Wednesday - July 06, 2005

Fireworks Show

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

Note: I’m not sure whether it’s my evil side or the lasagna I had for supper but I had a wicked dream last night in which President Bush decided to thumb his nose at the Democrats and nominated Karl Rove to the Supreme Court. In my dream, this caused Ted Kennedy to explode, splattering whale blubber all over the Senate chambers, Alec Baldwin finally left the country, Howard Dean screamed so loud that the entire world went deaf for a few days, Nancy Pelosi just melted and John Kerry announced he was moving to France to marry Jacques Chirac. It was a pleasant dream.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/06/2005 at 05:18 AM   
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   Tuesday - July 05, 2005

New Blog Friend

We’ve got a new blog-friend. He runs a blog called ”365 And A Wakep”. Go say hello to Thunder6 and browse the pictures of our troops in Iraq and read the viewpoint of a soldier in the sandbox. I plan to check his blog daily. Go check it out now! What are you waiting for?

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 04:19 PM   
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News Flash !

The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500 man elite fighting unit called the US REDNECK SPECIAL FORCES (USRSF).

These North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee boys will be dropped into Iraq and have been given the following facts about Terrorists:

1. The season opened today.

2. There is no limit.

3. They taste just like chicken.

4. They don’t like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus.

5. They are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

The mess in Iraq should be over IN A WEEK.

(--thanks to Don R.)

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 03:53 PM   
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Weird News Of The Day

What’s a guy to do? You try to help your sister by dressing up like her to take a test at college to help her out. How’s a guy to know his sister’s boobies weren’t really that big ....?

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A young Russian man who dressed in women’s clothes to take an exam for his sister was caught after his oversize bust gave him away, Interfax news agency reported Monday.

The youth’s “unusually prominent female features,” and heavy make-up drew security guards’ attention and they stopped him from taking the test, Yasen Zasursky, dean of Moscow State University’s journalism faculty, told the agency.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 01:42 PM   
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iPod Woody

Do you have an iPod? Do you think it looks dorky as hell with that shiny, white, creme de mentos look? Yeah, I think it sucks too. That’s why I bought an iRiver player to carry around with me (not to mention the fact that the iPod only plays Apple’s proprietary music format files while my iRiver plays damn near anything thanks to its multi-codec interpreter). Anyway, I digress. If you don’t like the snarky dweeb look of the iPod go take a look at what ZapWizard did with his iPod (see below). He shows you how he built his own genuine iPod Woody! (don’t tell any of those dweeby iPod owners but my iRiver has a really cool 3-D holographic image around the display on the front).

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 01:05 PM   
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Government Research Database Opens To Public

Some of the most coveted research on Capitol Hill has long been available only to members of Congress. But now, thanks to a project led by the Center for Democracy and Technology, reports on anything you might be interested in are now accessible to all with a click of a mouse.

The new Web site supplies a searchable database of more than 8000 reports produced by the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, also known as the public-policy “think tank” of Congress, was created in 1914 to provide “nonpartisan, objective analysis and research on all legislative issues.” Congressional members and their staffs utilize this resource to learn more about political issues of interest and to develop legislation.

Go browse around and see what you think. These are the same research reports that Congress and Cabinet members use to make policy decisions. There are extensive reports (all in PDF format) on subjects ranging from the Patriot Act to Illegal Immmigration to the Iraq War to Afghanistan to North Korea. Maybe you can fingure out why our government acts so squirrely at times. I gave up on those rascals a long time ago.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 12:41 PM   
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M Diddy Raps With Her Posse

It’s lunchtime. Take a break and read how the rich criminals are so mistreated. Criminals like Martha Stewart, aka “M Diddy”. Yo Whazzup, M ....?

NEW YORK - Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is “hideous” and that her prosecution was about bringing her down “to scare other people.”

In the interview, Stewart tells Vanity Fair magazine she agrees with those who say her crime — lying about a personal stock sale — is far different from massive corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco.

“Of course that is what it’s all about,” Vanity Fair quotes Stewart as saying. “Bring ‘em down a notch, to scare other people. If Martha can be sent to jail, think hard before you sell that stock.”

Stewart, 63, is serving a five-month term of house arrest at her Bedford, N.Y., estate that followed five months in a West Virginia federal prison. She is scheduled to go free early next month.

“I hate lockdown. It’s hideous,” Stewart tells the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands July 12.

Asked about the electronic monitoring device she must wear on her ankle — she has complained repeatedly that it irritates her skin — Stewart says she knows how to remove it.

“I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off,” she is quoted as saying. “It’s on the Internet. I looked it up.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 12:03 PM   
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US Air Force Takes Out Domestic Enemy

Remember Michael Crook? The brain-damaged idiotarian who ran ForsakeTheTroops.info web site? The nut-case who got sliced and diced by Sean Hannity?

