Monday - November 20, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

“Moon Mosaic”
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Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 04:39 PM   
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FOX Kills O.J.

OK, the show I was not going to watch in a million years has been canceled. I wonder if FOX left a bloody glove at the scene. I can hear Johnny Cochran now saying, “If The show is shit, you must remit!” Case closed. Let’s all go have a beer with Judge Ito, Kato Kaelin and Mark Furman ...

News Corp. Cancels O.J. Simpson Book and TV Special
_{NEW YORK (FOX NEWS) - Monday, November 20, 2006}

News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.”

“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. “We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.”

A dozen FOX affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the book’s publication. In the book, the one-time football superstar tells how he would have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman if, in fact, he had done it.

Relatives of the victims have lashed out at the now scuttled publication and broadcast plans. “He destroyed my son and took from my family Ron’s future and life. And for that I’ll hate him always and find him despicable,” Fred Goldman told ABC last week.

The industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable editorialized against the show Monday, saying “FOX should cancel this evil sweeps stunt.” One of the nation’s largest superstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity.

Last week, Judith Regan, would-be publisher of Simpson’s book, said she did not pay Simpson for the rights to publish his book. “What I do know is I didn’t pay him,” Regan said in an eight-page statement titled “Why I Did It.” “I contracted through a third party who owns the rights, and I was told the money would go to his children. That much I could live with.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 04:19 PM   
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Unbelievable

An African nation that is predominantly Muslim ... which recognizes Israel ... and has banned Islamic political parties ... and is helping in the war on terror ... and has oil to sell. Somebody wake me up. I must be dreaming.

Of course you all know that once the Mad Mullahs in Iran and the WhackJob Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia get wind of this there will be hell to pay. I am going to make it my own personal JIHAD to keep an eye on this tiny little country and if anyone interferes with them I’m gonna scream from the rooftops and raise hell as loudly as I can. Anyone out there want to help?

Mauritania Stages Historic Poll
_{(BBC) - Sunday, 19 November 2006, 19:17 GMT}

Mauritanians have voted in the North African country’s first election since last year’s bloodless coup ended 20 years of authoritarian rule. Turnout was said to be high and long queues formed even before polls opened. Nearly one million people were eligible to vote in the national parliament and municipal council polls.

The military junta which took over after the ousting of President Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya had promised an early return to civilian government.

After casting his vote, the junta leader Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall said he was “satisfied to see Mauritanians embark on the road to democracy and consequently on the way to economic development and political stability.”

The first provisional results are expected late on Monday. This poll will be followed by elections for the senate in January and for the president two months later. The BBC’s North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton says there seems to be a thirst for democracy.

In June, turnout was also high in a referendum on a new constitution which, among other things, put a two-term limit on any future president. Observers from the European Union were monitoring the elections and so far no problems have been reported.

At least 28 political parties were competing to be represented in the 95-member lower house of parliament, the National Assembly - although only five parties were considered to be front-runners.

But Islamist parties and movements, considered to be among the most popular in the country, have been banned. This has resulted in many Islamist candidates standing as independents.

Because Mauritania is home to a number of different racial groups from Arabs and Berbers to black sub-Saharan tribes, it is predicted that people may have voted along ethnic lines, our correspondent says.

The largely desert country started pumping oil in February this year, so how that could help development was one of the biggest issues facing voters. Mauritania is one of the few Arabic countries to have recognised Israel and has also co-operated in the US “war against terror”.

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 03:24 PM   
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Nightmare

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New Peace Plan

Anti-War Activists Plan ‘Global Orgasm For Peace’

(CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter.

But they don’t want you marching in the streets. They’d much rather you just stay home.

The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, whose immodest goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm Dec. 22 while focusing on world peace.

“The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it,” Reffell said Sunday. “Your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.”

The couple are no strangers to sex and social activism. Sheehan, no relation to anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, brought together nearly 50 women in 2002 who stripped naked and spelled out the word “Peace.”

The stunt spawned a mini-movement called Baring Witness that led to similar unclothed demonstrations worldwide.

The couple have studied evolutionary psychology and believe that war is mainly an outgrowth of men trying to impress potential mates, a case of “my missile is bigger than your missile,” as Reffell put it.

By promoting what they hope to be a synchronized global orgasm, they hope to get people to channel their sexual energy into something more positive.

The couple said interest appears strong, with 26,000 hits a day to their Web site, http://www.globalorgasm.org.

“The dream is to have everyone in the world (take part),” Reffell said. “And if that means laying down your gun for a few
minutes, then hey, all the better.”

I’m sure they have realized that thier little stunt has the initials G.O.P., right  

Posted by Drew458     on 11/20/2006 at 10:36 AM   
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Bombs Away!

