Thursday - August 18, 2005
Our Roving Reporter In Crawford, TX
It seems we are going to have a BMEWS Official Roving Reporter in Crawford tomorrow. Pay attention, everyone! BeerMeenie has an announcement and would like a few suggestions for signs and/or slogans ....
Skipper, my neighbor and I will be driving to Crawford, TX tomorrow to counter-protest that asshat Sheehan. We’ll be there until Monday to lend our support to our president and to our military’s men and women.
Being such a clever fellow with the words, would you happen to have any catchy, pithy poster slogans?
I have one that I particularly like “I am a veteran - I am a military mom - I am ashamed of Cindy Sheehan” but is it hard-hitting enough?
Would you consider opening a thread asking your members for suggestions?
I will also send you pics of our efforts if you are interested in sharing them with your members.
beermeanie
My favorite idea for poster slogans: “Mrs. Sheehan, Al-Qaeda is holding for you on line 3”, “Cindy, take your message to Fallujah”, “Cindy Sheehan: All-American IDJIT”, “Cindy Sheehan: TRAITOR!”, “Go Home, Cindy! Your fifteen minutes of fame are boring us!”.
Deposit your suggestions in the comments. As usual, wash and rinse your hands after depositing and before leaving ....
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on 08/18/2005 at 03:20 PM
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Permalink • Daily Spam
Just in case you’re not getting enough spam in your e-mail Inbox, I thought I’d start sharing some of mine with you .... strictly as a public service, mind you. 99% of the crap I get is filtered out and stashed in a special folder on the e-mail server. Occasionally I go check it out to see what ridiculous bullshit is out there (before cleaning the spam bin out). Today’s splashy, full-color ad is brought to you by the folks who are afraid you need help getting it up. Remember though, if the ignorant spam causes you to sustain a groan for more than four hours, seek medical help ....
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Permalink • Daily Shootout Report
Today’s courthouse shootout is brought to you by Lumpkin, Georgia ....
LUMPKIN, Ga. (AP) - The police chief, a county deputy and a paramedic were wounded during a shootout in this small town’s courthouse square Thursday and the suspected gunman was killed during an ensuing gunbattle, authorities said. The police chief in a nearby town also was wounded during the pursuit of the suspect.
The most seriously injured was the paramedic, who was shot in the leg after arriving at the scene to help the wounded officers, said John Bankhead, a spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The officers’ injuries were not considered life-threatening. Two people were taken into custody, but it was later determined they were hostages of the gunman. The suspected gunman fired at officers with a semiautomatic pistol and was shot and killed by police, Bankhead said.
The episode stemmed from an argument the gunman had earlier with family members, and the suspect may have opened fire on police as part of a desire to commit suicide by being killed by police, said Bankhead, citing statements from witnesses. The gunfire began about 2 a.m. when officers responded to a report of shots fired outside the Stewart County Courthouse in Lumpkin, a town of about 1,300 people near the Alabama border and 115 miles southwest of Atlanta.
Lumpkin Police Chief Jay Stripling and Stewart County Deputy Clinton Rivers were both shot in the face by a man firing from the courthouse steps, Bankhead said. The suspect then fled the scene. A few hours later, after more than 50 officers and a police helicopter swarmed the area, officers confronted the gunman near the courthouse. Marcus Dwayne Dalton, 26, fired at officers with a 9 mm pistol, striking Plains Police Chief Henry Brown.
Officers returned fire and killed Dalton, Bankhead said.
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Permalink • Most Outrageous Item Of The Day
Are you sitting down? No drinks in your hand? Are you calm and relaxed? OK, get ready for this one. After the recent decision in Kelo vs. New London, in which SCOTUS declared land-snatching to be legal, the city of New London is now declaring that Kelo and others were illegally living on city land and owe back rent ....
(FAIRFIELD COUNTY WEEKLY)—Those who believe in the adage “when it rains, it pours” might take the tale of the plaintiffs in Kelo v. New London as a cue to buy two of every animal and a load of wood from Home Depot. The U.S. Supreme Court recently found that the city’s original seizure of private property was constitutional under the principal of eminent domain, and now New London is claiming that the affected homeowners were living on city land for the duration of the lawsuit and owe back rent. It’s a new definition of chutzpah: Confiscate land and charge back rent for the years the owners fought confiscation.
