we're in Boston, Mass, I just assumed you were."

 

Hitting the delete key, the reporter began "John Kerry Fan rescues Friend From Horrific Dog Attack."

 

"But I'm not a Kerry fan either," the boy responds.

 

The reporter says, "I assumed everybody in this state was either for the Celtics or Kerry or Kennedy. What team or person do you like? "

 

"I'm a Houston Rockets fan and I really like George W. Bush" the boy says.

 

Hitting the delete key, the reporter begins again, "Arrogant Little Conservative Bastard Kills Beloved Family Pet!"

Posted by Nukevet at 04:41 PM | Comments (3)

In the Works

Time to announce the next Blogger Blastorama.

Now, Ms. Sondra K and JR have been absent from the Blastoramas for a bit, soooooooo.....

As I would greatly like to have them attend this time around, I will be giving her the chance to choose the locale for Saturday the 12th.

For anyone wanting to attend, you are certainly allowed to help her out by suggesting locations and possibly even bribing her.

And while we're on the subject of guns, stop by Raging Dave's place and congratulate him on the purchase of his new SKS.

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Keeping 'em clean

At the last Blastorama, Mollbot was aking about the stocking of a cleaning kit. But since I can be a ditz at times, I forgot to answer his question that day.

Since this was a weekend of relflection, I decided to do a re-cleaning of some of the Analog Gun Collection and do some reflecting. And since I had the cleaning kit out and was thinking about it, I snapped some pics.

So, here is my cleaning kit. And brands shown or mentioned get my approval, but your milage may vary. If you like to use something you don't see within, put it in the comments and I'll try to check it out.

The majority of it resides inside this $20 tool/tackle box

(click for bigger on all pics)

Notice the kewl Molon Labe sticker? You can get them here.

Click the 'MORE' for the extended entry on this.

Inside the two top compartments are all of my brushes, swabs, patches and patch pushes. I also keep 3 or 4 punches of different sizes and a small tapping hammer in here. Brass is best for punches, since they stand the least chance of marring the finish of your gun. But good ones are expensive and bad ones will frustrate you, so these aluminum woodworking punches do the trick on my service guns.

Also, I try to find rifle brushes in pistol calibers. The only reason I do this is because they are longer, and therefor have more bristles.

Inside I have my collapsable work mat. Otherwise know as a towel (try to remember to not use the wife's "good towels"), a set of needlepoint scrapers (used dental tools), pistol cleaning rod (one piece brass rods are the best), a borelight, multi-bit screwdriver, and a silicon rag for final wipe down after cleaning.

And in the bottom of the box...

From left to right: different types of spray lube, a mini-bucket of Hoppe's #9, different types of solvents, an extra towel and some spare cleaning kits. I keep the parts around for spares or in case someone has misplaced/forgotten their kit.

Outside the box, from left to right: more spare cleaning rods (including one for shotguns), bag of patches, allen wrenches (both SAE and metric), a larger tapping hammer, brass tipped punches, Q-Tips and shop rags.

What you do not see, for obvious reasons, is my one piece brass rifle cleaning rod and my large tub of Hoppe's. Both are necessary.

If you plan on owning and/or shooting large quantities of firearms, buy stock in Johnson and Johnson. After a good weekend of shooting, I can pretty much go through that entire brick of Q-Tips in cleaning 7 or 8 guns.

As for cleaning patches, I have found that, for some reason, .223 cal patches are cheaper that most other patches. Especially in large quantities. That is a pack of 1000 and they'll be gone in 3-4 months of semi-serious shooting.

The .223 cal patches work fine in all calibers (except shotguns, of course) provided you use a patch pusher and not the type you thread like a needle.

Keep 'em clean. Someday, they might just save your ass.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:45 AM | Comments (2)

The weekend in review

Like I did Memorial Day weekend, I surfed through the slime that is the left wing of the blogosphere to see what they had to say about both the passing of President Reagan and the 60th Anniversary of D-Day.

Unlike the Memorial Day weekend post, I was not able to keep my stomach down this time and go through over 100 leftie sites. The bile was just too pungent.

But here is a pretty comprehensive run down in order of popularity by the number of mentions...

Leftie bloggers believe:
1. Reagan was a failure
2. Reagan was evil
3. Reagan was a dupe
4. Reagan was a puppet.

I would like to point out another common theme I saw. If a site said little to nothing of the above judgements about Reagan, the post consisted of betting that the right wouldn't be so kind when Carter or Clinton died.

Oh yeah, I saw this twice (paraphrasing) "the Cold War was won by JFK when he called Kruschev's bluff in Cuba". Stop laughing now. It'll only hurt later.

As for D-Day, I don't know exactly what they think of it. Of the 45 (+/-) sites I was able to stomach, no one mentioned it.

Now, speaking of Carter, he had a nuclear submarine, the third and final 'Seawolf Class', named after him over the weekend. Actually, on the day that president Reagan passed away.

I found this @ Right Thinking and Lee has a better name for the boat. The USS Malaise

Thank you, Lee.

And I would also like to thank whomever nominated the Memorial Day Weekend in Review post to The Council of Watchers. Now I understand what they mean when they say "it feels great just to be nominated" when I read the post of the other folks on the list.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:22 AM | Comments (1)

He gets it

So why don't they?

Last night, the Analog Wife was flipping through the channels, as is her wont, when she passed over this (transcript).

And she kept clicking. Hence, I didn't get to watch it.

Now, to be kind, she was pretty much tired of the D-Day/Reagan coverage. It is not that she doesn't care, she just uses TV to take her mind off things. And seeing as how I've been talking about and watching everthing D-Day this week, plus having Reagan pass, she just felt overwhelmed.

Now, to the point.

Brokaw: �Is that the essence of the difference between the United States and Europe these days, that we're more inclined to use war as an instrument, and the Europeans are less inclined?�

Bush: �I think that's an unfair characterization. War is the last resort. Now, if the British say �more inclined,� it kind of sounds like we're anxious to use��

Brokaw: �No, I don't mean that. But the��

Bush: �You know, I'm not. It's the last resort. On the other hand, we are at war. In other words, I think what you should be asking is, if I might be so bold��

Brokaw: �Go ahead.�

Bush: �--is am I willing to use the military in a time of war? And the answer is absolutely. We are at war. And maybe some might not see us at war. But I clearly see a war, and I see a danger for America. And I feel it's my solemn obligation to wage that war. And perhaps, that's where some of the anxiety comes forth.

�Maybe some in Europe don't see us at a time of war. I have-- I recognize that the enemy declared war on us. And I will continue to wage that war using all the assets of the United States and continuing to rally other nations to join in that war."

Why is this so difficult for the left to understand?

Thank you to Lee @ Right Thinking for finding the transcript so that I could read it.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:59 AM | Comments (2)

Gotcha

It seems somebody pulled one over on Mr. Anderw Sullivan.

First, take a look at this ad.

Then, seeing as how it follows the usual modus oerandi of Kerry supporters, tell me how he shouldn't have believed it was real.

