OK so the picture of the prototype home computer was fake. So what? Do you realize that the personal computer that you have on your desk is more powerful than the IBM 360 mainframes of the 1960's? There are some PCs now that are more powerful than the IBM 370 mainframes.
I did my first programming in college in the early 1970's. The mainframe that the college had would only run batch programs. It only ran one program at a time unlike the PC you are using that runs multiple programs. I had to punch out my Fortran programs and hand them to an operator who would run them through a card reader. Since it was a Fortran program I never had to punch out too many cards. The COBOL programmers' programs were huge. They would walk in with a box of cards. I was always tempted to trip them so they would drop their boxes and get the cards out of order. Heh! Heh! Heh! Even then I was an asshole.
I believe the mainframe we used was a 1401.
From left to right: Card Reader/Punch, CPU, Printer, Tape Drives
I've been working with computers for over 27 years. My first job with TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name) didn't involve computers. I changed jobs in 1977 and that's when I started working on my first mainframe. It was an IBM 370 3033. It was the 2nd generation of 370 processors as the first generation were models 138, 148, 158, and 168.
This is a 3033 processor. One of the two little boxes in back is a PDU (Power Distribution Unit). It took the input power, which had to be supplied by a motor generator, and distributed it to the rest of the computer. The other little box is a CDU (Cooling Distribution Unit). This box distributed chilled water to the computer. All the big mainframes were water cooled.
Our first 3033 had two megabytes of RAM. Nowadays most PC's have a minimum of 128 megabytes and it is recommended that you get at least 256 megabytes. I say get 512. Back then mainframe memory cost about $1 million per megabyte.
The DASD (think hard drives) we used was IBM 3330 DASD. These were the old removable platters that used 16 read/write heads. A bank of 3330s consisted of 8 drives with each drive capable of storing 50 megabytes. The hard drive in my PC stores 60 gigabytes!
This is what a bank of 3330's looked like. The girl was extra. To remove the DASD you flipped a switch which would cause one of the drawers to open up. You'd put one of the doodads on the top of the machine on the DASD, spin a handle on the top, and lift the DASD out of the drive.
The 360 and 370 mainframes were also limited in how much I/O could be attached. They only had 16 channels and each channel could only have 256 devices if it was a block multiplex channel. If it was a byte channel which was used for printers, card readers, tape, and displays it could support less devices. This was also before XA (Extended Architecture) so there were all sorts of other I/O and performance issues.
So looking at the size of stuff that today can fit on a desktop it is easy to see why anyone could believe the picture I posted a few days ago.
I got all the pictures here.
Technical stuff done. Tomorrow I'll be back to normal.
From Richard.
A hawk, a lion and a skunk argued heatedly about who was the most
important animal in the forest. They made so much noise that they
didn't hear the grizzly bear sneaking up. He swallowed them all,
hawk, lion and stinker!
This is totally disgusting but it's from my friend Pres so that's understandable.
Y'know I'm getting a little sick of fundos (fundamentalists). Currently Muslim fundos are our biggest problem today but Christian fundos can be a pain in the ass also, but at least they aren't sawing heads off. Christianity evolved from the Inquisition and left that bullshit behind. Islam, unfortunately, is still living in the Seventh Century.
What the Christian fundos are doing now with trying to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being legal only for a man and a woman really pisses me off. Yeah, I realize that it's the president I voted for who is trying to get this done but remember, I only voted for him because of the WOT.
I'm pretty much against constitutional amendments like this one since the Constitution is a document that limits the power of the gummint. It doesn't exist to tell people what they cannot do. Fortunately, there is not a chance of this passing.
Just for the record, I was against the flag burning amendment also.
That takes care of the Muslim and the Christian fundos. The last group of fundos that piss me off are the secular fundos. These are the people who are trying to remove any reference to God and religion from our society. At the top of this list is the ACLU.
I may be dumb (and I know a lot of people who agree with that) but I do not see how having a small cross on the Los Angeles County Seal is infringing on anyone's rights or civil liberties. What's next? Taking In God We Trust off of our money? Don't laugh. I think that is the eventual goal of the ACLU. They want to stamp God and religion out of our society.
This bullshit about suing the Defense Department to forbid the Army to sponsor Boy Scout activities because the Boy Scouts mention God in their pledge is just that: total bullshit! Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.
Now we have this crap.
A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God — including the Declaration of Independence.
WTF? First let me repeat that I am an atheist so I am not up in arms about this on releigous grounds. I am pissed about this because this booger eatin' moh-ron principal is censoring the history of our country.
This country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs. Many of the Founders were deeply religious men. They also wanted the freedom to allow citizens to practice any religion they wanted.
Unlike what the secular fundos believe, the 1st Amendment says nothing about "separation of church and state". Here is what is says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
That's pretty striaght forward to me. In fact, the ACLU's quest to eliminate religion from society seems to violate the "prohibiting free exercise thereof".
I'm beginning to think that secular fundamentalism is a religion and like any other religion I do not want it forced on me.
Dear ACLU and the rest of you secular fundos. STFU and leave us alone!
This is sumpin' my sister sent me long ago.
The Difference Between Republicans And Democrats
Q: What's a conservative?
A: A liberal who made it through adolescence
Q: How many republicans does it take to raise your taxes?
A: None. The democrats do that.
Q: What is the difference between a liberal and a puppy?
A: A puppy stops whining after it grows up.
Q: What is the difference between an intelligent liberal and Bigfoot?
A: Bigfoot has been spotted.
Q: What is a conservative?
A: A liberal who's been mugged.
Q: What's the difference between a Democrat and a trampoline?
A: You take off your shoes before you jump on a trampoline.
Q: What's the difference between a Democrat and a prostitute?
A: The prostitute give value for the money she takes.
Q: What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead Democrat in the road?
A: Vultures will eat the skunk.
Q: What's the difference between a Democrat and a catfish?
A: One is an ugly, scum sucking bottom-feeder and the other is a fish.
Q: What do you get when you cross a bad politician with a lawyer?
A: Chelsea.
Q: What do you get when you cross a pilgrim with a democrat?
A: A god-fearing tax collector who gives thanks for what other people have.
Q: Why should Democrats be buried 100 feet deep?
A: Because deep down, they're really good people.
Q: What happens when you cross a pig with a Democrat?
A: Nothing. There are some things a pig won't do.
Q: Why did God create Democrats?
A: In order to make used car salesmen look good.
Q: What is a recent Democrat graduate's usual question in his first job?
A: What would you like to have with your french fries, sir?
Q. How many Democrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Just one, but it really gets screwed.
Q: How many Democrats does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: It's irrelevant; they still don't know they're in the dark!
One of my readers asked if I was mellowing out since my retirement. Nope, not really. It's just that time of year and how many times can I rant about the liberals saying the only reason Kerry lost is because 51% of the country is stupid? It's like when I made my CDSM® (Clueless Dipshit Manager) look like an idiot. He did all the work, I just pointed it out to everyone else. The liberals are making themselves look like idiots and I'm just sitting back and enjoying the show.
Obviously when I went to Dallas for Kim du Toit's birthday I was on my best behavior because Connie du Toit said I was not anything like she expected me to be. I think that was a nice way of saying that I was not the total asshole she expected. See. You can take me out in public.
The boobs are fake and she's not a real blonde, but she is a babe.
Everything went OK on Thanksgiving. Politics was not discussed. The food was great and a good time was had by all.
Right before I left TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name) my team lead took me out to lunch and gave me a card worth $100 at Houstons, a restaurant chain in Atlanta. He had taken up a collection from my coworkers. Wednesday night I took my sister, her husband, and my friend Cindy out to eat at Houstons and used the card.
We went back to Cindy's afterwards and I remarked that we might have a problem next Monday since we were gonna take Ashley (one of my cats) in to have her teeth cleaned and I had to go to the doctor for a prescreening for a colonoscopy. It turned out that I have a severe case of CRS (Can't Remember Shit) syndrome. My prescreening was last Monday and Ashley's teeth cleaning is this Tuesday. It really sucks getting old!
So today, I had my sister nagging me to get my prescreening rescheduled. She's sweating it because cancer runs in my family. Also she doesn't want me to die because then she would have to go through all my crap. I am a slob.
I was actually able to get the prescreening rescheduled for two weeks from Monday. I even have a note about it on my refrigerator.
Speaking of my refirgerator, my sister cleaned that for me today. Now it's good for another six years. She also cleaned up beneath my kitchen sink.
I had Thanksgiving leftovers tonight with a half bottle of Zinfandel. Leftovers sure taste better heated with a microwave as opposed to an oven.
My sister and her husband made it back to Columbia OK.
Needless to say, I am in too mellow of a mood to do any serious ranting so I'm gonna close now and see if I can find anything suitable for Saturday Boobage.
I have so much to be thankful for this year that it would take me too long to write about it. Here is a very short list.
I'm thankful that I lasted 31.5 years at TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name - at least until the end of the year) and I get full retirement and medical.
I'm thankful that I finally got to meet Kim and Connie du Toit. I'm also thankful for all the Georgia bloggers (and some non-Georgia bloggers) I have met this year. Every blogger I have met has been a great person.
I'm thankful for all my readers. I'm also thankful for all the new readers I continue to pick up.
I'm thankful for all the complimentary e-mail I get.
I'm thankful for all the jokes, images and puns sent to me by readers.
And I'm really thankful that my sister is cooking Thanksgiving dinner today.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!
Tina sent me this new way to prepare turkey for Thanksgiving.
Here is a new way to prepare your Thanksgiving or Christmas Turkey.
1. Cut out aluminum foil in desired shapes.
2. Arrange the turkey in the roasting pan, position the foil carefully (see below )
3. Roast according to your own recipes and serve.
4. Watch your guests' faces.
This is almost a Thanksgiving joke.
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's
mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.
John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently
saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think
of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he
yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the
parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hand,
grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.
For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the
freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms
and said, "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully
Intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."
John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. As he was about
to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior,
the bird continued, "May I ask what the turkey did?"
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Charlieb sent me this.
The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.
The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly.
Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists, and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.
"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota.
The producer was cold, exhausted, and hungry.
"He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"
In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields.
"Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk."
Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border, and leave them to fend for themselves.
"A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though."
When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration's establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR.
In the days since the election, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers.
"If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said.
Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.
"I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?"
In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said.
"We're going to have some Peter, Paul, & Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The president is determined to reach out."
