Sunday - December 10, 2006

Caption Contest

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Through The Looking Glass

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Sunday Odds And Ends

• William Jefferson (known for keeping cold cash bribes in the freezer) has won the runoff election in Louisiana. Having re-elected one of the most corrupt politicians in Louisiana history, the people of that state now want you to throw more money at them to ... erh ... uh ... fix the mess left by Katrina.


• Iraqi President Jalal Talabani doesn’t like the Iraqi Study Group’s report. What’s not to like - we cut and run, Iraq descends into chaos as Shiites and Sunnis fight over the remains and leaders like Mr. Talabani have their heads removed. And ... Donks blame Bush. More fun for everyone!


• The Donald Rumsfeld Farewell Tour 2006 is in Iraq this week. Reports are that Rummy had to leave the US before the ACLU filed suit and he had to bypass Germany on the tour for similar reasons. Rumors are Rummy plans to retire to an undisclosed location.


• Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is dead. Now joining Yassir Arafat, Adolph Hitler and Idi Amin in nice cozy spot in hell - soon to be complete with addition of Saddam Hussein. Word is out that they plan to form a rock group for Satan and the damned. Help them pick a name.


• Chicago shooter storms in to law office and kills four people in hail of gunfire because ... someone stole his toilet truck. I’d be mad too if someone stole my .... SAY WHAT?


• Finally, in Cleveland the surfers are out catching waves and hanging ten on Lake Erie, one of the most polluted waters in North America and they have the lake all to themselves because temps are down in the 20’s. Key quote in this story comes from one experienced muck-surfer: “Surfing Lake Erie is basically disgusting but then I catch that wave and I forget about it, and I feel high all day. I was so excited I could barely sleep last night.”

KOWABUNGA!

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/10/2006 at 01:02 PM   
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Clinton: Part II

Hillary Can Win But Mustn’t
-- By Dick Morris

Now that Hillary has dropped the coy pretense of indecision that she used to justify her reelection to a Senate seat she no longer wants and has told friends that she plans to run for president, two questions present themselves: Can she win? And what kind of a president would she be?

She definitely can win … and probably will. She is uniquely able to expand the electorate to bring in millions of women, mostly single, who will vote overwhelmingly for a female Democrat. The feminization of poverty, long decried by the left, will finally lead unmarried women to show up at the polling place and vote their short-term economic interest and vindicate their gender bias.

In 2000, only 19 million single women voted. By 2004, their turnout rose to 27 million. With Hillary in the race, the single-female vote will probably go up to its proper ratio of the adult population — 33 million votes.

Can white men outvote single women? Despite the intensity with which white men tend to oppose Hillary, they can’t vote twice.

The enthusiasm that will grip many Americans — women in particular — at the cultural implications of a woman president will probably sweep through the primaries and cause many to overlook Hillary’s flaws and dismiss her defects. The generic of a woman candidate will prove so attractive that millions of voters will overcome their objections to the specific person who is running.

Her mastery of the establishment of the Democratic Party, her vast lead among ex-officio delegates — many of whom have received campaign contributions from her coffers — and the celebrity draw of her ex-president husband will prove hard for a mere mortal to overcome.

But should she win? No way! Those who know both Hillary and Bill well and are willing to speak frankly in public realize the fundamental differences between the two and grasp how his abilities are the counterpoints to her defects.

He is intensely creative, constantly turning issues over in his mind seeking new solutions. She rarely has a new idea but specializes in advocacy — the rote recitation of talking points.

He has an instinctual feel for people and an uncanny ability to read a room and know what everyone in it is thinking. She is obtuse in her understanding of people and ham-handed in her approach.

He cares deeply about being loved. She seeks popularity as a means to the goal of getting elected but otherwise marches to the beat of her inner, liberal drummer.

He distrusts ideology, and his innate perfectionism finds all belief systems flawed. She swallows the ideological line of the guru du jour hook, line and sinker. During the healthcare years, it was Ira Magaziner who pushed her buttons. When she decided to back the Iraq War, it was the generals who paraded before her committee. She is vulnerable to a cultish adoration of the guys with all the answers.

