Friday - May 20, 2005

Giddy Like a Teeny Bopper.

Right now I’m sitting here giggling like school girl.(Okay I AM a school girl but I was thinking of one that could have a mom my age, but I digress)

WHY am I so giddy you wonder?

It’s because I -being a computer illiterate-have ben having problems getting certain things on my blog’s side bar.

Our great Skipper graciously offered to help.

Well our most Benevolent Leader has done some totally cool things to “Twerp".

I just love it!!!!!!

Did I mention that The Skipper is the greatest most wonderfulest leader guy on earth.

It must be because he’s a Cubs fan.

///irrational exuberance OFF.

Posted by Annoying Little Twerp     on 05/20/2005 at 06:21 PM   
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Is it POSSIBLE to Flush the Koran?

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Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 06:06 PM   
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Social Security: Pay As You Go?

Social Security Reform has had thousands of articles in the Nation’s press in the last couple of days, 99.9% of them against President Bush’s Personal Savings Accounts or PSAs.  Dr John Goodman is a Presidential advisor and his thoughts go unreported.  The media, they don’t report and you decide.  BMEWS guest member Tubino suggests that the media is conservative but I suggest here is the only place he can find a pro PSA opinion.

“The underlying problem in the United States and throughout the developed world is reliance on pay-as-you-go finance,” Goodman told the committee. “Every dollar that is collected in payroll taxes is spent. It is spent the very day, the very hour, the very minute it is received. No money is being stashed away in bank vaults. No investments are being made in real assets.”

Goodman noted that in a pay-as-you go system what matters most is cash flow, and that cash flow for elderly entitlements is already a problem, with Social Security and Medicare currently needing a general revenue subsidy of $45 billion to fund benefits.

Goodman further explained that the best alternative to a pay- as-you-go system is a funded system, where worker contributions are saved and invested in personal accounts. “Instead of depending on future generations of taxpayers to pay ever- escalating tax rates, in a funded system each generation pays its own way.”

Posted by Z Woof     on 05/20/2005 at 12:58 PM   
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Co-Ed for Rent

Found this on Wizbang this morning

Advertising (Ad) Space on a Gorgeous Female Body

Get your company’s logo noticed by placing it on a 21- yr old fit and gorgeous female. I get noticed everywhere I go.

I am 5’11” and 135 lbs. I have long brown hair with blond highlights.

This auction is unique because you are not letting just any person wear your advertisement. A savvy business student who knows how to handle publicity and simultaneously promote your product will be respresenting your company all for a cost less than a television commercial. My advertising will be much more effective than any commercial in terms of the fact you can’t fast forward to bypass my presence.

I love capitalism!

Posted by Drew458     on 05/20/2005 at 11:59 AM   
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A Visit To The Beauty Parlor

At Barb’s request, I have just completed a complete makeover of her blog site: Annoying Little Twerp. I added content that she was having trouble with and decided to have some fun with our little mascot. I tinkered with the style sheet, altered a few colors here and there, created a special logo just for her (quel appropos, n’est ce pas?). And as my arch-nemesis John Kerry would say, “Voila!”

Give her a visit and let me (and her) know what you think of the new design. She needs cheering up today since our little buddy is eating a small portion of “crow” over a recent post. I’ve had that dish myself recently and it doesn’t taste too good.

Now, get thee hence ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 11:42 AM   
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Galloway: Theatre Of The Absurd

Get ready for this one, folks. Here is a story from Agence France Presse (AFP), the Frog Press, and later republished in The Pakistani Newspaper that claims .... never mind .... just read it ....

Galloway Says He Smoked Cuban Cigar in US Senate

LONDON, May 19: Maverick British politician George Galloway said Wednesday he broke a US trade sanction by smoking a Cuban cigar in Washington where he clashed with senators over charges he received Iraqi oil kickbacks.

Mr Galloway, who gave a spirited defence Tuesday before a US subcommittee investigating the UN oil-for-food scandal, accused US President George W. Bush and Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair of being the real villains.

“I did a bit of sanctions busting in Washington yesterday, I smoked a Havana cigar just like this one,” the 50-year-old Scotsman told a London rally of his left-wing, anti-war, political party Respect.

“I smoked it inside the Capitol building and I even blew the smoke at the White House,” he shouted above thunderous cheers and applause from hundreds of supporters. “And I think we blew them away, didn’t you?”—AFP

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 09:29 AM   
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Star Wars: Revenge Of The Hackers

You just knew this was coming, didn’t you? The new Star Wars movie opened yesterday in theatres and it has already been posted on the file-sharing networks. Hackers claim this is revenge for having Jar-Jar-Binks foisted off on them in recent episodes. Darth Lucas will not be amused at this. Feel the Force ....

LONDON, England (Reuters)—The final chapter of the Star Wars saga has gone over to the Internet’s dark side.

“Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith” has been leaked onto a major file-sharing network just hours after opening in theaters, at a time when Hollywood is increasingly concerned about online piracy.

At least two copies of the film, which was first shown in theaters in the early hours of Thursday, have been posted to the BitTorrent file-sharing network—a new and increasingly popular technology that allows users to download large video files much more quickly than in the past.

