January 31, 2008
Yep, all them Democrat types are sure responsible for the war in Iraq! Why, if Saddam had only listened to Bill...
With a tip O' The GM Derby to the Assistant Village Idiot
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Eirene.
, Jarman.
, How find people twitter....the Berkeley City Council...voted 8-1 to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines because of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
And it officially encouraged the women's peace group Code Pink to impede the work of the Marines in the city by protesting in front of the station. ...the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting....
This is one time that I agree with the city of Berkeley, but for a different reason. The Marines should leave because the city isn't worthy of protection. But, I'm sure that the city makes liberals proud, because you won't hear any Democratic or liberal leaders condemning these actions.
If the Marines leave, I hope they bring out the last flag.
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Or is that hype from the media to insure that he is?
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January 30, 2008
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With a Tip O' the GM Derby to Chrys (for her humor and her friendship)
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January 28, 2008
I used to cringe when Rush Limbaugh would teasingly call the National Organization of Women (NOW) the NAGs (National Association of Gals). Even though it was funny, my beloved mother was a feminist before Bella Abzug put on her first hat (you youngsters out there will have to ask about that reference). Mom demanded respect for her intellect, for her capabilities and woe be unto the man that didn't give it to her including my dad. Mom once voted for someone dad didn't like and he didn't speak to her for several days. Mom decided to hell with that and quit cooking for him. Dad got the message real quick since his culinary capabilities was pretty much limited to fried egg sandwiches and pouring milk on cereal.
But, this post isn't about mom, it is about the New Yawk Chapter of the NAGS (to use Limbaugh's term). Recently, today in fact, Teddy Kennedy, that bloated bag of gas endorsed Barrak Obama for President. Now, those of you that know me, know that I'm not enamored of any of the Republican's running now that Fred has dropped out, but I'm damn sure not enamored of any of the Democrats especially Shrillary. So, the President of the NEW YAWK chapter got her panties in a knot and released the following:
"Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.Wow, NOW, I'd guess that Prez Marcia Pappas can't tell the difference between "men who know what's best for us" and making a political choice because the WOMAN that they want is a political hack."And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not "this" one). ‘They’ are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women’s money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future or whatever.
"This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who ‘know what’s best for us.’
What is that you say Roper? Shrillary a HACK? You bet your ass I said it, and most "Honest" Democrats are beginning to realize it too. The number of Democrats that are growing fed up with what most Republicans knew in '92 is growing day by day. I don't know who the Democrats will nominate, and it may well be Hillary, but I'm a tellin ya, almost any Republican except Fred who bowed out and Huckabee who is just another Jimmah Carter could beat Hillary. And if you don't believe that, go ahead and nominate the woman.
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, Giles.What a bunch of snotty brats and a spineless headmaster, who should have barred the protestors, suspended trouble-makers, and withdrawn the diplomas of disruptive graduates. We see what we have today from those who took over Dean's offices at colleges in the 1960's, and we can do without another generation like that.
Karl Rove Drops Prep School Speech: "Following protests from students, former presidential adviser Karl Rove has withdrawn as this year's commencement speaker at a prestigious prep school, the school's headmaster said Monday. The choice of Rove as speaker for the June commencement at Choate Rosemary Hall had led some students to plan to walk out of the ceremony."
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If you're a fan of government run socialized medicine, try Britain's on for size.
Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two-years-old.Over the next nine years, he struggled to live a normal life as a young boy — but everything changed when he felt a sudden pop in his right ear while playing a game of pool with friends. He put his finger in his ear and pulled out a tip of a cotton wool bud that had been wedged in his ear since he was a toddler.
"It was just incredible — his hearing returned to normal in an instant," Barten's dad said. I had always suspected Jerome had stuck something in his ear when he was little and that was causing the problem. But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it.
I am amazed they didn't spot something as obvious as a cotton wool bud."
Others aren't amazed, and neither am I.
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(Selections - Emphasis Mine) If passed by a majority of Berkeley voters, a proposed initiative would require military recruiting offices and private military companies in Berkeley to first acquire a special use permit. If the initiative passes, recruitment offices could not be opened within 600 feet of residential districts, public parks, public health clinics, public libraries, schools or churches."In the same way that many communities limit the location of pornographic stores, that's the same way we feel about the military recruiting stations," said PhoeBe sorgen, an initiative proponent and a member of the city's Peace and Justice Commission. "Teenagers that really want to find them will be able to seek them out and find them, but we don't want them in our face."
