For those of you who do not read comments you're missing stuff from people who are smarter and write better than I do. One such person is Addison and here is his take on The Speech.
It may go down as one of the most thought-free and platitudinous speeches in history. He spoke for ~60 minutes and did not convey an actual thought or plan.
His entire campaign is centered around four or five major things:
I was for the war and then I was against it and now I am for it again. I, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee during the '90s, was misled by the President--who used the same intelligence information I did when I was staunchly for regime change in Iraq. Disregard these inconsistencies.
Did I mention that I said it would be "irresponsible" not to support the troops and I now say that Edwards and I are "proud" not to have voted for the $87 billion support bill? Yeah, disregard that too. Thanks.
That I have an almost perfect Left-wing voting record and claim to have "conservative values" should cause no one pause. Would one not think that if I were proud of my principles and voting record, I would not need to make this point?
That I say life begins at conception and have a 100% rating from NARAL should cause no one pause.
I just went through an entire Democrat Convention and the most anyone said about me, as a person, was that I saved a hamster's life--and that was from one of my daughters. My own former campaign manager, when interviewed by Dennis Prager, was unable to say anything about me, as a person, to support me. My wife, when given an opportunity to talk about me, the Presidential candidate for the United States of America, veered off into some disturbing anachronistic tirade about women's rights and being called "opinionated" as opposed to "smart", even though there is no logical connection between the two in the first place. Oh, she said I am "brave". I served in Vietnam, by the way. Did you know that?
I have no Senate accomplishments. I have never worked in the private sector but criticize corporations incessently. I married nearly a billion dollars and lash out against the "rich" in speeches. The "rich" I define as those making over $200,000 a year. My boat costs four times that and uses $750 worth of diesel for a tank. How you like them apples? I rail against healthcare costs and my Vice Presidential man is a trial lawyer. No one seems to be bothered by the conflict here. I like that. Again, thanks.
"Trees are the cathedrals of nature..." What. The. F*ck. Sounds like an LSD trip gone bad more than a reasoned metaphor. I enjoy a good turn of phrase as much as any literature freak, but this...this is just odd.
As someone wittier than myself noted, the week was one where the brain was bombarded with shallowness and platitudes. It was thought-free politics at its best. It was the Democrat Party at its best. But I repeat myself.
I wish I had written that. Thanks Addison.
I don't have time to analyze the entire speech tonight so I'm gonna break it into two parts.
Let's see. We had to start off with the Kerry family. Is it just me or are the Kerry girls barkers? Bring on the Bush twins!
I didn't see too much of this part because I was watching the end of the Braves game. It was played in the afternoon but was being telecast at night. I did hear the part about John Fonda Kerry rescuing a hamster and giving it CPR. So Massachusetts Senators can rescue drowning hamsters. Too bad Mary Jo Kopechne wasn't one.
Then came the movie. Morgan Freeman narrated it. Shit. There's another Hollywood liberal I have to dislike.
Ya know, I'm getting tired of all this Viet Nam war hero bullshit. In 1992 and 1996 we had war heroes running for president against a draft dodger. These war heroes didn't wear their heroism on their sleeves and didn't make it the centerpiece of their campaigns. And back then the hypocritical Dimocratic Party, John Kerry among them, said military service didn't matter. Now these same assholes are making a big thing about Bush's National Guard service and saying he shirked his duty. It doesn't fucking matter!!!!! You assholes established the precedent in 1992. You are a bunch of phony fucking hypocrites!
And let's talk about Kerry's service. Why won't you bastards release all of his service records like you wanted Bush to do? I want to see all of his fitreps. I want to see documentation for the first purple heart. I hear it was a result of a weapon fired too close to the boat, and a ricochet wounded Lurch. Seeing how he cannot pitch a baseball all the way to home plate, I can imagine him shooting a gun short.
And as far as I'm concerned, what he did after the war nullifies any of the heroics he performed in Viet Nam.
Joining VVAW, a communist front group supported by the treasonous Jane Fonda disqualifies this man from being commander-in-chief.
Testifying to Congress about made up atrocities told to him by members of VVAW who had never served disqualifies this man to be commander-in-chief.
Throwing away his medals, or someone else's, or his ribbons, or whatever the current story is disqualifies this man to be commander-in-chief.
Thirty years ago he was ashamed to be a Viet Nam vet. Now it is the centerpeice of his campaign. Fucking unprincipled opportunistic bastard! But then, he's a Dimocrat. This is the party of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Remember, Benedict Arnold was a hero before he became a traitor.
An howza 'bout the guys who served with him who came out on the stage. Well here's the swift boat officers who served with Lurch. Check them out and see what they say about the asshole.
So here's Stumpy to introduce Lurch.
He fell in love with Kerry when he gave his bullshit testimony to Congress about made up atrocities. Way to go Max. My opinion of you just went down even lower. I didn't think that was possible. By the way, the Dimocrats are trying to make Stumpy into some kind of hero as if he lost his limbs on the battlefield. It was an accident that had nothing to do with battle. In fact he used to say that before the Dimocrats decided to roll him out as Lurch's mascot.
He came out with the usual Dimocrat talking points:
We alienated our allies. Ya mean France? When were the Frogs our allies? They're still pissed that we had to bail them out of two wars. They've been allies in name only since the end of World War II. They actively opposed our actions in Iraq because of their involvement in the oil for food scandal. Germany? Who cares. We still have the allies that count: England and Australia.
Education - Ever since Jimmah Carter created the Department of Education and the teachers unions became a powerful faction of the Dimocrat Party, education has been going downhill. The Dimocrats fucked it up. Why should we believe that they can solve the problem?
Health Care - Babyface took $150 million from the insurance companies and probably drove a lot of OB/GYNs out of business. I really think a couple of lawyers like the Poodle and Babyface are gonna make health care any better. Yeah. That's gonna happen. Hillarycare reprise.
So here comes Kerry. The bullshit starts now.
I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.
Like you have in the Senate this year where you've already missed 80% of the votes. Like the intelligence briefing that you haven't had time to get from the current administration. Sounds like dereliction of duty to me.
We are here tonight because we love our country. We're proud of what America is and what it can become.
Did you tell Michael Moore? He's been running around the world telling people how dumb we are. By the way, he's a Dimocrat.
My fellow Americans, we're here tonight united in one purpose: to make America stronger at home and respected in the world.
Actually 93% of the delegates want to cut and run from Iraq. Yep. That will make us respected in the world. They want us to act like a bunch of pussies. That's why the French and Germans, our "allies", want the Poodle to win the election. They want us to get their approval before we do anything. And the important question is whom do the terrorists want to win the election?
A great American novelist
I bet if you would have asked him who the novelist was he wouldn't have known. Or maybe if he did, he was afraid if he would have said Thomas Wolfe, most of the delegates wouldn't have known whom he was talking about.
wrote that you can't go home again. He could not have imagined this evening. Tonight, I am home.
And I, for one, would be happy for you to stay there.
home where my public life began and those who made it possible live; home where our nation's history was written in blood, idealism and hope; home where my parents showed me the values of family, faith and country.
Boston used to have patriots like Samuel and John Adams. Now they have Ted Kennedy and John Fonda Kerry. Boston how you have fallen. From "no taxation without representation" to "tax the rich". We fought a war over taxes that were nowhere near what they are today. The Founders would be shocked.
Now, I am not one to read into things, but guess which wing of the hospital the maternity ward was in?
Oh crap! I can hardly wait for this bullshit line.
I'm not kidding. I was born in the West Wing.
I bet the hospital was facing north. That would make it the left wing, which would have been very fitting since you are the most liberal Senator in the Senate.
And that is the end of Part 1. I'll put Part 2 up on Sunday night.
Tom sent me this one of Kerry from his Viet Nam war days. Golly. I didn't know he served in Viet Nam. You'd think he would be making a big deal out of that wouldn't ya?
And since the Kerry girls talked about what a good father he was, here is is at the playground with them. This is courtesy of Matt and his awesome Photoshop skills.
Sorry. Don't have anything to write about the convention tonight. Stumpy is gonna introduce Lurch at 9:55 and then Lurch is supposed to speak for an hour. After listening to him for an hour and trying to stay awake, I will be in no condition after his speech to write anything. I will try to stay awake and take notes and review his speech tomorrow.
Here is what I think he's gonna say:
1. I know about the military because I served in Viet Nam.
2. I know all about poverty because I saw it in Viet Nam.
3. I know about the environment because we did a lot of environmental damage to Viet Nam.
4. Did you know that I served in Viet Nam?
5. I'm gonna raise taxes on the top 1% of taxpayers. Edwards said what? Oh I mean the top 2% of taxpayers.
6. I know about hunger because I saw a lot of hungry children in Viet Nam.
7. I'm gonna go to the United Nations and beg for forgiveness.
8. I'm gonna give Jacques Chirac a blowjob.
9. Did you know that I served in Viet Nam?
10. I'm gonna send Jimmah Carter back to North Korea.
11. I'm gonna fix education because I saw a lot of uneducated children in Viet Nam.
12. I'm gonna fix the Israeli/Palestinian problem.
13. Did you know that I served in Viet Nam?
14. I'm not George Bush.
15. Did you know that I served in Viet Nam?
16. Band of Brothers.
17. Did you know that I served in Viet Nam?
We'll see how well I did later tonight.
Here is what you get to vote for if you vote Dimocrat.
Click for larger image.
Thanks to Tom for sending this to me.
Where are my notes? Oh here they are. Let's go back to last night.
Little Tommy Daschle had to get up and start spouting his liberal bullshit. OK. What's wrong with the country?
Health care up. Thank Babyface for that since he got over $150 million from the insurance companies. Malpractice rates go up. Health insurance goes up. Here's sumpin' amazing. He was able to channel a baby in the womb who needed to be delivered via Caesarian. I guess that means that the baby could feel things. I wonder why he cannot channel a healthy baby that is getting its brains sucked out via partial birth abortion? D'ya think that baby might be feeling things. "Three o'clock - starting down the birth canal. Four o'clock - My feet are out. Feeling good. Four fifteen - Ouch! What the fuck was that? Whoa! That hurts!"
Gas prices up. I've discussed this many times before. It's the Dimocrats who will not allow us to build more nuclear power plants. It's the Dimocrats who will not allow us to drill in ANWR. It's the Dimocrats who will not allow offshore drilling. It's the Dimocrats who will not allow us to build more dams. Gotta protect the smail darter. It's the Dimocrats who will not allow us to build more refineries. If you like high gas prices, kiss a Dimocrat.
Here comes Howard Dean. Let's have a primal scream. Crap! They have him on Prozac also. So what does Dean have to say.
Take the country back. Fuck you Howie! You can't have it!
He's from the Dimocrat wing of the Dimocrat Party. In other words the moonbat communist wing.
He wants a jobs program. Howie. Gummint doesn't create jobs. Remove stupid regulations and onerous taxes and get the fuck out of the way. That was the nice thing about Clinton. He was too busy getting blowjobs to fuck up the economy.
Anti-war - Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're also from the appeasment and surrender wing (AKA the French wing) of the Dimocrat Party.
Then he told us about some idealistic twit who sold her bicycle to donate money to Howie. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a booger eatin' moh-ron!
Reclaim the American dream. Here's the American dream. My sister and I are products of a dysfunctional family. We grew up poor and now we are rich. We did it without the help of the Dimocrat Party. My sister got a scholarship. The only gummint assistance I got was the GI Bill in return for me enlisting in the Navy. The American dream is hard work. It is not handed to you by politicians, especially socialist assholes like Howard Dean.
Gephardt was in there somewhere. Who cares?
Some dude in a wheelchair came out to introduce Ron Reagan Jr. I bet his father is rolling in his grave. Anyway this guy was talking about stem cells maybe making him able to walk again. Dream on dipshit! Ain't gonna happen. And Christopher Reeve ain't gonna walk again either. Here's why. Even if they can get the spinal cord neurons to regenerate (Which currently they will not do.), the lower motor neurons will have died off. They can regrow, but only to a maximum of two feet. Also, there is the problem with muscle atrophy. Trust me. I'm a paraplegic. I've researched this shit and kept up to date on it.
I couldn't take much more so I didn't see Ter-RAY-sa speak but I heard she was way over-medicated. My friend Cindy, who is a nurse, said she thinks she was on Valium.
I only saw one speech tonight. I have to save myself for tomorrow when the Poodle speaks. I'm afraid I may fall asleep so I have to pace myself.
The speech I watched was Al Sharpton's. Finally we see the real face of the Dimocrat Party. After all this bullshit about how the Dimocrats want to unite the nation we see what they really want.
Bush lied - Yada yada yada blah blah blah. Been there. Done that. Saw the move. Got the t-shirt. Next.
Supreme Court. Bush is a racist. If he had been president in 1954 we would not have had Brown vs Board of Education. Fuck you, you RWPP (Race Warlord Poverty Pimp)
Old people have to go to Canada to get their prescription drugs. I guess that's only fair since Canadians have to come here to get health care. And will someone tell me where it is in the Constitution that there is a right to health care and prescription drugs?
Multiculturism. He bitched about the fact that immigrants have to learn English. Ya see, Reverend Al doesn't want immigrants to learn English. If they don't they will be dependent on gummint. The quicker a newcomer to this country learns the language, the quicker he can succeed. Dimocrats do not want people to succeed on their own. They want people to rely on gummint. Reverend Al needs poor people, otherwise he has no reason to exist.
Every vote counted. Does that include the military? Jesus H. Christ! We did count every vote. In Chicago we even counted votes of people who were dead. Show me one person who was denied the right to vote. Just one!
Reparations. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
That's it. I've got to reset my bullshit meter so I can try to listen to John Fonda Kerry tomorrow night. I hope I'll be able to stay awake during his speech.
See ya tomorrow.
Update. I did watch part of Babyface's speech until my bullshit meter pegged. Is he gonna do sumpin' about that thing on his mouth? Eeewwww!
Got a letter from my nephew in Iraq. I will post it in the near future. It seems that the Iraqis actually like Americans. Imagine that.
Hey. Where is Michael Dukakis? The Dimocrats are in Boston. Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts. Kerry was his lieutenant governor. Where is Dukakis?
Is this a bunny?
Or sperm?
