Thursday - December 22, 2005

Twisted Sister

I would like to address the sisters directly:

Dear Sister Platte, what you did was incredibly stupid. At your age you really should know better. Puh-leeze, sister! You knew you’d be arrested for trespassing on sensitive military property, so why did you do it? What did you hope to acomplish with your “symbolic disarmament”? Did you guys dream this up one evening after indulging in too much sacramental wine? Are you aware of how much danger you placed yourself in? Most of the USAF’s Security Police have orders to shoot on sight anyone trespassing near missile silos.

Let me explain it to you so that even your feeble mind can grasp the situation - (1) yes, the US has a stockpile of nukes but there are much fewer than there were twenty years ago thanks to the end of the Cold War and (2) yes, the US has never renounced the use of nuclear weapons because that is what keeps the bad guys honest and (3) the US has not used nuclear weapons since 1945 simply because the bad guys know they exist and most importantly (4) we are getting closer to a day when nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction are no longer a threat to anybody but that day is still a long way off due to the idiots in other countries who want to impose their will on everyone, but until that fine day, we have to keep a big stick handy in case the mad dogs get silly. Now go to your room and say three thousand Hail Marys and try to be patient ...

Nun Who Defaced Silo Released From Prison
December 22, 2005
DANBURY, Conn. (AP)

A pacifist nun convicted of defacing a Colorado missile silo in 2002 was released Thursday from federal prison.  Ardeth Platte, 69, was not due to be released until May 31, but a judge gave her credit for time already served, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Platte, along with sisters Jackie Hudson and Carol Gilbert, were arrested in October 2002 after they allegedly cut a chain link fence surrounding a Minuteman III missile silo in northern Colorado. The nuns then used baby bottles to dispense their own blood in the shape of a cross on the silo.

Air Force security quickly left training exercises to respond, arriving at the site in several armored vehicles. The three nuns, who appeared to be praying and singing, announced they were peaceful and surrendered, according to court documents.

Hudson, Gilbert and Platte were convicted on charges of obstructing national defense and damaging government property. They received prison sentences of 30 months, 33 months and 41 months respectively. Hudson and Gilbert have been released.

The nuns are members of the Dominican Sisters order in Grand Rapids, Mich. They said their protest was a symbolic disarmament, prompted by an imminent war with Iraq because the United States has never disavowed nuclear weapons.

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/22/2005 at 01:29 PM   
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The Enemy Within

via military.com

Marine Fatally Shot in Sleep

A Marine in Iraq was shot in the back of the head and killed while sleeping in his barracks, his family said it was told by the military. The Pentagon said only that the Marine died of a “non-hostile” gunshot wound.

The mother of Cpl. Adam R. Fales, 21, of Cullman, said she was frustrated in her attempts to learn more about the circumstances of Friday’s shooting in Fallujah, and to bring his body home soon.

“The Marines came out to my house Saturday morning and told me my son was shot in the back of his head in his secure barracks,” Glenda Fales said Tuesday in a telephone interview. “They said it was under investigation and they won’t tell us anything else. We don’t know if it was accidental or if somebody shot him on purpose.”

Keep a watch on this one folks.  I have a bad feeling about it.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/22/2005 at 09:05 AM   
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Paging Jerry Springer …

You better get out paper and pencil on this one, kids. There are more characters to keep track of here than were in “War and Peace”. Some were old, some were young and all were dumb. Springer could spend an entire week on this bunch ...

Reservist Home for Christmas Slain in N.C.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)

Home for Christmas after nearly a year in the Middle East, Navy Reservist Paul Berkley was making up for lost time with his family. He arrived Wednesday, in time to hear his 18-year-old son, Zeke, sing the national anthem with his high school chorus. On Friday, he and 16-year-old daughter Becky ate pizza, watched movies and danced.

