They say as a result of the flooding due to Katrina, gators are gonna wind up in people's back yards.
Addison (the other one) and Paul had a long discussion in the commments on the post Letter From Jerry and Paul did some math.
If all of the SUVs, in addition to our Diesel long-haul rigs, in the United States achieved an average of 10 mpg better efficiency, wouldn't that substantially impact overall consumption? Say, 30,000,000 vehicles X 10 gallons per day would save 300,000,000 gallons per day or 7,142,857 barrels per day. We consume approximately 320,000,000 barrels per day, so that would reduce daily consumption by 2.23%....hmmm, you may have a point. Just damn.
2.23%? Is that all? That's kinda like even if the United States destroyed its economy to conform to the Kyoto treaty (that the Senate opposed 98-0), the effects on supposed global warming would be next to nothing.
Now the liberals say we should take mass transit, carpool and ride bicycles and to force us to do that (at least in Atlanta) they're not gonna add any more lanes to the freeways. Yep! That's gonna force us out of our cars. Not. Gonna. Happen.
What does happen is every morning and every evening I-75 (just one example) is at least a 12 mile long traffic jam and that is if there are no accidents. They could just record the following and play it on the radio stations traffic reports every morning.
"There is an accident between the North and South Loops and traffic is backed up to Wade Green road."
And just think, while that traffic is backed up in a 12 to 15 mile traffic jam hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs are burning gas and polluting the atmosphere. Wouldn't it be better for a car to only be on the freeway for 15 minutes instead of 60? The less time that engine is running, the less gas it consumes and the less pollutants it spews into the air.
I used to have to take I-75 to work before I moved to Beautiful Dunwoody. My last year that I lived in Acworth, I was leaving the house at 6:15 and it still took me over 30 minutes to drive the 18 miles to work. If I left any later, the travel time would be over 60 minutes, and that was if there were no accidents.
But the liberals want us to carpool and take mass transit. The problem with mass transit in Atlanta is that it sucks! Of course, it has to be subsidized and to do it right would cost too much money.
The liberals claim that highways are subsidized. Actually, highways are paid for by gas taxes. So now they want to take those gas taxes and throw that money away on a mass transit system that no one will ride.
Give us more lanes on the freeways!
Catfish sent me another joke.
A guy sitting at an airport bar in Atlanta noticed a beautiful
woman sitting next to him. He thought to himself she must
be a flight attendant....so gorgeous....which airline
does she work for?
Hoping to gain her attention he leaned towards her and uttered the
Delta slogan, "Love to fly and it shows?"
She gave him a blank, confused stare and he immediately thought to
himself, not Delta.
A moment later, another slogan popped into his head. He leaned
toward her again, "Something special in the air?
She gave him the same confused look. He mentally scratched
American Airlines off the list.
Next, he tried the United slogan, "I would really love to fly your
friendly skies?"
This time the woman savagely turned on him...."what the fuck do
you want?"
The man smiled, then slumped back in his chair and said, "Ah ha!
Air France!"
Obviously there are people on this planet who do not understand the concept of sarcasm. That was what my first Katrina post was all about, the fact that when there is a natural disaster anywhere in the world, the United States is the first country to offer assistance. We even offered assistance to Iran when they had an earthquake a while back. But, when there is a natural disaster in the United States the rest of the world observes in silence.
The rest of the world sits there with their hands out demanding money form us. The rest of the world envies us our wealth and our power and I'm sure there are many countries who are happy when we get hit with natural disasters. Serves us right.
We are more than capable of handling our own natural disasters, and we do, with no assistance from the rest of the loser nations on this planet. And, because we are capable of doing this, we will probably lose less lives than any other country hit with a hurricane of this magnitude. Think what the death toll would have been in an Asian country. I believe the death toll from Katrina is now around 100. That is tragic. Had it hit a Third World country, the death toll would have been in the thousands and the United States would already have started relief efforts.
Now let's look at some of the comments from losers who do not understand sarcasm.
No offers from the coalition of the willing ? why is that ? Prosper
Prosper is my newest French troll and obviously has no concept of sarcasm. He actually has no concept of any sort of intellectual discourse, either. But then, he is a troll.
Whine whine whine. Local / state government thinks it is too expensive to prepare against some heavy hurricanes and now you want the UN to ride to the rescue? I'll happily support the US in Iraq, but please deal with your little floods yourselves. Daran
We will deal with the floods ourselves and we will do a better job than any other country could do and the last people we want helping out are the bozos from the UN. And as TomR pointed out to Daran, who is from the Netherlands, "the US answered a flood in the Netherlands once. We sent relief in the form of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions to push out a flood of Germans." On the plus side, the Netherlands is helping us out in Iraq.
Massive huuricane slams Gulf Coast of the United States. The rest of the world expresses sympathy and promises to send aid to the United States.
They didn't? They won't?
From Charlieb.
This came from here. Thanks to commenter StinKerr for pointing this out to me.
The fans and dehumidifiers have been running since Friday. I'll get some relief this afternoon.
My friends, Michael and Cindy, invited me over to their house last night for dinner and to watch the HBO series, Rome. As with so many of these history dramas, they like to change the history to what they think is better. They totally screwed up the series, Caesar, a few years back. What gets me is the real history is actually better. The late Roman Republic history is fascinating, brutal, and full of sex and violence.
So what did they screw up last night?
Pompey's wife Julia did not die in 52 BC. She died in 54 BC. After her death, Caesar offered to have Pompey marry his grandniece, Octavia, and he would marry one of Pompey's daughters from a previous marriage. Since Pompey turned the deal down, Ocatavia didn't divorce her husband. They got the husband wrong also. She was married to Marcellus and stayed married to him until Augustus made her marry Marc Antony. One of her children by her first husband was Marcellus, to whom Augustus married his daughter Julia. He was to be Augustus' heir until he died. We are now in I Claudius territory.
Caesar's standards were not stolen and Octavius didn't go to Gaul. Octavius was born in 63 BC which would have made him 9 years old in 52 BC. Also, he didn't become Octavian until after Caesar's death. When one was adopted in Rome, he took his father's name and appended his name afterward. In Latin, that would make the appended name Octavianus, which when anglicized becomes Octavian.
Pompey is actually Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Most people called him Magnus, which would mean Great One. He was a boy wonder general and became Great One (or The Great) at a very early age.
Marc Antony is actually Marcus Antonius.
Are y'all learning anything?
In the first Senate meeting, last night, someone referred to Caesar as Pompey's co-consul. Caesar was actually a pro-consul and his province was Gaul. Caesar wanted to run for consul, in absentia, in 49 BC and the Senate would not let him. I'm now getting ahead of the series so I'll stop there.
What they did get right was Cato. Didja notice his naked shoulder and chest exposed under his toga? That was historically correct. Cato had this thing about honoring the Romans who kicked out the last king and evidentally they didn't wear tunics under their togas.
Cato's half sister is Servillia, who is Brutus' mother and Caesar's mistress. Caesar was like Bill Clinton in that he liked to boink lots of women. Married or single, he didn't care. Caesar did have better taste than Clinton. If we get lucky they'll show the scene in the Senate where Caesar gets a scroll and Cato demands that he read it in front of the entire Senate. Without a word, Caesar hands the scroll to Cato. It's a love letter from Servillia.
Now you've had a nice little history lesson. I think I'll do this again next week.
Kitchen puns from Charlieb.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
The forecast for the weather in the kitchen is chili today and hot tamale.
The situation in the kitchen is going from batter to waffle.
Some people who refinish kitchens could be known as counter-fitters.
Hey, I just post them. I don't make them up.
It looks like Katrina is gonna wipe out some oil rigs and some refineries. Thannks Dimocrats and environmentalists for not allowing us to build any new refineries for the last 40 years. Y'all better go gas up tomorrow. Gas is gonna go up over $3.00 a gallon and the Dow is gonna drop below 10,000 tomorrow. Thanks assholes! That includes you, Jimmy.
So I was reading the Saturday letters in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation and I came across this gem.
Act now to head off cold-weather crisisWhen heating costs go up --- and you know they will be out of sight --- are we going to have to sit around the house with coats, caps and wool stockings to keep warm?
People making minimum wage are going to have to choose between eating and trying to keep warm, much less buying gas to get to their jobs.
Let's hope our elected officials get off their duffs and do something before there is a real crisis. Just because they can afford it doesn't mean the rest of us can.
Georgians should let their elected officials know they are upset with them and remind them they can be voted out of office.
JERRY LEWIS, Marietta
It's ironic that this letter was written by someone named Jerry Lewis because it is hilarious. I like the part about sitting "around the house with coats, caps and wool stockings to keep warm". Hey, remember Jimmah Carter suggested we turn down our thermostats to keep warm. I'll just bet this guy is a Dimocrat. He wants for "our elected officials get off their duffs and do something". Whenever I hear that, it scares the shit out of me!
All right, Jerry. What do you want them to do?
Price controls? We tried that back in the 70's with Nixon, Ford, and Carter. That was a smashing success. Look anywhere in the world where there are price controls on any commodity and you will find shortages of that commodity. Do you want our gummint to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand? Can't be done. Gummints have been trying to do that since the ancient Persians. It's never worked. Ever. That's why centrally controlled economies always fail.
I know. Let's have the gummint impose gas mileage standards on SUVs. I see Minetta just came out with some of that bullshit. I got a better idea. Let's just do nothing and let gas prices seek the market level. The same thing will happen that happened in the 70's and the 80's. People decided they didn't want to pay those prices and sold their gas guzzlers. The same thing will happen again. There will come a time when people decide it's not worth spending $50 to fill up their gas guzzlers and will buy smaller and more efficient SUVs. Yep! It will happen.
The only way to keep the price of energy low is to increase the supply or decrease the demand. Better insulate your house. Buy a more efficient heating system. Buy better windows. Turn your thermostat down. Wear a sweater like Jimmah did when he was in the White House. What about the poor? Fuck 'em. Let 'em starve. They should have followed my three simple rules on how not to be poor.
So let's increase the supply.
Drill for more oil? Where? ANWR? The Dimocrats won't let us. California coast? The Dimocrats won't let us. The Gulf coast? Dimocrats won't let us. Off the Florida coast? Jeb and Dubya won't let us.
I know. Let's go to war against Canada and Mexico and steal their oil.
Maybe we oughta build more refineries? The environmentalists won't let us. We haven't built a new one in over 40 years.
There is one thing the gummint could do. Determine one gas blend to use throughout the country. Currently, due to environmental restrictions, there are 40 different blends used.
Not enough oil? Thank a Dimocrat.
Maybe we should build more nuke plants? Finally, it looks like we might do that.
The reason we have shortages and high prices is because our elected officials have gotten off their duffs and done something.
Unfortunately, everything they have done has been wrong.
Stops on a dime. Gives you five cents change.
From Charlieb.
Catfish sent me this breaking story.
PARIS, France --
Lance Armstrong's record setting seventh Tour de France victory, along with his entire Tour de France legacy, may be tarnished by what could turn out to be one of the greatest sports scandals of all time. Armstrong is being quizzed by French police after three banned substances were found in his South France hotel room while on vacation after winning the 2005 Tour de France.
The three substances found were toothpaste, deodorant, and soap which have been banned by French authorities for over 75 years.
Armstrong's girlfriend, American rocker Sheryl Crowe, is quoted as saying "We use them every day in America, so we naturally thought they'd be ok throughout Europe."
Along with these three banned substances, French authorities also physically searched Armstrong and found several other interesting items that they had never seen before, including a backbone and a testicle.
This one is from Catfish.
Lady goes to her priest one day and
tells him. "Father, I have a problem. I have two
female parrots, but they only know how to say one
thing."
"What do they say?" the priest inquired.
They say, "Hi, we're hookers! Do you
want to have some fun?"
"That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed,
Then he thought for a moment.
"You know," he said, "I may have a
solution to your problem. I have two male talking
parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the
Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my house,
and we'll put them in the cage with Francis and
Peter. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise
and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop
saying that phrase in no time."
"Thank you," the woman responded, "this
may very well be the solution."
The next day, she brought her female
parrots to the priest's house. As he ushered her in, she saw
that his two male parrots were inside their cage holding
rosary beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed
her parrots in with them.
After a few minutes, the female parrots
cried out in unison: "Hi, we're hookers! Do you want
to have some fun?"
There was stunned silence.
Shocked, one male parrot looked over at
the other male parrot and exclaimed, "Put the beads
away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered!
Boobage and beer.
From Catfish.
Yeah that's not quite what the Frog King said, but it fits my situation.
Remember the sink? Guess what? It wasn't bolted to the wall. It was plastered to the wall and not very well. Or well enough to last until after the installers left. I never go into that bloody bathroom. My wheelchair doesn't fit. Had I had the house built, it would have been a closet.
I rolled out to get the mail yesterday and when I came back in, I saw an expanding puddle of water outside the half bath and heard the sound of running water. Holy Shit! The sink was on the floor and it had pulled the cold water line out of the wall.
I put on my braces and walked out to the garage and was able to climb up on the hot water heater platform and turn off the main water line.
I got back in and called a 24 hour plumbing service. The first service said they could have someone out the next day. Doesn't sound like 24 hour service to me. The second service said they could get someone there in about an hour.
I started cleaning up the water when the plumber called. He was in Acworth. Getting from Acworth to Dunwoody is a pain in the ass anytime. At 4:30 in the afternoon, it really sucks.
So, Larry the plumber showed up about an hour later. I had all the water off the surface by then. I said that as long as he was fixing the sink, raise it up and put the pedestal under it. He would have had to do that anyway. He had to cut out some of the drywall to get to the cold water line.
He got everything fixed and gave me the name of a drywall installer. He also gave me the name of a water removal service. They came by this morning. While they were here, I called the floor people and told them what the water guys would charge. He said he could fix it up himself.
When he got here, he told me to call the water guys back.
In the meantime, the drywall guy came to inspect what he needed to do. I also told him to give me an estimate on the drywall in the laundry room that my dear departed Doofus had scratched. My sister has been bugging me about that. She doesn't want to have to have a lot of work done to sell the house after I die. That's my sister. More worried about the house than her dear brother. I bet this will piss her off.
So the water guys came back and sucked a lot of water out of the carpeting that got wet. They then set up seven fans and three heavy duty dehumidifiers. I cannot hear myself think! Plus the dehumidifiers are sucking the saliva out of my mouth. They've been running for four hours and there is still a lot of water flowing through their drain lines.
The fans and dehumidifiers are gonna be running nonstop for three days.
AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
Matt at StarkTruth posted his bus shopping cart trip. The only bozo missing is Baghdad Barbarella.
Now this is just wrong, wrong, wrong!
From Charlieb. He's overtaking Catfish for bad taste submissions.
It turns out that not only is Jimmah against the United States, he's also against Georgia.
Arlington, Va. --- The military base closing commission on Wednesday dealt South Georgia an economic blow when it voted to recommend keeping open a New England submarine base rather than transferring many of its jobs and vessels to Kings Bay in St. Marys.Several members of the commission said former President Jimmy Carter, Georgia's best-known submariner, influenced their decision with a letter last week in favor of Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn.
Way to go Jimmah. Way to stand up for Georgia. Why dontcha move your peanut farm to Connecticut, asshole?
The vote means that Submarine Base Kings Bay in Camden County will not get from New London more than 3,000 jobs, six nuclear attack submarines and the Naval Submarine School that many local residents and officials had expected."It would have been a tremendous impact to our businesses and to the economy and we are disappointed," said St. Marys Mayor Deborah Hase. "But we'll keep going on."
Jimmah Carter: the gift that keeps on giving.
Commissioner James Bilbray, a former Nevada congressman, said he was swayed by the letter Carter wrote urging the commission to recommend keeping the New London base open.Carter stood "against his own state of Georgia, and I think that's very important," Bilbray said.
That's no surprise. He's been standing against his own country for so many years that it was inevitable that he'd stand "against his own state of Georgia".
In addition there were three bases closed in Atlanta. They were Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Fort Gillem in Forest Park, and the Naval Air Station Atlanta in Marietta. The first two bases are in the districts of Cynthia McCommie and John Lewis. They vote against every military spending bill so if they bitch about it they may want to examine their records on the military.
Ron sent me a link to a test. Here are my results. What surprised the crap out of me was my emotional intuition score. It would surprise the crap out of my friend Cindy who thinks I have no emotional intuition at all. Come to think of it, I didn't think I had any either. That's why I am so surprised.
All-Around Awesome 77% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 85% EMOTIONAL INTUITION | ||||
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I have high interpersonal skills? That would shock some of my ex-coworkers at IBM, especially my CDSM©
I kinda like that name. I wish I would have thought of it.
From Charlieb.
There are days that I do not know which section in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is funnier. Is it the comics page or the Letters to the Editor section? Today it's no contest. The winner is this letter from BRYNDA L. HILLER, who lives in Decatur, Georgia.
Food tastes great, too fillingSo stomachs are sagging in the South --- what can you expect ("Living large," Page One, Aug. 24)? In no other part of the country do people eat the way Southerners do: Everything is fried, battered, sweet and gooey.
I moved here from Seattle, and within two months I had put on 35 pounds. It's hard to find a restaurant that features light, low-carb food. It's easier to get a biscuit with gravy and a slab of pork than it is to get fresh fruit, a poached egg and whole-wheat toast for breakfast. Besides that, exercise --- even plain walking --- is frowned upon. People here take the car to go to the bathroom. Even the children here are overweight.
Don't get me wrong --- the food is delicious, but the way it's cooked is not healthy or good for you. Until the attitude toward food changes, the South will always have the country's most overweight and unhealthy people.