But first let's discuss some more liberal bias. Ann Coulter got fired from USA Today because they didn't understand her humor. Here is her column with the editor's notes. Let's see if USA Today fires Michael Moore when he goes over the top at the Republican convention. I doubt it will happen.
More media bias, wishful thinking, or just outright stupidity by CNN here.
I didn't watch Bill Clinton speak last night because the man disgusts me. He is a serial philanderer, a sexual harrasser, and an alleged rapist (and he never denied the rape.). Let's examine some of the shit he shoveled last night.
And Al Gore, as he showed again tonight, demonstrated incredible patriotism and grace under pressure. He is the living embodiment of the principle that every vote counts.
The can't let it go. Every vote was counted, recounted, recounted, recounted, and recounted again. The media went down to Florida and recounted the votes twice. Bush won. Gore lost. Get the fuck over it. Oh by the way, are y'all gonna let the military votes be counted this time?
Now this state, who gave us in other times of challenge John Adams
And I'll bet he is spinning in his grave about now with what the party of Jefferson has become.
But all Americans value freedom and faith and family.
Yeah we know how much you have honored your family you worthless sack of shit!
We all honor the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
Just like you did when they were in Viet Nam. And like you did when you were president. You disgraced them when you were commander-in-chief. They hated your guts you worthless draft dodger.
We all want our children to grow up in a secure America leading the world toward a peaceful and prosperous future.
So we should vote for someone who by his record wants to cut our military and intelligence?
They believe the role of government is to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of those who embrace their economic, political and social views, leaving ordinary citizens to fend for themselves on important matters like health care and retirement security.
No. They believe that gummint should get out of the way and allow people who work hard to succeed and to keep the money they make. They don't believe in collectivism like you bastards do.
And then he started talking about the tax cuts.
They chose to protect my tax cut at all costs while withholding promised funding to the Leave No Child Behind Act, leaving 2.1 million children behind.
OK. Now it's time to put my feet up because the shit is getting so deep. I wrote a post about this a few months ago called Write A Check where I told all the Dimocrats and liberals who bitched so much about the tax cuts to STFU and write a check. No one is holding a gun to Bill Clinton's head and telling him to keep the tax cut. Why doesn't he and Hillary put their money where their big fat mouths are and write a check to the gummint in the amount of their tax cut? Ain't gonna happen. Why doesn't the Poodle's owner write a check? You know she got a massive tax cut. And since she is the source of the Poodle's wealth why won't she release her tax returns? Ain't gonna happen.
Now, in this time, everyone in America had to sacrifice except the wealthiest Americans. And most of us, almost all of us, from Republicans to independents and Democrats, we wanted to be asked to do our part, too. But all they asked us to do was to expend the energy necessary to open the envelopes containing our tax cuts.
Write a fucking check and STFU!
Now, we tried it their way for 12 years.
And won the Cold War.
We tried it our way for eight years.
And took a holiday from history. Had a great time but weakened our national defense. Somalia. Cut and ran. Embassy bombings. Bit lip. Did nothing. Got a blowjob. Khobar Towers. Bit lip. Did nothing. Got a blowjob. USS Cole. Bit lip. Did nothing. Couldn't get a blowjob and you know he didn't get anything from Hillary. I guess he had to work it out by hand. Too bad.
During the Vietnam War, many young men, including the current president, the vice president and me, could have gone to Vietnam and didn't. John Kerry came from a privileged background. He could have avoided going too, but instead, he said: Send me.
Can you believe the chutzpah of this asshole? A draft dodger talking about Viet Nam? Un-fucking-believable!
Bullshit, Bullshit. More bullshit.
And one another thing. I used to like Fleetwood Mac. Thanks you fucking Dimocrats for making me hate Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.
So I turned on the TV tonight to see what was going on. They had some liberal biographer introduce Ted Kennedy as if he were some kind of icon. Let's talk about the moral bankruptcy of the Dimocrat Party. Here are their five heavyweights (and in the case of Ted, Bill, and Hillary I mean that both literally and figuratively)
Ted Kennedy - A bloviating blowhard drunk who ran off a bridge while drunk and left a woman to die all the while thinking about how to save his political career. No problem. The people of Taxachusetts were stupid enough to keep re-electing him.
Bill Clinton - White trash made good. Possibly the most corrupt man to ever hold the office of president. A serial philanderer. A serial sexual harasser. An alleged rapist (which he never denied).
Hillary Clinton - A professional victim. She allowed her husband to publicly humiliate her (who cares) and her daughter (some mother) and used her victimhood to get elected to the Senate from New York. What the fuck is wrong with you people in New York? This is a feminist icon? She allowed a man to treat her like shit. She couldn't make it on her own but endured humiliation by a man to get to where she is. This is someone to be admired? What is wrong with you women?
John Kerry - Came home from Viet Nam and stabbed his "band of brothers" in the back. Provided false testimony to Congress about made up atrocities. Joined Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, a communist front organization. Threw his medals away. Nope, it was someone else's. Nope, it was only his ribbons, Nope (fill in bullshit excuse). He's a "man of the people" who has married into money twice. He has five mansions. He doesn't own an SUV but his family does. WTF? He's lambasted Bush for taking vacations but he has missed 80% of the votes in the Senate so far this year.
John Edwards - An ambulance chasing lawyer. Talks about health care but has been responsible for over $150 million in settlements against insurance companies (he got 1/3 of the money) which has pushed up insurance premiums and has driven many OB/GYN's out of business.
This is the Dimocrat Party.
What did Ted say?
He mentioned the Boston Tea Party. Now here's a supreme irony: One of the biggest (literally and figuratively) tax and spend Dimocrats talking about a protest against taxes.
The lamestream media likes to talk about Bush mangling words. Teddy couldn't even pronounce suburb. He shouldn't have had that last Scotch on the rocks.
He had the nerve to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I cannot believe a Dimocrat saying "Under God". Is the ACLU gonna sue?
He said that his brother said in a speech, in 1963, that he wanted "to make the world safe for diversity". WTF? I think you meant democracy. Shouldn't have had that last Scotch on the rocks.
And then he quoted John Adams: "May none but the honest and wise rule under this roof." This quotation is in the State Dining Room in the White House. He naturally used this quotation to bash Bush, but we all remember Bill Clinton and his most memorable quote, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." A Dimocrat talking about honesty is the ultimate irony.
That's all for tonight. Obama "yo mama" is speaking and I just heard about how all votes must be counted. I've finally figgered it out. This is the "All Votes Must Be Counted 2004 Dimocrat Bullshit Convention".
I'll talk about Dean and little Tommy Daschle tomorrow night.
We've been discussing media bias on another post. Of course I can cite all sorts of examples of the left wing bias of ABCCBSNBCCNNNPRPBS and most big city dailies. I mentioned a few examples in my comments. I would like the people who claim Fox is biased to the right please give us some specific examples. Here's another example of Dan Blather's bias:
On Thursday's CBS Evening News, in a second installment of his Wednesday interview, Rather asked Kerry: "Have you ever had any anger about President Bush, who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard, running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam?" Kerry replied, "Yup, I have been," and went on to confirm it "grates a little bit" and is "irritating."
There's just one thing wrong with this. The Bush campaign has not even mentioned Kerry's Viet Nam service. This is the strawman that the Dimocrats have been putting out every time the Bush campaign points out that his record in the Senate is weak on defense. He has voted against every major weapons program. He voted to cut the intelligence budget, and now ironically, he is bitching about faulty intelligence. The only people mentioning Kerry's Viet Nam service are John Kerry and the Dimocrats.
This same bullshit is going on with that loser Max Stumpy Cleland, Kerry's mascot. He pulled this "Republicans called me unpatriotic" bullshit when he lost his Senate seat in 2000. The Republicans pointed out that he cared more for union jobs than national security. And he ran as a conservative and voted as a Tom Daschle liberal. The Republicans never said he was unpatriotic.
That seems to be the new mantra every time the Republicans criticize a Dimocrat on being weak on national security.
"Mommy! Mommy! Those mean, nasty Republicans are calling me unpatriotic. Boo hoo! Boo hoo!"
So I'm watching the convention. I just listened to part of sore loser Algore's speech. They had him on Prozac. He was not any fun at all. I wanted to see his veins bulge and fire shoot out of his mouth. At least I didn't have to see him ram his tongue down Tipper's throat. Oh my God! I hope we don't have to see the Poodle do that to his wife! Eeewww!
Jimmah Carter is now speaking. Here's a real loser. I heard him talk about mistakes and failures. I didn't know he was gonna talk about his presidency. Here we have the most incompetent president of the 20th Century trying to talk about foreign policy failures of the Bush administration. BWAHAAHAHAHAHA! That's about as wacky as Bill Clinton talking about celibacy, ethics, and honesty.
Teresa Heinz Kerry told a reporter to "Shove it" right after giving a speech about their being more civility in politics. I just love that. Did it get much coverage in the lamestream media? Nowhere near as much as Cheney telling Leahy to go fuck himself. Media bias? Naw!
Hey! Didja see Sunday's Day by Day?
Gotta run. Ann Coulter is gonna be on Hannity and Colmes.
I'm back. Hillary is speaking. Didja know that if you google Hillary Rodent Clinton, I'm the first site that comes up? Amanda told me about that.
Hillary just said that Kerry is sympathetic and empathetic. As far as I'm concerned, he's just plain pathetic.
And now comes Bubba probably the most corrupt and disgusting president this country has ever had. I'm gonna turn off the TV before I throw sumpin' at it.
Time to go read a book.
Yet another one from Jeannette. She sent me a lot of 'em.
Not many people know it, but the Devil actually wears a wig. You'd never know
if you weren't told - it's a perfect fit. Anyway, down in the world of fire
and brimstone one guy did find out, and he decided to have a little practical
joke. So one night, he sneaks past the guardian demons and manages to get all
the way into Satan's bed chamber, whereupon he steals the hair-piece and
makes good his escape.
Well, of course the Devil was most displeased by this, and he rounds up his
demons, and demands to know which of them had been so lazy as to let someone sneak past them. Naturally, none of them owns up, which makes him even madder: So he calls a general meeting of everyone the underworld: everyone has to attend.
The meeting is held in a huge cavern, and it's absolutely packed (except for
the odd gap in the crowd, where there's a lava-pit or bottomless fissure in
the floor). As Satan steps up to speak, everyone sees that he's got no hair,
and peals of laughter start echoing out around the hall.
The devil bellows at them to be quiet, and a deadly hush falls.
"Whoever stole it," he shouts, "had better return it immediately!" And here he
paused for effect...
"Or else there'll be Hell Toupee!"
Numbers. Aren't they wonderful things? In a thread on another post, a number was thrown out of the number of civilans killed in Iraq. The number was 20,000. I asked where the number came from, but no one seemed to know. Then someone quoted an AP article that said a given number of civilians were killed in a 5 week period and extrapolating that out to eighteen months came out to over 20,000. I pointed out how that was faulty logic by saying that if there were 10 hurricanes in the month of July, that would mean there would be 150 hurricanes in 15 months.
The 20,000 number is usually used by liberals as meaning that American soldiers killed 20,000 civilians. It turns out that most of the civilians now are being killed by the insurgents. It's Iraqis (or terrorists from other countries) killing Iraqis not American soldiers. This number pales besides the number of Iraqis Saddam Hussein killed. After all liberals excused Stalin for all the people he killed so what's a few hundred thousand murdered by Saddam? Hmmmm. Did I make that number up?
It always seems to be liberals who like to make up numbers. Consider Congressman Major Owens. In a speech to the House he claimed that over 200,000,000 blacks died at sea during the slave trade and were thrown overboard. Even now, sharks patrol those routes looking for black meat.
Rush Limbaugh had his staff run the numbers to see how valid this claim was. I don't know what parameters he set up for his math but let's do a little exercise using my parameters.
Let's say the slave trade ran from 1550 to 1850. That's 300 years. Multiplying 300 x 365 gives us 109,500. Dividing that into 200,000,000 gives us 1826.484. That means that over 1800 dead blacks would be thrown overboard every farking day! Holy shit! No wonder the sharks are still patrolling those waters!
Evidently someone told Congressman Owens that his numbers were a little high so he went to the House floor the next day and changed the number to 20,000,000. That's a little better because then it's only 182 blacks thrown overboard every day for 300 years. I guess this must be some of that black hyperbole that Charles Barron likes to talk about.
Want more? Jesse Jackson has been running his mouth off about how 1,000,000 blacks were kept from voting in the 2000 election. Needless to say, the lamestream media, who many people swear are not biased, hasn't bothered to call him on this number. Where did it come from? Poof! PFM! (as Ironbear likes to say) He probably got this number from the same place that Major Owens got his 200,000,000, I mean 20,000,000 figure. He made it up because it sounded good. But let's go over to the Census Bureau and run some numbers.
In the year 2000 there were about 35.7 million blacks. Unfortunately they don't break out the black population by age, but the overall population breaks out like this: Age 18-24 39.9%. Age 45-64 22%. Age 65 and over 12%. So if we use these numbers the overall voting age population is 73.9%. 73.9% of 35.7 million comes out to 26.3 million. When you consider that half the population doesn't even bother to vote in the first place and I'm sure that apathy exists among blacks, but let's just say the apathy only affects 25%, that gives us 19.7 million blacks who want to vote. Jesse is stating that 1 out of every 20 black people in this country were denied the right to vote. Aren't numbers wonderful things?
Didja know that the Civil Rights Commision that was set up in Florida to find examples of blacks being prevented from voting could not find one case where this actually happened? But the truth doesn't matter to liberals. Gotta churn up the base by making things up and Jesse is good at making things up.
Talking about media bias, Addison sent me this link where the New York Times actually admits it has a liberal bias.
And in a thread on one of my posts Matthew states that the War on Terror is a war that we cannot win. So I ask him, should we just surrender? Should we just let them kill innocent civilians and do nothing? Matthew and Robin, read these words carefully, Appeasement Never Works! It didn't work with Hitler. It has not worked with the Palestinians. Ehud Barak made Arafat the best offer he is ever gonna get and he walked away from it and started the current Intifada. The losers have been the Palestinians themselves since most of their jobs were in Israel and they are now being filled by people who do not blow up. Hitler and Arafat took the appeasment as signs of weakness. I'll say this again: Osama bin Laden stated that when we cut and ran from Somalia, that is when he knew we could be defeated.