Found @ The Poor Schmuck's place.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:49 AM | Comments (0)

News from the past

I was going through the archives again and found this.

One year ago this week, we discovered what actually happened to the artifacts supposedly looted from the Iraqi Museum of Antiquities.

With the total number of items stolen from the Iraq Museum of Anitquities down from the fictional 170,000 to the laughable 33*, it seems that maybe, finally, this item of non-news will drop.

But with this tidbit of news I bet the Iraqi archeaologists are feeling lucky that the Canadians didn't come along with us to Iraq.

"In the course of renovations, workers at the University of Toronto have accidentally thrown away a centuries-old collection of Ontario artifacts."

Posted by Nukevet at 07:36 AM | Comments (0)

They're not ant-war

They're just on the other side.

Just before the war against Iraq I began to receive strange calls from BBC journalists. Would I like information on how the leadership of the anti-war movement had been taken over by the Socialist Workers Party? Maybe, I replied. It was depressing that a totalitarian party was in the saddle, but that's where the SWP always tries to get. Why get excited?

Oh there are lots of reasons, said the BBC hacks. The anti-war movement wasn't a simple repetition of the old story of the politically naive being led by the nose by sly operators. The far left was becoming the far right. It had gone as close to supporting Ba'athist fascism as it dared and had formed a working alliance with the Muslim Association of Britain, which, along with the usual misogyny and homophobia of such organisations, also believed that Muslims who decided that there was no God deserved to die for the crime of free thought. In a few weeks hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, would allow themselves to be organised by the opponents of democracy and modernity and would march through the streets of London without a flicker of self-doubt. Wasn't this a story?

It's a great story, I cried. But why don't you broadcast it?

We can't, said the bitter hacks. Our editors won't let us.

The BBC refuses the print or broadcast the true motives and the funding behind the anti-war protests so as to not scare folks who might be on the fence.

But they'll throw crap on the wall daily (to see what sticks) about the supposed movtives behind the 'imperialist' Americans.

Found @ Buzzmachine via Spot On.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:32 AM | Comments (0)

My take on Feingold

Puggs wrote about this sicko on Saturday. It was heading towards D-Day weekend and I figured I'd wait until today to put in my two cents.

With this line,

Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.

I am of the opinion that if Feingold comes to Seattle, I can legally take as it as a threat to my life and act appropriately.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:58 AM | Comments (0)

Finally, some decent news this weekend

Creed Officially Split Up

I don't know what it was about Scott Stapp, but annoyed the hell out of me. Just the mention of his name sent my finger to the buttons of the remote or my stereo.

The music was OK, but Stapp was a self righteous mofo if I ever saw one.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:46 AM | Comments (0)

my version

The M-16, not A, not A1, not A2, not M-4, the original unvarnished M-16. No forward bolt assist, triangular hand guards, and though it's obscurred, possibly the three point flash suppressor. Prone to stoppages and feed jams, occasional missfires and general all around cussing. We compensated by high levels of maintenence, lots of training, and mutual support. You learned how to field strip one in a Hell of a hurry with the instructer using a stop watch.

Even so, I liked it. I would have opted to carry other weapons if that were my option, but, I didn't always pull M-60 gunner on the duty roster. I've only picked up a member of the M-16 family twice since my discharge, my baby brother owned an AR-15 for a time and needed to learn how to clean it. It's fun to shoot, but AK's right, our guys need a heavier caliber. A manstopper.

Posted by Nukevet at 04:43 AM | Comments (0)

How do you count the greatness of a man?

By the number of people who mourn his passing.

We've all felt the high tension, the strained emotions of fighting a new global war, of finding our way anew in a world turned upside down since 2001. This will be our moment to release that tension. A great man has passed, and a different man speaks for us now. Different trials, different fears. A State Funeral like this is not nearly so much for Ron as it is for all of us. This an affirmation and rededication on a national scale. Death comes and we remember, we remember and learn, we remember and take another step back on the road. We are going to emerge from this relieved and strengthened.

Like a half whispered memory, Ron is going to grant us strength, again. Life goes on, death passes by and America endures. We always endure, and we can be better than we ever thought.

He taught us that too.

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

How's this for a legacy?

Reagan Mourned in Former 'Evil Empire'

"I deem Ronald Reagan a great president, with whom the Soviet leadership was able to launch a very difficult but important dialogue," Gorbachev said earlier Sunday on Ekho Moskvy radio, Interfax reported.

Gorbachev was quoted as calling Reagan "a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time, displayed foresight and determination to meet our proposals halfway and change our relations for the better."

Gorbachev listed Reagan's accomplishments as helping to "stop the nuclear race, start scrapping nuclear weapons, and arrange normal relations between our countries."

"I do not know how other statesmen would have acted at that moment, because the situation was too difficult. Reagan, whom many considered extremely rightist, dared to make these steps, and this is his most important deed," he was quoted as saying.

Yelena Bonner, the widow of Soviet dissident Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, praised Reagan for his tough course toward the Soviet Union.

"I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to communism and his efforts to defend human rights," Bonner said in a telephone interview from her home in Boston. "Reagan's policy was consistent and precise, and he had a great talent of choosing the right people for his administration." Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, 61, remembered Reagan fondly for his humor and his toughness. "His phrase, 'evil empire,' became a household word in Russia," said Bukovsky, who now lives in Cambridge, England. "Russians like a straightforward person, be he enemy or friend. They despise a wishy-washy person."

My God, even the Russian's are recognizing his greatness, his vision and the debt owed to him. I could never have imagined the world like this in 1979, could never have any inkling at the completeness of our victory in the cold war. The reports are pouring into Googlenews, paper after paper, nation after nation, all praising and expressing sadness at the loss of a great man. I've tried to find articles that were hostile but the worst I could find were ones that merely expressed disagreement over economic policies while praising the man himself. That plus some hokey piece repeated several places that said he wasn't loved by Arab nations.......but even that acknowledged his overwhelming popularity.

I have never seen anything like this.

Posted by Nukevet at 02:09 AM | Comments (2)

June 06, 2004

a scholarly dissection

of a most un-scholarly man.

Hint: the word anti-Chomsky features prominently.

Posted by Nukevet at 12:06 PM | Comments (0)

Soul of a Dutchman

Nancy Reagan, along with children Ron and Patti Davis, were at the couple's Los Angeles home when Reagan died at 1 p.m. PDT of pneumonia, as a complication of Alzheimer's disease, said Joanne Drake, who represents the family. Son Michael arrived a short time later, she said.

I write this with a heavy heart, I loved this man, for who he was, for what he was. So, joining forces with my friend the AnalogKid, his musical tribute says everything I'm feeling right now,

thank you my friend.

When many doubted, he brought strength, when many feared, he gave courage, when many dispaired, he gave solace. He nearly gave his life for us on that day in 81, and to a young airman standing post that night with a rifle he was my president, and I feared for him. No American President had ever survived being wounded before. He was the first.

