Monday - April 16, 2007

Tragic

You’ve heard by now that a gunman killed over 30 people and wounded another couple of dozen at Virginia Tech this morning.

Many bloggers are doing the heavy lifting with the updates, but one thing is certain: we will be hearing about how “critical” and “necessary” it will be for new gun laws and restrictions to be put in place to prevent this kind of tragedy in the future.

BULLSHIT!

Roanoke Times
Jan. 31, 2006

HB 1572, which would have allowed handguns on college campuses, died in subcommittee.

A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.

House Bill 1572 didn’t get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.

The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill’s defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.

That’s what would make students safer...having the ability to defend themselves.  Is that what the president of VA Tech thinks?

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”

One of my best friend’s daughter was outside the building this morning when this happened.  He is a shooter, and she knew exactly what to do when she heard the shots...get as far away, as fast as possible.  They are heading down now to see her and her friends and to offer help. 

Go read the updates at HotAir.  Good links there to others carrying the story.

**Update I
See?

High capacity ammo clips became widely available for sale when Congress failed to renew a law that banned assault weapons.

Virginia law enforcement officials have not identified the weapon used in the shootings today at Virginia Tech, but gun experts say the number of shots fired indicate, at the very least, that the gunman had large quantities of ammunition.

“When you have a weapon that can shoot off 20, 30 rounds very quickly, you’re going to have a lot more injuries,” said Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

“It’s not one or two shots at a time when you’re putting 20 bullets, spraying them into a classroom or into a dorm room,” Hamm said.

“Spraying them into a classroom”?  All indications are these were execution-style killings.  There are already thousands of gun laws on the books.  Do you think this murderer broke any? Hmmm?

Ignorance is Bliss

From James Toranto’s “Best of the Web”

Ignorance of the Lawmakers

Oh, this is rich. The New York Times reports from Trenton, capital of New Jersey:

State senators from both political parties said at a hearing on Wednesday that they had been shocked to learn that they had voted again and again in recent years for measures that had left the state pension in great distress, and they faulted the state treasury for failing to explain to them the risks of what they were doing.

“I had no idea we were in the company of some of the same corporations that I have condemned for not funding their pensions,” said Senator Shirley K. Turner, a Democrat from Mercer County. “And now, it seems, we’re in the same boat, and sinking.”

If lawmakers can pass laws without knowing their contents, how can any of us be expected to obey them?

Indeed.

Motivational Poster Of The Day

Heroes

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Christopher S. Adlesperger

When then-Pfc. Adlesperger and his squad approached a house on Nov. 10, 2004, in the treacherous city of Fallujah, they entered into one of the most difficult and dangerous battlefield situations: they faced an entrenched enemy in an urban setting – with an entrenched machine gun. As they entered the house, a volley of insurgent fire and grenades rained down upon them, immediately killing Adlesperger’s point man and injuring two others.

Without pause, Adlesperger took control and moved out front, despite receiving minor wounds. As Adlesperger began firing back from the point position, he became the main target of enemy fire – but, with most of his squad pinned down by insurgent fire, he had no choice but to push forward on his own.

Adlesperger single-handedly cleared the stairs to the rooftop, which allowed the unit to move injured Marines upstairs to receive medical attention. And as U.S. forces gathered for a major assault on the building, Adlesperger, still inside, began moving from one spot to another, eliminating enemies in close quarters or forcing them to move out of entrenched positions to areas where U.S. forces were waiting. Finally, an assault vehicle broke through a wall on the main floor.

Adlesperger rejoined his platoon and demanded to take point for the final attack on the entrenched machine gun. He entered the courtyard first, and eliminated the final enemy at close range. By the end of the battle, Adlesperger was credited with having killed at least 11 insurgents. One month later, Adlesperger was killed while clearing other houses in Fallujah.

For his actions on Nov. 10, 2004, Adlesperger was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross on April 13, 2007. 

“By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of enemy fire and utmost devotion to duty, ... Adlesperger reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service,” read the citation letter that made the award official. The letter is signed by Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter.

-- Story courtesy of: Family Security Matters

Pink Diplomacy

Have you ever wondered why the US and particularly the military have such a hard time convincing assholes overseas that we mean business and we will mess you up if you mess with us? Have you ever wondered why jerkwads like Kim Jung Il, Saddam Hussein and Ahmawhackjob openly defy us and thumb their noses at us right up until the moment the bombs start falling on their pointy little heads.

The answer is pretty simple - they’re getting conflicting signals from our State Department, which is sending openly homosexual diplomats (and their “significant others") overseas to represent America’s voice. Not that there’s anything wrong with being homosexual - other than the fact that in the majority of countries overseas, homosexuality is seen as immoral or at the very least, as a weakness.

