March 31, 2008

One of My Favorites

There are a number of exciting places on the web today, but one of my favorites and one I check daily is Fausta's blog.  I've been a fan of hers since the old days of the BAD HAIR Blog and it is every bit as enticing today as it was then. 

Coming home from work today it was my intent to link to her weekly Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean, but there is much more up.  Of course, if you want to know what is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean there is no better place to go on the net.  Fausta links like crazy and gives you anything worth knowing about that area of the world from the craziness of Hugo Chavez to the funding of FARC via Iran and Venezuela.

Also included is the possibility that the ruling party in Turkey, a decidedly Islamic party might be ruled ILLEGAL.  Now, wouldn't that be interesting for all of us anti-islamists.

Lastly, she declares the Bush attempts to force a Palistinian/Israeli peace to be, are you ready for this, INSANE, and as a supporter of Israel, I can't say I disagree with her.  Read it and see if you don't agree too.

Thanks Fausta, you ALWAYS make my day!!!!

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March 30, 2008

Hillary Finally Releases Tax Return

Giving in to pressure, Hillary Clinton has released the last personal income tax return for her and her husband.  LINK - Clinton Tax Return

That explains everything.

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Baseball Opening Day - Play Ball!

Opening day is here for major league baseball.  The Braves will play the Nationals tonight to christen the new Nationals Park, and President Bush will throw out the first pitch.  Game time is 8:05 PM EDT and will be televised by ESPN.

I'll be at the Braves home opener on Monday night.  It's invigorating to walk into the ballpark for the first time each year and take in the smells, sights, and sounds of a new season.  And, "people will come." 

Ray, people will come Ray. ...And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

A few days ago, the Red Sox and A's split a two game series to open their seasons, but since they played in Tokyo, it shouldn't count.

Last night in an exhibition game, the Red Sox and Dodgers played at the L.A. Coliseum to a record crowd of 115,300 fans.  Creating a baseball field in a football stadium is difficult, and you know that the configuration is strange when the shortstop covers left field and center fielder Andruw Jones takes a throw at second base to tag out a stealing base runner.

The Library of Congress has a new section titled Historic Baseball Resources, with a lot of interesting information and images of the game.  It's hard to stop going through the site once you start. 

Feel free to comment on your teams and the season and to provide your favorite baseball stories and links.  Besides the above link to the Library of Congress, here's another one to start:  Fire Joe Morgan

Let's play ball.

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This Post Is NOT Safe For Children or Work!!!

There is this dude called Mookie al-Sadsack, whoops, silly me, his name is Muqtada al-Sadr who runs something called the Mahdi Army.  Well, when he's not hiding in Iran he's running it.  Well, maybe not running it, but he started it. 

He's a dimwitted looking dude too with really bad teeth, kinda reminds me of a bully I once knew but with whiskers.

At any rate, Mookie as he is known to the terrorist set has a really bad case of body odor, perhaps it emanates from his teethies, perhaps because he doesn't bathe very often, or perhaps because I'm lying and he smells like linen dried in sunshine.  At any rate, there have been several occasions when Mookie has attempted to influence the government of Iraq and made a really bad show of it.  Once, he thought he had enough strength to take on the American Military and the burgeoning Iraqi Military but got his ass kicked and ended up telling his "army" to stand down and he fled to Iran. 

More recently, he declared a moratorium on fighting (mostly so his dudes and dudettes wouldn't get their asses kicked so bad but now the moratorium seems to be about up and the so called penis worshiping Mahdi Army is trying to take over again in Basra and other localities.

Penis worshiping you say?

more...

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Carnival of the Insanities

Dr. Sanity has her weekly carnival up and what a doozy it is.  Drop by and read ALL of the links.  After all, there is no reason you shouldn't share in the insanity of the left and their fellow travelers.

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March 29, 2008

Fitna

Take 15 minutes to watch this short film.

Warning:  Graphic sceanes of violence.

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March 28, 2008

Al Sadr's Army Fighting Iraqi Army

What, Me Worry?...  Alfred E. al-Sadr!

 

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March 27, 2008

Hillary Told The Truth

H/T to CH

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March 25, 2008

I Misspoke

In May of last year, I announced on this site that I was running for president: 

T he time has come the GM said,
To talk of many things!
Of Congressmen, and Senators; of Governors and Kings!
And why current candidates ain’t so hot,
and whose candidacy has wings;
Of GM's run for President and other Silly Things!
And to be honest, no one seems to give a damn!  Oh sure, lots of people [lots... you gotta be kidding... only 10...--ed. --ahhh, shuddup] wanted to be in my cabinet, but no one set up funding mechanism, no one contributed a dime and then I realized - -  don't have a solid resume that I can lie about.