So she gained 35 pounds in two months. WTF? Did the fried chicken pull a gun on her and force her to eat it? Did someone hold her mouth open and pour sweet tea down her throat? I know, the biscuits and gravy used her knife and made her pick up her fork and shovel everything on her plate down her throat.
Who in the fark can state that it was the food that made her fat? She can cook low fat food herself. She can show some restraint. Ooops! My bad. She's from Seattle. That's in a blue state. To a liberal it's always someone else's fault. Responsibility for one's actions? Nah!
Yep! The food made her do it. That's why she has turned into an overweight slob. Now she's probably gonna sue her doctor for telling her she's too fat like this bozo did.
As doctors warn more patients they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor, with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful.Dr. Terry Bennett said he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain.
"I told a fat woman she was obese," Bennett said. "I tried to get her attention. I told her, 'You need to get on a program, join a group of like-minded people and peel off the weight that is going to kill you.' "
And he hurt her poor widdle feelings.
He said he wrote a letter of apology to the woman when he found out she was offended.
Dear Tubbo,
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. Go ahead and keep stuffing your face until you die of diabetes or heart problems.
Love,
Your ex-doctor
Her complaint, filed about a year ago, initially was investigated by a panel of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which recommended that Bennett be sent a confidential letter of concern. The full board rejected that suggestion in December and asked the state attorney general's office to investigate.
They should have done nothing, but keep in mind, this is New Hampshire, which is a blue state. Now they're getting the gummint involved. Sheeesh! This is un-farking-believable!
Bennett rejected that office's proposal that he attend a medical education course and acknowledge making a mistake.
Mainly, because he didn't. He told an overweight person she was killing herself. I bet he tells smokers they should quit, too.
Other overweight patients came to Bennett's defense."What really makes me angry is he told the truth," Mindy Haney told WMUR-TV this week. "How can you punish somebody for that?"
Because liberals get offended by the truth.
Haney said Bennett has helped her lose more than 150 pounds, but acknowledged that she initially didn't want to listen.
Denial. Denial. Denial. Fat people do not want to hear that they are fat and killing themselves, just like smokers don't want to hear that smoking is bad for them. What's a doctor to do? I guess, in New Hampshire, let his patients kill themselves.
Oh well, that will mean less Dimocrats.
There comes a time when you quit feeling sorry for someone. That time has long passed for Cindy Sheehan. She has taken a page right out of the Michael Moore script and is calling our enemies in Iraq "freedom fighters".
Picture from Charlieb.
So let me get this straight. Key goes over to Sam's to rant. I guess she didn't want to say "fuck" on her blog. It's a rant well worth reading and I concur.
I will call and make my reservations for Helen tomorrow. It is on Cindy's birthday, but Michael will be in Sardinia tasting wines, so we decided to have her birthday on the 8th when Michael will be back from Sardinia and we can celebrate his birthday also. I've got a 1995 Gigondas I just may pop open for the occasion and I might even make an attempt at the crab cheese cake recipe that Christina sent me. Had it at the Palace Cafe in Nawlins and it. was. awesome! Cindy's birthday also starts Cognac season and I have some Delamain Vesper. Be still my beating heart!
They're done! And it looks fantastic! The installers suggested that I go with some mini-thresholds to transition from the carpet to the hardwood which I did, and I'm glad. It looks a lot better than what the builders had done. They just ran the wood up to the carpet (or vice versa). It upped the price of the job, but it looks more professional. Now, the hardwood in the kitchen really looks like crap! Hopefully, by the end of the year, I can have that torn out and replaced with tile. There's serious water damage by the back door and in front of the sink. I'm too much of a slob to have hardwood in the kitchen.
I've decided to take the advice of Marcel, Ryan, and wburtnet and move the sink. I think that's a really great idea! I think it's such a great idea, I think I'll let Ryan do it since I'd just screw it up and he would do a professional grade job. There's a nice steak dinner with some good wine awaiting. I'll even open another bottle of the Sauterne for afters.
This morning I had to go to the eye doctor to get my eyes examined and order new glasses and contacts. That's a nice tidy little sum. Then when I got home it was time to pay the FFB. I sure am glad that I'm a SRF. Even so, the tile in the kitchen is gonna have to wait for a while.
Wachovia is gonna love me!
Who'd a thunk it? The South, home of southern fried steak, biscuits and gravy, lard, and sweet tea, leads the nation in obesity. I know because the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation told me so. It was on the front page. It was written by some turd in Washington DC.
Washington --- Who would have guessed it? There is an actual correlation between being fat and living in the land of fried chicken, corn bread, grits with red-eye gravy, sweet iced tea, pecan pie, porch swings and Sunday afternoon naps.
Yep. We folks in the South are lazy good for nothing crackers who eat fattening food and sleep a lot.
The Trust for America's Health issued a report Tuesday showing that obesity is rising like a buttermilk biscuit all across America --- but folks are getting fatter fastest in the South.
Gotta be good at sumpin' besides lynching blacks, burning crosses, salutin' the Confederate flag and all the other racist shit we're accused of. In Atlanta it's probably because we have to spend so much time in our cars because of our inadequate transportation infrastructure.
OK. Which are the worst states?
The report ranked states according to their percentage of obese adults, with the big five spots taken up, in order, by Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana and Tennessee. Sixth was a tie among Texas, Kentucky and Michigan. Indiana ranked ninth.
Michigan? WTF? How did Michigan get in there? And another question about Michigan: Does the report count Michael Moore as a resident of Michigan?
South Carolina was 10th, Arkansas 11th, Georgia 12th, North Carolina 16th and Virginia 22nd. Of the Southern states, only Florida was in the leaner half of the nation --- ranking 38th.
WTF? Georgia didn't make the top ten? We wuz robbed! I demand a recount! And y'know why Florida is in the lower half dontcha? It's because of all those old WTDs who've moved down from New York to spend their last days. We know they're probably malnourished since a whole big bunch of them didn't have the strength to punch a hole in a ballot back in 2000.
The region "is almost like a canary in a coal mine. Waistlines are growing fastest [in the South]. But why is it happening there? I can't give you that answer," said Shelley Hearne, executive director of Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit organization with the stated goal of improving the health of Americans.
Why can't you? The guy who wrote this article can. Why dontcha ask him?
Or better yet, STFU! Who really cares except a bunch of nanny state people who are probably gonna start outlawing fattening foods?
Hey Ma! Pass me some more of that fried chicken. And I'll have some more mash 'taters and gravy. Yum. This stuff's good!
Photoshop done by Matt at StarkTruth
Holy crap! Michael Moore is signing up to go to a fat farm. No, I'm not kidding.
The creator and director of Fahrenheit 9/11 reportedly is forking up $3,800-a-week for a weight loss crash course.
Hey Mikey, give me $2000 a week and I'll lock you up in a storage shed. You've got enough blubber on you that you that you wouldn't have to eat for at least a month. And maybe if he put the fork down once in a while, he wouldn't have to fork over $3800 per week.
Moore registered at Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa in Aventura, Fla. On the training menu: learning to cook healthy meals and "life re-education."
Yeah, like Mikey cooks his own meals. Why not just teach him how to push himslef away from the farking table.
The reported goal for the portly Moore - shed 12 pounds during the first three weeks.
Wait! Wait! I know that joke. How can Michael Moore lose 12 pounds of ugly fat? Cut off his head.
The good news: They're almost done.
The bad news: They're starting at 7:30 tomorrow.
Some of my furniture is in my kitchen. Some of it is in the dining room along with the toilet from the half bath.
The foyer is all done except for the molding and the mini-thresholds.
Half of the hall to the other bedrooms is done.
Scooter reappeared from his safe haven in the closet about an hour after the installers left.
I was able to get Ashley into the master bedroom this morning without getting scratched.
It's easier to get around tonight than last night although there is still strapping everywhere. I can get out the front door tonight. One of the clamps was in the way of the door, yesterday. Because of that, I opened the garage door this morning, but the first guy to arrive knocked on the front door. I rolled over to the fdoor and yelled at him that the door was blocked. "Oh yeah", he said.
The other installer asked me if it was OK for them to turn on their boom box. I gave them my OK. Fortunately it was 96Rock (which I listen to) and not some of the crap that passes for music nowadays.
I finished the book I was reading and started another one. Read some magazines also. Can't watch TV since I only have one and that's the one in the entertainment center that is sitting in five pieces on the new floor in the great room.
I have an eyedoctor appointment at 9:45 tomorrow and the head guy said they should just be finishing up by the time I return. They will then arrange the furniture back to normal and I can get my life back to normal. So can Scooter and Ashley. I should even be able to make it down to Shepherd for my normal workout (he says hopefully).
More bad news: The pedestal for my sink in the half bath will not fit under the sink. I will have to find someone to grind some of it off so it will. Fortunately it does not support the sink. It's main purpose is cosmetic as it hides the drain and looks nice.
As home improvement projects go, this one has been relatively painless. The worst part will be writing the check. I get the FFB tomorrow.
He's done it again. Matt over at StarkTruth came up with the Air America ATM.
So I got up early this morning so I'd be ready for the dudes to start installing my new flooring. Naturally, that meant they were gonna be late, and they were.
I have a big ol' wall unit in my great rooom. The center piece is for my TV, satellite unit,VCR, and soon to be a surround sound system. It is flanked by four other pieces filled with books. The books are now stacked on the floor of my library. What a farking mess!
So these two dudes show up and neither of them were Mexican. That was a surprise. They immediately started tearing up the old hardwoods in the foyer and ripping up the carpet in the great room, the half bath, and the hall to the other two bedrooms. One of the bedrooms is my music room where I have a piano, a stereo with two tape decks, and all my guitars. I got a banjo in there too.
Note to self: Get the bloody piano tuned! It sounds like crap. Also get new strings for the banjo. I really need to start playing it again. I could take it to a blogmeet. I could play the banjo and my kazooo together. That could be a hit!
The other bedroom is where I store my wine in an Eurocave. It's also got a sofa sleeper for guests to sleep in.
I have two cats. Ashley, the female, is extremely friendly and helpful. She wanted to assist the guys in tearing everything up. I got her into the master bedroom with a little bit of effort. She doesn't have claws on her front feet, but she does on her rear legs and she knows how to use them. She actually scratched me, her dad!
Scooter, my other cat, sometines known as "the imaginary cat", since very few people actually see him, was in one of the closets in the master bedroom before the installers even got in the door.
I spent most of the day in the bedroom as well. Still a little tired from the night at Roy's, I snoozed a little and read.
By 1:00 they had all the old stuff up, all the furniture moved, and the concrete slab prepped.
By the time they left, they had about 1/3 of the job done. What they've done so far looks pretty good.
They're gonna be finished by Wednesday. Then, I get to put all the books back in the shelves and make sure the TV is connected back up.
Later this week, I'm gonna go out and start looking at surround sound systems. I'm on a two year mission to upgrade GOC Central. I need to have tile installed in the kitchen. I'm also gonna install tile in the master bath. I'm gonna upgrade my counter tops in the kitchen to granite. I'm also gonna extend my patio to include the rest of the back yard.
This prime equity line of credit is burning a hole in my pocket.
Who cares if I never pay it off. When I die, my sister gets the house and she can sell it and pay off all the money I owe on it. Heh. Heh. Heh.
Today's Monday Pun is a visual pun sent to me by Arnold.
Actually, I got it right off the bat but that's because I have a dirty mind.
Here's a short quiz:
1. What does a man do on two legs that a dog does on three legs that a woman does sitting down?
2. What does a woman have two of that a cow has four of?
3. What is a four letter word for intercourse that ends in "k"?
1. Shake hands.
2. Legs.
3. Talk.
Sent to me by Charlieb. This looks more like sumpin' Catfish would send me.
I have to attend a Sommelier Guild of Atlanta tasting tonight at Roy's in Atlanta. Here is the menu and the wines we are drinking.
Speakers Wine - Kenwood Sauvignon Blanc 2004
Nobilo Icon 2004
Cloudy Bay2004.
2nd Course:
Chicken Spring rolls.
2nd Flight - California
Grgich Hills Fume Blanc Napa Valley 2004
Chateau Souverain Sauvignon Blanc 2004
Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc 2004
3rd course:
Macadamia Nut Crusted Mahi Mahi with
Lobster Butter Sauce.
3rd Flight - French
Jolivet Sancerre 2003
Chateau Carbonnieux Blanc Pessac-Leognan 2002
Didier Daganeau Poully Fume Silex 1998
There will be one more French wine, but it was added after I sent out the notice.
This is the first tasting I have set up as president of the Guild. I did do two as vice-president. I have to do all of them now except for the one or three I'll have the VP do as part of her training.
The good news: This should be an awesome meal and these are real good Sauvignon Blancs. Plus, I'm going with my friends Michael and Cindy so I don't have to drive home.
The bad news: To have them take me, I have to agree to go in my wheelchair. Cindy is tired of worrying about my falling down after a Guild function. I have no drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem.
More bad news:I have workers coming tomorrow to tear up carpet and install hardwood flooring. That means I have to get up before the crack of noon. I have to get up real early! I have to get up before 9:00 AM. Bummer!
Update: The tasting was awesome! If you have a Roy's restaurant in your city, give it a try. The food was great and the wine committee did an excellent job on the wines. My first tasting as president was a success! Only 23 more to go before I can pass on the presidency to another sucker. Unfortunately, she didn't attend this tasting.
It's too bad that V-man isn't the Kim Crawford who owns the New Zealand winery that produced the Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough. Just Damn! He and I would be best buds!
The wine voted best of the night was the Nobilo Icon 2004.
This is a pig post in which I talk about some of the trends I see in women that piss off an old fart like myself. Many women may not want to read this. The more offensive stuff is on the second page.
The science fiction write James Blish wrote a short story called A Work of Art. The premise of this story is that in the 22rd Century there are scientist/doctors called mind sculptors who are able to reconstruct personalities of famous people, and temporarily superimpose them upon volunteers.
In this particular story, one of the Strauses is reconstructed by a mind sculptor. He writes an opera and conducts it in front of an audience. In the last act, he realizes it is crap. It was worse that the old Straus had written. Bear in mind that this guy thinks he is Straus so he should know what a good Straus opera should sound like.
At the end of the performance, the audience was screaming with joy. He turns around and, to his relief, he sees that they are not applauding him, but the mind sculptor.
And that is how I feel about breast implants. Should I be admiring the woman or the surgeon?
We have girls as young as seventeen getting breat implants as graduation presents. I would say that probably half the Playboy playmates every year have implants. In the pictorials they give credit to the photographers. Dontcha think they should give credit to the surgeons as well?
I like large boobs as much as the next guy, but if I can tell they're implants, it's not the same thing, and I can usually tell. If they're perfect, they're implants. If they're large and they pass the pencil test they're implants.
The pencil test?
Yeah. It's how to tell if a woman needs to wear a bra. If you put a pencil underneath a breast and it stays there, ya need to wear a bra. Women with big 'uns need bras. Often women with implants that give them big 'uns won't hold the pencil. That defies gravity and the laws of nature. They're fake. I prefer natural.
OK. When did the shaving of women's genitals start? I'm sorry but that really turns me off. Kim du Toit remarked a few months back that it makes women look like life support systems for labia. I have to agree. It just doesn't look right. Yah, I'm an old fogie but I think women should look like women!
I guess this started because women want to wear skimpier bathing suits? Is that why? Quite frankly, G-strings also turn me off. Don't women realize that something can be sexier if left to the imagination?
I'm sorry, but I'm really missing sumpin' here. And I'm starting to sound like my parents.
Why do people, not just women, want to deface their bodies with tatoos?
Of course, this brings to mind the old triage nurse tatoo to teeth ratio theory of accident survival. It states that if a person has more tatoos than teeth, that person will survive an accident.
But back to tatoos. Why would a beautiful woman want to get a tatoo? Especially on her ass? Doesn't she realize what that tatoo will look like in 20 years? Or howza 'bout her stomach? Think what it will look like during and after a few pregnancies. Or what about one on a boob? Think what that's gonna look lie after gravity inevitably takes it's toll. Ugh!
So, what do ya think? Am I full of shit? Is this what the young guys want? Are Kim du Toit and I the only old farts who are turned off by this?
The young female body is a work of art. Why deface it? A tatoo on a woman turns me off.
This Saturday joke is courtesy of Charlieb.
A census taker in a rural area went up to a farmhouse and knocked.
When a woman came to the door, he explained the purpose of his visit, and then he asked her how many children she had and their ages.
The lady started out, "Well, les' see now, there's the twins, Sally and Billy, they're thirty two.
And the twins, Seth & Beth, they're twenty six.
And the twins, Penny and Jenny, they're twenty four ... "
"Hold on a second," said the census taker, "Did y'all get twins every time?"
The woman thought for a moment and then replied,
"Heck no, there were hundreds of times we didn't get nothin'
I have some questions about gas prices.
1. How high do the prices have to get before Congress mandates higher fuel efficiency standards for domestic cars?
This is a question Cynthia Tucker and the other commies at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation ask at least twice a month. The liberals commies socialists progressives have been asking this question ever since gas prices started rising. They've been bitching about it not being in the energy bill just passed by Congress. After all, this is what solved the problem of high gas prices back in the 70's, right?
Wrong, Jimmah Carter breath!
Saying gummint mandated fuel economy solved the problem of gas prices is like saying that the rooster brings up the sun with his crowing. For those who were not alive back then, here is what really happened.
Gas prices went up. (By the way, adjusting for inflation, gas and oil prices are still not as high as they were in the 70's.) Americans dumped their gas guzzlers. Since Detroit wasn't making fuel efficient cars, Americans bought Hondas, Datsuns, and Toyotas. American car companies didn't know what hit 'em. Detroit started making fuel efficient cars and, in fact, exceeded the gummint mandates on fuel efficiency. It wasn't gummint that made Detroit produce fuel efficient cars. It was competition. It was the marketplace. Amazing how that happens.