Duncan sent me the following picture and a link to this site.
Duncan wrote: I just wish people would quit talking aboot sending them to Canada....things are already fucked up enough up here.
As we celebrate Thanksgiving let's give thanks to men like these who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Compare these men to scumbags like Michael Moore and Bill Clinton.
Thanks to Charlieb.
From Airboss. This is a K frame M-13 .357 fixed sights.
At Kim du Toit's birthday dinner Jim and I got to talking about how much the Clinton Library looked like a double wide trailer. I mentioned that I knew someone who is real good with Photoshop and Jim suggested that I see if I could get him to make the Clinton Library look more rednecky. So, yesterday I e-mailed him and here is the result. He also gave me permission to post it on my site.
I didn't know Pumpman knew Clinton, but there he is on the back porch. And someone forgot to take the wheels off. You can click on the image for a larger view.
It's been raining all day! I got out around 3:00 to go get a prescription refilled, but I've been hunkered down inside the rest of the day.
My sister and her husband are driving down from South Carolina to spend Thanksgiving. Also, my sister is cooking Thanksgiving dinner at my house again this year. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to sucker her into doing this.
When my mother was alive I used to drive up to St. Louis on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. That's why it seemed perfectly normal to be on the road last Saturday. Of course the drive to St. Louis was only 540 miles and the drive back from Texas was 830 miles.
After Mom died, Cindy invited me to have Thanksgiving dinner with her family. They used to have it over at her parents' house but after the Thanksgiving when her mother's stringbeans got burned and actually looked like strings, it was moved to Cindy's house.
Two years ago we moved it back to Cindy's parents because they were having a major construction job done on their house. No construction work in Atlanta can be done without Mexicans and they don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Michael and Cindy were awakened Thanksgiving morning to the sound of salsa music. Michael was very philosophical about it. He said, "I don't take Cinque de Mayo off work so why should they take Thanksgiving off?"
In the South, Thanksgiving dinner is dinner which means it is served around noon. Back in Missouri, where I grew up, we ate around 7:00 PM. So, after we finished up our meal, Michael and Cindy did not want to return to their house until after the workers left for the day, so they came over to my house and we drank some Port that Michael furnished.
Last year, I asked if my sister would be willing to come down and cook Thanksgiving dinner for Cindy's family (I would pay for everything) and she graciously agreed. This is great since my sister makes a fantastic Thanksgiving feast. She'll also make an apple pie, which is the best apple pie in the world.
In all the years I have known Cindy's parents, I did not realize that they were Dimocrats. I did know that Cindy's father admired Jimmah Carter but I thought that was because Cindy's father volunteers for Habitat For Humanity. I made the mistake once of disparaging Jimmah Carter. Fortunately I did not say very much. Cindy's parents are sufferering from PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma), and she has asked me to refrain from talking about the election or the war and if her parents bring the topics up to politely say that I don't want to talk politics on Thanksgiving.
It's really raining now. I don't envy them driving down from South Carolina. I'll owe my sister big time for this.
Kim du Toit stated that he thought Paris was the most beautiful city in the world. So, here are two pictures from Paris sent to me by Greg (and others).
Geez! This looks like a typical morning in Atlanta but it isn't. This is an example of cause and effect. First the effect.
Now the cause.
All it took was one night with Kim and Airboss and I'm already posting gun pictures. Here is a picture Airboss sent me of just four of his weapons. BTW, I was right. The gun in the previous post was a .357.
Top right model 640 .38 special
Bottom right Model 640 .357 magnum
Top left Model 49 .38 Special
Bottom left Model 649 .38 Special also made in .357 magnum
Yeah, I wimped out. I left Kim's party around midnight and went back to my hotel. I was planning on getting up at 7:30 to start my trip back. I didn't sleep worth a damn. I tossed and turned all night long. If I had drunk a little more I might have passed out, but then I would have felt like crap the next day.
I wound up getting up at 8:00 and after showering, packing up, and checking out I was on the road by 8:45. I was tentatively planning on driving straight through. I figgered I might be able to make it in 11 hours and with the time change that would get me back to GOC Central at 8:45 PM. Famous last words.
My first stop was to hit the drive thru at a McDonalds and get some coffee. That kept me going for about an hour but then I started getting sleepy. I fought it as best as I could but when I hit Louisianna, I pulled off at the first rest area. I locked the car, laid my head against the window and took a 20 minute nap. That worked miracles.
So I lost 20 minutes. That would still get me home a little after 9:00 if I decided to drive straight through.
Now that I was awake, I needed sumpin' sweet. A few years back I got in the habit on road trips, since I don't eat lunch, of getting a milk shake around lunchtime. I stopped at the first McDonalds. In Louisianna, at the four McDonalds I stopped at on this trip, you order at the first window. I pulled up to the first window and there was no one there so I pulled up to the last window and ordered there. This flustered the girl at that window. She disappeared and came back three minutes later to tell me the ice cream machine was broken. Crap! Lost another five minutes.
About fifteen miles up the road I stopped at another McDonalds. Their ice cream machine was busted! WTF! There was a Burger King nearby but the line in the drive thru was too long so off I go. I'm now half an hour behind schedule.
A ways up the road I stopped for gas. There was a McDonalds at that exit and their ice cream machine worked. Finally!
I hit Mississippi and it started raining. I'm still making good time but I'm running behind. I decided I'd just go ahead and spend the night at Meridian Mississippi which is about ten miles west of the Alabama border. That would leave me with less than 300 miles to drive the next day. I pulled off at the exit for the motel I decided to stay at. I come up to a light and next thing I know I'm going away from the motel on a frontage road. Hmmm! What am I doing wrong. At the next light, I make a left which heads me back in the right direction. I come up to the same light that I screwed up before and once again I mess up. In my defense, it was raining. I decide that the Interstate Gods don't want me to stop in Meridian Mississippi and since I was less than 300 miles from GOC Central I would just keep on driving. Now I'm at least an hour behind schedule which will get me home at 9:45 Georgia time.
But first I had to take a pee break. Because of my condition (I'm a cripple ya know) it takes me a wee bit longer to pee than a normal person. While I was in the bathroom some bearded dude comes up to me and asks if I were going to Meridian Mississippi. Hell no! Anyway, that cost me 15 minutes.
I decide to drive a little faster. I catch a sports station talking about the Iron Bowl, which is the annual football game between Auburn and Alabama. The game had just finished and they were doing the wrap up, talking to the players and coaches, etc. The game had been played in Tuscaloosa which was on my route. I thought nothing of that until I hit Tuscaloosa. Bam! Major traffic jam.
I-20 through Tuscaloosa is just 2 lanes each way. I was in bumper to bumper traffic for at least fifteen miles until I-20 got another lane. Even then, I wasn't able to go much faster then 70 mph. I lost a good 45 minutes. So now I'm looking at between 10:30 and 11:00.
Outside of Birmingham I noticed that most of the traffic was getting off on the bypass. I had seen a sign that said that I-59 was closed at I-65 north but thought nothing of it because I was on I-20. Unfortunately, I-20 is also I-59 going through Birmingham. The Alabama DOT hadn't bothered mentioning that I-20 was also closed at I-65 north. Due to construction, the bridge was out. Going west there had been no problem. It was only the eastbound bridge that was closed. So, next thing I know, I'm heading south on I-65. This sucks!
I pulled off and gassed up and then headed north on I-65. I took an exit headed west and found a northbound expressway and got back on I-20 east. I lost even more time, but now I'm less than 200 miles away. I'm also pissed.
I've got my cruise control set on 80 mph. I'm passed by an SUV driven by an Auburn fan. I can tell because he's got a little tiger tail hanging out the back door. He pulls in front of me and slows down so to keep going 80 I have to pull out in the left lane and pass him. No sooner do I get back in the right lane, he decides to pass me and then pull in front of me and slow down again. Enough of this bullshit! I don't like to play these stupid games. I take it up to 95 and leave him in my wake.
I drive between 90 and 95 the rest of the way home. Screw these people. A drive that should have only taken me 11 hours wound up taking me 13 hours.
I did make it home safe and sound which is all that counts.
Another one from Richard and it brings to mind my Navy days.
A chief petty officer caught an AWOL sailor as he tried to sneak aboard
ship. Upon hearing the sailor's lame explanation, the petty officer
told him, "Sweep every link on this anchor chain by morning, or it's
the brig for you!" The sailor picked up a broom, but before he could
sweep, a tern landed on the handle. The lad picked the tern off and
tossed it overboard. The bird lit again on the broom handle, and was
again tossed away. On and on, through the night, they went through the
same routine. In the morning, when the chief petty officer inspected, he
found the chain still dirty. "What have you been doing all night?" he
asked angrily. "Honest, chief," came the reply,
"I tossed a tern all night and couldn't sweep a link!"
I left Atlanta on Wednesday to attend a birthday dinner for Kim du Toit. Psst! Don't tell anyone. He's 50.
It's easy to get from Atlanta to Dallas. Get on I-20 going west and keep driving.
I went out to the AAA site and printed off a Triptic. It's not as good as the old ones. I'll have to see if they still have them for my next road trip. Having a better map would have been handy on the return trip.
I was also able to book my hotel at the AAA site. They even had a handicap room available. Cool! It was about 7 miles away from the du Toit's who actually live in Plano which is north of Dallas. I had been to Plano twice on business for TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name), but that was over ten years ago.
On the first day I made it as far as Monroe Louisiana. I missed the turn for the motel that I wanted to stay at, but got a decent room on the west side of Monroe. The tap water was strange. After washing my hands, they felt oily. Eeewww!
Got up the next morning and continued my trip making it to Plano in about four hours. The whole trip took about 12 hours. At 830 miles I averaged just under 70 mph. I set my cruise control on 80 and cruised the whole trip.
Rested in my room for a while (even took a nap), changed clothes, and headed to the du Toit's house. As seems to be par for the course for me (must be old age), I missed a turn, but was able to make the next turn and somehow find their house.
Kim and his wife, Connie, were everything that I suspected. No surprises. They were just like their blogs.
One of the first things Kim said after I had been given a glass of wine was, "What company is TCIDNN?"
Everyone at Kim's birthday party now knows the answer. Everyone at the party who has read my blog had guessed other companies. No one had guessed the right one. I feel like Scott Adams. When he created Dilbert everyone thought he must work at their company. It just shows how screwed up American technology companies are. Unless sumpin' happens to change my mind, I will reveal the true name of TCIDNN the end of this year.
