Monday - July 18, 2005

I’m Begging You All

Please don’t ever do this to me at my next birthday. I’ll do anything you say. Just don’t do it. PLEEZE! (may not be SFW)

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2005 at 08:57 AM   
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Here We Go Again

President Bush has barely had time to start on his second term after last Fall’s election before the horses are out of the gate and running for President in 2008. Several governors are in Iowa testing the waters while at an annual conference. I have one question: what would happen to us if you or I slipped away from our job to interview for our next job? Do these politicians ever stop running for office? Why don’t they just do the job we elected them to?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Potential presidential candidates attending the annual National Governors Association meeting are making time to get better acquainted with some of the prominent residents of this early decision state. High atop the list of those to meet was former Republican Gov. Terry Branstad.

“I do know Iowa,” Branstad said. “I’ve run some successful campaigns here, and I’m willing to give advice and counsel.”

Branstad had dinner Friday night with Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. On Saturday, he lunched with New York Gov. George Pataki. Both Republicans are considered possible presidential candidates in 2008 and were eager to learn a little about Iowa from one of the state’s most successful politicians. Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, met with Gordon Fischer, a Des Moines lawyer and former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.

“He said he was definitely exploring it and hoped to come back to Iowa a lot more,” Fischer said.

In the world of presidential politics, a potential candidate sometimes says it all simply by showing up in the state where precinct caucuses launch the White House nominating season. “When you come to Iowa twice in a month, it’s pretty obvious,” Fischer said.

Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack was taking steps of his own, bashing fellow Democrats for not offering a sharp enough alternative to President Bush and congressional Republicans. He said he’ll help gubernatorial candidates craft a “values-oriented message,” and conceded that could raise his national profile if he succeeds. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson arrived late but made time to speak to a group of trial lawyers, a key Democratic constituency.

“I’m going to run for re-election and then take a look at where we are after my election,” Richardson said. “I’m not ruling it in, I’m not ruling it out.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2005 at 07:29 AM   
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The Rewards Of Terrorism

_{Jim Morin, The Miami Herald}

_{Mike Lane, The Baltimore Sun, Maryland}

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2005 at 04:00 AM   
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Caption Contest

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2005 at 02:22 AM   
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The Wrath Of God

The French are in deep trouble now. It seems Pharoah Chirac has even got The Almighty mad. Perhaps he should let the Christians go before it gets worse ....

France faces drought, locusts
Jul. 17, 2005 at 9:41PM

On top of a severe drought, France is fighting a plague of hundreds of thousands of locusts. The locusts are devouring everything from crops to window-box flowers, reported the Observer.

“At the beginning they seem small, insignificant insects but they grow very quickly,” said Aveyron region farmer Gerard Laussel. “They eat everything that is green, leaving only stalks, and when they have finished they leave some kind of scent so the cattle do not want to graze on what is left.”

The French environment ministry said drought could be felt across most of France, but it mostly impacted from the Atlantic Ocean to Paris.

“There is nothing we can do for the 700 or 800 farmers affected,” said Patrice Lemoux, an agriculture official. “The locust has no known predator and the only insecticides which might make a difference are banned.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/18/2005 at 02:06 AM   
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   Sunday - July 17, 2005

What I Did On My Weekend Off

Saturday was spent behind the wheel of the Ol’ Grand Cherokee, with the GPS guiding me and Debussy, Dvorak and Chopin playing on the Sirius satellite radio. I took the grand tour of the midwest farmland, driving all over creation. No camera, nothing but me and some tunes and a dawg named Boo. It was nearly midnight when I got back but it sure felt good to get away from a computer monitor for a whole day. I decided to repeat the therapy on Sunday except I wanted to explore my new adopted city - St. Louis!

I started out just meandering (named after the river Meander in Turkey) all over the place, winding back and forth but edging ever closer to the inner city. I was pleasantly surprised. It seems like every other block is a park with some memorial in the middle. People scattered all over the grass having picnics and enjoying the sun while towering edifices soar to the sky around them. This city is unique in that respect. You can sit in a grassy park with a beautiful fountain and listen to the birds while you gaze across the street at the Hyatt Regency, a medieval structure of rough-cut granite towering up twenty stories or more with real towers and cornices at the corners just like something out of 14th century England.

As you approach the city center, however, one landmark stands out and grows ever larger as you approach. Soaring into the sky is the tribute to the Gateway To The West, Lewis & Clark and all the other pioneers .... the Arch. You have to park and walk through one of the most beautiful parks I have ever seen and walk up to this massive steel tribute to the manifest destiny of the United States Of America. Home of the people who just love to do amazing things then stand back and say to the world, “look what we did!”