That leads to question number 2.
2. How high do gas prices have to get before Americans start dumping their gas guzzling SUV's?
It will happen without gummint intervention. If gas prices keep rising, people will get tired of paying $40 to $50 to fill up their tanks (unless you're an SRF© like me and are rich enough that it doesn't matter. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Suffer peasants!) and will start looking for more fuel efficient cars. It happened in the 70's. It will happen again in the Aughts.
3. How high do gas prices have to get before we tell the environmental wackos to fuck off and we open up ANWR?
Another thing that will eventually happen. We've pretty much shut up the anti-nuke crowd and it looks like we may start building nuclear power plants again. Of course, by the time we open the next plant we'll probably have a president who can properly pronounce nuclear. I just hope it's not a Dimocrat.
4. How high do gas prices have to get before we tell the environmental wackos to fuck off and we start doing more offshore drilling?
It will happen.
5. How high do gas prices have to get before we tell the environmental wackos to fuck off and we build more refineries?
We haven't built any refineries since the 70's. We also have to produce 40 different blends to satisfy the environmental wackos. Why don't we decide on just one blend and use it? This is somewhere the federal gummint could actually step in and do sumpin' useful.
6. How high do gas prices have to get before more Americans start using mass transit?
It will have to get pretty high here in Atlanta. They're building a commuter rail system on the south side of Atlanta. I predict it will be a costly boondoggle that will eventually shut down due to low ridership. It's only predicted to take a few hundred cars a day off the interstates. That's nothing.
The big problem with mass transit in Atlanta is it doesn't go where people want to go. Gas prices will have to get a lot higher before we get decent mass transit in Atlanta.
7. How high do gas prices have to get before more Americans start carpooling?
We're getting close to that. Unfortunately that means people have to start work at the same time and get off work at the same time. It would have never worked for me.
8. How high do gas prices have to go before we start looking at shale and coal gassification?
A lot higher than they are now, and they'll have to stay that way for quite some time. We looked into a lot of that technology back in the 70's and before we got very far with it, gas prices started dropping because Americans dumped their gas guzzlers and we had 20 years of cheap gas.
Anyway, at $60 a barrel, a lot of marginal wells become profitable. I invested in an oil well in Oklahoma back in the 70's. It didn't produce much and there was a salt water problem. At $30 a barrel it was barely profitable. At $20 a barrel it wasn't worth the expense required to deal with the salt water. It was capped. At $60 a barrel (Not sure how that compares with $30 a barrel in the 70's) it would probably be profitable again. I'm sure there are many other wells like that just in Texas and Oklahoma. As long as we have marginal wells and improved technology to get more oil from them, we won't invest in more expensive technology.
The gloom and doomers are saying oil is gonna hit $100 a barrel. They said that back in the 70's. The more people who say that, the more likely it is that oil will fall back down to $40 - $45 a barrel, maybe lower.
Anyway, Americans have already proven that they're willing to pay $2.50 a gallon. Will we be willing to pay $3.00? At what price do SUV's and other gas guzzlers become too expensive?
I saw this same movie back in the 70's. This is just a remake. We were gonna use ethanol. We were gonna extract oil from shale. We were gonna turn coal into gasoline. Oil was gonna hit $100 a barrel. Jimmah Carter was wearing sweaters.
Didn't happen then. Won't happen now. Although Jimmah might still wear sweaters.
If you wonder why I have blood pressure problems and I lose my temper about the education system in this country, all you have to do is read this from Wednesday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. I had to wait a day before writing about it because the abject stupidity is so overwhelming I got madder and madder each time I read it.
High school exit exams questioned
Study suggests limited-English kids penalized
Ya mean Ebonics and bilingual education aren't helping? I'm shocked!
Washington --- Huge numbers of students who don't speak or read English well may be denied a high school diploma based on graduation tests that do not fairly measure their skills, a study suggests.
Does that mean it's unfair that the school system didn't teach them English or does it mean that the test is unfair? Guess.
Many states are struggling to help those learning English as a second language. Such students --- mainly immigrants --- pass graduation exams on their first try at least 30 to 40 percentage points less often than other students, the Center on Education Policy found.
Guess why. Because the farking schools don't force them to learn English! Gawdammit! That should be the most important program in the schools. Teaching students how to speak, read, and write English. Not Spanish! Not Ebonics! English. And total immersion is the best way to do it. It's not the test's fault. It is the schools' fault. Liberal feel good, self-esteem, bilingual education is the problem.
That performance has big implications, as almost nine in 10 limited-English students are expected to face such a high-stakes test in their state by 2012. Georgia has administered such tests since 1991.
So get your butts in gear and figger out how to improve the English language skills of all these students.
But...but...but, it's not fair.
Such tests may not be an accurate way to measure what limited-English students can do, according to the center's fourth annual review of the exams, released Tuesday.
See? Next thing they're gonna come out with is that we need to give them tests in their own language. That would be fair, right? Sure it would. After all, if we give these people English language skills they might be able to go out and get high paying jobs. Then we wouldn't have people who could mow our lawns, clean our houses, pick our crops, and provide all sorts of other cheap labor.
Overall, states with exit exams are in dilemma --- they've been challenged to hold all children to the same standards, but in doing so, they may withhold diplomas from many kids with limited English.
Whose fault is that? It couldn't be liberal school policies that don't stress having immigrants learn English, could it? I mean that would be against multiculturism. It sure couldn't be misguided schools that offer bilingual education could it? Nah!
"The people in the states with these exams are troubled by the performance gap," said Patricia Sullivan, the center's director. "But they're just not sure what to do about it."
Here's an idea. Total immersion. It has proven to be the most effective way to give immigrants English languiage skills.
"Do we want a lot of high school students who don't have diplomas --- and therefore have a lot of limited opportunities after high school
Someone has to provide our cheap labor.
--- because they are still acquiring English?" she said. "We need more of a policy on what to do with these children."
Two words: Total. Immersion.
Graduation exams disproportionately affect limited-English students: 87 percent of them will have to pass a test to graduate in coming years, compared with about 72 percent of all U.S. public school students.
I Wonder how many of these immigrants are illegal.
Most students learning English as a second language live in gateway states for immigrants that have exit exams, mainly California, Texas and New York.
I have said so many times on this blog it's sickening that the most important thing for an immigrant is learning English. The most important function of a school with immigrant students is teaching them English. Bilingual education is a crutch that in the long run is harmful for the student. I don't care how well the student does in other subjects, if he isn't able to read, write, and speak standard American English he is guaranteed low paying jobs. How hard is this to understand? For liberals it is very hard to understand.
What a pity.
Do ya'll remember me writing about gas prices and the Law of Supply and Demand? If you keep the price of gas artificially low without addressing demand you will get gas lines? Remember Jimmah Carter? Remember his energy policies? Looks like he's running China's.
Check this out. (Link stolen from Gateway Pundit, one of my St. Louis homies.)
Cars line up to buy petrol at a petrol station in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong province, August 17, 2005. China's southern manufacturing heartland of Guangdong is plagued by closed service stations, fuel rationing and hours-long gas queues. [newsphoto]
China, like all socialist countries, is trying to circumvent the Law of Supply and Demand. It is keeping gas prices artificially low without addressing the demand. Just like during Jimmah Carter's disasterous presidencey, they have gas lines. Happens every time.
Dear China: It cannot be done. You need to let the marketplace do its job.
PS. Socialism has been a failure everywhere it has been tried. Change your totalitarian gummint into a democracy and let capitalism do its job. Drop tariffs and let your currency seek its proper level. If you did that, I would really worry about you. You could then kick our ass. Fortunately for us, that ain't gonna happen.
TO: LIBERAL LEFT-WING BLAME AMERICA - HATE AMERICA FIRST BIASED MAIN STREAM MEDIA
FM: GUNNY
SUBJ: STRONG MESSAGE TO FOLLOW
YA'LL HAVE A NICE DAY...YA'HEER!
Read this column by Walter Williams. Here is the most important part.
A 70 percent illegitimacy rate, 65 percent of black children raised in female-headed households, high crime rates and fraudulent education are devastating problems, but they're not civil rights problems.
I've been ranting about this for as long as this blog has been in existence. This is a travesty, yet the NAACP is more worried about the Confederate flag. Harry Belafonte rants about"black tyrants" in the Bush administration. Noted RWPP's like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton make up funny rhymes. Useful idiot, John Lewis, supports policies that keep his constituents dependent upon the gummint. Cynthia McCommie makes anti-Semitic noises and speeches about conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile we have a black inner city matriarchal society that no one seems to want to talk about except to blame it on Bush. Did Bush create the Great Fucking Society that started all this mess?
Lyndon Johnson, when he started the Great Fucking Society, said it was supposed to be "a hand up, not a handout". Well, we have multigenerational welfare families. I look at the results of the Great Fucking Society and it makes we want to puke. We have created this mess, but it has been perpetuated by so called black "leaders" who want to continue keeping their people poor and on the welfare plantation. After all, if it's fixed, they're out of their jobs. And Jesse Jackson has become very, very rich. Good work indeed!
Where is the outrage in the black community about the sperm donors who want to sire a lot of children to prove their manhood and then leave their ho's to raise them? Why aren't the Jesse Jacksons, the Al Sharptons, and John Lewis's speaking out on this?
One of the paths out of poverty and into self reliance is education but when anyone speaks of that, like Bill Cosby, he is villified by the RWPPs and "mainstream" black "leaders". And then we have school systems in California implementing stupid polices like teaching Ebonics and claiming it's a foreign language.
Yeah, I know, there are more whites on welfare than blacks, but look at those statistics Walter Williams cited:
A 70 percent illegitimacy rate, 65 percent of black children raised in female-headed households
How can we as a people have allowed this to exist? It's a travesty. It's a crime. There is no excuse for this. There is no excuse in this land of plenty to allow this to happen. This is a permanent underclass relying on the gummint.
No. Throwing money at this will not fix this problem. Yeah, liberals feel good when they think they're helping the poor. Give them welfare. Give them food stamps. Give them public housing. That feels good. We're helping the poor.
NO YOU ARE NOT!!!!
The way to help the poor is to teach them not to be poor. That means education. Unfortunately, the schools in the inner city suck. I know. Let's give them more money. Hey that feels good. We just gave more money to the poor. We're helping the poor.
NO YOU ARE NOT!!!!
Money without accountability is wasted money. Either clean up the schools or give the poor vouchers to go to schools that aren't failing. Demand accountability from teachers. That means not only testing students but testing teachers. Yeah. The teachers unions will really go for that.
And here's the big thing. Cultural changes. Churches and civil rights groups should be extolling the value of a good education. They need to get rid of this cultural bullshit that doing well in school is "acting white". Parents need to get involved.
Do you know why Americans of Asian descent do so well in school? Because their parents demand it. I know a Chinese gentleman who taught all three of his daughters how to multiply and divide in their heads while they were in kindergarten.
No, this kind of cultural change cannot occur overnight, but it could be started if the civil rights groups quit bashing Bush and the Republicans and actually started addressing the real problems in their communities.
But I guess making rhymes is easier than addressing real life problems.
And Jesse Jackson is probably a millionaire.
This post made me nostalgic for the IBM of the 70's and early 80's. Shoe loves to wear a suit. Let me tell you, I love seeing women in suits.
When I hired on, men had to wear suits. I spent 4.5 years fixing typewriters while wearing a suit. Some typewriters get really filthy. White shirts get dirty easily.
As my pay went up, the quality of my suits went up. I really liked wearing three piece suits. Plus, the vests gave me extra pockets in which to stow spare parts. On the downside, suits were hotter than hell in the summer.
When I moved to Atlanta, I bought a couple of Brooks Brothers suits. One of them was a navy blue three piece. Alas, I can no longer wear it. My upper body has bulked up and I've added two inches to my waist. None of my suits fit me anymore.
My brother-in-law has lost a lot of weight, and it looks like some of his suits may fit me.
But back to the women. Back before IBM went business casual, the women dressed up. Even the secretaries dressed well. The System Engineers, Marketing Reps, and managers often wore suits.
My favorite woman's suit is a navy blue skirt with matching jacket. Add a starched white blouse and three inch heels and you have a killer combo. Yummy!
Yeah, I know, those three inch heels are torture, but they sure look nice to us male pigs.
I taught a class at EDS with another instructor and one of the students was an attractive slender blond in a navy blue suit, as described above. When she had a question there was a race between me and the other instructor to get to her first. He usually won since I was on crutches.
At IBM, business casual was the death knell for women wearing suits. Most of them started wearing slacks and a blouse. I'm sure it is more comfortable, but I sure missed seeing a nice set of legs.
Just damn! I love to see a nice looking women in a business suit!
Scientists have been able to record on film the actual transformation that takes place during PMS. Since men do not experience this chemical change, they often tend to dismiss it as just a mood. Now there is scientific proof. Men, be very careful.... Be very afraid!
And Sherry, do not look!
From Catfish. Figgers.
V-man Wants to reinstutute the Whig Party. Here's his platform. Most of it works for me.
This is a message to Cindy Sheehan and all the anti-war commies, socialists, leftists, liberals, progressives (You may be in there somewhere Teresa), and Move.on and Michael Moore morons who are capitalizing on her grief and lunacy. It is from an actual Iraqi. This is the kind of stuff my nephew told me about. He was actually there and met some Iraqis. This is not the kind of stuff you will hear from the anti-Bush, anti-American LSM
A message to Cindy SheehanI realize how tragic your loss is and I know how much pain there is crushing your heart and I know the darkness that suddenly came to wrap your life and wipe away your dreams and I do feel the heat of your tears that won't dry until you find the answers to your question; why you lost your loved one?
I have heard your story and I understand that you have the full right to ask people to stand by your side and support your cause. At the beginning I told myself, this is yet another woman who lost a piece of her heart and the questions of war, peace and why are killing her everyday. To be frank to you the first thing I thought of was like "why should I listen or care to answer when there are thousands of other women in America, Iraq and Afghanistan who lost a son or a husband or a brother…”
But today I was looking at your picture and I saw in your eyes a persistence, a great pain and a torturing question; why?
I know how you feel Cindy, I lived among the same pains for 35 years but worse than that was the fear from losing our loved ones at any moment. Even while I'm writing these words to you there are feelings of fear, stress, and sadness that interrupt our lives all the time but in spite of all that I'm sticking hard to hope which if I didn't have I would have died years ago.
Ma'am, we asked for your nation's help and we asked you to stand with us in our war and your nation's act was (and still is) an act of ultimate courage and unmatched sense of humanity. Our request is justified, death was our daily bread and a million Iraqi mothers were expecting death to knock on their doors at any second to claim someone from their families. Your face doesn't look strange to me at all; I see it everyday on endless numbers of Iraqi women who were struck by losses like yours.
Our fellow country men and women were buried alive, cut to pieces and thrown in acid pools and some were fed to the wild dogs while those who were lucky enough ran away to live like strangers and the Iraqi mother was left to grieve one son buried in an unfound grave and another one living far away who she might not get to see again.
We did nothing to deserve all that suffering, well except for a dream we had; a dream of living like normal people do.
We cried out of joy the day your son and his comrades freed us from the hands of the devil and we went to the streets not believing that the nightmare is over. We practiced our freedom first by kicking and burning the statues and portraits of the hateful idol who stole 35 years from the life of a nation. For the first time air smelled that beautiful, that was the smell of freedom.
The mothers went to break the bars of cells looking for the ones they lost 5, 12 or 20 years ago and other women went to dig the land with their bare hand searching for a few bones they can hold in their arms after they couldn't hold them when they belonged to a living person.
I recall seeing a woman on TV two years ago, she was digging through the dirt with her hands. There was no definite grave in there as the whole place was one large grave but she seemed willing to dig the whole place looking for her two brothers who disappeared from earth 24 years ago when they were dragged from their colleges to a chamber of hell.
Her tears mixed with the dirt of the grave and there were journalists asking her about what her brothers did wrong and she was screaming "I don't know, I don't know. They were only college students. They didn't murder anyone, they didn't steal, and they didn't hurt anyone in their lives. All I want to know is the place of their grave".
Why was this woman chosen to lose her dear ones? Why you? Why did a million women have to go through the same pain?
We did not choose war for the sake of war itself and we didn't sacrifice a million lives for fun! We could've accepted our jailor and kept living in our chains for the rest of our lives but it's freedom ma'am. Freedom is not an American thing and it's not an Iraqi thing, it's what unites us as human beings. We refuse all kinds of restrictions and that's why we fought and still fighting everyday in spite of the swords in the hands of the cavemen who want us dead or slaves for their evil masters.
You are free to go and leave us alone but what am I going to tell your million sisters in Iraq? Should I ask them to leave Iraq too? Should I leave too? And what about the eight millions who walked through bombs to practice their freedom and vote? Should they leave this land too? Is it a cursed land that no one should live in? Why is it that we were chosen to live in all this pain, why me, why my people, why you?
But I am not leaving this land because the bad guys are not going to leave us or you to live in peace. They are the same ones who flew the planes to kill your people in New York. I ask you in the name of God or whatever you believe in; do not waste your son's blood. We here have decided to avenge humanity, you and all the women who lost their loved ones. Take a look at our enemy Cindy, look closely at the hooded man holding the sword and if you think he's right then I will back off and support your call.
We live in pain and grief everyday, every hour, every minute; all the horrors of the powers of darkness have been directed at us and I don't know exactly when am I going to feel safe again, maybe in a year, maybe two or even ten; I frankly don't know but I don't want to lose hope and faith.