Airboss, who knew that I was looking to buy a gun, brought some of the guns he thought would be perfect for me. Kim showed me some of his. These were all concealed carry weapons except for Kim's open carry pistol. When I mentioned that I was interested in a home protection type of gun, Airboss said I should get a shotgun. Jim said that just the sound of cocking the shotgun would either make the intruder shit in his pants or leave the house and shit in his pants.
Whoa! What a great evening! Connie made a delicious meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, peas, spinach, and a salad. She also made Kim's favorite cake which I am unable to properly describe. Maybe she might write about it on her site. I had some red wine (an Australian Shiraz and a Bordeaux) with the meal. It turns out Airboss is a fellow wino and we have similar tastes.
I sat between Kim and Jim. I discussed sailing with Jim and how much I hated Dimocrats with Kim.
Kim has a really good plan to solve the problem of the illegals crossing our southern border: Build a wall along the border creating a strip of no man's land between the wall and the Rio Grande. Put 25 lions in no man's land, and they have to be African lions, not the pussy mountain lions we have. When Jim pointed out that the lions only hunt when they're hungry and with the number of illegals crossing the border, the 25 lions would get full real fast, Kim upped the number to 50.
I told Kim my lion food joke about TCIDNN. He got a kick out of it. All right. I will relate it here.
It seems two lions escaped from a zoo. Two weeks later they met up. One lion was thin and looked like crap. The other was fat and well groomed. The thin lion said he had eaten a human and had been chased all over the city and was in constant hiding. The well fed lion said he had gone to TCIDNN's headquarters and had eaten a manager a day and no one seemed to notice.
Jim had brought some nice cigars and I smoked one of them after the meal with Port. Kim had cognac, but I decided since I was gonna drive the next day, I didn't want to get too hammered. And I didn't.
Kim and I also talked about how much we disliked the French. Kim thinks Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It's too bad French people live there. I'm partial to Rome and Florence myself. Everytime I walk into St. Peters it takes my breath away. What amazes me about Rome is that you can come upon a church that looks like crap on the outside but inside it is spectacular. And it's easy to come upon a church in Rome. They're more prolific than Waffle Houses in the South. But I digress.
Serenity was there also, but I didn't talk to her much. She was rather quiet amidst all of us outspoken right wingers.
This is the fourth time I have gotten together with fellow bloggers.
The first time was last year when Pumpman invited Georgia bloggers to meet him in Dahlonega. That was the first Jawja Blogger Meetup. All of us at that meetup were conservatives.
Speaking of Pumpman, he was invited but he went to Costa Rica instead. To my great disappointment, Rachel Lucas was a no show also. I was really hoping to finally meet her. Maybe on my next trip to Dallas.
The next one was put together by Greg Greene who is a really nice guy considering he's a Dimocrat. That meetup was half liberal and half conservative. No fights broke out.
Then we had the second Jawja Blogger Meetup which was in Helen Georgia and was named Blogtoberfest. I wrote sumpin' about it here. We even allowed non-Georgia bloggers to attend.
So this was the fourth time I got together with bloggers. As Pumpman has pointed out, bloggers are loud, opinionated, and fun to hang out with. This party was no exception. I was a good boy and didn't get hammered. I left around midnight and returned to my hotel to try and get a good night's sleep for the return home. Unlike Blogtoberfest, I was able to sleep in my assigned bed.
I didn't know that I was supposed to attend a shooting session the next day and I had already planned to return to Atlanta. Hopefully, I will return to Dallas in the future and have a gun that I can use to go to the range with Kim.
Here is the gun that Airboss thinks I should buy.
Tomorrow I will relate my adventure returning to Atlanta.
The Dimocrats have changed their seal from this
to this:
Thanks to Charlieb.
I made it back safely but with many problems along the way. Comments are back on.
I'm taking off tomorrow to drive to Dallas to wish Kim du Toit a happy birthday. I will not be doing any posting until I return on Sunday. Since I won't be able to monitor and delete comment spam, I am turning comments off until I return. See ya then.
Dear Old Media,
Exactly when was it that you decided to support our enemies instead of us? Was it during Viet Nam? I mean you guys were mostly responsible for turning the country against that war. Were you proud of the aftermath? Did you dance with glee when you saw the boat people trying to escape? Were you proud of your accomplisments when thousands of people were sent into the reeducation camps? Howza 'bout the killing fields of Cambodia? Did all the people who died then make you happy?
During the Cold War most of you were on the side of the communists. Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega were your heroes. It must have really broken your hearts when the Berlin Wall fell.
Afghanistan was supposed to be a quagmire. Didn't it just piss you guys off that the war was as successful as it was? They just held their first free elections and women were allowed to vote. That should be good news but because to you assholes every silver lining should have a dark cloud, you fall back on where is Osama?
You people make me sick to my stomach. I'm glad you fucktards weren't around during World War II. We would have never won it. Ernie Pyle must be spinning in his grave.
The latest bullshit is going after the Marine who shot the Iraqi in the mosque. Let me explain some things to you guys.
1. The Geneva Convention does not apply to these barbarians.
2. These assholes use schools, hospitals, and mosques as bases of operations in violation of the Geneva Convention.
3. These barbarians hide behind women and children also in violation of the Geneva Convention.
4. They have been known to show a white flag of truce and then start shooting.
5. They have booby trapped their dead and wounded.
And to those of you who say that we must be good guys or they will shoot our wounded or mutilate the bodies, have you guys been paying attention? They already do that. This is not an honorable enemy. These guys are worse than rabid dogs and should be treated as such.
So now we have some bleeding heart anti-war, anti-American liberal news pinko bastards trying to crucify a Marine. Listen up buttwipes! These people are scum. They brutally behead innocent civilians. If I have to choose between a Marine doing his job and some wounded Iraqi terrorist lowlife, I'll choose the Marine.
I'll tell you what. If this will make you guys feel any better, why don't you have your embedded reporters go check up on the wounded for the Marines? That way you won't have to worry about any poor Iraqi wounded "insurgent" dying. If he happens to be faking it or booby trapped that's your problem. At least some poor wounded Iraqi wouldn't be shot by a bloodthirsty Marine.
Sincerely,
GOC in Atlanta
PS: GFY!
I just can't believe this shit! They have some dimwits in Florida who are suffering from PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma) because Bush won the election and are being treated by a psychiatrist. Is it any wonder why I call these assholes Dimocrats? Jesus H. Christ! Perky Katie Couric was dressed in black the morning after the election. Judy Woodruff was almost in tears on election night. Eleanor Clift looked like she had been crying all night the day after the election. What is going on here?
I have really had a lot of fun reading all the moonbat liberal columnists since the election who just can't understand how incredibly stupid the American public is. How could they possibly vote for Bush, especially since Old Media spent most of the election trying to educate the populace about how they should vote for Kerry?
The dimwits have their PEST and I have my PEGFYS (Post Election GFY Syndrome).
To Michael Moore. He claims that the reason the Dimocrats lost is because he failed to educate 51% of the population which we know, since the liberals have told us this, is racist, homophobic, stupid, and Jesus freaks. Michael is gonna make a new movie called Farenheit 911 and 1/2 which will be released in two years and which will also coincidentally be his weight at the time. I stole that joke. I read in today's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation that obesity is bad for sex. Who knew?
Obesity greatly impairs sexual quality of life for men and women, Duke University Medical Center researchers found in a quality of life study of about 1,200 participants, affecting enjoyment, desire, frequency of sex and even its mechanics.
Michael Moore having sex? Eeeewwww! Hey Michael! GFY!
Babs had to check in with some quote from Thomas Jefferson.
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt......If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
First off, I don't think Babs knows the difference between Thomas Jefferson and George Jefferson. Second, using principles when referring to the Dimocrat Party, the party of Bill Clinton, just cracks me up. Hey Babs! GFY!
John Kerry. Hey John. That was a great move trying to use your Viet Nam service to innoculate yourself from your anti-defense policies in the Senate. It's a good thing you had the Old Media on your side. Otherwise you would have lost in a landslide. And was it your idea to pick Babyface as your VP? I told my friend Michael you were gonna do that to try to pick up at least one southern state. He said that Edwards wouldn't even deliver North Carolina. I agreed but said you would do it anyway. Good pick Flipper! You deserved to lose. GFY!
Dan Rather. Way to destroy your career Dan. If CBS were smart they would fire your ass but they have decided to go right down the tubes with you. They may never recover from Memogate. CBS News has become a laughingstock. What's even funnier is CBS fired a producer for cutting in on CSI to announce Arafat's death, but has declined to fire a producer taken in by obvious forgeries to present a bogus story. Way to go! Dan and CBS News. GFY!
Poor Al Franken. Al, I remember when you used to be funny. GFY!
Old Media. New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, ABCNBCCBSCNNNPRPBS, and the rest of you shills for the Dimocrat Party, you are on your way out. You no longer have a monopoly on news. You are slowly becoming irrelevant. GFY!
Lawrence O'Donnell. Wow! Did you ever lose it the night you were on MSNBC with John O'Neil. Then you started talking about seccession. Have you been measured for your straitjacket yet? GFY!
To the guy who penned that screed about how the blue states didn't need us morons in the red states and how the Founding Fathers (except for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Patrick Henry, and a bunch of other guys) all came from the blue states, I hear you are from Wisconsin. Lots of Founding Fathers came from there right? GFY!
Little Tommie Daschle. Look where obstructionism got you. Eventually running as a conserviative and governing as a liberal will catch up with you. Ask Max "Stumpy" Cleland. I don't mind kicking someone when he is down. Too bad you weren't able to manufacture enough Indian votes like you did for Tim Johnson two years ago. GFY!
The Dimocrat Party. Where to begin. You worship Bill Clinton who has been a total disaster. Yes, he was a two term president, but he was responsible for the Republicans taking over Congress. He stabbed you in the back with NAFTA and welfare reform yet you still love him. His pick for head of the DNC, Terry McAuliffe, has been another disaster, as you have become even more of a minority party under his leadership. The one time you should have listened to Bubba on gay marriage, you didn't. Here's my advice. Don't listen to Zell Miller and elect Howard Dean to run the DNC. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GFY!
All you liberals who have threatened to leave the country to go to Canada, France, and New Zealand, WTF are you waiting for? GFY!
Damn! This has been almost as much fun as bitch slapping.
Altho' in Arafat's case I hear he might be looking for boys.