Let me make myself perfectly clear. We did not want this war. We did not ask for it. War was declared on us on 9/11. We do not want to fight a war on our soil so we have chosen to take the war to Afghanistan and the Middle East.
The Poodle and Baby Face seem to think that we can reason with these fanatics. There is no reasoning with them. We have to kill them and we have to stop the regimes that are sponsoring them.
The Poodle and Baby Face seem to think that they can get France and Germany to support us. Not gonna happen.
And last, but not least, here is an idea from Rivrdog, forwrded to me by Jim at Smoke on the Water
Wait a minute! I got a BMW Z3! How come I can't get laid?
That's me at 21 or 22 aboard the USS Iredell County, LST-839
Hello Captain? Turn this ship around and take us to Yokosuka Japan.
For those of you who have not seen this yet (It has been posted on many blogs and has been sent in many e-mails. I did not write it. I wish I had.), here is the first day's program for the upcoming Dimocrat convention.
2004 DNC Convention Official Program
6:00pm- Opening flag burning ceremony.
6:00pm- Opening secular prayers by Rev Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton
6:30pm- Anti-war concert by Barbra Streisand.
6:40pm- Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
7:00pm- Tribute theme to France.
7:10pm- Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund.
7:25pm- Tribute theme to Germany.
7:45pm- Anti-war rally (Moderated by Michael Moore)
8:25pm- Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
8:30pm- Terrorist appeasement workshop.
9:00pm- Gay marriage ceremony (both both male and female couples)
9:30pm- * Intermission *
10:00pm- Posting the Iraqi Colors by Sean Penn and Tim Robbins
10:10pm- Re-enactment of Kerry's fake medal toss.
10:20pm- Cameo by Dean 'Yeeearrrrrrrg!'
10:30pm- Abortion demonstration by N.A.R.A.L.
10:40pm- Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
10:50pm- Pledge of allegiance to the UN.
11:00pm- Multiple gay marriage cermony (threesomes, mixed and same sex).
11:15PM- Maximizing Welfare workshop.
11:30pm- 'Free Saddam' pep rally.
11:59PM- Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
12:00pm- Nomination of democratic candidate.
Yep! Obviously fake but some of my male pig readers (You know who you are Kim) just like bigguns.
No time to write anything worth reading tonight so I'm posting some quotes by Thomas Sowell. I strongly recommend any liberal who happens to stop by read these quotes carefully. Hopefully they may make you think. And for any socialist please read the second quote and the last quote. And the fifth quote aptly applies to the Dimocrat Party.
"Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people -- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect."
"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days."
"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?"
"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race."
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area -- crime, education, housing, race relations -- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."
"Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
"The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family -- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions -- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to 'help.'"
"It is precisely those things which belong to 'the people' which have historically been despoiled -- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose."
"What is politically defined as economic 'planning' is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials.”
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
Every Wednesday afternoon my team lead and I have to go to a meeting that I have named the Inquisition Meeting. This should only be attended by the team leads, but, since I used to be the team lead of my group, I still have to go.
In this meeting we discuss what happened last week and if we are prepared for the next week. Ever since my ex-CDSM® (Clueless Dipshit Manager) got promoted he really should not attend this meeting, but sometimes he just cannot stay away. Wednesday was one of those days.
Let me state right up front that I hate meetings. Meetings should be short and rare. While I am in a meeting I am not doing anything productive. When I first joined this group six years ago, I attended more meetings my first year in it than I did in my previous 26 years working for TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name).
We have a project manager that I call the PMICOUM (Project Manager In Charge Of Useless Meetings). His first response to any problem is to say, "We will have to hold a meeting on this." I always say under my breath, "No. We need to fix the farking problem".
I realize that meetings are sometimes required and when they are there are rules to make them short and productive:
1. Start on time! This meeting is supposed to start at 2:00 and we're lucky if it starts at 2:10. This is inexcusable.
2. Have a written agenda and stick to it! There is an informal agenda only and that allows us to violate rule #3
3. Allow no side issues. Take care of them after the meeting. Invariably in this meeting a side issue crops up and the PMICOUM and another member of the meeting go off on a tangent. Meanwhile, the rest of us sit around with our thumbs up our butts doing nothing. Do you know how much web surfing I can do in ten minutes?
4. Finish on time!
Our manager has started skipping this meeting. Smart lady. But, as I said earlier, my ex-CDSM® decided to sit in today.
At the end of the meeting we discussed our user satisfaction numbers. I wish I could explain more about our business without giving away what company TCIDNN was so you would know what the satisfaction numbers meant and how they were obtained. What's important is the numbers are trending down. Since my ex-CDSM®'s performance rating is partially determined by these numbers he wants to try to find out why they are going down. I could tell him, but he wouldn't want to hear about it.
<JackNicholson>You want the truth? You can't handle the truth.</JackNicholson>
I'm on my ex-CDSM®'s shitlist anyway because I told the truth to a user and called him incompetent. The user went to my then CDSM® who took his side and implemented a new procedure. When I sent out a sarcastic note (Me? Sarcastic?) clarifying the new procedure, which made him and the user look like idiots, he denied the procedural change (so it was never implemented) and my career was essentially over. Now I'm much more laid back at work.
I pissed him off twice in Wednesday's meeting. First, he asked my team lead that with our new processor could we support hosting the Germans. He is still under the delusion that we can get their business. My team lead started to say maybe and I just said, "No. No way!" He didn't want to hear that.
The second time was when he was asking all the team leads if they were ready for next week. The AS/400 person wasn't there and I just said, "She's good to go. She's always good to go." This is the truth. That's how she answers every week: "We're good to go." For some reason that really pissed him off and I got a hateful stare from him.
So now he and the PMICOUM get the bright idea that we need a process to find out why our satisfaction numbers are sliding. Of course this will entail more meetings. All God's chillun gotta have meetings. And while we're attending endless meetings we will not be able to find out the root cause of why our numbers are slipping.
I know the answer. It is so simple. Over the past two years the I/T support staff has been cut in half. I mentioned in another post about how my CDSM® actually bragged about it and my team lead got more pissed than I have ever seen him. You cut the staff in half and increase the number of useless meetings and productivity and timely support will drop.
We went to a new (No) Help (Whatsoever) Desk which has created new problems as calls were routed to the wrong teams and that took us longer to fix problems.
Our user groups have been cut. We have less users doing more work, putting in longer hours, fighting a new (No) Help (Whatsoever) Desk, and not getting timely problem resolution. They are tired and frustrated.
That's why our satisfaction numbers are going down.
But we need a process. I guess a team will be created. My ex-CDSM® will talk to his counterpart on the user side. The PMICOUM will create a project to create a process which will take people away from their primary job of end user support.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised our numbers are as high as they are. And I can guarantee the process that we put in place to try to determine why our numbers are going down will not even find the obvious reason for the decline.
I guess after the process is in place, we'll have to have a Quality Program.
I'm really gonna miss this shit when I retire.
I have attracted a new reader to my site named Robin. Her debut comment was on a post I made many months ago so almost no one, save myself, read it. This, of course, was unfair, since I think her point of view should be shared and debated as has been taking place in comments on current posts.
I don't know too much about Robin, except that she is a liberal. I think she is also young and somewhat idealistic. Winston Churchill had a good quote about liberals and conservatives and I will paraphrase it: If you are not a liberal in your twenties, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative in your thirties, you have no brain.
Y'see, liberals rely on emotions. They do things because they feel good. Socialism sounds good and that is why they feel, in spite of all the evidence that it has failed everywhere it has been tried, because it sounds so good, that someday it will work if only the right people are in charge. I assume to Robin that means John Fonda Kerry or Hillary Rodent Clinton, since she stated in one of her comments that we will probably have Hillary as president in either 2008 or 2012.
If you want to see a resounding success of liberalism you need look no further than California which liberals have almost completely destroyed. I still maintain that the rest of the country will have to eventually bail out California, just like we had to do with New York City when liberals drove it into the ground.
But without further ado, let's see what she had to say about my post on John Fonda Kerry.
Man. You guys should really calm down.
Actually, Robin, I think it's the Dimocrats who need to calm down. They're the ones running around calling Bush a Nazi, scraming Bush lied, and constantly bringing up the 2000 elections. They have become positively rabid, Have y'all checked to make sure Algore has had his rabies shots? The way he is foaming at the mouth I wouldn't want to get too close to him.
All this talking about "hating dimocrats" and calling people names really has to stop.
I suggest you go talk to Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Algore, Howard Dean, and John Kerry ( Who said of the Republicans: The biggest bunch of crooks and thugs I have ever seen) before you start lecturing us about hate speech. It's the Dimocrats who are the party of barking moonbats and rabid hate speech.
There is an important lesson to be learned from Vietnam.
I've got my opinion, let's hear hers.
We could have never won that war.
Not the way we fought it. There is only one way to win a war: Go in with overwhelming force and kill as many as the enemy as you can. take the fight to them.
We had a later discussion about how we would have still have lost even it we would have fought to win because the NVA was willing to take incredible losses. I was there. I knew grunts. We were all frustrated that the politicians would not let us fight to win. We could have invaded North Viet Nam and taken the fight to the enemy. The only thing that could have stopped us was the Chinese. Maybe then, we could have had a tie like we did in Korea. As it is, we lost the war at home because of assholes like John Fonda Kerry and his bogus testimony about made up atrocities.
The vietnamese had fought for over 1000 years, against the chinese, the french, and then the US. They would never have stopped.
They would have if they had all been dead. Tet was an astounding failure for them.
And Denny, how do you know what exactly happened with the Marines that were in the bush while you were on your boat?
More so than you. I was there. Were you?
I'm not discrediting whatever service you performed, I thank you for that. It's just that one solidier can't see EVERYTHING that happens in Vietnam, especially if he's in another branch of the military. I'm sure there are at least tens, if not a hundred My Lais.
And what makes you so sure? If there were "tens, if not hundreds" how come we only heard about one? The military is not real good at coverups. Someone would have talked. I think you are drinking the Kool Aide and swallowing the propaganda (most of which has been discredited) of VVAW. You do know that many members of VVAW had never been in the military at all don't you?
The whole "relocation" strategy. Villages completely destroyed. Watch "Hearts and Minds", watch "Platoon". Oliver Stone was in Vietnam, and i've heard vets say to me that's about as close as you get to seeing what it was like.
Oliver Stone? That's like asking Michael Moore about the 2000 election. Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now were a lot closer. Let me tell you, the biggest frustration all of us military types felt was the fact that the politicians were not letting us fight the war to win.
Yes, the troops did have to fight with one arm behind their back, because due to the cold war, you couldn't go invade North Vietnam and get China all pissed off. It's common sense.
Not necessarily. We might have wound up with another Korea. A tie. At least the South Vietnamese would have been much better off than what happened after we left. And yes, the Cold War. The war the Dimocrats did not want us to win.
We had another discussion later about the Cold War and my statement that the Dimocrats were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War and are on the wrong side of history in the War on Terror. She pointed out that it was the Dimocrats who got us into Viet Nam and Nixon who pulled us out. Yeah, but she doesn't understand all that went on. After 1968 the Dimocrats were pretty much ready to cede defeat in the Cold War. Appease the Soviet Union. That's the ticket. Nixon's "secret plan" was Vietnamization of the war. In other words, let the South Vietnamese fight their own war. The final nail was driven in the coffin when Congress, controlled by Dimocrats, cut off all funding for the South Vietnamese. I lived through that era. I lived through Jimmah Carter. I watched the Dimocrats in Congress support all the communists in Latin America.
Iraq is much the same. These people there are fighting for their freedom. In their eyes, we went in there and took down their leader, and invaded their country. No matter how much of a shithead he was, it's still an invasion. No revolution has ever suceeded with a foreign power doing most of the handiwork.
I pointed out that this is pretty much what we did in WWII with Japan and Germany. The Romans invaded and installed puppet gummints. The Soviets installed puppet gummints that existed until the end of the Cold War, which, in spite of Dimocrat opposition was won by that dumb cowboy Ronald Reagan.
This government in Iraq will fall soon after we leave, be it 5 months from now, or 5 years from now. Just as the South Vietnam government fell 2 years after Nixon pulled us out.
I've already pointed out the complicity of the Dimocrats in the fall of South Viet Nam. And I hope they are proud of the thousands slaughtered, the thousands sent to relocation camps, the boat people and the killing fields in Cambodia. I'm not. And Robin, should we just get up and leave and put Saddam back in power? Talk to returning soldiers. Read some blogs from Iraq. Contrary to what the lamestream media is telling you, most of the Iraqis are actually glad that Saddam is no longer in power.
Robert McNamara said in "Fog of War" one of life's important lessons is to "empathsize with your enemy".
Robert McNamara was one of the most incompetent Secretaries of Defense this country has ever seen. He was the main author of the debacle in Viet Nam. I really want to listen to what he has to say about fighting a war.
He then tells how this lesson saved the world from total destruction during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They could understand where Krushchev was coming from, and thus prevent the escalation of the conflict. That's why they advocated the blockade. Meanwhile the military brass was all for an invasion of Cuba. We later learned that commanders in Cuba had authorization to use nukes if such action occured. Not just the president.
If we hadn't fucked up Bay of Pigs the Cuban missile crisis would have never happened.
In any case, we didn't empathsize with the North Vietnamese. We thought they were fighting for greater communism, when in fact they were fighting for freedom from foreign oppression (see:China, France, US). Ho Chi Minh asked the US for help against France, so it's not like he was anti US. Fighting for freedom... sounds like what we were hearing huh?
First off, you do not empathize with an enemy, you kill him. Second off, if all they were doing was fighting for freedom, how do you explain the massive slaughter of the South Vietnamese, the reeducation camps, the boat people and the killing fields? Jesus Robin! You work in a book store, read some history!
But in this case, do we understand our enemy? Just like in Vietnam, the case is no.
I understand the enemy. Do you? They are radical Muslims. They want nothing else than the entire world under Islam. They have made no secret of that. They want to kill all infidels. They have made no secret of that.
Why did they attack the WTC? What possibly could have gotten these guys to kill themselves in a act of terrorism like that?