By Sunday, the 46-year-old sailor was dead, shot once in the head during a walk in the park with his wife, Monique. She now stands charged with his slaying, along with two men - her alleged teenage lover and her stepdaughter Becky’s boyfriend. “It’s all just so ironic, isn’t it?” Becky Berkley wrote Tuesday on her own blog, MistressBecky, as her stepmother was making her first court appearance. “My dad was in the Middle East for months and months and didn’t get shot… then he came home, where you’d assume he’d be much safer… and then, all this happened.”

Monique Berkley, 26, was ordered jailed without bond. Andrew Canty, the man who moved in with her during her husband’s deployment, and Latwon Johnson, both 18, also were denied bond. They were in the process of being assigned public defenders. The shooting occurred early Sunday morning, four days after Berkley returned from Bahrain for Christmas break. A breathless Monique Berkley, bleeding from a gunshot wound to her left shoulder, called for help on her cell phone at 2:57 a.m., saying the couple had been attacked by two unseen men. Paul Berkley’s gurgling, tortured breathing could clearly be heard on a 15-minute 911 tape.

Mrs. Berkley’s screams led police down a wooded path, where they found her bent over her husband, who died in a hospital later that day. Police would not release details of the case. But a picture is emerging of a marriage on the rocks. Friends say the couple was married five years ago in Las Vegas and moved to the Raleigh suburb of Clayton in 2003 so Monique Berkley - his third wife - could be closer to family. Paul Berkley, a native of Santa Paula, Calif., who worked as a computer technician, joined a local Navy Reserve unit.

Berkley deployed in January as part of a unit that moves equipment from ship to shore. If he suspected anything was wrong at home, it wasn’t reflected in his blog. “Oh, 16 days till Xmas vacation and I am getting antsy,” he wrote in a posting two days after Thanksgiving. “I know I have to come back again, probably for a long time, but I’m still pretty jazzed I am going home however briefly.”

Canty’s mother, Christine Canty, told The News & Observer of Raleigh that her son met Monique Berkley last fall through the Berkley children, who were fellow students at the high school. She said he moved into the Berkley home in April and only retrieved his things the day after Paul Berkley returned.

- More on this insanity here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/22/2005 at 07:10 AM   
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Merry Whatever!

_{Clay Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor}

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/22/2005 at 06:56 AM   
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   Wednesday - December 21, 2005

Most ..uh.. Ridiculous Item Of The Day

Have you ever wanted to eat your fish bait instead of using it to catch fish, fry the fish and have fried fish and hush puppies for dinner? Well, if so then you must be Japanese or one of those Liberal fruitcakes who like raw fish (also known as “sushi” - pronounced SOO-SHEE - Japanese translation: “stupid Liberal Americans will eat anything if we tell them it’s ancient custom here"). If you want to pretend to be one of these Liberal loons and infiltrate one of their favorite meeting places then you have to know how to behave in a “Sushi Restaurant”. Fortunately, The Skipper is here to help you. Follow this link to learn how to eat raw fish ... and also to learn why the Japanese lost the war (not eating enough hamburgers) ...

WARNING: Graphic video of stupid Japanese customs may induce side-splitting laughter. Proceed with caution.

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 05:36 PM   
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Book ‘Em, Danno!

Scumbag union leaders now face hard time in jail if a certain judge in New York has his way. Excellent! Throw the bums in jail, put ‘em to work on a chain gang somewhere and let the workers go back to work. Then bring in a federal arbitrator to negotiate between the city and the transit workers. End of story ....

NYC Tightens Screws on Transit Workers
December 21, 2005, 2:11 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP)

The city and state stepped up their pressure on striking transit workers Wednesday in hopes of forcing them back to work, and a judge indicated that he may send union leaders to jail for failing to end the strike.

State Supreme Court Justice Theodore Jones, who is hearing several legal issues related to the strike, directed attorneys from the Transport Workers Union to bring president Roger Toussaint and other top officials before the court Thursday to answer to a criminal contempt charge. He said he may sentence the union leaders to jail for refusing to end the strike, calling such a scenario a “distinct possibility.”

Union lawyer Arthur Schwartz said Toussaint and the other officials are in negotiations with mediators and that hauling them into court could halt the talks.

