The other night my sister called me and in our conversation asked what I was gonna blog about that night. In all honesty, I didn't have a clue. That happens a lot. I sit down in front of the computer and my mind is blank. Then all of a sudden, I start typing.
I've been this way all my life. When assigned papers, I always waited until the last minute. I would start a term paper due on Monday on Saturday. I'd go to the library and do the research and start the outline. On Sunday, I'd write it in longhand and then wind up typing half the night. Sometimes my sister would help me. She typed faster than I did. This was pre-computer and correcting mistakes was a pain in the ass.
When I took English Comp 101 and 102 in college, I used to wrack my brains as to what I ws gonna write for an assigned paper. Then, I would sit in front of the typewriter and sonething would just come to me.
Blogging is a lot like that. Sometimes I'll think of sumpin' at work or see sumpin' on the Net. Sometimes I'll see sumpin' in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. Or, there are nights like tonight when I'm not pissed off about anything and I have absolutely nothing to write about and I resort to a trick I used to use on essay tests. I just write a bunch of blithering bullshit.
I'm not Lileks so I don't have a cute little daughter to write about. I do have two cats, but they don't do much cute stuff. They pretty much lay around all day and lick themselves.
I did have this idiotic little girl with mush for brains who commented on a post I wrote a few months back. I could have posted her comments and ridiculed them, but I did that earlier this week to another booger eatin' moh-ron, and I would have wound up writing pretty much the same old shit.
Nothing much funny going on at work. See, it's really hard to write when nothing pisses me off. We're finally getting a new processor and I had to move some systems off one processor onto another so we could move that obsolete box out and have space for the new box. The move went entirely too smoothly. Nothing to bitch about there. Got the power moved for my last switch and I finished up my Reverse Synergy Hardware Non-Leveraging Project.
My readership is going way up. April was my best month ever.
All in all things are going just swell except for my health, but that's a topic for another night.
Don't forget Saturday Boobage.
Oh Crap! I forgot today is Jane's birthday. Go say hi. She's trying to get to 50,000 hits.
Jane, you promised to do sumpin' nice for me for sending you a Christmas card. I'm still waiting sweetie.
Turns out that Rene is an anti-Semitic, anti-American asshole. He's also a pussy. More on him plus a picture of the little twerp here.
Way to go Ricky! You da man!
I cannot believe my sweet innocent friend Nancy sent me this.
Someone better tell her it's only a mushroom.
Which bird is the female?
Don't blame me. Mark sent it to me.
Quick! What's the difference between Ted Kennedy and an Iraqi fighter pilot? Unlike the Iraqi, Teddy has one kill.
I hope you people from Taxachusetts are proud. Back during the Revolutionary War you had Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and many other patriots. You gave us the Boston Tea Party. You gave us presidents, John and John Quincy Adams. And now what? A bloated drunken Senator Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy and a flip-flopping traitorous bastard like John Fonda Kerry.
But Kerry was a war hero. Yep. He was. So was Benedict Arnold before he became a turncoat. And Kerry became a turncoat too when he joined Jane Fonda and VVAW and protested against the war.
But now, Taxachusetts has yet another thing to be proud of. Have y'all seen this? (You may have problems linking due to high traffic)
Some asshat at UMass named, Rene Gonzales, wrote an op-ed for the UMass newpaper blasting Pat Tillman.
When the death of Pat Tillman occurred, I turned to my friend who was watching the news with me and said, "How much you want to bet they start talking about him as a ’hero’ in about two hours?" Of course, my friend did not want to make that bet. He’d lose. In this self-critical incapable nation, nothing but a knee-jerk "He’s a hero" response is to be expected.
What do you want to bet this dipstick idolizes cowards like Bill Clinton?
I’ve been mystified at the absolute nonsense of being in "awe" of Tillman’s "sacrifice" that has been the American response.
And I'm mystified that people like you even exist in this country. I hope the people of Puero Rico are proud of you also you booger eatin' moh-ron. Many people died to give you the opportunity to write asinine bullshit like this.
True, it’s not everyday that you forgo a $3.6 million contract for joining the military. And, not just the regular army, but the elite Army Rangers. You know he was a real Rambo, who wanted to be in the "real" thick of things. I could tell he was that type of macho guy, from his scowling, beefy face on the CNN pictures.
I wonder what this person looks like? I don't know if Rene is a man or a woman. If a man, he is probably a real pussy.
But, does that make him a hero? I guess it’s a matter of perspective. For people in the United States, who seem to be unable to admit the stupidity of both the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars, such a trade-off in life standards (if not expectancy) is nothing short of heroic. Obviously, the man must be made of "stronger stuff" to have had decided to "serve" his country rather than take from it. It’s the old JFK exhortation to citizen service to the nation, and it seems to strike an emotional chord. So, it’s understandable why Americans automatically knee-jerk into hero worship.
It is amazing that the Dimocrat Party has morphed from Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" to "I am entitled, gimme, gimme, gimme." But Rene is beyond hero worship. He is so much better than us dumb patriotic Americans. He is, after all, a graduate student.
However, in my neighborhood in Puerto Rico, Tillman would have been called a "pendejo," an idiot.
And you Rene, are a fucking cobron.
I cannot post any more since it just keeps getting worse. Rene is a Puero Rican living the good life at UMass. He is enjoying all the rights and privileges of living in America and has the gall to make fun of someone who was not afraid to put his life on the line for his country. He obviously hates America and all that it stands for. He deserves a oneway trip back to Puerto Rico.
I'll even pay for it.
Put a little mustard on that dog.
Squawk! Squawk! Squawk! That's the sound of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who by the way was "appointed" to the Senate by the New Jersey Supreme Court in violation of New Jersey's election laws. Just another example of how Dimocrats steal elections.
What's the old bird squawking about? Why he's claiming that Bush and Cheney are chickenhawks for denigrating Kerry's military service.
Tossing a verbal egg at Dick Cheney's military record, Sen. Frank Lautenberg blasted the vice president Wednesday as the "lead chickenhawk," who squawks about John Kerry's Vietnam War record despite never serving himself.In his speech, Lautenberg, D-N.J., defined chickenhawk "as having the shriek of a hawk but the backbone of a chicken."
Hey Frank have you looked in the mirror lately? And speaking about having the backbone of a chicken, what about Bill Clinton? Why is Viet Nam so important all of a sudden? I thought we took care of that bullshit when we elected a draft dodger in 1992. Oh wait. It was Kerry who brought it up. And now, all of a sudden he is talking about Bush's National Guard service, when in 1992 he said it didn't matter. What's changed? Oh yeah. The Dimocrats ran a draft dodger in 1992. Draft dodger OK. National Guard service not OK. Get that?
Kerry has said that President Bush and Cheney have no credibility in criticizing his military service and anti-war effort since Bush has faced questions about his National Guard attendance and Cheney had five student and marriage deferments of service during the war.
As usual, Kerry is lying. Bush and Cheney have said absolutely nothing about Kerry's military service. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. Zed. Diddly dip point shit. They haven't even said anything about how he betrayed all the soldiers and POW's in Viet Nam by making up stories about atrocities when he testified in front of Congress. I, on the other hand, will say what I think about his actions after the war and I'll continue to say that about the scumbag.
Kerry, a decorated Navy veteran who volunteered to serve in Vietnam, said he does not begrudge anyone who did not fight in the war.
That's not what you said on ABC Monday morning you lying sack of shit.
Bush and Cheney have not personally commented on Kerry's military service or anti-war efforts,
But that doesn't stop the Dimocrats lying about it and accusing Bush and Cheney of it.
but White House spokesman Scott McClellan has refused to condemn Bush adviser Karen Hughes's comment that Kerry misled Americans by "pretending" to throw away his medals after returning from Vietnam.
Why should he. It's pretty obvious that he did mislead Americans since ABC pointed out that he's told about four different stories about it. That must be this nuance shit I keep hearing about. I guess to a Dimocrat, nuance and lie are synonymous.
Bush and Cheney have said nothing about his service, his medals, or his affiliation with VVAW. All they have brought up is his anti-defense voting record since he has been in the Senate.
Other Democrats on Wednesday defended Kerry's military service. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said the president should explain what he was doing while in the National Guard.
Nancy you ignorant slut! The president has explained what he was doing. He has released all his records, but still you sleazey bastards aren't satisfied. Bush's National Guard service has absolutely nothing to do with Kerry's voting record when he was in the Senate and you lying sleazeballs know it. You fucking dipshits make me sick to my stomach.
"As far as we know, Senator Kerry got three purple hearts for risking his life in Vietnam and President Bush got a dental examination in Alabama," said Pelosi after attending a meeting with Kerry campaign chairwoman Jeanne Shaheen.
And Bill Clinton dodged the draft, protested against the war while in England, and molested British girls. What's your point? Viet Nam doesn't matter anymore. You told us that in 1992 when the draft dodger was running. You also told us character didn't matter and we see how well that turned out.
The Republicans are not talking about John Fonda Kerry's military service. He's dragging his mascot Max Cleland around to stump for him and to try to innoculate him from his abysmal voting record on national defense. He never met a weapons system he did not want to cut or eliminate. That has nothing to do with his service in Viet Nam.
His voting record on defense sucks. Running around saying that he served in Viet Nam cannot change that. He may have been a war hero, but his voting record shows that he is no friend of the military. The Dimocrats know this, but they figger if they squawk loud enough maybe they can fool the American people.
Kerry is a phony and I think the American people are starting to figger that out.
Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!
Oh STFU!
I don't know if this is true or not, but is sure did make me feel good to read it.
This will warm your heart. Just when you have lost faith in human kindness. Someone who teaches at a Middle School in Safety Harbor, Florida forwarded the following letter. The letter was sent to the principal's office after the school had sponsored a luncheon for the elderly. An old lady received a new radio at the luncheon as a door prize, and was writing to say thank you. This story is a credit to all human kind. Forward to anyone you know who might need a lift today!
DearSafetyHarborMiddle School:
God bless you for the beautiful radio won at your recent senior citizens luncheon. I am 84 years old and live at the Safety Harbor Assisted Home for the Aged. All of my family has passed away. I am all alone now and it's nice to know that someone is thinking of me. God bless you for your kindness to an old forgotten lady. My roommate is 95 and always had her own radio, but before I received one, she would never let me listen to hers, even when she was napping. The other day her radio fell off the night stand and broke into a lot of pieces. It was awful and she was in tears. She asked if she could listen to mine, and I said kiss my ass.
Thank you for that opportunity.
Sincerely, Edna Walters
Dammit! I wish I could write like this. She said it perfectly. I lived through it. I'm glad the Republicans finally fought back in Florida. Nixon, for all of his faults, for the good of the country, didn't contest the 1960 election. Nixon, for all of his faults, resigned (after three principled Republican senators asked him to) for the good of the country rather than put the country through an agonizing impeachment process. Nixon, for all of his faults, was an American who loved his country. I cannot say the same for Bill Clinton or Al Gore.
There were no principled Dimocrat (there's an oxymoron) senators, including the "conscience of the Senate" Joe Lieberman, who went to the White House to ask Clinton to resign for the good of the country. Al Gore tried to steal the election in Florida. The Republicans finally said "enough!"
Thanks Connie for writing something I wish I were talented enough to write.
And to all the trolls who will infest this site or Connie's site over this, I have two words to say to you: Fuck. Off.
Is this from Tim Allen's new series?
Dear John,
You are beyond help. You are Al Gore without the charisma. Fuck off!
Don't bother me again,
Bill
Dear Bill,
I need some advice. This Vietnam thing keeps coming back and biting me in the ass. I deserve a purple heart just for what ABC news has done to me. What is going on here? I thought they were on our side. Next thing you know that perky bitch Couric is gonna be up my butt. That's a joke. Get it? Who says I don't have a sense of humor?
Look at you. You dodged the draft fer chrissakes and you skated. How did you do it? Why is it that the press never asked you the tough questions? And how were you able to lie so well? Everytime I lie I get caught. You'd get caught in a lie and it never seemed to matter. You'd just tell a bigger lie and they ate it up. It was almost like you had FBI files on them or something.
