Monday - July 04, 2005
Like Fine Wine ….
Like fine wine .. some things just improve with age. Then again, some things couldn’t get much worse. See if you can guess which two lovely BMEWS ladies started out as these two caterpillers before blossoming into butterflies ....
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Permalink • Happy Fourth !
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Permalink • Ship’s Bulletin
Where’s everybody at on this bloody ship this morning? All right, lads! I know ye’re hiding out somewhere. Aha! I see where ye all had a damn good time on the “Spam From Outer Space” thread last night .... not a small part of it at the expense of yours truly. I see we may have to have Captain’s Mast today. Where’s me cat o’ nine-tails ....?
Seaman Stinkerr and Mister Tannenberg are to be bound and blindfolded and brought forward. They are to be keelhauled at eight bells. Tie them under the ship’s figurehead, lads and prepare ........ what’s this? Our ship’s figurehead (a lovely carved lass) actually moved. Aha! It’s that smart tart, Phoenix! Grab her lads and bring her to me. I see we will have to have a little discipline for her too. What say you all? Shall we just strip her naked and run her up the mainmast to blow in the breeze? ........ stop snickering, men! You knew what I meant by “blow”! Avast!
Very well, I will pardon them all in the name of Her Majesty Of Humpdom. I shall now retire to the Captain’s Cabin for the remainder of the day. I have some reading to catch up on. I shall be curled up with ”American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, if anyone’s interested. Our musical entertainment today (since none of the lot of you can appreciate The Ventures) will be the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, as performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting - with Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin on piano and Isaac Stern on violin.
Of course, tonight’s entertainment will consist of the 1812 Overture as performed on PBS’s ”A Capitol Fourth” amid one of the finest fireworks shows in the country. Carry on!
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Permalink • New Kid In Town
Gary Varvel, Indiana—The Indianapolis Star-News
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Permalink • What July Fourth Means To Me
For one who was born and grew up in the small towns of the Midwest, there is a special kind of nostalgia about the Fourth of July.
I remember it as a day almost as long-anticipated as Christmas. This was helped along by the appearance in store windows of all kinds of fireworks and colorful posters advertising them with vivid pictures.
No later than the third of July – sometimes earlier – Dad would bring home what he felt he could afford to see go up in smoke and flame. We’d count and recount the number of firecrackers, display pieces and other things and go to bed determined to be up with the sun so as to offer the first, thunderous notice of the Fourth of July.
I’m afraid we didn’t give too much thought to the meaning of the day. And, yes, there were tragic accidents to mar it, resulting from careless handling of the fireworks. I’m sure we’re better off today with fireworks largely handled by professionals. Yet there was a thrill never to be forgotten in seeing a tin can blown 30 feet in the air by a giant “cracker” – giant meaning it was about 4 inches long.
But enough of nostalgia. Somewhere in our growing up we began to be aware of the meaning of days and with that awareness came the birth of patriotism. July Fourth is the birthday of our nation. I believed as a boy, and believe even more today, that it is the birthday of the greatest nation on earth.
There is a legend about the day of our nation’s birth in the little hall in Philadelphia, a day on which debate had raged for hours. The men gathered there were honorable men hard-pressed by a king who had flouted the very laws they were willing to obey. Even so, to sign the Declaration of Independence was such an irretrievable act that the walls resounded with the words “treason, the gallows, the headsman’s axe,” and the issue remained in doubt.
The legend says that at that point a man rose and spoke. He is described as not a young man, but one who had to summon all his energy for an impassioned plea. He cited the grievances that had brought them to this moment and finally, his voice falling, he said, “They may turn every tree into a gallows, every hole into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die. To the mechanic in the workshop, they will speak hope; to the slave in the mines, freedom. Sign that parchment. Sign if the next moment the noose is around your neck, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the Bible of the rights of man forever.”
He fell back exhausted. The 56 delegates, swept up by his eloquence, rushed forward and signed that document destined to be as immortal as a work of man can be. When they turned to thank him for his timely oratory, he was not to be found, nor could any be found who knew who he was or how he had come in or gone out through the locked and guarded doors.
Well, that is the legend. But we do know for certain that 56 men, a little band so unique we have never seen their like since, had pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Some gave their lives in the war that followed, most gave their fortunes, and all preserved their sacred honor.
What manner of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists, 11 were merchants and tradesmen, and nine were farmers. They were soft-spoken men of means and education; they were not an unwashed rabble. They had achieved security but valued freedom more. Their stories have not been told nearly enough.
John Hart was driven from the side of his desperately ill wife. For more than a year he lived in the forest and in caves before he returned to find his wife dead, his children vanished, his property destroyed. He died of exhaustion and a broken heart.
Carter Braxton of Virginia lost all his ships, sold his home to pay his debts, and died in rags. And so it was with Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Rutledge, Morris, Livingston and Middleton.
Nelson personally urged Washington to fire on his home and destroy it when it became the headquarters for General Cornwallis. Nelson died bankrupt.
