Sunday - February 20, 2005

Sunday Contest

How many “You Might Be A Redneck If ....” jokes can you find in this picture? I stopped counting at fourteen. Yikes!

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/20/2005 at 01:07 PM   
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BMEWS:  Keeping You On Top Of Tech Advances

I heard about this on a local tech radio show.

It’s supposedly some new way to do searches on the net.

Here’s how they describe it:

A key issue in developing a shape-based retrieval and analysis system is to find a computational representation of shape (a shape descriptor) for which an index can be built, similarity queries can be answered efficiently. We are studying a spectrum of shape descriptors, ranging from ones that are simple to compute (but perhaps not very discriminating) to ones that require expensive computations (but provide sophisticated shape analysis)

For the life of me I do not understand the implications nor application.

Please enlighten me.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/20/2005 at 01:04 PM   
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What Would We Do Without Think Tank Experts?

Sorry to interject a note of seriousness here but when a noted think tank expert sticks his foot in his mouth and gets bushwacked by North Korea it just calls for another round on the house. The excerpt below is from the current issue of The Weekly Standard (subscribers only) ....

Pyongyang’s Joke

He has weird hair, peculiar and sordid personal habits, and his people are enslaved and starving, but credit North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il--at least--with exquisite comic timing.

Last December, the world of East Asia and nuclear nonproliferation policy wonks was briefly abuzz over a Foreign Affairs article on North Korea by Selig S. Harrison. During the 1950s and 1960s, Harrison held a series of important, Asia-based foreign correspondent jobs for outfits like the Associated Press and the Washington Post. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Harrison made an active second career for himself as a think-tank man on Eastern Hemispheric international relations topics. And during the present decade, Harrison has made an active third career for himself frittering away whatever reputation he’s got left from his first two times around.

Which is to say: Selig S. Harrison is to the Korean peninsula what Juan Cole is to the Middle East. He’s the go-to guy if you’re looking for someone, no matter what the specific situation, who’s prepared to say that the Bush administration is screwing everything up--and lying about it, to boot.

That was the point of Harrison’s Foreign Affairs piece, at any rate. The president and his State Department, Harrison argued at multi-thousand-word length, have been “seriously exaggerating the danger that Pyongyang is secretly making uranium-based nuclear weapons.” In fact, it remains highly “unlikely that the country is able at present to build or operate the equipment needed, over a long period, to produce weapons-grade uranium.”

This pronouncement--which implicitly indicted the Clinton administration, too, for “seriously exaggerating” North Korea’s nuclear ambitions--inspired an exhaustive and devastating rebuttal from Mitchell B. Reiss and Robert L. Gallucci (Reiss was until recently the director of policy planning at State; Galluci was the Clinton administration’s top North Korea negotiator). Selig Harrison could not be more wrong, the two men wrote for the forthcoming, March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. The case for North Korea’s atomic weapons threat is “credible” and “dead to rights,” Pyongyang having long since been caught “red handed.”

But Harrison was unrepentant. “If it were as easy as Reiss [and] Galluci . . . argue it is to enrich uranium to weapons grade in quantities sufficient for nuclear weapons,” Harrison sneered--in a reply made public simultaneously with the Reiss/Gallucci essay on February 8--"and if there were indeed credible evidence that North Korea has a program in place for doing so, one would have expected the Bush administration to put forward this evidence.”

Barely 24 hours later, in the wee hours of February 10, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a formal statement confirming that Kim Jong Il’s regime has “manufactured nukes for self-defense.”

Ba-dum-bump.

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/20/2005 at 12:45 PM   
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What More Could I Possibly Say?

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/20/2005 at 10:30 AM   
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Which?  Who?  Part 5

Well, it’s that time again.  You know how to play.  Let’s hear which you’d pick and who she is.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/20/2005 at 09:53 AM   
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Strange Choice Of Words For Story Titles

Anthropologist resigns in “dating disaster.”

So.........was it a date from hell?  And why should we care about the personal lives of anthropologists?

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/20/2005 at 08:44 AM   
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The Hildabeast In The News

Part One:

I have no doubt that over the past few days you’ve heard the Hildabeast was in the news proposing that a new law be passed allowing felons the right to vote.

Now ask yourselves this:  “Why is she doggedly pursuing this (under the guise of voting fairness) but is doing absolutely nothing to protect the rights of military men and women to have their absentee ballots counted?”

The answer should have hit you like a bolt of lightning:  “because felons are, for the most part, democrats!!!!”

People that profess to be Republicans/Conservatives do not go around breaking the law with the frequency that socialists/liberals do.  We tend to think that criminals should STAY in prison not be let out.  Democrats think all criminals can be rehabilitated and should be set free.

So in effect this will give the Dummycraps over 4.5 million possible new voters in the next election.  Are you surprised?  The party of the poor, dispossessed, repressed and oppressed now wants felons to vote which has a ripple effect meaning they’d vote only for people that would make it easier for felons to continue to be felons---people who’d pass laws outlawing guns, people who’d pass laws abolishing the death penalty, etc.

Oh, and did I mention this is an effort to position herself as a compassionate moderate” in preparation for running in ‘08?  Yeah, I thought I’d remind you.

Part Two:

The Hildabeast is in the news again----with John McCain no less! She was in Iraq (every time I read about another bomb attack my heart raced with anticipation, only to be let down every single time) sucking up and getting face time.  She’s “concerned” you know!!!!

Anyway, when I saw she was with that asshole, McCain, all I could think of was “Clinton/McCain in ‘08.  We crossed party lines for a better America!”