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 02:31 PM   
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Media Bias Awards

The Media Research Center has just published its annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2005. The absolute best compilation of liberal media bulls**t from the past year. I agree with all of their choices, especially the coveted Dan Rather Trophy. My favorite however, is the Good Morning Morons Award which this year went to NBC’s Matt Lauer for the exchange below ....

Good Morning Morons Award

Matt Lauer in Baghdad: “Talk to me...about morale here. We’ve heard so much about the insurgent attacks, so much about the uncertainty as to when you folks are going to get to go home. How would you describe morale?”

Chief Warrant Officer Randy Kirgiss: “In my unit morale is pretty good. Every day we go out and do our missions and people are ready to execute their missions. They’re excited to be here.”

Lauer: “How much does that uncertainty of [not] knowing how long you’re going to be here impact morale?"|

Specialist Steven Chitterer: “Morale is always high. Soldiers know they have a mission. They like taking on new objectives and taking on the new challenges....”

Lauer: “Don’t get me wrong here, I think you are probably telling me the truth, but a lot of people at home are wondering how that could be possible with the conditions you’re facing and with the attacks you’re facing. What would you say to those people who are doubtful that morale can be that high?”

Captain Sherman Powell: “Sir, if I got my news from the newspapers also, I’d be pretty depressed as well.”

— Exchange on NBC’s Today, August 17.

- Check out the rest of the moron, blockhead MSM award winners here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 12:25 PM   
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Caption Contest

Today’s caption contest lets you put words into Ronald McDonald’s mouth. The only catch is you can’t use the words “Sacre Bleu!”. The picture below shows the wreckage of a car used by rioters to break through the glass door of a McDonalds fast food restaurant amid the rubble of the restaurant in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005. Give it your best shot ... !

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 11:54 AM   
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OLDCATMAN CHRISTMAS, T Minus 4

Posted by Drew458     on 12/21/2005 at 09:23 AM   
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Digging A Hole

The only thing that is keeping the Democratic Party in the US from pulling off a similar stunt, as described below, is the fact that Barbara Bush is alive and well (plus that lady would probably kick Howard Dean’s butt if he tried this). The Donks have tried every other kind of stupid stunt (including nominating Gore and Kerry) in their ongoing anti-Bush crusade. It’s a wonder they haven’t tried this. They do seem intent on digging their hole deeper and deeper though ...

Now, That is Really Stooping Low!
ABIDJAN (Reuters)

Armed men dug up and tried to steal the corpse of the mother of one of war-torn Ivory Coast’s opposition party leaders Monday but were stopped when guards intervened, the party said. Hadja Nabintou Cisse, mother of the leader of the opposition Rally of Republicans party (RDR) and former prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara, was buried in the cemetery in Williamsville, a suburb of Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan, on December 8.

Her son, a hated figure among many supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo who accuse him of starting the 2002 civil war that left the country divided in two, had returned from exile in Paris for the funeral. RDR spokesman Cisse Bacongo said around 10 armed men dressed in security forces uniforms exhumed the body from the grave early Monday and carried it to the cemetery entrance before security guards raised the alarm and local youths gave chase.

The men fled in a four-wheel drive jeep without license plates, leaving the undamaged body of the Muslim woman behind. It was later reburied by several Imams, Bacongo said. He added the RDR did not know who was behind the attack on the grave but that Ouattara did not want to politicize the issue.

“It is an ignominious act and we must condemn it,” Bacongo told Reuters. The country’s new prime minister, economist Charles Konan Banny, made a brief stop at the cemetery to pay his respects at the grave Monday, where several hundred RDR supporters had gathered, some helping to tidy the tomb.

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 07:23 AM   
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Two Million Dollars And Counting

The busiest time of the year in the busiest city in the world. Add to that freezing temperatures. Then throw in a union that is determined to make everyone miserable simply because they want more money. What do you get? You get seven million thoroughly ticked off New Yorkers and a million-dollar-a-day court imposed fine.