And another thing. I supported you in 1992 and said military service didn't matter. How about you coming to my rescue here? The press still loves you. The least you could do is tell everyone what a nice honorable guy I am. So it's a lie. Big deal. The press would still eat it up. They eat up everything you say.
Could I come and spend a weekend with you? I need to learn from the master how to tell whoppers and get away with it. You make it look so easy. And while I'm there, maybe you could hunt up some babes for us. I'm kind of sick of shagging rich ladies for their money. I'd like to get it on with some young babe. Even a fat airhead like Monica would be better than Teresa. That bitch is driving me crazy with her stupid scarves.
In return, as president I would be in position to give you anything you wanted. How would you like to be Ambassador to Sweden? Not only would that get you away from Hillary, but think about all those busty, blonde Swedish babes. They'd eat you up, if you know what I mean. And you could get Cuban cigars there with no problem.
Please Bill, I'm sinking in the polls and I need all the help I can get. I would be forever in your debt.
Your pal,
John
I realize that most of you dickwads are too stupid to have your own web sites. I mean, you can't even do it on Blowspot. Now how dumb is that? And those of you who do have websites have content that is so full of crap that no one wants to go there. So what to do? Why not go to other web sites that people actually read and post your bullshit there? That way, maybe someone will finally read what you perceive to be wisdom. Unfortunately, most of those readers will be smart enough to know that it is total bullshit.
Let me give y'all some advice. If you are gonna troll in comments, do it on a post that is less than two weeks old. Posts older than that are usually off the front page and the only people who will read your comments are me or people who happen to be poking through my archives. Dontcha want all my readers to see how smart you are? That's one of the reasons you're trolling isn't it? Why not share your immense wisdom so all my readers can see exactly how smart you are?
Case in point, one Greg Hunter, who deposited his troll droppings on a February 10 post about John Fonda Kerry. He dared me to post it. Uh, Greg, you must not understand how this blogging stuff works. You post it in my comments. I can delete it or edit it, but you post it. Anyway, I thought I would share his wisdom with y'all.
Denny You are as dumb as a box of rocks. You cant get a Purple heart or Stars just by putting yourself in for it. Since you were in the rear with the gear you may not know that. You hate Clinton because he avoided the draft. Now you hate Kerry because he volunteered, for 2 tours, and was decorated in combat. And now these medical records have been released. Your probably to stupid to know this, great Presidents who have been liberals, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Wilson, all lead us through war. BTW,speaking on liberal and conservative press? what are the service records of Rush limbaugh, Shaun Hannity, Joe Scarborough and the like? Bush may be a good man but he is a mental midget being led by the nose by draft dodging war hawks Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. Lets not even talk about his lousy record with the economy,the deficit, unemployment, his war against the middle class, tax breaks for the rich, his failure in the U.S. intelligence agency's. Are you just a GOP zombie also, or do you have any origional thoughts of your own? If Hitler ran as a Republican you'd probably vote for him. Lets see if you have the guts to post this.
I responded to some of this in the comments.
First off, he broke two of The Rules:
3. Do not start a thread with an insult. That immediately shows that you are a fucking idiot and are fair game and will be treated accordingly. If you are polite, we will be polite. Maybe. I decide. Unfair? See rule 1.
4. If you do insult me or others, try to make it an amusing insult. "Ha. Ha. Ha. You sure are stupid" is lame. "You have alzheimers" is lame. "If your brains were TNT, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose" is good. Come up with sumpin' like that and you can stay a little longer. I want to be amused. If I'm not amused you're gone. Why can I do that? See rule number 1
C'mon. Dumb as a box of rocks? Did you learn that in the 1st or 2nd grade?
and it's not "cant" it's can't.
Decorations: Kerry lobbied for his first purple heart. His decorations were based on his reports to superiors.
My military service: Doesn't matter. I served. I was in Viet Nam. I wasn't in the "rear with the gear". Since you are gonna denigrate my service, did you serve? Probably not. You sound like a coward to me.
I do not hate Kerry because he served. I hate him for what he did after he returned to the States. I hate him for his association with the traitor Jane Fonda. I hate him for testifying about made up atrocities. I hate him for throwing his medals away. Wait. They weren't his? Or were they? They were ribbons and not medals? Geez. He keeps changing his story.
Great Presidents who were liberals. Oh. They led us through war not "lead us through war". Teddy Roosevelt today would be considered conservative. His liberal policies were anti-trust and conservation. His foreign policy was anything but liberal. I don't consider Wilson a great president. Think League of Nations. That really prevented WWII didn't it? Roosevelt was a socialist. The Social Security time bomb he created keeps ticking away. Economists from the Austrian and Chicago schools maintain that his policies actually prolonged the Depression and it was only WWII that got us out of it. He also got taken to the cleaners at Yalta by Stalin which led to our involvement in the Cold War. And since you hate Republicans so much, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln two of the presidents you say are liberal were Republicans. If you had been alive then, you would have probably been protesting the wars of both Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln since they were Republican presidents. And at the time people thought Lincoln was a stupid bumpkin. I bet you would have also.
And speaking of stupid it should be "you're too stupid" not "your to stupid". If you are gonna call someone stupid at least attempt to use decent grammar and spelling. Sheesh! You missed two words in a row.
And what do the service records of "Shaun" (that's Sean) Hannity and other conservative pundits have to do with anything? To be for war you had to have been in the military? When was that rule passed? Does that mean that Bill Clinton had to have been in the military to have committed troops to Kosovo?
And now come all the Dimocrat talking points.
"Bush is a mental midget." MBA from Harvard. They do not give them away. He flew high performance jets. I have flown an airplane. You can not be stupid and be a pilot. There is too much going on, especially if you are flying in formation at 600 knots. Remember, Reagan was a dumb cowboy and he won the Cold War. Jimmah Carter was a nuclear engineer and was probably the most incompetent president of the 20th Century. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and his foreign policy was a disaster. He gutted the CIA and was responsible for most of the intelligence failures that led to 9/11. Osama bin Laden said that when we left Somalia with our tails between our legs that's when he knew we could be defeated. He was probably thinking of Americans like you Greg.
"Draft dodging war hawks like Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld" I didn't realize that military experience was necessary to hold a gummint position. Is this sumpin' you Dimocrats just dreamed up?
The economy. Bush inherited the recession from Clinton. Look it up.
The deficit. I'll give you that one, but Gore would have had the same problem. I think Bush's domestic spending has been way too high, especially the last farm bill.
Unemployment. Another fallout from the Clionton recession. Going down. Actually it is at the same rate as it was during this time in Clinton's first term and the Dimocrats were saying how great that was. It will be even lower by November.
His war against the middle class. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Don't forget his war against the poor. Oh, and old people. And orphans. And cripples. He's out to get everyone except the evil hated rich.
Tax breaks for the rich. Ah yes. We can never forget tax breaks for the rich. You know what? I'm rich. At least to a Dimocrat I'm rich. Ya know why? I've done things that make me rich. And I'm continuing to do things that make me rich. Are you jealous because you are in a dead end job? Are you jealous because you're not rich? Are you jealous because you're a failure and you need someone to blame your failures on? By the way, the top 1% of taxpayers who make 17% of the income pay 34% of the taxes. Even with the "tax cuts for the rich". How much should the rich pay? What is their fair share?
His failure in the U.S. intelligence agency's. That should be agencies not "agency's". It's bad enough that I have to correct your misconceptions, but to have to continuously correct your spelling is just getting tedious. It was the Clinton Administration that gutted the intelligence agencies with politically correct rules. One name: Jamie Gorelick. And your hero, John Fonda Kerry, voted to cut intelligence budgets.
And nope. I'm not a GOP zombie. Right now I'm a one issue guy and that issue is killing terrorists before they kill us. Unfortunately, John Fonda Kerry is not the man for that job. He thinks the solution is the United Nations. They did a bangup job in Rwanda didn't they? They were doing real well in the Balkans. That's why NATO had to intervene. And John Fonda Kerry thinks he can get France and Germany on board. What's he gonna do? Give Chirac a blowjob? Kiss Schroeder's ass?
If the Dimocrats would run someone like Zell Miller I might vote for him. Unfortunately the Dimocrats have been taken over by the left wing and they cannot be trusted with the defense of the country. They were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War and they continue to be on the wrong side of history during the War on Terror.
So Greg, you got your wish. I posted this nonsensical rant right up front so you could impress all my readers with your intellect. Are you happy.
I am. This post wrote itself.
Thanks.
This could probably happen in Atlanta as during rush hour not only are people talking on cell phones, but they are eating, applying makeup, and reading the paper. Really!
A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car. He was astounded
to see that the driver was knitting. Realizing that she was oblivious
to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window,
turned on his bullhorn and yelled, "PULL OVER!" "NO!" she yelled back.
"IT'S A SCARF!"
OK. It's not technically a pun, but it does apply to Atlanta.
So here's a real pun from Ric
Did I ever tell you about the time I was in Iraq? There was so little
to do for entertainment. You could either go to a prostitute or watch a
movie. Basically, the options boiled down to the Iraqi whore or picture
show.
Now that is a bad pun!
I finally got around to sending a birthday card to my nephew. Yeah, I know I'm a little late, but I wanted to write him a letter and wasn't really sure what to say. I wanted to tell him how proud I was of him that he volunteered to serve his country. I also wanted to tell him that despite what he may be hearing the majority of Americans support the president and the war. This is really driving the liberal media and the rabid leftists nuts.
I can remember when I was in Viet Nam.
You were in Viet Nam? No shit?
Yup. But since I didn't kill any women or children or burn villages like John Fonda Kerry, I don't have anything to brag about. I was in the Navy for four years and I spent a lot of time in Viet Nam. That's it. I'm not a war hero.
Anyway, I can remember when I was in Viet Nam I would see pictures of these peace activists demonstrating in the streets and it was right after Tet that the media started turning. I think that was when journalism started going down the shitter. That's when we started seeing editorializing on the front page instead of news. That really pissed me off! And thanks to people like John Fonda Kerry who testified about many made up atrocities, the anti-war crowd started calling us baby killers. That hurt.
It's really funny that after eight years of a draft dodger, the Dimocrats all of a sudden think military service is necessary to be commander-in-chief. It's more important to have a war hero than someone who served in the National Guard. The draft dodger ran against two war heroes, Bush and Dole, and it didn't matter then. Why now?
I told him about the moonbats over at the Dimocratic Underground who were reacting with glee that Pat Tillman died. They were calling him a dumb jock and said he got what he deserved.
This just disgusts me to no end. These people hate Bush so much that they delight in the deaths of people who are defending the country. How sick is that?
I hated Bill Clinton, but I was not happy about the deaths in Somalia. I think we should have bombed the living crap out of them after that. I did not like to see us leave with our tails between our legs. That's what happens when you have a president who's a pussy.
And yes, I know, we turned tail and ran out of Beirut when Reagan was president and the ragheads bombed the Marine barracks. We should have sent a few missiles up the Beka'a Valley as a going away present. But Reagan redeemed himself by winning the Cold War. Clinton just went back to his office and got a blowjob.
I did not delight at the sailors who died on the USS Cole. They were Americans. It doesn't matter who the president is or how much you hate him taking joy in the deaths of Amercan military personnel is just sick. The assholes who spew out all this crap do not deserve to be Americans. Maybe they could move to the workers paradise of Cuba.
It must really piss them off that they are calling Iraq Viet Nam, but their anti-war protests are not even close to being the size of the ones in the 60's and 70's and the signs you see these fuckwits carry pretty much tell you what kind of people they are. They want American soldiers to die in Iraq.
I told my nephew that no matter what he hears, that in spite of the liberal media and the ravings of frothing lunatic leftists, the majority of Americans are still supporting the president and the war. This only causes these people to rant and rave even more. They're getting so bad they may need rabies shots.
I mostly wanted to tell him just how proud I was of him.
And I did.
I'm sure we all saw the Wife 1.0 joke that went around the internet. In case you haven't seen it, here is Husband 1.0 which was sent to me by a friend.
Subject: Husband 1.0
Dear Tech Support:
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a
distinct slowdown in the overall performance, particularly in the flower
and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend
5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs,
such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed
undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, NHL 4.3, MLB 3.0, and NBA 3.6.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the
system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, to no avail. What can I do?
