Saturday - April 14, 2007

Barking Moonbat Of The Week

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/14/2007 at 07:57 AM   
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Nappy Headed Death Threats

Life lesson #1: everything you say and do has consequences of one kind or another. Dom Imus found that out last week. Now the backlash begins and others are finding out that rousing the rabble can be dangerous. Al Sharpton is just now learning that stirring his mob to hatred and anger also stirred another mob to anger. I can’t condone death threats but I definitely can say I’m not surprised at this turn of events. This whole sorry affair got way out of hand a long time ago. It’s probably going to get worse before it’s over. Much worse. With any luck, the Sharpton/Jackson blackmail machine is about to be put out of business.

What Imus did and said was wrong. He deserves to be punished. This whole matter could have been handled quietly with a personal apology to the girls, a monetary fine and a suspension without pay until things cool down. That wasn’t enough for the Race War Machine which had to go and get everyone all fired up and angry to the point where the networks and their advertisers were subjected to blackmail while Sharpton and Jackson splashed everything all over the media and fanned the flames of racial tension purely for personal aggrandizement.

I, for one, am really getting sick and tired of idiots with big mouths and small brains - on both sides of this affair ... and everywhere in the media nowadays. The really sad news is that there is an epidemic of this behavior lately with Rosie O’Donnell, Cindy Sheehan and many others running their mouths without any regard for the consequences. Whatever happened to civility and common sense in this country anyway? How did so many people become this mean spirited and angry? More importantly, how do we stop it?

Sharpton Security Increases Amid Death Threats
National Action Network Cites Numerous Calls, E-mails
_{(CBS) NEW YORK - April 14, 2007}

The National Action Network has increased the Rev. Al Sharpton’s security due to a number of death threats in the wake of the firing of radio host Don Imus by MSNBC and CBS Radio. There will also be added security at the National Action Network’s headquarters in Harlem.

“We have no way of knowing the seriousness of these threats, but they have intensified greatly in the last two days as Rev. Sharpton was figured prominently in the firing of Don Imus,” Attorney Charlie King said in a statement early Saturday morning.

“Since Rev. Sharpton survived a personal assassination attempt where he was stabbed, we take any and all threats, especially at this volume, very serious. Therefore, all may be comfortable that we will not take the safety of our staff or that of our President lightly.”

Sharpton was stabbed in the chest by Michael Riccardi on Jan. 12, 1991, as the Reverend was leading a protest in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. Sharpton later filed suit against the city accusing the NYPD of failing to protect him. The two sides eventually settled.

Sharpton took up the cause of the members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team after Imus referred to them as “nappy-headed hos” on his radio show last week.

Sharpton told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer on Friday that just hours after he met with CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves on Thursday he got a call that Imus was getting fired. “I remember saying to Mr. Moonves, ‘if you said it, you’d be fired. Does he have more rights than you?’” Sharpton said.

Part of Sharpton’s power and visibility comes from his National Action Network—with its half a million supporters across the country, and his ability to mobilize both opinions and protesters.

Despite toning down his flamboyant and combative style over the years, many still think Sharpton hasn’t done enough to erase his controversial past. His most talked about misstep came two decades ago when he threw much-publicized support behind then-15-year-old Tawana Brawley. The black woman received national attention after claiming she was raped by half a dozen white men, including police officers, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

The alleged incident soon became a media sensation, with Sharpton pulling all the strings. However, a grand jury investigated and in October 1988 said there was a lack of evidence that she had been abducted, assaulted, raped or sodomized.

“He could be much more of a formidable force in this country, much more of a leader and respected across the board if he just said I apologize for my past. I did wrong. I’m sorry,” radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams told CBS 2 on Friday.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/14/2007 at 07:18 AM   
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Weekend Eye Candy

College Girls

Conference USA

What are you waiting for?

Click the picture. Enter the gallery.