Their civilization, which reached its peak in the 10th Century has been declining ever since. They do not understand why. The radical Islamists say it is because they have strayed from their faith. Allah is punishing them. This is common knowledge if you listen to the Friday sermons coming from the mosques. They are fanatics. What could cause the Kamikaze fighters in WWII? They were fanatics. Think Robin, think! We are in a clash of civilizations. This is World War IV.
Maybe we should look into that as opposed to just going out attacking Muslim nations. I'm sure our actions now are swelling the ranks of anti american terrorists.
Oh yeah. The old why do they hate us bullshit. They hate us because we are successful and they aren't. They hate us because of our depravity (in their eyes). They hate us because we treat our women as equals. I hope you like your burka if we lose this war. I know you want to empathize with them and sit around a fire and sing Kumbaya, but they want to kill you or enslave you.
Now, don't give me the easy way out and say they did it because they are evil.
No, to them they are not evil. They are trying to go back to the 10th Century. They envy us. They don't understand how a people as depraved and degenerate as we are could be so rich and powerful.
If one equates "evil" with "against one's morals and ethics", then no one can really act very well for evil. And i'm sure one wouldn't blow themselves up in a plane for "evil".
Nope. They're fanatics. But as far as I'm concerned, anyone who rams a plane load of innocent people into a building full of innocent people are evil and if you don't think so, maybe you should go have your moral compass recalibrated.
Zell Miller made an interesting analogy in a speech on the floor of the Senate. He talked about a nest of copperheads under his porch at his cabin in the mountains. They weren't evil, but they did have the capability of killing his grandchildren so he killed them. The Islamic terrorists are worse than the copperheads. They want to kill as many of us as they can.
Let me ask you this. If you had a grenade, and you could throw it at Bin Laden, but it would kill you too, would you do it?
Good question. I've thought long and hard on it and in my present condition, being a grouchy old cripple, I probably would.
Congrats, you have the mentality of a suicide bomber.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! There is absolutely no moral equivalence. None! Nada! Zippo! How does your brain work? I would be killing a man who advocates killing innocent women and children. In spite of what you liberals may think, we do not advocate killing innocents. Depite what the left may say, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been the most humanely fought wars in human history. Our soldiers are actually putting themselves in more danger to try to avoid civilian casualties.
Something motivates these people to hate us enough to risk and throw their lives away. Is it our connection with Isreal and their conflict with Arabs?
Israel. Israel. Always Israel. It has nothing to do with Israel. Israel could be wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow and they would still hate us. It has everything to do with the failure of Arab culture. They see the United States, rich and powerful and we are a totally decadent society. They hate us for that.
Possibly, and one of the reasons Bin Laden hates us. Is it our military meddliing in the middle East, from the Iranian Shah to the Iran/Iraq war, to the Gulf War and bases in Saudi Arabia?
See the above.
Possibly that too.
Nope. You're still wrong.
Is our very Christian nature, so going back to the Crusades of religous conflict over the same god? Yup, prolly that too. Western imperialism? Check.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Once again. Read this very slowly. It is our success and their failure. We could withdraw all of our troops from all the Arab lands. We could withdraw our troops from all Mulsim countries. It would not matter. They hate us because we are successful and they are failures. They cannot understand why. After all Allah is supposed to make them supreme. They are not. Obiously they are not religious enough.
Look at all the major conflicts going on in the world today. In most of them Muslims are involved. Sudan? Check. Nigeria? Check. India? Check. Indonesia? Check. Philippines? Check.
Islam is not, nor has it ever been, a religion of peace. It is a religion of conquest. Islam does not want you, a woman. to be an equal of a man. They hate us for that. Islam does not want you to dress provocatively. They hate us for that. Do me a favor. Read the Koran.
So, I guess it would just help to just do some more thinking on both sides of the issue. I think Bush is a good guy at heart. That's why he got elected. All of the people in Non elected positions around him contruct all the negativity about this administration. Just as Gulf of Tonkin misled the American people to Vietnam, the Iraq Resolution and the rhetoric around it misled us into Iraq. Hey, we're not perfect.
But we're a damn site better than the people we are fighting.
As far as this railing on Kerry's war record, John McCain said critisism of Kerry's vietnam record, or being 'soft on defense' wasn't a very patriotic thing to do. Now, I'm going to have to go with McCain and his 5 years in the Hannoi Hilton on opinions of Vietnam service. McCain also commented in 2000 on how Bush was keeping the "shores of Texas safe from Vietnamese attack". Now if you wanna attack McCain, go ahead. Be my guest.
Typical Dimocrat argument.
1. It's Kerry who brought up his Viet Nam war record and attacked Bush on his National Guard service. As I have said many times on this site, Viet Nam service or lack of it ceased to be an issue in 1992 and 1996 when we elected a draft dodger. Since now, Kerry wants to make his service the centerpiece of his campaign and ask Bush to show his national guard records, we think Kerry should show his military medical records as regards his purple hearts. He got three of them, the first which was questionable and may have been a ricochet from one of the guns on his swift boat. He didn't have any downtime as a result of them. We want more info. Fair's fair. Oh yeah. He's a Dimocrat. They have different standards. In that party a killer, like Ted Kennedy, can be an elder statesman, a racist former member of the KKK can be a respected Senator who can say nigger on national television with no repercussions, and an accused rapist (Bill Clinton) caa be asked about it only once and never deny it. If any of those three were Republicans they would have been hounded out of office. Media bias? Nah!
2. Pointing out that Kerry has voted against every major weapons system since he has been in the Senate is not saying that he is unpatriotic. It is saying that he is weak on defense. No Republican has called Kerry unpatriotic. It's only the Dimocrats who say that the Republicans pointing out his voting record is weak on defense is saying that he is unpatriotic.
As far as Kerry being anti war after the war, well, he had lots of support among GIs for doing so. Plenty of Vietnam vets against the war. He has the right to his opinion. I think that if he went there and fought bravely, he has every right to have an opinion on the war. And you guys call him a traitor, shame on yourselves. Fighting for our country, and practicing the right to stand up for what you believe in is what this country is about.
Here is what pisses me and a lot of other Viet Nam vets off. Viet Nam Veterans Against the War was a communist front group. It was supported by Jane Fonda who in my opinion, and the opinion of many other Viet Nam veterans should have been tried for treason and shot. John Fonda Kerry testified in front of Congress to false atrocities. Yep! They never happened. Members of VVAW, many of them who were not even veterans, made them up. This testimony was played to POW's in the Hanoi Hilton to try to break them.
Kerry threw his medals away. Whoops! They were someone else's. Whoops! They were only his ribbons. Wait a minute! Which was it? He still hasn't made up his mind. Was he ashamed of his service when it was politically expedient to do so and now he is proud of it? After all here are the two themes of his campaign: I'm not George Bush and I served in Viet Nam (Which he was ashamed of doing and now he's proud of doing.) This asshole is Bill Clinton without the charm and Algore without the charisma.
And now I leave you to all the people who are smarter than I am: the two Addisons, Marcel, Grognard, xCavTrooper, Paul, and any others I might have left out.
Talk amongst yourselves. I'm going to bed.
I had a longer day than normal and I went out to eat with my friend Bryce who is in town this week, so I'm not writing anything tonight. Instead I'm gonna post some jokes from a massive backlog.
"Poor Little" Osama
After his death, Osama bin Laden went to heaven.
There he was greeted by George Washington, who proceeded to slap him across the face and yell at him, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!"
Patrick Henry approached and punched Osama in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed."
James Madison entered, kicked Osama and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"
Thomas Jefferson came in and proceeded to beat Osama many times with a long cane and said, "It was evil men like you that provided me the inspiration to pen the Declaration of Independence!"
These beatings and thrashings continued as John Rudolph, James Monroe and 66 other early Americans came in and unleashed their anger on the Muslim terrorist leader.
As Osama lay bleeding and writhing in unbearable pain an Angel appeared.
Bin Laden wept in pain and said to the Angel, "This is not what you promised me."
The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you up here. What did you think I said?"
IDIOTS
IDIOTS AT WORK:
This week, our phones went dead and I had to contact the telephone repair people. They promised to be out between 8:00 a.m.and 7:00 p.m.AN>When I asked if they could give me a smaller time window, the pleasant gentleman asked, "Would you like us to call you before we come?" I replied that I didn't see how he would be able to do that since our phones weren't working. He also requested that we report future outages by email.
(Does YOUR email work without a telephone line?). Depends.
IDIOTS AT THE STORE:
I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the clerk noticed I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction unless! the card was signed. When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary to compare the signature I had just signed on the receipt. So I signed the credit card in front of her. She carefully compared the signature to the one I had just signed on the receipt. As luck would have it, they matched.
IDIOTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD:
I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: too many deer were being hit by cars and she didn't want them to cross there anymore. I could swear I've recently been with some of these people....
IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE:
My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for "minimal lettuce." He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg.
IDIOT SIGHTING #1
I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?" To which I replied, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?" She smiled knowingly and nodded, "That's why we ask."
IDIOT SIGHTING #2
The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to cross the street. I was crossing with a coworker of mine when she asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, "What on earth are blind people doing driving?"
IDIOT SIGHTING #3
At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker who is leaving the company due to "downsizing," our manager commented cheerfully, "This is fun. We should do this more often." Not a word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare.
IDIOT SIGHTING #4
I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her couldn't understand why her system would not turn on.
IDIOT SIGHTING #5
When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "it's open!" To which he replied, "I know - I already got that side."
Thoughts on Marriage
1. "I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste." - David Bissonette
2. "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates
3. "My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it." - Groucho Marx
4. "The great question ... which I have not been able to answer ... is, 'What does a woman want?'" - Sigmund Freud
5. "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." - Sacha Guitry
That's all for tonight.
I haven't done any bitch slapping in a long time. My hand is all rested up and I'm raring to go.
Bill Clinton - I just want to bitch slap him because he is such a fucking pussy. Whap!
Hillary Clinton for putting out a book that was filled with bullshit. The smartest woman in the world didn't know her husband was cheating on her? What a crock of shit. Come over here Hillary. Whap!
What ever happened to the Dixie Chicks? You remember them dontcha? They pissed off their fan base by badmouthing the president while they were in Europe. Duh! Country and Western fans live in those red states. They say they are now gonna be rock stars. Good luck twits! Can't wait for your first rock album. I got a present for each of you.Whap! Whap! Whap!
On to Whoopi Goldberg. Ya ever notice that whenever celebrities have to pay the consequences for saying sumpin' stupid they yell gummint censorship? Whoopi, let me 'splain how this cause and effect shit works. You make vulgar remarks about the president. Slimfast thinks that may make a lot of their customers not want to buy their product if you're their spokesperson. They fire your worthless ass. The gummint had nothing to do with it. Whoopi, you're an idiot. Whap!
Linda Ronstadt. She decided that she was gonna recommend Michael Moore's movie to her audience when she performed at the Aladdin in Las Vegas. They didn't take too kindly to that. She got booed off the stage. Posters were ripped down. Cocktails were thrown. She was escorted out of the casino by management and was not even allowed to go back to her luxury suite. Linda, the people came to listen to you sing, not to listen to you talk politics. Whap!
Speaking of that fat bastard Michael Moore, I hope he is proud that Hizbollah really likes his film and is distributing it in Lebanon. He is a fat, socialist, un-American asshole. Whap!
Queasy Mfume and Julian Bond. Let's see. You call the president a thug. You say he is a member of the Taliban wing of the Republican Party and then you wonder why he won't come speak at your convention. GMAFB! Who in their right mind would show up after all that abuse? Fuck you! Whap!
Corinne Brown, representative from Florida who with other moonbat Dimocrat congresscritters asked for the United Nations to supervise this year's presidential election because of the "coup d'etat" staged by the Republicans in 2000. Dammit! Only Dimocrats are allowed to steal elections. How dumb must the people in her district be to have elected this barking moonbat? I'm beginning to think we should have literacy and civics tests before people can vote. That would wipe out over half the Dimocrat electorate right there. I got an idea. Why don't we send Jimmah Carter down to oversee the elections? Since he can't find his ass with his hands anything could happen. Corinne, maybe this could knock some sense into your empty head. Whap!
Jimmah Carter. What a dickhead. The only reason he got the Nobel Peace Prize was to insult America. He should have told 'em to stick it up their asses. Stay away from killer rabbits Jimmah. Whap
John Fonda Kerry. I don't give a shit that you served in Viet Nam. I'm just wondering why you are not running on your liberal record in the Senate. You are a lying sack of shit! And can you ever pander. Let's see I've heard that you learned how to cuss on a tractor. Got lots of them at Swiss boarding schools. And you like to go deer hunting with a 12-gauge shotgun crawling around on your stomach trying to outsmart the deer. Most deer hunters don't crawl around on their stomachs and I've yet to hear of one who uses a shotgun. Who does this asshole think he is? A Massachusetts version of Bill Clinton? Whap!
John "Baby Face' Edwards. You're a slimy trial lawyer. How many doctors have you put out of business? How much have all your lawsuits made insurance premiums, and thus the cost of health care, rise? And you took one third of all the money. Hey Senator "Man of the People", how much does a half gallon of milk cost? When asked that question he didn't know the answer. Whap!
Denise Majette. Thanks for deciding to run for senator and give Cynthia McKinney an opportunity to run for her old seat. It's not that you weren't as liberal as Jihad Cindy (you were), but at least you didn't embarrass us. You said God told you to run for the Senate. You don't have a prayer. Maybe God wanted you to leave public life. Whap!
My hand is tired from all that Whaping so I'm done. Gotta get up early tomorrow so I can stop and vote on my way to work. I'm voting against Cynthia McKinney.
How many people remember this person?
On July 18, 1969 (or the wee hours of July 19), Ted Kennedy drove his car into the water and saved his worthless ass and left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown. Had he been one of us common people and not a member of the deified Kennedy aristocracy (The family that has had so many tragedies - Sob!) he would have been convicted of manslaughter at the very least. Think of this every time you hear this asshole pontificate about justice and the like. I once heard him say he was "morally outraged" at sumpin'. How can one be morally outraged when one has no morals whatsoever? Asshole!
Jeanette sent me lots of puns. Here's another one.