Signed
Desperate
Dear Desperate:
First, keep in mind that Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while
Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Try to enter the
command:C:/ITHOUGHTYOULOVEDME" to download Tears 6.2, which should
automatically install Guilt 3.0. If that application works as designed,
Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0
and Flowers 3.5. Remember, though, that overuse of the above application can
cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or
Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will create Snoring Loudly
10.8.
Whatever you do: DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 or reinstall another
Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash
Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited
memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider
buying additional software to improve memory and performance. I
personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 7.7.
Good Luck,
Tech Support
It appears that the trick to get my weekend hits up is dropping my already low standards even lower. Here ya go.
Yes ma'am!
Yup! If someone were to give the world an enema, this is where he would stick the nozzle.
Didja know that someone threw a beer at Bill Clinton the other day? It was a draft beer so he dodged it easily. Rimshot!
So now we have politicians (mostly Dimocrats) calling for the reinstatement of the draft.
The stated reason? The all volunteer military discriminates against the poor. Huh? WTF?
The real reason? Once the draft is reinstated there will be more people against the war.
Let's talk about this discriminates against the poor bullshit. Why are people poor? I've written about this many times, but people are poor because they do things that make them poor.
Here are three steps to get out of poverty:
1. Get an education. That means at least finishing high school. That also means learning how to read and write English, not Spanish, not Ebonics, not any language other than English. If you can not read and write English you are at an immediate disadvantage. Those patronizing liberal pukes who insist on bilingual education are putting the people they are so concerned about behind the eight ball. Go to college. In Georgia, if you can maintain a B average you can get a Hope scholarship. And you can also join the military. That is an opportunity. You don't have to join the Army or Marines. You can join the Navy or the Air Force. I learned electronics in the Navy and went to college on the GI Bill.
2. Start work at an early age. Get part time jobs while in school. Mow lawns. Rake leaves. Shovel snow. Baby sit. I did all of those things.
3. Do not have children you cannot afford.
Three simple rules.
The liberals will tell you that people join the Army because they are poor and there are no jobs, which of course is all Bush's fault. My nephew joined the Army and he is not poor. at least his parents aren't. Howza 'bout Pat Tilman, who walked away from millions in the NFL to join the Army because he thought it was his duty as an American? He gave his life for his country.
Another thing against their argument is re-enlistments are actually up! There are no recruitment or retention problems. The all volunteer Army is working. Ya see, there are Americans who actually love this country and believe in defending it. In WWII Hollywood felt that way. Now most of the Hollywood types are a bunch of America hating commie pukes.
The draft would actually be counterproductive, which is another reason the liberals want to reinstate it. With a draft you'll get people who do not want to serve, as opposed to an all volunterr military where you get people who do want to serve. With the draft you'll waste a lot of time training people who will leave once their enlistment is up as opposed to volunteers who would be more likely to stay and make the military a career.
Nope. We don't need a draft.
Charlie Rangel and his anti-war buddies should just STFU!
Since today is Earth Day, I guess I should really post sumpin' about recycling.
Another one from Maurice. Weren't these the babes in the Krispy Kreme calendar?
Update: I just found out that one of these chicks is Robert McClelland's girlfriend. The other is his mother. Don't know which is which. Maybe he'll tell us.
From: Air America
To: Barbra Streisand
Ms. Streisand:
We are writing you this letter because we desperately need your help. As you know, Air America is the liberal radio network that was created as a counterpoint to Rush Limbaugh and those evil Republicans who support Bushitler. The American media is controlled by the right and Americans have been crying out for a radio network that will actually tell the truth about what is happening in the country today. We are that radio network.
Due to the machinations of the Republican Party we have been closed down in Chicago and Los Angeles. We sent a check to the people who owned the radio stations in Chicago and Los Angeles, but the Republicans, who control the banks, somehow made the check bounce. As a result, Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, which is obviously controlled by the Republicans, booted us off the air in those two cities. Fortunately, we do own Portland Oregon.
Like good liberals, we demanded justice and went to court and did force Multicultural to put us back on the air in Chicago but only for a month. We know why radio stations around the country are not fighting to air our programming. It's simple and we're sure that you know the answer as well. The media is controlled by the Republicans. That is why we have to pay radio stations to air our programming. This is not fair! They should be paying us.
We know you believe in us and would like to support us. If you would send us $1 million we're sure we could find other stations in Chicago and Los Angeles who would be willing to put us on the air. We're also sure that once more people listen to our stellar lineup we will start attracting advertisers and our network will take off.
Please Ms. Streisand, support progressive ideas by supporting Air America. Our careers are shot and we really need this gig.
Al Franken
Janeane Garofalo
I got my blood presssure medication refilled last week, along with the other cornucopia of drugs I take and my doctor's office called and told me she wanted to see me so I made an appointment to see her today.
I belong to an HMO. Here's the deal with HMO's.
1. You need a good primary care physician. Mine is a real sweetie. I just love her to death. She pretty much gives me everything that I want.
2. You need to be proactive and assertive. This helps when you are dealing with the HMO caseworker.
3. You have to have some medical knowledge (or know someone who does) about your condition. My friend Cindy is a nurse and used to work with spinal cord injured people. She knows a lot about my condition. Sonetimes she even goes with me to see my primary care physician to make sure that I am proactive and assertive. If I don't ask the right questions, she does. She also likes my primary care physician. She gave me a list of things I needed to talk to my doctor about. She even called me the night before and gave me a quiz to make sure I asked all the right stuff.
4. It really helps if you know someone in the medical profession who knows how to deal with HMO's. Once again, that's my friend Cindy. She knows all the right buttons to push.
I had a 9:30 appointment. I got there at 9:30. I saw my doctor at 9:40. I told her that I have had pain and a spasm in my lower back. She said she'd have my back x-rayed and wrote a referral for orthopedic physical therapy. She also prescribed some drugs. I said my wheelchair needed some repairs. She wrote a referral for that. I said I was overdue for some blood work. Anther lab request. She also wrote a referral for a full colon exam. Ugh! The prep for that is a bitch. We made a little small talk. She told me she got married in October. She asked about my ski and SCUBA trips. Her hubby is a diver. She just snorkles. She did some listening, poking, and prodding and off I went to resume my quest.
Off to the referral office. In and out in ten minutes. Very efficient.
Off to the pharmacy to drop off the prescriptions.
Down to the lab. Got my blood drawn. The technician was a good stick. Hit the vein first try with just a small sting.
Off to x-ray. Got my back and hip x-rayed.
Back to the pharmacy. My prescriptions were ready. One of the girls there knows me by name. I'm a good customer.
Walked out of the facility at 11:05. Got all that stuff done in a little over 90 minutes. I was impressed with the speed and the efficiency. I got to work at 11:30.
So how is work lately?
They announced a new compensation package. We had a presentation on it last week. Here is what they told us.
We pay competitively.
That means they pay what other companies pay.
Your pay is not just made up of your salary but includes all of your benefits.
That's usually what they say if there will be small pay raises or none at all.
We pay not only for performance but for critical skills and retention.
Yeah, like I'm gonna take my critical skills somewhere else at my age and get the same deal I got here. I'm not griping. I get paid a lot. I just know that at the twilight of my career they are not gonna waste money on an old fart like me. I will not see a raise the rest of my career.
Over the last three years many companies in the I/T area have given no pay raises.
Howza 'bout that? Some people at TCIDNN have not had a pay raise in the last three years.
Some of you will not get a pay raise this year.
Ta dah! I'm one of them.
Multiple managers will have to sign off on raises.
Even if your manager wants to give you a raise, another manager can veto it.
That's funny. The new compensation plan sounds almost exactly like the old compensation plan. The raises are not gonna be very large and some of us won't get any.
Same Plan Different Year.
Along with the anti-spasm medication, I got some painkillers. Think I'll take one now.
Today is Rachel Lucas' birthday. I miss her. I wish she would start blogging again.
Omigawd! I just heard that the Arabs Hate Us! Who woulda thunk it?
PARIS (Reuters) - Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday.
Why can't we be more like France? Arabs don't hate the French. The French are gonna surrender to them any day now.
Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.
Awwww!
"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday
Who promptly said, "Mon Dieu! We surrender!"
He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
What's the problem? They both said they wanted to be martyrs. Israel gave them their wish. Sheesh! There's just no pleasing some people.
"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.
Hosni, I'm at the point where I don't care if you hate us or not. Do you fear us?
"People have a feeling of injustice. What's more, they see (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon acting as he pleases, without the Americans saying anything. He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has."
What do you think the Palestinians would do if they had the planes and helicopters that Israel had? They would not show the restraint Israel has. Israel targets terrorists. The Palestinians target women and children.
Israel says such killings are self-defense. But Mubarak said the assassination of Rantissi could have "serious consequences" and that instability in Gaza and Iraq would not serve U.S. or Israeli interests.
As opposed to the "stability" in Gaza today.
"The despair and feeling of injustice are not going to be limited to our region alone. American and Israeli interests will not be safe, not only in our region but anywhere in the world," he said.
That sounds like a threat to me. This is from a guy who receives $2 billion a year from us.
And I just read somewhere that a Hamas spokesman, who is definitely not the new leader of Hamas (Me? The leader? Where did you get that idea?) wants all Muslims to declare war on Israel and the United States. Brave words from the next dude in line for Israel's Whack a Mole game.
Sweet dreams asshole!
He's my nephew. He's 20 years old. He's outside of Fallujah.
Reid, your card is gonna be late. I'll give your mother your check this weekend.
Give 'em hell!
One of the problems of getting more successful is you get more troll infestations. I like to play Whack a Troll where I edit their comments to say sumpin' stupid (As if the bullshit they post isn't stupid enough.). It drives them nuts! They call me all sorts of names, and I continue to edit their comments. I have one French troll who shows the persistence the French used to plant all those trees in Paris so the Germans could march in the shade.
Today I got a new troll who goes by the name of Robert McClellan. He even has his own web site. Not giving you the link because that is one of the reasons these guys troll. No one wants to visit their lame websites, so they deposit their troll droppings at other sites hoping against hope that someone just might visit their site and they may get more than two hits a day.
My French troll goes by various names. I'll just call him Frankie the Frenchie. Anyway, my good friend Jesse got me pictures of these two guys. It seems they are friends. Hell they might even be related.
Frankie the Frenchie and Robert McClellan.
I took Monday off work to recover from the weekend.
Saturday, I went down to Greens to stock up on table wine. I drink two types of wine: Cheap, but good stuff for drinking alone, and more expensive stuff for when I have company. How do I know what cheap stuff to buy? My friend Michael is the wine buyer for Greens and I just ask him what he is drinking. Then I buy a couple of cases of that which is what I did. He also had a closeout deal on a good Barbaresco so I bought four bottles to put in my cellar. It won't be ready to drink for at least four years. I also bought a case of white wine and some rum for the next time my brother-in-law comes to town. I'm pretty well stocked up on wine for the next three to four months.
Since Michael's wife Cindy was out of town, I invited him over for dinner at GOC Central. It was my usual dull mundane Saturday night dinner. We had smoked salmon with a bottle of Sancerre. Then we had a salad. For the main course it was filet mignon, baked potato, and corn on the cob. Michael brought a bottle of Pinot Noir to drink with that. We then finished off with a couple of glasses of grappa.
Sunday was the annual Sommelier Guild Banquet. I posted the menu earlier. The food was very good and the wines worked out well. We had two wines with each course. One was from California and the other was from France. This was a good side by side comparison of French to California using the same grape.
I slept in on Monday. I got up and checked my site hits and I noticed I had one of the best weekends ever. That's the trick then. Post boobage on the weekends. I also had to play some whack a troll. Trolls, besides being assholes, are usually pretty stupid. This guy was also French so he had three strikes against him.
Speaking of whack a troll, I notice the Israelis are playing a pretty good game of whack the head Hamas dude. Hamas has appointed a new leader but for some reason they do not want to tell anyone who it is.
Come out, come out whoever you are.