Look closely at the picture.  Is this who we want protecting and defending us in ‘08?

Part Three

The Hildabeast is in the news advocating a national holiday on election day. Of course, she does so under the guise election reform, much like her proposal above to allow felons to vote.  And this is supposed to make us like other “civilized” nations (like Iraq) that declare national holidays on election day.  And, of course, the “little people” will eat this up.  Hey, after all, it’s a holiday.  No work!  Fuck the employer!  Let’s stay home and get drunk.

Meanwhile, there is no empirical proof that Americans will go out in any greater numbers to vote.  Hell, they might tend to go in lower numbers as there are so many chores to catch up on and the media will find programming to put on to keep them at home in front of their boob tubes.

Meanwhile American productivity goes down as this means one less work day, possibly two if people “bridge” Monday and Tuesday.  Plus, we all know it takes a bit to gear up for work Monday after a weekend, right?  Now we’ll have to contend with doing that gearing up twice in one week.  More lost productivity!  Now, if she were to propose a change stating that elections would be held on Sundays and then declare a national holiday on that day, I might consider it.  Naturally, then we’d have to deal with the Christian right being all upset as it would interfere with church services because so many churches are used as voting places.  I am sure God would forgive those people for not attending one day out of 104.

Suffice it to say, this bitch is evil.  She does not have the interests of the United States at heart.  She is a conniving c**t interested only in her own self-advancement.

She bears considerable watching.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/20/2005 at 08:24 AM   
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Sixty Years Ago

My Uncle Bibb was there and went ashore into that bloody mess. He was lucky enough to survive and come back home. Those were some tough men. Semper Fi!

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/20/2005 at 04:15 AM   
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No Blood For E.T.

Two years ago, Pravda was up late one night, toking on a doob and snacking on Fritos. The Russian “Newspaper Of Record” was reporting that sometime in the last ten years, the US’s extraterrestrial visitors somehow managed to get off course (by about 12,000 miles) and crash landed in Iraq instead of Roswell. Therefore, the US had to race to invade Iraq to keep Saddam from getting his hands on E.T. This news has just now come to light and probably explains Vladimir Putin’s reluctance to help the US in the invasion. He and Schroeder and Chirac were all sharing the same bong but refused to drop even a dime bag on poor Dubya. Now you know ....

Jack Sarfatti reported that Friday evening, December 6, 2002, someone called the Art Bell radio show, claimed his connection with the military and informed that a UFO crashed in Iraq several years ago. The USA is currently searching for any pretext to invade Iraq. In fact, the USA is motivated by the greatest fear that Saddam will reverse-engineer the crashed alien spacecraft.

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/20/2005 at 02:12 AM   
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Caption This!

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FLASH! TOP STORY!

Vilmar finally got hooked up with broadband today after slogging and blogging for an eternity at 56 Kbps.

In a related story, all porn on the internet suddenly disappeared today, apparently sucked into a massive black hole in Central Florida. Authorities are investigating.

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/20/2005 at 01:32 AM   
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   Saturday - February 19, 2005

Shall We Play A Game?

Hint: “F” is Douglas McArthur.

Posted by 1IDVET     on 02/19/2005 at 09:25 PM   
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In Memoriam

Any friend of Kim Du Toit is a friend of mine. I share the grief of this man’s fellow soldiers and extend my deepest sympathies and prayers to his family. More than that, I know not what to say .... except thank you. To Sgt. Plumondore’s family I can only say I am deeply saddened by the loss of your son. Would that there were many, many more like him. Peace be with you, Sgt. Plumondore. It is indeed a sad day for all of us when we lose a fine young man like you ....

Plumondore, a 2001 graduate of Gresham High School, died Wednesday in Mosul after an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle, according to the Defense Department. Family members said military officials told them he was filling in for another solider during a patrol and probably died because he was in a hatch that left him more exposed than others.

He was assigned to the 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. He had spent most of his time in Iraq in Mosul, patroling with a tight bunch of comrades and working as a sniper.

According to his high school coach, Gary Stautz, “He was extremely likable and fairly quiet until you got to know him, and really hard-working on the field and in the weight room.”

“Plumondore was also extremely patriotic and made it clear that he wanted to join the military. Serving his country was something he was proud of and he wanted to do,” Stautz said.

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More Saturday Chuckles

26 reasons why men may have 2 dogs but never 2 wives

1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.
2. Dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs.
3. If a dog is gorgeous, other dogs don’t hate it.
4. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name.
5. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.
6. A dog’s parents never visit.
7. Dogs do not hate their bodies.
8. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
9. Dogs like to do their snooping outside rather than in your wallet or desk.
10. Dogs seldom outlive you.
11. Dogs can’t talk.
12. You never have to wait for a dog; they’re ready to go 24 hours a day.
13. Dogs find you amusing when you’re drunk.
14. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.
15. Another man will seldom steal your dog.
16. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, “If I died, would you get another dog?”
17. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.
18. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.
19. A dog won’t hold out on you to get a new car.
20. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don’t get mad. They just think it’s interesting.
21. On a car trip, your dog never insists on running the heater.
22. Dogs don’t let magazine articles guide their lives.
23. When your dog gets old, you can have it put to sleep.
24. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pick-up truck.
25. Dogs are not allowed in Bloomingdale’s or Neiman-Marcus.

And, last but not least:

26. If a dog leaves, it won’t take half of your stuff

Hat tip: Gene

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/19/2005 at 12:43 PM   
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