How do you express what he gave to all of us? A man for his time, yet timeless really. He embodied our best hopes for the future. He held up a vast mirror to a people and said look,..you are the last, best hope for mankind. We loved him for that, for giving us back the pride so many would cast away as outdated or malignant. He was us at our best, and we loved him for that too. He was playful and full of whimsy, and had a heart greater than many a man. He was ever humbled by the responsibility he bore, he walked tall and proudly when he spoke for us, never ashamed, never doubting that we had a destiny to fulfil.

The 20th century was soaked in blood, the last half, in a struggle with a communist sphere that threatened to drown the world in darkness for ages to come if it had prevailed. Many in the west doubted our cause, openly questioned wether we had even a right to survive, and many felt we were losing, being driven back. Ronald Wilson Reagan was our rock, the Soviets ultimately broke against that force of will and determination. He won what was said could not be won. The cold war is a fading memory now because one Statesman had the courage, faith and conviction to step up on the wall and say,

Follow me.

My children will read about that struggle and probably never feel what I do when they think on it. How many hundreds of millions of peoples in the world can now say that they became free when the walls fell down? How many will be free to enrich our futures because of what one great man has done? Mankind advanced out of the darkness of threatened thermonuclear war, all because of one visionary hero, one humble man.

So much was won, that Ron's passing should be tempered with gratitude, and a smile. Dutch is whole again, unravaged by illness, unbroken by age, born aloft into the ages by the prayers of a greatful people. God bless you and keep you Ron, close to his busom. Pray too for Nancy, devoted to the end, she never left his side, never waivered in her love. My God grant her peace. Death is merely another beginning some say, a new journey. If that's true, then we can be sure of one thing. That the next world has just become a better place for we who will follow, a beacon has gone on ahead to light the way.

Bless you Ron, I will never forget you.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:36 AM | Comments (0)

60 Years

This was not the speech I was originally going to post, seeing as how I used it in my D-Day post last year. But with recent events as they are, I think it is appropriate.

Remarks at the U.S. Ranger Monument

Pointe Du Hoc, France

June 6, 1984

By Ronald W. Reagan

This was an emotional day. The ceremonies honoring the fortieth anniversary of D day became more than commemorations. They became celebrations of heroism and sacrifice. This place, Pointe du Hoc, in itself was moving and majestic. I stood there on that windswept point with the ocean behind me. Before me were the boys who forty years before had fought their way up from the ocean. Some rested under the white crosses and Stars of David that stretched out across the landscape. Others sat right in front of me. They looked like elderly businessmen, yet these were the kids who climbed the cliffs.

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is solft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mighties of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers - at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting, only ninety could still bear arms.

Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your "lives fought for life . . . and left the vivid air singed with your honor."

I think I know what you may be thinking right now - thinking "we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day." Well, everyone was. Do you remember the story of Bill Millin of the 51st Highlanders? Forty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming. Well, they weren't. They looked up and saw Bill Millin with his bagpipes, leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of bullets into the ground around him.

Lord Lovat was with him - Lord Lovat of Scotland, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, "Sorry, I'm a few minutes late," as if he'd been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he'd just come form the bloody fighting on Sword Beach, which he and his men had just taken.

There was the impossible valor of the Poles who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold, and the unsurpassed courage of the Canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. They knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. And once they hit Juno Beach, they never looked back.

All of these men were part of a roll call of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore; The Royal Winniped Rifles, Poland's 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England's armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard's "Matchbox Fleet," and you, the American Rangers.

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought - or felt in their hearts, though they couldn't know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at four A.M., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.

Something else helped the men of D day; their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer, he told them: Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we're about to do. Also, that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: "I will not fail thee nor forsake thee."

These are the things that impelled them; these are the things that shaped the unity of the Allies.

When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together.

There was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly. The United States did its part, creating the Marshall Plan to help rebuild our allies and our former enemies. The Marshall Plan led to the Atlantic alliance - a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.

In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and East Berlin. Soviet troops that come to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. They're still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost forty years after the war. Because of this, allied forces still stand on this continent. Today, as forty years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose - to protect and defend democracy. The only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

But we try always to be prepared for peace; prepared to deter aggression; prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms; and yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever.

It's fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the Russian people during World War II: 20 million perished, a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war. I tell you from my heart that we in the United States do not want war. We want to wipe from the face of the earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. There must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action.

We will pray forever that someday that changing will come. But for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our freedom, and to the alliance that protects it.

We are bound today by what bound us forty years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. We're bound by reality. The strength of America's allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe's democracies. We were with you then; we are with you now. Your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.

Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: "I will not fail thee nor forsake thee."

Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.

Thank you very much, and God bless you all.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:18 AM | Comments (0)

The Soundboard: In Memory

Link removed

Posted by Nukevet at 04:55 AM | Comments (0)

June 05, 2004

So Long, Dutch

We barely knew you.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

Ronald Reagan September 29, 1981

Posted by Nukevet at 09:56 PM | Comments (3)

A question

In the comments of this post from earlier today, I was asked why I needed an 'assault rifle'.

The answer, of course, is because I want one. This is still America, right?

To the asker, and to anyone who wishes to stop by, please point out the differences between these two rifles...

Bushmaster XM-15

Remington 7400

Both are semi-automatics, both use detatchable box magazines*, both have a parkerized finish and black plastic stocks fore and aft.

The Bushmaster is a 223. A varmit hunting cartridge. It can kill a man, but only with a good to excellent hit**. And after a few hundred yards, hitting your actual target can become quite a challenge.***

The smallest cartridge the 7400 is available in is 243Win. While not much larger in diameter than a 223, the power behind it makes it a human killer out to at least 500 yards. It is also available in 30-06, which stretches it's range out to over 1000 yards.

Why is only one of these considered an "Assault Rifle"?

And which gun is more dangerous?

And yet, which one is banned?

*There are commercially available 10rnd mags for the 7400 and 7600 pump action. I've even seen custom made 20 rounders (made by welding 4's together and fabing up a spring). They cost about $70, but my M1A mags cost $50.

**I don't want to hear about bullet tumbling. I want a bullit that drops what it hits.

***To all you long distance AR shooters. Yeah, you might be able to shoot your 5.56 at ridiculous distances, but can any chucklehead pick up your rifle and do this? I didn't think so.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:41 PM | Comments (6)

keep talking, you do my work for me.

No U.S. president, I expect, will ever appoint a Secretary of the Imagination. But if such a cabinet post ever were created, and Richard Foreman weren't immediately appointed to it, you'd know that the Republicans were in power. Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.

This opinion is presumably not shared by Foreman; you can gauge the breadth of his imaginative compassion from his willingness to extend it even toward George W. Bush, idiot scion of a genetically criminal family that should have been sterilized three generations ago.

From Instapundit,..Tell me again someone that the left has only the best of intentions and that they don't wallow in hate as if it were their lifes blood?

Anyone?

The more this dickhead speaks, the more he exposes what his side really thinks. Maybe the militia types are partly right after all, the left really does want to set up death camps in this country. They ae already making the justifications. Sounds like the Nazi party in the early days, doesn't it?

Posted by Nukevet at 06:42 PM | Comments (5)

Fate may intervene

In that note on Nov. 5, 1994, Reagan said, "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."