We are in need for every hand that can offer some help. Please pray for us, I know that God listens to mothers' prayers and I call all the women on earth to pray with you for peace in this world.
Your son sacrificed his life for a very noble cause…No, he sacrificed himself for the most precious value in this existence; that is freedom.
His blood didn't go in vain; your son and our brethren are drawing a great example of selflessness. God bless his free soul and God bless the souls of his comrades who are fighting evil. God bless the souls of Iraqis who suffered and died for the sake of freedom.
God bless all the freedom lovers on earth.
But that's OK. Bush is Hitler. The war was about oil. Haliburton is evil. Bush is a moron. Cheney is running the gummint (and that is bad because....?). Bush stole the election (both of'em). Republicans are evil. Bush is Satan. Cheney is gonna take over the world. Helen Thomas is gonna kill herself. John Roberts blows up abortion clinics.
Hey, I heard a neat joke the other day. After the discredited NARAL ad was pulled, the person responsible resigned. When he went outside, he found he was locked out of his car. Fortunately, there were plenty of people at NARAL with coat hangars. Rim shot. I'm here all week folks.
Awesome! Awe-freaking-some! There has been a break through in stem cell research. Screw this crap about making cripples walk. This is important shit.
Jeremy Mao
Sounds Chinese. Pierce was right about those Chinese brains!
of the University of Illinois, in Chicago, US, took human stem cells and used these to grow fat tissue using a biologically compatible scaffolding. He then successfully implanted the tissue into mice with an immune deficiency to prevent them from rejecting the implants. The implants had maintained their size and shape after four weeks.
I just got one question: Do they feel like real boobage?
Silicone breast implants could be replaced by tissue grown from a person's own stem cells within a decade, suggests new research.
All right! Stem cell boobage!
"This is a project that builds on previous knowledge to develop a stem cell material that could be useful in society," says Mao. "It seems promising and could soon be making an impact."
The impact I want is some nice female boobage impacting against my chest.
Implants grown from stem cells could provide a safer alternative to silicone or saline implants, which can rupture and also interfere with breast cancer detection. They could also be aesthetically superior, keeping their shape and size for longer than artificial inserts, which typically shrink by 40% to 60% over many years, through spreading.
Holy crap! Holy crap! This shit is really turning me on. It's like organic tits.
Eventually Mao says the technique could be used to develop more suitable tissue for reconstructive surgery as well as cosmetic augmentation.
Hey Beavis, he said cosmetic augmentation. Huh. Huh. Huh, Huh.
The experiment involved key-hole surgery to extract mesenchymal stem cells from human bone marrow. These "master cells" can grow into various other different types of cells, including bone cartilage and fat. Mao coaxed them to develop into fat cells by mimicking the conditions that would cause this to happen in the human body.
And, as we all know, boobs are mainly fat, but nice fat, really really nice fat. And didja notice that they aren't using embryonic stem cells?
The cells were then moulded into shape using a hydrogel scaffold and inserted into mice for a period of four weeks. Following implantation the eight mice involved in the study suffered no discernable ill effects and their implants maintained their original size and shape for the entire month. This is substantially longer than artificial inserts, which normally begin to deform after a week or two.
No discernable effects other than having to crawl around with big tits scraping the floor, but they did retain their size and shape.
Mao believes breast implants grown from stem cells could be available within a decade. Ideally, the scaffold would disintegrate safely inside the body as the implant grows, he says.
Ten freaking years! I'll be 68 by then. Let's have some federal funding and see if we can get it down to five years.
Then I could feature them on Saturday Boobage.
Update: Look! British Boobs are getting larger on their own.
Thanks to SandyP.
Charlieb alerted me to this.
Due to the global war on terrorism, many terrorist organizations have had their finances frozen.
This necessitates their need to counterfeit Canadian money. The Canadian government has decided to redesign their currency to prevent the hard line Islamists from even this accomplishment. It is also hoped that this will have a positive effect on tourism.
Sherry, don't look!
Oh Canada! Indeed!
I recognize the last girl. Don't know the first two.
This one is from Paul and it may be one of the worst ones I've ever posted.
Stevie Wonder is playing his first gig in Tokyo and the place is absolutely packed to the rafters. In a bid to break the ice with his new audience he asks if anyone would like him to play a request.
A little old Japanese man jumps out of his seat in the first row and shouts at the top of his voice "Play a jazz chord ! Play a jazz chord!".
Amazed that this guy knows about the jazz influences in Stevie's varied career, the blind impresario starts to play an E minor scale and then goes into a difficult jazz melody for about 10 minutes.
When he finishes the whole place goes wild. The little old man jumps up again and shouts "No, no, play a jazz chord, play a jazz chord".
A bit pissed off by this, Stevie, being the professional that he is, dives straight into a jazz improvisation with his band around the B flat minor chord and really tears the place apart.
The crowd goes wild with this impromptu show of his technical expertise.
The little old man jumps up again. "No, no. Play a jazz chord, play a jazz chord".
Well and truly pissed off that this little guy doesn't seem to appreciate his playing ability. Stevie says to him from the stage "OK smart arse. You get up here and do it!"
The little old man climbs up onto the stage, takes hold of the mike and starts to sing .....
"A jazz chord to say I ruv you..."
Jimmah Carter's grandson got in trouble. Too bad. So sad.
Now if this were one of the Bush twins it would have made the front page of the New York Times. I'm surprised CNN ran the story. I didn't see it in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
A tip of the hat to Jeremy.
Pierce sent me a nice e-mail that was polite and well reasoned that talked about our difference of opinion. I have always said, as long as dissenters to this site are polite and don't lead off with insults, I will gladly debate them. The only person allowed to be a smartass on this site is I. Unless the smartass is funny and uses original insults. Then I'll let him stay a while. You can be a smartass if you amuse me. But I digress. Pierce sent me this e-mail about China that I would like to address. I will not insult him, but will state my views and explain why I think he's wrong. To respect his politeness, I will even clean up the grammar and spelling.
This post is gonna be fun to write because I get to pontificate. If y'all are looking for a rant or humor, this post ain't it.
First off, let me explain sumpin' from Economics 101. You can do all the formulas you want, and advanced Economics classes use calculus; you can talk about Phillips curves, Greshams' Law and other interesting stuff, but Economics really boils down to the Law of Supply and Demand. In fact, a simplified definition of Economics is explaining how finite resources are allocated.
The Law of Supply and Demand. How hard is that to grasp? Very hard for socialists and leftists with their wage and price controls and other ridiculous stuff. Nixon was an idiot for trying to defeat inflation that way. Liberals (and Nixon was a very liberal president. If not for Watergate, he would have tried to introduce socialized medicine. It was on his agenda. How ironic that Hillary Clinton was involved in the Watergate prosecution.) are always trying to defeat the Law of Supply and Demand. Look at Canada. Their health care system is what Hillary Clinton and her minions are holding up as the model for her version of socialized medicine. Their waiting lists are so long for common procedures that Canadians come here and pay for those procedures out of their own pockets.
People wait so long for hip replacement surgery that by the time it's done, they are no longer able to walk. Under socialized medicine there is a finite supply that is exceeded by demand.
Many of you may not remember the gas lines that occured under the most incompetent president of the 20th Century. I am refering to, of course, Mr. Peanut, that bumbling asshole who is currently verging on treason, Jimmah Carter. Back then Dimocrats controlled Congress and the Presidency. A ceiling was put on gas prices to keep them artificially low (sumpin' I'm afraid may happen again in the near future). At the low price, demand exceeded supply, and we had gas lines. Law of Supply and Demand.
Reagan eliminated the artificial ceiling, gas went up to its real value as determined by the market, Americans sold off their gas guzzlers and bought economical Japanese cars (Detroit didn't get the message), Americans used less gas, the supply exceeded the demand, and we had 20 years of low gas prices.
Now we are seeing it happen again. Americans bought gas guzzling SUV's, the demand for gas has risen,and the market is determining the price. Actually, that's not quite true. Right now, speculation is driving up prices also. When the price gets too high either people will sell off their SUV's and buy fuel efficient cars, or there will be a demand for gummint to "do sumpin'". I just hope that "sumpin'" is not price controls.
Another factor is that due to enviro-wacko's, we need to produce 40 different blends of gasoline. That has contributed to the rise in gas prices also.
Anyway, this is about China, but I wanted to throw in a little about how the Law of Supply and Demand works since I'll be using it later.
Here's Pierce's e-mail.
You never talk about this phenomenon, Asia is going to get all the existing markets, they have a much better education than USA, and a much better business environment than EU.
I remember the 1980's. At that time, the same thing people are saying about China, they were saying about Japan. Japan was gonna kill us. They had a better business model. They had better education. The yen was killing the dollar. Here's the deal: An export economy, which Japan was, is hurt by having a strong currency. That makes their exports expensive, when they want their exports to be cheap. By the way, has Japan taken over the USA yet? Do they have a larger economy than we do? You there, the one in the back row.
Uh no, Mr. GOC, they haven't. Why not?
Many reasons, but tariffs are one of them. Countries with the fewest tariffs have better economies. Protectionism is counter-productive. Read Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. But, I digress.
They don't think about entertainnment but only about sacrifices for their country and they work very hard.
Holy crap! That sounds like Japan all over again. I'm getting this eerie feeling. Japanese people work 80 hours a week. Americans are lazy. Been there. Done that. Saw the movie. Got the T-shirt.
You don't feel our old nations declining, the USA and the EU growth are decreasing, slowly but continuously, meanwhile, the Chinese now have millions in the middle classes, more than in the EU and the USA and they are developing themselves at an incredible speed!!
I don't know if he's talking about economic growth or population growth. Either way he is wrong about the US. Our economic growth is increasing. Due to immigration so is our population growth. So is our middle class in spite of what the Dimocrats say. We are still the largest and most powerful economy in the world. When the USA hiccups, the rest of the world gets sick. The EU is in bad shape because of their socialist policies. Our Social Security and Medicare is a demographic timebomb ticking away, but it is nothing compared to the demographic timebomb ticking away in the EU. Between the unsustainable gummint benefits both in France and Germany and their increasing Muslim populations they have more serious problems than we do in the USA.
This is more frigthening than the lower risk of a terrorist attack, and much more harmful.
Negative on that, good buddy.
The only way to fight this is to stop taxes and reduce the way of life of millions of people, middle class people, people who don't personally own a company or another business.
He's on to sumpin' here, but he is just a little bit off. We reduced taxes in the USA and our economy grew. Ireland did the same thing and it currently has the best economy with the highest employment and growth rates in the EU. Now true, it would change the life of the European middle classes, but you have a more expensive entitlement system than the United States. You are a demonstration of the failure of socialism. Our tax cuts spurred our economy and cut unemployment. Once again. USA unemployment 5%. Germany and France 10%. Our growth rate is more than double that of France and Germany. Any questions?
EU and USA should cooperate a lot more to be ready to face the Asian explosion, that's gonna hurt a lot and soon.
It's gonna hurt the EU much more than it will hurt the USA. And we're more than willing to coorperate. The resistance to cooperation is in the EU. Cut taxes and entitlements. Reduce tariffs and subsidies. Airbus can undercut Boeing because it is gummint subsidized. Level your playing field like we have ours.
As an aside here, we do oversubsidize our agricultural sector. I would like to see that change.
Maybe you should look at our model, or closer to home, look what Ireland has done.
So instead of discussing about the small wars and the low risk of terrorism (sorry if you disagree with the "low risk", but statistics are clear about it, the risk to be killed in a terrorist attack is much lower than the risk to be killed by an angry guy in the street), sometimes it would be usefull to speak also about how to defend developed countries in this much more violent economic war.
We are doing just fine in the economic war and I'll have more on that later. See my above about reducing tariffs and subsidies. And speaking of low risk of terrorism tell that to the Brits. I'm sorry Pierce, but you are just too sanguine about the risk of terrorism. What would you say if someone blew up the Eiffel Tower? With your growing Muslim population, you will be facing some serious problems soon on the order of what is happpening in the UK. They cannot be appeased. They cannot be reasoned with. The Islamofascists are preaching hate in French mosques just like they are doing in British mosques. You may well be next. It will happpen to France. Mark my words.
Because you may not realize it yet, but we are quite well fucked : the enemy is bigger and has got better weapons: even brains are cheaper and better there, it's not only the work force any more. And they're the biggest technology stealer of the world, so they even destroy our weapons. (99.1% of Microsoft sofware used are pirated copies)
Yeah, but we gots lots of Chinese women. China is developing a huge demographic problem of their own. There are over 26 million men looking for Chinese wives. They're even paying for them. The Law of Supply and Demand. Meanwhile there are lots of 40 sumpin' women in this country with estrogen overload (I know two of them)who have adopted little girls from China. Here's an anecdote about one of them.
My friend Cindy took her best friend's adopted Chinese daughter out to lunch at Red Lobster. She got a dish with six shrimp. Aly got popcorn shrimp. Some time during the meal Aly said, "Aunt Cindy I have a little bit more than 5 times as many shrimp as you have."
AC: How do you know that?
A: I have 33 shrimp and you have 6. I divided 6 into 33 and got 5 with 3 left over.
Aly is seven years old and has just completed the second grade. If I remember right, I didn't learn division until I was in the third grade. Aly did this in her head.
Granted, her adopted grandfather is an engineer and has given her some math programs that she can work on her computer, but she was doing long division in her head! She has tested very high in math aptitude. Duh!
Yep! This is a stereotype, but there are a whole big bunch of Chinese girls here now. So, I don't think we're gonna have a shortage of brains. I know a Chinese guy whose daughter just graduated from Stanford with an engineering degree. We don't have a shortage of brains.
And I agree about the pirated software problem. See. We agree on sumpin'.
I know I'm pessimist, but we're fucked.
We were supposedly fucked by the Japanese in the 80's.
We were supposed to be fucked by the EU in the 90's. Early this year, I had a French troll crowing about the Euro. I told him the marketplace would take care of it. Golly it's being done. Amazing. If you are trying to run an export economy having a strong currency is not the best thing to have. Why do you think China is trying to keep the Yuan so artificially low?
Well, I'll be glad to hear what you think about it.
OK. Here goes.
Right now we're running a trade deficit with China. China has this real big problem just like Japan did in the 80's. They have all these dollars and don't know what to do with them. Law of Supply and Demand. Supply exceeds demand. Now what the marketplace says should happen is the value of the Yuan should rise and the value of the dollar should drop to balance out the trade deficit. Unfortunately for the Chinese, who are running an export economy, if this happened, the price of their goods would increase. That means Walmart might look elsewhere for their products.
So what is their solution? The PBOC (People's Bank of China for those of you with browsers that do not recognize the acronym tag) has decided to invest those dollars in the United States just like Japan did in the 80's. Trying to buy Unocal was one way. They bought IBM's PC division. They're looking to buy other companies and real estate, just like Japan did in the 80's.
They're also buying our treasury securities. In other words, they are financing our debt. They're lending us money so we can buy their stuff, just like Japan did in the 80's.
My friend Michael and I have discussed this. What if they decide that they want to cripple our economy by dumping all of our debt on the open market by selling off all of our securities? What would this do? Law of Supply and Demand. Too many securities on the market. To get people to buy them, we would have to raise interest rates. That would hurt our economy, but it would also have a ripple effect throughout the world. If we raise the rate high enough, then we would attract investment money from other places like the EU. For their debt to compete with us, they would have to raise their interest rates. Law of Supply and Demand. This would fuck up the EU, another market for the Chinese.
Do the Chinese really want to commit economic suicide? We are their largest market. Killing our economy would be fatal to their's. That would be like the owner of a store killing off all of his customers. And remember what I said earlier, when the USA hiccups, the rest of the world gets really sick.
So the only way to ensure the growth of their economy is by lending us the money to buy their stuff and they have kept their currency artificially low to keep their stuff cheap. That's the main reason they kept their currency coupled to the dollar. As long as the PBOC is willing to finance our debt, interest rates will remain low.
Market pressures have forced the Chinese to increase the value of the Yuan, but not by very much. Maybe 2%. Hardly enough to notice. As I have said many times, they are an export economy and an export economy has to try to keep their goods cheap.
That's not to say that the Chinese gummint won't start an economic war with us. Maybe they'll decide to attack Taiwan but try to cripple our economy first. Who knows? But it is not in their self-interest.
What the Chinese gummint really has to worry about is their growing middle class wanting more freedoms. They have a real problem with the internet. That is why their gummint is trying to control the flow of information. Remember, the USSR tried to initiate controlled capitalism. So far capitalism and a totalitarian gummint doesn't seem able to coexist. We'll see what China is able to do.
The EU really needs to worry about their generous entitlements and high taxes. France needs to worry about their growing Muslim population.
I wonder how hard it would be to blow up the Eiffel Tower?.
Or fly an airplane into it.
I love it! I just got some more fan mail from someone who calls herself Angelicface. From the milk of human kindness included in her mail, I'll bet she's a dried up old ugly bitch. Maybe it's Molly Ivins. OK Angelicface. You're on. Hit me with your best shot!
You're a miserable old conservative bastard.
Already she is displaying her ignorance. I've stated many times that I'm a libertarian. What we have here is a dumb liberal who has read maybe one post and from that she has branded me a conservative. But, I guess, I may be guilty of the same sin since I've read one sentence of her e-mail and already I have branded her a liberal. I'll bet I'm closer to the truth than she is.
Just take some pills and keel over, will ya?
