Friday - October 07, 2005

Guest Post

Note From The Skipper: That poor tired “Chipper” dog really needs a nautical hat, OCM.

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Overcome By Events

As some of you may have noticed, posting has been light the past two days. I have a bad case of “Dragon Ass”, as in my butt is draggin’ the ground. I’m in the third week of a major reorganization effort at the office and that translates to sixteen hour days of one crisis after another. Frank just went through one of those periods last week and is off in the woods camping this week to recuperate. Mark (Ronnie’s Ghost) is incommunicado on a Top Secret project for the government in West Virginia (I could tell you more but I’d have to shoot you, according to him).

All this means is I’ve had to hit the blog and post just when I can catch a spare minute or two. You folks have done an admirable job of entertaining yourselves with the minimal material I’ve dug up for you. Especially Oink, bless his dear little piggy heart. I’ll try to do better this weekend and next week but don’t be surprised if things slow down for a few days or so. It’s crunch time but this too shall pass. Times like these are why companies throw such obscene salaries at IT staff. Otherwise they’d never be able to convince anyone in their right mind to put up with this much bullshit on two to four hours of sleep a night.

I’ve also fallen behind in answering a lot of e-mails again. Be patient. I’m working on catching up. I’m reading and replying as fast as I can. For those who have requested help or assistance with one thing or another, I’m doing my best to get back to you all. Stay tuned ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/07/2005 at 02:14 PM   
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Unforgettable

_{Dick Wright, The Columbus Dispatch, OH}

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/07/2005 at 01:49 AM   
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Balls!

I’m ordering a pair of these for every Republican in Washington. The way they keep caving in to every rabid Democrat request, they obviously need a pair ...

Pooch Neuticles Top Ig Nobels
BOSTON (AP)

Gregg Miller mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to mass produce his invention—prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs. What started 10 years ago with an experiment on an unwitting Rottweiler named Max has turned into a thriving mail-order business. And on Thursday night Miller’s efforts earned him a dubious yet strangely coveted honor: the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

“Considering my parents thought I was an idiot when I was a kid, this is a great honor,” he said. “I wish they were alive to see it.” The Ig Nobels, given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research magazine, celebrate the humorous, creative and odd side of science.

Miller has sold more than 150,000 of his Neuticles, more than doubling his $500,000 investment. The silicone implants come in different sizes, shapes, weights and degrees of firmness.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/07/2005 at 01:33 AM   
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   Thursday - October 06, 2005

Gore Bores More

Here is the text of former Vice President Al Gore’s remarks at the We Media conference on Wednesday in New York:

Text of Gore Speech at Media Conference
NEW YORK (AP)

I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse . I know that I am not the only one who feels that something has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America’s fabled “marketplace of ideas” now functions. How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it’s almost as if America has entered “an alternate universe”?

I thought maybe it was an aberration when three-quarters of Americans said they believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for attacking us on September 11, 2001. But more than four years later, between a third and a half still believe Saddam was personally responsible for planning and supporting the attack ....

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And yet, as we meet here this morning, more than 40 years have passed since the majority of Americans received their news and information from the printed word. Newspapers are hemorrhaging readers and, for the most part, resisting the temptation to inflate their circulation numbers. Reading itself is in sharp decline, not only in our country but in most of the world. The Republic of Letters has been invaded and occupied by television.

Radio, the internet, movies, telephones, and other media all now vie for our attention - but it is television that still completely dominates the flow of information in modern America. In fact, according to an authoritative global study, Americans now watch television an average of four hours and 28 minutes every day—90 minutes more than the world average ....

OH, FORGET IT! THE NO DOZ AIN’T WORKING! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/06/2005 at 04:58 PM   
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Bloggers Win One

Courts rule bloggers can remain anonymous and ISP’s cannot be forced to reveal their identity. That could be good or it could be bad, in my opinion. I’m afraid there are already too many bloggers out there pretending to be 20-year-old hot chicks when actually they’re 50-year-old fat SOB’s with a beer gut and an attitude. Are you listening, Wonkette, you sleazy, ignorant beeyatch ....!?!

Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger
DOVER, Del. (AP)

In a decision hailed by free-speech advocates, the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower court decision requiring an Internet service provider to disclose the identity of an anonymous blogger who targeted a local elected official. In a 34-page opinion, the justices said a Superior Court judge should have required Smyrna town councilman Patrick Cahill to make a stronger case that he and his wife, Julia, had been defamed before ordering Comcast Cable Communications to disclose the identities of four anonymous posters to a blog site operated by Independent Newspapers Inc., publisher of the Delaware State News.

In a series of obscenity-laced tirades, the bloggers, among other things, pointed to Cahill’s “obvious mental deterioration,” and made several sexual references about him and his wife, including using the name “Gahill” to suggest that Cahill, who has publicly feuded with Smyrna Mayor Mark Schaeffer, is homosexual. In June, the lower court judge ruled that the Cahills had established a “good faith basis” for contending that they were victims of defamation and affirmed a previous order for Comcast to disclose the bloggers’ identities.