Monday afternoon I planted some more veggies in my garden. I got the tomatoes in last week and this week I planted some beans and cucumbers. I can start looking forward to some fresh veggies in late June.
After a nice weekend and a Monday off, I feel pretty mellow. I'm really in too good of a mood to rant about anything. I've even started posting a cute animal series.
I'm sure that something will piss me off real soon and I can get back to my grouchy old self.
You can count on it.
This entire series was sent to me by Barbara.
I am not posting anything original tonight because I am going to the annual banquet of the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta. Here is what we're having.
It's a rough job, but someone has to do it. Sometimes life really sucks! BWAHAHAAHAHA!
For all of you who have sent me puns, I will get to them eventually. I have an a-pun-dant stock of puns. Rather than use one of Richard's puns this week, I am posting sumpin' Mark sent me.
1. Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says: "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger.
2. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.
3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too.
4. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He sidles up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."
5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during his root canal? He wanted to transcend dental medication.
6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of his office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. Because, he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named Ahmal. The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him Juan. Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."
8. These friars were behind in their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to persuade them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.
9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him what? A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
MILITARY MANEUVERS
Telling Time
On some air bases the Air Force is on one side of the field and civilian aircraft use the other side of the field, with the control tower in the middle. One day the tower received a call from an aircraft asking, "What time is it?"
The tower responded, "Who is calling?"
The aircraft replied, "What difference does it make?"
The tower replied, "It makes a lot of difference. If it is an American Airlines flight, it is 3 o'clock. If it is an Air Force plane, it is 1500 hours. If it is a Navy aircraft, it is 6 bells. If it is an Army aircraft, the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 3. If it is a Marine Corps aircraft, it's Thursday afternoon and 120 minutes to 'Happy Hour.' "
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Stuck in the Mud
During training exercises, the lieutenant who was driving down a muddy back road encountered another vehicle stuck in the mud with a red-faced colonel at the wheel. "Your jeep stuck, sir?" asked the lieutenant as he pulled alongside.
"Nope," replied the colonel, coming over and handing him the keys, "yours is."
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Is This the Party to Whom I Am Speaking?
Having just moved into his new office, a pompous, new colonel was sitting at his desk when an airman knocked on the door. Conscious of his new position, the colonel quickly picked up the phone, told the airman to enter, then said into the phone, "Yes, General, I'll be seeing him this afternoon and I'll pass along your message. In the meantime, thank you for your good wishes, sir."
Feeling as though he had sufficiently impressed the young enlisted man, he asked, "What do you want?"
"Nothing important, sir," the airman replied, "I'm just here to hook up your telephone."
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Spare Change?
Officer: "Soldier, do you have change for a dollar?"
Soldier: "Sure, buddy."
Officer: "That's no way to address an officer! Now let's try it again!"
Officer: "Soldier. Do you have change for a dollar?"
Soldier: "No, SIR!"
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Understanding Airdales
Q: How do you know if there is a fighter pilot at your party?
A: He'll tell you.
Q: What's the difference between God and fighter pilots?
A: God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
Q: What's the difference between a fighter pilot and a jet engine?
A: A jet engine stops whining when the plane shuts down.
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Close Shave
An Air Force Chief Master Sergeant and a General were sitting in the barbershop. They were both just getting finished with their shaves, when the barbers reached for some after-shave to slap on their faces.
The General shouted, "Hey, don't put that stuff on me! My wife will think I've been in a whorehouse!"
The Chief turned to his barber and said, "Go ahead and put it on. My wife doesn't know what the inside of a whorehouse smells like."
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Final Respects
"Well," snarled the tough old Navy Chief to the bewildered Seaman, "I suppose after you get discharged from the Navy, you'll just be waiting for me to die so you can come and piss on my grave."
"Not me, Chief!" the Seaman replied. "Once I get out of the Navy, I'm never going to stand in line again!"
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Hygiene:
An Army 2nd Lieutenant entered the men's room in a airport terminal and relieved himself at the urinal next to an Air Force Sergeant. When done, the Lieutenant marched to the lavatory and started to wash his hands. He noted the Sergeant was about to leave without washing up.
"Sergeant," he loudly inquired, " don't they teach you to wash your hands in the Air Force?"
"No, Sir", replied the non-com, "they teach us not to piss on them."
Ok. Since y'all forced me to (I had numerous requests. Must have been at least four.) and are dragging my standards (Standards? You have standards?) down, I'm posting more pictures of these babes with guns.
Doesn't she have a beautiful smile? Look up! The smile is on her face.
Now that Tax Day has come and gone, I want to say sumpin' about changes I would make to the Constitution.
1. Term limits. I would limit a senator to two terms and a representative to six terms. Twelve years is more than enough time to suck off the gummint's teat. Probably a better idea would be one term for a senator and 3 terms for a representative.
2. All pay raises would have to be approved by the people. None of this voting themselves a pay raise bullshit. In bad times let them suffer like the rest of us.
3. No pensions. That includes the president. Clinton is getting $12 million to write a book. He gets $50 thousand a speech. He doesn't need any more gummint money. The senators and reps steal enough money while they're in office. They don't need any when they get out.
4. No gummint provided medical plan. When they have to go out on the market to buy health insurance and see how the trial lawyers have driven up the costs (John Edwards is responsible for $60 million in settlements all by hisself) maybe they'll enact tort reform. If they enact socialized medicine and have to use it themselves, they'll fix that also.
5. No office expenses for ex-Presidents. If they want an office they can pay for one themselves.
6. No former president, senator, or representative is allowed to be a lobbyist. They stole enough money while they were in office. They don't need to make any more money as a lobbyist. Let them go out and get a real job.
7. If they do not conduct all their required business during the regular session of Congress, they do not get paid to come back during a specail session. I would like to see this law in Georgia since our legislators didn't get around to passing a budget during their session this year and the taxpayers will have to pay for a special session. They did find time to put a referendum about gay marriage on the ballot in the general election. Assholes! You didn't do your fucking job! You should have your pay cut!
8. If they go on "fact finding trips" their family does not go with them. They have to fly coach. I don't fly first class. They don't either. Just like a business there will be limited prices for hotel rooms and meals. If this is a "business trip" It will be treated as a business trip. Expenses will be kept to a minimum.
9. The tax system will be junked and the IRS will abolished. The new tax system will require only one form. Anymore than that and it will be deemed too complicated.
10. Any law that is passed will have to state in the law what part of the Constitution authorizes that law. We have entirely too many unconstitutional laws on the books. A prime example is the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance "Reform" Bill. What an abomination that piece of shit is.
This is just a start. Feel free to add any others you may deem necessary.
I guess it's because she's not wearing a helmet.
One of my readers took umbrage at me calling my series of airplane pictures Pilot Error. He didn't think the plane with the door open was funny. Hey, I'm a pilot (I soloed so that counts.) and I thought it was funny. So, to not offend any pilots, I'll just call this Another Airplane Picture.
Click for larger image.
Thanks to Jesse for this one.
Update. Info on the crashed plane can be found here. Crosswind landings are a bitch!
Thanks to the person who did the research.
Sorry Grognard, but I'm gonna make fun of the Palestinians. The following was from the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. I'd enclose the link, but they now require registration. Buttheads!
Washington --- In a major shift in U.S. policy, President Bush on Wednesday embraced an Israeli proposal to withdraw unilaterally from Gaza, recognized that Israel can retain some of the occupied West Bank permanently and said Palestinian refugees wouldn't have the right to return to Israel under any final peace settlement.
That just breaks my heart!
The change in policies, announced by Bush during a joint White House appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, swept away decades of U.S. insistence that any final peace settlement must require a return to Israel's 1949 borders or something very close to them.
Oh man! That's gonna piss off a bunch of Arabs ain't it?
The new stance also softened longstanding U.S. objections to Israel's settlements in Palestinian territory and to Israel's construction of a barrier to separate Palestinian and Israeli areas.
Maybe you assholes should have taken the offer from Barak that Yasshole Arafat walked away from.
It also enraged Palestinians.
Remember when you dickheads were dancing in the streets on 9/11? That enraged us. You also killed some Americans in Gaza who were coming to help your worthless asses. That enraged us. Deal with it!
"You'll have no takers for this,'' said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Y'know what? We don't give a shit! We ain't asking. We're telling.
Both Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Ahmed Qureia, the prime minister, denounced the plan, declaring it will put any future peace agreement in peril.
Future peace agreement? What future peace agreement? After 40 years we've decided that there is no chance of peace with you dudes. Israel is withdrawing from Gaza and building a wall around the West Bank to keep you guys out. Fight amongst yourselves. When you're done with your civil war, give us a call.
By siding so unequivocally with Sharon, Bush risked inflaming the Muslim world against America even more than it already is. His stance also adds stress to America's strained ties with Europe, whose capitals are far more sympathetic to the Palestinians.
Yeah. We're gonna make the Muslims more pissed off at us than they already are.
''This U.S. administration's policies, its bias towards occupation and rejection of international law will jeopardize U.S. interests in the region,'' said Jibril Rajoub, a security adviser to Arafat. ''The Americans will as a result only reap hostility among the people of the Middle East. This U.S. administration is dealing with the world as if it's a Texas ranch.''
No, we're treating you like the barbarous assholes that you are.
Some Palestinians predicted the turn of events would trigger more violence.''This will only spark another uprising, a more violent one, actually,'' Palestinian pollster Nader Said said.
Oh shit! Dire Revenge™. Bring it on! You do not want to fuck with us! We'll make Sharon look like a humanitarian. Don't you asswipes get it? We are fed up with your bullshit. For 50 years you have been trying to wipe Israel off the map. It ain't gonna happen. You had a real good chance for peace and a state with Oslo. You fucked that up.
In a White House news conference with Sharon by his side, Bush argued that the world has changed and the old policies no longer apply.
That means we are fed up with your bullshit. Stop the terrorism. We'll deal with people who actually want peace. We haven't found any on your side.
Administration officials said Bush's policy shift will jump-start peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. But news of Bush's positions added fuel to critics who insist Bush has been less than an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians, as many of his predecessors strove to be.
This sounds like the Godfather. Here's an offer you cannot refuse. If you turn it down, the next offer will be worse.
''These are historic and courageous actions,'' Bush said. ''If all parties choose to embrace this moment, they can open the door to progress and put an end to one of the world's longest-running conflicts.''
Dear Palestinians. You better take this offer 'cause the next one will be worse.
''The Palestinian people must insist on change and on a leadership that is committed to reform and progress and peace,'' he said. ''We will help. But most of the difficult work is theirs.''
Stop blowing up. Start acting civilized.
''Everything has been predetermined. It's a joke to say negotiate. Negotiate what? If you predetermine refugees and borders, then why negotiate? To minimize the losses?'' said Ali Jirbawi, a Palestinian political science professor at Birzeit University, near Ramallah on the West Bank.
Take it or leave it. You walked away from the best offer that you were ever gonna get from Ehud Barak. You better jump at this offer or it's only gonna get worse. We are sick and tired of your bullshit. The ball is in your court.
And get rid of Arafat. Don't you remember? We declared him irrelevant. We gave you yet another chance with the Roadmap to Peace. Israel made concessions. You made none. Nada. Zed. Zippo. Diddly dip point shit. How can there be a peace agreement if you guys don't want peace? Call us when you do. Until then Bush just sent you a big ol' can of STFU.
Go whine about how unfair all this is. We're not listening. We've heard all this crap before. We're tired of it. Stop your car swarms. Stop your threats of Dire Revenge™. Stop the suicide bombings. Stop killing in the name of Islam. Stop brainwashing your children. Stop sending them off to die. Stop the hatred.
For over 50 years you've been trying to drive the Jews into the sea. It ain't gonna happen. Learn to live in peace and you can have your state. With the Jews to help you you could be prosperous.
Abba Eban said it best: "The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
Rather than whining about getting the shaft accept a deal before it's too late. Oh that's right. I'm talking to Palestinians. I'm wasting my time.
Sorry. Fuck off!
I will be posting the front pictures of the Babes With Guns over the weekend. Let's see if that gets my weekend hits up.
I wrote my check to Georgia and mailed it in on the 14th, a day early. I didn't have to write a check to the Feds because I over withheld and got money back. All that means is that I overpaid.