I take the pills to prevent me from keeling over. And d'ya notice it's always the oh so compassionate and caring liberals who want other people to die? Remember it is the odious Juliane Malveaux who hoped Clarence Thomas' wife cooked him high fat food so he would die of an heart attack. Sorry sweetie, I've got a lot more living to do before I die. The Atenolol is taking care of my blood pressure and the Zocor is taking care of my cholesteral. Anyway, liberals like you shouldn't want me to die. I probably pay more in taxes than you make. It's "miserable old conservative bastard"s like me who pay the taxes that support the gummint.
I despise old conservatives like yourself.
Yet another example of the caring and compassion of liberals.
You're the typical conservative that thinks your shit doesn't stink.
If you think that you've never seen me take a crap. It stinks big time.
I bet you love Bush.
Not really. If you had taken the time to have read more of my stuff you'd realize that. However, Bush is a much better alternative than Kerry or Gore. Geez, I stated in one of my posts last week that the main reason I voted for Bush was the War on Terror. I don't trust Dimocrats to defend this country. Most of Bush's domestic polices have pissed me off. I'll bet you, on the other hand, love Hillary Clinton and think her shit doesn't stink.
You know, I'm not surprised you're a conservative.
Oh? I'm not, but tell me why you think I am?
Old white men like you are so whiny.
So, I'm a conservative because I'm whiny? It's usually liberals that whine and talk about gloom and doom. I wouldn't call Ronald Reagan whiny. Jimmah Carter on the other hand was and still is a major league whiner. I think what we have here is some major league projection from Angelicface.
Lady, you need to go take a reading comprehension course. I would hardly call myself whiny. There is a big difference between ranting and whining, and I'll have you know that I don't whine. Liberals whine.
You old white men wish we could go back to the days when women were to be seen and not heard and blacks would be waiting on their knees-hand and foot.
Are you sure you have been reading this blog? I adore strong women. I love strong women. If we went back to those days, my sister and her husband would not have been able to afford their big house in South Carolina that I can visit. They even have a bed I can sleep in. I talked to three strong women on the phone the other night and here's a sign that I'm getting old. They were playing strip poker and I didn't ask what each one was down to. Now, I guess that's sumpin' I can whine about. Oh pitiful old white man me! I can't even be a dirty old man. Whine. Whine. Whine.
And blacks? If we went back to those days, we wouldn't have a Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, or Clarence Thomas. We wouldn't have a Colin Powell or Condi Rice. I think you wrote this letter to the wrong guy, but continue.
I would be miserable too if I were an old white man.
I dunno. You sound pretty miserable right now. I, on the other hand, am pretty happy right now. I've pissed off a liberal. That always makes me happy.
Suck it up loser.
Loser? Let's see, I'm an SRF©. I'm retired from IBM with a good pension. I'm pretty much guaranteed a really good income for the rest of my life. I own three cars. I live in a big house. I go SCUBA diving at least once a year. I go snow skiing at least once a year. I go to a lot of blogmeets. I have a nice wine collection. I live a very good life. If that's your definition of loser, I wish I could have been a loser 20 years ago. So I don't really know what I'm supposed to suck up. Maybe lots of vintage wine? Expensive Cognac? Expensive Champagne?
Now you, on the other hand, really sound like a bitter bitch. What happened? Didja just get dumped by your boyfriend? You got PMS? Lost your job? That's all right. If you work hard and save your money, someday you can become a loser like me. Not!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thanks for writing. You made my day.
Russ Vaughn sent me a poem about Cindy Sheehan. I realize that this is a woman who lost her son, but she has become a tool of the anti-American left. Michael Moore loves her and is exploiting her grief. So is the America hating LSM. She and her husband have separated and the rest of her family has repudiated her. I am sorry for her loss but at the same time I wonder how her son would feel about her dishonoring his death. He was a volunteer who believed in what he was fighting for.
A Useful Death
A mother's anguish turns to ire,
Her liquid tears to spears of fire,
A useful fool for the liberal Left,
All hatred now, no more bereft.
The honor which her son embraced,
Is now dishonored, now disgraced,
As his mother stands atop his grave,
From there to shriek, from there to rave.
Yes, some are maddened in their grief,
And grief can surely change belief;
But this woman's views, her family say,
Have long been held, long fore today,
Enabling Leftists to use her grieving,
For Moore deception, Moore deceiving.
I see this mother as a willing fool,
A useful Moorish Code Pinko tool.
As one who fought in another place,
I sorrow for this boy's disgrace,
By a zealot mother grafting grief
Stealing his brave deeds, an honor thief,
Usurping his valor to claim her share,
Five minutes of fame in Media's glare.
Her platform one you don't see often:
A dishonored, flag-draped, soldier's coffin.
I can hear Michael Moore muttering under his breath,
"Yeah, this was really a useful death."
Russ Vaughn
It only took 17 days, but the New York Times finally wrote sumpin' about the Air America scandal. In typical liberal fashion, they blamed the victim. It was the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls club's fault. I really liked this part:
Mr. Franken also said that the network's new owners "don't legally have to pay it back" - referring to the loans - "because we're a different company or something."
You took money from a charity, asshole! It was used to pay your salary! Now do you see why I hate liberals so much?
"But morally we do," he said.
That's right asshole. But morals and liberals don't deserve to be in the same sentence unless morals are preceed by "have no".
These people make me sick and so does the LSM for ignoring this story for 17 days. Imagine if Rush Limbaugh had taken money from a charity, it would have been all over the airwaves from day 1. Media bias? Naaah!
I got the link from Daily Pundit.
This joke is in very bad taste. What do you expect? it was sent to me by Catfish.
On a farm out in the country lived a man and a woman and their
three sons.
Early one morning, the woman awoke, and while looking out of
the window onto to the pasture, she saw that the family's only
cow was lying dead in the field. The situation looked hopeless
to her -- how could she possibly continue to feed her family
now?
In a depressed state of mind, she hung herself. When the
husband awoke to find his wife dead, as well as the cow, he too
began to see the hopelessness of the situation, and he shot
himself in the head.
Now the oldest son woke up to discover his parents dead (and
the cow!), and he decided to go down to the river and drown
himself.
When he got to the river, he discovered a mermaid sitting on
the bank. She said, "I've seen all and know the reason for your
despair. But if you will have sex with me five times in a row,
I will restore your parents and the cow to you."
The son agreed to try, but after four times, he was simply
unable to satisfy her again. So the mermaid drowned him in the
river.
Next the second oldest son woke up. After discovering what had
happened, he too decided to throw himself into the river.
The mermaid said to him, "If you will have sex with me ten
times in a row, I will make everything right." And while the
son tried his best (seven times!), it was not enough to satisfy
the mermaid, so she drowned him in the river.
The youngest son woke up and saw his parents dead, the dead cow
in the field, and his brothers gone. He decided that life was a
hopeless prospect, and he went down to the river to throw
himself in.
And there he also met the mermaid. "I have seen all that has
happened, and I can make everything right if you will only have
sex with me fifteen times in a row."
The young son replied, "Is that all? Why not twenty times in a
row?"
The mermaid was somewhat taken aback by this request. Then he
said, "Hell, why not twenty-five times in a row?" And even as
she was reluctantly agreeing to his request, he said, "Why not
THIRTY times in a row?"
Finally, she said, "Enough!! Okay, if you will have sex with me
thirty times in a row, then I will bring everybody back to
perfect health."
Then the young son asked,
"Wait! How do I know that thirty times in a row won't kill you like it did the cow?"
Y'see, this is the problem I have with leftist,moonbat, booger-eatin' moh-ron trolls: They have no mannners and then they accuse me of the same offense. Connie du Toit wrote sumpin' about it a few months back.
To paraphrase, this blog is my house. When you enter my house you will be polite and you will follow the rules of this house.
I actually have a set of Rules. I also have a warning on the comment form that if someone is a troll he/she will be humiliated. I do not like to put up with bullshit in my house or on this blog.
A few months back, a French troll called me a tyrant. He's right. I am a tyrant. This blog is not a democracy. I pay for the site. I pay for the bandwidth. I make the rules.
We have some booger eatin' moh-ron dipshit accusing me of hypocrisy for doing the same thing Amy King did, i.e namecalling. I have tried to explain to him twice but since he is probably a liberal he needs to have it explained to him about ten times.
A well mannered Southern lady or gentleman would not dare to insult someone in his home. If he/she did, many Southern people who are polite and well mannered might be polite and overlook it. However, that person would never be invited into that home again. I am not from the South. I would not put up with that bullshit. I would throw you out of my house. In the same vein, I do not put up with that crap here. As I state in Rule 3.
3. Do not start a thread with an insult. That immediately shows that you are a fucking idiot and are fair game and will be treated accordingly. If you are polite, we will be polite. Maybe. I decide.
How hard is that to understand? I guess for liberals it is since they changed the definition of sexual harrassment back when Billy Boy was president.
So, it's not hypocrisy when I insult someone who has insulted me. It is the policy of this site. Don't like it? I don't care. Tough shit! My site. My rules.
What do ya wanna bet my latest troll still doesn't understand this?
Update: I win. He didn't. But then, he is a stupid troll.
Connie du Toit needs to get Kim one of these.
From Charlieb.
From Phil.
There might be a little terror involved in seeing some people naked, y'know, like the Breats Not Bombs folks.
I kinda like Archie Bunker's solution: Issue everyone a rod at boarding.
I was originally gonna title this a picture of Amy King, but no way a bitter bitch like her could look this good.
Caution! Especially my sister! This post contains female nudity. It also contains a misogynist joke. Someone like Amy King, who has no sense of humor, will not think this is funny. Others, who do have a sense of humor, will not think this is funny. But, this is a joke. It is from Catfish. That should be warning enough.
The latest Fax From Babs was a 10 minute knockoff so I have time to address a commment written by one Amy King. She is a typical barking moonbat from the left who resorts to namecalling rather than making any salient points. It's obvious that she hasn't read much of what I write since she has called me misogynist and racist. I will just call her ignorant and stupid. Let's examine what she wrote.
It's so nice to see the ancient southern mentality of misogyny (that's woman hating) and ignorance (that's being uninformed) of politics still thrives. Women you write about on your blog: the ones you hate and the ones you want to f-ck. Yeah.
Well, first of all, I did not grow up in the South. I have only lived here 20 of my 58 years. Amy could have found that out had she bothered to read the FAQ I have posted over on the left sidebar, but like most liberals, she is either too lazy or too stupid, to get her facts straight. It is so much easier to resort to insults. Do I hate women? I have met many women bloggers and I guess they could answer that. Y'see Amy, one of the devices I use on this site is sumpin' foreign to you. It is called humor. Do I think Jessica Simpson is stupid? Not really. She's parlayed her dumb blond act into a nice career. I also defy you to find even one time, on this site, that I have said that I want to fuck someone. I don't even say that on my Saturday boobage pictures.
But I do hate some women. I hate Jane Fonda, not because she is a woman, but because she is a traitor. When she returned from North Viet Nam she should have been arrested, tried for treason, and executed. Yeah. I despise Jane Fonda.
I hate Hillary Clinton also. I don't hate her because she is a woman. I hate her because she is a socialist. I hate her because of all the lives she has destroyed. I hate her because she is a liar. I hate her because she is corrupt. I hate her because she is a danger to this country. I hate her for playing the victim. She is the "smartest woman in the world" and she claims that she didn't know that her husband was getting his pole licked by an airhead intern, in his office, while she was also in the White House. And you want this woman as president? You want someone that incredibly stupid as to not know her husband, with all his history, was cheating on her? And you call me stupid?
And if I hate woman so much, why do I write nice things about many of them, including my sister? Why do I admire Condi Rice and Laura Bush? Why do I like so many women bloggers. I guess it's because I want to fuck them. OK gals, you've been warned by Amy. Watch out at the next blogmeet.
And you might as well just post 'black folk' pictures with less thinly-veiled terms like "bats," and just go ahead and call 'em whatever it is you really do. When I was growing up it was "coons". Is "bats" an indication that the southern gentleman's mind is evolving? At least be straight-forward with your racism! It's never been a secret, and by the looks of your postings, it still isn't.
Obviously Amy is more familiar with current racist terms than I am. I have never heard the term "bats". That's a new one for me.
For your information Amy, I went to an integrated high school. Like I said, I did not grow up in the South. If I would have used the words "nigger" or "coon" around my house, my parents would have slapped me into the middle of next week. Neither of my parents were racist and they did not raise racist children.
I'm so racist that I think Condi Rice would make a much better president than Hillary Clinton, or any of the rest of the Dimocrat communists. I'm so racist that I admire Colin Powell. And isn't it funny that it was a racist Republican who appointed the first black Secretary of State and also the first black female Secretary of State?
I also admire Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and Clarence Thomas. Oh wait! They're Oreos.
Why do I make fun of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Because they are RWPP's. They are both accomplished shakedown artists who have become rich off the poverty of blacks while supporting policies that have kept blacks dependent upon the gummint. They are both also anti-Semitic. Speaking truth about race hustlers does not make me a racist.
And you wanna talk about racists? Howza 'bout the Dimocrats in Congress who went after Clarence Thomas, a black man, for supposedly commenting about a pubic hair on a Coke can, while supporting a white Dimocrat president who groped a woman. Gloria Steinem even came out with the "one free grope" rule which set sexual harrassment rules back twenty years. Who are the racists?
The Dimocrats went after Clarence Thomas, a black man, for supposedly talking about a porno movie, while excusing a white, Dimocrat president getting blowjobs by a chubby, airheaded intern. By the way, this fit the feminists' definition of sexual harrassment. They always claimed that sexual relations between a boss and his subordinate, even if consensual constituted sexual harrassment because of the power of the boss. They changed their tune with a white Dimocrat president. Who are the racists?
Didja see any of the editorial cartoons during Condi Rice's confirmation hearings? Leftist Tedd Rall depicted her as Aunt Jemima. Other liberal cartoonists penned similar cartoons. It was disgraceful! Who are the fucking racists, Amy? It sure as fuck is not me!
I make fun of John Lewis because he has become a useful idiot. In his misguided way he supports policies that keep his constituents in poverty and dependent upon gummint. I make fun of Maxine Waters because she is an idiot, period. I make fun of Cynthia McCommie because she is a barking moonbat and a communist. I make fun of Harry Belafonte because he is a bigot.
I DO NOT MAKE FUN OF BLACK PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK!!!!!
I leave that up to the Ted Ralls on the left and the David Dukes on the right. I challenge you to find anywhere on this site where I have stated or implied that black people are stupid or inferior. Quite the contrary. I rail against educational policies that treat them as such. I rail about silly ideas like Ebonics education which implies that they cannot learn to read, write and speak standard American English. I rail about people who say that SAT tests are culturally biased. That implies that blacks live outside American culture. Who are the racists?
It is actually this patronizing attitude towards blacks that is racist. Liberals think that blacks are too stupid to learn and make excuses for them by lowering admission standards and dumbing down education rather than challenging them to learn. The NAACP opposes vouchers while the black community supports them. Let's keep them in failing schools. Who? Are? The? Racists?
How dare you call me a racist when it is you oh so superior liberals who are the real racists by your advocacy of the bigotry of low expectations. Your Great Fucking Society has created a permanent underclass of people totally supported by and dependant on the gummint. Amy, you make me sick to my stomach.
Thankfully, most of my southern family didn't carry on such a mind-numbing tradition. How do you sustain that kind of hate each day? Where do you find joy that runs deeper than gawking over Jesscia Simpson photos?
Too bad your Southern family didn't teach you how to read and comprehend. Too bad your Southern family didn't give you a sense of humor. Too bad your Southern family didn't teach you manners. Y'see, my Midwestern upbringing gave me all of those qualities.
I know you think that I am a Bush zealot. Once again, you didn't read any further than the last few posts. I voted for Bush for one reason: The War on Terror. He's more serious about fighting it than the Dimocrats. He also has more integrity in his little finger than both Clintons combined have in their entire bodies.
I think the latest transportation bill is a travesty. I was against the farm bill. There is entirely too much gummint spending. The Republicans have proven that they can outspend Dimocrats. No mean feat.
And how do I sustain the hatred? I hate traitors. I hate people who destroy peoples' lives. I hate people who have created a permanent underclass. I hate superior people who patronize blacks and Hispanics and support programs with a history of failure, but continue to do so because it feels good.
Where do I get my joy? One way was becomming a SRF©. Another way is bitchslapping morally superior liberals like yourself. Still another is chasing all the female bloggers I want to fuck when I'm at blogmeets. If only they couldn't outrun me. I'm a cripple ya know.
I like to drink wine. I eat well. I SCUBA dive. I snow ski. I drive a BMW Z3. I also have a BMW 325 and a pickup. I like to read. I like to enjoy life.
I get joy when my site meter goes up. I get joy when someone makes a good joke at my expense like the Photoshopped photo of Helen Thomas and myself. Now that was funny!
I get joy when someone actually comes up with a creative insult. Unfortunately, Amy, yours were lame.
I get joy when I read success stories. I get joy when I get a lot of comments. I get joy when Dimocrats lose elections. I would get joy if there were a credible opposition party.
I get my joy many ways and if I piss off some dumbass liberal like yourself it's just another way to find joy in this life. By the way, my next post will be a picture of Amy.
FYI - all politicians play politics, which means they do things they don't tell the public about. Evil things! Every single one of 'em, even Bush.
Really? No kidding? I'm shocked! Shocked I say! I never knew that. Do all politicians commit murder and get away with it like Ted Kennedy? Are all politicians former klansmen like Robert Kleagle Byrd? Are all politicians rapists and serial molesters like Bill Clinton?
When Republicans get caught, they resign. Dimocrats circle the wagons.
Yeah, politics is a dirty game. No one plays it dirtier than the Clintons. Bill Clinton committed more abuses of office than Nixon could ever dream of.
Nixon requested one FBI file that he never got. Clinton had over 1000.