One of the bloggers, referred to in court papers only as John Doe No. 1 and his blog name, “Proud Citizen,” challenged the ruling, arguing that the Cahills should have been required to establish a prima facie case of defamation before seeking disclosure of the defendants’ identities. The Supreme Court agreed, reversing and remanding the case to Superior Court with an order to dismiss the Cahills’ claims. “Because the trial judge applied a standard insufficiently protective of Doe’s First Amendment right to speak anonymously, we reverse that judgment,” Chief Justice Myron Steele wrote.

Steele described the Internet as a “unique democratizing medium unlike anything that has come before,” and said anonymous speech in blogs and chat rooms in some instances can become the modern equivalent of political pamphleteering. Accordingly, a plaintiff claiming defamation should be required to provide sufficient evidence to overcome a defendant’s motion for summary judgment before a court orders the disclosure of a blogger’s identity.

“We are concerned that setting the standard too low will chill potential posters from exercising their First Amendment right to speak anonymously,” Steele wrote. “The possibility of losing anonymity in a future lawsuit could intimidate anonymous posters into self-censoring their comments or simply not commenting at all.” The standard adopted by the court, the first state Supreme Court in the country to consider the issue, is based on a 2000 New Jersey court ruling.

Under the standard adopted by the Supreme Court, a plaintiff must first try to notify the anonymous poster that he is the subject of subpoena or request for a court to disclose his identity, allowing the poster time to oppose the request. The plaintiff would then have to provide prima facie evidence of defamation strong enough to overcome a summary judgment motion. “The decision of the Supreme Court helps provide protection for anonymous bloggers and anonymous speakers in general from lawsuits which have little or no merit and are filed solely to intimidate the speaker or suppress the speech,” said David Finger, a Wilmington attorney representing John Doe No. 1.

“Delaware cases are generally respected in other states, and we’ll have to see if this trend continues with these types of lawsuits, but I expect the decision of the Delaware Supreme Court to be influential,” Finger added. Robert Katzenstein, a lawyer representing the Cahills, did not immediately return a telephone message left at his home. “This is the first state Supreme Court to squarely decide the standards to govern John Doe subpoena cases,” said Paul Alan Levy, an attorney for Public Citizen, a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, who helped argue the case for John Doe No. 1. “The court’s determination to require sufficient evidence before a critic is outed will go a long way toward reassuring citizens that they remain free to anonymously criticize public officials.”

Steele noted in his opinion that plaintiffs in such cases can use the Internet to respond to character attacks and “generally set the record straight,” and that, as in Cahill’s case, blogs and chatrooms tend to be vehicles for people to express opinions, not facts. “Given the context, no reasonable person could have interpreted these statements as being anything other than opinion. ... The statements are, therefore, incapable of a defamatory meaning,” he wrote.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/06/2005 at 04:48 PM   
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Rally The Base

_{Doug Marlette, The Tallahassee Democrat, FL}

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Home Alone

The Angry Left has used up Cindy Sheehan’s fifteen minutes of fame so now she is quietly going home to sit by the fireside and treasure the moments of fame and notoriety she has pasted in her family album. Somewhere in there is an autographed picture from Osama bin Laden ...

‘Peace Mom’ Cindy Sheehan Returns Home
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan, after wrapping up her tour of the country, returned home Wednesday to northern California where she plans to continue her protest of the Iraq war. The mother who staged a 26-day vigil in front of President Bush’s Texas ranch this summer received a hero’s welcome from a hometown crowd attending a fundraiser for anti-war groups.

“I’ll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son,” said Sheehan, making her first public appearance in the liberal San Francisco Bay area since the August vigil. “I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.” Sheehan’s 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, died in April 2004 in Iraq.

She has spent much of the time since speaking out against the war. After the monthlong vigil in Texas, she traveled the U.S. and also met with politicians, including Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-North Carolina. Last week, she was arrested with more than 350 other people after a protest outside the White House.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/06/2005 at 12:34 AM   
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Poll Results

Sorry Mr. President, but our readers here voted and decided, by a two to one margin, that you should have just stuck a sharp stick in Teddy Kennedy’s eye. Here are the poll results from the Harriet Miers poll ...

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   Wednesday - October 05, 2005

Kamikaze!

Who says hunting is a one-sided sport? Sometimes the animals fight back. In this case, the hunter’s son got the bird which then turned into a suicide dive-bomber, taking out the hunter. I bet next time he goes hunting, he’ll call AFLAC first. BON-ZAI!

He Should Have Taken a Gander Upwards STOCKHOLM (Reuters) A Swedish hunter was knocked unconscious after his son shot a flying Canadian goose which then fell onto his head, news agency TT reported Wednesday. “I guess it wanted revenge,” hunter Ulf Ilback told local newspaper Extra Ostergotland, according to TT. Ilback said he had to stay in bed for two days after being knocked out by the goose, which fell from around 60 feet. The birds can weigh up 13 pounds.