Sent to me by Jim.
As part of my Redeployment Package from TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name) I was given Career Transition Services.
Redeployment Package = You are redeployed out the door. Here's a parting gift. Where do they keep coming up with these euphemisms for losing one's job?
Career Transition = You have been career transitioned out the door.
In my case, I retired, but out of the goodness of TCIDNN's heart (And just to cover their asses and get me to leave two months earlier than I planned) they gave me a package. The package consists of some money and Career Transition Services.
I was called two weeks ago by a representative of the company (Which I shall call the Career Transition Services Company or CTSC for short) and given a date to attend an orientation seminar. I'm not really planning on working anymore, unless it's a part time job doing sumpin' I enjoy, but I figgered since this is a free benefit what do I have to lose?
So I showed up at CTSC this morning for my orientation session. CTSC is essentially a job placement service company. They supply training in interview techniques, resume writing, and other skills needed to find a job.
There were five of us who showed up this morning and we were shown around the center. There were PC's, printers, a copier, and a fax machine. If we needed to mail out a resume they would pay the postage.
The orientation was a Powerpoint presentation over the web with a dial in number. We would be just one of the many CTSC sites throughout the country. The local person got everything set up and dialed the call in number.
The person doing the web presentation was one of those really upbeat Cathy Cheerleader types.
Rah! Rah! Sis boom bah! We know you people just lost your jobs but don't worry, CTSC will help you find new jobs. Never Fear! CTSC is here!
After giving a brief history of CTSC, Cathy Cheerleader then started talking about the process of fining a new job and some of the services that CTSC offered.
One of the services offered is training via web based seminars called, oddly enough, webinars. These teach resume writing, interview techniques, networking, and all the other things needed to get a new job. If I were actually looking for a job, this would be pretty neat stuff. They do have some retirement webinars that I may take advantage of.
Cathy also took us through an online demonstration of the CTSC web site that we can use to access CTSC functions.
We also get our very own counselor who will aid us in finding employment.
In my case, all of this is paid for by TCIDNN.
What a deal!
So I opened up the Editorial Section of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation and besides the Monday liberal blather by Molly Ivins there was also liberal blather by Ellen Goodman.
Molly was ranting about how happy she was that Ashcroft was leaving the Justice Department. After all he had destroyed the 1st Amendment, to hear her tell it. Funny, she is still able to write her bullshit. Now if he had gone after the 2nd Amendment, that would have been OK with Molly.
She also had to get in the fact (not once, but twice) that he had been defeated by a dead man. The reason he was defeated by Carnahan is that out of respect for Carnahan, who died a week before the election in a plane crash, he quit campaigning.
And of course, what good column on Ashcroft bashing would be complete without laughing at him for covering up the nude statues at the Justice Department. There was a reason for that as Jonah Goldberg revealed last week. The Ashcroft bashing press was always trying to get pictures of Ashcroft with the nude statues in the pictures to make him look funny.
Now on to Ellen Goodman. She's still ranting about the flu vaccine problem and was trying to make the case that if we had a national health care program this wouldn't happen. As a typical liberal, who never lets facts get in the way of a good argument, she didn't bother to point out that gummint was the problem.
I've written about this before. The main reason we only have two companies producing flu vaccine is because of Hillary Clinton back in the early 90's deciding that every child should be vaccinated and the gummint was gonna do it. Since Hillary is a good little socialist, she doesn't think that companies should make money on vaccines. As such, the gummint mandated a small profit. As a result, many companies got out of the business.
Elen thinks this is terrible. Like most liberals, she doesn't think companies should make profits.
The entire debacle comes from the fact that preventing the flu isn't as profitable as, say, treating erectile dysfunction. The major American drug companies, who continuously tell us that their profits are for our benefit, don't do flu vaccines anymore.
Someone needs to explain some basic facts to Ellen. In a capitalistic society, companies exist to make profits. If they make profits, they can hire people. They can also do research to make better products. If they cannot make a profit, they will lay people off. They may also go out of business.
Why should a company go into a line of business where they may lose money?
Americans have long been told that national health care would mean long lines, rationing and second-class medicine. Despite spending more of our gross national product on health care than any other country, we rank 29th in life expectancy, right between Slovenia and Portugal. And what do we have? Long lines and rationing. Not to mention lotteries, and a shot in the arm for Canadian tourism.
Long lines and rationing for flu vaccines. Howza 'bout stuff like hip replacements? Guess where Canadians go for them? People who wait for a hip replacement in Canada wind up never walking again. Canadians have long lines and rationing for common medical procedures readily available here. That's a shot in the arm for United States tourism. And Ellen, if you think Solvenia and Portugal have such a good health care system you are welcome to go there for your medical needs.
The flu vaccine problem was caused by the gummint, just like many other problems in our health care system. Only a liberal would think that the gummint can solve those problems.
A new women's record high jump was set on a beach in Southern France. Here is a picture taken seconds before the record breaking jump.
Sent to me by multiple people.
They're fixing to open the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Here is an artist's rendition taken off the Clinton Library web page.
This is supposed to represent the bridge to the 21st Century. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks this looks like a trailer. Rich sent me a picture of the library next to a picture of a trailer and the resemblance was uncanny. How apropos that our white trash president, Slick Willie, has a library that looks like a trailer. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Update from Rich. Check this out. Third image down. Compare and contrast. In the original e-mail he had this but it didn't show up properly.
Wait a minute! I'm from Missouri.
This one's from Richard.
A farmer had a cow, Bessie. She was difficult, kicking over the milk
pail and refusing to come in at night. Well, Bessie got pregnant. After
she gave birth, she changed. "Bessie's really mellowed out," the
farmer told his wife. "What do you think happened?" "That's easy," she
replied.
"Don't you know, Bessie's been decalf-inated!"
Greg has started blogging again. We agree on very little politically, but he is a genuinely nice guy. Greg, I agree with you. I think your party does need to have Howard Dean heading up the DNC. Go Howard!
Didja catch Arafat's funeral over the weekend? I particularly enjoyed the coffin swarm. I was hoping they would dump him out like the Iranians did with Khomeini. Another fun part was watching the Palestinians shoot their guns in the air. Your average Palestinian has no conception of gravity. He doesn't understand that what goes up, comes back down and usually hits someone.
Now the biggest impediment to a solution of the Israeli/Palestinian problem is dead. For all of the platitudes heaped on Yasser Arafat he was a terrorist. That's it. That is all he knew. He did not want peacxe. He wanted the destruction of Israel. Just like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, he played off of his people's misery and enriched himself. As long as Arafat was alive there would be no peace.
Abba Eban once said, "The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an iopportunity". I'm sure in the next six months we'll see them miss another opportunity for peace and their own sovereign state.
They now want to bring back the Roadmap For Peace starting immediately. Good luck. They are fighting over who's gonna take Arafat's place and it ain't gonna be a pretty sight.
Even if Mahmoud Abbas comes out on top, it still won't solve the problems the Palestinians have. When he was Arafat's prime minister he said he would not crack down on Hamas because that would start a civil war.
Dear Mahmoud: The Road Map says that you have to stop terrorism. If you cannot rein in Hamas, the Road Map is dead. Sincerely, George W. Bush.
We finallly have a president who insists that the Palestinians have to hold up their end of the bargain. Here's my suggestion. If you assholes can go six months without any homicide bombings we'll bring back the Road Map. Unfortunately, that isn't gonna happen.
The Israelis are gonna finish their barrier and sit back and watch the Palestinian civil war. It's not gonna be a pretty sight.
1. Park twice as far from the tree as the tree is tall.
2. It helps to notch the tree away from the truck.
3. The fact that you live within driving distance
of a forest does not make you a lumberjack.
and
4. Just to be on the safe side, always borrow your buddy's truck.
A woman was leaving a convenience store with her morning coffee when she
noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby
cemetery. A long black hearse was followed by a second long black hearse
about 50 feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a
solitary woman walking a pit bull on a leash. Behind her, a short
distance back, were about 100 women walking single file.
The woman couldn't stand her curiosity. She respectfully approached the woman walking the dog and said, "I am so sorry for your loss, and I know now
is a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My husband's."
"What happened to him?"
The woman replied, "My dog attacked and killed him."
She inquired further, "Well, who is in the second hearse?"
The woman answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my husband when the dog turned on her."
A poignant and thoughtful moment of silence passed between the two women.
"Can I borrow the dog?"
"Get in line."
Sent to me by Mike.
The proper way to drink Bailey's.
I'm starting to try and settle into a routine. For example, my walking has really declined over the last few years. Part of the reason is I didn't do enough of it. I also didn't exercise as much as I should have and after working all day, I was too tired to do any exercise. To remedy that, I have started going over to Perimeter Mall Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and walking there. As a side benefit, I usually find a spot to sit down about halfway through my walk and watch the babes walk by. I usually try to go around lunch hour so I see all the wimmens from the nearby office complexes.
Today, I did my longest walk of all and was thoroughly beat at the end, not to mention the sweat I worked up.
Also, as a result of my getting weak, I have had a recurring back spasm in my lower back on the right hand side. Besides prescribing some drugs, my primary care physician wrote me a referrel to get some physical therapy at Shepherd Center. I went yesterday and worked with Claire, whom I've worked with before. She agreed with my assessment that the spasm is a result of weakness and stressing a lower back muscle. She showed me some stretching exercises and some other exercises to strengthen my hip muscles. I've decided to join the health club at Shepherd so I can work out on their machines and use the pool.
It's only a matter of time before I have to quit walking and use a wheelchair full time but I'm trying to push the inevitable back as far as I can.
This morning I got to do sumpin' I've wanted to do my entire life: wake up on a weekday, hear it raining, and roll over and go back to sleep. The upside of retirement.
Did I say retirement? This week I was called twice by my ex-teamlead to help him fix problems. Both of them were five minute fixes but both took over twenty minutes to talk him through them. One of the bugs I could have sworn I fixed before I left, but I was in a scramble the last few days to get as much done as possible that I guess I didn't get to it. I also got two e-mails on other problems. Yeah, I know, I'm just too nice, but my ex-teamlead did protect me from myself and he kept my ex-CDSM® (Clueless Dipshit Manager) from bothering me. Even so, he owes me bigtime and he knows it.