Nixon tried to politicize the IRS and sic it on his enemies with no success. Hillary installed a friend as IRS commissioner. Many of Bill's bimbos and enemies were audited.
Both Nixon abd Clinton obstructed Justice. Clinton committed perjury.
In the end, three honorable Republican senators told Nixon to resign. The Dimocrats did not have three honorable senators.
BUT it's very telling that some southern minds put so much fervor into bashing and belittling Hillary Clinton. That means she's one of the few women who is a real threat. You should be worried and continue to spend your time making stupid useless photos of her. That's all you can do. And weep.
Check out my comments. I have people from all over the country who are terrified of Hillary Clinton. She is an America hating, military hating, socialist.
What really scares me, though, is that there are nitwits like you who will vote for her.
That terrifies me!
Update: Amy do ya wanna see an example of civil discourse from those on the left? Go here. Yep. No racism here. No hate speech. No misogyny. Oh no. A fine example of BDS at work.
To: Paul Hackoff, almost congressperson from Iowa
From: Barbra Streisand
Dear Phil,
Congratulations! You almost won. Another success for the Democratic Party. We have the Republicans on the run! I do have one question. Why didn't you demand a recount? Don't you realize that the Republicans hide a bunch of votes and those are always Democrat votes? Everytime there is a recount, we always find more Democratic votes. Look how well we did in the Oregon governor election. The Republicans hid more votes than were registered voters, they were all Democratic votes, and after enough recounts and we found them all.
I'm still mad that Carey didn't demand recounts after the 2004 election. I just know the Republicans hid lots of votes that we could have found. If he had demanded enough recounts we could have found those hidden votes and Jeb Bush would not be in office today. He's a disgrace.
And speaking of a disgrace, what about that woman camping out like a homeless person outside of his ranch in Texas? That's terrible. You would think that he could give her better housing to stay in than just a tent. I wonder if Max Cleveland will show up to stay with her?
I think we really have the Republicans on the ropes. I heard that Daily Cosby internet guy has supported 16 candidates and all of them almost won. If we keep almost winning all these elections, we will pretty soon almost take over Congress. I really hope Helen Clinton can almost win the next presidential election. Then we will almost control the entire government. We do have to stop the rabid conservative judges from taking over that Supreme Court thingy, but Senators Shuman, Bidet, and Leaky should take care of that. Happy days are almost here again.
Once again, congratulations on your almost victory.
Luv ya (not almost, but totally),
Babs
Catfish sent me this. It applies to both of us.
I have entered the Snapdragon part of my life.
Part of me has snapped. The rest is of me is draggin'.
I put a counter on the left sidepanel showing how long the LSM has ignored the Air America scandal. Can you imagine the outrage if any conservative organization had taken money away from a charity? The New York Times, which is ignoring this story, would be positive apoplectic. Media bias? Nah!
The counter is available here.
Democrats Vow to Bring Integrity Back to Party. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Just kidding. This is only supposedly gonna happen in East St. Louis. Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy will still stay out of jail and the stolen gubernatorial election will still stand in Washington. Dimocrats? Integrity? Are you kidding?
Here's sumpin' unusual. I do not have anything to write about. This is really unusual for Vodka Denny. Usually when I've had a few I'm ready to rock 'n' roll. I guess I must be bummed about Christina quitting blogging. Yeah, I know, she'll probably be back. Blogging is addictive.
If she doesn't return, I hope she is at least willing to keep up with other bloggers and set up more blogmeets. Nawlins was a blast! What I would like to see is a blogmeet in the following three cities:
1. Charleston, SC - What can I say? Charleston is one of the neatest Southern cities ever. Who knows? My sister might even show up. Then you could meet the brains of the family.
2. Savannah - V- Man this is your job. You did a bangup job in Helen and a super job at Jekyl Island. I know, just like Charleston, I couldn't do much walking, but like Charleston, Savannah has good restaurants and as long as I pace myself like I did in Nawlins, I could survive.
3. San Antonio - Don't know how many of the Georgia bloggers could make it, but maybe I could meet more Texans. Denita, Ironbear, what about it? I've been to San Antonio a few times. A friend of mine got married in a little chapel along the River Walk. Awesome city!
Why not a blog meetup in Atlanta? You would have to talk to Kelley about that. I'm not much in the way of organizing stuff. I was roped into being the president of the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta which means I have to set up 12 tastings a year at various restaurants around Atlanta. The job sucks! There are some fringe benefits and that's the only reason I took on the job. I only have to do it for the next 2 to 3 years. I get to train my replacement. So I'll leave blog meetups to others.
Sorry I cannot address Pierce's e-mail about how China is gonna kick our ass tonight. I will address that bullshit (which is what it is) in the future.
Teresa asked why Georgians were so anti-Hillary. I gave her a list of reasons, so now it is my readers' turn to tell her why they dislike Hillary so much. Here's another reason I don't want to see her elected. The latest about 9/11 is that the CIA knew about Mohammed Atta and a few other of the 9/11 murderers back during the Clinton administration (I'm shocked!), but thanks to Assistant Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (a Clinton appointee) and her wall between the intelligence services and the FBI, the intelligence couldn't be shared. Gorelick would probably be Hillary's attorney general if she were elected. So give me all your reasons and I will use them in a later post.
Now, here is an R rated picture of Hillary. Only click continue reading if you have a strong stomach and an offbeat sense of humor. And no, this is NOT Saturday Boobage.
Pic from Virgil.
Someone asked my why I didn't write anything about the moonbat party civil rights demonstration we had in Atlanta over the weekend. I didn't realize it was as funny as it was. I never watch local television news and the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation sanitized the coverage. Although they mentioned barking moonbat Harry Belafonte was in town they didn't publish any of his quotes. I didn't even know that Maxine Waters (Moonbat, CA) was in town. I didn't know Judge Mathis was in town either.
They did publish this picture and I obviously didn't take a good look at it.
Left to right.
John Lewis a respected civil rights leader but he took one too many nightsticks to the head in Selma Alabama and has been a useful idiot ever since.
Maxine Waters who said in a pro-abortion demonstration recently that she was marching because her mother didn't have the right to choose. If only. That would have been one of the few times I would have supported abortion.
Harry Belafonte who has become a real barking moonbat. This wasn't in the paper but he came out with his usual ravings about black conservatives. I remember a few years back when he called Colin Powell a "house slave". Now he's got a new term. He called black members of the Bush administration "black tyrants." Hey Harry, don't you have a banana boat to catch? Harry is proof that you don't have to be white to be a racial bigot. He has turned into a disgusting man.
Jesse Jackson - Oh yeah. The dean of RWPP©s. Jesse has become a multimillionaire by exacerbating racial tensions and shaking down large corporations. He's also a bigot. Remember when he called New York Hymietown and couldn't understand the fuss? I wonder how much of a fuss there would have been if Ed Koch called Atlanta Niggertown? Jesse has become a caricature of himself.
Nancy Pelosi - Her skin is pulled so tight from her last facelift that she probably pees out of her navel.
Don't know who the last dude is.
Mike King has some good Belafonte quotes on his site.
Jim Wooten one of the three consevatives who writes for the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation had a column about the Voting Rights Act and the fuss about having to have photo IDs in Georgia to vote. I love what he had to say about Jesse Jackson and Nancy Pelosi:
On Saturday, locked arm-in-arm in protest were the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a tandem that could wipe out the Democratic Party in the South with a three-week Greyhound bus tour in election season.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It's true.
Judge Mathis showed up. He's still raving about the Republicans "stealing" the 2000 election.
"[The] Supreme Court was an accomplice to the biggest election crime in history in 2000. And I call it a crime because indeed that is exactly what it was," he said to applause.
He's supposedly a judge so he really oughta know that all the Supreme Court did was tell Florida to obey their own election laws. By the way, all the recounts, even those done by liberal organizations after the election showed Bush won! He also accused the Republicans of stealing the 2004 elections. Must of been those Diebold machines in Ohio.
The more these people talk, the more ridiculous they sound. I guess that's why the AJC left out the best quotes.
And now O'Reilly had sumpin' to say about this weekend.
What with the bungling Keystone Kops at the Fulton County jail who let Brian Nicholls escape, Jennifer Wilbanks (who was out mowing lawns today as part of her community service), and Cynthia McCommie we don't need any more lunacy in Atlanta.
Too bad Atlanta had to be the site of these booger eatin' moh-rons ranting and raving.
Thanks to Robert and Henry for sending me some of the information I used in this post.
Paul wanted a Photoshop of Hillary as Medusa. Gravdigr sent me one.
I don't know. Just looking at the real Hillary is enough to turn me to stone. It's easy to understand why Bill cheats. It's not easy to understand why some of the women he goes after are complete skanks.
Probably the best thing about the Dukes of Hazzard and also the best thing that Jessica Simpson has ever done.
WTF? This is about as dumb as the Atlanta Braves leaving WSB for low wattage WGST and 96Rock FM. KMOX has been the Cardinals' flagship station as long as I can remember. I can pick up KMOX after dark here in Atlanta. What's the chance of me picking up the new station? Got this from STLMedia, which has now been added to the blogroll. I grew up in the St. Louis area and cannot imagine the Cardinals not being on KMOX.
My new resident EU Moonbat, Pierce is back with another comment. And here I was wondering what to post about. Maybe there is a God and he created Pierce for my amusement.
First : Well you know, EU doesn't need USA to fight terrorism, it's a problem we know for a long time, much longer than you. And you haven't help us a lot with it in the past.
I didn't say we were gonna help you now. I said that in the future we were gonna have to help you. France's Moose-limb population is 10%. What happens when it reaches 20-25%? Does France have the balls that Tony Blair is now showing by telling the Islamic nutjobs to integrate or depart? Will the Brits support Blair's policies? The Brits didn't think that they were gonna have terrorism like what happened on 7/7. I got news for you Pierce, this is just the beginning. Things are gonna get worse before they get better.
Next : A fanatic is a guy who has no brain left, so it's useless to try to afraid them like you do.
So, does that mean you're a fanatic since you have no brain left? And quite frankly I don't afraid you. I also don't afraid the Islamic nutjobs. I have a gun and I will shoot to kill. We have decided to take the fight to them rather than cower in fear like the Dimocrats. We will stay on the offensive until the Dimocrats take control of the gummint. I seriously believe what I call WWIV will last as long as the Cold War (WWIII), and the Dimocrats will be about as effective in ending WWIV as they were WWIII. We will need another Ronald Reagan in the future.
Next : during WWII you have waited a lot before you decided to help us !! You helped us when it became dangerous for yourself.
Yep! After WWI, we were tired of getting into wars that you assholes started. You dipshits stood around and did nothing while Germany got stronger. You could have stopped Hitler in the early 30's but you chose appeasement, just like you buttheads are doing with Iran. When will you learn? And by the way, we were helping England before we got into the war. Didja ever hear about the Lend Lease Act? Didn't think so. And also, why were we even in Europe. After all we invaded a sovereign nation (Germany) that never attacked us? That's your logic about why we shouldn't have invaded Iraq.
During the rest of the time you were doing business and you were waiting : "let's watch and see"
Just like you guys did with Hitler. Remember Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our time"? That is actually the correct quote rather than the misquoted "Peace in our time". You appeased, did business, waited, and saw, until is was too farking late, and then surrendered (Not sure if you are French but you sure sound like it.) and you have the unmitigated gall to accuse us?
Don't speak about ungratefulness, it's the French who helped you to become independant, to become what you are now, without their help, their weapons and support you were loosing.
Do you know how many times I have had to respond to this? Sigh! Here we go again. The French did the same thing that you accuse us of. The only reason that the French helped us was that they were in a war with England. And, we repaid that debt in WWI. Y'know what our soldiers said in WWI on arriving in France? "Lafayette, we are here." Almost 150 years after our Revolutionary War we were still grateful to the French. After we saved the French in WWII, they were not even grateful for 5 years, let alone 150 years, so don't give me any bullshit about ingratitude. The French wrote the book on that. They also wrote the book on backstabbing. We paid the debt in full, with interest, and the slate is tilted the other way. Where is the French gratitude? Totally nonexistent. Fuck! The! French!
I'm starting to get really pissed again. Time for a short break.
I'm back.
Your constitution was created by guys who spent years in France, and was based on French texts.
So? We're still using that Constitution (Kinda) over 200 years later. How many constitutions has France had in that time? How many has Germany?
Next: Stop saying UnitedKingdom is with you, only Tony Blair is with you, most english aren't (70% against the war). It's not a secret that this guy is Bush dog.
Right now Tony Blair is the prime minister of the United Kingdom. That means the UK is with us until his gummint falls. Right now, Blair has more balls than Bush. I only wish our president would start cracking down on Muslims in this country who preach hatred and start deporting them. You go Tony! And another thing, it's much better to be Bush's dog than Jackoff Chiraq's dog.
Next: Surrender? Who surrendered to terrorists??, nobody you're dreaming, we just say that musulism is different from fanatic islamist and dickhead terrorits. If you keep thinking musulism countries are terrorits, you are doing the same than the KKK with blacks. Ok Sadam was a shit, however, the life of the population is not getting better since you messed up their country.
Ask the Kurds about that. Ask the Shia who are now gonna get to participate in gummint. Ask someone who's been there. My nephew was there for over a year. what the LSM is telling you is different than what is going on there. Now, I am afraid that since Sistani insists that the gummint be based on Sharia, we may get another Iran which would really piss me off. My friend Michael and I agree that Iraq should be broken up into three different countries. Give the Kurds a country. Give the Shia a country. Give the Sunnis a country.
Next: You remember Afganistan : you didn't change anything, there are still killing with stones. Those countries are not at the same level, they are still at the middle age. Like europe was in the 13th century. You cannot bring democracy to a country which is not ready, not mature enough, you just mess everything.
Funny, I was under the impression that Afghanistan was getting better. Anything is better than the Taliban. And we mess up everything? We sure did a bangup job of rebuilding Europe after WWII. You're welcome asshole, you ungrateful sonuvabitch.
Start by developping them economicaly, build schools, the rest will be automatic and will take at least 100 years .
Does this guy even live on the same planet? We are building schools buttmunch. Girls can actually go to school now. That's a first.
Next: Your efficiency was proved by the bombing in London !! This bombing would probably haven't happen if Tony Blair were not Bush's dog. This is the proof what you did was useless. It's the proof it will only get worth. You'll see.
So your plan is to just do nothing and these bastards will leave us alone. Listen up! Listen to what bin Laden and the other nutjobs are saying. They are not making this a secret. I'll put it in caps and maybe you'll get it. THEY WANT THE WHOLE WORLD UNDER ISLAM WITH SHARIA AS THE LAW! They hate the west. They hate me. They hate you, unless you're a Muslim. They hate women and want them to be chattel. And you're right about one thing: It will only get worse. It doesn't matter if we fight them or do nothing. It will only get worse. Just like Hitler, they cannot be appeased. It will only get worse. Look at what's going on in Holland right now. Muslims are raping Dutch women and blaming it on the women because they wear modern dress. It will only get worse. It will happen in France. It will happen in Germany. It will only get worse. Wake the fuck up! This is WWIV. Or maybe it is just the continuation of the earlier war with Islam. Remember that? They weren't kicked out of Europe until the late 15th century when Spain finally drove the Moors out. Guess what? They're back and they still want to take over Europe. And people like you will let them. If you do nothing it will only get worse. It will just happen faster. Remember Hitler? The Euroweenies thought if they only give him this or if they only give him that he will be satisfied. It didn't work. Appeasement never does. Mark my words: It will only get worse.
Next: Do you know why america spent a lot of money after the Tsunamy. You still think it was to help the poor people?!?
Yep. We are the good guys. Look, our former enemies, the Russians had a minisub trapped in 600 feet of water, who went to rescue them? The Americans and the Brits. Turns out the Brits did the job, but we were there. Why? Because we are the good guys.
You may be a strong minded guy, but you have been well shaped by your TV.
Not by my TV. It's probably just as bad as your TV. All the networks, except one, FOX, are strongly anti-war and anti-Bush. They are pretty much propaganda arms of the Dimocrat Party. And I am strongminded because I am able to filter out the bullshit. What the LSM has told the public about Iraq is probably the same thing your media has told you about Iraq. Fortunately, I know people who have actually been there and their story is quite different. Nope! My TV has not shaped me a bit. Howza 'bout yours?
What WE heard was different, the biggest part of the money you gave didn't help local people to rebuild their homes, but helped compagnies to build infrastructures (like tourist centers, mac donalds, etc...).One more time to economicaly settle yourselves. See, sounds like we doesn't watch the same TV.
Nope, we don't. Now exactly how are we supposed to determine how the money that we gave was spent. Were we supposed to overthrow the gummint? Make up your mind. Are we supposed to dictate to gummints, like you say we are doing in Iraq or are we supposed to respect the sovereignty of gummints like we did during the tsunami relief? Jesus H. Christ! Why do you insist on bringing a knife to a gun fight?
This made a little scandal in Europe and you didn't even heard of it !! WAHAHA.
Nope. We didn't. And you know what? I don't give a rat's ass! So WHAHA back at you.
You think Europe is proud of the money you used ? You are still dreaming.
Why should they be? With the exception of the Brits, they're still not grateful for the Marshall Plan, where we rebuilt your sorry continent. The Eastern Europeans are grateful that we (not you pussies) freed them from communism.
Of course part of the money did help them, I didn't say the contrary, but you used the situation one more time.
What? We gave away money with no strings attached. By the way, how much money did your sorry country give? Huh? We are the most generous country on the planet.
You did the same in Europe at the end of WWII.
Yep! As mentioned earlier, it was called the Marshall Plan. We rebuilt your infrastructure using taxpayer money and you hate us for it.