He lets the give and take of politics wash off his back. A critic is a potential convert whom he hopes to charm over to his side. She has a rigidly dichotomized view of friends and enemies, demanding total loyalty and public silence from the former and maintaining a ruthless determination to destroy the latter. She is a Democratic Nixon to those whom she perceives as her enemies.

He is a moderate by instinct, seeking incremental change. She devotedly and deeply believes in a European-style socialism in which government takes much more of our national income and offers a far wider array of services and benefits. He’ll raise taxes when he has to. She’ll increase them just to redistribute income.

He’s most like Eisenhower, Kennedy and Bush Sr. — feeling his way, acting with caution, and skeptical of all advice. She is more like LBJ, Nixon or Bush Jr. — determined to charge ahead and do what she thinks needs to be done, the torpedoes be damned.

And finally, he knows who he is and, except for his private shortcomings, is not ashamed to let it show. She constantly seeks to reinvent herself and rigidly maintains an almost totally inaccurate image in public of what she is really like in private. He has little discipline. Hers is iron. His caution is innate. Hers is a learned response to what happens when people see who she really is.

He made a very good domestic-policy president. She would be a disaster at home and abroad.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 12/10/2006 at 02:35 AM   
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Sunday Funnies

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   Saturday - December 09, 2006

Mini-Indians

Unexplained Mystery #69: If their dinguses are so small then why are there so many of them? One thing’s for sure, we won’t be outsourcing porn flick production to India any time soon. Mheh ....

Speak up, sir...You need the extra small condoms?
_{NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fri Dec 8, 8:21 AM ET}

Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.

The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 2.4 cm (one inch) shorter than those condoms catered for.

For a further 30 percent, the difference was at least 5 cm (two inches). A poor fit meant the prophylactics often didn’t do the job they were bought for, and led to some tearing or slipping off during use.

“One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis,” the council’s Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.

Puri said many men in India, which has the world’s highest HIV positive caseload, were too shy to ask for condoms. “We need more vending machines for condoms of different sizes so people can pick a condom with confidence that is suited to their needs,” he said.

The Times of India reported the ICMR survey had studied 1,400 men between 18-50 years of age in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as well as in rural areas in a report. It entitled its story “Indian men don’t measure up.”

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Christmas Gift Idea #16

Treat the whole family to a Merry Christmas this year with the Panasonic TH-50PX60U 50” Plasma HDTV. Pay no attention to C|Net’s retail prices below. They were selling for $3,500 but are now down to around $2,000 during the Silly Season. The picture quality is mind-boggling. I know - I just bought one for myself from Sears ($2,280 delivered and setup). I finally decided to trade in the 10-year-old 55” Hitachi rear-projection box for this slim beauty.

I’ve spent the last week re-watching some of my favorite DVD’s and browsing the 15 HDTV channels that Charter offers now. The sound is better than C|Net makes out, especially if you switch on Surround Sound. Still, I’d highly recommend hooking it up to a Home Theater system. I have a complete Sony sound system with Bose speakers all over the living room.

With this screen and the digital sound around me, Sunday’s football games (most of which are now broadcast in HDTV) are AWESOME! I feel like I’m right in the huddle sweating and cussing with the offensive linemen.Over the last fifty years or so, I’ve watched television grow from small, grainy black and white screens with constant snow interference to this lifelike screen. Now that’s progress.

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/09/2006 at 12:58 PM   
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Weekend Eye Candy

OK, OK. I got the hint from those of you who aren’t too excited about blondes. This weekend you get a special preview of the January issue of Playboy with some pics of Miss January, Jayde Nicole (an absolutely lovely brunette). I have to admit I didn’t notice her hair color at first. It took me even longer to find the tattoo ...

(Warning: NSFW)
 

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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Dance With The Devil

_{Gary McCoy - Cagle Cartoons}

Iraqis Line Up to Put Hussein in the Noose
_{BAGHDAD (NY TIMES) - December 9, 2006}

One of the most coveted jobs in Iraq does not yet exist: the executioner for Saddam Hussein. The death sentence against Mr. Hussein is still under review by an appeals court, but hundreds of people have already started lobbying the prime minister’s office for the position.

They have sent messages through cabinet officials and their assistants, and by way of government guards and clerical workers. One candidate, an Iraqi Shiite living in London whose brother was killed by Mr. Hussein, telephoned an aide to the prime minister to say he was prepared to drop everything and fly to Baghdad to execute the former ruler.