That's a downside of retirement. I don't get to write amusing posts about TCIDNN (The company I Dare Not Name). For example, I left in the middle of a massive processor migration. I happen to be the best person to do I/O configurations which is a major part of the project. I was not offered an incentive to stay (Just the opposite. I was offered a very good monetary incentive to leave. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse.) and I have not been offered a contract to help complete the job. I'm sure this is because my ex-CDSM® hates my guts (The feeling is mutual.) and the person who was my manager when I left wasn't completely aware of what I did. For that matter neither was my ex-CDSM®.
This project also requires massive network changes. We have not had a decent network person in over 12 months. After our old network guy retired, the new guy who was supposed to replace him knew nothing about TCPIP or SNA. By default I did most of the network stuff. When I left I told my ex-teamlead that he should get the old network guy back on a contract to rework the network after the migration was complete. Everything I did was temporary to support the migration. Management doesn't want to bring the old guy back on a contract because it would be "too expensive". This is another decision by my ex-CDSM®.
Even though I no longer work for TCIDNN, maybe I still can get a few posts out it. My ex-CDSM® is trying to get the Germans to run their stuff on his hardware. To do that would require a good network guy and a good configuration guy. He has neither. What a booger eatin' moh-ron!
Maybe he can outsource those jobs to India. BWAHAHAHAHA!
Jimmah sucking up to a terrorist thug.
Jimmah's statement on the terrorist thug's death:
Yasser Arafat's death marks the end of an era and will no doubt be painfully felt by Palestinians throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.
He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland. While he provided indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement and was instrumental in forging a peace agreement with Israel in 1993, he was excluded from the negotiating role in more recent years.
My hope is that an emerging Palestinian leadership can benefit from Arafat's experiences, be welcomed to the peace process by Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush, and be successful in helping to forge a Palestinian state living in harmony with their Israeli neighbors.
Jimmah oversaw the election in which Arafat won an overwhelming majority to lead the Palestinian Authority. He also just recently talked about a "final solution" for the Iraeli/Palestinian conflict.
Jimmah Carter = Clueless idiot.
Yasser Arafat, the world's oldest terrorist, is dead. I only wish his death had been a long and painful one because of all the pain and suffering he inflicted on both the Israelis and his own people. One of his fawning obituaries lamented the fact that he never achieved the Palestinian state that he so desired. Had he been the statesman his fans clained he was, he would have achieved that goal. Unfortunately he was more interested in the destruction of Israel than a Palestinian state and his people paid the price. Let's see if the Palestinians miss yet another opportunity for their own state.
Meanwhile, Jim from Downunder sent me this headstone.
Remember we owe all of our freedoms to the people who have fought for our country. That means we have to take the bad with the good. Even though Michael Moore hates the military, it gives him the freedom to be an America hating asshole.
Thank a veteran today. Thank commenter Dan S. He may spout things you don't agree with, but he did lay his life on the line for this country.
For those wishing to help out wounded Marines see Jesse's blog.
So now we have some blue staters saying that "since that slavery thing has been settled" maybe they should go ahead and let those red states secede. After all as one screed went, the blue states pay the taxes and the money is spent in the red states. I really don't see what they are complaining about. After all the people in the blue states are socialists and don't they agree with "From Each According To His Abilities, To Each According To His Needs"? Don't they want to take care of us poor stupid country bumpkins in the red states? Where is their compassion? I thought they were the caring people?
Let's look at Kim du Toit's map again.
One of the nice things about this map is he's made the Dimocrat stronghold in the Northeast red which is an apt color since this is where the socialists live and run things. He's also picked up the part of Canada that is more conservative and given the French speaking part of Canada to the People's Soviet of Eastern America.
Let's look at the blue section. What do we have? A lot of wide open spaces that have lots of interstate highways that are paid for by the federal gummint. What else do we have? We have farms and livestock. We also have a bunch of military bases.
During the last four years what have been the two most abominable spending bills? The farm bill that was loaded with gobs and gobs of pork. We were supposed to wean the farmers off the public teat but that didn't happen after Bush got elected. It only got worse. And yes, I am pissed that he didn't veto it. Not pissed enough to vote for Flipper, but I was pissed.
An abominable transportation bill was passed during the last four years. It was a disgrace also. It should have been vetoed. It wasn't.
I think those two bills accounted for a lot of money that went to the red states.
Just because of crap like this, I think the Constitution should be amended to give the president a line item veto, and no, it does not violate the seperation of powers because just like with any veto the congress can override it. If nothing else, this would point out all the pork that gets attached to a spending bill.
Back to secession. Warning to raving moonbats. Be careful what you wish for. Where do you think most of the food comes from? Where does most of the domestic natural gas and oil come from? And if we pick up central Canada we get even more. We got coal also. Manufacturing? Why would we want the rust belt? Labor costs are cheaper in the South. Why else do you think BMW and Mercedes built plants in the South?
We also have technology. We got Research Triangle in North Carolina. STK is in Boulder, Colorado. Austen and Dallas in Texas have a large technology presence. So does Atlanta. Modern industry is moving south and if Ahnold can't fix California lots of companies will be moving out of there. Many already have.
So go ahead Kerry lovers and Michael Moore worshippers, secede. We got the food, we got the oil, we got cheap labor, and we got technology. We'll do just fine. You will be screwed!
We'll probably also be able to shrink the size of gummint.
Dan put this in the comments. It deserves a spot on the main page.
USMC: Only branch of the military conceived, created and formed for battle ... in a Bar!
( Tun Tavern -- Philadelphia, PA -- 11/10/1775)
November 2004
USMC Birthday!
When: Wednesday, 11/10/04 - All Day
Where: Everywhere around the Globe!
Description: Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!
November 10, 1775
Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, PA
Tun Tavern and the U.S. Marine Corps
On the 10th of November in 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution which said in part:
"...Resolved, that two battalions of Marines be raised, consisting of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required; that they be enlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the Colonies, unless dismissed by order of Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American Marines..."
With that resolution the Continental Marines were officially born. November 10th is still celebrated around the world today as the Marine Corps Birthday.
Some of you were with me as part of 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1stMarDiv as recently as Viet Nam. 3/1 is under arms as you read this (in Fallujah); 2/1 has the honor of having Lt. Lewis B. Puller Jr. ("Fortunate Son") as one of it's own; 1/1 (and my beloved Charlie Company) was in a place called Hue City in 1968 doing what 1/1 is doing today in Iraq.
Semper Fi! While the term does decidedly NOT mean we will live forever individually, it DOES MEAN that we have lived and died (since 1775!) on the honor of the weakest amongst us as well as the strongest. Such is the Society of MARINES!!!
HAPPY Birthday, Corps!
"The Worst among us is better than the Best can throw against us!"
Actually Semper Fi is short for Semper Fidelis which literally means always faithful.
I was a squid and squids and jarheads do not always get along. When I was on the Iredell County, LST-839 in Viet Nam ...
You were in Viet Nam, GOC?
Yeah, but mostly I was safe aboard a ship.
...we sometimes carried jarheads. We took some from the Philippines to Da Nang once. Navy guys like to get Marines seasick. On an LST that ain't too hard to do. Hell, I spent a lot of time seasick myself.
One of the tricks we used went like this. On the first day out the cooks always liked to serve greasy foods like pork chops. There's nothing like a greasy pork chop sloshing back and forth in grease on a tray to send a jarhead to the rail.
Greasy bacon at breakfast was just as good. One of my fellow squids even picked up a piece of bacon and wrung the grease out into his mouth. Gangway! One jarhead heading for the rail to upchuck.
That's all right. They got even with us by beating the crap out of us on shore.
BTW. My buddy Wahoo was in the Corps.
Happy Birthday Marines!
Lawrence O'Donnell, who lost it on MSNBC the Friday before the election by screaming at Paul O'Neil that he was a liar checked in on the McLaughlin Group with the following quote:
"The big problem the country now has, which is going to produce a serious discussion of secession over the next twenty years, is that the segment on the country that pays for the federal government is now being governed by the people who don't pay for the federal government....Ninety percent of the red states are welfare client states of the federal government. They collect more from the federal government than they send in..."
OK class, let's discuss this. Where do rich people live? Where does John Fonda Kerry live? In a blue state. Howza 'bout Donald Trump? In a blue state. What about the rich celebrities? In a blue state. Teddy Kennedy? Blue state.
Another question: What percentage of taxes are paid by the top 1% of income earners? Would you believe 34%? BTW, they earn 17% of the income.
Why is Larry pissed off? He claims the Republicans want to give tax cuts to those people in the blue states. But they vote for Dimocrats who want to raise their taxes. What's his problem? The people in the blue states want to be taxed. Golly. They must be voting against their own interests.
It just keeps getting better. I can't believe all the material the Dimocrats are giving me for posts. And Cynthia McKinney hasn't even shot off her big mouth yet.
I have a Sommelier Guild of Atlanta wine tasting tonight at Iris Restaurant in East Atlanta Village. As I always do, I'm posting the menu and the wines we shall be drinking. We are having cheese with every course.
Sometimes it's a really tough life. The nice thing about being retired is I do not have to take tomorrow off.
I just love it when Addison takes the time to write sumpin' thoughtful and send it to me. It is my honor to post sumpin' he wrote over the weekend.
Whilst walking the aisles of the supermarket shortly after 3AM, I thought of an analogy in explaining the Democrat Party, and the Left in general, with regard to elections, that I had not yet seen.
When a child becomes frightened by something real or imagined, it seeks a parent, usually its mother, to comfort it and tell it approving, positive stories in an attempt to calm the nerves and apply salve to mental wounds. Make the boogieman go away with sweet stories of princesses in fantasylands, if you will.
As with children, the Left seeks comforting stories and distortions of reality to comfort itself in times of distress. Recently, in a 2002 election cycle that saw unheard of gains for the President’s party, the Left told itself that it “had not gotten its message out”, as though ABC, NBC, CBC, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, et al. had been conspiring against the Democrat Party to silence them.
The idea that they were openly weak on defense issues was not countenanced. The idea that their values were not in line with most Americans was not, either. The idea that Democrat tax policy was, as they say, a bit “long in the tooth” was not, either. Obstruction of judicial nominees? No. The problem, the reason they did not win, was because something external, some other was stymieing their rightful place as arbiters of truth and goodness.
In the recent election, the election following a year and a half of unprecedented personal attacks on a sitting President carried out through billionaire-backed 527s, fraudulent stories in the mainstream press (TexANG, Al Qaqaa), celebrities warning of such inanities as legalized rape if Bush is elected, and an endless news cycle of “quagmire in Iraq” and “economic woes”, the Left cannot claim its message “did not get out”. It had to find another boogieman, another other to explain its electoral losses.
