Tuesday - March 14, 2006

Not The President

The Gorebot went down to Flori-DUH last weekend to stir up the natives. Of course he did his usual war dance, blamed everything that has gone wrong since the beginning of time on President Bush and did his best to enflame the partisan crowd of unruly dip-shorts (dipshits in bermuda shorts). I gotta hand it to Ol’ Al though. he hasn’t changed his tune since November of 2000. The boy is consistent, if nothing else ....

Al Gore Fires Up Crowd At West Palm Beach Fund-raiser
_{March 13, 2006}

(SUN-SENTINEL)

Former Vice President Al Gore returned Sunday to what one supporter called “the scene of a crime,” telling a feisty, partisan crowd that the administration of President Bush poses an unprecedented test for U.S. democracy.

“I genuinely believe that American democracy faces a time of trial and challenge right now more serious than any that we have ever faced,” Gore told about 400 supporters gathered at the Kravis Center for a fund raiser to boost state Democrats in the November election.

Gore cited a litany of issues, including the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power, its fumbled response to Hurricane Katrina and its backing of a secret, domestic surveillance program, warrantless searches and interrogation methods used in Iraq and the war on terror.

“In every war there have been excesses ... that have come out of the extremes of combat and war,” Gore said. “But never previously has it been official U.S. policy to depart from that respect that we should not torture.”

“Welcome back, Mr. President!” someone yelled from the crowd as Gore took the stage.

Palm Beach County, with its notorious butterfly ballot, had been a focal point of the recount. It was apparent Sunday that some local Democrats harbor bitter feelings.

“This was the scene of a crime,” said West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel, whose son, Marine Capt. Benjamin Lubin, has served in Afghanistan.

“We’re very proud of him,” Frankel said of her son. “But I can tell you, if Al Gore had been president, my son would not have been at war.”

“I want to give you a couple of reasons to redouble your efforts,” Gore said.

“Voter fraud!” an audience member quickly offered up, to the delight of the crowd.

Gore smiled. “I’ll let others talk about that, but I like some of what I heard out here,” he said.

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Wallpaper Magic

Want the latest and greatest wallpaper for your desktop? Try this one on for size. It’s called ”Desktop Earth” and it generates a new full-screen desktop wallpaper, at intervals you specify, of the view from space at the current moment. It includes city lights, moon shadows, seasonal changes and more. It easily installs on any Windows computer in seconds. Sorry, Apple users are still earthbound.

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Mission: Implausible

Your Mission

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to carefully glance through all of the articles below in the ongoing controversy at Ford over homosexuals and consider Ford’s rapid descent into oblivion. After reading the articles, you will examine the advertising logo at your right, briefly consider the cosmic irony of the phrase used and come up with a new slogan for Ford.

Timing is critical in this important mission and all precautions must be taken to avoid any hint of homophobia. Should you be apprehended or have your cover blown during the course of this mission, the Skipper will disavow all knowledge of you and your team. This post will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck .... 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 ....


- February 1, 2005: “Ford Makes Record Donation To Gay Community Center In Michigan”

- June 1, 2005: “Christian Activist Group Goes After Ford Motor Co. Over Gay Ads”

- December 3, 2005: “Jaguar, Land Rover Ads Halted In Gay Media, Ford Confirms”

- December 7, 2005: “Gay Advocates Blast Ford’s Pulling Of Ads”

- December 15, 2005: “Ford Reverses - Ads Will Run In Gay Media After All”

- January 24, 2006: “Ford to Ax Up to 30,000 Jobs, Close Plants”

- January 31, 2006: “Ford - Now It’s Easy Being Green”

- March 13, 2006: “19 Groups to Reinstate Boycott of Ford”

- March 13, 2006: “Ford’s Stock Downgraded Even Deeper Into Junk Status”

- March 14, 2006: “Kia To Build $1.2 billion Auto Plant In West Point, Ga.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/14/2006 at 03:16 AM   
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Another Bad Idea

_{Henry Payne—The Detroit News}

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/14/2006 at 02:29 AM   
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   Monday - March 13, 2006

Grand Canyon

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth’s Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, 30 kilometers across, and 1.8 kilometers deep.

The origin of the Valles Marineris remains unknown, although a leading hypothesis holds that it started as a crack billions of years ago as the planet cooled. Recently, several geologic processes have been identified in the canyon. The above mosaic was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s.