There once was a poor shepherd named Yorgi. The only food he had to sustain
himself on was the milk he got from the sheep, and it tasted so bad that he
could barely drink it. As a result, Yorgi became thin and sickly.
One day, he met his friend Vladimir. Vladimir was a poor shepherd like
himself, but he was hearty and healthy. Vladimir told him that he had to live
on sheep's milk too, but he let him on a secret: a witch in a nearby village
taught him a magic spell that makes sheep's milk taste as sweet as the
richest cream. Yorgi begged Vladimir to teach him the spell, which his friend
did willingly.
Sure enough, Yorgi's sheep produced the most delicious milk he ever tasted.
Yorgi loved it so much, that he drank it by the liter. He milked his sheep so
much that they cried out in pain. Yorgi realized that he couldn't make his
sheep suffer like that, so he reversed the spell and resigned himself to
drinking normal sheep's milk.
Now, there's no ewes crying over spelled milk.
Politicians saying they are gonna "fight" for sumpin'. What a crock of shit! The only thing these dickwads are gonna fight for is their own reelection. Maybe if they weren't so busy"fighting" for sumpin' they could pass laws that were constitutional rather than raiding the treasury to take pork back to their own districts.
Politicians saying they want to "take the country back". Whom are they gonna take it from? Other Americans? Asswipes!
My cable receiver that has to periodically update information on its hard drive. For some reason it is unable to do that in the background or while the television is off so I have to sit and watch it update for five minutes before I can watch television. Can't you Einsteins at Dish figger how to do that periodically and automatically? That really shouldn't be too difficult.
That annoying flap on the first page of the Sunday comics that contains advertising and covers up 1/3 of the page.
Hillary Clinton. She is supposed to be such a strong feminist, yet she allowed her husband to publicly humiliate her and her daughter. She wants us to believe that she didn't believe that Bill, with his history of philandering, wasn't playing hide the cigar with Monica in the Oval Office. This is the smartest woman in the world and she didn't know that? She has got to where she is because of a man. She parlayed her victimhood into a Senate seat. Some feminist!
The people in New York who put Hillary in the Senate. You people are dumb as dirt. You voted in Chuck "the Schmuck" Shumer and Hillary.
The people in this country who were dumb enough to read the bullshit in Hillary's book and will vote for her when she runs for president.
Cynthia McKinney. She's running a very low key campaign for her old seat. She's keeping her mouth shut so there is a chance she may get elected. I am gonna be a Dimocrat for a day just so I can vote against her. The 4th Congressional District is strongly Dimocrat so whoever wins the primary wins the general election. The only way I can have any say on my representative is to vote in the Dimocrat primary.
Liberal asshole politicians, like John Fonda Kerry, who won't run on their liberal records. For example his response to any question about his voting record against every major weapons system in his twenty years in the Senate is that bringing that up questions his patriotism and he also served in Viet Nam. I don't give a flying fuck about Viet Nam. We took care of that in 1992 when we elected a draft dodger. Viet Nam is no longer relevant. We are not questioning your patriotism. We are merely pointing out that in your time in the Senate you voted to weaken our defense. Answer the fucking question!
I brought up the fact a while back that liberals refused to run as liberals and someone commented that they didn't want to be called liberals because conservatives had made it an epithet. Like liberals haven't tried to make conservative an epithet. Conservatives are proud to be called conservatives. Why are liberals ashamed to be called liberals? Tell us what you really think you fucking commie bastards!
Comment spam! I hate comment spam. I want to make it easy for people to comment on my site, because we have had some lively debates here. Although some trolls don't believe this, I do allow dissenting opinions as long as they are presented honestly and politely and everyone follows The Rules. Anyone who posts long bullshit articles will be dealt with. Links only, please. Why do assholes like the comment spammers (and the trolls)have to ruin a good thing?
Politicans and telemarketers who leave recorded messages on my answering machine. When I got home from work on Friday afternoon I had seven messages and every one of them were, for a lack of a better name, phone spam.
Jimmah Carter. He's a dickhead.
Max "Stumpy" Cleland, the Poodles' mascot. He's a whiner. He lost in Georgia because he was too liberal for the state. He can't seem to get that through his head. Like many liberals he ran as a conservative but governed as a liberal.
I can think of lots more, but that's enough for tonight.
Yeah! Yeah! I know I didn't post anything but pictures last night. I'm still waiting to get chewed out by my sister for that. That's another reason I posted three pictures of her son today.
BBC America has started running The Avengers, with a very young and very beautiful Diana Rigg, on Friday nights. Gotta watch that. Plus I've gotta watch Monk. So all I had time to do was clean up the comment spam, respond to a few comments, and post some pictures. It's not like I'm getting paid to do this. My only payment is my ego as I watch my daily hits inch up.
Anyway, here is a touching story forwarded to me by my friend Pres.
I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart. I have never figured out why the sexual desire gene gets thrown into a state of turmoil, when it hears the words "I do."
For example, one evening last week, my wife and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."
I said "WHAT????!!! What was that?!"
So she says the words that every husband on the planet dreads to hear..."You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man."
She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?"
Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night I went to sleep. The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'll just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings.
Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, Let's go to the cashier".
I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."
Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled WHAT???!!!"
I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for awhile.. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman."
And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"
Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.
Some pictures of my nephew who is in Irag with the Big Red One.
Don't fuck with me asshole!
Not only do I have a rifle, but I got me a big ol' tank!
This is what he looks like after being up for 24 hours.
Obviously fake.
BTW. Didja know that the big thing for girls graduating from high school is to get breast implants for a graduation present? I guess it's all because of pigs like us who like to look at boobage. As for myself, I would prefer real to fake. I'm just posting what some of my male pig friends have sent me.
From a friend who shall remain nameless for his own protection.
Bill Clinton's new book is out.
~900 pages for $21.00 = $0.02/page. Actually, it's already being discounted.
But I located a better buy :
800 sheets for $2.09 = $0.003/sheet.
Sorry folks. This is the last one in the series.
Had to get up bright and early for an 8:00 appointment with my periodontist. Yep! I got gum disease. I know what caused it. In my younger days, when I was immortal, I was a smoker. I quit in my late 20's but the damage was done.
My sister and I don't have the best teeth in the world, although she does have good gums. She never smoked. This segues into a little aside on the leftist chant that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer that the socialists love to say over and over.
Long time readers know that I grew up poor and I came from a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father.
Oh no! Not this "I grew up poor" bullshit again!
Yep! My sister and I didn't go to a regular dentist. We couldn't afford that. We went to the Washington University Dental School and had students work on our teeth. It was much cheaper. It was also much slower. At every stage of the process the student had to get an instructor to approve what he had done before he could continue. What a regular dentist could do in twenty minutes took a student an hour. Arrrgggghhhh!
Anyway, my sister and I didn't like being poor. She got a scholarship to the above mentioned Washington University and became a computer programmer. She got in on the leading edge as she graduated in 1964. She didn't stay poor for long.
Thomas Sowell has pointed out that a good portion of the lowest 20% of income owners do not stay in that category for long.
Y'see this poor getting poorer bullshit is just that. There are opportunities galore to get ahead in this country. Many of "the poor" included in the statistics are college students who are working their way through college. They fit the US gummint's definition of poor.
When my sister was in college, she fit that definition. She was included in the bottom 20%. It didn't take her long to get out of the bottom 20%. At the time she retired, she was in the top 20% (more like the top 10%).
Howza 'bout me? I wasn't smart enough to get a scholarship so I attended junior college and flunked out. Par-ty! Par-ty! Par-ty! My mother welcomed me to the real world and told me it was time to start paying room and board and I better get a job. I got a job but the draft board was breathing down my neck (This was 1965), so I joined the Navy to learn electronics.
I got out of the Navy in late 1969 and started back in college in 1970. I did four semesters at the junior college (that included a summer semester where I took Calculus 2 and Physics 1 in six weeks. Got an A and a B.) and made mostly A's and a few B's. Maybe if I apply myself I can actually succeed. I was considered in the bottom 20% by the gummint at this time.
I transferred to Washington University and burned out in my junior year. I dropped out and a few months later I got hired by TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name). That was 31 years ago. I am in the top 10% in income.
So here we have two poor people, my sister and myself, who went from poverty to riches. My sister is retired, but I'm still working and I'm continuing to get richer. Why? Because I do things that make me richer:
1. I don't live beyond my means.
2. I pay myself first. A set percentage of my income goes into investments.
3. I'm currently reinvesting all my investment income. The 8th Wonder of the World is compound interest.
When I retire sometime within the next two years, my standard of living will not change.
But back to the periodontist. I had gum surgery in my 30's. Now I have my teeth cleaned four times a year: twice by my regular dentist and twice by the periodontist. About every two years, the periodontist gives me novacaine and does a deep cleaning in my problem areas. He goes down by the roots. Today was one of those days. I have a real loose tooth in one of the problem areas so he decided to also x-ray my entire mouth to see if there were other problem areas. My fun morning at the periodontist cost me $500. He's out of plan so my dental plan may pay half of it. The rest I'll submit to my health care reimbursement account. I sure am glad I'm one of the "eeeevvviiilll rich" that John Fonda Kerry and the rest of the Dimocrats bitch about.
Got to work in time to make our weekly meeting on the migration to our new processor. Our cluleless network guy was asking all sorts of network questions. Of course they were clueless questions since he doesn't have a clue, but that is not what this meeting was about. The good thing is as long as this dickhead is our network guy, I have job security since I know more network stuff than he does. My team lead got us on track and we continued our plan of attack.
The novacaine started to wear off.
Now it was time for an all hands conference call on Diversity (All Hail Diversity!).
Fortunately this would fulfill our yearly Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) education requirement. My team lead and I dialed in, put the call on speaker, put the phone on mute, and ignored the phone and continued doing productive work.
After the call, the guy in the next office stopped by and we talked about Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) He thought it was as much a waste of time as we did. This is a guy who in a Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) meeting two years ago when the guy running the meeting told us he was gay (Like we didn't already know it), piped up, "Hey xxxxx, I'm black!"
Back to poverty. This guy (the black guy) was the first person in his family to graduate from high school. He also attended college. He knows how to read, write, and speak English. He came from a bad neighborhood in Los Angeles, but he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and made something of himself. Was it easy? He says right up front that it wasn't. Life isn't fair, but if you want to succeed in the United States you can. When he goes back to California he takes a lot of grief for "acting white".
After the meeting, we sent our manager a note that we had attended. No more Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) bullshit for another year. I may be retired by then.
Novacaine almost all gone.
My team lead had to go to a circle jerk round table meeting with our manager's manager's manager. He asked me if I was going.
Me: I wasn't invited.
Him: You weren't?
Me: Nope!
Him: I wonder why not?
Me: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Him: I see your point.
Me: Now what do you have to remember while you are in this meeting?
Him: Keep my mouth shut.
Me: Right. You don't want to be branded an "attitude problem". Don't tell the captain about the iceberg because when the ship hits it, it will be all your fault.
I haven't made it through 31 years at TCIDNN without learning how to survive in a bureaucracy.
Since he was in the circle jerk round table meeting, I had to represent us in the meeting with the DB2 folks until he finished. Since I'm the guy who does DB2 datasharing in a parallel sysplex environment, we talked about my piece first. This is neat! I know next to nothing about DB2, but I can install a vanilla DB2 subsystem and I can set up a vanilla DB2 three member datasharing group in a parallel sysplex. Plus, I'm the sysplex guy. The latest release of DB2 has 64 bit functionality and the user who is gonna work with me doesn't know any more about it than I do. We'll be able to set up compatibility mode (31 bit) with no sweat. I'll probably have that running in about two weeks and I'll have a sandbox that he can play in. He's coming to Atlanta in October and we'll have to figger all this shit out.
My team lead showed up and we discussed the other issues.
Novacaine gone. Time to go home.
I came home. I had a Stoly on the rocks. I had a fresh tomato and cucumber salad. I'm on my second glass of wine.
Speaking of wine, another six bottles of my 2001 Bordeaux futures came in. I got two cases of 2000 Bordeaux futures and and two cases of 2001 Bordeaux futures. Because of the rise of the Euro, we did real well. I'll drink the 2001's before the 2000's. I ordered 4 cases of 2003 which is supposed to be a killer vintage. A little dark humor since the summer of 2003 was when a lot of French died from the heat. On the upside, the hot summer made for some real good Bordeaux. On the downside, most of what I got I will not be able to drink for another ten years. Gotta make sure I live until at least 2013.
I still have about 8 more bottles of 1995 Bordeaux and some of them are still not ready. I only have one bottle of 1995 Rhone, a delicious Gigondas, left. I've started hitting my 1998 Rhones. I love Rhone reds! I'm glad I'll be gone by the time the Muslims take over France and shut down the wine industry.
I'm moderately mellow and I've rambled on enough for today. I have someone who was nice enough to comment on a post from four months ago and I really want to share her wisdom with y'all. I'll do that one day next week.
Time to kill the bottle of wine.
G'night!
So they're holding an AIDS conference in Bangkok. How fitting. I wonder who thought of that?
A new faux documentary has been released. It is called Outfoxed:Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. It states that Fox News is (Gasp!) conservative! Wow! Hold the presses! What a story! There is only one network that leans to the left while NBCABCCBSCNNNPRPBS may as well be the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. I'll tell you the libs are losing it.
Larry Wachs' bloghas moved to a new site. Larry and his partner Eric were caught up in the overreaction of the FCC and got kicked off their morning show on 96 Rock in Atlanta. He's now collecting a paycheck for doing nothing. Nice work if you can get it. Unlike Howard Stern, he didn't decide to trash the current administration. He's writing some pretty good stuff. I'm on his blogroll so I know he has good taste.
Oh crap! The nursing shortage is gonna get worse. There are over 15,000 Canadian nurses who work in the United States because (Big Surprise!) they can make more money here than they can in Canada. Of course, if Hitlary has her way that will stop. Why are we gonna lose those Canadian nurses?
But on July 26, the final provisions of an 8-year-old immigration law fall into place, requiring Canadian nurses to earn U.S. licenses through a series of proficiency and English-competency tests. As many as 15,000 are not expected to return to their jobs, the council estimates.
You do know that a lot of the people who say they are nurses are not real nurses don't you? Want to know how to tell the real nurse? If you are in a medical facility and you have one nurse taking care of you and another nurse gives you your meds, the one with the meds is the real nurse. The other one is a tech.