If you read Boortz on the 15th I'll bet he starts off with telling you to ask your friends or coworkers how much they paid in taxes. Many of them will tell you that they didn't pay anything. They got money back. And that is the beauty of withholding.
People don't say how much money they make, they say how much money they take home. That is the beauty of withholding.
Most people do not realize how much money they pay in taxes because they don't prepare their own taxes. The gummint has made it too complicated. Or, since the money is taken out of their paychecks a little at a time they don't see how much they're paying. That is the beauty of withholding.
If people had to sit down and write a check to the gummint every year for the entire amount of their taxes, the tax code would be changed real quick. But they don't. That's the beauty of withholding.
The United States tax code is over 10,000 pages. Even the IRS doesn't understand the tax code.
True story. I invested in a tax shelter about 25 years ago. One of the members of our group got audited and the IRS told us the numbers we could use. I dutifully filed an amended return using the IRS numbers. Three months later I got audited. I pointed out that the numbers I was using had been given to me and approved by the IRS. The auditor's reply was that it was a different office that gave us those numbers. Different office. Different rules. I protested and they told me to take them to court. Since it was only $270, I paid up. I did point out that it probably took about $1000, considering the auditor's time and the computer time, to collect a measly $270.
Our tax code is entirely too complicated if even the IRS doesn't understand it. If you call the IRS for advice there is a very good chance that they will give you the wrong information. See story above.
We need to scrap the tax code and start over.
But back to withholding. Do you still have your W2 form? Take a good look at it. Look at how much money you really make. Now look how much money the gummint has taken. Look at that FICA number. Double it. Your employer has to pay the same FICA for you as you do. That is money your employer could be giving you. And guess what? If you're self employed, you have to pay both. That's over 15%.
Are you under 40? Sorry. You're gonna get screwed. By the time you're eligible for Social Security and Medicare the trust funds (Which don't exist. The politicians have raided them and all that are in them are IOU's from the gummint) will be pretty much broke. The gummint is either gonna have to raise taxes on the workers or cut benefits. They might do both. After all the baby boomers, like me, are gonna start hitting Social Security in four years and Medicare in seven. There are a lot of us and you gen x'ers and gen y's are gonna have to shell out a lot of money for our entitlements.
Take a good look at that W2 again. You see how much the feds have taken out. You see how you're gonna get screwed on FICA. If you live in a state like Georgia, there is a 6% income tax. Some of you might live in a big city where they take a bite out of your check also. When I lived in St. Louis, they grabbed 1%.
I actually made out pretty well this year. I maxed out my 401K which deducted $14K from my gross. I had an Health Care Reimbusement Account which knocked off another $1200 from my gross. I have a pretty hefty mortgage. I got hit to the tune of about 25% of my total income. That's actually pretty good. A single person who's renting and couldn't afford to max out a 401K (If he had one) would do a hell of a lot worse. Golly! What am I griping about? I got to keep 75% of my own money this year. Whoopty freakin' do!
But I didn't count any of the other taxes we pay like sales tax, excise tax, gas tax, personal property tax, license fees, ad valorem taxes, etc. These are all the insidious taxes we pay on a daily basis.
I talked earlier about dealing with the IRS. My friend Pres sent me a note that the IRS is sending out to people whose taxes are overdue.
Ouch!
This would be the tax form if the Dimocrat Party had their way.
Since everyone else in the Blogosphere posts all those really stupid quizes on their sites, I decided to join the club and post the Cool Person Test on my site. Knock yourselves out!
Since I haven't really written any really good bodacious rants lately, and I have pictures out my ass, I'm gonna post a bunch tonight.
Dammit boss! You told me to wash the planes. What's the problem?
Thanks to Roy.
Hey Kim! Here are some babes with guns. I have some front views if you want me to send 'em to ya. Yowsa!
And, one more Fallujah picture.
Guess what dudes! For a limited time only we're bringing back the McRib.
Saw the press conference tonight. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but did Bill Clinton ever give a prime time press conference? If he did, I don't remember. The press always rag on Republicans for lack of press conferences, but I remember Reagan, Bush 41, and now Bush 43 giving prime time press conferences, but never Clinton. Maybe a troll will enlighten me.
I met Greg Greene at a blogger meetup and found him to be an extremely nice guy. Politically we have absolutely nothing in common, but he is a great guy to go out and have a few beers with. He posted a few days ago about how impressed he was with a speech that Bill Clinton gave and what a shame it was that he could not run again. I do have to admit that Clinton was a good speaker, but I never bought into his bullshit. Being able to give a good speech is not what makes a good president. Clinton was an incredibly good actor (much better than Ronald Reagan) but he never spoke from the heart. Bush's answer to the second to last question in tonight's press conference was a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) moment. We saw the real Bush and this is what is driving the liberals nuts. This is a man who is capable of speaking from the heart. This is a man who has core beliefs and is not afraid to share them.
Greg, your hero Clinton does not have any core beliefs other than Bill Clinton. He passed a welfare reform bill that the Dimocrats hated to get re-elected. He passed NAFTA, another thing the Dimocrats hated, to get re-elected. Other than foreign policy and gutting the military, Clinton was actually a pretty good Republican president. His domestic spending was nowhere near as profligate as Bush's. You're in love with a con man. Would you buy a used car from him?
You should be in love with Bush since his domestic policies are more in tune with the Dimocrats than the Republicans. I support Bush for one reason and one reason only: the War on Terror. Algore would have been a disaster and John Fonda Kerry would be just as bad. We don't need a phony lip biter or a Francophile like Kerry. We need someone who is gonna kick ass and take names.
Speaking of trolls, some of them don't seem to enjoy Whack a Troll. Whack a Troll is where I edit their comments. They have been warned. If they are gonna comment on this site, make valid points or amuse me. Read The Rules. Call it censorship if you like. I don't give a shit. My site. My rules. If you don't like to be insulted and bitch slapped go elsewhere or start your own site. I don't put up with bullshit on my site.
Good news at TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name). We got funding for a z/Series processor. That means I will be able to participate in another Early Ship Test Program with IBM. I called my IBM rep today and gave him the good news. Happy days! It's gonna be a fun summer.
Where did those trees come from?
Thanks to Roy.
I got up this morning and I felt like crap! But, I went into work anyway. My friend Brian was in town and we usually have coffee together on the days he comes into work. I even made it into work on time for a change.
Our operator was off today so my team lead was bringing up all the systems and running setup jobs for the users. He was having problems bringing up the Sysplexes and called me multiple times for proper load parameters and how to reply to certain messages. I'm the Sysplex guy so I have most of that stuff in my head. All these procedures were documented, but sometimes they are confusing. Since our lead operator wrote them, she understands them. My team lead really appreciates the job she does now.
I've been having some pain in my lower back lately but it was OK. Today it was my right leg that was bothering me. Usually it's my left leg, but today it was the right one. That's unusual. About 11:00 I said screw it and went home. But first, I had to stop by Kaiser and pick up some drugs.
I had called in the prescriptions Thursday and they were supposed to be ready today after 9:00 AM. I got there and there was only one refill. I had three others that I needed. They hadn't been refilled yet because of computer problems. These had no more refills and needed the doctor's approval so there was a breakdown somewhere in the approval process. It was all the computer's fault.
That's one of the nice things about living in the techno-era. Everything can be blamed on computer problems. Students can now say instead of a dog eating their homework the printer did. I can tell my boss I never got her e-mail. The possibilities are endless.
They asked if I could wait a few minutes and they would get the other three prescriptions refilled. It only took about twenty minutes.
I went home and went to bed and slept for a few hours. It helped. My leg is a lot better.
After I got up, I decided to read Monday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
Oh goody, a Molly Ivins column. It's not even worth fisking. The usual talking points that she got from Eric Alterman:
The invasion of Iraq will cause, not prevent, terrorism.
I dunno Eric. It brought Kadaffy around. And what is going on in Iraq is not so much terrorism as guerilla warfare. Here's a definition of a guerilla:A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids. But terrorism sounds a lot better when you're anti-Bush.
The Bush administration was not to be trusted when it warned of the WMD threat.
I guess that means Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and all the other Dimocrats who warned of Saddam's WMD's between 1998 and 2001 were not to be trusted either.
Going in without the United Nations is worse than not going in at all.
Now this is just laughable. Going in with the United Nations would probably be worse. After all look at all the smashing successes the United Nations has accomplished in the Balkans and in Africa. And they bugged out at the first sign of trouble in Iraq. You might as well say going in without the French is worse than not going in at all.
They were asleep at the switch before 9-11 and have been trying to cover this up ever since.
Let's just say that they were warned that Middle Eastern men were gonna hijack airplanes. They would have had to single out Middle Easten men for extra security. Even after 9/11 we're still not doing that because it is racial profiling and may offend people. Exactly what were they supposed to do? And speaking of being asleep at the switch, Clinton was offered bin Laden on a silver platter and turned down the offer.
They manipulated 9-11 as a pretext for a long-planned invasion of Iraq.
Prove it.
Any occupation by a foreign power, particularly one as incompetently planned as this one, probably will create more enemies than friends and put the United States in a situation similar at times to the Vietnam War and at other times similar to Israel's occupation of Lebanon. Both were disasters.
There it is! Viet Nam. The liberals always have to bring up Viet Nam. It is their one shining moment. The war they caused us to lose. They should be so proud. They should also be proud of all the South Vietnamese murdered or sent to reeducation camps. They should feel proud of all the Cambodians killed. The triumph of liberal anti-Americanism. And now the bastards are trying to do the same to the war in Iraq. They were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War and they are on the wrong side of history in the War on Terror. Traitorous bastards!
An invasion of Iraq will draw resources and attention away from the genuine perpetrators of the attack on us and allow them to regroup for further attacks.
Actually, it is drawing al Qaeda members from other countries into Iraq like a magnet. We're killing Saudis and Palestinians. And we still have ongoing actions in Afghanistan.
And then she says Bush is planning on declaring victory and going home and says that's a bad thing. Holy shit Molly! Make up your mind.
Then I turn the page and there is the Molly Ivins of the AJC Jay Bookman and he has a column on Iraq also. Here is the start:
"Vietnam."Even now, decades later, the word evokes such painful memories that to say "Vietnam" and "Iraq" in the same sentence is to risk accusations of disloyalty, as if merely noting the obvious parallels was an act of treason. It is not. In a recent Newsweek poll, 64 percent of Americans said that they were very or somewhat concerned that Iraq might become another Vietnam, and their concern is fully justified and rational.
Just can't get enough of that Viet Nam. Afghanistan was supposed to be our Viet Nam. Now Iraq is supposed to be our Viet Nam. Can't you fucking assholes give it a rest? Don't you dipshits understand what's going on here?
Is Iraq, like Vietnam, a war we cannot win?
Yep! As long as you liberals keep chipping away at the American resolve just like you did during Viet Nam, it will be a war we cannot win. During Viet Nam we won on the battlefield but lost at home because of you fucking liberals.
If you would pull your collective heads out of your collective asses you would see why Iraq is nothing like Viet Nam.
Viet Nam was a proxy war. We risked the invasion of a million Chinese pouring across the border like in Korea. We also risked nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
In Iraq we don't have the spector of invading Chinese. We might have to contend with invading Iranians, but bring them on. We need a beach head in the Middle East. We need to be able to stare Iran down and prevent them from getting the bomb. We have already stopped Saddam's support of Palestinian terrorism. Hopefully. we'll be able to scare the crap out of Syria.
The rest of his column is the typical liberal bullshit. Bush lied. The Iraqis hate us. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. Blah. Blah. Blah.
And look. There is still another op-ed by a John M. Byrne of Smyrna Georgia. Guess what he's saying?
U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) recently declared Iraq to be "Bush's Vietnam."
And as I pointed out yesterday, Viet Nam was his brother's Viet Nam.
But John does bring up a good point.