Well, several of our outstanding US Air Force personnel decided enough was enough. Mr. Crook’s web site has been carpet-bombed ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 09:50 AM   
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Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day

A Russian astrologer is suing NASA for “disturbing the alignment of the heavens” with yesterday’s comet-smash ....

MOSCOW - NASA’s mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust — it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer. Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday “ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe,” the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said.

Scientists say the crash did not significantly alter the comet’s orbit around the sun and said the experiment does not pose any danger to Earth. The probe’s comet crash sent up a cloud of debris that scientists hope to examine to learn how the solar system was formed.

Bai is seeking damages totaling $300 million — the approximate equivalent of the mission’s cost — for her “moral sufferings,” Izvestia said, citing her lawyer Alexander Molokhov. She earlier told the paper that the experiment would “deform her horoscope.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 09:40 AM   
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Food Fight

Leave it to the French to start a fight over food ....

(BBC) Tony Blair has refused to be drawn into a diplomatic row after the French president reportedly made insulting remarks about British food. Jacques Chirac joked with German and Russian leaders: “One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad.”

As the G8 summit nears, Mr Blair said: “The G8 is going to focus on really important issues and to be quite honest I’m not going to disparage anybody.”

Mr Chirac also reportedly said Britain had the worst food after Finland. Mr Blair was asked to comment on remarks attributed to President Chirac while he was in Singapore to boost the chances of London being awarded the 2012 Olympics.

He was asked if relations with France would damage London’s bid and the G8 summit in Scotland later this week but the prime minister declined to give a definite answer. “Particularly at this moment I don’t want to get tempted down that path,” Mr Blair said.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 09:31 AM   
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Dump Africa

I have had it with Africa. Ever since the natives threw out their colonial “masters” the entire neighborhood has gone to the dogs. Poverty is rampant as former tribal warlords build little empires and exterminate their rivals with genocide that is unparalleled in world history. Entire countries full of people are being displaced by these petty tyrants who hire gangs of thugs to roam the countryside raping, murdering and destroying everything in their path.

AIDS is running rampant on the continent and millions are dying every year because of unprotected sex, tribal taboos, superstitions and the local government’s complete lack of concern. The people who don’t fall prey to AIDS are dying of deadly viruses like Ebola that are spreading due to lack of any kind of hygiene or sanitation. Again, local governments don’t seem to care.

The West has poured billions of dollars into the continent, the majority of it from the United States and the money is being pissed away by the warlords like Robert Mugabe who spend the money on guns and armaments for their militias instead of food and medicine for their people. In addition to the billions donated to these “nations” in Africa, more billions are borrowed by these countries to finance fancy palaces for the tribal warlords who are now in control.

How far should the West go before we have to just throw in the towel and give it up as a lost cause? They say if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. What do you do if the idiots refuse to learn how to fish and fight among themselves over the fish you’re giving them? In my personal opinion, sooner or later you have to cut your losses and give up. Let them revert all the way back to savagery instead of temporarily holding them halfway between barbarism and civilization. If you don’t, they’ll just keep begging for more handouts while they drain the world’s resources in a vain attempt to help them ....

(BBC) Leaders at the African Union summit in Libya are preparing to release a final declaration expected to appeal for the continent’s debts to be wiped out. They are also likely to call for fairer terms of trade with the West, while stressing their desire for better governance and transparency. The meeting ends a day before the G8 summit of the world’s richest nations.

On Monday, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told other African leaders to “stop begging” for Western charity.

But the final declaration is likely to urge the G8 to end all $350bn of African debt, not just the $40bn planned. The statement will also see a call for Africa to be given two permanent seats on the UN Security Council - although how the two posts will be allocated remains undecided. African Union chairman and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told the 53 delegates the continent was moving from a past of military coups to a future of good governance.

Mr Obasanjo, who will be attending the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, called for “massive” financial help from the West and to expand debt relief for Africa. “This is not the time for a lot of talk but more of a time for serious and concerted action,” he told the gathering in the town of Sirte. The BBC’s Mike Donkin says the meeting in Libya has also been about proving to hopefully committed Western partners that African leaders will honour their side of any future bargain.

Mr Obasanjo’s remarks contrasted with those of Col Gaddafi, who said Africa should refuse all conditional aid and some offers of help from former colonial powers. In a 30-minute speech which received muted applause from African leaders, the Libyan leader said: “We are not beggars at the doorsteps of the rich.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 08:24 AM   
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Russia & China Gang Up On US

Here we go again. Russia and China, along with a group of their “satellite” states in central Asia are demanding a timetable for US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. It seems they’re not too pleased with the US military presence in their sandbox ....