A nurse told me a story once about a patient asking her about the "nurse" taking care of him. The patient asked, "The guy who is my nurse today, wasn't he mopping the floor last week?" Yup! Last week he was a janitor. This week he's a "nurse". If we implement socialized medicine it will get worse. Count on it.
The Homeowners Association fascists in my subdivision sent me a letter a few weeks back that my mailbox pole did not meet subdivision standards and gave me two weeks to remedy the situation or they would hire someone to do it and send me a bill. My buddy Wahoo came by today and took care of it for me.
Stumpy is gonna present John Fonda Kerry as the nominee at the Dimocrat convention.
The choice of Cleland to usher in Kerry's crowning on the final night of the convention underscores the intent to highlight the Democratic nominee's life story and military service, reinforcing the theme of the party gathering --- Stronger at Home, Respected in the World.
GMAFB! This is all we've heard.
1. Kerry served in Viet Nam.
2. He's not Bush.
3. He's gonna go give Jacques and Gerhard blowjobs.
4. He's gonna raise taxes.
There are four good reasons to vote for the asshole right there.
They also had some pictures of the Bush twins in today's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. Unfortunately they are not on the web site. These girls are babes! They put Chelsea Clinton and the Kerry girls to shame.
I stole this bumper sticker from Schultzie
That's it for tonight.
I had a Sommelier Guild of Atkanta function tonight and as such am not in any condition to post anything up to my normal standards. Yeah, like I have standards. Anyway, in honor of Chuck Rightmire, some dickhead who says people from Georgia cannot read, here are some Arkansas terms.
Arkansas Medical Terms
Benign.................What you be after you be eight.
Bacteria...............Back door to cafeteria.
Barium.................What you do with dead folks.
Cesarean Section.......A neighborhood in Rome.
Catscan................Searching for the cat.
Cauterize...........Made eye contact with her.
Colic...............A sheep dog.
Coma................A punctuation mark.
D&C.................Where Washington is.
Dilate..............To live longer than your kids do.
Enema..............Not a friend.
Fester.............Quicker than someone else.
Fibula.............A small lie.
G.I.Series.........World Series of military baseball.
Hangnail...........What you hang your coat on.
Impotent............Distinguished, well known.
Labor Pain..........Getting hurt at work.
Morbid..............A higher offer than I bid.
Nitrates............Cheaper than day rates.
Medical Staff.......A Doctor's cane, sometimes shown with a snake.
Node.....................I knew it.
Outpatient...............A person who has fainted.
Pap Smear................A fatherhood test.
Pelvis...................Second cousin to Elvis.
Post Operative...........A letter carrier.
Recovery Room....Place to do upholstery.
Secretion........Hiding something
Tablet...........A small table to change babies on.
Seizure..........Roman emperor who lived in the Ceasarean Section.
Terminal Illness....Getting sick at the train station.
Tumor...............More than one.
Urine...............Opposite of mine.
Varicose............Near by
Hospital............The biggest building in town, other than Joe's feed
warehouse or Franks lumber mill.
Will someone explain to me why the NAACP is a tax exempt organization? Besides wasting their time boycotting states because of the Confederate Flag rather than actually working on solving problems in the black community that Bill Cosby pointed out (I guess he's now an Uncle Tom.) they have basically become an arm of the Dimocrat Party. Non-partisan my crippled ass! They have become a leftwing political organization and should lose their tax exempt status.
As he does every year at this time. Julian Bond rants and raves about how bad the Bush administration is and how they must do everything in their power to defeat them. Doesn't sound much like a non-partisan organization to me.
This was in Monday's Atlanta Urinal and Constiopation:
ELECTION 2004: Bond exhorts NAACP to work to defeat Bush
<sarcasm>As fine of an example of non-partisanship as I've ever seen.</sarcasm>
''They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division,'' Bond said Sunday night in the 95th annual convention's keynote address. ''They've tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution here at home.''
Earth to Julian: The economy is in recovery. Jobs are growing. The only people who want to fuck with the Constitution are you dickheads on the left who refer to it as a "living document". Fuck you! And the only people preaching racial division are you people on the left like Ted Rall who has referred to Condi Rice as a "house niggah". If that ain't hate speech I don't know what is. Look in the mirror you fucking bigot. You are the problem, not the solution. Forget about the Confederate Flag and start thinking about all the black males in prison. Start thinking about all the black students who don't want to learn because that is "acting white". When you start talking about things like that instead of blaming everything on whitey I'll start taking you seriously. Until then, STFU!
Leaders of the group are upset that President Bush has no plans to attend the convention
Lah-di-freakin'-dah! Why should he attend your fucking convention when all you asswipes will do is boo his white ass off the stage? Two words for you: Fuck. You.
Bond said that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, and 40 years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, schools remain segregated based on income, and racism still exists.Minority children still face inequality in school spending and are being disproportionately hurt by the accountability aims of Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, he said.
Isn't it ironic that it was white Dimocrats in the South who stood in front of school house doors keeping black children out before Brown v Board of Education and now it is black "leaders" alligned with the teachers unions (the biggest enemy of accountability in gummint schools) who are standing in the school house doors keeping black children in failing schools by opposing vouchers. Freaking amazing!
Enough of this shit!
Howza 'bout the Dimocrat fund raiser in New York last week? I hear Whoopie Goldberg really went off on Bush and the Dimocrat faithful along with John Fonda Kerry and John Baby Face Edwards ate it up. In fact the Poodle and Baby Face said about the event:
their "campaign will be a celebration of real American values" and that "every performer conveyed ... the heart and soul of our country."
So the heart and soul of the country is Whoopie Goldberg making cheap jokes about the president and pointing to her genitals every time she mentioned his name. C'mon John-John, if every performer conveyed the "heart and soul of our country" and "real American values", howza 'bout letting us peons see the tape of the event so we all know what you think the "heart and soul of our country" and "real American values" really look like? Ain't gonna happen is it, you fucking hypocrites?
Lemme get this straight. Cheney tells Leahy to go fuck himself and that is bad, bad, bad! We have an anti-Bush hate fest that includes all sorts of obscenities and that represents the "heart and soul of the country" and "real American values".
Holy shit Toto! We sure ain't in fucking Kanses anymore.
And the American public take these assholes seriously? There is sumpin' seriously wrong with America if these dickwads win.
Oh yeah. I can spew all the obscenities that I want because I don't claim to be the heart and soul of the country and represent real American values.
But I bet I'm a hell of a lot closer to real American values than Whoopie Goldberg.
I'm not a fucking socialist!
Yet another one from Jeannette.
I live near a small town and farming community, and the following event
happened to a friend of mine, a farmer named Ken Kellog. Ken raises sheep,
and he has this surly, unpredictable ram which boldly tries to escape the
pasture at any opportunity. He also has quite a temper (the ram, not Ken).
A bunch of ravens had their nests near by -- about twenty ravens in all. Ten
ravens make up a swoop, just like more than four sheep are a flock, etc.
Anyways, these ravens loved to harass the ram. They'd fly down into the field
and caw at him until he charged at them. Then they'd all fly upward, and the
ram would crash into the fence. Once, though, one of the ravens didn't get
out of the way in time, and he was crushed against the fencepost. The others
decided to get revenge.
When Farmer Kellog came out to check on his sheep one day, he forgot to lock
the gate properly. The ravens, working together, pushed it open, and lured
the ram out into the hayfield. They flew towards the bailing maching, the ram
bleating furiously all the way. At the last moment, the ravens pulled up --
and the ram ran straight into the bailer.
He came out the other side in a mangled package. Twenty big black birds came
to perch upon him, satisfied, leaving the farmer with ...
Have you figgered it out yet?
two swoops of ravens on a package of Kellog's brazen ram.
Last week I wrote a post called Squidley Hates Ashcroft disagreeing with Squidley's premise that four more years of Bush as president would ruin this country because of all the evil things that Ashcroft is supposedly doing to destroy our country and abolish our freedoms.
I do agree that trading freedom for security will get us neither freedom nor security. I also think that we have far more to fear from the liberals and the socialists than we do from the conservatives or the libertarians.
As a little aside here, one of my readers pointed out that many liberals seem to be ashamed to call themselves liberal. For example, John Fonda Kerry, who has the most liberal record in the Senate, does not call himself a liberal. Is he ashamed of being a liberal? John Baby Face Edwards has the fourth most liberal voting record in the Senate. He is so liberal that he probably would not have been reelected to his Senate seat. He does not call himself a liberal. Likewise, is he ashamed of being a liberal? Why do conservatives admit to being conservatives, but many liberals do not admit to being liberals?
Here's another example. Max Stumpy Cleland has been whining about how the reason he lost in Georgia was he was labeled unpatriotic by the Chambliss cmapaign. Actually Stumpy lost because he was too liberal for Georgia. He campaigned as a conservative, but voted as a liberal. And now he's spending all his time serving as Kerry's mascot on the campaign trail.
Like I said, I fear the left far more than the right.
The left wants to disarm the populace using "reasonable" gun control laws. Bullshit! One of the first steps to a totalitarian state is disarming the populace. Hitler did it in Germany. Lenin and Stalin did it in the Soviet Union. Read the Declaration of Independence.
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it
How we gonna do it? With sticks?
But it can't happen here.
Yeah. That's what they said in Germany. The Founders didn't want to take any chances. That's why they put the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Isn't it ironic that the same left wing wackos who are calling Bush Hitler are the same moonbats who want to disarm the populace because "guns are eeeeevil"?
Campaign Finance "Reform", although cosponsored by John McCain is really a cause of the left and the liberal media. It was never a big deal for anyone else. Limiting money in campaigns is impossible. People will always find ways around the law. An example is Moveon.Org and other organizations like it. Limiting money in campaigns is also illegal as it is a violation of the First Amendment.
Who skirted campaign finance laws in the 90's? Al "No legal controlling authority" Gore who got money from poor Buddhist monks.
The only campaign finance law I want to see is full disclosure. I want to know who is buying our politicans and how much they are paying for them.
Howza 'bout the whole nanny state? We have an underclass that relies on the gummint for food and housing. Do they have freedom? No. They have traded it for security.
We expect the gummint to do so much for us that we have an onerous tax system. Have you ever had to deal with the IRS? Have you ever been audited? With the IRS you are guilty until proven innocent. Trust me on this. I've been through an audit. It sucks! And they change the rules on the fly.
Here is a short version of my story.
I invested in a tax shelter. One of the members got audited. The IRS gave him numbers that they would accept. I filed an amended tax return using the IRS numbers. Three months later I got audited. When I pointed out that I was using numbers that the IRS had approved he told me that was a different IRS office that had approved those numbers. I protested. He told me to take it to tax court.
One of the other members took the IRS to court and they kept getting continuances. He had to take off work to go to court. Finally he gave up.
It used to be that the father worked and the mother stayed home. Taxes were low. Social Security taxes were low. Now, to manage the tax burden for our wonderful welfare state both parents have to work. Now the left is saying we should have gummint sponsored day care. Think how much that would cost. If the tax burden were not so high we wouldn't need it. The wife wouldn't have to work. We've traded freedom for security.
The left wants to introduce socialized medicine and the model they want to use is the Canadian system where they have long lines for procedures and operations. That's why many Canadians have to come here for treatment. But being a socialist is believing that the only reason socialism has never worked is because the right people (like Hillary Clinton) have not been in charge.
The left identifies a problem, like health care, makes the problem worse with gummint regulations (and the help of trial lawyers like Baby Face) and then offers a gummint solution. As P. J. O'Rourke once said, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see how much it costs when it's free."
The left wants us to trade individual freedom for the common good. Just recently, Hillary Clinton let her mask slip and showed her true colors at an event for Barbara Boxer (Communist Party of Kalifornia).
"'Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you,' Sen. Clinton said. 'We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.'"
She's gonna "take things away from you on behalf of the common good". Spoken like a true communist.
It's the socialists in this country that I'm worried about. They're the ones who want to take away our freedoms for "the common good".
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
It's time for a Clinton Library series. Here is the first of the series.
Dear DNC and Senator Kerry,
I would first of all like to congratulate Senator Kerry on his nomination
and also thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind.
I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president, I worked in a
prosperous enterprise. But in this last year, we had to close our
operations. Far worse, I lost two of my sons in Bush's evil war in Iraq.
They gave their lives for their country, and for what?
My pain of losing my sons is indescribable. While it is trivial next to the
loss of my sons, I regret to say that I also lost my homes. I simply had
nothing left.
I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I'm not in a position where I can begin a new career. I was reduced to the point where I was
homeless, all because of President Bush. And when the authorities found me, did they have any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No, I was
arrested. If I had any money left, I would donate it to the Democratic
party. If Al Gore had been elected in 2000, I guarantee you, I would still
have a job, a home, and most importantly, my sons!
Regards,
Saddam Hussein
Sent to me by Woody.
Here is a visual perception challenge for you. See how quickly you can find the dogs in the following picture.
Typical comments by people taking the test:
1. "I couldn't see a dog and I stared at the picture for a good 10 minutes."
2. "I think it is one of those pictures where you have to stare at a certain spot and then everything comes into focus, but it never happened to me. I'll give it another try later."
3. "I almost didn't find the dogs at all!"
4. "There's a dog in this picture? Where?"
5. "This must be a joke; there are no dogs in this picture."
6. "The hell with the dogs, I need CPR."
For some as yet unexplained reason men seem to do better at this than women. In a determined effort to address this inequity, the state university's Department of Women's Studies has devoted a significant budget to finding answers and is currently processing numerous applications from female researchers and students alike to volunteer for the project. Even NOW (Nationwide Ostracized Women) has reportedly discussed the problem in secret committee meetings.
The following are average times for men and women:
Women - 12.46 minutes
Men - 1.23 seconds
Hint: The dogs appear to be white with black spots.
Good luck and happy hunting.
If you're still having problems, click on the picture for a larger image.
Have you seen the pictures of John Fonda Kerry and John "Baby Face" Edwards? Geez! The Poodle can't keep his hands off the Ambulance Chaser. I keep expecting to see an Algore and Tipper moment. The picture in the Urinal and Constipation yesterday looked like a prelude to a liplock. Give it a rest guys!