In Vietnam, the U.S. military, besides its combat role, was given the job of "winning the hearts and minds" of the South Vietnamese people. Our medics, our engineers, our chaplains -- all were involved in doing good things for the people. Inoculations, clean water, treatment of the sick, education of the children -- all were a concerted effort to accomplish the new mission.The villagers loved us. But the Viet Cong -- the insurgents, we called them -- owned the hamlets at night. They told the villagers to take all they could get from the Americans, to remember that the Americans were of a different culture and would be gone soon, while the Viet Cong would still be there.
And here is the ending of his op-ed.
Our military again performed splendidly, but they are in a mission quagmire of insurgent attacks. Our GIs can't come home yet. Our president needs help from the United Nations to save face. Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President.
The United Nations again. The United Nations which has been a massive failure is the liberals' solution to every world problem. Amazing! It's just like liberals thinking that the only reason socialism has never worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
Anyway John served in Viet Nam so he does have some firsthand knowledge of what went on there, but he has developed the liberals' defeatist attitude that we will fail. In the War on Terror, WWIV, we must not fail, but as long as we have people like Ted Kennedy, Eric Alterman, Jay Bookman, Molly Ivins, and all the other nattering nabobs of negativity on the left chipping away at America's resolve, we just may fail.
And then Iraq will indeed be another Viet Nam.
And I guess that will make the liberals very happy.
So just because I'm a Cessna you think you can mess with me? Hah!
A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller, whose name is Patricia Whack.
'Ms. Whack,' he says, 'I'd like to obtain a loan to buy a boat.'
Patti furrows her brow and asks, 'Well, how much do you want to borrow?'
'$30,000,' the frog says.
The teller writes this down, then asks his name.
'My name is Kermit Jagger. I'm the son of Mick Jagger.'
'Really?' she asks, eyebrow raised.
'Yes,' he says. Then he digs into his pants pocket and produces a tiny pink
porcelain elephant. 'And I want to use this as collateral.'
'Ummm, okay,' Patti says, accepting the elephant. 'I'll have to ask the owner
about this.'
'That's fine,' he says. 'He'll vouch for me.'
Patti walks into the bank owner's office and explains the situation. 'There's a
frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow
$30,000 to buy a boat. He wants to use this' - she holds up the tiny pink
elephant - 'as collateral. I mean, what the heck is this thing?'
Are you ready?
The owner says: 'It's a knick knack, Patti Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old
man's a Rolling Stone.'
The gloom and doomers are having a field day, and some of the assholes on the left are getting happier with every dead American soldier. I can just see that fat fuck Michael Moore chortling away.
Oh boy! American soldiers are dying in droves. We need to get out of that country and get on to what's important: Disarming the populace and implementing socialism.
I haven't seen the left so rabid since Viet Nam. Airhead Amercia will be going strong with their anti-American twaddle. And we have that fat blowhard Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy calling this Bush's Viet Nam. Yeah Ted, and Viet Nam was your brother's Viet Nam. Do me a favor and drink some more scotch and STFU!
Better yet, go for a swim.
I read a George Will column about how we don't deal too well with the blood of empire. We see ourselves as liberators not as oppressors. Are we prepared to use overwhelming force on the insurgents and in doing so suffer collateral damage on the innocent civilians? That's the question facing our military leaders. How do we kill the bad guys and spare the good guys? And that's the difference between us and them. We try to spare the innocent.
If we were really the bad guys we would just level Fallujah. Or, we could do what Julius Caesar did after an uprising in Gaul. After putting down the uprising, he cut off the hands of all the men of that tribe. The message was clear: Don't fuck with the Romans.
But we're not the Romans and we may be trying to do what may eventually turn out to be impossible.
Start with Iraq. It was a mistake of history. After the Ottoman Empire was defeated, Iraq was formed as one country that should have actually been three countries. There were the Kurds in the north, the Sunnis in the middle and the Shi'ites in the south. The Sunnis oppressed both the Kurds and the Shi'ites.
The Kurds are doing just fine. The Shi'ites giving us shit are backed by the Iranians.
What we're facing here is the Middle East version of the Balkans. We're seeing pretty much the same thing that we saw when Yugoslavia was broken up.
Maybe the best thing would be what my friend Michael suggested. Let's split Iraq into three nations. Let the Kurds have their own country. Maybe it will piss off Turkey, but fuck them. Let the Sunnis have their own country. Level Fallujah as a going away present. Don't let the Sunnis have any of the oil. That will make them just like Syria. Give the Shi'ites their own country. Tell Iran to quit making mischief or we'll give them a few cruise missiles for presents. Tell the Israelis to take out Iran's nuclear facility. Everyone's always pissed off at Israel. Give 'em sumpin' more to be pissed about.
The one thing we cannot do is to cut and run. We have to follow through on this. We were warned after 9/11 that the war on terror would not be easy and would take a long time. Do we have the resolve to do it? Or are we gonna elect John Fonda Kerry who will give us Peace With Dishonor?
We'll see.
I don't have time to post a Saturday rerun so I'm posting a joke instead.
"Six of the seven dwarfs are sitting around the house one day when
Sleepy rushes in and says, " Guess what guys, I've won a trip to see the
Pope!"
Everyone gets all excited and chants, "We finally get to ask him, we
finally get to ask him."
The next day, they are standing in front of the Pope, Dopey out in
front of the other six.
All the other six start pushing Dopey and saying, "Go ahead, Dopey,
ask him, ask him!"
The Pope looks at Dopey and asks, "Do you have a question to ask me,
young man?"
Dopey looks up shyly and says, "Well, yes."
The Pope tells him to go ahead and ask.
Dopey asks, "Well, do....do they have nuns in Alaska?"
The Pope replies, "Well, yes, I'm sure we have nuns in Alaska."
The others all keep nudging Dopey and chanting, "Ask him the rest,
Dopey, ask him the rest!"
The Pope asks Dopey if there's more to his question, and Dopey
continues, "Well, uh, do they have, uh, black nuns in Alaska?"
To which the Pope replies, "Well, my son, I think there must be a
few black nuns in Alaska, yes."
Still not satisfied, the others keep saying, "Ask him the last part,
Dopey, ask him the last part!"
The Pope asks Dopey, "Is there still more to your question?" To
which Dopey replies, "Well, uh, yeah..... are there, uh, are there any
midget black Nuns there.
"My son, I really don't think that there are any black midget Nuns in
Alaska."
At that, Dopey looked down at the floor and turned all kinds of
color.
The others start jumping and laughing, Yelling, "Dopey screwed a
Penguin, Dopey screwed a Penguin."
Yah! I know. There ain't no penguins in Alaska, but it's still a funny joke.
How can I tell where the freaking taxiway is? Everything is covered with snow!
My brother-in-law informed me that texas boy wrote in the lazy "stream of consciousness" writing style fostered by "Gen X" chat room blather. It deliberately disregards useful grammatical structure or specificity of meaning. In other words it's bullshit. David on the other hand apologized for his spelling in his comment, but in David's case I could ascertain that he actually had thought processes and even though there were errors, I could tell that he had actually used his brain before writing his comments.
I do not like reading bullshit in my comments. I also don't like reading bullshit in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, but I really don't have a choice. And in Friday's AJC they decided to write an article about Jimmah Carter. I tried to avert my eyes but it was like trying not to look at an accident while driving by the wreckage on the highway.
Brownsville, Texas --- Former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday called the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq "ill-advised and unnecessary,'" adding that the resulting campaign "has turned out to be a tragedy."
And if anyone could recognize a tragedy it would have to be Jimmah Carter since he presided over the tragedy known as the Carter presidency.
The former Democratic president also said President Bush's environmental policies are perhaps the worst in the nation's history.
Did Algore tell you to say that you clueless bastard?
Carter made the comments as he wrapped up a four-day birding trip with his wife, Rosalynn, in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
A birdbrain travelling all the way to Texas to look at birds. Jimmah, think of all the gasoline you wasted by doing that. Staying home and looking at pictures of birds would have been better for the environment.
Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, also blamed what he called Bush's pro-Israel policies for engendering animosity against America.
Yep! It's always them fucking Jews who are at fault. They were probably responsible for the Iranian hostage fiasco.
"The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue," Carter said, asserting that past U.S. administrations since Harry Truman's had maintained a "balanced position" in dealing with the rights of the Palestinians vis-a-vis the Jewish nation.
Don't get me started. We gave the Palestinians the Roadmap to Nowhere. All they had to do was make some limited sign of abolishing terrorism and they couldn't even do that. And Jimmah, you sanctimonious asshole, they killed Americans who were going to Gaza to give scholarships to Palestinians.
Jimmah also said earlier this year that if he had had another four years he would have crafted a "final solution" for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Good choice of words you bumbling idiot!
Carter, who placed 103 million acres of Alaska land under federal protection during his term, also took the current White House to task on the environment.
Blah. Blah. Blah. He's forming words, but they make no sense. But here it comes.
"This national administration is the worst for conservation in my lifetime, maybe in history," Carter said, "in all the basic elements of preserving the purity of parks and wildlife lands, controlling the industries that are inclined to pollute . . . the decimation of forest lands."
Let's just talk about the decimation of forest lands. I know people who work in forestry in California. The reason last year's fires were so bad was because the environmental wacko's wouldn't allow controlled thinning of forests and removal of dead trees. As a result, we had an environmental disaster much worse than we would have had if we had used sensible forestry practices. But assholes like you and the environmental wacko's forced counter productive policies on us. But then, you're a Dimocrat and Dimocrats specialize in counter productive policies.
Jimmah, you're still an idiot.
I was looking for the exact wording of the following quote by Thomas Sowell,
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
so I Googled "that only an intellectual" and came upon this page with some wonderful quotes about intellectuals. Remember, texas boy said that intellectuals are leaving this country. After reading some of these quotes about intellectuals we should all be glad.
I had another troll raving about the greatness of the Soviet Union and the evils of capitalism. Y'see, in his fantasy world, the only reason that capitalism survived is because the Soviet Union won WWII for us. He never gave any reason for why the Soviet Union collapsed. He also didn't say anything about how much money it cost Germany to reunify with East Germany which was an economic basket case after forty years of communism.
Also the troll said that he wished the United Nations would kick us and Great Britain out. On that I can agree. Since we supply the United Nations with 25% of their money and then have to listen to them lecture us, I think they oughta kick us out and move their headquarters to someplace more suitable, like France.
Sowell nailed it. It always amazes me how so called intellectuals can miss the obvious. Many of the Hollywood elite think that Cuba is a workers' paradise. Oliver Stone is in the process of canonizing Fidel Castro. I only have one question. If Cuba is such a paradise why are people braving shark infested waters in makeshift watercraft trying to leave? If Cuba were such a paradise, wouldn't people be trying to get in rather than trying to get out?
Note to Oliver Stone: When are you gonna move to Cuba?
When I was a mere lad I asked my father the same question about the Soviet Union and their satellite nations. If communism were so wonderful, why do they have to build walls to keep the people in? A simple child's question that would fly right over the head of an intellectual.
Now any intellectual will tell you just how evil the United States is and how horrible capitalism is. Once again, the obvious question is why does everyone want to come here if living here is so bad. We need to start building walls to keep people out.
And why haven't all the Hollywood intellectuals like Cher and Barbra Streisand left the country yet? After all Bush is Hitler. It's only a matter of time before Ashcroft starts rounding up Jews and Injuns and throwing them into concentration camps.
Have you ever noticed how most so called intellectuals are socialists? I think it is probably because they don't know how to actually do any work. After all, they're intellectuals and us poor dumb peons should be doing all the work and supporting them.
Here's a wonderful quote by Eric Hoffer:
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Most American intellectuals are Dimocrats.
What a surprise!
Gotta get them brakes fixed! Must have been a Jewish mechanic who checked them out.
For those of you who do not read the comments, Ralph Gizzip posted this:
Look closely. The aircraft is facing Mecca and it's time for evening prayers.
One of the reasons I allow comments on this site is so I can be amused at the incredible stupidity and ignorance of some of the people who comment. Most of these people come from the left (I'm shocked!) and not only have poor grammar and spelling skills but also have defective thought processes. One example was on my Bush Is Hitler post. The following is unedited and is posted in its entirety.
if bush were hitler, he would use the percieved threat of attack to keep the population under control and force warmongering agendas.