Photo Courtesy Of: NASA - Viking Project

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2006 at 05:05 PM   
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Nazi Alert, No. 18,956,344

I remember when I first read ”Breakfast Of Champions”, ”Cats Cradle” and ”Slaughterhouse Five”. I really enjoyed those books. In fact, you’ll find a copy of all of them in my bookshelf. I thought the stories were strange and way out there but lots of fun.

I’ve known of Vonnegut’s political feelings for a long time as well. In fact ”Slaughterhouse Five” is nothing if not an anti-war book without equal. I really hate to see him jumping on the “Bushchimphitler” wagon. It is embaressing, to say the least. I thought the man had better sense than that. Judging from the diatribe below, I really sense the man has lost it. That’s a downright shame. Perhaps, someone put some Ice-Nine in his drink and his brain froze .... ?

Kurt Vonnegut: Bush and Hitler Different
_{Saturday, March 11, 2006 11:05 a.m. EST}

(NEWSMAX)

Add lefty literary luminary Kurt Vonnegut to the list of notables who think comparing President Bush to Hitler is the trendy thing to do these days. According to the Columbus Free Press, Vonnegut was speaking at Ohio State University earlier this week when he offered his insights on the Bush presidency.

“I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president,” the “Slaughterhouse Five” author opined. Without elaborating on that insult, Vonnegut quickly segued into his next anti-Bush blast: “The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.”

Vonnegut then reportedly told the Ohio State audience: “You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here.” The noted writer said he was nostalgic for the days when America had a president everybody could be proud of, explaining:

“I’m lucky enough to have known a great president, one who really cared about ALL the people, rich and poor. That was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was rich himself, and his class considered him a traitor.”

Free Press reporter Harvey Wasserman noted that Vonnegut drew the biggest crowd at Ohio State since Michael Moore had come to speak.

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Brain Food

I‘ve just spent the last few days digging into some new reading material. It’s a new book out by Claire Berlinski entitled, ”Menace in Europe : Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too” (Crown Forum Books, Pub. February, 2006, 288 pp.). Besides the fact that Ms. Berlinski is an outstandingly gorgeous lady (as evidenced by the jacket cover photo), this is one of the most informative books I’ve read in a long time. Ms. Berlinski is an American, living in Europe. She holds a degree in modern history and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford. Pretty good credentials if you ask me.

The book gives an insight into modern Europe that you and I have only had glimpses of from across the pond. You and I make fun of the French and a lot of us here look on “Old Europe” with scorn. After reading the first few chapters, I think we all may be making a huge mistake. Europeans have walked away from their Christian roots and are now a dying breed as birth rates fall. The Muslim immigrants are needed to keep a failing economy going - but at what price.

One concept she introduces is the current environment of appeasement in Europe to the Islamic radicals who are spreading across the continent. Memories of World War II are still vividly alive in Europeans and they shy away from any act that might remotely be compared to the horrors of the Nazi regime. The really frightening aspect of all this is that Europe’s problems are our problems too - but on a smaller scale, for the present. The politcally correct movement, the mosques in Detroit - they’re all tiny models of what is happening in Europe on a larger scale. Where Europe goes, we will surely follow - unless we address the problem and urge our European counterparts to do the same.

I’m only about halfway through the book but my perspective on Europe has already changed immeasurably. It is enlightening to see things over there from intelligent eyes that are over there in the middle of the mess that is brewing. It is also dangerously unsettling, to say the least. I urge you to grab a copy of this book and give it a read. Ms. Berlinski wrote the book after travelling from London to Istanbul and making observations along the way. It’s not a travelogue - but it could well be an obituary for the continent unless things change.

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The Twin Pools

They are sneaking out and doing it anyway while no one is looking. The World Trade Center Memorial construction is underway as of a few hours ago. Guess which design they chose? Here is how the Memorial Competition website describes the memorial ....

“Resonates with the feelings of loss and absence”? “A field of trees”? “Two large voids”? “Recessed pools”? “Visible reminders of the absence”?

This is an outrage of the worst kind. They didn’t even have the nerve to announce it to the nation. The gutless pricks in charge of the memorial are going to go dig two large holes in the ground, fill them with water and then have the nerve to tell us it is “Reflecting Absence”?