I hate to point this out, truely, but having Ron to be back in the news again in a big whopping manner isn't going to be a good thing for Kerry. I'm one of Ron's biggest fans and always will be, and I'll mourn the man when he passes. But fate seems to be forever on Bush's side. A summer filled with the happy memories of a beloved president is the last thing Kerry could want. Reagan was decisive, Kerry isn't, Reagan was optimistic about America, Kerry says we're headed for disaster, Reagan was strong and sincere, Kerry?

They will of course try to have it both ways. Kerry will tell America of his deep respect for Reagan, to court the 60 plus percent who loved him. His camp will trot out the red guard to viciously attack his record to appeal to the socialists in their party. In a comparison to Raegan, Bush does well, very well, Kerry comes off as a skinny Ted Kennedy clone, full of falsehoods and bile.

I'm hating that Ron's time may soon be over, but maybe the angels have given him a chance to help his country one last time. Remembering the man isn't attacking anyone, and it's not anyones fault but Kerry's that he looks so small in comparison.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:21 PM | Comments (1)

Kerry asks veterans to help him 'restore America's respect'

Really?....I guess he wants us to vote for Bush then? Of course I'm being rude, but Jeez, even if he gets the one million voluteers he wants, that's 1 out of 26 million living vets. I guess we other 25 million want America disrespected and unsafe?

Vets may be far more pro- Bush than the general public, but opinion is far from uniform among us. You can find yellow dog democrats among us, you can find militia types, you can find socialists if you look hard enough, you can find every opinion if you try really, really hard. The fact remains however that if the election were held purely among vets, Bush would win in a walk. Easily, without breaking a sweat....Link from Drudge.

VOTE CHOICE 2004: KERRY VS. BUSH
(Among registered voters)

ALL
Kerry
49%
Bush
41%

VETERANS
Kerry
40%
Bush
54%

VETERANS
Overall
51%
Handling Iraq
47%
Handling the economy
38%
Handling foreign policy
47%
Handling war on terror
65%

Consider that this poll comes from CBS, an organization pretty hostile to Bush, with Dan (never say a good thing about a republican) Rather at the helm. They can't hide a simple fact, Bush has our trust, and Kerry most definitely does not. The idea that because some vets favor the Kerry camp, that it's some kind of incredible endorsement is as meaningless as the vote of the big union bosses. You can always find a dunce, the democrats have been manipulating ignorant people for generations.

Nothing new here.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:03 PM | Comments (0)

Terrorism or just psycho?

I'm gonna call this the last gasp of a flippin lunatic. He's dead by an apparent selfinflicted wound, good, he could have done everyone a favor and just done that instaed of what he did. Count on the isial suspects to trot out and say what a sweatheart he was, how nice and caring, how good to animals. In an earlier account I saw that he made no secret of building his very own personal tank, yet no one reported him when it might have made a difference. Oh, that's just him being wierd, nothing to see here, move along,......

When are people gonna learn it's easier to throw a net over a nut,....before he goes on the rampage?

Posted by Nukevet at 05:28 PM | Comments (0)

This oughta be fun

A small time David hunting and hounding an out of touch rich bastard with no clue or care to the damage he leaves in his wake? Sound familiar? Coming soon to theaters near you, the hunt for the great white whale.

Twin Cities filmmaker Mike Wilson's upcoming "Michael Moore Hates America" details his unsuccessful attempts to interview Moore, the director who won an Oscar two years ago for "Bowling for Columbine." Moore's earlier film, "Roger and Me," detailed his own failed attempts to interview General Motors honcho Roger Smith.

Moore claims to be for freedom of speech, his in specific terms, ours only on the margins. So will he disavow the death threats made against the new "David"?

Don't hold your breath.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:00 PM | Comments (0)

The Check is in the Mail

Actually, I used a credit card and sent the order via the web.

I got a little bonus in the the paycheck area and was able to put the order out yesterday for both the lower parts assy for the Bushmaster

And the stock

I chose the stubby stock for this one so as to make it easier for the wife to shoot. If she likes this one, I'll build another for her after I get my M1A.

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

To eBay or not to eBay

I was zipping around eBay, looking into accessories for my soon to be new rifle (the M1A) when I came across this message

As June 8th, 2004, eBay will no longer be allowing the listing of items that include parts and accessories for assault rifles.

I would like to think that this is just some putz putting this on his ad listing hoping to raise the bid prices, but sadly, I have seen it on a number of adds for different items from different sellers. So, I'm pretty sure this is not a joke.

Now, I use eBay for buying misc stuff. Odd ball CD, posters and quite often, gun parts in lots. Mostly, I'll go through and look for either a particular part or a deal on a large group of parts I think I may need in the future. You would not believe how many bits and pieces of 1911 stuff I have (Mollbot and Raging Dave have seen only a couple of my bins) from doing this.

Now, I am a bit pissed at eBay for doing this, but I halfway expected it. They put a ban on the selling of 10+ round mags long ago. This was just a natural progression.

If anyone knows of any decent auction sites that haven't been taken over by FFL holders, let me know.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:05 AM | Comments (2)

So it begins

For thirty years the great promise of space has been dangling just out of reach. That may be about to change.

The government and NASA are unequaled at the big things, the Moon Missions, the preposed Mars Mission, the Prometheus project. The private sector is where the exploitation and utilization of space comes into play. NASA will blaze the trail, and private companies will do the yoeman's work. Hauling, building, and eventually, living in space. The 21st century may be the begining of mankind's second age, leaving the cradle. We have already taken our first steps into the void. This may harbour in a time when we need not always return to the birth world to live.

This is gonna be a Hell of a ride.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:29 AM | Comments (1)

June 04, 2004

What entity is responisble for the most carnage in the 20th century?

Hint: It's NOT the United States, and it's NOT capitalism.

Carnage from the left

Mephisto

Reader MG wrote to ask "in what way is The Left the spirit behind all the carnage of the 20th Century". The answer might properly begin with the words of the Internationale (1871), which took as its starting point the notion that men born to the world had nothing to lose but their chains.

Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant. ...
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

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

Speaking of Commies

 

A little look at the pro-Saddam crowd:

 

D-Day for British politics - Respect, the alliance between the Muslim Association of Britain and the Socialist Workers Party, shows how ugly the far left in Britain has become, writes Nick Cohen

Just before the war against Iraq I began to receive strange calls from BBC journalists. Would I like information on how the leadership of the anti-war movement had been taken over by the Socialist Workers Party? Maybe, I replied. It was depressing that a totalitarian party was in the saddle, but that's where the SWP always tries to get. Why get excited?

Oh there are lots of reasons, said the BBC hacks. The anti-war movement wasn't a simple repetition of the old story of the politically naive being led by the nose by sly operators. The far left was becoming the far right. It had gone as close to supporting Ba'athist fascism as it dared and had formed a working alliance with the Muslim Association of Britain, which, along with the usual misogyny and homophobia of such organisations, also believed that Muslims who decided that there was no God deserved to die for the crime of free thought. In a few weeks hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, would allow themselves to be organised by the opponents of democracy and modernity and would march through the streets of London without a flicker of self-doubt. Wasn't this a story?