I’ll share these pictures with you all in the hope that you’ll be intrigued enough to one day pack up and come visit this beautiful city on the banks of the Mississippi. We’ll leave a light on fer ya ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/17/2005 at 05:30 PM   
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The Plame Game

From Cox & Forkum

Posted by Drew458     on 07/17/2005 at 04:44 AM   
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Tragic Justice

Boy Who Fired Bottle Rockets Into Traffic Killed While Fleeing Angry Driver

SPANAWAY, Wash.—A 12-year-old boy who was firing bottle rockets at cars was chased into traffic Friday by an angry driver and killed by another car, authorities said.

The driver and his passenger, both 22, were arrested for investigation of manslaughter, the Washington State Patrol said.

The death came soon after midnight in this small town south of Tacoma, where the preteen and a 12-year-old cousin had been hiding in bushes while shooting the bottle rockets, trooper Johnny R. Alexander said.

A car stopped, and passenger Tyrone Sherrod got out, chased the cousin and started beating him, Alexander said. The driver, Mario N. Haley, chased the other boy, who ran onto the highway and was struck by a car driven by a 17-year-old girl.

Both men fled, but police found them at homes. Investigators determined the girl was not at fault.

Witnesses unsuccessfully tried to revive the boy struck by the car. His cousin was treated for injuries and released to his parents.

Tragic, to be sure, but I have to ask: What the hell was a 12 year-old doing out a midnight shooting bottle rockets at cars???

Posted by Drew458     on 07/17/2005 at 04:36 AM   
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Imams being told to ‘put a cork in it’

Radical Kuwaiti Imams Drowned Out in Pro-American Protests by Local Worshippers

“The Imam of al-Jabiriyah preached against the Americans and the Worshippers shouted ‘O’ Allah, make America stronger!”

Oh yeah, this is the sort of thing that will turn the tide.

“The Al-Siyasah newspaper has received news that several mosques in Kuwait have begun to exhibit a new phenomenon manifested in the rejection by worshippers of extremist prayers expressed by some of the Imams during their Khutbah [friday prayer].  These prayers included invitations to fight the Americans and to become more hostile towards them.  An example of this [phenomenon] was when Nabil al-Awadi, who is an Imam at one of the mosques in the southern region of Al-Surrah, began preaching against the Americans in his last Friday Khutbah.  As a result, the people at prayer cut off his speech and demanded that he stop talking.  Additionally, the worshippers at the mosque of Aisha Shabib in the Al-Jabiriyah neighborhood shouted, ‘O’ Allah, make Islam and America stronger’ in response to what the Imam of that mosque had said during friday prayer about America and the current war [in Iraq].”

Let’s all hold our breath and wait for this to be reported by the MSM.

(Thanks StinKerr)

Posted by Drew458     on 07/17/2005 at 04:28 AM   
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Slow Day Today

It will be an even slower posting day today as I have to drive 15 teenagers 250 miles to a summer camp. (but the return trip...alone...will be very, very nice)

So go out and smell some roses, go fishing or simply relax and enjoy a summer Sunday.  See you tonight.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/17/2005 at 12:47 AM   
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   Saturday - July 16, 2005

We fart in your general direction

We’re better than the British, says Chirac

President Jacques Chirac celebrated Bastille Day yesterday by insisting that France had no need to “envy or copy” Britain.

Whether the point of comparison was food, health, education or science, France was in far better shape than its old rival, he said.

Uh huh.  Yeah, I think that is the general agreement among all of us here, right?

“I have a lot of esteem for the British people and for Tony Blair,” he said. “But I do not believe that the British social model is a model that we should copy or envy.”

We think everyone should be a cheese-eating surrender monkey.

Someone go over and smack him with a clue-by-four.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/16/2005 at 07:55 AM   
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Miracles

Posted by Drew458     on 07/16/2005 at 07:53 AM   
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Miraculous?

Woman ‘miraculously’ grows a penis

Hlaing Thar Yar, Myanmar - Chicken-seller Thin Sandarin had always dreamt of being a man.

When she inexplicably grew a penis last month, the 21-year-old treated it as an awe-inspiring omen - as have the thousands of stunned villagers who have travelled to a pagoda to see him.

“On the morning of the full moon day of June 21, I noticed my thing (sex organ) was not the same as before,” Thin Sandar, who now goes by the male name Than Sein, said on Wednesday.

“And my breasts disappeared,” Than Sein added. “So I called out and showed it all to my mom and dad. It was very strange.”

Experts have examined him, and he awaits test results from a women’s hospital.

Hillary Clinton was on the next flight to investigate.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/16/2005 at 07:50 AM   
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   Friday - July 15, 2005

Shore Leave

The Captain has decided to take a bit of shore leave.  Blogging may be light for the next few days as I try and fill the shoes of our humble, yet very capable, leader.  If you have any news tips, photos or other bits of blog-fodder, pass them my way and I’ll do my best to get them posted.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/15/2005 at 04:50 PM   
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