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 06:00 AM   
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Hit Them Where It Hurts

About every hundred years, someone in Congress comes up with a brilliant idea. That time has come. Congressman Henry Hyde (R-IL) has put forth a bill that would tie US dues to the United Nations to UN reforms. In other words, if the UN doesn’t get its act together we’ll withhold our dues. Koffing Anus and his third-world US-bashing buddies can play their oil-for-food games but they won’t be able to do it on our dime. Damn, I like this idea ....

UNITED NATIONS - A U.S. congressional committee has drafted a bill that threatens to withhold tens of millions of dollars in dues from the United Nations unless the world body conducts wide-ranging reforms, possibly setting the stage for a funding battle like the one that plunged the U.N. into financial crisis a decade ago.

The “United Nations Reform Act of 2005” targets a panoply of issues that have troubled critics of the United Nations, particularly Republicans, for years. Among other things, it would seek to cut funding for programs seen as useless and bar human rights violators from serving on U.N. human rights bodies.

The 80-page bill, from Illinois Republican Henry Hyde’s House International Relations Committee, is still in an early form and has only recently been distributed to Democrats, who are likely to oppose several elements. It was sent to a few U.N. officials Thursday night, when a copy was obtained by The Associated Press.

One of the bill’s most controversial proposals will be linking dues to the changes it spells out. The document stipulates that if the reforms are not carried out, Congress will withhold 50 percent of U.S. dues to the U.N. general budget, taking the money from programs it deems inefficient and wasteful.

“No observer, be they passionate supporter or dismissive critic, can pretend that the current structure and operations of the U.N. represent an acceptable standard,” Hyde said in a hearing on U.N. reform before the document was sent to a few U.N. officials.

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 05:49 AM   
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It’s All Extreme

_{John Trever, New Mexico, The Albuquerque Journal}

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 05:34 AM   
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Wacky News You Cannot Use …

• Five Headed calf born in NM!
• Antarctic Ice GROWS!
• New MONKEY FOUND!
• Ghosts Skew better than GOD!
• Torture and Death in Afghanistan!
• ALL the Planet is VIBRATING!
• Saddam in his UNDERWEAR!

...okay, I don’t know how to post an image here. So guess where it’ll be. My bad.

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/20/2005 at 04:21 AM   
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   Thursday - May 19, 2005

OldCatDude Update!

Hello out there…

Didn’t have any real news until today.

Guy is detubed… no IVs....no morphine...(shucks)
Moved to the Rehab unit..

Sitting in a chair trying to be nice to the OT people
who assume patients are clueless.
“Can you put your sockie on?  Argg.
The oldcatman does not need occupational direction.

The PT folks....have him walking with the walker....
The bizarre pain in his upper legs is gone...Yahoo!
Still some muscle uncomfortableness, but they haven’t been used in almost a month.
Stitches are healing well.
Everyone is very optimistic.
Good news all around.

He is having fun with the “order what you want” menu.
As much as he likes to be a hermit, I think he is enjoying all the attention.

No word on when he can escape, but his progress is excellent.
My guess is next Monday or Tuesday.
He spotted a computer in a rec room today...wouldn’t be surprised
if he commandeered it by tomorrow.

Thanks for all your good wishes.

NotSoOldCatDudesSister

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/19/2005 at 09:37 PM   
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Good Grief!

Don’t any of you guys have jobs or anything to occupy your time? My posting crew really got busy today, I see. Stan just went ape-s**t and everybody piled on.

Actually, I’m glad someone took up the slack aboard the USS BMEWS. Your captain had his hands full all day building three major database instances on raw file systems on a terribly underpowered AIX server. If you don’t know .. don’t ask - it was painful, to say the least.

I just now got home and checked the blog and saw all the activity. Amazing. Simply amazing.

Anyway, I’m off to decompress so carry on men (and women). The Skipper is retiring to his cabin for the evening.

Did I mention I have a special surprise for this weekend? I didn’t? Well, shame on me. I have some pictures from last February’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and a contest that was held to allow young ladies to .... ahem .... show their boobies. The ladies got into the spirit of the thing and painted their .... ahem .... breastesses up right nice. This ol’ sea dog got a charge out of the portfolio. Stay tuned ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/19/2005 at 06:33 PM   
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Ponderances …

• 1.  With liberalism the order of the day on U.S. campuses, what is the negative result for students?
• 2.  Is it a myth that there is a wage discrimination between the genders?
• 3.  How has politically correct psychology weakened Americans?
• 4.  Is individual gun ownership a root of political freedom?
• 5.  What do you think is the number one problem in America today and why?

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/19/2005 at 04:18 PM   
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Skipper’s Little Buddy Has Bypass Surgery

Gilligan (AKA Bob Denver) has undergone a quadruple bypass operation. It is a good thing that it didn’t happen on the island, or the professor would have had to build the heart/lung machine out of seaweed and old coconut husks. He could have done it too. Too bad he never figured out how to patch a hole in a boat.

Who would you rather have for a nurse Mary Ann or Ginger? Speaking of operations has anybody got an update on Oldcatman?

Memo To Stan: The 11th Commandment - Thou Shalt Not Use The Skipper’s Image In Vain.

Update: The hands down winner for our favorite Gilligan’s Island nurse is Mary Ann (AKA Dawn Wells.) An excellent choice. If you want to send Gilligan a get well message, visit here.

Posted by Yellow Dog     on 05/19/2005 at 01:22 PM   
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