But they sired a nation that grew from sea to shining sea. Five million farms, quiet villages, cities that never sleep, 3 million square miles of forest, field, mountain and desert, 227 million people with a pedigree that includes the bloodlines of all the world.
In recent years, however, I’ve come to think of that day as more than just the birthday of a nation.
It also commemorates the only true philosophical revolution in all history.
Oh, there have been revolutions before and since ours. But those revolutions simply exchanged one set of rules for another. Ours was a revolution that changed the very concept of government.
Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people.
We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should.
Happy Fourth of July.
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States
July 4, 1981
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Permalink • Sunday - July 03, 2005
Final Exam
OK, all you American citizens out there. Time to put your money where your mouth is. Here are twenty-five questions that are on the US Citizenship Examination for new immigrants. If you can’t answer at least 60% of them correctly, please pack up your belongings and go back to the country where your ancestors came from. Answers are here ....
- According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become President. Name one of these requirements.
- Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate?
- Who selects the Supreme Court justice?
- How many Supreme Court justice are there?
- Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
- What is the head executive of a state government called?
- What is the head executive of a city government called?
- What holiday was celebrated for the first time by the Americans colonists?
- Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
- When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
- What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?
- What is the national anthem of the United States?
- Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
- Where does freedom of speech come from?
- What is a minimum voting age in the United States?
- Who signs bills into law?
- What is the highest court in the United States?
- Who was the President during the Civil War?
- What did the Emancipation Declaration do?
- What special group advises the President?
- Which President is called the “Father of our country”?
- What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?
- Who helped the Pilgrims in America?
- What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
- What are the 13 original states of the U.S. called?
- Name 3 rights of freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
- Who has the power to declare the war?
- What kind of government does the United States have?
- Which President freed the slaves?
- In what year was the Constitution written?
Note: For ten points extra credit, tell me which four of these questions are boogered up crap inserted by the liberal, historical revisionists at the INS.
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Permalink • Spam From Outer Space
OK, show of hands here, people. How many of you have received at least one or more e-mail phishing scams from some Nigerian government official who needs your help getting millions of dollars out of that country? Let’s see .... 1-2-3-20-50-430-5300- ....... OK, put your hands down. I see nearly everyone out there has gotten this crap from our Nigerian friends.
Now, how many of you can name the only remaining Commie superpower in the world (hint: see post below this one). Great! Now what do you think would happen if these two countries got together ....? Well, in my opinion, we’re all in deep s**t now because the Commies are going to build and launch a satellite for the Nigerian spammers ....
CHINA PRESS: China To Build, Launch Satellite For Nigeria
07-03-05 06:56 AM ESTBEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China Great Wall Industry Corp. will build and launch in orbit at the beginning of 2007 a communication satellite expecially designed for Nigeria, the China Daily reported Sunday.
The satellite, named NIGCOMSAT-I, will make China both a manufacturer and a launcher of satellites for foreign customers, the paper reported, citing Great Wall president Wang Haibo.
China has so far never manufactured a satellite for other countries, the report said.
China Great Wall Industry is the only Chinese company allowed to launch satellites.
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Permalink • Land-Snatch: Chinese Style
Memo from Red China:
You silly Americans whine and cry because your high court says your capitalist-pig government can take your land. Hmph! Your stupid court still says they have to pay you something for your land and you can always hire a scum-sucking capitalist lawyer to hold them off for a while to jack up the price. You whining, sniveling pampered dolts don’t know when you’ve got it good. Now, here in China, we are more efficient at land-snatching. Trust me ....
Sincerely,
Yuan Chu Fat
BEIJING Thousands of farmers in China’s southern Guangdong Province demonstrated against government-backed land-requisition policies, with clashes erupting after the police detained some protesters, a rights group said Sunday.
On Thursday, the first day of the protests, four people were taken into custody by the police after farmers tried to prevent bulldozers from leveling about 670 hectares, or 1,655 acres, of land near the village of Sanshangang, according to the Empowerment and Rights Institute, an independent rights group.
On Saturday, the third consecutive day of protests, demonstrators surrounded the public security bureau in Sanshangang and demanded the release of the farmers who had been arrested, according to Maggie Hou, an official with the rights institute.
The police in Sanshangang declined to comment, saying only that inquiries should be directed to higher officials. Officials in Nanhai county, which administers Sanshangang, also declined to comment.
At least one person, identified as Shao Shuntian, was arrested Saturday after clashes broke out between protesters and law enforcement officers, according to Hou. “Police clubbed her with a baton and began kicking her after she fell down,” Hou said. “She tried to fight back and so they took her away.”
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Permalink • Another Murder In Paradise
Teenage American Girl Stabbed and Killed in Tobago
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A 14-year-old American girl was stabbed and killed in a quiet seaside village on the island of Tobago, police said Saturday. Kitty Nichole Pete was killed late Friday night in the apartment she had been renting with her mother in Charlotteville, a village on the northeastern tip of Tobago, said police inspector Glen Sharpe.