Why don’t we just build a large model of a vagina and call it ”The Pussification Of America”? Then we can send Osama Bin Laden the keys to the city and invite Al Qaeda to come have a victory parade! Then we can all dance around the campfire, sing “Koombayah” and hug our terrorist cousins, share the love and all will be well again. I’m sure the 3,000+ Americans who died on 9/11 will understand our complete and utter lack of testicular fortitude.

Construction Begins on WTC Memorial
Mar 13, 8:50 AM (ET)

(MYWAY NEWS)

Without political ceremony, construction began on the World Trade Center memorial Monday morning, while relatives of some of the Sept. 11 victims headed to court to fight plans to build over the twin towers’ historic footprints.

Trucks rolled down a ramp into the site with lumber and equipment, and about a dozen construction workers began cleaning the memorial area and installing protective wooden coverings over parts of the original foundation.

After six to eight weeks of preliminary work, concrete will be poured to create footings to support the “Reflecting Absence” design. Gov. George Pataki last week called the event “a very important milestone,” but no groundbreaking ceremony was planned for the next several weeks. Officials said they wanted to meet a schedule to build the memorial by 2009.

Some Sept. 11 families that oppose the underground memorial design are trying to stop the work before it is set in concrete. The Coalition of 9/11 Families last week filed a lawsuit charging that the memorial would damage the historic footprints. Preservation groups have made similar arguments in letters to rebuilding officials. A court hearing was scheduled Monday, and other family members planned a protest rally.

“There is always opportunity until concrete is poured,” said Rosaleen Tallon, the sister of a firefighter killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks. Tallon began sleeping outside her brother Sean’s firehouse across from the trade center site last week, and said Monday’s construction work wouldn’t stop her protest.

The “Reflecting Absence” design, by architect Michael Arad, was chosen two years ago out of more than 5,200 competition entries. It marks the fallen towers near their footprints with two stone reflecting pools at street level, surrounded by trees. The pools go 70 feet below ground, where visitors find surrounding each pool the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 2001 attacks and the 1993 trade center bombing.

Families have said the memorial would dishonor the dead by placing their names below street level and might be difficult to evacuate quickly.

- More on this abomination here ...

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Ground Zero

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to hunker down in a foxhole while artillery falls all around you, blowing huge holes in the earth as you pull your helmet tight on your head, curl up and wait it out? If not, you ought to come live in the Midwest during Spring. That’s what the last 48 hours have been like here in St. Louis. Tornados have been touching down all around us as a massive thunderstorm front rolled through over the weekend.

At last count the death toll was at seven nine ten. I’ve been sitting here with boiling black skies all around me with lightning flashes to occasionally illuminate clouds where ”they” hide. “They” are those nasty little funnels that drop down out of a cloud, savagely attack any mobile homes in sight then jump back up into the clouds. They don’t play fair. There’s almost no way to tell where the next one will appear. It’s almost like playing Russian Roulette. You never know.

As for me, I’m got some essentials in the basement (bottled water, canned food, spare clothes ... “personal protection") just in case. Power has been off and on a few times but everything seems to have danced all around us here in St. Louis. Folks to the North, West and South of us haven’t been as lucky. They’re still trying to go through the debris. That’s the good news. The bad news is everything East of us is in the gun sights. You kids in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky better get ready. I hope your foxhole is as lucky as mine was ....

‘The Trailer Came Down Right On Top Of Her’
Storms leave 5 people dead in Midwest
_{Monday, March 13, 2006 3:46 a.m. EST (08:46 GMT)}

(CNN)—Tornadoes rampaged through the heart of Missouri and into Illinois on Sunday, killing at least five people, authorities said, capping a weekend that had already seen two deaths blamed on severe weather. “One hundred homes or businesses received significant damage or were destroyed,” said Pettis County, Missouri, presiding commissioner Rusty Kahrs. He said at least three tornadoes had touched down in Pettis County, about 70 miles east-southeast of Kansas City.

Kahrs identified the fatality as 39-year-old DeAnn Frances Follman, who he said was exiting her mobile home when the storm hit. He said six others were injured and two were missing. A neighbor of Follman’s told The Associated Press: “The trailer came down right on top of her.” According to Kahrs, one of the tornadoes cut a half-mile-wide, 20-mile-long swath through the county late Sunday afternoon.

