Friday - April 06, 2007

Armor-Up

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/06/2007 at 04:11 AM   
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Glowbull Warming Report

Look for a cold morning across the Southeast and this cold spell will last into the weekend. Lows Friday morning will plunge into the 20s as far south as northern Oklahoma and the Smoky Mountains. Thirties will dive into the Deep South, possibly as far as the Florida Panhandle.

Freeze warnings have been posted for Friday morning in parts of Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. Lows in the 20s will be widespread Friday morning in the interior Northeast. Thirties can be expected from the Virginia Tidewater to the Jersey Shore. By Saturday, freeze warnings may extend into northern Florida as an even colder shot of air rides southward.

Meanwhile, over three feet of lake-effect snow has buried parts of the U.P of Michigan. Lake effect snow will also continue downwind of all the Great Lakes. Over a foot of snow may fall into the higher elevations east and southeast of Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. Incredibly, much of Upstate New York suffered highs only in the 20s on Thursday.

-- The Weather Channel, April 6, 2007

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/06/2007 at 03:48 AM   
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Suckers

According to a recent Zogby Poll, approximately half of the people in the US are incredibly stupid, completely gullible and will buy anything. Coincidentally, the same group thinks the Clintons are not corrupt, that Elvis is working in a car wash in Duluth and the Air Force is hiding space aliens in Nevada.

As for the other 50% (which includes you and me - and I’m not too sure about you), we’re betting even money Slick Willie won’t be able to keep his pants zipped and Hillary will have more people whacked if the the couple moves back into the White House. Which group are you in?

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/06/2007 at 03:20 AM   
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   Thursday - April 05, 2007

Through The Looking Glass

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 07:36 PM   
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Lost!

Lost again! Way out West over CONUS. This one should be as easy as yesterdays “Lost” even if you never served in the USAF. The USAF base below is currently reporting 84 degrees on the ground but the tower says it is a “dry heat”. There are a bunch of A-10 “Warthawgs” in the bottom center. The A-10 is so darned ugly that it is downright beautiful - and one of the deadliest aircraft to take to the skies. In fact, this base is where the USAF trains A-10 and OA-10 pilots. If that isn’t enough hints fer you Zoomies, look in the right center of the picture. No, not the golf course ....

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 03:22 PM   
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Motivational Poster Of The Day - Extra Edition

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 02:38 PM   
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Motivational Poster Of The Day

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 02:18 PM   
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Annie Get Your Gun

Whew! I woke up this morning sweating in the sheets. I was dreaming I was on a beach on Cozumel lying in the sun, nude-sunbathing with Ann Coulter and she was talking about Democrats’ appeasement and lying Liberals. I love it when she talks dirty to me ...

If at First You Don’t Appease—Cry, Cry Again
by Ann Coulter
_{(HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE) - 04/04/2007}

In light of the increasing noise from the fifth column in America, it is a serious question whether President Bush would have the will to deploy military force even to stop a deadly serious threat to the United States.

I’m speaking, of course, of Darfur.

Saddam’s barbaric rape rooms, chemical attacks and torture—those, liberals could live with. But now they want us to send troops to Darfur, a country from which no one anticipates terrorism anytime in the next millennium. If you’re looking for a good definition of “no imminent threat,” Darfur is it. The climate change “emergency,” set to start taking effect sometime during the next century, is a more imminent threat to the United States than Darfur.

These people can’t even wrap up genocide. We’ve been hearing about this slaughter in Darfur forever—and they still haven’t finished. The aggressors are moving like termites across that country. It’s like genocide by committee. Who’s running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?

This is truly a war in which we have absolutely no interest. But liberals want our boys to go fight scimitar-wielding dervishes. While the Democrats hold pointless hearings into what George Bush had for breakfast, Republicans should pass a law prohibiting liberals from mentioning Darfur until Horace Mann and Dalton are prepared to put up a battalion.

So no, Darfur is not the threat I was imagining.

I haven’t even told you what that threat is—though a hostage-taking, Holocaust-denying lunatic who doesn’t own a necktie but is within two years of having a nuclear bomb comes to mind. You can already hear Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi saying, “If the Democrats were in charge, the use of military force wouldn’t be necessary because we’d constructively engage them and appease their stated desire to kill us.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 01:37 PM   
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Quote Of The Day

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-- Teddy Roosevelt, “The Man In The Arena”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 11:55 AM   
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Meddling Morons In Middle East

Madam Shrieker has been in the Middle East less than a week and she has already managed to stick her foot in her mouth by telling an outright lie to Syria and then buying into Syria’s bullshit propaganda.

This Tedious Twat From Tan Fwancisco has no business trying to circumvent the normal diplomatic process and will only cause the US and Israel more trouble in that region.

I recommend the State Department revoke her passport and refuse her re-entry back into the country. After all, there’s no telling what kinds of diseases she may have picked up over there. This exhibition of mental illness however has plagued her for years.

Bag the biatch in a burqha and see if some of those nice Muslims can beat some sense into her tiny, pointy little head. Heck, we’ll even throw in John Kerry as part of the deal if they’ll take her off our hands. Whaddya say, Mr. ASSad? Deal?

Pratfall In Damascus
Nancy Pelosi’s foolish shuttle diplomacy
_{EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON POST) - Thursday, April 5, 2007}

HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria.

What’s more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to “resume the peace process” as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. “We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria,” she said.

Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. “What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel,” said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister’s office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that “a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel.” In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel’s position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad’s words were mere propaganda.

Ms. Pelosi was criticized by President Bush for visiting Damascus at a time when the administration—rightly or wrongly—has frozen high-level contacts with Syria. Mr. Bush said that thanks to the speaker’s freelancing Mr. Assad was getting mixed messages from the United States. Ms. Pelosi responded by pointing out that Republican congressmen had visited Syria without drawing presidential censure. That’s true enough—but those other congressmen didn’t try to introduce a new U.S. diplomatic initiative in the Middle East. “We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace,” Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.

Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off U.N. charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president. Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush’s military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi’s attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 06:28 AM   
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Free At Last

LONDON (NY TIMES) - Thursday, April 5 — Iran on Thursday morning released the 15 British sailors and marines it seized at sea nearly two weeks ago, resolving a diplomatic impasse with what Iran’s president called a “gift” to the British people.

In announcing his intentions on Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that although Iran had every right to try the Britons on charges of trespassing in Iranian territorial waters, it would instead forgive them and allow them to go home.

The captives met with the British ambassador to Iran late Wednesday night, the Foreign Office said. But a spokesman said they were still in Iranian custody and that their travel arrangements were still being made.

About 7 a.m. Thursday in Tehran (4:30 a.m. in London), the Britons arrived at the airport for an 8 a.m. commercial flight to London, Reuters said. Shortly before 8:30, Iran Radio reported the plane had left.

On Wednesday, Iranian state television showed the president smiling, chatting and shaking the hands of some of the captives. Dressed in ill-fitting clothes apparently issued by their captors, the Britons waited in line to meet the president, looking almost as if they were a visiting sports team. “We are grateful for your forgiveness,” one said to Mr. Ahmadinejad, seemingly off the cuff.

News of the planned release, after days of behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvering, brought a peaceful, almost anticlimactic end to a crisis that began on March 23 when the Britons were seized in the disputed waters of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, just north of the Persian Gulf.

In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested that the resolution was a vindication of Britain’s two-pronged strategy of conciliation laced with toughness.

“Throughout, we have taken a measured approach, firm but calm, not negotiating but not confronting either,” Mr. Blair said. Britain bore no ill will toward the Iranian people, he told reporters, and respected Iran’s “proud and dignified history.”

Officials denied that concessions were made for the Britons’ release. But on Tuesday, an Iranian diplomat held by Iraqi forces for eight weeks was released, and on Wednesday, American officials said they were reviewing an informal request from the Iranian government for an envoy to visit five Iranians imprisoned after an American raid in northern Iraq in January.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 04:38 AM   
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Kerrys Temper Tantrum Fails

What’s not surprising in this little tale is that Democrats, most notably John “F’ing” Kerry, are a bunch of whining crybabies. Kerry grilled Fox mercilessly in Senate confirmation hearings and generally made an ass out of himself trying to exact revenge for Fox’s having donated to Swift Boat Veterans For Truth.

Here in St. Louis Fox is known as a philanthropist and highly respected businessman. In Kerry’s twisted view of the world, Fox is the reason why he lost the 2004 election so he pushed to deny Fox the chance to serve as Ambassador to Belgium. How petty can you get?

Then Kerry and the Donks complain that Bush is “abusing the powers of the Presidency” by bypassing the Senate. Bull feathers! It’s not like the Donks themselves haven’t done the same thing when they had control of the White House.

I’m really getting sick and tired of the two-faced politics of Democrats nowadays. The whole whining crybaby act is starting to wear thin too. Throw in the recent partisan divisiveness and all you have is a political party comprised of hacks, lowlifes and hypocrites who are kept in office by moron voters and criminal supporters using shady underhanded voting scams.

Bush Bypasses Senate To Name Ambassador
WASHINGTON (YAHOO NEWS) - April 5, 2007

President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination.

The appointment, made while lawmakers were out of town on spring break, prompted angry rebukes from Democrats, who said Bush’s action may even be illegal.

Democrats had denounced Fox for his donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential campaign. The group’s TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat’s election loss.

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation in the Foreign Relations Committee, Bush withdrew the nomination last week. On Wednesday, with the Senate on a one-week break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.

This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.

“It’s sad but not surprising that this White House would abuse the power of the presidency to reward a donor over the objections of the Senate,” Kerry said in a statement.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2007 at 04:13 AM   
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   Wednesday - April 04, 2007

Lost!

Would you believe I’m lost again? Actually, today I’m going to toss you Zoomies the easiest one yet. You will have exactly 30 seconds to identify this USAF base which is shared with a large civilian airport. It is in the United States and is a great base to be stationed at nowadays. In the picture below you can se a C-17 Globemaster III on approach to this base. Ready ... Set ... GO!

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Posted by The Skipper     on 04/04/2007 at 04:22 PM   
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Do “Assault Weapons” Cause Crime?

Great question, right?  So the “Coalition to Prevent Assault Weapon Violence” was formed.  From their “About Us” page:

The coalition was organized in the wake of the expiration of the 1994 Assault Weapon Ban that expired on September 13, 2004. It started when one of our founding members read a release by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence that AK47s and Uzis were coming to our neighborhood this summer.
We investigated and determined that all scientific research to date shows that these weapons are rarely used in crimes. We trust that John Kerry, the Brady Campaign, and independent experts like Tim Robbins would never mislead us, so we set out to prove what the experts cannot - that assault weapons do cause crime.

To that end, we obtained the above “Colt AR-15” assault rifle from a local death merchant and configured a web-cam and lighting to monitor it 24 hours a day.

Much to our embarassment, some astute volunteers pointed out that we needed to “load” the rifle with assault ammunition. A few days later, thanks to some generous paypal donations from our volunteers, we have the rifle loaded with a “magazine” and we again wait for spontaneous acts of violence.

That’s right.  Now we can finally put this meme to rest.  All we have to do is monitor their 24-hour webcam that is trained on the Evil Black Rifle and see if it commits any acts of violence.

Waiting...........

Posted by Drew458     on 04/04/2007 at 12:57 PM   
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