Police were searching for a 22-year-old local man whom the landlord saw leaving the apartment with a knife. The landlord told police he went to the apartment after hearing screams and found Pete’s body on the floor. She had been stabbed in the eye and stomach. Police said they believe the girl had been dating the 22-year-old.
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Permalink • GODZILLA !
Vapor billows from grayish mud that is rising up from the bottom of the ocean near where a 1 kilometer- (3,300-foot) high column of water vapor shot up in the Pacific Ocean, on Sunday July 3, 2005. Japanese coast guard officials said Sunday after an aerial survey that they believe an underwater eruption has caused a 1 kilometer- (3,300-foot) high column of water vapor to shoot up from the Pacific Ocean near Iwo Jima. The location is known as Fukutokuoka-no-ba, an undersea volcano which last erupted in 1986 for three days, Sato said. The coast guard aircraft ended the day’s survey after less than two hours due to safety concerns, but plan to return to the site as early as Monday for further monitoring. The service issued an international warning for vessels, urging them to stay away from the waters.(AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Permalink • Sunday Morning Useless News
- Sir Elton John thinks homosexuals are being “repressed”. Wasn’t that a line in a certain Monty Python movie?
- Live8 harasses G8; complains no one listening. My solution to end poverty: print a giga-mega-bajillion dollar bills and distribute equally to everyone on the planet.
- The NY Times declares Alberto Gonzales possible nomination to SCOTUS is DOA before it arrives. Then again, who reads the NY Times anyway.
- The Iraqi government started withholding income tax on its soldiers last week. “No taxation without insurgence” becomes new Iraqi motto.
- NASA prepares ring-side seats for comet collision. Has it occurred to anyone that stoopid humans smashing big rock in space for no obvious reason might be construed as an act of war by galactic federation?
- The Redneck Olympics are underway in Georgia. Some stories just write themselves ....
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
EAST DUBLIN, Ga. - In his garage, Melvin Davis keeps 230 trophies he’s won racing motorcycles, go-karts and pickup trucks. But he’s best known for a sport that earned him four trophies topped with crushed Bud Lite cans.
“Yeah, looking back on it I’m proud. But when I done it I felt a little silly,” said Davis, 68. “People were going, `There’s the bobbing-for-pigs-feet champion!’”
Bobbing for pig feet, the mudpit belly-flop, the armpit serenade — they’re all part of the Redneck Games, a series of good ole’ympic events for the ain’t-so-athletic celebrating their 10th year in middle Georgia.
Started as a Southern-fried spoof of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with a propane torch lighting a ceremonial barbecue grill, the gag games draw tourists like moths to a backyard bug-zapper.
The mudpit belly-flop judges contestants on their flabby form and sonic splat as they drop gut-first into muddy water, splattering nearby spectators.
The armpit serenade rates children on their musical skills pumping air through a damp hand beneath their underarm. The 12-year-old winner in 2000 squeezed out a recognizable rendition of “Dixie.”
There’s also hubcap hurling — think junkyard discus — and redneck horseshoes, played with toilet seats. The most competitive sport, however, is bobbing for pig feet, where contenders dunk their heads in tubs of water to see how fast they can remove raw pork shanks with their teeth.
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Permalink • Beating The Odds
As you play with firecrackers and other assorted fireworks this weekend in celebration of our nation’s independence, we urge caution. You are flirting with death, whether you know it or not. There will be countless public service messages this weekend attempting to scare you with the dangers of fireworks. Many municipalities have banned fireworks entirely. We sent our crack BMEWS reporting staff out to find out just how dangerous these evil devices really are. We were shocked (5,000 to 1) at the results ....
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Permalink • Saturday - July 02, 2005
NOW Has A COW
Moooooo! The bovine beyatches at the National Organization for Women (NOW) are having a cow over Justice O’Connor’s retirement. They’re marching here, marching there, marching everywhere. It’s udderly ridiculous. They plan to march to DC to make sure President Bush doesn’t nominate any “extremist” judge to replace O’Connor. NOW plans to milk this for all the attention it’s worth .... and that’s no bull ....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The president of the National Organization for Women declared a “state of emergency” for women’s rights and planned a march on the state Capitol as news of Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement reverberated through the group’s annual convention.
NOW president Kim Gandy told about 800 NOW members Friday that women need to send a message that they won’t tolerate “extremist” judges who set back women’s rights.
“This is our time. This is our challenge,” Gandy said as the crowd replied by clapping and chanting, “Hell no, we won’t go” and “We won’t go back.”
The group shifted the agenda for their three-day convention to include a march to the Tennessee Capitol on Saturday to “make sure Senator Frist and all senators are going to hear our voices. We’re going to march on every Capitol in this country,” Gandy said.
Gandy said the group fears “a nominee along the lines of some of the extremist judges that have been put on the appellate court by George Bush.”
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