As the deadly line of thunderstorms rumbled to the northeast, Randolph County was next. According to Randolph County Coroner Gerald Luntsford, four people died in Moberly after their homes were destroyed by winds. The deaths occurred in three different homes. The damage stretched into northeastern Missouri.

“We’ve got buildings and mobile homes flattened—people are injured or trapped,” a harried Monroe City police dispatcher said. “It’s hard to give you anything firm because reports keep coming in.” The National Weather Service Web site said there were reports of people trapped in a damaged church.

The NWS also reported a confirmed a tornado near the Cedar County seat of Stockton, about 120 miles south of Kansas City, about 9:40 p.m. (10:40 p.m. ET). “We have damage and some injuries. We don’t know how many,” said Doug Miller, a dispatcher for the Cedar County Sheriff’s Department.

- Read the rest at CNN ...

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Evil In Disguise

“CAIRful" -by- Cox & Forkum

CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment
by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, is perhaps the best-known and most controversial Muslim organization in North America. CAIR presents itself as an advocate for Muslims’ civil rights and the spokesman for American Muslims. “We are similar to a Muslim NAACP,” says its communications director, Ibrahim Hooper. Its official mission—"to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding"—suggests nothing problematic.

Starting with a single office in 1994, CAIR now claims thirty-one affiliates, including a branch in Canada, with more steadily being added. In addition to its grand national headquarters in Washington, it has impressive offices in other cities; the New York office, for example, is housed in the 19-story Interchurch Center located on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive.

But there is another side to CAIR that has alarmed many people in positions to know. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to deal with it. Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.” Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) observes that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.” Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of counterterrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.” The family of John P. O’Neill, Sr., the former FBI counterterrorism chief who perished at the World Trade Center, named CAIR in a lawsuit as having “been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism” responsible for the September 11 atrocities. Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”

- Read the rest at Middle East Quarterly ...

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   Sunday - March 12, 2006

Lost

Your mission profile: You are in a private airplane and you enter a cloud bank. You’ve lost your bearings after hours in the clouds and you’re running low on fuel. To make matters worse, your radio is out. Suddenly you come out of the clouds and look down. You see this below you. Should you try to land here? Are you in trouble just for being here? Should you do a flyby on the tower and wave to let them know you’re friendly? Is your life insurance paid up?

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New Blog Feature

Yep, I’ve done gone and added somethin’ else to this here blog. Y’all gonna like it a bunch.

(hold on a second while switch off my Southern accent) CLICK!

Whew! Sorry about that. I just got off the phone with one of my relatives in L.A. (Lower Alabama) and whenever I talk to any of the family down there I find myself talking like them. Old habits die hard sometimes.

Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I have added a new feature to the blog. It’s in the right sidebar below the Day By Day comic strip. It is something new that is going around the blogosphere called BlogAd Swap. Bloggers sign up and add a little code to their blog site and the code displays ads and links to other blog sites who have signed up. What that means to you is that every time you visit the page here, you will see a random ad for another blog site.

Now, before anyone panics and fears they might be forced to see an ad link to Democratic Underwear, let me explain. Blogs are grouped by type (Liberal, Conservative, humor, military, etc.) so the ads will be for similar blogs that you might be interested in. So go ahead, give the other guys a click and explore a little and if by chance you wind up at Instapundit bear in mind that Glenn Reynolds runs puppies through his blender to make his power shakes. You don’t even want to know what he does with kittens (hint: he runs “Kitty Gitmo"). Sad, but true.

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Arrest That Search Engine!

This whole miserable saga of exposing CIA operatives just took a new twist. The Chicago Tribune started digging around the internet with search engines and managed to uncover over 2,600 operatives, some of them covert. Real spooks, in other words. Scooter Libby is under indictment for allegedly doing what anyone can do using Google. It kinda makes you wonder what other information is out there. Information about you. Yes, we know all about that bit of “trouble” you got into back in 1987. Don’t worry though. We won’t tell ....

Report: Web Searches Can ID CIA Employees
_{Mar 11, 11:39 PM (ET)}

(MYWAY NEWS)

CHICAGO (AP) - The identities of 2,600 CIA employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency’s covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper obtained the information from data providers who charge fees for access to public records and reported on its findings in Sunday editions. It did not publish the identities or other details on its searches, citing concern it could endanger the CIA employees.