Naturally, it latched on to the anti-same sex marriage initiatives in eleven states across the nation. The problem, you see, was not that John Kerry was one of the worst political candidates in US history, what with his lack of core values other than self-promotion, arrogance, inability to speak succinctly, long history of embellishment and outright lies about his own past, proclivity to marry profoundly rich women and decry those making over $200,000/annum as “rich” while he sits on a dead man’s ~$750 million; not that the Democrat Party itself, an onanistic cartel of self-aggrandizers, insular elitists who espouse the values of Europe, not America, etc., etc., were the problem. No, it was that America is full of anti-gay Bible-thumping bigots who followed Karl Rove’s pied piper song to the ballot box.
Never mind that legitimate exit polling data shows Bush’s percentage of voters who regularly attend Church did not increase (but did increase in all other voting groups). Never mind the inconvenience of a weak political party, weak candidates, weak ‘ideas’ (if you wish to call emoted platitudes ‘ideas’)… No, the problem was the bucolic bigot who hates homosexuals.
This is the Left’s new security blanket, its soothing story after the frightening experience. As a child cannot reasonably understand or be told by a parent that its mind created the boogieman or sounds that frightened it, the collective mind of the Left is incapable of contending with the realization that the problem could possibly lie within, not without.
I have never been a person on the Left but I was once a child. It is all too clear that the disparity between the thought processes of the two is minimal at best, non-existent at worst.
For ten years, the Democrat Party has lost seats at the national level in the Senate and House. For ten years, it has lied to itself as to the reason why. May they keep comforting themselves with comforting lies as far as I care.
Wasn't that great? Why can't I write stuff like that? And here is sumpin' P. J. O'Rourke wrote back in 1991 that is very similar.
I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God's heavenly country club.
Santa Claus is another matter. He's cute. He's nonthreatening. He's always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who's been naughty and who's been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without the thought of quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he's famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
This is a three dimensional view of the election sent to me by Charlieb. Just can't get enough maps.
Click on the map for a larger version.
Let's look a little closer at what this map is telling us.
Look on the Left Coast. It's pretty obvious where Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle are isn't it?
In the upper Midwest, there's Chicago, Detroit and Cleveleland. I think the smaller ones to the west are Madison Wisconsin and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
In the lower Midwest it's easy to find St. Louis and Kanses City.
And in South Florida we can see where the dingbats live who were too stupid to vote properly in the 2000 election.
The Northeast seems to be a solid block right up the coast.
Do you notice that where there are large concentrations of people they tend to be liberal and vote for Dimocrats? Where people are spread out, they tend to vote Republican.
Someone once did an experiment with rats. The experiment showed that as the population density of the rats went up they started going crazy. Maybe that explains liberalism. It can also explain that even though socialism has been an abject failure every place it has been tried there are still a lot of people (those in the blue areas) who think it will work if only the right people (those in the blue areas) are in charge.
Think about it.
It's been a week now and the left has told us that John Fonda Kerry lost for the following reasons:
1. 51% of the people are racists.
2. 51% of the people are homophobes.
3. 51% of the people are Jesus freaks. (At least the Germans think so and also a Canadian commenter who is afraid of the southern part of the United States. Y'know, I live in the South and real Southerners are the most tolerant and most polite people in the world.)
4. 51% of the people are country bumpkins. (At least Jimmy does. He also thinks it's OK for one group of people to take money from another group of people.)
5. 51% of the people are stupid.
Let's not talk about how Kerry was a flawed candidate. If he hadn't had the support of the old media, like CBS with its Fake But Accurate memo story, he would have lost in a landslide. CBS still hasn't fired Dan Rather or Mary Mapes and it may as well give up any hope as ever being regarded as a credible news source again.
Kerry had a plan for everything. The problem is most of them wouldn't have worked. Let's examine his plan for Iraq. Get the French and the Germans to take over so we could leave. How was he gonna do that? Wave a dead chicken at it. Poof! PFM! Ironbear had a post on this. BTW, this is where I got Poof! PFM!
Demographics:
Bush 2000/Bush 2004
African-Americans: 8%/11%
Whites: 54%/58%
Hispanic: 41%/44%
Married: 53%/56%
Not Married: 38%/40%
Union Members: 37%/40%
Gays: 25%/23%
Gun Owners: 61%/67%
Protestants: 63%/59%
Jewish: 19%/25%
Catholics: 45%/52%
Republicans: 91%/93%
Democrats: 10%/11%
Men: 51%/55%
Women: 43%/48%
18-29 year olds: 46%/45%
30-44 year olds: 49%/53%
45-59 year olds: 49%/51%
60+ 47%/54%
Bush went up with everyone except Protestants and 18-29 year olds. I guess they don't hate gays as much.
Now Robin wondered how the rural poor could vote against their pocket books and the urban elite could vote against their pocket books. Because this wasn't an election about the economy. This was an election about the war and values. The rural poor do not think it is the gummint's job to support them. Also, rural voters are Second Amendment types. As much as Flipper tried to convince everyone he was not a gun grabber, his record in the Senate showed otherwise. That's why he didn't run on it and staged those ridiculous photo ops showing him with guns.
People vote against their interests all the time. Look at black voters. 60% of blacks are for school vouchers. Dimocrats oppose school vouchers. Kerry got 89% of the black vote. Blacks are conservative on issues like abortion and gay marriage but as long as the Dimocrats campaign on fear and racism and blacks believe it, they'll vote for Dimocrats. One of the most disgusting ads this year was a picture from 40 years ago (!) showing blacks having a firehose turned on them saying that this could happen if they didn't vote. And the Dimocrats accuse Republicans of fear tactics?
Rural Americans are more patriotic than urban elites. Rural Americans are also more self reliant than the urban poor. Rural Americans have sent their sons off to war everytime we have had one. I remember driving through south Georgia during Gulf War I and seeing Amerrican flags on the all the overpasses. These are the country bumpkins that Jimmy sneers at. These country bumpkins are part of what makes this country great. Given a choice I would prefer having a beer with a country bumpkin than having a latte with one of the elites in a blue state.
So during this last election the rural poor were not saying what can my country do for me (which seems to be the mantra of Dimocrats nowadays) but what can I do for my country. Funny, I remember a Dimocrat saying sumpin' like that 44 years ago. How times have changed.
No wonder the Dimocrat Party is becoming a minority party.
Yet another map sent to me by Charlieb.
Update: I didn't create this map, but due to protests from right thinkers in other countries let me point out some discrepencies.
Australia should be red.
So should Japan.
Likewise England until the next election.
Also Norway.
And Italy.
Saudi Arabia should be blue unless we believe Michael Moore.
Afghanistan and Iraq should be red.
Here is how Germany's Der Spiegel views North America.
Here is the map that Kim du Toit would like to see. I'm glad he reposted it as I went looking for it a while back. I've now got a copy saved.
I hope you notice that it doesn't matter if Michael Moore lives in his real home in New York or his fictional home in Michigan he'll still be in the People's Soviet of Eastern America.
One night, Bill heard a knock at his door. He answered it and found a
six-foot cockroach there. The bug threw him across the room, then left.
The next night, the doorbell rang again. The same cockroach slugged him
in the stomach and left. The following night, he was kneed in the groin
and hit behind the ear. Finally, Joe went to the doctor. He explained
the attacks and added, "What can I do?" "Not much," the doctor said.
"There's just a nasty bug going around."
As you know the left is in real deep denial about the election. They're also crying their eyes out a la Judy Woodruff and Eleanor Clift. Michael Moore was actually silent for three days then Lardass posted something on his site called 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists. It's his attempt to “always look on the bright side of life!”
1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
So? He's still got four more years.
2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
So? A win is a win. Bush won. You lost. BWAHAHAHAHA!
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
That's actually bad news Mikey since people tend to get conservative as they age. Maybe you may want to sharpen up that razor. Or maybe you can just keep eating like Mister Creosote. Or better yet, Michael Creosote Moore
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)
Note to foreigners: What this really means is that even though there are problems, we don't trust the Dimocrats to address them. They're weak on defense and they're weak on values. It's as simple as that.
5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
Ooops! You're now down to 16 Lardass. And if the Dimocrats keep obstructing, a la Little Tommy Daschle, they may just give the Republicans a 60 seat majority. Keep on with your anti-American bullshit. As long as you are associated with the Dimocrats their fortunes will continue to go down the toilet.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
Let's start with this "birthplace of democracy" bullshit. The writer of the Declaration of Independence and the third president was Thomas Jefferson from Virginia. George Washington, head of the army and the first president, was from Virginia. James Madison, known as the Father of the Constitution and the fourth president, was from Virginia. James Monroe, the fifth president, was from Virginia. John Adams, the second president, and John Quincy Adams, the sixth, president were from Massachusetts.
Out of the first six presidents four were from a red state.
And here's some more bad news Lardass: The population of the red states are growing. People are leaving the declining economies of states run by liberals to go to the red states. I reckon Georgia will pick up at least two more congressional seats in 2010. Texas will probably pick up more seats also. That's bad news for you Mikey boy.
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
Hey Ralp Gizzip! Are you gonna allow Fatso to call you a poisonous nut?
Update: That's Michigan State, not Michigan. Sheesh! You would think someone from Michigan would know the difference.
Final Score:
Buckeyes 32
Spartans 19
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
More bad news Mr. Creosote. Bush's numbers rose in every demographic, even blacks. The country is growing more conservative. Blacks are actually more in tune with Republicans on school vouchers, crime, and moral values. When they quit buying the race baiting of you, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, and the rest of you assholes, you will see more of them deserting the Dimocrat Party.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
Ha! Ha! Good one Mikey.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
Cynthia McKinney is gonna supply me with a lot of good material for the next two years. She's also gonna drive voters away from the Dimocrats. C'mon Mr. Creosote, just one more thin little mint.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
Tom Daschle, Senate Minority Leader was defeated for the Senate. I'll drink to that. I already have. I went to Michael and Cindy's house last night and we drank two bottles of Champagne.
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
Holy shit! Mikey and I agree on sumpin'!