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - An alliance of Russia, China and central Asian nations called for the U.S. and coalition members in
Afghanistan to set a date for withdrawing from member states, reflecting growing unease over America’s regional military presence.

Alliance members Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan both host U.S. bases whose troops are involved in Afghanistan.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, at a summit in the Kazakh capital, said in a declaration that a withdrawal date should be set in light of what it said was a decline of active fighting in Afghanistan.

“We support and will support the international coalition which is carrying out an anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan, and we have taken note of the progress made in the effort to stabilize the situation,” the declaration said.

“As the active military phase in the anti-terror operation in Afghanistan is nearing completion, the SCO would like the coalition’s members to decide on the deadline for the use of the temporary infrastructure and for their military contingents’ presence in those countries,” the declaration continues.

A Kremlin foreign policy adviser, Sergei Prikhodko, said the declaration was not intended as an ultimatum, “but they have to say how much longer they will stay.”

Both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are former Soviet republics that Moscow regards historically as part of its sphere of influence. The Kremlin did not object when those states agreed to host U.S. troops following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

However, the statement appears to reflect growing uneasiness with the U.S. presence and increasing concerns that the United States is encouraging the overthrow of Central Asia’s authoritarian governments.

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Big Trouble In Big China

Trouble is brewing on the other side of the Pacific. China is rapidly growing its economy and building up its military forces to unprecedented levels. Currently, there is a huge trade imbalance between the US and China. They’re selling cheap over here and have frozen their currency at an artificial level that only makes it worse. On top of all that, the Chinese are driving up the price of oil with their drive to industrialize. Did I mention the Chinese are continuing their saber-rattling at Taiwan? Yep, things are getting a little squirrely over there.

Now, they’re attempting to buy US oil companies to help feed their hunger for more of the world’s energy. Congress finally slapped down its hand and said “NO”. The Red Chinese aren’t taking it too calmly. This could be big trouble brewing while our military forces have their hands full in the Middle East ....

SHANGHAI, July 4—The Chinese government on Monday sharply criticized the United States for threatening to erect barriers aimed at preventing the attempted takeover of the American oil company Unocal Corp. by one of China’s three largest energy firms, CNOOC Ltd.

Four days after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging the Bush administration to block the proposed transaction as a threat to national security, China’s Foreign Ministry excoriated Congress for injecting politics into what it characterized as a standard business matter.

“We demand that the U.S. Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicizing economic and trade issues and stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges between enterprises of the two countries,” the Foreign Ministry said in a written statement. “CNOOC’s bid to take over the U.S. Unocal company is a normal commercial activity between enterprises and should not fall victim to political interference. The development of economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States conforms to the interests of both sides.”

Those words, the latest rhetorical volley in an escalating trade battle, officially elevated the takeover battle for Unocal into a bilateral issue involving Washington and Beijing, raising the stakes of the outcome.

CNOOC’s bid comes as China’s emerging force in the global economy continues to sow international tensions over competition for natural resources, impacts on the environment, trade balances and security relationships. The deal would be the latest in a string of Chinese purchases of foreign companies as Beijing encourages domestic firms to seek new markets abroad and secure raw materials for China’s aggressive industrialization. The Chinese government has urged energy companies in particular to buy foreign oil fields as China’s consumption soars, deepening worries about the country’s access to supplies.

Already, CNOOC’s bid has taken China across a new threshold: It has unleashed the first takeover battle between a Chinese company and a U.S. firm, the oil giant Chevron Corp., which has its own deal to buy Unocal, for $16.5 billion. If completed, CNOOC’s purchase—its bid is for $18.5 billion—would be the largest foreign takeover ever made by a Chinese firm.

But as the price of oil continues to soar, underscoring the finite supply of global stocks, some members of Congress portray China’s appetite for energy as a threat to U.S. interests. They are painting CNOOC’s effort to buy Unocal as an attempt to siphon off oil that would otherwise land in the United States, a proposition that analysts call dubious because most of Unocal’s outstanding contracts supply customers in Asia.

As the House adopted its resolution Thursday by a 398 to 15 vote, some noted that CNOOC remains under the majority control of the Communist Party-led state, suggesting that this alone made the deal a threat.

“We cannot, in my opinion, afford to have a major U.S. energy supplier controlled by the Communist Chinese,” said Rep. William J. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat. Monday’s reply from Beijing reinforced what CNOOC has said from the beginning—that the deal is nothing more than an attempt to expand its business opportunities and invest capital sensibly.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 05:47 AM   
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The Enemy Within

_{Eric Allie, Chicago, IL}

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/05/2005 at 05:38 AM   
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