Tuesday - April 18, 2006

What’s In A Name

Have you ever wondered what your name really means? Visit the largest database of names on the internet at NameCentral.com and look up your name (first and/or last) and find out for yourself. My name is of Celtic origin and translates to ”handsome warrior”. Mehe-heh ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/18/2006 at 10:46 AM   
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Sharp Criticism

_{Vic Harville—Stephens Media Group (Arkansas)}

- April 13: “Rumsfeld Rebuked By Retired Generals”

- April 15: “Bush Backs Rumsfeld Amid Calls for Ouster”

Of course the Generals have a right to their opinion and they did wait until they had left the military before going after Rumsfeld. Still, it seems to me the wrong thing to do in our current situation. If the Generals hated Rumsfeld and thought he was as wrong as they now say, they should have resigned and left years ago. Instead they decided to keep drawing a paycheck until they cound retire and only then speak out. Plus, I wonder how much their dislike of the Secretary Of Defense may have affected their performance. Too many questions. Not enough answers. But the MSM is jumping all over it like white on rice. And I don’t mean Condaleeza either.

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   Monday - April 17, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

“Garden Of Eden At Arches National Park, Utah”
-by- Jon Sullivan

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Jane’s Baggage?

Hanoi Jane has decided to throw in the towel and turn over her duties to the next generation (Cindy Sheehan). Stay tuned. Any day now we’re likely to see a picture of Sheehan in Iran proudly examining a stockpile of nuclear bombs. After all, being a propaganda tool by having one’s picture taken while sitting in one of the enemy’s anti-aircraft batteries is so ... “yesterday”. Memo to Jane: pack it in, honey - this next generation is even farther out in left field than you ever dreamed of ....

Jane Fonda Declines War Protests
_{April 17, 2006 11:15AM EDT}

ATLANTA (AP) - Jane Fonda says she would like to tour the country and speak out against U.S. involvement in Iraq, but her controversial history of Vietnam War protests leaves her with “too much baggage.”

“I wanted to do a tour like I did during the Vietnam War, a tour of the country,” the Oscar-winning actress said Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “But then Cindy Sheehan filled in the gap, and she is better at this than I am. I carry too much baggage.”

Sheehan, whose soldier son, Casey, died in Iraq in 2004, has become a leading anti-war figure. Fonda said that during a recent national book tour, war opponents — including some Vietnam veterans — asked her to speak out.

Last month, the Georgia Senate overwhelmingly rejected a resolution honoring Fonda, an Atlanta resident, for her work preventing teen pregnancy, donations to universities and charities, and role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.

Her political activities protesting the Vietnam War, including a trip to North Vietnam in 1972, have long made her a target of veterans. Fonda, who won Oscars for 1971’s “Klute” and 1978’s “Coming Home,” was interviewed shortly after returning from a vacation trip to Argentina with ex-husband Ted Turner. Fonda said she and Turner remain close. “He’s my favorite ex-husband,” the 68-year-old actress said. “We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property down there.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/17/2006 at 12:16 PM   
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The Taxman Cometh

For those of you who waited until the last minute, time is running out. Your government needs a large chunk of your hard-earned money to continue operating at its normal level of efficiency for another year. As you sit there and laboriously fill out those forms that only an accountant, a lawyer or “Rain Man” could figure out, keep this in mind: About 250 years ago, our ancestors were screaming “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”. You can thank them for the really first-class “representation” we’re all getting in Washington these days. Especially those of you being represented by the likes of Cynthia McKinney and Ted Kennedy ...

At Long Last, Tax Day Is Here
_{April 17, 2006: 10:48 AM EDT}

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Papa John’s is offering pizzas for $10.40. Staples has copy machines located on street corners. Activists are picketing at the post office. Tax day is here and although e-filing has cut down on the number of people lining up at post offices across the country, the deadline has lost none of its impact for citizens of a nation where tax protesting has a longer history than public education (remember the Boston Tea Party?).

Some 74 million taxpayers out of 135 million—or nearly 55%—are expected to e-file this year, according to the IRS. That’s up from 51% last year. This year, however, there are some exceptions to the traditional April 15th Deadline, which fell on a Saturday this year. Filers in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and the District of Columbia have until April 18th because the IRS processing center serving those states is located in Massachusetts, which will be observing the state holiday, Patriot’s Day, on Monday.

Along the Gulf Coast, taxpayers in Louisiana and Mississippi’s hardest hit areas have had their deadline automatically extended by the IRS until Aug. 28th. The agency has made similar provisions for evacuees filing from the places they’ve relocated to across the country. A group called Harlem Grandmothers Against the War will be picketing the IRS building in that storied neighborhood in New York City Monday before joining with the New York Chapter of Grandmothers Against the War to protest in front of New York’s central post office in midtown. The group has plans for similar events across the country.