 

Via.

Posted by Nukevet at 03:00 PM | Comments (1)

The Soundboard: Return

They're Back!

No Seattle dates yet. But I'm keeping an eye out.

And for your enjoyment...

Skinny Puppy - Assimilate (r23 remix) link removed

Posted by Nukevet at 09:31 AM | Comments (5)

What an Ass

This jackass was arrested outside of an Army recruiting station in Boston last week.

Needless to say, the whiners are seething over it.

Boston IMC

The Kos IMC

The puke had wires going from his hands to inside the milk crate. He apparently made a smart-ass comment about a bomb being inside the crate and so had the felony charge of making a false bomb threat added to his misdemeanors.

You don't go and do that on federal property. Not even in Boston.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:36 AM | Comments (7)

American Representative

This is one of the men that the left hates because he is such an oppressor.

He lost an eye, his jaw is wired shut, and he has wounds where shrapnel traveled through his leg, but through it all, 20-year-old Simon Garcia says he would go back to Iraq.

"I love it," he told KATU News. "It's a great feeling going down there and seeing the people and helping them."

I am contrasting this man with the holier than thou protesters who call themselves "The True American Patriots" for protesting the war. He, quite literally, nearly dies and he wants to go back as soon as possible. But pop a few stinkballs at those protesters and they run like children and scream about how you were trying to kill them with chemical weapons.

This is the guy I want on my team.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:25 AM | Comments (4)

When Hippies rumble

Things get poopy.

A Portland woman has been banned from Deering Oaks park after being charged with spreading dog feces there as part of a vendetta against the park's weekly farmer's market.

Lora Leland, 53, of Sherman Street was caught in the middle of the night emptying 16 bags of dog feces in the road that winds through the center of the park, police said. She explained that she was angry at the Saturday morning farmer's market because it interfered with her ability to ride her bicycle through the park, police said.

Where the hell did she get 16 BAGS of dog crap?

Posted by Nukevet at 07:17 AM | Comments (2)

No BBQ for you!

The "You might Hurt Yourself" police are out in full force.

Live in an apartment or a condo and love to barbecue on your deck? You have 28 days before your grill will become an expensive planter box.

Starting July 1, all open-flame cooking on charcoal and propane barbecues will be prohibited on combustible apartment and condominium decks -- unless there is a fire sprinkler overhead.

Also, unless changes are made next week, Christmas trees will be prohibited in churches, apartments and condominiums, meeting halls, stores, jails, schools, hospitals and day cares -- again unless there is a fire sprinkler overhead.

That's right folks, if you OWN a condo, the state of Washington has now adopted a rule (not a law) that you cannot BBQ on your own property.

If you read further into the article it says that, in a move to conform nationwide safety regulations, your activites on your personal property is now being curtailed.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:14 AM | Comments (4)

Nominee for "Dumb Idea of the Year"

Whoever thought of this needs to be slapped with a brick.

For a dozen years, Ohio Township police have offered anti-drug and anti-alcohol programs in Avonworth schools.

Two weeks ago, they staged a mock crash scene to emphasize the hazards of underage drinking, especially during the prom.

So if Ohio Township Police Chief Norbert Micklos had been choosing keepsakes for last week's high school prom, he wouldn't have chosen shot glasses and champagne flutes.

"I don't think it's the brightest thing," said Micklos. "It wouldn't have been my choice."

But it was the choice of students at Avonworth Senior High School -- shot glasses for the boys and champagne flutes for the girls, imprinted with the date of the prom.

Avonworth parent Gloria Newman noticed one of the glasses in her daughter's room on the morning after the prom.

There is a 'Prom night / Flute' joke in there that I won't make at this time.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:05 AM | Comments (1)

all together in one place?

And Ashcroft didn't have them all gunned down, run over and burned in a pit? Bush-Haters of the World, Unite!

Damn, they must be grossly exagerating the situation then, well that's too polite. They're bona fide moonbats and looneys with a billionaires checkbook, looking out for "common" folk like themselves by spreading lies and disinformation.

Only a rich liberal leftwing asshat could think they are populists. The Brie and chablis crowd, when they can do Dominoes Pizza with Bud Light and sweat for their money, we'll talk, till then,

What's on the toon channel?

Posted by Nukevet at 06:15 AM | Comments (0)

June 03, 2004

How very interesting

If you've ever seen Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine', you'll know that some of the reasons Mikey lists for why Clebold and Harris shot up their school were: Lockheed's factory, The NRA, the absence of universal health care, a working welfare system and, of course, the guns themselves.

So I'm wondering what caused these two to plan what they did?

Two teenagers detained by police last month amid allegations they planned a Columbine-style massacre at their high school were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, court officials said in Stockholm.

The teenagers, 16-year-old Jacob Roya and 17-year-old Niklas Ekberg, were detained by police in Malmo, 382 miles southwest of the capital, Stockholm, when their classmates and teachers claimed the pair planned to bring a gun to Slottsstaden School and kill several students and teachers and then blow it up.

In court documents outlining the conspiracy charges, prosecutors said the two teens allegedly planned to emulate the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in which two student gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.

Nowhere did Moore blame Clebold or Harris or their parents/guardians.

And nowhere did he blame the media for sensationalizing previous school shootings.

Found @ Right Thinking

Posted by Nukevet at 09:03 PM | Comments (3)

Photoshop magic?

AK links to this photo, showing a photo-op between Bush and Chalabi. I was wondering where the attribution for the photo was - I assume that it was taken by a "legitimate" photographer, so I wonder why it doesn't have his/her name and press affiliation with it. The reason I ask is that this image looks like it has had a little manipulation, and I wonder if Chalabi was added after the fact. First, review the photo:

There are several things that seem funny to me:

1) Chalabi is too much in the foreground of the picture, and seems "larger" than the other people in the photo.

2) Chalabi isn't throwing any shadow on the guy behind hin

3) The lighting on Chalabi is different that the rest of the people in the group

4) There is a bit of fuzziness where Chalabi's jacket meets up with the face of the man standing behind him.

Maybe I'm nuts, and this is all just the result of the JPG compression algorithm messing up the image. But I would like to see the original photo with attribution, just to be sure.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:55 PM | Comments (9)

This is like a bad Monty Python Sketch

Spain's Zapatero awards military honors - for withdrawal.

 

Zapatero in embarrassing Iraq medal row

2 June 2004

MADRID – The Spanish prime minister has been dragged into an embarrassing political  row after the Defence Minister handed back a medal he was given for his role in withdrawing troops from Iraq, it emerged Wednesday.

José Bono sent a letter to the prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero saying he would give back the Cross of Military Merit, according to sources close to the minister.

The move comes after Bono was heavily criticised when he was given the award last week.

It was awarded by Zapatero for Bono's "merits" as a minister, including his role in the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:48 PM | Comments (0)

Sergeant Hook

is still irritated.  Actually, maybe a little more than irritated.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:12 PM | Comments (0)

Frank! Look out

Behind you!