In addition to making it more difficult for future military recruiting centers to be established, Spring also said she would support action that would remove the current office, which is in her district.
Funny. I thought that the Marines were protecting their youth. Whose side are these people on? Nevermind. After all, this is Berkeley and California. To them, the military and smut peddlers are the same.
And, if the people of Berkeley want protection but don't want it from our military, maybe they should put a giant condom over their town. That's what I would use to cover a bunch of d#&kheads.
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January 26, 2008
Don't ever ask these candidates for some change, or you'll get more than you want.
I'll take three quarters, two dimes, and a nickle--nothing more.
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This Little Pig went to Market
This Little Pig stayed home
This Little Pig had roasted corn
This Little Pig had none
And This Little Pig went weeweewee, all the way home.
So goes the children's rhyme as the dad pulled on each toe and then tickled the foot with the last little piggy. Much to the delight of little children everywhere, if not in the tickling of the foot, then in the anticipation of the d'enouement!
Perhaps more famous is the story of the three little pigs 
and the big bad wolf who huffed and he puffed and he blew down the houses made of straw and sticks of two of the little pigs and was foiled by the stone/brick home of the wise, perhaps older, and better financed third little pig.
Other pigs who have achieved fame and star quality lives include Looney Tunes Porky, and most certainly
Christopher Robbins friend Piglet
and the ubiquitous Piggy Bank.
One of my favorite eateries as a youth visiting my grand parent's in San Antonio was the PigStand, a drive-in, always crowded, always smelling of Bar-B-Qued pork and serving Bar-B-Qued pork sandwiches to die for.
Which brings us to a post by my friend Always on Watch in which she decries the blindsiding of the story of the Three Little Pigs for an award, because it might offend Muslims or Asians (which is Brit-speak for Muslims). Well, golly Molly, what is going on here?
We have the "Human Rights Commission" in Canada investigating a magazine publisher for publishing copies of the Mohammad Cartoons. Remember them, those Danish Drawings that caused riots all over the world because MoHAMmad had been made fun of? And that marvelous Mark Steyn daring to print some phrases that might disturb the little darlin's. One of our favorite commenter's Pat Condell had something to say about that:
Pork products have been pulled from school lunches because Muslims might be offended. Banks have stopped handing out Piggy Banks to children because some Muslim might be offended. Muslims rioted because a teacher allowed a class of Muslim students to choose a name for the class mascot a Teddy Bear and the students chose Mohammad. The rioters wanted her executed for that effrontery.
All of this hoopla will cost a great deal. It will cost you the freedom to say what you want because someone else might take offense at your words. It will cost you the freedom to eat what you want because someone else doesn't eat the same thing. It will cost you the freedom to publish what you want, because someone might take offense reading your publication.
I'm willing to put $20.00 (not much, but all I can afford) up if someone can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that some governmental agency required a school or other publicly funded institution to pull pork from the menu so as not to offend Seventh Day Adventists or Jews who also have religious proscriptions against eating pork.
All this has a price and the price of this constant capitulation to the demands of Islamofascists is the loss of freedom. Whether it be the loss of freedom to say or print something, the loss of freedom to choose what you wish to eat for meals or the loss of freedom to worship as you please. What's that you say? This isn't about freedom of worship? Nonsense, when one freedom goes down the tube, it doesn't take much for the rest of them to slide away also.
And why are we doing this (mostly) to ourselves for not standing up united and saying "Bull Shit!" Is it because the strictures of political correctness and multiculturalism demands it? Is it because at bedrock all cultures are equivalent and we MUST make accommodations for all that come to our various nations? Is it because...
Truth be known, it is strictly and solely because other groups don't riot and demand things that they are not willing to do on their own. When was the last time you saw a Muslim nation demand that Saudi Arabia allow Christian or Jewish worship in Saudi Arabia, let alone the building of a Christian Church or Jewish Temple? When is the last time that you saw a mainstream Muslim organization such as say C.A.I.R. demand that Muslim Imams stop saying vile things about Christians and Jews? When is the last time you saw huge Muslim demonstrations against honor killings or female genital mutilation?
What? You haven't? Imagine that! And yet we are being hounded to make allowances for Muslims, to drop cultural props (piggy banks for Pete's Sake) because someone might be offended. Well, I really don't give a damn if someone is offended by something I hold dear or say, or print, or publish, or think. When a backward culture which essentially hasn't moved forward since the 8th Century can demand allowances solely on the basis of getting upset and rioting can dictate the mores and practices of much more advanced cultures than something is seriously wrong here.