I don’t think “human shields” is quite the proper term for these retards. I prefer to use the term “targets of opportunity”. Fire when ready! Smack down a few thousand at one swipe. They’re breeding so fast in there that they’ll replace them in a week.

There are 1.4 million of these morons living in 200 square miles of desolation. Did you know the median age in this hellhole is only 15.4 years? Go look at the CIA World Factbook for Gaza Strip if you don’t believe me. Even more scary is the fact that there are 39.45 births per 1000 but only 3.8 deaths per 1000. They’re breeding new suicide bombers ten times faster than they’re blowing themselves up.

So I say ‘bombs away” to our friends in Israel. You do what you have to do. The UN will bitch but that’s one dog that has no teeth. We’ll consider it “population management”. If the loons can come up with smarmy sounding terms for bad things like calling killing babies “pro choice” then we need to come up with a few ourselves.

Gazans Gather To Foil Air Strike
_{GAZA STRIP (BBC) - Monday, 20 November 2006, 12:06 GMT}

Large numbers of Palestinians have converged on a home in Gaza belonging to a senior member of the ruling Palestinian militant group Hamas. The move follows reports the Israeli air force was about to attack it, but there has been no confirmation of this.

The Israeli army often orders people in out of their homes ahead of attacks. It says this is to avoid casualties. Similar action on Saturday caused Israel to call off an air strike on the home of another militant leader. The building is in Beit Lahiya, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The BBC’s Alan Johnston in Gaza says the owner of the two-floor house told him that the Israelis had warned him that they planned to attack his home. The air force often telephones a warning 10 minutes before a strike to give the occupants time to escape and keep down casualties, our correspondent says.

Mosques in Gaza have been calling on volunteers to assemble to protect the house. Our correspondent says there is a crowd in the street and young men with Hamas flags are sitting on the roof. “I came as a citizen because the danger is not a house of Hamas. The danger is to all the houses, and this is a simple message to strengthen national unity,” local Fatah leader Zuhdi Kilani told AP news agency.

On Saturday, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging an immediate end to all acts of violence by Israelis and Palestinians. Included in this were Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rocket fire into Israel.

The measure also called on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to investigate the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun, which resulted in the deaths of 19 Palestinians earlier this month. Israeli forces have made regular incursions into Gaza and the West Bank following the capture of an Israeli soldier, Cpl Gilad Shalit, in a cross-border raid by Palestinian militants on 25 June.

About 400 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed in the attacks. Israel says that these raids are an attempt to stop rocket fire into Israel by Palestinian militants. Meanwhile, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says talks on a national unity government have been suspended. A leading Hamas representative has denied this.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 08:31 AM   
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Pee-Nuts

_{John Trever - The Albuquerque Journal}

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 08:26 AM   
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Getting Drafty In Here

I’m sure I’ve confessed to all of you about my “prodigal son”, haven’t I? The 35-year-old dipshit, perpetual college student who has wandered over to the Liberal dark side while at school. Fortunately, I have two sons so if I have to take this one out, I’ll have a spare to keep the genes in the pool.

The doofus son and I got into quite an argument back in the summer of 2004 when he stopped by to visit on the way back to school.  He didn’t want to watch FOX News and I didn’t want to watch CNN so we retired to neutral corners and watched MSNBC (which was almost as bad as CNN). But that wasn’t where the real argument began. Nosiree.

We started talking about candidates and I got an earful of the usual Liberal bilge about Kerry. Now I know why some animals kill and eat their young. Darwin at work in its purest form, I say. He threw all kinds of rumors at me that the students at the University Of New Mexico were talking about - that Michael Moore was going to be arrested, the Bush wouldn’t step down if Kerry was elected and the one that literally cracked me up and had me rolling on the floor ... that Bush was going to reinstate the draft if he won so he could throw more young people in the “Iraq meat ginder”. His words, not mine.

I decided at that point to cut him out of the will and began to wonder exactly what kind of insanity jiuce they were putting in the water fountains at our nation’s colleges. Regardless, I have a message for Mister Pinhead Useless Son today. Are you ready for this, you total waste of sperm? Here goes ....

Amid Uproar Over War, Rangel Renews Call for Draft
_{(WASHGINTON POST) - Monday, November 20, 2006}

The incoming Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said yesterday that he will push to renew the military draft, as lawmakers in both parties sharpened their criticisms of the situation in Iraq and struggled for consensus and solutions.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a likely presidential contender, leveled one of his harshest assessments yet, saying U.S. troops are “fighting and dying for a failed policy.” He renewed his call for more U.S. troops in Iraq and said it is immoral to keep them fighting at the current deployment levels.

And Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), incoming chairman of the Armed Services Committee, repeated yesterday his view that troop withdrawals must begin within four to six months.