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
Republicans picked up additional seats in both the federal House and Senate. In Georgia, the Republicans control the Senate and the House, plus we have a Republican governor. Try to put a good face on it Lardass. Thanks to you and the other liberals the Dimocrat Party is slowly becoming a minority party. You have become an irrelevant buffoon as has Barbra Streisand. Babs hasn't posted anything on her site since the election. She's probably packing to leave the country.
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
Don't you just wish. He's got a majority in both the House and the Senate. He believes he has a mandate. If the Dimocrats in the Senate decide to filibuster judges they will be painted as obstructionists and the Republicans may pick up more Senate seats. C'mon Mikey. Just one more wafer-thin mint.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
In your dreams Lardass.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
Sports analogies by someone who probably never participated in sports. The only reason that the election was so close was that the lamestream media was for Kerry. Look what was thrown at Bush: Abu Ghraib, the Fake But Accurate memos, bad news from Iraq, the "missing 300 tons of explosives" and George Soros and the 527's. All that kerry had to contend with was the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. Now that the election is over, more stuff is coming out on Kerry that the press covered up. Had the electorate known the real Kerry he would have lost in a landslide. Face it Mikey, the American public just does not like liberals.
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
The only problem with this Mikey is that Kerry did not run as a liberal. He ran as a centrist who spent four months in Viet Nam. Had he run on his record in the Senate he would have gotten creamed. All the Dimocrats who have run as liberals, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis have lost in landslides. Bill Clinton, who by the way never got the majority of votes (43% in 1992 and 49% in 1996), ran as a moderate in both of his elections. So did Jimmah Carter.
So I really hope that the Dimocrat Party takes your advice and moves even further to the left. Zell Miller was right. The Dimocrat Party is no longer a national party.
Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
I'm feeling a lot better. As I said, I hope the Dimocrats take your advice.
C'mon. Please! Just one more teeny tiny mint.
Eric posted his Blogtoberfest pictures on his site and I stole this one of me playing at the guitar with Luuka on my shoulder. Luuka does get around!
Hey look! I'm linked on an Italian blog. How cool is that? Now if I could only read Italian. I can, just a little.
Sent to me by Phil.
Here are some new words we should try to use everyday:
The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked readers to take
any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing
one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's (2003)
winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign
of breaking down in the near future. (Reminds me of my ex-CDSM® - For new readers that's my Clueless Dipshit Manager - GOC )
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting
laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house,which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between! the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it. (Like the gulf between me and clueless trolls - GOC)
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really
bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a
serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming
only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've
accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your
bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the
fruit you're eating.
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. ( I had a user named Luis who was an Ignoranus. Yet another enemy I outlasted at TCIDNN - GOC)
Instead of Saturday Boobage here is a picture of a duck.
Sent to me by good friends and former co-workers Vera and Phil.
My latest troll (No, it isn't Robin. He's not a troll. And I'll have a post trying to explain to him why he doesn't get it in the future) is trying to say that according to the county map of the election results, Bush was reelected by country bumpkins. Golly I didn't know that my neighbors and I in Beautiful Dunwoody Georgia were country bumpkins. I do admit that I have four raised beds on my patio where I raise veggies in the summer so golly maybe I am. A "cheap" house in Beautiful Dunwoody would be $200,000. An average house in Beautiful Dunwoody would be over $300,000 so it's nice to know that all of us country bumpkins are doing so well.
East Cobb County, just across the Chatahoochee, is filled with a bunch of country bumpkins also. Their home prices are comparable.
The best performing school in the state of Georgia, Walton High School, is in East Cobb County and is obviously attended by country bumpkins since it's in a red area. The worst performing school in Georgia is smack dab in the middle of a blue area.
And let's look a little bit closer at all those blue areas. The highest concentration of crime is in the blue areas. The highest concentration of poverty is likewise in the blue areas. And golly, who runs things in those blue areas? Why it's the Dimocrat Party.
I think I prefer being a dumb ol' country bumpkin living in a red area than being one of the Einsteins living in a blue area.
Maybe I should have turned on CNN for a while Tuesday night. I heard that Judy Woodruff was close to tears. Just think. In spite of all that CNNABCCBSNBCNPRPBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, Time, The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation and the rest of the Lamestream Media, this is how America voted by county.
Update: Mary pointed out that my county map was from 2000 so I got the 2004 map off Newmax.
Yep! All of rubes in "flyover country" thought that the elite media's candidate was full of shit!
Howza 'bout by state?
Maps sent to me by Jim.
Yep! We don't know shit, but we do know a Massachusetts liberal when we see one. Kerry had a chance for his Sister Soljah moment after the celebrity bash Bush fest in New York and he blew it. It turns out that Red America has values and they don't agree with the Dimocrats' values as evidenced by the fact that for the first time in a presidential election the party in power increased their majorities in both houses. Looks like Zell Miller was right. The Dimocrats are a national party no more.
I really don't want to help the Dimocrats out here but history shows that since John Kennedy the only Dimocrat presidents have come from the South. The Dimocrat Party has moved so far to the left that the Republicans now own the South.
I've now lived in the South for almost 20 years. Southerners love America unlike Michael Moore who is one of the Dimocrats' heroes. The patriotism that he and his fellow liberals make fun of is very strong in the South.
After their loss in 2000, the Dimocrats ignored the lessons of Bill Clinton (move to the center) and attributed their loss to the fact that they weren't liberal enough and elected Nancy Pelosi as the House Minority Leader which has made them even more of a minority party. I saw Al Sharpton on television tonight and he said the reason the Dimocrats lost was that they didn't move far enough to the left. Tell that to Tom Daschle Reverend Al. Tell that to Max "Stumpy" Cleland who lost tow years ago for running as a conservative and governing as a liberal. And here's a letter from Jimmah Carter for Max to deliver to Yasser Arafat.
Giving Michael Moore and Jimmah Carter a place of honor at their convention was a brilliant move. I wonder how many votes that cost them.
Let's hear it for the bloggers! Gunga Dan and CBS didn't know what hit them in Memogate. CBS News may never recover.
We are seeing the beginning of the end for the Lamestream Media. Fox News is kicking ass on cable. You can say whatever you want about Fox being biased to the right, but the American people are voting with their remote controls and they are voting Fox over CNN. The red states watch Fox.
The blogger phenomenon is growing! I set two non-Instalanche records for hits this week. I would have set three but Hosting Matters, my ISP, was overwhelmed on Tuesday. Little Green Footballs uses Hosting Matters also and I'm sure Charles' hits were out of sight. I thought he might have been hit by a DOS but I think it was just lots of traffic.
For those of you who want examples of bias here's the most egregious. The Lamestream Media couldn't get enough of Bush's National Guard record. He signed the form 180 to release his records. Flipper never did and the Lamestream Media did not pressure him for it. Had they done their job they would have held the Poodle to the same standards that they did the president.
People are no longer restricted to old media. The Lamestream Media will soon no longer be relevant. Had they been fair and balanced Kerry would have lost in a landslide. In spite of Memogate and Bombgate, Bush and the Republicans still won the election.
And the Dimocrats and their allies in old media still don't get it.
So GOC, you may say, he lost, why are you still picking on him? I'm picking on him 'cause this election allowed us to see the real John Kerry. We were able to revisit his lies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We were able to revisit his suspect military record. He never did sign the release form for all of his military records. What was he hiding?
We were also able to see what the Dimocrats have become: The party of Michael Moore and Jimmah Carter. Jimmah was the worst president of the 20th Century and the Dimocrats revere him.
If Jimmah Carter, Michael Moore, and John Kerry had been alive during the Revolutionary War, Jimmah would have been on the side of the British, Michael Moore would have been a British propagandist, and our name for traitor would have been John Fonda Kerry instead of Benedict Arnold. So yes, I will continue to pick on him until he resigns from the Senate and leaves national politics.
Image from Jesse.
To: Jim Carry
From: Barbra Streisand
Dear Joe,
The Republicans stole another election! There is no way the people in this country are stupid enough to vote for that moron Busch. It had to be the voting machines. You do know that the Dybold company who makes the machines is run by a Bush supporter don't you?
You were robbed! If the media in this country weren't so conservative they would have been on your side. Instead they supported Jeb W. Bush. We need a liberal news network!
And we know those Fastboat veterans were lying about you. You are a genuine war hero. You even indulged in intelligence work when you took that CIA agent up the Mekong River to Thailand. I remember how you told everyone that it was charred in your brain.
I think another reason that Democrats did so poorly in the election, besides voter fraud and the conservative bias of the news networks (They don't call CNN the Conservative News Network for nothing.) is because they didn't use any of the many ideas that I faxed to members of the Democratic Party the past year.
I really fear for the future of this country. All I can say is that I'm sure Helen Clinton will run for president in 2006 and beat anyone the Republicans run against her.
Best to you and your wife Thelma. And tell that cute little guy who ran with you hello for me.
Luv ya,
Babs
My friends Michael and Cindy came over to watch the election results last night. I grilled some steaks and we ate in front of the television. My sister and her husband could not make it for dinner because the lines were too long in South Carolina and they did not get on the road until late. By the time they arrived we had finished dinner.
Michael was gonna bring some Champagne but after hearing the news all day about exit polls showing Flipper winning he decided not to and brought a Chardonnay instead. It was a good Chardonnay though.
I wasn't too confident either.
As the evening went on we started feeling better as the numbers coming in were much better than the exit polling numbers. Winning Florida by a solid majority was huge.
Cindy had pooped out and they went home around midnight. Ryan and I stayed up until 2:30. We were watching Fox, but every now and then I turned over to CBS to see how Gunga Dan was taking it. CBS still hadn't called Ohio even though Fox and NBC had.
Looking at the local news we saw that Republicans, who had taken over the Georgia Senate in the last election had taken over the Georgia House in this election. That was also huge! For the first time Rebublicans now control both houses of the legislature, has two Republican senators, and a Republican governor. The only real bad news was the return of Cynthia McKinney.
I felt so good about the election that I had a cognac before going to bed at 2:30 AM.
Not only did Bush win the Electoral College, but he also won the popular vote. Take that Michael Moore! Also, he won a majority, something Bill Clinton was never able to accomplish.
To make things even better, Tom Daschle lost! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
I was watching Fox this morning and they had that crone Eleanor Clift on. She looked to be on the verge of tears.
I love the sight of liberals crying in the morning. It looks like victory.
I fully expect a lot of airplanes leaving Los Angeles today filled with the disgruntled celebrities who promised to leave the country if Bush got reelected. They're not? Those farking keftests never keep their word.