I found the following in the comments section of my Kerry and Edwards post.
"Single issue election"? If that's how you see it, OK. For me, I see at least one more issue. Yes, we want to protect our way of life from terrorists. Let's also have a way of life worth protecting. If Ashcroft and his ilk have their way for another four years, our American way of life won't be worth protecting anymore."People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security."
-Benjamin FranklinMaybe W is the better choice than Kerry for war issues. Still, I'll be voting for Kerry, because I can't stand what W is doing to the country.
Now Squidley was polite and I give first time posters the benefit of the doubt. He did sound like a typical Michael Moore type raving moonbat, but I asked him for facts as to exactly what Bush is doing to the country. I was just curious if his single issue trumped my single issue.
I also agree with the Franklin quote, and I believe the actual quote is They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. to an extent. Remember, in our history we have done some unusual things. More on this later.
Here is his response
What’s wrong with Ashcroft?He fails to uphold the Constitution.
Under Ashcroft’s lead, American-born Jose Padilla was arrested as an “enemy combatant” and placed in custody in a military prison. A US citizen, arrested on US soil, detained for two years without charges or a trial. Sounds like Ashcroft doesn’t much care for the 6th amendment, which guarantees “a speedy and public trial,” as well as “the Assistance of Counsel.” He’s no fan of the 5th, either, which guarantees that no one shall “be deprived of... liberty... without due process of law.”
The Supreme Court has ruled against the Bush Administration on this issue. (Unfortunately for Padilla, he filed in the wrong court, but this ruling will benefit him.)
One example and it was remedied by the Supreme Court. The system works and it will continue to work. Let me point out that Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeus Corpus during the Civil War. And what about the internment of the Japanese? Sorry. This is nowhere near as bad as you make it. This sounds like the right wing loonies who were saying that Clinton was gonna use Y2K as an excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections. Maybe when Ashcroft fries some wacky cult in Waco, I'll start worrying. Or when he sends in jackbooted thugs to scare the shit out of a little boy and send him back to communist Cuba. So far Janet Reno has him beat.
He is attempting to force the executive branch into judicial decisions. Ashcroft told “federal prosecutors to report federal judges who hand down penalties that don’t meet federal sentencing requirements.” (Mother Jones article) This violates the principles of the separation of powers, as well as checks and balances. Put simply, Ashcroft is interfering with judges doing their job--judging.
No, he is trying to interfere with judges. He is not succeeding. I am more concerned about Dimocrats filibustering judicial appointments in the Senate. In the entire history of the Republic this has never happened. This is the Dimocrats in the Senate subverting the judicial appointments process. That is also interfering with judges since they will only allow judges who agree with their views. I'm still not worried about Ashcroft as much as the leftist Senators who are violating the Constitution by requiring a 60% vote rather than a simple majority to confirm judges.
He has extreme religious views which affect his law enforcement choices. As a Pentacostalist, he disapproves of drinking, caffeine consumption, and premarital sex, not to mention dancing, smoking, and gambling. While this is clearly a personal choice, he’s out of step with the millions of Americans who drink, have premarital sex, and enjoy caffeinated beverages, even if they don’t do the other stuff. The important thing is that all of this is legal. My concern is what this means for his priorities for law enforcement. For example, 32 prosecutors, investigators, and agents are part of a multi-million dollar Justice Department program to elimimate porn. Legal, consenting-adult porn. This is the first time in 10 years that anti-obscenity cases are being brought to court by the Justice Department. Is this the best use of Justice Department energy and our tax money?
But he will lose. The Supreme Court has supported porn. Even kiddie porn. To say he is trying to impose his religious beliefs on us is bullshit. He is not! I'm not worried about Ashcroft. I was more worried about Janet Reno. And as far as being out of step with millions of Americans, the majority of Americans are against partial birth abortion which the Dimocrats support. So should we be afraid of Hillary Clinton trying to force her beliefs on us? Whooops! Bad example. She's a dangerous socialist and she does want to force her beliefs on us. Despite what your left wing media sources say, Ashcroft is not going to outlaw smoking, drinking, and dancing. And so far, the only people who are trying to ban smoking are the leftist nannny state types.
As for assaults on the Bill of Rights, I'm more frightened of the Dimocrats. They are the ones who are trying to enact hate speech laws in violation of the First Amendment. And a pox on both parties for the ridiculous McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law and a pox on the Supreme Court for not striking it down.
I'm more worried about the Dimocrats who are trying to pass gun control laws in violation of the Second Amendment.
I'm more worried about the left who think the Constitution is a living document. There have been far more assaults on the Constitution by the left than by the right.
Fact: During the Clinton administration over 1000 FBI files were in the possession of the White House. That scared me.
Fact: More people were killed at Waco than Ashcroft has killed. That scared me.
Fact: The Clinton administration sicced the IRS on its enemies. That scared me.
I'm not worried about Ashcroft. I am worried about al Qaeda. I am worried about Hillary Clinton. The Poodle wants to have the UN solve the problem. We tried that. No matter what he says, France and Germany will not come on board. This is a job we have to do ourselves.
The Dimocrats failed to win the Cold War. They were responsible for extending it. They will fail to win World War IV and if the Poodle is elected it will set us back in the war. I would like to see us win it in my lifetime. The Poodle and Baby Face are not the people to do it.
Sorry Squidley, you did not convince me. And please do not use Mother Jones as a source. They're to the left of The Nation.
As you can probably tell, I'm pissed off tonight. Liberals just drive me crazy. So you can just imagine how a piece of bullshit like this editorial from the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation made me feel.
As the reigning world superpower, the United States has an opportunity --- and an obligation --- to lead the international community in lowering man-made carbon dioxide gas emissions --- a major contributor to global warming. It's disappointing that hasn't happened.
Bad United States! Bad! We should be ashamed of ourselves!
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced that his nation will soon ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for industrialized nations to take collective action to begin addressing the problem, President Bush isn't budging from his decision to renege on an earlier campaign promise to do likewise.
Dear Cynthia Tucker and the rest of the liberals on the AJC editorial board: Fuck you! Did I mention that I am pissed? The simplistic thinking of these assholes just amazes me. The Kyoto treaty was defeated in the Senate 98 to 0. Two senators were missing for that vote. Let's see. I think that vote was in 1998. That means that out of Ted 'The Swimmer' Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Chuck 'The Schmuck' Schumer, and John Fonda Kerry, at least two of these shining liberals voted against it. Jesus H. Christ! Even the Dimocrat Party is against it!
Bush has argued against signing the treaty, claiming that it would unduly damage our nation's economic well-being. That's a powerful, if short-sighted argument: While the costs of implementing Kyoto for the United States may indeed be substantial, they would not outweigh the economic and inestimable environmental benefits that would accrue.
What universe are these people living in? Implementing Kyoto would totally destroy our economy. Yeah the costs would be substantial. It would throw this country into a massive depression. On the upside, we would all be breathing real well. Unfortunately we would be starving.
More liberal platitudes with no practical solutions. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. Blah. Blah. Blah.
And then the final statement.
If Bush doesn't believe in the Kyoto accords, he has an obligation to offer up a reasonable alternative.
Here's a reasonable alternative. All you fucking liberals who think implementing Kyoto is a good idea these are the things I want you to do:
1. Sell your cars.
2. Sell your house and move to a hut in the country with no gas and no electricity.
3. Eat all your food raw since building a fire would pollute the environment. Use extra blankets in the winter.
4. Hunt or grow all of your food. Trucks and trains, which pollute the environment are used to deliver food to the stores.
3. Let us build more nuclear power plants to replace fossil fuel plants.
4. Fuck the snail darter. Let us build more dams.
You dipshits are the problem not the solution. Until you can come up with practical solutions rather than mouthing the same old bullshit liberal platitudes, STFU!
Fuck Face's and Baby Face's favorite brand. Also a top seller in France for those French who actually use deodorant.
Did you see this bullshit?. The Dimocrats have gone stark raving mad!
The United Nations has turned down a controversial request by nine members of the U.S. Congress to assign international observers to the U.S. presidential election in November.The request came in the form of a letter drafted by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, and signed by eight other members of the House.
GMAFB! Eddie Bernice Johnson? Jesus H. Christ! She's almost as wacko as Maxine Waters.
"We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy," the lawmakers wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
You fuckheads just can't get over Florida. You asswipes lost! It's ancient history. You were defeated by a moron. You would think that with all the military votes you had thrown out in Florida you would have been able to steal the election, but you were outsmarted by someone as stupid as Dubwa. But you were able to change the rules in New Jersey to steal the election for Lautenburg. And you did manufacture enough bogus votes in South Dakota to steal that election for Tim Johnson. You're ahead two to one and that's not even counting the 1960 election.
Let's see who the fuckheads are who have come up with this bullshit.
Besides Johnson, the other representatives signing the letter to Annan – all Democrats –
I'm shocked! All Dimocrats? Who woulda thunk that?
were Julia Carson of Indiana; Jerrold Nadler, Edolphus Towns, Joseph Crowley and Carolyn B. Maloney, all of New York; Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Corrine Brown of Florida, Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, Danny K. Davis of Illinois and Michael M. Honda of California.
Jerrold "the Hut" Nadler? You assholes in New York must be so proud?
Yep! This is the party that wants to govern. How sad. Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave.
What do you think the troops think about Michael Moore?
Shamelessly stolen from Kim du Toit's site.
SPC Gaskin, send me a picture like this and I'll gladly post it.
And to all you fucking liberals: The troops are for Bush. Osama bin Laden is for John Fonda Kerry and Baby Face Edwards. Go ahead. Vote with a fucking terrorist. You people make me sick to my stomach.
And to Jessica and my friend Jane (and I love ya to death), I know you don't like Bush. Just don't vote for Kerry. Thanks.
I'm a programmer. I used to teach programming. Granted, I'm an MVS systems programmer (with some VM and VSE thrown in) so I don't have to actually write code outside of JCL. I can do a little assembler and REXX. I understand how software works. If it breaks, it means sumpin' has changed. It doesn't break by itself. Unless, of course, it was written by Microsoft.
I've had a bug on my work PC for the last three months. When it is almost booted up all the way it says that applications won't start because the workstation is shutting down. It then brings up a window that says a program is ending and I can click to end it now. Most of the time, if I wait, eventually I will have the choice of ending it or selecting cancel. If I take the cancel option, my PC won't shut down and I can use it.
I haven't tried to fix the bug because that would entail calling up the (No) Help (Whatsoever) Desk and going through an hour of bullshit that probably wouldn't fix the problem anyway. Then I would have to take my PC somewhere to have an actual human look at it.
This is one of the things I really hate about the PC world. They dump most of the support on the end user. A lot of us have actual productive work to do and when our main tool breaks, we have to do most of the work in fixing it.
First we call up some dickhead (who could be anywhere in the world and as such has a heavy accent) who reads from a script hoping that we have a common problem that can be fixed over the phone. When this doesn't work, the call is escalated and may take one or two additional days before someone with some actual knowledge contacts us. This dude may come and fix the problem or he may have us take the PC to a service center. Meanwhile, if we haven't figgered out some sort of a work around we're SOL.
That's why I do not like to call the (No) Help (Whatsoever) Desk in the first place. If I can get it to work, I'm afraid to call someone who doesn't know any more that I do and by following his script, may make things worse for me.
As I said, I've been living with this problem for three months. I went in to work this morning and fired up my PC. To my amazement, it came all the way up with no problems! I have done absolutely nothing to the PC. I have not installed any new programs. I have not removed any programs. I have not changed any settings. My antivirus program that I run once a week has not picked off or quarantined any viruses.
The programmer in me says that this is impossible. Sumpin' has to have changed to break my PC and sumpin' has to have changed to fix my PC. Maybe there are some Microsoft gnomes who sneak into my house at night, crawl into my backpack, and do strange things to my PC.
Two years ago I pretended I was a Microsoft programmer and wrote what I thought must be actual Windows 98 code. Here it is.
check reg(fu) /* check fu register */
if reg(fu)=ff /* threshold */
set counter(po)=0 /*set piss off counter to 0*/
then go to routine(fu) /* go to fu routine */
else continue /* continue normal operation */
exit
/***************fu routine************/
routine(fu)
pull date
if date=even
then go to routine(bsod)
else go to routine(lockup)
exit
/**************Blue Screen of Death Routine*****************/
routine(bsod)
here
get image(bsod) /*get bogus blue screen of death image*/
wait /*wait for user interrupt*/
go to here /*loop back to top. Eventually user will power off or give three finger salute*/
exit
/******************Lockup Routine****************/
routine(lockup)
here1
freeze /*freeze and wait for three finger salute*/
input (altctldel)
put up waiting for app menu
go to here1 /*loop back to top and randomly decide when will actually reboot or force user to power off*/
exit
/*******boot up after crash routine**********/
routine(bootupac)
do lots of disk accesses /*pretend to actually be doing something*/
display Windows 98 logo
go to routine(scandisk)
exit
/**************scan disk routine**************/
routine(scandisk)
say 'Because Windows was not properly shut down one or more of your disk drives may have errors.'
say'To avoid having this happening in the future, shutdown Windows 98 using the Shutdown option'
run scandisk
pull counter(po) /*see if this is first time thru. If so, make him do it again. If not, come up ok*/
if counter(po)=0
then add 1
go to routine(fu)
else go to continue /*continue normal boot up*/
I gotta learn Linux!
This is why they don't take Uncle Willy hunting anymore.
John Fonda Kerry selected John 'Baby Face' Edwards as his running mate. I predicted this. I kept telling my friend, Michael that he was gonna do this. I'm sure he's thinking that Edwards can bring in at least one southern state. So now we have two Dimocrat senators, one who is to the left of Ted Kennedy and the other who has been in the Senate for five years and has never sponsored any meaningful legislation. Yeah, that's a dream team. By the way, the press was beating up on Bob Dole in 1996 for not doing a good job in the Senate because he was campaigning. He resigned. Note the double standard. The press hasn't said anything about all the votes Kerry has missed. Liberal media? Nah!
A few weeks ago Reiggin asked me to write sumpin' optimistic about the election. Here goes.