So, let me tell you why I'm executive material:  You see, it's like this, in 1970 I entered the army and was headed for Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.  I finished my tour and was shipped overseas to Vietnam where in no time flat, I was assigned to clean out a vipers nest of Viet Cong and NVA in the Central Highlands.  In fact, it was the same area that my dad was assigned to when he was a Lt. Col. in 1961-62.  When I arrived, the fire base that I would call home for the next 24 months (I extended my tour) was under attack by the combined forces of two battalions of V.C. and 4 of the NVA.  Our Helicopter was hit in the tail rotor and we spiraled down into a hard landing.  I jumped out of the bird and immediately picked up an M-60 and began blasting away at the enemy.  No time for any greeting parties in that hot zone. 

As I was saying, with my overheated M-60 and several thousand rounds of ammo in belts around my torso, I marched forward against the enemy.  The motto of the Infantry School is "Follow Me!" and so the defenders of the fire base did.  We marched into hell killing thousands of VC and NVA in the process. 

Just as we thought that the battle was won and just as I shot the last round of ammunition and killed the last VC, a grenade was tossed by a dieing NVA Major.  I saw that the Grenade was going to kill a FNG private who was on the copter with me so I jumped on the grenade and smothered the blast with my body.  I was killed immediately and awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

Oh-oh, I just re-read the above, I must have been exhausted from typing and misspoke, I actually spent my entire Army career at Fort Polk, La. and Fort Benning, Ga. and never left the country.  But if Hillary can misspoke and Obama can misspoke, Hell you won't mind a little embellishment from me will you?  Nah, I didn't think so.

UPDATE:  Hey Hillary, Misspeaking involves something like calling someone George instead of Greg.  It does NOT involve making up a tale out of whole cloth!

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If Gov. Richardson is Judas, then Hillary must be...?

It just stands to reason.

No Carville Apology for Judas Remark:  Hillary Rodham Clinton adviser James Carville is refusing to apologize for comparing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to Judas (for endorsing Obama rather than Clinton.)   ..."Mr. Richardson's endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out (Jesus) for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic," he said.

If Gov. Richardson is compared to Judas, then Hillary Cliinton must be...Christ-like?  Maybe so.  She forgives adulterers and believes she will rise from the dead.

Authored by Woody

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March 24, 2008

U.S. Building Border Fence!

The U.S. is finally loosening the purse strings and building a border fence!  But, don't get excited.  It's not the one that Congress authorized last year.

US To Help Build Border Fence

Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - The United States has announced that it is planning to help Egypt build a border fence along the Gaza-Egypt border. Washington transferred $23 million worth of special aid....  The American Army Corps of Engineers plans to send teams to Egypt to help push forward the border fence plans.

There's no mention as to where our government learned anything about building a border fence, as they haven't had much practice between the U.S. and Mexico.  Do you suppose that our politicians figure that it's okay to build a border fence and that it will work as long as the blocked illegal immigrants aren't potential voters?

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Fausta's Latin American and Carib Carnival

I woke up this morning bright eyed and bushy tailed (doesn't that present an interesting mental picture).  I thought to my self "Self, lets go to the blog and highlight Fausta's Latin American carnival.  This will be one of the first to highlight it this week."

Well, lo and behold, I'm so early,I even beat Fausta.  So, perhaps she is getting some beauty rest, though surely she doesn't need even a minutes beauty rest.  Perhaps she is lingering over coffee, or Maybe shoveling snow off the sidewalk.

At any rate, for some really good reading, Fausta can't be beat

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March 23, 2008

Happy Easter

 

From G.M. and Woody

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March 22, 2008

Since The DIM-O-Crats Came to Power: Truth AND Consequences!

It has been a little over 14 months since the Democrats took over both houses of congress; the Senate AND the House of Representatives.  They also want to take over the White House so, before you pull that lever for Hillary or Obama in November, take a look at what it has cost YOU since then.

Here are some of the outcomes of them being in control.

Up:

* Gasoline up from $2.19 to $3.35 or 53%
* Unemployment up from 4.5% to 5% or 11.1%
* National dept per ca pita was $27,677 then and now $31,551 or 14% higher.
* Congressional pay increase.


Down:

* Consumer confidence at multiple year lows.
* Equity value of mutual funds down $2.3 trillion.
* Home equity values down $1.2 trillion                                                                              * Congress's approval rating at all time low (even lower than BUSH's)

If you add together the loss of equity value of mutual funds AND the loss of home equity values the total figure is approximately six (6) times the cost of the Iraq war for 5 years. 

Bears thinking on doesn't it?

And a Tip O' The GM Derby to Greg at Rhymes with Right

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March 21, 2008

Global Warming Tax Gets Cold Shoulder

To a Democratic proposal to raise gasoline taxes by 50¢ a gallon to save the Earth, Americans respond.

Americans Cool to Global Warming Action, New Poll Finds

Forty-eight percent of Americans are unwilling to spend even a penny more in gasoline taxes to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new nationwide survey released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research.  Opposition grew once respondents were informed that eliminating passenger cars in the United States altogether would only reduce world emissions by a fraction.

What a difference it makes once those being polled on global warming are honestly informed. 

Authored by Woody

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