Vinie Burrows of Harlem Grandmothers Against the War said the group is protesting because it’s “unconscionable that our tax dollars are going to the invasion and destruction of Iraq while we have so many needs here in Harlem and all the Harlems of the country.” Even corporate marketing specials are adapting to the times. Papa John’s is offering online customers large pizzas at the “less taxing” price of $10.40. And Staples said it has copiers and attendants stationed outside post offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Well aware of the growing popularity of e-filing, the office supply retailer “stresses the importance of keeping hard copies of important documents.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/17/2006 at 10:52 AM   
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The Bucket Brigade

Was this an over-reaction or just plain insane. My guess is both. This is the nature of school administration nowadays though. You’re sending your kids off to a concentration camp where anything can happen between 8:00 and 3:00. The destruction of America begins in the classroom and there is no better example than the events described below ....

School Makes Kids Use Buckets for Toilets
_{April 17, 2006, 7:55 AM EDT}

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (NEWSMAX)

A principal trying to prevent walkouts during immigration rallies inadvertently introduced a lockdown so strict that children weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom, and instead had to use buckets in the classroom, an official said. Worthington Elementary School Principal Angie Marquez imposed the lockdown March 27 as nearly 40,000 students across Southern California left classes to attend immigrants’ rights demonstrations.

Marquez apparently misread the district handbook and ordered a lockdown designed for nuclear attacks. Tim Brown, the district’s director of operations, confirmed some students used buckets but said the principal’s order to impose the most severe type of lockdown was an “honest mistake. When there’s a nuclear attack, that’s when buckets are used,” Brown told the Los Angeles Times. The principal “followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it.”

A message left by The Associated Press for the principal at the school before business hours Monday was not immediately returned, and Marquez did not return telephone calls from the Times. Appalled parents have complained to the school board. Brown said the school district planned to update its emergency preparedness instructions to give more explicit directions.

Parents and community activists asked the school board at its April 5 meeting to explain the principal’s decision. They also sought promises that the lockdown wouldn’t be repeated. “There was no violence at the protests, so this was based on what?” activist Diane Sambrano asked. “It was unsanitary, unnecessary and absolutely unacceptable.”

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The Race Card Is A Joker

The right reverend Jackson is at it again. I am always amazed that people never call his hand on these blatant racist accusations and demagoguery. I don’t know all the facts of this case except what I’ve heard on the news and what I read but it seems to me there is plenty of room for doubt that the stripper is telling the truth. DNA tests have confirmed the players’ contention that nothing happened.

The court will have to decide eventually. In the meantime, Jackson and crew have already decided to step into this mess and stand behind this woman even if she turns out to be lying (his own words). How does Jackson get away with this kind of racist behavior ... ?

Jackson: Rainbow/Push To Pay Woman’s Tuition At N.C. Central
_{Sunday, April 16, 2006}

DURHAM, N.C. (AP)—The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that his Rainbow/Push Coalition will pay the college tuition of a black woman who told police she was raped by white members of Duke University’s men’s lacrosse team - no matter the outcome of the case.

“I can’t wait ... to talk with her and have prayer with her, because our organization is committed, when she’s physically and emotionally able ... to provide for her the scholarship money to finish school so she will never ... again have to stoop that low to survive,” he said from Chicago in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

When asked, Jackson also said that his group will pay for the woman’s tuition even if her story proves false. Attorneys for the lacrosse players have strongly denied that any sexual assault took place at the March 13 party, citing DNA tests performed on all 46 of the team’s white members that failed to match any samples taken from the woman.

Defense attorneys have said that they expect the case to go to a grand jury Monday. Jackson said that there is plenty of circumstantial evidence indicating that something happened to the woman, a 27-year-old divorced mother of two who is a student across town from Duke at historically black N.C. Central University. A doctor and forensic nurse who examined the woman found evidence consistent with rape, according to court documents.

- More on the story here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/17/2006 at 10:18 AM   
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Let The Punishment Fit The Crime

_{R.J. Matson—Roll Call}

- “McKinney Is DIstraction, Say Dems”

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   Sunday - April 16, 2006

Happy Easter

Mat 28:1    In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Mat 28:2    And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

Mat 28:3    His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

Mat 28:4    And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead [men].

Mat 28:5    And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

Mat 28:6    He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Mat 28:7    And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.

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Sunday Funnies

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   Saturday - April 15, 2006

Deported

She’s been in this country six years illegally. She owns a spanish language newspaper and a radio station right here in St. Louis. They finally got around to deporting her. A Republican Senator and two Democratic Congressmen tried to stop her from being deported. Read the article below and remember the names of these politicians when you go to vote in November ....