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A “Nation” Of Scarecrows

You all saw the movie “Wizard Of Oz”, right? Do you remember that one of Dorothy’s pals was the Scarecrow? Do you remember what his problem was? Sure you do ... he wanted a brain because his head was filled with straw. I bet you didn’t know that the Scarecrow was actually a Paleswinian. Yes, it’s true. The whole “country” of Paleswine is filled with people whose heads are filled with straw. The Israelis are lucky. If the Paleswinians had brains they might be really dangerous. As it is ... they just keep bringing knives to a gunfight.

See the stoopid Paleswinian. See him run. Run Paleswinian run. See him pull out his knife. See him scream about God. See him fall down with several bullet holes in his ignorant carcass. Did the other Paleswinian scarecrows learn anything? Silly people! They have no brains. They can’t learn anything. See the next stoopid Paleswinian. See her run ....

Israelis Wound New Knife Attacker
NABLUS, West Bank (BBC)

The Israeli army shot and wounded a Palestinian teenager after he attempted to stab soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint near Nablus. The teenager ran towards the soldiers brandishing a knife and shouting “God is great”, witnesses said. Israeli soldiers fired at the youth, lightly wounding him, said witnesses.

The attack comes the day after Palestinian militants said they were responsible for a knife attack on an Israeli soldier at another checkpoint. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said they carried out the attempted stabbing of the soldier at Hawara checkpoint on Tuesday, the scene of many previous attacks. The female attacker was shot dead by Israeli troops after she injured a soldier in the face.

37-year-old Hayfa Hidiya had been on her way to carry out a suicide attack, the militant group said. The Israeli army said no explosives were found on the assailant. “We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by the Zionists shall face more blows,” said al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in a statement on their website.

The group said it was not committed to the truce agreed in February between the major Palestinian militant organisations and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The Israeli army said the woman was knocked to the ground after lunging at a soldier with a knife, and was shot dead when she tried to get up again and attack a second time.

  “If I Only Had A Brain”

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/05/2005 at 11:11 AM   
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You Can’t Please ‘Em All

_{Steve Kelley, The New Orleans Times-Picayune}

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex

Is Sex Necessary?
(FORBES)

Fans of abstinence had better be sitting down. “Saving yourself” before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoedown or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral benefit. But corporeally it does absolutely zip. There’s no evidence it sharpens your competitive edge. The best that modern science can say for sexual abstinence is that it’s harmless when practiced in moderation. Having regular and enthusiastic sex, by contrast, confers a host of measurable physiological advantages, be you male or female. (This assumes that you are engaging in sex without contracting a sexually transmitted disease.)

In one of the most credible studies correlating overall health with sexual frequency, Queens University in Belfast tracked the mortality of about 1,000 middle-aged men over the course of a decade. The study was designed to compare persons of comparable circumstances, age and health. Its findings, published in 1997 in the British Medical Journal, were that men who reported the highest frequency of orgasm enjoyed a death rate half that of the laggards. Other studies (some rigorous, some less so) purport to show that having sex even a few times a week has an associative or causal relationship with the following:

• Improved sense of smell
• Reduced risk of heart disease
• Weight loss, overall fitness
• Reduced depression
• Pain-relief
• Less-frequent colds and flu
• Better bladder control
• Better teeth
• A happier prostate

But is there such a thing as too much sex?

Dr. George Winch Jr., an obstetrician/gynecologist in Elko, Nev., concurs. If a woman is pre-menopausal and otherwise healthy, says Dr. Winch, her having an extraordinary amount of intercourse ought not to pose a problem. “I don’t think women can have too much intercourse.”

Women who abstain from sex run some risks. In postmenopausal women, these include vaginal atrophy. Dr. Winch has a middle-aged patient of whom he says: “She hasn’t had intercourse in three years. Just isn’t interested. The opening of her vagina is narrowing from disuse.

As for men, urologist Eid says it’s definitely possible to get too much of a good thing, now that drugs such as Viagra and Levitra have given men far more staying power than may actually be good for them.

The penis, says Eid, is wonderfully resilient. But everything has its limits. Penile tissues, if given too roistering or prolonged a pummeling, can sustain damage. In cases you’d just as soon not hear about, permanent damage.

“Yes,” says Dr. Eid, “It is possible for a young man who is very forceful and who likes rough sex, to damage his erectile tissue.” The drugs increase rigidity; moreover, they make it possible for a man to have second and third orgasms without having to wait out intermission.

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   Tuesday - October 04, 2005

Reader Poll: Harriet Miers Nomination

First, read what everyone is saying about Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme court ....

FROM THE LEFT:
• TIME Magazine: “A Sampling of the Writings of Harriet Miers”.


• MSNBC: “Bush’s nomination of Miers splits conservatives”.


• THE VILLAGE VOICE: “The Conservative Crack-up Over Harriet Miers”.


FROM THE RIGHT:

• WORLDNET DAILY: “Bush pick supported International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, women in combat, tax hike”.


• NEWSMAX: “Conservatives ‘Betrayed’ By Bush with Miers Pick”.


• ANN COULTER: “Miers a ‘Complete Mediocrity’”.

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