Not all of the 2,653 people the newspaper said it could identify as CIA employees were supposed to be covert, an issue raised in the Justice Department investigation of whether someone in the Bush administration leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to reporters in 2003. Some in fact were non-covert analysts or senior executives, such as former CIA Director George Tenet. But the newspaper said it shared some of its findings with the CIA, and that the agency acknowledged the partial list of names included covert employees.

“Cover is an issue we look at all the time, and we are always looking to improve it,” CIA spokesman Tom Crispell told The Associated Press on Saturday. Through the data providers, the newspaper said it identified people by telephone listings, real estate transactions, voting records, property tax records and other financial and legal documents. The investigation also uncovered internal office phone numbers of the agency and covert mailing addresses used by undercover operatives.

“Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age,” the CIA’s chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck, told the Tribune. “There are things that worked previously that no longer work.” The Tribune also located two dozen CIA facilities in Chicago, northern Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. Some of the facilities are heavily guarded, while others appear to be private residences with no obvious connection to the CIA.

One of the facilities, a CIA training area dubbed “The Farm” at Camp Peary, Va., was a well-kept secret for decades. The agency refused to publicly acknowledge its existence, even after former CIA personnel confirmed its presence in the 1980s. But the Tribune said an Internet search for the term “Camp Peary” produced data identifying the names and other details of 26 people who apparently work there. Additionally, a review of aviation databases for flights at Camp Peary’s airstrip revealed 17 aircraft whose ownership and flight histories also could be traced.

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Health Savings Accounts

Alright, everybody! It’s time to pile on BMEWS member Z-Woof. You all know he sells HSA’s and he has a ton of information on them. Well, the Washington Post has an article in today’s business section that covers HSA’s in detail. When you read this below, keep in mind that the Post has a certain bias against conservatives. Go read the whole piece at the Post and then jump all over Z-Woof for a rebuttal ....

Uncertain Cure
Early Reaction to Health Savings Accounts Is Two-Sided
_{Sunday, March 12, 2006}

(WASHINGTON POST)

Two years after they became legal, President Bush has begun to champion health savings accounts as a salve for the nation’s ailing health care system, proposing $156 billion in tax breaks to encourage Americans to buy an unorthodox kind of insurance that is favored by conservatives but whose merits are largely unproven. Early studies of HSAs—and the early experiences of a small but growing number of people who are trying them—do not match the White House’s certainty that this recent concept in health insurance is, as Bush put it recently, “good for you.”

Health savings accounts differ sharply from traditional insurance by requiring people to pay more of their own medical expenses in exchange for significant tax benefits if they set aside money for that purpose. The arrangement consists of two parts: an insurance policy—less expensive than most ordinary health plans—in which people pay at least a few thousand dollars up front before the coverage begins, combined with a special investment account into which they and sometimes their employers may save money tax-free for current or future medical expenses.

According to the White House and other proponents, the plans can tame medical costs, turn patients into smarter medical consumers and make insurance affordable for more people. HSAs, however, remain so new and rare that there is little evidence on whether they curb overall health care expenditures or overuse of care. Meanwhile, research hints that they are most appealing to people who are relatively affluent, not poor and uninsured.

Some people who have switched to the plans are delighted. “So far, it’s been very, very good for myself and my family,” said Daniel Reisfield, 47, a Wall Street headhunter who lives in San Diego with his wife and two children. Reisfield said he thinks it makes more sense to invest more than $5,000 a year in mutual funds through his HSA than to pay a large insurance premium for his healthy family, which rarely seeks medical care.

Others have been disenchanted quickly. Felix Meschke, 32, a business professor at the University of Minnesota, did careful calculations of medical probabilities before he, too, switched his family to an HSA on Jan. 1. Less than two weeks later, his 11-month-old son, Jason, developed an ear infection that progressed to a fever and persistent cough so worrisome that a pediatrician sent him to a hospital, where he stayed for two days. By Jan. 24, Jason was getting better, but Meschke faced a $3,700 bill. If he still had his old insurance, he would have owed a few hundred dollars.

- There’s a lot more to this story at the WAPO ...

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