In some cases, their debt could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moreover, the homeowners are being offered buyouts based on the market rate as it was in 2000 . The hard rains started falling that year, when Matt Dery and his neighbors in Fort Trumbull learned that the city planned to replace their homes with a hotel, a conference center, offices and upscale housing that would complement the adjoining Pfizer Inc. research facility. The city, citing eminent domain, condemned their homes, told them to move and began leveling surrounding houses. Dery and six of his neighbors fought the takeover, but five years later, on June 23, the downpour of misfortune continued as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the city could claim the property for economic development.
Dery owns four buildings on the project site, including his home and the birthplace and lifelong home of his 87-year-old mother, Wilhelmina. Dery plans to make every remaining effort to keep his land, but with few legal options remaining, he’s planning for the worst. And for good reason. It’s reasonable to think that people who purchased property years ago (in some cases, decades ago) would be in a position to cash in, especially since they’re being forced from their homes. But that’s not the case. The New London Development Corp., the semi-public organization hired by the city to facilitate the deal, is offering residents the market rate as it was in 2000, as state law requires. That rate pales in comparison to what the units are now worth, owing largely to the relentless housing bubble that has yet to burst.
“I can’t replace what I have in this market for three times [the 2000 assessment],” says Dery, 48, who works as a home delivery sales manager for the New London Day . He soothes himself with humor: “It’s a lot like what I like to do in the stock market: buy high and sell low.” And there are more storms on the horizon. In June 2004, NLDC sent the seven affected residents a letter indicating that after the completion of the case, the city would expect to receive retroactive “use and occupancy” payments (also known as “rent") from the residents. In the letter, lawyers argued that because the takeover took place in 2000, the residents had been living on city property for nearly five years, and would therefore owe rent for the duration of their stay at the close of the trial. Any money made from tenantssome residents’ only form of incomewould also have to be paid to the city.
With language seemingly lifted straight from The Goonies , NLDC’s lawyers wrote, “We know your clients did not expect to live in city-owned property for free, or rent out that property and pocket the profits, if they ultimately lost the case.” They warned that “this problem will only get worse with the passage of time,” and that the city was prepared to sue for the money if need be. A lawyer for the residents, Scott Bullock, responded to the letter on July 8, 2004, asserting that the NLDC had agreed to forgo rents as part of a pretrial agreement in which the residents in turn agreed to a hastened trial schedule. Bullock called the NLDC’s effort at obtaining back rent “a new low.”
(--thanks to Brian J. fer the tipoff on this one)
Posted by The Skipper
on 08/18/2005 at 08:18 AM
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Permalink • Thursday Morning News Bytes
- French vacations shortened because French economy sucks. In other news, France sucks.
- Hawaii wants to secede from the Union. They figure they’ve ripped off mainland tourists long enough.
- The State Department warned Bill Clinton about Osama Bin Laden in 1996. Slick Willy was too busy with his cigars to be bothered at the time.
- Jews being dragged, kicking and screaming out of Gaza. Say they’ll miss the regular sound of mortars slamming into their houses.
- Iraqis are now paying five cents per gallon for gas in their cars. I repeat, what happened to our oil for blood?
- For $60,000 you can have LBJ’s old Lincoln. One owner, rarely driven, still with original mudflaps.
- In Germany the fish are fighting back. Fishing now declared a dangerous sport thanks to mysterious Killer Bass.
- Inputs from most regular sources: PC,TV, DVD, HDTV, Video game consoles
- Projects a 22″ to 42″ (depending on model) diagonal image that floats above the device
- It is interactive, like a virtual touch screen: a hand or finger can act as a mouse
- 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
BERLIN (Reuters) - A fish caught in an east German lake near the Polish border not only got off the hook but also lured a 46-year-old fisherman to his death, police in the eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt said Tuesday. A police spokeswoman said the fish pulled the fishing rod out of the man’s hands and dragged it about 100 metres away from shore at the Kleinen Pohlitzer lake near Eisenhuettenstadt. The man took off his clothes and swam after the pole.
An eyewitness said the man reached the rod floating on the surface but then suddenly stopped moving. The witness, 54, swam out to help him and pulled the fisherman back to shore, where he was later pronounced dead, police said. “I know it sounds like an incredible story but it really happened,” an Eisenhuettenstadt police spokeswoman said. “It was apparently just an ordinary fish.”
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Permalink • No Agenda Here, No Sir
Mike Lester, Rome News-Tribune, Rome, GA
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 17, 2005
The Funniest Thing Since Laughing Gas
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on 08/17/2005 at 06:06 PM
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Permalink • A Day In The Life
It’s been one of those days. Up to my ass in alligators while I try to drain the swamp. It’s a damned good thing they throw lots of money at me to make me put up with this crap at work. If any of you are thinking about a career in computers, i.e., Information Systems or Information Technology .... RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!