My sister called from South Carolina this morning and she was standing in a bodacious line. I talked to her a few minutes ago and she was just getting to the first table and she had been in line for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Her husband hasn't voted yet. They are driving down to watch the election returns with Michael, Cindy, and myself. They're gonna miss dinner.
I was expecting a long line at my polling place so instead of walking, I went in my wheelchair. I also took a book. Didn't need to. I was in and out in ten minutes. The poll workers told me there were 200 people waiting when they opened this morning and they expect a big rush around lunch and then again at the end of the day.
Dunwoody is pretty much Republican and unlike Dimocrat voters, have jobs so they have to vote in the morning, at lunchtime, or at the end of the day. Plus there a lot of us eee-vil rich people who want to starve children and take Social Security away from old people. (Insert maniacal laugh here)
I don't feel real good about this election because Dimocrats are better at getting out the vote and they have all those homeless folks and welfare recipients that they can drag to the polls.
They also come up with the "Republicans are gonna take away your Social Security" tactic to scare old folks. Then they drive them to the polls.
They also have the blacks whom they've told that Republicans are eee-vil racists who want to enslave them. Let me tell you if the KKK were running things they could not have done a better job of keeping poor blacks down and dependent on gummint than the Dimocrat Party.
The Dimocrats, with their willing allies the teachers unions have succeeded in destroying what was one of the finest public schools systems in the world.
Back when I went to Webster Groves High School (I had to walk 20 miles through blinding blizzards, uphill, both ways.) in Webster Groves Missouri back in the 60's we had an excellent public school system. There was a lot of emphasis on writing. We took two hour long final exams, just like in college, in the same blue books that colleges used at that time.
From Goodall Elementary School to Hixson Junior High School to Webster Groves Senior High School we were drilled in grammar and writing. If someone couldn't make the grade he was held back. There were no social promotions. There was no self esteem bullshit. No one worried about the horrors of correcting exams and papers in blue ink. We got an education.
We studied the United States Constitution twice. We studied the Missouri Constitution twice. We learned how gummint worked. We were taught how to be informed citizens. Now the public schools have become socialist indoctrination centers.
Like I said, I don't feel too good about this election because too many stupid and ignorant people will be voting. Unfortunately, those are the people who vote for Dimocrats.
Also Cynthia McKinney will win the election and once again be my congress critter. Aaarrgghhh!
Dear Jessica
I know that you have a brain so why are you undecided the night before the election? Have you been spending too much time with Greg? Don't you realize that this is one of the most important elections of your life?
We are witnessing a replay of how the Dimocrat Party fought the Cold War. They didn't. Bin Laden has just offered us a truce. He says if we vote for Kerry he'll leave us alone. In other words he thinks that just like Spain (and France) we do not have the resolve to fight this war. If we elect the Poodle we will prove him right.
I remember right after 9/11 when the nation came together, I told my friends Michael and Cindy that we did not have the resolve to see this war through. I fear that tomorrow I will be proven right.
Flipper says that we threw away all the good will that we got after 9/11. Some of the countries that said they were with us after 9/11, like Japan, England, and Australia truly were with us. Other countries, like France felt schadenfreude. Finally, the great and powerful United States has experienced terrorism. What pissed off nations like France and Germany (and the Dimocrats) is that we decided to do sumpin' about it.
Our moronic president toppled the Taliban in two months. The Dimocrats and their liberal friends in the lamestream media said that Afghanistan would be a quagmire. They just held their first elections in their history. Women were allowed to vote! Had Algore won the election we would probably still be negotiating with the Taliban and Jimmah Carter would be heading up the negotiating team.
Lurch claims a coalition of 30 nations is a unilateral approach to the Iraqi war. He wants us to adopt a multilateral coalition, which we have, but adopt a unilateral approach to North Korea, which was an abject failure. If he gets elected will he send Jimmah Carter back to get snookered again?
If you don't want to listen to me, listen to someone smarter than I am.
One more thing. Do you want to hide your breasts under a burka?
Love and stuff,
Denny
Listen up! I'm talking about you folks in the panhandle. No matter what the lamestream media says about how Florida voted do not go home!!! Stay at the polls and vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!
That is all.
I read three op-eds by liberals last week bemoaning the fact that the Republicans were using scare tactics by bringing up 9/11. I'm sorry, but that is the whole point of this election. Which candidate do we think will be the best at fighting terrorism.
Do we think it will be the Poodle who had to take a poll to decide how to respond to the Osama bin Laden tape?
Do we think it should be Flipper who was on the wrong side of history during the Cold War?
Do we think it should be Lurch who voted against every major weapons system during his time in the Senate?
Do we think it should be Botox Boy who returned from Viet Nam and stabbed his "band of brothers" in the back by testifying to made up atrocities?
And let's talk about scare tactics. Every four years, just like clockwork, the Dimocrats come out with the same old bullshit about how the Republicans want to cut Social Security. After four years of a Bush presidency and two years of majorities in both the House and the Senate how come this hasn't happened yet? Because it ain't gonna happen. The fucking Dimocrats are using scare tactics.
I was watching television tonight and I saw one of those Rock the Vote commercials. It said that unless young people voted there was gonna be a draft. May I point out that the only people talking about a draft are Dimocrats? There were two bills introduced in Congress for a draft. The bill in the House was introduced by Charles Rangel, a Dimocrat. The bill in the Senate was introduced by Ernest Hollings, a Dimocrat. Somehow this means that if Bush is reelected there will be a draft. How stupid do the Dimocrats think the voters are? According to the polls, prettty fucking stupid.
So it isn't the Republicans who specialize in scare tactics. It's the Dimocrats.
We have a choice in this election. Do we want a president who is willing to take the fight to the terrorists or do we want a president who wants to take a "global test" and fight a more "senstive" war?
I know how I'm voting.
My Nightmare...
Nov. 3, 2004
I woke up on the morning of November 3, 2004 to find:
John Kerry - President
John Edwards - Vice-President
Jane Fonda - Secretary of Defense
Michael Moore - Foreign Secretary
Whoopi Goldberg - Secretary of Interior
Jessie Jackson & Bill Clinton - Chaplain & Moral Advisor to the White House
Al Gore - Head of FBI, CIA & Homeland Security
Tom Daschle - Senate Majority Leader
Howard Dean - First Speech Writer & No. 1 Advisor
to the White House
Hillary Clinton - No. 1 Queen of Everything
Don't laugh, it could happen unless you get out there and vote!!!!!!
Sent to me by my friend Phil.
This is why Flipper did not run on his record in the Senate.
Following is John Kerry's 19 year voting record on the defense of our great country.
He voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
He voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank.
He voted to kill every aircraft carrier made from 1988.
He voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system.
He voted to Kill the F-15 Strike Eagle.
He voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16.
He voted to Kill the P-3 Orion upgrade.
He voted to Kill the B-1.
He voted to Kill the B-2.
He voted to Kill the Patriot Anti Missile System.
He voted to Kill the FA-18.
He voted to Kill the B-2.
He voted to Kill the F117.
In short, he voted to kill every military appropriation for the development and deployment of every weapons system since 1988, including battle armor for our troops. With Kerry as president, it seems our Army will be made up of nothing more than naked men and women running around with sticks and clubs. He also voted to kill all the anti-terrorism activities of every agency of the U.S. Government and to cut the funding of the FBI by 60 percent. He voted to cut the funding for the CIA by 80 percent, and cut the funding for the NSA by 80 percent.
But then... he voted to increase United States funding for U.N operations by 800 percent!
This man is most certainly 'unfit for command' of the greatest military power on earth, when he disdains its very existence.
But he does want to take a "global test" and conduct a "sensitive" war on terror.
My sister got this from one of her friends and forwarded it on to me.
Lemme see if I got this straight?
Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia- good...
Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq- bad...
Clinton spends 77 billion on war in Serbia- good...
Bush spends 87 billion in Iraq- bad...
Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia- good...
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq- bad...
Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Albanian terrorists -
good...
Bush liberates 25 million from a genocidal dictator - bad...
Clinton bombs Chinese embassy - good....
Bush bombs terrorist camps - bad....
Clinton commits felonies while in office - good...
Bush lands on aircraft carrier in jumpsuit - bad...
Clinton says mass graves in Serbia- good...
Entire world says WMD in Iraq- bad...
No mass graves found in Serbia- good...
No WMD found Iraq- bad...
Stock market crashes in 2000 under Clinton- good...
Recession under Bush - bad...
Clinton refuses to take custody of Bin Laden - good...
World Trade Centers fall under Bush - Bad...
Clinton says Saddam has nukes - good...
Bush says Saddam has nukes - bad...
Clinton calls for regime change in Iraq- good...
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq- bad...
Terrorist training in Afghanistan under Clinton- good...
Bush destroys training camps in Afghanistan- bad...
Milosevic not yet convicted - good...
Saddam in custody - bad...
Ok, now I understand.
Both of these are from Ann Coulter.
"The common wisdom holds that "both parties" have to appeal to the extremes during the primary and then move to the center for the general election. To the contrary, both parties run for office as conservatives. Once they have fooled the voters and are safely in office, Republicans sometimes double-cross the voters. Democrats always do."
"Yes, vote on November 2nd. Democrats get to vote as often as they like, so we should all vote at least once. "
This one came from Jim From Downunder.
"Voting for Kerry to save America is like fucking to save virginity."
Dear Christian Fundos,
Being an atheist, I don't really have too much in common with you guys, but do me a favor. In this election we need as many votes as we can get. Please do not stay at home this election. The Dimocrats keep saying that every vote counts even as they try to disenfranchise our military personnel much like they did in Florida during the 2000 election. The future in the War on Terror is too important to let John Fonda Kerry run it. This is a man who did all he could to undermine the Cold War and I fully expect him to do the same with the War on Terror. Ever since 1968 the Dimocrats cannot be entrusted with national security.
Maybe this image sent to me by Charlie will give you an incentive to vote.
OK. Fundos quit reading now.
For those of you who think Bush will appoint judges who will overturn Roe v. Wade, it ain't gonna happen.
This one is from Richard
Joe noticed that many parrots spoke foreign languages because they were
from other countries. He began going around to pet stores and teaching
the parrots English. He found others doing the same thing, so he formed
the Parrot Teachers Association. Eventually, Joe called a strike,
because the pay was poor. He was soon short of cash, so he got a job in
a laundry pressing shirts.
He wanted to iron while the strike was hot.