Warning: (NSFW)

Posted by Hugh Hefner     on 04/14/2007 at 07:06 AM   
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   Friday - April 13, 2007

Firearms Party

The Skipper will not be blogging today and maybe not much tomorrow. It’s time for our annual firearms party and this year it’s in St. Louis! I decided to pass on the big banquet last night because I hate getting all dressed up in formal wear for a $65 dinner. The real fun begins today at the Americas Center in downtown St. Louis with the annual exhibitor’s open house. I’m so excited I’m about to pee myself. Oops. Never mind.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I plan on being downtown, wandering around getting my fill of NRA-goodness the rest of today and most of tomorrow. “The Rockin’ Rifleman”, Ted Nugent, is going to be downtown tomorrow afternoon for a “meet-and-greet” session with everyone. If you’re in St. Louis, drop by and enjoy the fun. I’ll be the tall (6’3") big guy (260 lbs.) with light brown hair and a Canon Sportster Pro I around his neck, wandering from booth to booth begging for handouts to fill my goodie bag. See ya there!

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/13/2007 at 02:00 PM   
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More Biased Reporting?

Blackfive has an interesting letter from a guy who is there on the ground.  He says the Parlament building is not even in the green zone.  But we keep hearing the MSN spout how this “insurgent” had to cross no fewer than six checkpoints to get to there.  WTF?  Who is right here?

Actually, depite the reporting I’ve heard from CNN, BBC and NPR, which keeps up the ominous drone of doom about the terrorists breaching the Parliament buliding in “the heart of the heavily fortified Green Zone,” the FACT is the Parliament buliding is NOT IN the Green Zone. We turned it over to the Iraqis in 2006. And when it was, it was at the outer NW edge of the Green or International Zone.

Of course, no one here especially expects the press, with its now, 4 year old biases to get it right. But that being said, I am beginning to believe there is something else going on here that this episode illustrates, which in an unfortunately perverse way, suggests deeper progresss.

Developing......

Posted by Drew458     on 04/13/2007 at 01:37 PM   
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Trinity Site Visit

Macker went to the Trinity Site.  Go see his photos of the tour.

Amazing stuff.  I bet it was awe-inspiring.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/13/2007 at 09:12 AM   
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   Thursday - April 12, 2007

The Final Blow

It’s now official - saying “nappy-headed ho’s” publicly will result in complete and utter destruction of one’s career and life. Imus has been fired from not only his TV show but his radio show as well after continued browbeating and pressure from Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson and Al “Duke Rapists” Sharpton. And it doesn’t stop there. In Pennsylvania, another radio DJ was also fired today ...

This has to stop. Imus is still planning to meet with the Rutgers ladies basketball team and personally apologize but I think it’s time Sharpton and Jackson got a taste of their own medicine. I’m asking for your help in organizing a national protest and boycott of anything to do with these two race-baiting “reverends”. It is time to put a stop to these vicious bastards who take such pleasure in destroying people’s lives over invented “racism” while getting away with even worse themselves. I’m open for ideas and asking for your support ...

CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur
(CBS/AP) - April 12, 2007

CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host’s derogatory comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.

“There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society,” CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. “That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision.”

It’s a stunning fall for one of the nation’s most prominent broadcasters. Time Magazine once named the cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he is a member of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame.

But Imus found himself at the center of a storm after he called members of the Rutgers team “nappy-headed hos” last week. Protests ensued, and one by one, numerous sponsors pulled their ads from Imus’ show. On Wednesday, MSNBC dropped its simulcast of the program.

Losing Imus will be a financial hit to CBS Radio, which also suffered when shock jock Howard Stern departed for satellite radio early last year. The program is worth about $15 million in annual revenue to CBS, which owns Imus’ home radio station, WFAN-AM in New York, and manages Westwood One, the company that syndicates the show across the country. CBS Corp. is also the parent company of CBSNews.com.

The Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met with Moonves to advocate Imus’ removal, promising a rally outside CBS headquarters Saturday and an effort to persuade more advertisers to abandon Imus.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 06:51 PM   
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Through The Looking Glass

“Tralfamador”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 04:16 PM   
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Obituary

Kurt Vonnegut
1922-2007

“Sirens Of Titan”, “Slaughterhouse Five”, “Breakfast Of Champions”, “Cat’s Cradle” and much more. I have read and enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut’s books since I was a teenager in the early 1960’s. Which is why I am having a hard time writing about the passing of a liberal, anti-war, cynical Leftist. Not that there’s anything wrong with that - as the popular Liberal slogan goes.

I guess for me the defining Vonnegut legacy can be embodied in his 1969 novel “Slaughterhouse Five”. The book is a semi-fictional recounting of the bombing of Dresden in WWII - an event that Vonnegut was firsthand witness to as a prisoner of war being held in that city. The allies carpet bombed the city so heavily that it created a firestorm of unimaginable ferocity - literally hell on Earth. 30,000 died and Vonnegut and other surviving POW’s were given the grim task of piling the bodies in heaps for mass cremations.

It was, I think, a defining moment for Vonnegut who was passionately anti-war the rest of his life, along with a man he became good friends with, Joseph Heller, whose book “Catch-22” also provided grist for the 1960’s anti-war mill. Unfortunately, “Slaughterhouse Five” was published at the height of the Vietnam War and, in addition to bringing fame to Vonnegut, also provided a manifesto of sorts for the anti-war movement. He later went on to embrace all the tenets of the Left including environmentalism and socialism.

So I have to confess that I loved reading all of Vonnegut’s books because the man did write some very thoughtful works, including some really great science-fiction ... in spite of the silly crowd he ended up hanging out with. Rest In Peace.

_{- NY TIMES: “Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84”}

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 04:10 PM   
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Lost!

Oh where, oh where can I be today? Lost for sure this time. We’re over the Left Coast of CONUS and that’s definitely a military base down below - but wait a minute .... that’s not an Air Force base I recognize. There’s choppers and other assorted fighters down there I don’t recall the USAF ever flying. I have a deep sinking feeling that I have stumbled across one of those bases run by ... EEYEWWW! ... Navy pukes or even worse (OMFG!) MARINES!

Wait a minute! I seem to recall a base like this in an old movie I saw some years back. Yeah, that stairwell in the pic below looks awfully familiar. Talk me down, Zoomies! Maybe we can get some of those hotshot flyboys down there to buy us a beer or three. Where am I?

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(Photo from Google Earth Desktop)}

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 03:16 PM   
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Glowbull Warming Update

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 01:26 PM   
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Bush Hid the Facts

OK, hopefully the Skipper has not posted this one too. 

With all this talk of Windoze and their desired domination of the world, there is an interesting tidbit hidden deep in the bowels of the application.

Open Notepad and type:

Bush hid the facts

Save the file and close Notepad.

Reopen the saved file

See?  The truthers were right after all!!!!!!

Posted by Drew458     on 04/12/2007 at 12:36 PM   
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Motivational Poster Of The Day

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 12:28 PM   
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Wishful Thinking

Here is my list of Things I Would Really Like To See:

• The Democratic Party prosecuted under the RICO Act.


• Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton forced to work for a living.


• Al Gore evicted from his mansion and living out of a tent.


• Cindy Sheehan walking the streets of Baghdad. Without body armor.


• Paris Hilton in a burkha. Forever.


• The Arabs run out of oil and suddenly realize we have all the water.


• Hugo Chavez in the same prison cell with Manuel Noriega. For life.


• Open season on lawyers. All year round. No limit.


• A personal computer operating system that never needs patches. And is free.


• Pop music that was actually worth listening to. And TV worth watching.


• Teddy Kennedy sentenced to twenty years hard labor for murder.


• Televised public hangings of convicted spammers.


• Dan Rather forced to take a polygraph.


• The United Nations building and all diplomats moved to Khartoum.


• Osama Bin Laden on trial in the US. Wearing a pink burkha.


• A large mushroom cloud over Teheran.


• The San Andreas Fault open up and California fall into the Pacific Ocean.


• The disappearance of the Muslim religion.


• Members of the US military paid as much as Hollywood actors.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2007 at 12:26 PM   
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