I think Mayor Bloomberg needs to take a lesson from Ronald Reagan here. Remember in the early year of Reagan’s presidency, he fired all the air traffic controllers for doing the same thing? This kind of act by a public transportation union is reprehensible and totally without merit. Mayor Bloomberg, tell the union to go to hell and hire new workers. It’s what Rudi (and Ronnie) would have done ...

NYC Enters Second Day of Transit Strike
December 21, 2005, 6:36 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP)

New Yorkers faced another bone-chilling commute Wednesday without their cherished subways and buses as a transit strike entered its second day, leaving both patience and shoe leather wearing thin. With talks still stalled, a judge imposed a huge fine Tuesday against the Transport Workers Union—$1 million for each day of the strike—and lawyers were due back in court Wednesday.

The sanction was levied against workers for violating a state law that bars public employees from going on strike. The union said it would immediately appeal, calling the penalty excessive. The strike over wages and pensions began Tuesday morning, just five days before Christmas and at a time when the city is especially busy with shoppers and tourists.

“It’s too cold for this,” said Jose Cespedes, 55, a hotel maintenance manager who was planning on walking 25 blocks home in 24-degree weather and winds swirling. “I’m very disappointed that neither side thought enough about the community.” The mayor put into effect a sweeping emergency plan, including a requirement that cars entering Manhattan below 96th Street have at least four occupants.

Crowds were thick at both Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Terminal as commuters waited for trains on the two suburban rail lines, where the number of riders soared. “It’s pandemonium,” said Dana Berkowitz, outside Pennsylvania Station during Tuesday’s evening rush hour. “I feel like I’m in the mosh pit of a Metallica concert.”

Bundled up in heavy coats and hats, others shared cabs and car pools, caught water taxis, biked, rollerbladed or even walked. The mayor joined pedestrians hoofing it across the Brooklyn Bridge.

- More on this story here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 07:08 AM   
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Dear Santa

_{Mike Lester, Rome (GA) News-Tribune}

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/21/2005 at 07:00 AM   
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   Tuesday - December 20, 2005

Photo Du Jour

“Scandinavia In Winter”
-by-
Red Orbit

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Blogfession

Your new word for today is: Blogfession. This is used to describe someone who confesses to a crime on his blog. Don’t worry. This isn’t about me. I’m too old and too tired to commit too much of a crime. Besides, I hear prison life really sucks. One young man in Florida (where else) is about to find out what happens when you have a “blogfession” ...

Teen Guilty Of Manslaughter After Online Confession
Passenger Pulled Steering Wheel, Causing Crash
TAVARES, Fla. (WTAE-TV4)

An 18-year-old passenger who caused a fatal crash by pulling on the steering wheel pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter after prosecutors discovered a confession on his online blog.  Blake Ranking wrote “I did it” on his blurty.com journal three days after the October 2004 crash that caused a friend’s death and left another seriously injured. He had previously told investigators he remembered nothing of the crash and little of its aftermath.

Blake was sitting in the back seat as he and then-17-year-old friends Jason Coker and Nicole Robinette left a party when he pulled the steering wheel as a prank, causing the car to somersault off the road. His blood alcohol content after the crash measured 0.185, more than double the legal limit. Robinette, who was driving and had no traces of drugs or alcohol in her system, was seriously injured. Coker lay in a coma at Orlando Regional Medical Center until he died Jan. 11.

“It was me who caused it. I turned the wheel. I turned the wheel that sent us off the road, into the concrete drain ...” Ranking wrote in the blog. “How can I be fine when everyone else is so messed up?” Ranking later retracted his words, deleting them from the blog and penning an explanation. “People say I ‘contradict’ myself since I ‘already admitting pulling the wheel.’ I didn’t ‘ADMIT’ anything. I went on a guilt trip, and I posted the story that I WAS TOLD . . . Nicole told me I pulled the wheel, I believed her,” he wrote.

Still, the confession forced him to plead guilty Monday to manslaughter charges. He could have gotten 15 years in prison, but defense lawyer John Spivey and Assistant State Attorney Julie Greenberg recommended five years in prison, 10 years of probation and a permanent license suspension.

- More on this story here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/20/2005 at 05:20 PM   
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