Missouri Hispanic Newspaper Publisher Deported
_{April 15, 2006, 3:22 PM EDT}

ST. LOUIS (AP)—The publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper said Saturday she will continue her work even though she has been deported after a five-year legal battle over her immigration status. Cecilia Velazquez was escorted into Mexico on Friday and will be barred from re-entering the United States for 10 years, said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency.

Velazquez, 36, is the publisher of Red Latina, meaning “Latin network.” She also is president of Radio CuCui, a group that brings performers and commentators to WEW-AM radio in St. Louis. Velazquez said by cell phone Saturday from Mexico City that Red Latina will carry on and she will continue as publisher, possibly from Cancun.

“We are the voice of my population. They need to know what’s going on,” she told The Associated Press. “I know we can do it. I have the Internet and my cell phone. I can make all the meetings. We need to tell the people `Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared. I’ll be back.’” Her attorney, Raymond R. Bolourtchi, said her departure “can only hurt and damage the Hispanic community. She was their voice.”

Velazquez had entered the country on a visitors visa, but Rusnok said she was stopped in December 2000 in Houston by authorities who determined she was “actually an intending immigrant.” He said she was given two weeks to return to Mexico, but remained in this country and was arrested in 2003 in St. Louis.

She lost a series of appeals but had hoped letters of support written by politicians including U.S. Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) and U.S. Reps. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO) and Russ Carnahan (D-MO) would stave off her deportation. The newspaper has five people in St. Louis and 17 people working with the radio station.

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Barking Moonbat Of The Week

Once again, we present President Mahmoud “Mister Bubble” Ahmadinejad and now it seems his countrymen want to send him a bar of soap ... from prison ....

Iran Prez Arrests 4 Over Text Message
Fires head of phone company,
sues over claim he doesn’t wash
_{April 15, 2006 2:45 p.m. Eastern}

(WORLDNET DAILY)

When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got an anonymous text message suggesting he didn’t wash enough, he did not take it lying down. He fired the president of the phone company, had four people arrested, took other legal action and accused those involve of conspiring with the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad, according to the Iranian opposition website Rooz Online.

The website says Ahmadinejad, known throughout the world as a hard-liner who has threatened Israel with destruction and questioned the Holocaust, is the target of many barbs among the populace in his country. But the mullah regime doesn’t show much of a sense of humor. Of particular concern are jokes comparing Iran’s nuclear ambitions with sex. Several people have reportedly received court summonses for sending nuclear-related jokes, according to the website.

Tehran has taken a tough stance against opposition on the Internet. Many of the nation’s estimated 70,000 to 100,000 bloggers have faced harassment or imprisonment. The regime has acknowledged monitoring text message traffic.

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Saturday Silliness

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   Friday - April 14, 2006

Life Goes On

The world is falling apart, people everywhere are arguing, fighting and dying - some for good reasons and some for no good reason at all. Occasionally though, we get a chance to welcome new life onto the stage. We might take this time to consider what kind of world we are going to leave behind for them and how we can make it better - or we can continue to fight and hate and leave nothing behind but more of the same.

You’ll have to pardon me but every time I see a new baby I get the same thoughts I described above. I’ve raised two sons of my own and I remember how I felt when they were born. They are grown up and on their own now and someday soon I’ll become a grandfather. That’s scarey.

Anyway, enough about me and my stupid philosophical drivel. The newest addition is the cutest little daughter you’ve ever seen and she belongs to BMEWS member Jaguar and his wife who live “way out yonder” in Washington state. I’ll let the proud poppa tell you about the ordeal (and if you think of it you might slip in a little prayer tonight for this lovely little lady) ....

My youngest daughter was born last night at 7:04 PM after 40 hours of EXHAUSTING labor by my wife. She weighed in at 6 pounds 13 ounces, but was 6 weeks early. Wife was hospitalized last week for gestational diabetes, and pregnancy induced hyper tension. My wife’s blood pressure is now normal and her blood sugar is dropping, they quit giving her insulin,

Because Lauren Victoria was born with a diabetic mom, she is very BIG, and cannot control her blood sugars yet. She in the UW baby ICU center, until she can control her blood sugar by herself. Her pancreas was going nuts, and pumping out insulin and dropping her blood sugars into dangerous levels.

Mom and baby are fine, and my 3 other children, 10 year old daughter Morgan, 5 year old daugher Lindsey, and 3 year old son Aric are doing fine as well. Last night Aric was convinced he had a little brother, it was a boy, and that was that, this morning he says he has a little sister, but it HIS little sister, and Morgan and Lindsey can’t have her as a new sister, it’s his and ONLY his...LOL We are making progress…

-- Jaguar

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