Images stolen from here and here.

 

Speaking of Frank, he thinks we should help terrorists blow up more than they already do.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:52 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Our own little Commie troll

Wants to know why we are "ignoring" the Chalabi situation.  I guess I'm not sure what there is to say.  He was an information source that the Pentagon felt was reliable.  Apparently, this opinion was shared by the New York Times.  If Chalabi is a double agent, then he will get what he deserves - certainly any future he may have had in Iraq has now vanished, regardless.

 

The main reason that I don't see Chalabi as a big deal is that much more important things are happening.  We have effectively had the creation of a new Iraqi government 1 month ahead of schedule - a government that is committed to building a new Iraq.  Even more importantly, it is a government chosen BY Iraqis - not by the US, not by the UN, but the multicultural group that made up the Iraqi governing council.  Chalabi was never well liked, and would have been a disaster if the US forced him upon Iraq.  Indeed, rather than derailing the handover of power to the Iraqi people, his ouster seems to have done nothing other than accelerate it.  I note that people who want Iraq to fail are much more interested in Chalabi than they are in the fact that Iraq took its first unaided step towards democracy yesterday.  Everything else pales in comparison, unless you are actively rooting for the defeat of the coalition.

 

David Warren says it much better than I.

Yesterday, in defiance of all pessimists, Iraq resumed its life as a sovereign country, in a manner no one outside Iraq has the right to gainsay. We have a secular Shia prime minister (Iyad Alawi), and a ceremonial Sunni President (Ghazi al-Yawar). Both are acceptable to all reasonable parties, including the United States. We have a ministry of all the talents, such as they are: with every available regional, ethnic, and religious affiliation.

The formal transfer of power from Paul Bremer's occupation authority to the new Iraqi government waits till the end of the month, but with the self-dissolution of the interim Iraqi Governing Council, we have witnessed an effective transfer. From now on, American advisers won't be running Iraqi ministries -- won't dare try -- and allied troops on the ground will be consulting Iraqis before launching new raids on assorted bad guys. Best of all, the region's governments, including nefarious Iran and Syria (up to their eyeballs fomenting trouble within Iraq), will know it's too late to sabotage the hand-off -- because it has already occurred, by surprise, ahead of deadline.

 

In my opinion, the first act of the new government should be to demand that Al Sadr stand down.  If he does not, they should authorize the coalition to remove him with as much force as necessary (maybe even with MORE force than necessary).  It's no longer the US "attacking" Muslims - it's a sovereign nation asking the US for help dealing with an outlaw.  How do you think the rest of the insurgents  terrorists will react once they see Al Sadr wiped out in an afternoon?

 

 

Posted by Nukevet at 04:18 PM | Comments (10)

A question

I am thinking of starting a SandRail project.

Well, not exactly a SandRail. Something more like this.

But probably without the guns.

I am wondering if anyone out there has ever dealt with or assembled or know someone who has assembled one of these? I have some questions I'd rather not bug a retailer with at this stage if at all possible.

FYI: I have above average mechanical knowledge and skill. I just want to know some of the basics and cost of components.

Posted by Nukevet at 10:39 AM | Comments (4)

A Kerry First

There is still one subject on which Kerry will not Flip-Flop.

The Nuclear Disarmament of America.

He further proposed stopping the production of new weapons-grade uranium and plutonium, reducing current stocks of nuclear weapons and cutting off Pentagon plans to develop new, low-yield nuclear weapons.

"We also don't need a world with more usable nuclear weapons," he said. "We need a world where terrorists can never find one, make one or use one."

All I have to say to Kerry is "Nuke 'em til they Glow and then Shoot 'em in the Dark".

Oh, and "Screw You, Pussy!"

Posted by Nukevet at 09:47 AM | Comments (4)

If it bit them on the ass

If you've read the latest on the Chalabi situation, you'll know that, according to the CIA, he told Iran that America had broken their communication codes.

Very Bad.

If you're on the right, you want to know how this guy got so high up in the new Iraqi government that he could come by this information.

If you're on the left, you don't care about any of that as long as Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Wolfowitz/Rove all get impeached/put in jail.

Atrios is using this photo to 'prove' that Bush knew Chalabi would sell out the US forces.

Kos is calling Bush "A Traitor". And his IMC sycophants are, of course, filling the air with the chorus of "Treason, Traitor! Treason, Traitor!".

The jackasses wouldn't know treason if it bit them in the ass.

Because the majority of them are seditious little pukes. And an actual traitor might be staring them in the mirror.

Get ready for another charge from the LLL that will never stick, but we'll have to hear about for a week.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)

More whining from the left

Peaceniks with highschool age children are complaining that military recruiters are allowed on campus.

Last year, when phone calls and mail from the military were coming regularly for Auburn High School student Tanner Vea, his mother wondered how recruiters got the family's phone number and address.

With calls often coming during the family dinner hour, Kitty Harrison said she felt overwhelmed by the recruiters, and she was annoyed.

``We're kind of an antiwar family, and I don't want my kids bombarded with that kind of information. We would like to have the option to not hear from them,'' Harrison said.

Sounds more like you don't want anyone possibly telling your children the truth. That the military is a good thing.

But you haven't seen the worst part yet.

At Kentwood High School, career counselor Colleen Holmes said recruiters from six branches of the military are each allowed to visit the school once a month. They set up tables and wait for students to approach them, according to a school rule.

When recruiters show up, Holmes makes sure to stay in the area, keeping an eye on which students speak with recruiters.

It's important, she said, because 16- and 17-year-olds are impressionable, and someone having a bad day at school can be easily swayed by a slick recruiter in a fancy suit.

Nowhere in the article is a statement made by a recruiter. Nowhere is there even a kind word said about a recruiter.

Oh, that liberal media.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:39 AM | Comments (5)

Contrast and Compare

From The Grapevine Sooner comes screengrabs of the happenings at Abu Ghraib while Saddam was still in power.

That is a cell after a Hussien style interrogation.

Kind of makes the naked human pyramid look like the childsplay it was.

And I'm still wondering why this particular photo is "Too Racy" for network TV.

I've seen worse on the show '24'.

Posted by Nukevet at 09:25 AM | Comments (2)

I think he may need a bodyguard

From Mollbot @ Morpholine comes a link to a very brave fellow named Mike Baker.

Why is Mr. Baker brave?

Because he writes things like this..

"While Moore is idolized by many for his nonfiction work, educated individuals fail to adequately criticize Moore's methods, allowing him to perpetuate his own fiction."

In the University of Washington's student newspaper.

Run switly, Mike.

On second thought, just unload on the Moore-ons open their vile pie holes.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:51 AM | Comments (0)

Peace Test

You may have seen this yesterday @ LGF. It is a "Peace Test". They ask you a number of asinine questions and then tell you how dumb as dirt you are.

On the first test " " I got a 68 out of 100

The site said "Your score shows you might not resist war fever."

Because you showed a relatively high level of agreement, you may be "programmed" for moral disengagement in support of military action.