No really, I don't see anything else than cupidity in USA acts.
So leaving your continent in ruins would have been the proper thing to do? Maybe we should remember that next time, and there will be a next time. You will have to face your Moose-limb problem. Or maybe you'll just surrender and adopt Sharia.
I know americans are good, they defend freedom and peace.
Hooray! He finally got sumpin' right! Let's hear it for Pierce!
But your governement understood a long time ago, that as long as they keep you happy, they can do whatever they want, and they do it.
So the elections we hold every two years mean nothing? I'm shocked! I thought my vote meant sumpin'. The fallacy of your last statement is proven by Cytnthia McCommie, Hillary Rodent Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Ted Swimmer Kennedy. And my country does not keep me happy! I'm royally pissed at a lot of the policies. That's one of the reasons I started this blog.
In Europe we say :TV is the opium of the peolple. Guys who seek power understood it.
In Europe that is true. Look at the nutjobs you elect: Jackoff Chiraq. Gerhard Shroeder.
Don't worry I'm not naif, I know that the Europeans have been manipulated too by their governements.
See above.
However you should listen more to the old continent, older also means wiser.
Yep! Your old knowledge sure worked with Hitler didn't it. We young stupid pukes had to bail you out. We young, stupid Americans had to rebuild your continent. We young, stupid Americans had to protect you from Communism. We young stupid Americans are gonna have to save you from radical Islam. I'm afraid in Europe's case, old means senile. By the way, RickT posted an interesting comment about what Islam REQUIRES Muslims to believe and do:
- Non-believers have three choices: conversion, slavery, or death.
- Conversion away from Islam is an automatic death sentence
- There are two parts of the world, the House of Islam and the House of War
- Muslims are encouraged to lie, to cheat, and to steal from unbelievers
- Muslims MUST lie about the true contents of the Koran, especially the first item above.
- Mohammed was a warlord first and a 'prophet' second, and his 'prophesies' had a strange ability to authorize whatever he wanted to do that day....
Though the USA are a small part of the world, almost all americans never travel oustside the USA (95%), most of the time you don't even know any foreign language.
I have been to almost 30 countries including, England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Russia. I have also been to two Muslim countries: Turkey and Egypt. I write from experience. True, I do not speak another language, but I tried to pick up a smattering of the language of every country I visited. Put me in Italy for six months and I would speak fluent Italian. With the little Italian I picked up, I was able to communicate well with taxi drivers. I was able to ask directions. I ordered off the Italian menu in restaurants and ordered in Italian. I LOVE Italy. When in France, I tried to speak French. They made fun of me. Now, have you been to the United States?
So before taking decisions about the rest of the world, you should read more books and travel more, listen to the world, learn from other cultures, you'll got a better chance to know what you're doing.
See above. And as for reading books? I have a library full of books that I have read. I have read extensive history. I would match my knowledge of ancient history, especially Roman history, against you any day of the week. I would match my reading against you any day of the week. I am 58 years old and retired. I have plenty of time to read now. I also read some foreign blogs. Here is one of them.
Don't worry, you also pissed me off, I don't want to start a bad words contest , I just want an interesting debat.
If you want to have an interesting debate, try using facts and supportable talking points. Try using logic. As I said earlier, don't bring a knife to a gun fight. Your anti-American media is no more honest than our anti-American media.
The first time you took my words as an attack, it's a criticism, it's not an attack and of course I emphasize some aspects, but I don't worry about the balance, you emphasize the other way :).
Yep! You are right again. The difference is, most of the facts are in my favor. I didn't take what you said as an attack. I took it as a moronic spouting of leftist liberal talking points. It's the same bullshit spouted by the moonbats on the left in the United States. If the spelling and the grammar were a little bit better (and I excuse that because English is not your native language), you could easily pass for a poster at DU or one of the Koz Kidz. On second thought, some of their spelling and grammar are not too good either. Maybe you are from the DU.
At least you'll agree on that :
Yep!
Peace and Freedom.
Which will only be guaranteed by a strong United States. Think about it.
For Dan S, - I wrote this before I started drinking. It wouldn't have mattered. Fisking moonbats is sumpin' I can do drunk or sober. Now I can get pleasantly drunk knowing my job is completed for today.
To my readers - Pierce sent me an e-mail about Asia. Shuld I have fun with that?
This one is from Rob.
The Cadbury's Candy Co. and Merck Drug Co. have combined to market the new Mint flavored birth control pill that women may take immediately before sex.
The Pill will be distributed by the large major drug store chains and Wal-Mart's Pharmacies.
They're going to be called....
Pre-dick-a-mints.
Remember a while back when one of my adoring fans said, "Here's your sign, SFA©? Well dammit, my sign has gone missing. I couldn't find it anywhere. I sent an e-mail to my buddy Matt, at StarkTruth and I'll be damned if he didn't find the culprit who stole my sign. I'm not a bit surprised as to the identity of the thief. The sign is more appropriate for him than for me anyway. Dontcha agree?
This is the last one.
Take that MF!
From Catfish.
For all those men who say,
"Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free."
Here's an update for you.....
Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage.
Why?
Because women realize its not worth buying an entire Pig,....
Just to get a little sausage.
Ouch!
Evidently it's not just dimwitted celebrities, like Alec Baldwin, who broke their promise to leave America if Bush won the election. It turns out that ordinary liberal voters lied to us as well.
Official statistics reveal that in the six months after George Bush won a second term to the White House, the number of Americans who applied to live permanently in Canada did not, in fact, rise at all: It fell.
Huh! WTF? I thought the liberals said they would leave if Chimpy McBushhitler won. Did they lie?
Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said he'd be happy to accept immigrants from anywhere in the world, but was especially enthused when Internet traffic went up, at least for a while."I was absolutely elated to see the number of hits and then my staff said 'You know what? A hit on the Internet is after all just a hit'," he told Reuters.
Yep! Unless you're a blogger and then you feel real good about increased hits. Go ahead and Photoshop a wedding picture of Helen Thomas and me. I had my best Sunday in the history of this blog. If a Photoshopped picture of Hillary Rodent Clinton and me would give me an extra 300 hits I would be happy. Oh crap! I bet I just gave someone an idea. Go ahead! Hit me with your best shot. It's really hard to insult me. And do it on the weekend from a popular site. That'll help the old site meter.
Toby Condliffe of the Canadian chapter of Democrats Abroad, cracked, "I can only assume the Americans who checked out the Web site subsequently checked out our winter temperatures and further took note that the National Hockey League was being locked out and had second thoughts."
Yep! It gets really cold in Canada and everyone knows that American liberals are pussies.
From Charlieb.
A redneck was stopped by a game warden in Arkansas recently with two ice chests of fish. He was leaving a cove well known for its fishing.
The game warden asked the man, "Do you have a license to catch those fish?"
"Naw, sir, I ain't got none of them thar licenses, no. You must understand these har are my pet fish."
"Pet fish?" said the game warden.
"Yep... Every night I take these har fish down to da lake and let them swim 'round for a while. Then I whistle and they jump rat back into this har ice chest and I take'em home."
"That's a bunch of hooey! Fish can't do that!" says the warden.
The redneck looked at the game warden for a moment and then said, "It's the truth Mr. Government man, I'll show ya. It really works."
"Okay," said the game warden, " I've GOT to see this!"
The redneck poured the fish into the lake and stood and waited. After several minutes, the game warden turned to him and said, "Well?"
"Well, what?" said the redneck.
The warden said, "When are you going to call them back?"
The redneck said, "Call who back?"
"The FISH!" replied the warden.
"What fish?" answered the redneck.
Moral: Not all rednecks are dumb.
My sister asked me to treat these like boobage pics, which this one actually is, so you will have to click continue.
Oooops!
They don't have to be big to be nice.
For Mozilla users who are getting popups Rodger posted the fix. Thanks!
I just love it when I get comments or mail from stupid EUropeans. It just makes my day. Some booger eatin' moh-ron named Pierce commented on this post and to make sure I got the comment, he also e-mailed me. Dude, all comments are automatically e-mailed to me so I get 'em all. Nothing like overkill. That's like wearing a condom when your girlfriend is on the pill, wears an inter-uterine device while using spermacide. I thought Tom Lehrer wrote a song about that, but I cannot find it. Here are the lyrics I remember:
I wore my cushion, my big yellow cushion
And you wore your diaphragm.
There'd be no chance of conception
'cause we had double protection.
That's the kind of guy I am.
Anyway, Pierce took some exception to some of the things I wrote, and in typical EUro-weenie fashion decided to set me straight. His comment has in no way been edited.
u wouldn't have pissed off the rest of the world by economicaly attacking everybody, u would'nt have had these problems.
Listen up dipshit! We have not attacked everyone economically. Did you notice that we are running a trade deficit? That means that we are buying more stuff than we are selling. And just who the fuck do you think rebuilt Europe after WWII? Who protected your sorry asses from the USSR during the Cold War. Thanks a lot you ungrateful sonuvabitch.
USA is the most selfish nation, you pay for that.
Yep! We pay for that with our fabulous wealth. We are the richest country in the world. And what the fuck is this selfish bullshit? We give away more money than any other nation on this planet. And don't give me any of that per capita bullshit. That's only what our gummint pours down into shitholes around the world. Our private charities give away more money to Third World shitholes than most nations. We also provide 25% of the money to fund that dysfunctional America hating organization known as the United Nations. Peddle your "selfish country" bullshit somewhere else. I'm not buying any of that bullshit.
U broke all the rules and deals.
What rules and deals? Kyoto? Yeah, like we really want to cripple our economy. ABM? We want to protect ourself. That little short chubby asshole in Korea, Kim Yuk Foo, is a farking lunatic. He's liable to launch a missile at us. We want to be able to shoot it down. I know you're a fucking coward, but we're not. And talking about deals, howza 'bout Iran violating international agreements by taking diplomats prisoners. The entire world should have been outraged and declared an embargo against them. Thanks for all the help Pierce. Two words: Fuck! You!
U can't neglect international relation-ships without consequences.
That's right. You don't. Good luck when you fuckheads surrender to Islam. Don't bother calling us because we neglect international relationships, just like you booger eatin' moh-rons.
And your wars will increase terrorism, u cannot fight anger with anger.
Nope we'll fight anger with death. We didn't start this war with radical Islam but as long as we don't elect Dimocrats we will, by God, finish it. What's your policy. Appeasemenr? Surrender? That worked real well for the French during WWII didn't it. It did if you're a German. By the way Pierce, which are you? German or French?
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Einstein
Kum by fucking Yah! GMAFB! During history peace has usually been achieved by force. Pax Romana. Our Civil War. WWI. WWII. Do you read any history Pierce? Any at all? Einstein may have been a brilliant scientist but he obviously didn't know much about history. How many Jews were killed by the Germans in WWII? Did peaceful negotiations stop the slaughter? I guess all we had to do was sit around a campfire and sing folk songs with Hitler and he would have stopped the genocide. Pierce, I'm sorry, but you are not just an idiot, but a fucking idiot!
You're the only rich country so violent, with so many deads everyday, you kill each other, and do economic wars and real wars.
Huh? WTF? What is he talking about here? Maybe our insane War on Drugs and our misguided social programs that have turned the inner city into rampant crime areas. Y'know, sumpin' like Europe is experiencing with their unassimilated Muslim populations. I hear there are Muslim suburbs of Paris that the police will not enter.
You still have the capital punishment, and USA is the only country were you find so many religious extremists (christian).
Yep! We have capital punishment and I'm all for it. A dead criminal is someone who won't commit any more crimes. I'd rather have the Christian extremists instead of the Muslim extremists you buttheads have. Muslim extremists have this nasty habit of blowing up in large crowds. And I got news for you boner nose, your problems with the Muslims are only gonna get worse.
You have no idea of tolerance and you always think the easiest way and choose the most violent way.
Tolerance? Tolerance? We go out of the way not to hurt the feelings of Middle Eastern men. Even though all the hijackings over the last few years, including 9/11, were committed by Middle Eastern men, we refuse to profile them for fear of hurting their feelings. Tolerance? Tolerance and political correctness are only gonna get more Americans killed. If this pisses you off kindly notice the mistletoe I have hanging over my ass.
I'm really getting too pissed off to continue. I'm gonna go down to Shepherd and work out. The appalling stupidity of this person is amazing. I wonder if his mother has to dress him in the morning. I'll continue this when I return.
OK. I'm back. Let's see how long it takes before I get pissed off again.
You see, you're not more civilized than the terrorists you fight.
Not long. Let's see, whenever there is a disaster anywhere in the world, which is the first nation to respond? The United States. Remember the tsunami? We gave more aid with the use of our military, gummint spending, and private donations than any other nation in the world. What country saved the free world three times in the 20th Century, WWI, WWII, and the Cold War? The United States. What country rebuilt Europe after WWII? What country is the beacon of freedom? The United States.
What have the terrorists given us? Suicide bombings. Hacking off the heads of innocent people. You have a strange idea of what is civilized behavior buttmunch.
And the most funny thing is : you made and trained them !!
Do you know how tired I am of that old canard? I guess you mean because we supplied arms to the resistance in Afghanistan. We happened to be at war with the USSR at the time. Remember the Cold War? Obviously you don't, you incredibly stupid maroon. You sound just like someone from the Dimocrat Underground.
Einstein also said : "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Don't you remember?
You are providing all of my readers with a fine example of human stupidity and I also fear that yours is infinite.
You payed them, you gave them weapons, and then you made them hate you, how stupid of you, you are the only ones to blame for 9/11, no other rich nation is hated enough to be attacked this way.
Hello? Spain. Great Britain. It was in all the papers.
Maybe it's because there is no other nation as rich as we are. The rest of the world envies us. The envy our riches. They envy our power. They want to be like us. Our unemployment is half that of Germany and France. Our growth rate is twice that of those countries. More people want to move here than want to move to Europe. I wonder why that is? They may hate us, but they sure want to be like us and move here.
All other developped countries try to stop the killing of the planet, of nature, and instead of supporting this, you use it to take one more economic advantage on the rest of the world.
Yep! We want to kill the planet. Die planet, die! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
You are cowards,
This from a EUnich.
to protect nature is a fight that requires balls, it is not like attacking poor weak countries with the most sophisticated weapons existing. To protect nature is very hard.
Fuck nature!
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." still Einstein (you know the european guy)
Yeah. The European guy who moved to America. Funny about that. If he had stayed in Europe he would have died. The Germans had this thing about Jews.
Open your eyes.
They're wide open and what I see ain't too pretty.
Go ahead and surrender to the Islamic nutjobs. You don't understand what they want. They do not want to integrate into western society. They want nothing else but the entire world living under Islam and Islamic law. That means women are second class people. You think United States' capital punishment is bad? They believe in stoning adulterers. They believe in beheadings. They believe in cutting off the hands of thieves. And you have the gall to say we aren't civilized? These are the nutjobs that you are defending. So go ahead and try to appease them. Try to negotiate with them. But don't worry, when they start trying to take over your countries whom are you gonna call? Yep! The good ol' USA. We'll save you and you'll hate us for it. Why? Because we have balls. We don't give up. We don't surrender, unless Dimocrats are running the country.
Posted by Pierce at August 5, 2005 08:24 AM
A real booger eatin' moh-ron!
So I was driving to the mall and this big prick in a truck pulled in front of me.
How many times have you heard commie bastards, socialists Dimocrats chant "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer?" Even tho' the top 1% of income earners, who earn 17% of the income, and pay 34% of the taxes, they still say the evil rich do not pay their fair share. WTF? What should their fair share be? Should we just confiscate all their wealth to fund the great socialist utopia?
What the rich bashers and the envious masses do not realize is that the evil rich are the ones who make the economy go. They create the jobs. They provide the capital for new investment.
And how did the evil rich become the evil rich?
I am currently working on two longwinded boring essays on how to become an SRF©. Yes, I'll tell you all the secrets of acquiring wealth so you too can climb up in an ivory tower and laugh at all the losers.
I'll give you one secret right now. You won't get rich working 40 hours a week. You can become well off, but to be really rich, you have to put in a lot of work.
Do you think that people who own their own businesses work 9:00 to 5:00? Maybe after they get their business firmly established, but when they start out, they have to put in a lot of long hours.
Long time reader Marcel owns his own business and I don't know about now, but I'll bet in his formative years he worked his butt off.
Many of the evil rich didn't start out that way.
For example, take my sister and her husband. My brother-in-law didn't get the luxury of indoor plumbing until he and his father built a house when he was a teenager. He was dirt poor. But, he attended the University of South Carolina and graduated. Education is one of the paths to becoming an evil rich person. He got a job at Delta Airlines and when he retired, he was in management.
My sister and I grew up in a dysfunctional family environment. My father was an alcoholic and his drinking problem caused him to lose jobs. My mother had to go to work when I was very young. My sister and I were latchkey kids before that term was coined. We both started working young. She did a lot of babysitting. I did too. I also cut lawns, raked leaves, cleaned gutters, and shoveled snow. Now I spend my time shoveling bullshit.
My sister, being smarter and more disciplined than I, (not to mention better looking - I really got shortchanged!), won a four year scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis. She then worked 40 years as a computer programmer.
Both she and her husband took advantage of all the savings plans offered by their respective companies. Y'know, things like stock programs and 401-K's.
I flunked out of college, joined the Navy to learn electronics. Went back to college on the GI Bill, but burned out in my junior year. What education I had, plus my electronics background got me a job at IBM. I was in the IBM employee stock program, IBM 401-K program, and I put money in IRA's every year. 31.5 years later, I am an SRF©.