I need a drink and about five hours of nothing but silence. Cable is finally back on at home so I can surf and blog again. Thanks to Frank for filling in today. He done great (he always do). I know many of you have been trying to get in touch with me (my Inbox currently has 632 messages that have stacked up over the last few days). I’m sure there’s some pretty danged good Moonbat stories in there and I’ll get them posted as soon as I can. It may take me a day or two to catch up but I’ll do my best.
In the meantime, help me figure out this deeply philosophical question: Statistically speaking, there absolutely has to be other life-forms out in space. Don’t argue, the numbers say it’s so. Now for the problem - also according to statistics, at any one point in time, a certain percentage of the population on Earth is positively, stark-raving, Barking-Moonbat mad. Now, apply that same statistical percentage to the universe. What are the odds that some Liberal nut-case Frgzlhif creature from the planet Frgzl is out there right now watching us and thinking of ways to “improve” life on Earth? How badly is it gonna hurt when he/she/it finally decides and applies the “solution” on our heads?
Scratch your heads (and/or your butts) and help me figure out if my HMO will cover “Frgzlhif Damage” ....
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.
The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.
“Brain Damage”, Pink Floyd ("Dark Side Of The Moon")
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Permalink • Must Fill Out Requisition Form
Interactive 3D Display: Its Here!
Originally mentioned at Gizmodo as a prototype in 2003, IO2 Technology has just completed the production unit and provided the details behind the revolutionary HelioDisplay which produces interactive 3D dsiplays in thin air (via lasers) from common sources.
The HelioDisplay technology page lists some of its remarkable features:
Although the HelioDisplay uses lasers, the images are not holographic
Possible uses for this product include advertising, entertainment facilities, design prototyping, teleconferencing etc.
Posted by Drew458
on 08/17/2005 at 02:10 PM
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Permalink • The Good Ol’ Days
Steve Kelley, The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Permalink • Apology
Sorry, gang! My power has been flickering off and on as they try to clean up the debris from last weekend. Cable has been going off and on too. I lost internet connection yesterday afternoon and it hadn’t come back on before I left for work this morning. Bear with me ....
Posted by The Skipper
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Permalink • Are You A Playgirl Hunk?
Come on men, do you think you’re up to the standard of the average Playgirl reader?
Good news! You probably are!
Forget waxed chests and rock-hard abs. A new survey finds ladies like their men scruffy, a wee bit chubby - and definitely not a metrosexual.
Playgirl asked 2,000 of its readers what they find sexy in a man and the answers were surprising: 42% said they thought love handles were kind of sexy and 47% approved of chest hair.
“This survey shows that the guy who’s most attractive to our readers is not your average Hollywood hunk,” said Playgirl editrix Jill Sieracki. “It’s the average Joe who came up on top. Women are practical about their choices, and they’re smart.”
Posted by Drew458
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Permalink • Nothing to see here. Move along please.
Iraqi Chemical Stash Uncovered
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13—U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.
Monday’s early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, “some of them quite dangerous by themselves,” a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.
But wait, there were no chemical weapons in Iraq, right? Right? Hello. Is anyone home?
U.S. military photos of the alleged lab showed a bare concrete-walled room scattered with stacks of plastic containers, coiled tubing, hoses and a stand holding a large metal device that looked like a distillery. Black rubber boots lay among the gear.
The suspected chemical weapons lab was the biggest found so far in Iraq, Boylan said. A lab discovered last year in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah contained a how-to book on chemical weapons and an unspecified amount of chemicals.
Chemical weapons are divided into the categories of “persistent” agents, which wreak damage for hours, such as blistering agents or the oily VX nerve agent, and “nonpersistent” ones, which dissipate quickly, such as chlorine gas or sarin nerve gas.
Developing.....
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 16, 2005
I know it’s an Apple, but….
....is it that important?
What started as a sale turned into a mob scene as thousands of people pushed their way through the Richmond International Raceway gates to buy a $50 iBook laptop computer from Henrico County Schools this morning. The school district had only 1,000 of these surplus computers to sell, and Henrico County residents got first dibs.
“An old man in a walker was trampled to the ground. Trampled to the ground… walked all over,” he said.
Dozens more were pushed to the ground as the crowd races through the gates.
A one-year-old baby almost became a victim. Her father pulled her out of her stroller.
Gee whiz folks, it’s just a computer.
Posted by Drew458
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