“One of the hardest tasks will be to determine who gets to be the hangman because so many people want revenge for the loss of their loved ones,” said Basam Ridha, an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

Mr. Hussein and two of his top associates, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bandar, were sentenced to “death by hanging” on Nov. 5 for their involvement in the arrest and killings of 148 men and boys after an assassination attempt against him in the town of Dujail in 1982. The nine-judge appeals bench has no time limit to issue its ruling, but if it upholds the death sentence, Mr. Hussein’s execution must be carried out within 30 days.

Iraqi judicial officials said they expected that the appeals process would be completed in a matter of weeks and, if the sentence is upheld, that Mr. Hussein’s hanging would take place between mid-January and mid-March.

The Shiite-led government has argued for a swift execution, saying that as long as Mr. Hussein is alive, he remains a powerful source of motivation for elements of the Sunni Arab insurgency fighting to restore him to power.

There are other critical issues the government will need to decide should the appeals court uphold the death sentence against Mr. Hussein, including where he will be executed.

Officials have considered staging a public hanging in Baghdad’s largest sports arena, Shaab Stadium, and filling the place with tens of thousands of spectators, according to a high-ranking government official involved in the executions process, who agreed to discuss the subject on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about it on the record.

But while such a spectacle might satisfy a communal need for closure, the authorities have rejected the idea for security reasons. A target that big, they say, would be highly vulnerable to attack by Sunni insurgents who might try to lob a few mortar shells into the crowd or ambush spectators on their way to and from the event.

Government hangings are now conducted in a prison complex in eastern Baghdad. Mr. Hussein, who is being held at Camp Cropper, an American military prison near Baghdad International Airport, could be transported to those gallows by helicopter. But officials worry that the trip would present an unnecessary opportunity for a rescue attempt by his sympathizers. Most likely, officials say, Mr. Hussein will be hanged at gallows specially built for him at Camp Cropper.

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Barking Moonbat Of The Week

In an election in which Democrats took control of Congress, one prominent Donk lost and will not be returning to Washington. I can’t say this stupid beeyatch will really be missed by anyone except me. Cynthia McKinney has been the poster child for the insane Left in this country and now I’ll have to scrounge up another fine example of Mental Moonbattery™ in the Democratic party.

The only one who even comes close to “Moonbat McKinney” is Dennis Kookcinich. Dumbass Dennis is going to have to really get weird and obnoxious to replace KcKinney as chairman of the House Fruitcake Committee. Dennis, we’re really depending on you, buddy. As for Cynthia ... you just have to know she couldn’t leave without one last parting shot of insanity ...

McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush
_{WASHINGTON (AP) _ Dec 08 9:41 PM US/Eastern}

In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.

The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.

McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation’s laws. In the bill, she accused Bush of misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.

McKinney has made no secret of her frustration with Democratic leaders since voters ousted her from office in the Democratic primary this summer. In a speech Monday at George Washington University, she accused party leaders of kowtowing to Republicans on the war in Iraq and on military mistreatment of prisoners. McKinney, who has not discussed her future plans, has increasingly embraced her image as a controversial figure.

She has hosted numerous panels on Sept. 11 conspiracy theories and suggested that Bush had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks but kept quiet about it to allow friends to profit from the aftermath. She introduced legislation to establish a permanent collection of rapper Tupac Shakur’s recordings at the National Archives and calling for a federal investigation into his killing.

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   Friday - December 08, 2006

Christmas Gift Idea #17

Are you looking for the perfect gift to satisfy your inner Jurassic child? Warning: if you buy one for your kids, they will hate you unless you stop playing with it and occasionally let them have it. Check out the Discovery Channel Shop website for this “beast” and while you’re there be sure to play the flash movie showing this mechanical predator in action. Coolness level: +10.

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An Inconvenient Freeze

Active 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season Is Forecast
_{MIAMI (Reuters) - Fri Dec 8, 2006 10:44am ET148}

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season will be busier-than-average with an expected 14 tropical storms, of which seven will strengthen into hurricanes, a noted forecasting team founded by Dr. William Gray said on Friday.