My sister and her husband, and I, continue getting richer every year. Why? Because we have investments that continue to grow every year. All of us reinvest a lot of the money we receive. Compound interest. It is the Eighth Wonder of the World.
We also pay a lot in taxes. It is our taxes that support the bloated gummint. It is our taxes that fund programs for the poor. It is our taxes and our investments that make the economy run.
From lower middle class to SRF©'s in one generation.
Believe it or not I want to see people succeed. I want to see more SRF©'s like me. That is why I get so pissed off at current trends in education.
Let's not correct papers in red ink because red is an angry color and it threatens little Jason and Jennifer. GMAFB! That is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard in my entire life.
Let's not keep score because we sure do not want children to be exposed to failure. WTF? Failure teaches people how to succeed.
Since this blog is about me here's another anecdote. I burned out and dropped out of college in 1972. I started looking for jobs as a service technician since I was an electronics technician in the Navy. At every interview I had to take an aptitude test on electronics and mechanics. I always had the interviewer review the test with me so I knew which questions I missed and the correct answers. Of course, not every company gave the same test, but a lot of the same questions were on every test. By the time I took IBM's test, I took it in half the allotted time and after grading, the interviewer asked if I had the answers in my pocket. I learned from my failures.
And this bullshit about no winners and losers? That's what it is. Bullshit. When you apply for a job you are in a competition with other applicants. The winner gets the job. When you go for a promotion you are competing with others. The winner gets the promotion. Your employer does not give a rat's ass about your self-esteem. He cares about getting the best person for the job and having that person produce.
Bi-lingual education and Ebonics. Arrrrgggghhhh! When you go for a job interview for a high paying job, you better know how to speak standard American English. And if you get a technical job, you better know how to read and write standard American English.
More about me. I was a technical instructor. I needed to write lab projects. I needed to write tests. I needed to put together lesson plans and I needed to speak understandable English.
I was a programmer. I had to write procedures for the instructors I supported. I also needed to write procedures for the operators. These procedures had to be written in understandable English, not Spanish and certainly not Ebonics. The longer we wait to teach someone how to read and write English the less chance that student will have to succeed in the real world. If I move to Italy, my number one priority is to learn Italian.
When I was an instructor, I always told my students that tests were learning devices. If people did poorly on tests that was as much my failure as an instructor as their failure as a student. Y'see, I wrote tests that covered the important concepts of what I was teaching. I didn't teach the test, but I did stress, in class, what was on the test. In reviewing the tests, I was able to reteach stuff and find different ways to present the material in the next class. As a teacher, I was always learning. That's why I enjoyed teaching smart people. I learned more.
As I said earlier, I want people to succeed. It ain't easy. It takes hard work and dedication. It also means failing every now and then and learning from those failures.
Lincoln had a lot of failures before becoming president. So did Truman.
Look how they turned out.
Awesome! Russ Vaughn found my site and sent me another poem. Russ, do you know of a military site that I should add to my blogroll?
Forever Green
Jane Fonda seeks exoneration,
Forgiveness from her traitored nation.
What say you warrors fought that war?
Is forgiveness due that wartime whore?
So rich, so smart, she thought she knew
Much more than us, we bloodied few.
So smug, self-serving, seeking fame,
The rich bitch played her seditious game.
A game that cost me many friends,
Many, thanks to Jane, came to bad ends.
I’ve borne scars forty years or more,
From lies laid on me by this whore.
Self-serving now she sells her tale,
This traitor who should be in jail.
Is it within our souls to grant her grace?
Our souls shout, “No… spit in her face!”
So self assured, she played high stakes,
Telling American prisoners, “That’s the breaks.”
She accused brave men of heinous crimes,
Which were disproved in future times.
And now our country knows the truth
Jane Fonda betrayed us in our youth.
She asks us now to read her book,
Americans, the folks this bitch forsook.
So now she crawls, her conscience bare,
To tell us she screwed up back there.
Well, hell, we knew that way back then,
This Hanoi Jane who helped them win.
It was glory then for this airhead star,
But forever now she’ll bear the scar
A scarlet letter she’ll now wear,
A stench forever in her hair.
So Jane, dear, you must realize,
You’re the devil in a helmet in our eyes.
When Vietnam vets raise up their toasts
It’s to damn your soul, to salute our ghosts.
We swear, we living, to our long-dead brave,
We’ll live to piss upon your grave.
So Jane, good fortune, unforeseen,
Your traitor’s grave will be forever green.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
All the South Koreans have to do is give this technology to North Korea. Let's go wok the dog.
Sorry. Had a bad link. Should work OK now.
Since I actually do support the troops (My nephew served in Iraq.) and the war effort, I've decided to add some military bloggers to the blogroll. The first one is Jennifer who experienced a wardrobe malfunction at work. Plus, she is owned by a cat. Welcome to the blogroll.
To me, one of the highest virtues in life is friendship. As most of my friends know, I would do anything for a friend, and I am lucky enough to have friends that would do the same for me.
I have had friends that have different political beliefs than I do. That does not mean they are less deserving of my friendship.
I have mentioned that I am an atheist. I have had friends that are religious. That means friends that are Christian. I have had friends that are Jewish.
Because we have different political and religious beliefs does not mean that we cannot be friends. Hell, I used to be friends with a bloody socialist.
I try to respect their beliefs and every now and then I may tease them. That works both ways. They tease me.
I have a very thick skin. It really takes a lot to piss me off. This did not piss me off. It cracked me up. I laughed my ass off.
As I have stated in the rules of this site, feel free to insult me, but make the insults creative and amusing. SRF© and SFA© don't really fit the criteria since I consider them compliments. C'mon, hit me with your best shot!
Anyway, these were hurled at me by someone whom I once considered a friend. She threw away sumpin' very valuable, my friendship.
I have a mean streak. You can ask some of my enemies at IBM if you can find them. I defeated or outlasted all of them except one and that was, of course, the CDSM©. I never really enjoyed playing politics, but if it was him (or her) or me, the choice was simple. I chose me and I always came out on top as evidenced by me lasting 31.5 years.
But I have mellowed. I could have done far worse to the person who scorned my friendship. I edited out the more embarrassing parts of her e-mails. I didn't identify her. And, believe it or not, I still like her even though she despises me. I dispensed some fatherly advice to her. I am twenty years older and have a wealth of experience to pass on.
She threw away a very valuable commodity. Pity. It was her loss.
Hillary Clinton is pressing Bush on a sex offender bill.
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling on President Bush to sign legislation that would make a national registry of sex offenders available to the public.
I only have one question: Will Bill Clinton's name be on it?
So here I am a SRF© sitting here in my ivory tower at GOC Central looking down on all the stupid peasants who are not as rich or as smart as I am, and I'm wondering what can I write about tonight. No one has sent me any decent e-mail. Y'know, that was the first decent piece of hate mail I have received in over three years of blogging.
Maybe I could make fun of homeless people. That could get a rise out of people. Maybe I could even get some more hate mail. Hell, I could even get Jeeves, my chauffeur, to fire up the stretch limo and I could go to downtown Atlanta and shout "losers" to all the panhandlers while I was drinking champagne. Yeah. That's the ticket.
Faithful reader Dan S. accused me of hubris the other day. Hubris? Isn't that the shit that always seems to be a characteristic of those dudes in Greek mythology that always leads to their downfall?
hubris - Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance
Yep! That's me. An arrogant SRF©. (Thanks Zonker. It looks like it works with Mozilla.)
Fie on all you peasants! Worship and envy the mighty Grouchy Old Cripple because I have succeeded in winning life's lottery. I did it all with pure dumb luck. It required no effort on my part. Everything was handed to me on a silver platter. I pity the poor because Dick Gephardt said they didn't win life's lottery. It's all one big crapshoot.
I've been planning on writing a post on how to become a SRF© but since it has nothing to do with hard work, dedication, and taking responsibility for one's actions what point would there be in writing it? Go out and buy a lottery ticket. It's all luck after all. That's the ticket. Or better yet, vote for Dimocrats. They'll take the money from us evil rich people, who made all of our money on the backs of the poor, and give it to people more deserving. We SRF©'s don't deserve it. After all, we won life's lottery.
We're arrogant and we suffer from hubris and you know what that means. We're gonna get ours in the end. Just like Achilles. And I think I know what will be the equivalent of getting shot in the heel with an arrow.
Hillary Clinton will win the 2008 election.
Hubris.
I hope he doesn't mind me posting it. I give him full credit.
Jihad Jane
by Russ Vaughn
With a hat tip to Ollie North (I'm kinda partial to the Baghdad Bitch - GOC) (The Ollie North link didn't work. It is fixed now. Thanks to Alli for alerting me to my HTML mistake.)
What a prize to show for her life of toil,
A bus that runs on vegetable oil;
To keep it running will prove no strain,
Run a fuel line from her peanut brain.
As once again she shows us all
How wrong we are and how we’ll fall.
She’ll grant no quarter, cut no slack,
Get her picture taken on a camel’s back.
Jihad Jane will show us once again,
She’s smarter than all the President’s men;
I doubt Sun Tzu could tell us more
Than Jihad Jane when it comes to war;
She’ll save the world, bold Barbarella,
More wily and wise than any Army fella.
While she fancies herself truly Machiavellian
A more apt description is piggy Orwellian.
It’s true Jane could write an encyclopedia
On fooling the drooling mainstream media.
Princes of primetime breathlessly follow;
Sputum she spouts they eagerly swallow.
Trumpet her tripe as trustworthy truth,
Pushing her pap down the throats of our youth.
Reporters will climb right on down in that sewer,
Covering every mile of Jane’s veggie-fueled tour.
While wiser minds wait, holding their breath,
Warily wondering just how much death
All her agitprop antics will incite this time,
And whose lives will be forfeit for one fool’s crime.
In most scripts of life, we become wiser with age;
But this airhead actress cannot get to that page.
So she’ll be well remembered, as well she should,
As the dumbest damned broad in Hollywood.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Infantry
Thanks to Charlieb.
So, Pablo, are they all there? O freaking le!
Ya wanna know more about Murderball? Go here.
I know someone who thought that this was an embarrassment.
Likewise, this.
Crapola! I'll tell you what is an embarrassment. Bill Clinton turning the Oval office into the Oral Office. What's even more embarrassing is that we had the leader of the free world, the most powerful man in the world, and the best he could do was Monica Lewinski? He could get all the pussy he wanted and he settled for a fat airhead giving him blowjobs. Now that's an embarrassment.
I kinda like a prez who tells the LSM (Lamestream Media) (Someone passed up a chance to make some bucks by installing the acronym plugin on my site. I'm too stupid to do it myself.), who hates him, to fuck off. I really loved it when he called Adam Asshole a Clymer. Remember Harry Truman wanted to punch a music critic in the nose for badmouthing his daughter's singing? Bill Clinton said he wanted to punch William Safire in the nose. You believed Truman. Clinton? Yeah. Like that was gonna happen. Bill Clinton is a pussy. I bet he was bullied a lot when he was in high school.
As long as I feel like pissing off liberals and all the losers who are suffering from BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) (Anyone wanna install the acronym thingy for me?) check out this picture I stole from Rodger.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey Harry Reid, bite me! Dear Swimmer, fuck off! Chris Dodd, eat me! Remember Bill Lan Lee? Payback's a bitch isn't it?
And speaking of an embarrassment, we have Jimmah Carter, the worst president of the 20th Century spewing a bunch of shit about Gitmo and how the prison should be shut down. This is the president whose only accomplishment was the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt. We only have to pay them $5 billion a year not to kill each other. If Egypt gets a fundo Muslim gummint, how long do you think the peace will last?
Yeah, Jimmah knows how to deal with Islamic fundos. His smashing success with Iran comes to mind. How long did the Iranians hold our diplomats hostage, in violation of international law? Hello! United Nations? Anyone home? Thanks for all the help. The answer is 444 days. And when were the hostages released? When that cowboy Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. The Iranians knew Jimmah was a helpless wimp. They were afraid of Reagan.
Just like during the 90's. The fundos knew Clinton was a wimp. Bush surprised them.
So, yeah, maybe Bush flipping the bird to the LSM is embarrassing to some people. Not to me. I love it.
Better the bird than a blowjob.
for more on Michael Bolton's appointment go here.
I got a response to my Pity Party post from the person I wrote about. Damned if this doesn't generate another post. I'm not pissed off anymore and I almost sent her e-mail into the trash but I replied to her and answered her questions and gave her some fatherly advice (I am old enough to be her father.) and hoped she could get her life together. Here is one paragraph from her e-mail.
For the record, I don't feel sorry for myself. That incident I told you about..how many times have I ever blogged about it or used it to extract sympathy or get attention? That's right. Never. You, on the other hand, blog endlessly about being a cripple, and how hard you worked and how everyone else is a big loser for not being exactly like you. I need to "get over it"? You need to get over a few issues yourself.
Here's the difference. Upon meeting her, you would not know what happened to her. Upon meeting me, however, you would see me in a wheelchair or on crutches. It would be perfectly obvious to you that there was sumpin' physically wrong with me. Then when you would get to know me better, you would find out that there was sumpin' mentally wrong with me, also.
So, why do I blog about being a cripple? It's because of who I am. My life changed that day I did sumpin' supid that caused me to break my back. I challenged her to find anyhere in my writings where I thought I was a victim. The only thing I am a victim of is my own stupidity and having to work for incompetent managers at IBM. Actions have consequences. I take full responsibility for my actions. I am the captain of my soul.
Do I think I am an inspiration? Hell no! You want inspiration? Go see Murderball or check out Extreme Mike or Bert, Angie and Graham. Alas, Angie no longer dives with us. She is gonna have her first baby in a few more days and will only be parttime at Shepherd.
But I digress. The point I try to make in my posts is the way people use excuses for not succeeding. When I first started work at IBM I worked in the Mattel Office Products Division as a Customer Engineer fixing typewriters and dictation equipment. IBM made the crappiest dictation equipment in the world. One of my fellow CE's was a little incompetent black dude who had to be shifted from office to office (the office I worked in was his third one) and territory to territory because of customer complaints and getting kicked out of too many accounts. His excuse was that everyone was prejudiced against black people. At the same time, all the other black CE's were doing just fine. I took over a territory from one of them and all of his customers thought he walked on water. The only reason this dude stayed employed for so long was because he was black.
He was eventually offered severance pay if he quit. He refused. He was fired and got nothing. He took IBM to court. IBM had documented every customer complaint and every customer letter for the last two years of his employment. They also had his performance reviews. He didn't have a case. He lost. He was the captain of his soul and his ship crashed on the rocks.
So let's talk about me. This blog is about me and about how I'm a cripple and all that. I had a job waiting for me after I rehabbed from my accident. Now I could have used my disability as a crutch (pun intended) but I have too much pride for that. I didn't want to be like that black dude who only kept his job as long as he did because he was black. I didn't want anyone saying that the only reason I had a job was because I was a cripple. And I dare anyone to talk to any of my co-workers to see if that's the truth.
Y'see, I'm just an example. What I try to say in my long winded essays is that hard work equals success. Life is not easy (unless you're Ted Kennedy). Sometimes you are faced with adversity. You can quit or you can overcome it. You are the captain of your soul. How are you gonna steer your ship?
One of the nice things about rehabbing at Shepherd was that they want you to be as independent as you possibly can. Almost everyone has a positive attitude. There were patients who were lazy and there were patients who worked their butts off. Their choice. They were the captains of their souls.
Attitude. It means a lot. And that's what I, sitting in my ivory tower with no comprehension of how disadvantaged people live, like to write about. How to succeed. Hard work. Positive attitude. Keep your eyes on the prize. Be the captain of your soul.
Have you ever read the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley (probably no relation to Don)?
OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow'd.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
You are the captain of your soul. It's up to you.
Here, let me adjust that for you.
Hey! Those are St. Louis Cardinals, my home town team. Go Redbirds!
Just like a freaking liberal. She gets our hopes up and then Bam! she says she was kidding. Now you know one of the reasons I have kept my marriage to her a secret. Damn you Frank J.! Or should I say, guest blogger Brigadier Admiral Jack Balle. If she wasn't so good in the sack I would have divorced her years ago.
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HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED
White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C.
In a column this week headlined "Reporter: Cheney's Not Presidential Material," Eisele quoted Thomas as saying "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar."
Thomas also said: "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does," according to Eisele's column.
But Thomas said yesterday at the White House that her comments to Eisele were for his ears only. "I'll never talk to a reporter again!" Thomas was overheard saying.
"We were just talking -- I was ranting -- and he wrote about it. That isn't right. We all say stuff we don't want printed," Thomas said.
But Eisele said that when he called Thomas, "I assume she knew that we were on the record."
"She's obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item -- until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe," Eisele said.
Still, he noted that reporters aren't that happy when the tables are turned. "Nobody has thinner skin than reporters," Eisele said with a laugh.
Developing...
Yep! That's my Helen. She can dish it out, but she can't take it.
Hat tip:JHM.
These are short, quick, and bad. They all came from Charlieb.
My Resume
My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate.
Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.
After that, I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it, mainly because it was a so-so job.
Next, I tried working in a muffler factory, but that was too exhausting.
Then I tried to be a chef -- figured it would add a little spice too my life, but I just didn't have the thyme.
I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it I couldn't cut the mustard.
My best job was being a musician, but eventually I found I wasn't noteworthy.
I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patience.
Next was a job in a shoe factory; I tried, but I just didn't fit in.
I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income.
I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining.
So then I got a job in a workout center, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.
After many years of trying to find steady work, I finally got a job as a historian, until I realized there was no future in it.
My last job was working at Starbucks, but I had to quit because it was always the same old grind.
SO I RETIRED, [Firestone] AND I FOUND I AM PERFECT FOR THE JOB!