In Canada and in some places in the United States Muslims are demanding the right to institute Shari'a law to deal with Muslim issues. How stupid is that? To subvert the existing laws of a country so that laws based on the ramblings of a 7th century "prophet." And yet, there are actually intellects that wonder if this would be an OK thing for us to do. I submit that it is not. I submit that if I move to another country it is my job, my obligation to assimilate to the extent that I don't smother my own identity. Could I live under German law? Of Course. How about Russian, Mexican, Bolivian, Saudi laws? You bet, as long as that is something I choose to do. But I don't have the right to move to Germany, Russia, Mexico, Bolivia or Saudi Arabia and demand that they change their culture and laws to suit ME! What is it about that concept that the PC'ers and Multi-Culti's don't understand?
Not too many months ago, my beloved and I went on a little mini-vacation to Fredricksburg, Texas where we supped on fine German Cooking, wandered around a town admiring the influence of the German settlers that founded the town. But despite the German flavor of the town, the laws being enforced were American. The allegiance was to Texas and the United States. Police cars were marked Police, not Polizei. In Paris, Texas the language is not French nor are the laws. In Neiderland, Texas the customs are pure Texas, not Dutch. My point, of course, is that we cannot long survive as a people if we give up the right to decide what being part of the people means. Any modern (and I emphasize the word modern) country with fairly liberal immigration policies and practices, regardless of what the "official" policy might be, cannot long stand without assimilation of its immigrants.
The rapid inflow of Muslims into countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France has produced an anti-immigrant backlash in many corners. This is a shame, Canada and the United States were founded on the idea of immigration and assimilation into a new peoples. Indeed, ethnic immigration produced "ghettos" of immigrants for a generation or two. Italians banded together in Little Italy in New York. Germans banded together in places like St. Louis, Mo. and Fredricksburg, Tx. But in each case, the majority of those individuals adopted their new country with a patriotism seldom seen in family's on the scene for years and years and years. Japanese and Italian enlistment into the US Armed Forces in WWII proved a boon both to the republic and its military force, but also helped further the absorption of people into the fabric of America.
And this we are being asked to give up to accommodate a backwards culture that thinks stoning to death is an apt punishment for adultery, that hanging is OK for the crime of being gay. What barbarity this be!
So, in honor of all those who cannot do so because of some fat headed bureaucrat or multi-culti idiot I'll dine on the following:
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January 24, 2008
The discredited hockey stick graph*, aka bull "hockey," in revised, fun picture form. Now, is it clear?
The Hockey Stick Graph - As illustrated by Tim Lambert, Ph.D.
* The "hockey stick" as a term coined for the chart of temperature variation over the last 1,000 years. The chart is relatively flat from the period A.D. 1000 to 1900, indicating that temperatures were relatively stable for this period of time. The flat part forms the stick's "shaft." After 1900, however, temperatures appear to shoot up, forming the hockey stick's "blade." The combination of the two in the chart suggests a recent sharp rise in temperature caused by human activities.
Update: As Jim Hitchcock reminds us, get ready for baseball season!. Baseball comments welcomed.
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January 23, 2008
Somehow, the following observation from Robert Heinlein seems quite apropos.
‘If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for . . but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”
“If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires.”
-------------------------Tom Sartin via instapundit.
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January 21, 2008
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Don'cha just love spam. I mean, the spammers get so creative. In at least 200 British National Lottery Drawings in the last 3 months, I must have won at least 30 Trillion British Pounds Sterling. That, and there are more unscrupulous bankers in the world just dying to share with me the deposits of Sir Mallory Whatever who died, along with his entire family, in an airplane crash in ...
That, and the guy who keeps writing Dear Beloved... and says that my cashiers cheque is about to expire. And, of course, that doesn't hold a candle to the sexpots that were just online and chatted with me but don't remember my name. But the most stupid one of all is the one that came in just a few minutes ago:
Dear Gift Recipient:
Shipping Address Not On File
We are attempting to contact you about a $500 Southwest Gift Card.
Input your email address here so we can retrieve your order. (Note, link disabled)
Thank you,
Barbara Carson
Card Services
Dear Barbara Carson. If you need my email address, how did you manage to send me an email telling me you needed my email address?
Sincerely yours,
Sir Geoffery Chaucer, Director Bank of Burkina Faso and the Chairman of the British National Lottery.
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