The next screen then offered me some of their BS essays that I should read so that I could "strengthen my resistance to war" (aka reprogramme" me).

The areas were : "Moral justification", "Advantageous Comparisons", "Minimizing the Concequences" and "Evasion of Responsibility".

It basically comes down to believeing that war is never an answer to anything. Not ending slavery, not fighting fascism, not removing murderous despots.

Go take the test yourself.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:46 AM | Comments (4)

Go. Now.

From Jim K. @ Right Thoughts comes a link to a pic album of photos from a member of the 101st Airborne.

Pics like this

There are a lot of them there. Make sure you have time to look at them all.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:31 AM | Comments (0)

back at cha numbnuts...

This is funny as Hell, and rather poetic. I really do need to read Mr. Du Toit more often,

The stone-throwing problem has abruptly ceased in that sector.

You have got to read this. American street smarts vs. arab street goons, the outcome is certain, and rather comical.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:05 AM | Comments (4)

Nicely done.

Another Bush rope-a-dope?
Did W. use the UN like cheap Kleenex to endorse a fait accompli in Iraq?

No one else will say this, so I will. The Bush administration has handled the transfer of power in Iraq more cleverly than anyone expected, including me. The summoning of the U.N. envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, looked like very bad news (a poisonous old Arab League chauvinist who brokered the sell-out of Lebanon to Syria in 1982). In grim moments, I believed the Bush people were cynically using him to wash their hands of Iraq, and as it were, dump the quagmire back in the swamp of the U.N. Instead, they froze the ground beneath Brahimi's feet, and skated rings around him, haggling behind his back with Iraq's new political heavyweights to leave him endorsing a fait accompli. If it were not vulgar, I would say the Bushies suckered the U.N. into signing on to the New Iraq through Brahimi. A sovereign, free Iraq which will, incidentally, have a few things to say about the U.N.'s $100-billion "oil-for-food" scam, in due course.

Via Instapundit.

Score one for the Cowboy over the limp wristed pink panty club at the UN,...again. Ya think they'll ever get wise to the concept that underestimating him is getting costly? I doubt it,

so much the better.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:57 AM | Comments (0)

June 02, 2004

Michael Moore is a Big Fat Idiot

Ray Bradbury puts it in his own words.

�Michael Moore is a stupid son of a bitch. He stole my title and changed the numbers and never asked for my permission.�

Bradbury explains that he tried to get in contact with the director. Moore was �busy� and promised to get back to him that same afternoon�but he never did.

�He is a dreadful man. A dreadful man.�

Bradbury sees Moore�s appropriation of Fahrenheit as a simple case of theft: �I could write a novel tomorrow called Gone with the Wind, couldn�t I? But I�m not going to do it because that would be dishonest. Let�s just say that Michael Moore is dishonest and that I want to have nothing to do with him. That pretty well does it.�

Ouch.

Found @ Right Thinking

Posted by Nukevet at 09:35 PM | Comments (3)

From one vet

to another.

Posted by Nukevet at 08:37 PM | Comments (0)

Honor Links

First off, Brent from The Ville has returned from the Rolling Thunder trip to DC.

Head on over and welcome him home.

And our man Chad from Dogtulosba enjoys some R&R;

And gets his new cover

Stop on by his place and let him know we all want him back home safe.

Posted by Nukevet at 07:22 AM | Comments (5)

W-w-w-what?

The socialized medicine crowd will surely just ignore this.

More than half of Canadians support a parallel private health care system that would let patients pay for speedier service, according to a new poll on an issue that has been largely ignored in the current campaign.

The poll found 51% favour a two-tier system, with support highest in Quebec, at 68%, and Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the birthplace of medicare, at 57%.

sarcasm set to stun/ But how can this be!?! /sarcasm off

I think I know of a country very near Canada with apporximately 300 million citizens that already has this type of health care system. If I remember right, there are a minority of its citizens who are whining their little heads off to try and get a (supposedly) zero-pay system like Canada's set up there.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:57 AM | Comments (0)

Dial 911 for Love

The natural progression of socialized medicine lunacy.

Starting on Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white van featuring a large red condom with wings as a logo will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics.

Well, I guess that takes the "I forgot to pick some up before I arrived" excuse away.

But the real question is do they deliver cigarettes for afterwards?

Found @ Dr. Horsefeathers.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:50 AM | Comments (0)

The VRWC Strikes Again

There was an election in South Dakota yesterday. I'm pretty sure it was either a state congressional race or some order of a primary. But none of that really matters.

It seems that a group of Dem volunteers were hanging out for lunch and discovered that they had some flat tires afterwards.

And who do they blame?

Republicans!

Let's see, unmarked vehicles, random restaurant, no pics, no sightings of anyone committing the act and definitely no arrests.

It must be the VRWC!

Found at the Kos IMC.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:43 AM | Comments (0)

June 01, 2004

Sgt. Hook

Resents being called a slave.

 

The Paratrooper of Love's none to happy, either.

 

Update:

After reading Blackfive's post, I decided to follow his lead and write to the editor of the Denver Post.  You can e-mail him at gmoore@denverpost.com.

 

The body of my e-mail to Mr. Moore:

Nothing like letting an ex-NFL jock who obviously believes his own PR to insult every person serving in the US armed forces over Memorial day.  Reggie is a sanctimonious jackass who, quite obviously, has no idea what he is talking about.  I’m not sure what term to apply to an editor that allows this kind of thing fly over a holiday that commemorates the men and women who have DIED to preserve the freedoms you and Mr. Rivers enjoy.  That Mr. Rivers thinks our military would choose to walk away from the fight because it's "too hard" demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the world today, especially where professional athletes are concerned.  Too many people feel that life should always be "easy", and that everything should be given to them when requested.  It's obvious that Mr. Rivers has no understanding of the concept of sacrifice, and that sometimes you have to fight, and die, to preserve your freedoms.  The men and women who are fighting and dying to protect us all from an enemy that will not hesitate to strike within the US deserved better.

 

I suppose all I can offer is a hearty “job well done!” and pat on the back – at least if your motive was to imply that everyone who serves in the US armed forces was too stupid to realize what they were in for, and would choose to abandon the field against our enemies because they don’t want to finish the job.

 

If you send an e-mail to Reggie Rivers himself, you get back the following little autoresponder:

 

Thanks for the message. Up to now, I've tried to respond to every message I receive, but with hundreds of e-mails flooding in each day, I simply can't keep pace.

 

Although I don't have time to respond specifically, please know that I have read your message, and I do appreciate your taking the time.

 

Best regards,

Reggie

 

I wonder if "up to now" somehow corresponds to "after I wrote that stupid-assed article"?

 

Posted by Nukevet at 06:54 PM | Comments (1)

Sgt. Hook

Resents being called a slave.

 

The Paratrooper of Love's none to happy, either.

Posted by Nukevet at 06:33 PM | Comments (0)

Class

 

nothing but class.

 

Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 a.m. Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."

At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about 6 feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN T-shirt.

Kerry then began talking to a group of schoolchildren. Sampley then showed the T-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."

Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"

Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Sen. John McCain's chief aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.

 

This is a Newsmax story, so just a wee bit suspect.  Can anyone confirm it, or seen it reported anywhere else?

 

Posted by Nukevet at 06:20 PM | Comments (1)

Speaking of providing

Aid and comfort to our enemies.  Does it matter that it was 30 years ago?

Posted by Nukevet at 06:03 PM | Comments (2)

One of the things I love about summer

are the melons.

Warning: NSFW

Via puppy blender dude (While there, also check out the link to the women of the IDF under the heading "Osama's worst nightmare).

Posted by Nukevet at 04:43 PM | Comments (5)

In Review: Memorial Day

I held off on any 'news and opinion' posts over the weekend, starting Sunday, out of respect. But now that the day of rememberance is over..............

I spent part of today going through the left wing blogs (AKA: AnybodyButBush Blogs, Kerry Blogs, Dem Blogs, etc) looking to see their offerings for the soldiers who have given their freedom and their lives so that we and they can have this freedom of speech known as blogging.

Needless to say, I was disappointed.

The right wing blogs went all out. I think I got eight links to the post I put up and I saw at least four or five multilink posts from various right wing blogs directing people where to go to see and read items in respect for the men and women of the day. Nearly every blog that could be thought of as 'right wing' put up a post. be it big or small, it was something. There were a few exceptions. Both Michele (A Small Victory) and Lee (Right Thinking on the Left Coast) are both in the middle of moving to new abodes. But by and large, everyone made a recognition of the day and said their peace.

The leftie blogs, on the other hand, pretty much sat the weekend out.

I went to a total of 105 blogs that lean, either moderately or heavily, to the left. I found links to them through various ABB Blogs I visit regularly or semi regularly. None of which deserve a link here.

Only 54 even mentioned the day. Of those, only 29 said something positive. And only 14 of those did not delve into Bush-bashing in their posts.

I quit when I felt the urge to pick up something sharp. It ususally began with stupid statements such as "Bush started the war and now Kerry is going to have to restart the draft to finish it." I saw something like this three times.

But the dumbest thing I read was someone, I think, trying to compare American soldiers to the feminist movement. She has a whole list of blurbs like this...

If you have the right to refuse sex with a diseased husband [or just
"husband"], thank a feminist.

If you can look forward to a lifespan of 80 years instead of dying in your
20's from unlimited childbirth, thank a feminist.

Yada, yada, yada. With no mention of the fact that the current embodiemnt of the American soldier is trying to give and restore those rights to Muslim women. Let alone any mention of soldiers past who kept America free enough to let feminism flower in the western hemisphere.

[spit] Ungrateful Pukes [spit]

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I don't want to even see it

Here goes Kerry. Outsourcing once again.

The Kerry campaign is hoping to do for "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" what the Clinton campaign did for "Don't Stop" � take a mediocre song from the low years of rock 'n' roll and play it so often it rings in your head like tinnitus. Should a guy critical of outsourcing make his campaign theme a song by a group of Canadians, b-b-b-baby?

Kerry is such an ignorant slut.

Found @ MT Politics.

And for those of you who thought that this post might be about the movie "The Day After Tomorrow", I catually do want to see it.

Why? So I can go into the theater just before the lights go down and sit as close as possible to the largest group of eco-weenies I can find and then laugh my ass off during the disaster scenes.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:58 AM | Comments (0)

How rude of them

But at least the RSVP'd.

Bush extended an offer to attend the G8 summit to Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Morocco, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

He was hoping to discuss democratic reform in the Arab world, known as the Greater Middle East Initiative at the summit.

Every single one of them turned down the invite.

I wonder why?

Posted by Nukevet at 05:46 AM | Comments (0)

The Army doesn't need a Salon

Salon.com is offering a free subscription to their pay site to "Counteract the fact that armed forces radio carries Rush limbaugh".

What a bunch of shits. If military personel wanted to be called ignorant baby killers and rapists, they can just watch CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc, etc.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:39 AM | Comments (2)

Link dump #1

Over the weekend, I started going through some of my links folders and found that I had an assload of links that I had stored. They are all good links, it is just that for some reason or another, I never posted them. Heck, I can't even remeber where I got them.

So here we go....

EU bans giving bones to dog owners

The EU is threatening to jail butchers for giving away bones to dog owners. The butchers are going to be made to pay around $3500 a year to have the bones incinerated.

A Shift in Policy Toward Chavez

In order to help bring down oil prices, Bush is not only leaning on the Saudis, but also Chavez in Venzuela.

And, of course, the left is pissed off.

Kerry Vows to Start New, Pro-Choice Catholic Church: New Cabinet Position Would Be Created to Head the Socially Progressive Church

I almost cannot believe this story. If it is true, this needs to be rubbed in the face of every leftie who thinks that Bush crosses the State/Church line.

"Someone out there start a petition to 'boot Lieberman'" from the Democrat Party"

The Dems are pissed off at Lieberman for not being an utter nut job like them.

Glacier threatens to block Alaska river

Global warming my ass!

And if you want a good laugh, go here and read this guy. He tries to make a hero out of professional as*hole and journalist, Peter Arnett.

Peter Arnett was framed

Posted by Nukevet at 05:23 AM | Comments (2)

Link dump #2

And even more links......

Rescue American Jobs

A group of Kerry Campaign tools who drive a bus around blaming their joblessness on Bush. Perhaps if they stayed home and stopped driving their bus around, they'd be able to find work?

The curious lack of curiosity about WMD

A May 6th interview-essay written by talk radio host, Larry Elder. If you don't have Elder in your town, you are definitely missing out. I only get an hour of his 3 hour show and I complain about it on a weekly basis. Just ask the programming director of the talk stations around here. I need to get sat radio.

Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind

In the days leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Bush turned down the opportunity to launch missiles at Abu Musab Zarqawi, whom we now know is a senior al Qiada operative who has been in Iraq for years. Bush and the generals feard tipping Hussein off by attacking Zarqawi.

This link appears almost daily at the Kos IMC. And yet those very same folks will proclaim that there was "No Saddam-al Qiada link" until they turn blue.

Canadians Allow Islamic Courts To Decide Disputes: xSharia Gains Foothold in Ontario

I think the headline just about says it all.

Norwegian-built schools in Afghanistan destroyed

Yeah, Islam is the religion of peace. Sure.

No Wedding Party, Children's Deaths Indicated, Military Spokesman Says

Direct link to the DoD story. Without the NYT filler.

Revealed: how "War Hero" Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty

From The Telegraph UK. I like the use of the quotes.

Officers told Kerry to leave Vietnam: Colleagues couldn't take John's behavior, attitudes anymore

Piss off a Kerry supporter. E-mail them this.

And, in saving the best for last, I give you The Liberty Log.

Created in March 2002 by members of the Liberty Club at the University of St Andrews in Scotland (a dark land where socialism is rife).

Coming to a links section near you. Namely mine.

Posted by Nukevet at 05:22 AM | Comments (2)

Shot for Dirt

Sometimes all you can say is:

Dumbass

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