The varying proposals underscored the extent to which key policymakers remain at odds two weeks after voters registered deep discontent over the war and restored Democrats to power in Congress.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) has long advocated returning to the draft, but his efforts drew little attention during the 12 years that House Democrats were in the minority. Starting in January, however, he will chair the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. Yesterday he said “you bet your life” he will renew his drive for a draft.

“I will be introducing that bill as soon as we start the new session,” Rangel said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He portrayed the draft, suspended since 1973, as a means of spreading military obligations more equitably and prompting political leaders to think twice before starting wars.

“There’s no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm’s way,” said Rangel, a Korean War veteran. “If we’re going to challenge Iran and challenge North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to Iraq, we can’t do that without a draft.” Rangel has drawn modest support for his draft proposal in recent years and it has been unclear whether its prospects might improve in the 110th Congress.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 11/20/2006 at 08:04 AM   
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Caption Contest

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   Sunday - November 19, 2006

On This Day In History

In the three days in July that the battle of Gettysburg raged during the Civil War, there were nearly 60,000 casualties. Lincoln took time out in late November to dedicate the field in Pennsylvania where so many sacrificed their lives in defense of liberty and the union.

It is also fitting that we take time today to remember a battle that ended in another field in Pennsylvania not more than fifty miles from Gettysburg on the morning of September 11, 2001. The 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 proved once again that courage, sacrifice and the defense of freedom are timeless and part of what we are - Americans. Let’s roll!

November 19, 1863 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/19/2006 at 06:36 PM   
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The Great Flood?

May 10, 2807 BC - Noah and his sons finally had all the animals aboard and Noah knew that the bright light in the Southern sky was the hand of God about to descend on the idol worshipers and sinful people of Earth. All he could do was wait and pray the ship held together. Suddenly, the ground shook beneath the huge ship and it rocked on the beams propping it up as if the planet was wrenching in agony at some mysterious intrusion.

Gradually, over the course of the next few hours, the trembling slowed down with occasional tremors moving the giant ship around more and more. Slowly the sky began to darken as day turned into night. The animals stirred restlessly and outside large crowds of those God intended to destroy gathered and began pounding on the sides of the ship.

Then the rains came and lightning flashed across the sky in mighty rumbling sheets of righteous energy from the hand of God. Noah and his family huddled together and prayed while from the South a huge wall of water several hundred feet high approached at blinding speed, washing all before it. The cleansing had begun ....

At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.

On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction — toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.

The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.

-- “Ancient Crash, Epic Wave” (NY TIMES)

This asteroid landed in the seabed (30.87 S / 61.36 E - See Map Below) and sent a 600-900 foot high wall of water - a megatsunami - around the Indian Ocean, impacting land as far away as Australia, and crashing onto the coast of Africa, up the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and quite possibly into the Mediterranean Sea as well.

This asteroidal impact would have sent a huge surge of water into the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, flooding the ancient land of Sumeria, the source of the Biblical flood legend. Indeed, Sir Leonard Wooley, the archaeologist who discovered the city of Ur, found 30 feet of flood-deposited sand that separated the most ancient levels of the city from newer habitation levels on top of the flood debris.

Abbott’s findings of deep-sea meteor/asteroid strike craters (which she has developed the technology to discover) indicates that large-scale cosmic strikes hit the earth much more frequently than scientists have previously postulated - perhaps every 1 to 3 thousand years, instead of every hundred thousand or so.

Large asteroid strikes also produce weather alterations, and many more global phenomena. Interestingly, the period 2800BC is when the first dynasty of Egypt started.

-- “Origin Of The Flood Legends” (HISTORY CHANNEL)

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/19/2006 at 03:19 PM   
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Military Experts At The Times

The NY Times has an editorial today explaining what needs to be done to “fix” the US Military that Donald Rumsfeld “destroyed”. Thank goodness we have the military experts behind the desks at the Times to advise us on proper staffing and equipping our troops. What would we do without them? Of course you know by now that it’s time for The Skipper to go on a fisking rampage. Everyone stand clear ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/19/2006 at 01:42 PM   
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Sunday Funnies

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Making A Difference

Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt

This moving photograph shows Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, superintendent of the 22nd Wing Medical Group at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, holding an injured Iraqi girl.

The picture was taken in October 2006, while Sgt. Gebhardt was deployed to Balad Air Base in Iraq. According to the Air Force Print News, the infant girl Sgt. Gebhardt held in his arms “received extensive gunshot injuries to her head when insurgents attacked her family killing both of her parents and many of her siblings.”

She was cared for by John’s hospital and healing up, but has been crying and moaning. The nurses said John is the only one she seems to calm down with, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both sleep in that chair.

The girl is coming along with her healing. Sgt. Gebhardt is now back home in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife and two children.

“I pray for the best for the Iraqi children,” he said. “I can’t tell the difference between their kids and our kids. The Iraqi parents have the same care and compassion for their children as any American.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/19/2006 at 12:00 AM   
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