The prediction for a busy year by the Colorado State University forecasters was the second in two days from reputable forecasters to warn that the below-average 2006 season was likely to be just a lull in an extended period of heightened Atlantic storm activity.

The CSU team, led by Gray and Philip Klotzbach, failed as did other forecasters to accurately foresee that the 2006 season would be a modest compared to ferocious hurricane seasons in both 2005 and 2004.

The hurricane experts said they had failed to take into account the unexpected formation of an El Nino weather phenomenon in the eastern Pacific, which tends to dampen Atlantic storm activity.

The CSU team said in its first forecast for the 2007 storm season, which begins on June 1, that of the seven hurricanes foreseen, three were expected to become “intense” hurricanes, with winds exceeding 111 miles per hour (178 km per hour).

“The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be more active than the average 1950-2000 season,” Klotzbach said in a statement. “However, this is an early prediction. One of the important questions for the upcoming season is whether El Nino conditions will continue through 2007.”

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Those Who Forget The Past …

_{“Then And Now” -by- Cox & Forkum}

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/08/2006 at 06:04 AM   
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The Wrong War?

Paul Krugman at the New York Times is already beating the “told you so” drum over Iraq. He also thinks anyone who doesn’t agree with his appraisal of the war in Iraq is a “neocon dead-ender”. I have to disagree with Mr. Krugman for one very important reason: this was never about Iraq, it has always been about US politics.

While the administration and our troops have been fighting a war in Afghanistan and Iraq against Islamofascists, the real enemy has been hard at work right here at home in America. I’m talking about the war that has been waged against George W. Bush and the Republican Congress for six years. That is the wrong war, not the one in Iraq.

With the help of George Soros’ millions and American citizens perfectly willing to sell out their country with security leaks and baseless accusations, these people have been fighting the War On Bush (WOB) and now it seems they are winning. To them the war in Iraq has been merely a sideshow - and a tool to bash Bush with.

Victory is within their grasp now that their incessant whining and complaining has managed to finally win an election. They have been telling us the war in Iraq was a mistake for years to the point that it has become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Their persistence in the WOB has been monumental to say the least.

All I have seen in the news lately has been argument after argument that the war in Iraq was a mistake, that we had the wrong goals or that we didn’t have a plan to pacify the country when we went in. They’re all content now that they have proved themselves right. But are they right?

Krugman goes on in the editorial to heap praise on Democrats who supposedly “opposed” the war in Iraq from the beginning. He forgets to mention the Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy and others in that party who called Saddam Hussein a direct threat to the US long before George Bush came into office.

No, as usual people like Mr. Krugman remember what they want to remember and forget the rest. They forget things like Bosnia, which in my opinion comes closer to the definition of “the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Of course, that war was started by Bill Clinton - who could do no wrong in their eyes, so it must have been a “good war” to them.

The so-called “civil war” in Iraq is nothing compared to the one being fought here in America. For the time being, the Democrats and deranged liberals like Mr. Krugman are winning. They are winning thanks to Improvised Explosive Accusations (IEA) and and Bald Face Lies (BFL) and Treasonous Security Leaks (TSL). They do indeed have a timetable for withdrawal and it has nothing to do with Iraq. It calls for the complete withdrawal of George Bush by January 20, 2008. Nothing less will satisfy them.

And so it was with those who warned against invading Iraq. At best, they were ignored. A recent article in The Washington Post ruefully conceded that the paper’s account of the debate in the House of Representatives over the resolution authorizing the Iraq war — a resolution opposed by a majority of the Democrats — gave no coverage at all to those antiwar arguments that now seem prescient.

At worst, those who were skeptical about the case for war had their patriotism and/or their sanity questioned. The New Republic now says that it “deeply regrets its early support for this war.” Does it also deeply regret accusing those who opposed rushing into war of “abject pacifism?”

Now, only a few neocon dead-enders still believe that this war was anything but a vast exercise in folly. And those who braved political pressure and ridicule to oppose what Al Gore has rightly called “the worst strategic mistake in the history of the United States” deserve some credit.

-- Paul Krugman, “They Told You So” - NY TIMES Editorial, December 8, 2006

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/08/2006 at 05:11 AM   
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