Your keyboard has a shift key. Why don't you use it? i before e except after c. It's perceived. Thanks for proving my point. If Bush were Hitler, the fucktards protesting at Karl Rove's house would have been rounded up and shot. He's not doing a very good job of keeping the population under control. I see anti-war protests on the news. Just one sentence into the comment and I can see that you are a booger eatin' moh-ron.
if bush were hitler, he would target members of a certain ethnicity in the name of nationality
And what nationality would that be oh person who does not know where the shift key is on his keyboard? Even after 9/11 which was committed by persons of Middle Eastern origin, we are still not singling them out for extra security checks. Political correctness is gonna be the death of us. So once again, you are correct. Bush is not Hitler. Thanks for proving my point. Wanna try again?
bush is not hitler, nor is he even close.
That is the most intelligent thing you have written so far.
however he does exhibit several equally deplorable and egomaniacal traits. running the country based from his own born again christian beliefs seems quite contrary to the whole idea of separation of church and state.
Huh? WTF? The only thing that I can remotely think you are talking about are faith based initiatives. As an atheist I do not see how that is trying to impose born again Christian beliefs on the country. Where do you live? Can I come and visit you and have some of that shit you're smoking?
bringing in jerry falwell as a spiritual advisor?
Is that any worse than Bill Clinton bringing in Jesse Jackson as a spiritual advisor? At least Falwell (and I'm no fan of that santimonious sonuvabitch) did not father a child out of wedlock.
c'mon now. and how did good ole haliburton manage to get the contract to rebuild iraq,
I dunno. Maybe the same way they got the contracts to rebuild parts of Kosovo during the Clinton administration. Did you know that Haliburton has had an ongoing contract with the gummint to supply essential services and that contract started during the Clinton administration? Didn't think so.
which by the way, wouldnt have needed to be rebuilt if we hadnt destroyed it.
Ho hum. Against the war. Doesn't know how to use contractions.
they had no wmd's, and posed no direct threat to the US.
1. He had WMD's. We know. He used them. He couldn't account for their destruction. In 1998, Bill Clinton, John Fonda Kerry, Hillary Clinton are all on record as saying that Saddam had WMD's. Even that bloviating blowhard Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy said he had them. Where did they go?
2. If he had given the WMD's to a terrorist organization and they had been used on us, you would have been screaming about Bush not taking Saddam out.
there was never any link between saddam and al-qaeda, or any terrorism against the united states.
Well actually there were terrorist training camps in Iraq. And there is no link between you and rational thought.
pre-emptive strikes are strictly forbidden by international law,
If Clinton had pre-emptively struck bin Laden, 9/11 would not have happened.
and treaties that we helped develop.
Did you know that as part of international law embassies are sovereign? Iran violated international law when they took over our embassy and held our diplomats as hostages. Where was your precious international law then asshole? You don't understand. These Islamofascists do not respect international law. They respect one thing and one thing only: brute force. Maybe if we hadn't had pussies like Jimmah Carter and Bill Clinton we wouldn't have to fight this war on terror.
if we went in to "liberate" the people who were so downtrodden, why dont they want us there?
Most of them do. It's only a small minority who don't. The Kurds are fine. The Sunni's aren't. The Shi'ites are split, and the ones who are against us are being fomented by Iran which does not want to see a secular democracy next door.
why didnt we invade and liberate any of the myriad other countries in which people are more oppressed?
Because they are not sponsors of terrorisim.
im not a democrat,
You could have fooled me. You are spouting all of their talking points. By the way, it is I'm. What did you do after you got out of the fourth grade?
a republican,
You're not smart enough.
or anything else for that matter.
I dunno. You sure do sound like a third grade pissant.
every administration has fucked up in some way, but this is quite possibly the shadiest group of dealers that have ever run our country.
Nope. That would be the Clinton administration. They were the only people who would have another scandal to take our minds off the current scandal. Had we had a fair and impartial press that did the job it was supposed to do, Clinton would have been forced to resign or would have been forced out of office.
a proposed amendment that would be the first to take away rights, based on religious bias, as well as the patriot act, taking away our privacy; a "gummint" spying on its own citizens. i do suppose it was about time to finally ruin iraq though, we've been bombing it nonstop since the first gulf war.
Hello? Is anyone home?
i cant remember a time when ive ever liked a politician in general, nor can i remember a time that ive especially despised a politician, until gw. regardless of the outcome of the election, we've begun our downward spiral. china is gonna take our ass out someday, and its gonna be some fireworks show.
Well we can thank Bill Clinton for giving China the technology in return for illegal campaign contributions.
also, the liberal media is the most conservative drivel ive ever read. all outlets of mainstream media in this country are controlled by six corporations, corporations which happen to benefit greatly by bush's policies. fox news? c'mon, change news to propaganda. its a shame when you have to read british newspapers to find out whats really going on in the world.
Well I could do an entire post on just this one paragraph. O'Reilly had one of Jesse Jackson's flunkies on who came out with that Fox News is conservative bullshit. And yes, Fox does lean to the right as opposed to ABCCBSNBCNPRPBSCNN, the Washington Post, New York Times, La Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, et al. who don't just lean to the left they are the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. O'Reilly asked him to give one example. The flunky replied that he could give hundreds of them. O'Reilly asked for just one. The flunky said he could give hundreds. It went on and on. It turned out he refused to give just one because he couldn't give just one.
I can give one about the liberal bias and it just happened this week. Remember the Trent Lott fiasco? He said that the country would be better off if Strom Thurnond had become president. Remember how Lott was excoriated (That's kind of a big word. It means censure strongly; denounce.) in the press? Remember how all the Dimocrats screamed? One of the loudest screamers was Chris Dodd. The press was all over it.
Turns out Chris Dodd heaped praises upon Senator Robert Kleagle Byrd this week. He said of him that he would be a great man of any era of this country. Let's see, he was a menber of the KKK, so I guess he would fit right in during the Civil War era. I wonder which side he would have been on? He used the word nigger on national TV. No real outrage there because he is a Dimocrat. He also once wrote that he would rather see Old Glory trampled into the mud than have to serve in the military with a member of the black race. So how come there has been no outcry from the mainstream media about Chris Dodd's praise of Senator Kleagle Byrd? Couldn't be media bias could it? Naw!
socialism has never worked out well, this is true.
He's been right twice so far, but a stopped clock is right twice a day.
capitalism would never have worked had ww2 not happened.
Actually what was going on before WWII was socialism. That's what the New Deal was all about. It was socialism.
we were completely in the shitter before war mobilized our country, and allowed us to become a superpower.
One of the best ways to get out of a recession is to start a war. It worked for Nazi Germany.
its like a game of risk, and we just happened to get a good roll of the die.
We were just lucky? Lucky?
it could have easily gone the other way. we should be thankful for all the genius european scientists that fled here from hitlers wrath, who helped us make the bomb first.
We should feel lucky that people would want to leave a totalitarian state to come to a free country? And I got news for you bozo, a lot of American scientists developed the bomb. Maybe if Hitler hadn't killed the Jews and enlisted their brainpower he may have got the bomb first. Guess he was just unlucky. And by the way, we didn't need the bomb to defeat Germany. We could have defeated Japan without it also, but a lot of Americans would have died doing it.
seems strange that so many intellectuals are choosing to move to other countries during the current administration here at home...
Intellectuals meaning writers and other useless assholes. It might surprise this dipshit to know that European scientists are still coming here in droves because we have the best research facilities in the world. The United States continues to lead the world in patents. We are still the world's technology leader. So I'm happy to trade our "intellectuals" for European scientists and engineers.
i guess i just cant understand how anyone can hold your point of view,
That's because I have a functioning brain and you don't.
just as you cant understand how i can hold mine.
I cannot understand how you can function. I cannot figger out how you were able to type these comments. C'mon. Tell the truth. You're only ten years old and this is your mommy's computer.
i also dont get how you can say republicans have to "fix" democratic era budgets.
No,what I actually say is that Republicans have to fix Dimocratic era fuckups. Every Dimocrat president since the 60's fucked up the Cold War. It took Ronald Reagan to finally end it.
i dont remember anything good ever coming of reaganomics.
I dunno. I did pretty well. So did most of the rest of the country. At least those of us who had functioning brains. Reagonomics was a spectaular success.
what ever happened to star wars anyway? its reared its ugly head under the new name, intercontinental balistic missile defense system.
Actually it was the Dimocrats and the liberal media who called it Star Wars. The proper name has always been Intercontinental Ballistic ( 2 l's in ballistic) Missile Defense System. Bias in the media? Naw!
but you know, i can rant all i want and it wont change anything, and you can do the same.
But at least my rants make sense and I know how to spell and use the shift key. I also understand contractions. But then I graduated from high school and have some college under my belt. I realize it is tough to get by with a 4th grade education.
i wonder if people felt this way in the last days of rome?
And what way would that be? You really haven't made too much sense.
well, you know what they say... when in rome...
And when in fucktardville ...
and i hear romans drank and fornicated like madmen. theres something this government can never take away from me.
Unless they take away your inflatable partner.
well, unless i happen to be gay. the bible says thats wrong.
Well maybe you can get a male blowup doll.
Posted by texas boy at April 7, 2004 07:32 AM
Thanks texas boy. You sure gave us some entertainment tonight.
Where did those wires come from?
This brings back a memory of when I was taking flying lessons and my instructor pulled back on the throttle to simulate a loss of engine and I had to go through everything I needed to do in the event of losing power. I found a real nice field to land in but I didn't notice the power lines I would have hit had this been a real emergency.
I've only recently found some old Navy buddies (Actually, they found me through a military web site.) who served on the USS Iredell County with me back in the late 60's. One of them was Harold, who started out as a deck ape but became a signalman. I always called him George. He got that name when he worked on the deck force and one of the petty officers said that he reminded him of an old shit eatin' dog named George.
In the military you often never knew the real names of people. They all had nicknames or you just called them by their last name. Two of the guys I hung around with were Pres Smith whom we called Frog and Steve Cohen, whom we called Jew. Two of the guys I've talked to recently were Arland (AJ) and Jim (JV).
Anyway Harold (George) sent me this recently.
There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in America.Well, there's a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil. We
just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely
geographical.All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and Oklahoma.
All our dipsticks are in Washington, DC.
And the environazi's won't let us drill for any more oil in Alaska. Fucktards!
I actually read an intelligent column in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation today that gave another reason that gas prices are high. To state it very simply: the dollar is weak. International oil is priced in dollars. Due to the fact that the dollar is weak, for oil producers to make the same amount of money expressed in, say, Euro's, they have to raise the dollar price of oil.
A weak dollar is not necessarily a bad thing. A weak dollar makes our exports cheaper so American companies that export things to other countries love it. In fact, if it weren't for how much oil we have to import, the weak dollar is actually pretty neat. It does make it more expensive to visit other countries like France.
Ya know, Paris is really a very beautiful city. There's just one thing wrong with it. It is populated by French people.
Not to get off on a rant about the French, but in every country I have ever been to I have tried to learn a few words of the language. In every country except one, the people have been very helpful in my attempts to learn some of the language and have applauded my efforts to learn the language and the culture. Care to guess the country that was the exception? Care to guess the people who ridiculed me for trying to speak their language?
But back to gas prices. There is another reason that gas prices are rising and it is the environazi's. We have not built any new refineries in over 30 years. Our refineries are running at or near capacity. I wonder why? Also, due to the strict environmental regulations, we need to have special blends for various areas of the country. But even though the liberals are saying gas prices are at an all time high, adjusted for inflation, they are actually lower (much lower) than they were during the Carter Administration.
So, we have to have special blends for places like California and we have limited refinery capabilities and we wonder why gas prices are rising? Yep! We can blame the dipsticks in Washington and the environmental lobby. And here is a delicious irony. The environmental wacko's in California made the oil companies put an additive called MTBE in the gasoline sold in that state. Turns out that MTBE is contaminating the water supply. Oops!
Golly! I guess the oil prices are not just dure to those mean evil oil companies engaging in price gouging. Could be there are other factors at work. But don't worry, elect John Fonda Kerry and he can fix all this oil shortage crap.
Just like Jimmah Carter.