Kerry is gonna get a big bump in the polls for the next four weeks because of selecting the VP and the Dimocrat convention. Big deal! As I've been telling my friend Michael, Dukakis, the last Massachusetts liberal was ahead of Bush 41 by 18 points in 1988. It's gonna be all Kerry until August.
After the Dimocrat convention and during the runup to the Republican convention, Bush will start coming back in the polls.
Economy - Kerry should not have the economy as an issue. The economy is back and is creating jobs. As much as Dimocrats might want to tell you that gummint creates jobs they are full of shit. The best way for gummint to aid in the growth of jobs is to get out of the way and let the free market work.
Taxes - Kerry has promised a middle class tax cut while raising taxes on the rich. The last Dimocrat who promised a middle class tax cut was Bill Clinton, and after he was elected he gave us the largest tax increase in history. Another problem is who constitutes the rich and who constitutes the middle class. Ask a Dimocrat. Try it. See if you can get an answer. I think to a Dimocrat, anywone who has any money is classified as rich. Remember, the last Dimocrat who cut taxes was John Kennedy. That was forty years ago. Yeah. I really believe that John Fonda Kerry is gonna cut taxes.
Health care - Here we go again. Kerry is talking up health care and how 43 million people are uninsured. BFD! Many of those people are uninsured by choice. They choose not to buy insurance. They're healthy and don't think they need it. I was that way from 1969 to 1973 when I got out of the Navy and was attending college. Some of them cannot afford it. Why? Because trial lawyers like Baby Face have made malpractice premiums so high that the cost of providing medical care has gone up. The poor have Medicaid. There is not a health care crisis in this country. There will be if the Dimocrats have their way.
The War on Terror - This is the wild card. What happens if there is a terrorist attack in this country right before the election? Will we take the coward's way out, like Spain, and elect Kerry who wants to go to the United Nations and let France have veto power over our foreign policy or will we stay the course and go with someone who wants to take the fight to the enemy?
Let's talk about the United Nations. Name me one successful United Nations intervention since its existence. It was an abysmal failure in the Balkans. The blue helmets got out of the way and watched the slaughter and the ethnic cleansing. NATO, meaning we and the Brits, finally had to intervene and stop the killing.
Check out Africa. We had a massive slaughter in Rwanda. The same thing is going on in the Sudan. The United Nations is doing absolutely nothing. The only success was Gulf War I, and once again, it was mainly we and the Brits.
Any United States leader who wants to put us under the United Nations has no business being president. I would hope the American people would be smart enough to realize that, but then, we have a populace brainwashededucated in gummint schools. The teachers unions are one of the largest block of the Dimocrat Party and they have been indoctrinating our children to try to make them good little socialists.
We also have all the wild eyed liberals suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome. They hate Bush so much they are going off the deep end like Algore. Give that dude some Prozac. We saw that happen in 1996. The right hated Clinton so much that all their conspiracy theories made them look like a bunch of raving moonbats. We are seeing the same thing with the left today. Do the American people really want to see Michael Moore as the face of the Dimocrat Party? This guy has waddled all over the world telling everyone how stupid Americans are and how bad our country is. If the Dimocrats want to be the party of hate America first like Michael Moore and the other liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer (and Baghdad Jim McDermott, Osama Patty Murray, and Cynthia McKinney) they will turn off middle America.
Kerry has the problem that all liberals have in a national election. They have to run as moderates. Max Cleland tried that in Georgia. After voting as a Massachusetts liberal for six years in the Senate he tried to cast himself as a moderate. His voting record said otherwise andthe peopleof Georgia threw him out of office. He claimed they questioned is patriotism. We didn't. We threw him out because he was too liberal for Georgia.
Kerry is trying to do the same thing. He has voted against every major defense program. When called on it he claims that the Republicans are questioning his patriotism. They are not. They are simply pointing out that he is weak on defense.
We're fighting a war on terror. It is World War IV and will last for quite some time. Do we want someone who is weak on defense and who will prolong the war, just like the dimocrats did the Cold War, or do we want someone who will take the war to the enemy and kick some raghead ass.
To me this is a single issue election. Do we want to appease the terrorists, like the Dimocrats want to, or do we want to kick the shit out of them?
I know how I'm voting. I know how the America I grew up in would vote.
It wouldn't be for the Poodle and Baby Face.
This looks like a good spot. No one can see me here.
From Woody.
Oh no! I almost forgot the Monday pun. Here is another one from Jeannette.
One day, a man decided to learn some new sports. He spent some time finding
out what was available for him, but after a few months, he called some of his
friends out to watch him trying out some of his ideas.
They all followed him up to the top of a local cliff. Not a big cliff, but
still they were puzzled about why he had taken them there.
"Let me show you," he said, and produced from a cage a small yellow bird. He
held the bird by the feet, and proceeded to jump off the cliff.
His friends were obviously worried, but he was fine, albeit slightly bruised,
and returned to the top of the cliff.
"Well, " he said, after a pause, "I don't think much of this budgie-jumping."
So, then he revealed that he had also brought a chicken with him. His friends
were forced to watch an almost identical sequence of events all over again.
Once again, he hit the sand at the bottom of the cliff, trudged back to the
top, and said to his by now growing audience, "Hen-gliding doesn't seem to
work for me either."
Finally, he tried once more. This time, it was a parrot. Again, he leapt off
the cliff holding the unfortunate bird by the feet. This time though, as he
jumped, he pulled out a hand gun, and shot the bird as he fell.
The end results were pretty much the same, though, and he arrived at the top
of the cliff with yet more bruises.
The crowd waited to hear what he would say this time....
He paused, scratched his head, and opened his mouth.
The crowd hushed....
Finally, he said: "And that's the last time I try parrot-shooting too."
She's wearing the helmet backwards so it won't interfere with the tin foil cap she is wearing underneath it.
As we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which for people who attended gummint schools, happened in 1776, I worry about my country when I read shit like this. WTF has happened to the Dimocrat Party? They call themselves the party of Jefferson, but Jefferson would be shocked to see what they have become. I think Kim du Toit was right when he said we should reorganize North America. Let's just get rid of the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia. Go ahead. Give it to Mexico. See how Barbara Streisand and her ilk would enjoy being citizens of that country.
What would John Adams, Sam Adams and Paul Revere make of Ted Kennedy and John Fonda Kerry?
Michael Moore ran around Europe and told everyone that Americans were the dumbest people in the world. He's partially right. The people who read his books, watch his movies, and believe his anti-American bullshit are the dumbest people in the world.
Let's see. America is the strongest and wealthiest nation on the planet. Isn't it amazing that the dumbest people in the world were somehow able to achieve that?
We dummies put a man on the moon.
We morons built the atomic bomb. We used it twice and were horrified at the results, but it ended World War II and saved lives. My friend Cindy's father was on his way to fight in the Pacific when the bomb ended the war.
We stupid neanderthals are the most powerful nation on the planet, but no other country has tempered the use of its power as we have. We do not conquer, we liberate.
Is Japan one of our colonies? Is Germany a colony? France? Italy?
A quote from Colin Powell:
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works."
And we are using hard power now, but still we hold back. What do you think the Romans would have done with Fallujah? They would have leveled the city as they did Carthage. In Gaul, after an uprising, Caesar did not make the insurgents wear panties on their heads, he cut off their hands as a warning to the rest of Gaul.
We have fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq with minimal civilian casualties unlike what the anti-American assholes would have you believe. There has probably never been a war where any military tried to spare as many civilian lives as we have.
I'm just wondering when we're gonna build that pipeline through Afghanistan that Michael Moore claims we went to war for?
When are we gonna start stealing Iraq's oil?
Dammit! We sure are dumb. We invaded two countries and we still haven't done what Michael Moore said we planned on doing after the invasions.
I love my country. I'm proud to be an American. I hated my four years in the Navy because I'm just not military material, but I am proud that I served.
I despised Bill Clinton (I still do), but even though I opposed the war in Kosovo, I did not want to see our soldiers die. The left in this country delights in every American death in Afghanistan and Iraq. How can they call themselves Americans? They wanted us to lose the Cold War and they want to see us lose the War on Terror. What is wrong with these people?
And speaking of assholes, that brings us to Jimmy Carter. His presidency was a total disaster. His one achievement as an ex-president is Habitat For Humanity. I'll give him that. What really pisses me off, other than his incredible incompetence, was his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded to him as a slap in the face for America. He should have told them to shove the Prize, but he showed his disdain for his country by accepting it. What an asshole!
For more on Jimmy Carter go here.
I hear you can buy fireworks in the shape of bin Laden's head so you can blow him up. I'd like to see one in the shape of Michael Moore's head. Or Jimmy Carter's.
Kaboom!
Sure we live in a gated community, but I can never remember that stupid code.
I know someone who might do this and he is Chinese.
A Chinese man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer.
He tells the loan officer that he is going to Taiwan on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the Chinese hands over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank.
He produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the Chinese for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.
Two weeks later, the Chinese man returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.
The loan officer says, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi-millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"
The Chinese man replies: "Where else in New York City can I park my car for 2 weeks, for only $15.41, and expect it to be there when I return?"
Since we're coming up on Independence Day I decided to post another Navy picture. From right to left: Pres Smith, Greg Stigi, and yours truly. Check it out, Gerard. We're playing bar chords.
This was taken aboard the USS Iredell County LST-839, sometime in 1969. It may have been Da Nang.
Forty years ago Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. How ironic that it was a southern Dimocrat who made this happen. It was the crowning achievement of his presidency. It was a counterbalance to the failed Great Society. At the same time that blacks were granted equal rights, which was long overdue, the failed War on Poverty began, a program that has created a permanent black underclass dependent upon gummint for its existence.
Isn't it amazing that liberals are demanding results in Iraq after less than a year-and-a-half, but are making excuses for forty years of failed liberal social welfare programs?
Forty years after being granted equal rights, how are blacks doing? To hear the RWPP's (Race Warlord Poverty Pimps) tell it, not too well. Of course the RWPP's are doing just great. Jesse Jackson, who has never held a job, is a millionaire. Nice work if you can get it. Al Sharpton, another unemployed person, is finally gonna have a job. He's gonna appear on a reality TV show as a job counselor. Also, nice work if you can get it.
Many blacks have made it into the middle class. Liberals would like to say this is because of affirmative action, racial quotas, and other programs designed to level the playing field. Perhaps that's so. Of course, under the Civil Rights Act, technically that's illegal since it is a form of discrimination. And, just when will the playing field be level? Once again, never as long as the RWPP's can continue to make money off race hustling.
What I'm concerned about is why we need to lower the standards for blacks. Why do they score lower on the SAT's? I don't think black people are dumber than white people. Just like I don't think white people are dumber than Asians who seem to score even higher on the SAT's.
Here is where I am irate. I am pissed about the condescending attitude of liberals who insist on lower standards for blacks. That is bigotry and it is disgusting. It is even more disgusting when it is black leaders like John Lewis doing it. Did he get beat up during the civil rights era so he could make excuses for people not living up to their potential?
Inner city schools suck. They have sucked for the last forty years. Liberals have been throwing money at them for the last forty years. That has not solved the problem. Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. It only made the problem worse. Social promotion enabled people to graduate illiterate. They felt real good about themselves with all that great self esteem but were unable to fill out a job application.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That's what the liberals have been doing for the last forty years. Dontcha think that maybe we could try sumpin' different, like vouchers? In another case of irony, a majority of blacks want vouchers, but the Dimocrat Party, which obviously takes the black vote for granted, is opposed to vouchers because of the teachers unions. The teachers unions are also opposed to any kind of accountability in the gummint schools.
Jesse Jackson sent his children to private schools. He is against vouchers.
Al Sharpton sent his children to private schools. He is against vouchers.
Bill and Hillary sent Chelsea to a private school. They are against vouchers.
Another thing that I have written about extensively is the anti-achievement mentality of the current black culture. Why do Asians do so well? Because their parents demand it.
The school in Georgia with the highest SAT scores in Georgia is Walton High School. The students' parents are very active in their children's education. They demand excellence.
Even in integrated schools the whites do better than the blacks. Why? Because of the peer pressure among black students that doing well is acting white. Do you ever hear Al Sharpton denouncing this? Do you ever hear Jesse Jackson denouncing this? You certainly won't ever hear Cynthia McKinney denouncing this. And John Lewis, where do you stand on this? It is so much easier to blame white people.
So forty years after the Civil Rights Act we find that the biggest hinderance to black success is no longer racism. It is the Dimocrats' failed social policies. It is the RWPP's. It is the teachers unions. And it is the anti-achievement mentality that doing well in school is acting white.
If only we could pass a Stop the Bullshit Act of 2004.
Probably done by the same guy who did the balcony from last night. You can tell by the speed limit sign that this is in Europe somewhere. Porbably France.
Sorry. I'm taking the night off. I wanted to rant about Michael Moore and some of the bullshit that has been spewing out of his mouth. He's been running around the world telling everybody just how stupid Americans are. Then he releases a bullshit movie that sets a record attendance for a "documentary". Also his books were best sellers. I guess he is right. Some Americans are incredibly stupid. I call those people Dimocrats.
So this post won't be a total waste, here's a joke that Woody sent me.
The Lion Tamer
A circus owner runs an ad for a lion tamer and two people show up.
One is a good looking older man in his mid-sixties and the other is a gorgeous, dark- skinned, brunette in her mid-twenties.
The circus owner tells them, "I'm not going to sugar coat it. This is one ferocious lion. He ate my last tamer, so you guys better be good or you're history. Here's your equipment -- chair, whip and a gun. Who wants to try out first?"
The girl says, "I'll go first." She walks past the chair, the whip and the gun and steps right into the lion's cage. The lion starts to snarl and pant and begins to charge her. About half way there, she throws open her coat, revealing her beautiful naked body.
The lion stops dead in his tracks, sheepishly crawls up to her and starts licking her feet and ankles. He continues to lick her entire body for several minutes, and then rests his head at her feet.
The circus owner's mouth is on the floor. He says, "I've never seen a display like that in my life." He then turns to the older man and asks, "Can you top that?"
The older man replies, "No problem, just get that lion out of the way."
I'll just climb out on the balcony. By the way, Bush stole the election. He's an idiot (who somehow stole the election). He's a moron (who beat the brilliant Algore in three debates). Michael Moore is a genius. So is my architect.