Since Rob has been going through some really bad shit lately, I'm gonna post some pictures of cute cats decked out for Easter hoping that will cheer him up. These were sent to me by my sister.
Remember when Northwest Airlines had that problem with some pilots who had had a few drinks? There ya go.
Woody sent me the following picture of what the Mars Rover found on Mars. I think it would be better as a picture of Fallujah. We level the place and then build a Wall Mart.
Somewhere I got almost the same picture with a McDonald's.
I actually get mail. Very little of it is hate mail. That really pisses me off. I guess the assholes just put their bullshit in the comments.
I got an e-mail the other day where someone asked me what GOC Central was. GOC Central is my home in Beautiful Dunwoody Georgia. I sit at my desk in my library and pound away at my pc there. I have lived in my current house for almost 6 years. This will be the last house that I live in. I'll either die here or be dragged off to a nursing or assisted living home.
Someone asked the following questions a few weeks back:
Are you really a cripple?
Unfortunately, yes. I am a T12/L1 incomplete paraplegic. This means that I fractured the 12th thoracic and 1st lumbar vertebra. The incomplete means that I have some sensation and functionality below the fracture. I can walk (not very well) with crutches and braces.
Have you received any government assistance for your disability?
Aha! This guy wants to try and trap me about bitching about gummint handouts and thinks I am a recipient of same.
I have received absolutely no gummint assistance in regards to my disability. Nada. None. Zippo. I also have no one else to blame for my disability. I fucked up. I paid the price. I take sole responsibility for my own actions.
I grew up poor. My family got no gummint assistance back then. We did not get food stamps. I asked my mother once why she and my father didn't have more children. She told me (Slaps my head) that we couldn't afford any more children. Holy shit! What kind of thinking is that? Not having any more children than you can afford? Whoa! What a novel concept.
The only gummint assistance I have ever received in my entire life was the GI Bill for college. I got that because I served in the military from 1965 to 1969, and yes, I was in Viet Nam.
My mother taught both my sister and myself self reliance. We are both very well off. How did we get there? Hard work and education. She won a scholarship and, even though I flunked out of college twice (The first time was right out of high school and the second time, I actually dropped out in my junior year) I got enough of an education to back up the skills I learned in the Navy to get a job with TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name) 31 years ago. I made it to where I am now by outworking my peers.
I'm coming to the end of my career and I have to admit that I am coasting but TCIDNN has got more than their money's worth out of me.
I do not get any gummint assistance, but I pay more than my fair share of taxes. Yes, I'm one of the evil rich who got a tax cut. You know what I did with it? I spent it. It paid for my ski trip to Breckenridge earlier this year. It's gonna pay for my dive trip to Cayman Brac later this year. I'm investing some of it so I'll get richer.
Yes, I'm getting richer. Do ya know why? Because I do the things that make people rich. I do not live beyond my means and I always pay myself first. Every month, some of my money is earmarked for investments. For almost all of my investments I have all dividends and capital gains reinvested. The 8th wonder of the world is compound interest. I take advantage of the 401K that TCIDNN helps fund. I plan to live very well when I retire. I do not expect my lifestyle to change due to lack of money.
That's all the time I have for tonight. I have to go watch Georgia Tech and see if they can win the NCAA National Championship.
Go Tech!
I have a longer version of this one, but will print the short version to try to alleviate some of the agony.
Sam Clam and Ollie Oyster lived in the ocean. When they died, Ollie
went to heaven. But sinful Sam went to hell. Ollie missed his friend.
He asked St. Peter for a weekend pass to visit Sam. "OK," Peter said,
"but to be safe, you have to take your wings, robe and harp. Do not
forget to bring them back." Ollie agreed, and away he went. He spent
the weekend partying in a nightclub that Sam had opened. On Sunday
night, he returned to the pearly gates. Peter was there. "I see you
have your wings and robe, but where's the harp?" he asked. Mortified,
Sam sang, "I left my harp in Sam Clam's disco!"
What a beautiful weekend it was in Beautiful Dunwoody Georgia. The azaleas are almost in full bloom. The dogwoods are getting there too. The creeping phlox on the Great Berm of Dunwoody is in full bloom. In two more years, I will have the entire berm covered with it. It's too beautiful for me to be pissed off so I'll just talk about my new game called Whack a Troll.
Newcomers to my site, especially the trolls, should read FAQ's with special emphasis on The Rules and This Is My Blog. I do not put up with bullshit. This blog is not a democracy. I pay for the site and what I say goes. If you think that is censorship, tough shit. My blog. My rules.
I especially dislike whiny, crybaby bedwetting liberals. I have had two recently who have bemoaned the fact that I don't allow dissenting points of view on my blog. Actually I do, but not when presented by people who have drunk the Klinton Kool-Ade and spew incomprehensible bullshit. Go over to Kos and Atrios and spew your bullshit there. Or better yet, get your own website. Howza' bout whinycrybabybedwettingleftistidiots.blogspot.com? You don't even have to pay for that. Or, you could actually spend some money and register the domain www.whinycrybabybedwettingleftistidiots.com find a hosting site (Hosting Matters $11/month), and see how many people want to voluntarily read your loony ravings.
Anyway, I'm making a slight modification to the rules. That modification is introducing Whack a Troll. Rather than deleting comments and banning the troll, I edit the comments and repost them. Have you ever heard the saying "Don't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel"? In the Blogosphere it is "Don't pick a fight with a blogger on his site when he can edit your comments". I love it when they rave about censorship and how unfair it is. Tough shit. If you don't like it, don't troll my site.
Also, in my rules, I specify that when you insult me, make it amusing. If your comment has a good insult, I may just leave it in. Be creative. Ooops! If you are a liberal that may be hard.
I also let amusing comments stay in, especially if they make the person who wrote the comment look like an idiot. Here is a fine comment that I just love.
OLa todos !! I"m FRench and so happy to be french, 60% of american people are stupid; like the french %.............. here you are the 60% !! firest line of life : don't make generality !! uSA are perfect !?? no. FRench too. You fight communism... Weapons of communism are the propaganda !! W buch.... use that........ (he is communism ?!)) no!! He is STUPID , SO STupid......... nota : "FRENCH are not isolated in EUrope""(dedicated to powel.........) LIAR !!!!!!!! BYe bye country of liberty ......!!
Now that is a keeper!
Since I'm being pestered by an incredibly stupid troll who has imbibed in the Dimocrat Party's Clueless Kool-Aid and is spouting all this stupid Bush is Hitler and the Republicans are Nazi's bullshit, I thought I would repost sumpin' I wrote before the 2002 election.
With the election coming up tomorrow, I thought I would come up with lots of reasons why I am not a Dimocrat and why I will not be voting for any Dimocrats.
I read yesterday that when the weather is bad, the Dimocrat party's base stays home.
Pray for rain.
I've had a couple of trolls hanging around saying incredibly stupid things in my comments. I no longer ban trolls, I just edit their comments. It really pisses them off. And I had one really stupid fuckwit who said I didn't allow opposing points of view on my site. That is untrue. If someone is willing to debate me rationally and honestly, I am happy to debate. I enjoyed the discussions I had with Marieke. Some debates I have taken offline so it will just be one on one. I've done that with Grognard and I'm doing it with Jeff whom I owe a response to.
Someone who is rational does not say Bush is Hitler and Republicans are fascists or Nazi's. That is incredibly stupid. I'm really disappointed in the left that their intense hatred of Bush has pushed them over the edge. There are actually people on the left who are happy that the four Americans were killed and their bodies mutilated in Fallujah. I have not seen the left act this poorly since Viet Nam. Any American who would take joy in the death of another American in a war zone is sick.
I will admit that I have an intense hatred of Bill and Hillary Clinton. I was also against sending troops to Kosovo. But if any American had been killed as a result of Kosovo I would not have shown the elation that the assholes on the left are showing about the deaths in Fallujah. While our troops were in Kosovo (And they still are) I am behind them 100%. I do not want a single soldier to die and if one did during the Clinton administration, I would not have tried to use the death of a soldier for political gain. I was saddened about what happened in Somalia. I was pissed that we scurried out of there with our tails between our legs. We should have left a few going away presents. You people on the left should be ashamed of yourselves. How can you call yourselves Americans? You disgraced yourselves during Viet Nam and you are doing it again now.
I've got another French troll who is trying to tell me that Charles Martel kicked the Muslims out of Europe. I did go to American gummint schools but when I did the liberals hadn't fucked them up yet. Charles Martel stopped the advance of Islam into Europe in the 8th Century at the Battle of Tours. That does not qualify as kicking the Muslims out of Europe. That did not happen until Ferdinand and Isabella drove the Moors out in the 15th Century.
I guess when you're French you have to try to find someone who is an actual hero. We got Charles Martel and Charlemagne. The next great warrior was Joan of Arc, a woman. Even back then the French were sissies since they had to have a woman lead them.
What about Napolean? He wasn't French. He was from Corsica.
Then of course, a French troll always has to throw up how they helped us in the Revolutionary War. They did and we are grateful. Of course they didn't do it out of altruism. They did it because they were at war with England. We repaid that debt in WWI. And then we saved their sorry asses in WWII. Plus after WWII we rebuilt France with American taxpayer money. Then we protected them from the Soviet Union. I think we amply repaid the Revolutionary War debt with interest. They should be thanking us, but no, they think they are so much better than we are.
They're just jealous that we are a world power and their time on the world stage has passed. They are a second rate nation on their way to becoming a third rate nation. They are sinking under the weight of socialism. They have a declining birth rate and have to rely on immigration to maintain their population. Unfortunately, most of the immigrants are Muslim and will eventually take over the country. We'll essentially see France surrender to itself. There goes Champagne. There goes cognac. No more Delamain.
Just damn! I got me a picture of the French Special Forces.
Back to debating. I do not debate with trolls. I do not debate with idiots. I do not debate with rabid, foaming at the mouth lefty loons. If you have a difference of opinion and you can debate rationally and honestly using facts, I welcome your comments.
I get enough bullshit at TCIDNN. I don't need more here.
My site. My rules.
While Den Beste and Charles Johnson are discussing the proper course of action in regards to Fallujah, my solution is the MOAB, and here it is.
Take that you savage motherfuckers!
Hey asshatted trolls! This is for you.
This link was sent to me by Major Sean. Obviously it is a training video.
To:Sanator Jack Carey
From: Barbra Streisand
Dear Jim,
I'm sorry I never congratulated you on winning the nomination for President. I will be proud to have you as my president since you are a genuine war hero unlike Jeb Busch who was AWOL during the Korean War.
I am a devout Democrat and besides raising and donating money, I will be sending you these faxes to offer you my keen political insight. I have been doing this to other prominent Democrats and I'm sure they have told you how much they valued my advice.
First off, let me commend you on how well you are doing as chairman of the 9/11 investigation. How you have time to do that while running for president amazes me. And still, you found time to run off to Idaho and go snowboarding. What an energetic man you must be. I bet your wife loves being married to a macho man like you. I wish Jim had more energy, if you know what I mean.
I have a website where I also post advice for Democrats. It is BarbraStreisand.com. If I forget to send you timely faxes, you can go there for what I think we Democrats must do to throw Bush and his cronies out of office.
Anyway, on my website I debunk the myth that Bush was a hero. Hundreds of people who have left his administration have written books about how incompetent he was. I also have a timeline of all the things he should have known about.
If he would have only kept on more of the people from the Clinton administration like Tenant at the CIA or Menato at the Transport Department, but no, he had to bring in lots of people who were incompetent. We were lucky we didn't have a 9/12 and a 9/13 to go along with 9/11.
As we all know by now, Dick Clarke had all the answers and Clinton listened to him and the cowboy didn't. If only the Republicans hadn't stolen the election we would have had Al whats-his-name as President and he would have kept the important people like Tenant and Menato and 9/11 would have never happened. When will the American people ever learn?
As I said on my website, I feel confident the tide is turning and the American people are finally wising up. I predict a landslide win for you in October. If there is anything I can do to help you please let me know. Expect more of these faxes offering you advice as the year goes on.
By the way, I loved the little daisy thingy on your vest in your snowboard picture.
Luv ya,
Babs