Somebody at the State Department needs to wake up and realize that the rules that apply in San Francisco and allow network TV in the US to show ”Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” don’t necessarily apply in Teheran, Pyongyang, Riyadh or Damascus. It’s easy to forget that 90% of diplomacy is perception, not words.

At State, A Friendlier Workplace
(WASHINGTON POST) - Monday, April 16, 2007

Mark R. Dybul was sworn in as the new AIDS coordinator by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the ornate Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department in a little-noticed ceremony last October. But that ceremony marked a bit of history itself.

Dybul is openly gay. His partner, Jason Claire, held the Bible as Dybul took the oath. And in acknowledging Dybul’s family in her remarks, Rice specifically mentioned his “mother-in-law.” “You have a wonderful family to support you, Mark,” Rice said. “Welcome.”

In stark contrast to the Pentagon policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the State Department acknowledges its gay employees, allows their partners to live in official residences overseas, helps them obtain foreign residence visas, and has sent out a cable to missions encouraging U.S. ambassadors to include diplomats’ partners in social and official functions.

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Nappy Headed Conspiracy!

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If you thought Rosie O’ Donnell, Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Barbara Streisand, Michael Moore, Charlie Sheen, et al. were not playing with a full deck then you better think again. Our friends in Moscow obviously have a few screws loose also. In fact, they probably need to go to Home Depot and pick up some much-needed hardware and tools. After all, it has been a long winter on the Volga.

I tripped across this story in the middle of the night here and instantly froze, not knowing whether to giggle hysterically or just break down and cry over the fact that real human beings somewhere had to sit down and write this crap. I leave it to your judgment, dear readers. Are the editors at Pravda having way too much fun or are they not? I wonder how much vodka went into this piece of journalistic excellence ... ? Do I hear Pulitzer rumors over this ... ?

American Radio Icon Don Imus Disgraced,
Fired After Threat To Reveal 9/11 Secrets
(PRAVDA) - 04-13-2007

In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically ‘connected’, and legendary, radio hosts named Don Imus after his threats to release information relating to the September 11, 2001 attacks upon that country.

According to European reports of the events surrounding Don Imus that have gripped the United States this past week, it was during an interview with another American media personality, Tim Russert, who is the host of a television programme frequently used by US War Leaders, wherein while decrying the state of care being given to American War wounded stated, “So those bastards want to keep these boys [in reference to US Soldiers] secret? Let’s see how they like it if I start talking about their [in reference to US War Leaders] secrets, starting with 9/11.”

Unable to attack such a powerful media figure as Don Imus, directly, the US War Leaders, and as we have seen many times before, resorted to a massive media attack against him using as the reason a racial slur against a US woman’s basketball team, but which has been pointed out by other media outlets was not by any means a rare occurrence for the legendary radio icon to make.

But, to the US War Leaders, Don Imus represented the most serious threat, to date, of the growing assault against them by America’s media personalities threatening to expose the truths behind the events of September 11, 2001 and the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars; and to such an extent that another American media personality, Rosie O’Donnell, has expressed concern that US Military Leaders could actually imprison Mr. Imus.

From our past research of the tactics used against those threatening America’s War Leaders, the likelihood of imprisonment for Don Imus would only occur should he persist in his threats to undermine their authority, and which appears, at this time, unlikely after the public disgrace he has had to endure.

It is expected, also, that the US War Leaders actions against Don Imus will have a further chilling affect upon other American media personalities questioning their authority, such as the popular US movie actor, Charlie Sheen, and who was one of the first to question the events of September 11, 2001, and as we can read as reported by New Zealand Herald News Service in their article titled “Charlie Sheen may voice 9/11 documentary”, and which says:

“US actor Charlie Sheen is reportedly in talks to narrate an internet documentary that suggests elements of the US government were behind the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Sheen’s representatives say he was involved in the production of a new version of Loose Change, a 90-minute conspiracy theory film that has been seen by more than 10 million internet viewers.”

Apparently lost upon America’s media personalities is that a government being investigated by the International Red Cross for the torture of an Iranian Diplomat by whipping with steel cables on his feet; a government that would have its soldiers imprison in an Ethiopian torture jail a Swedish teenage girl; a government that would even contemplate the release of one of the World’s most wanted terrorists, Posada Carriles; does not hesitate, for even a second, to crush any, and all, opposition to it.

To the American people themselves their remains no evidence that they know, much less care, about the dire state of their once Free Nation.

   Sunday - April 15, 2007

On This Day In History

Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia,
Probably 1,250 Perish; Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing
(NEW YORK TIMES) - April 15, 1912

CAPE RACE, N.F., April 15.—The White Star liner Olympic reports by wireless this evening that the Cunarder Carpathia reached, at daybreak this morning, the position from which wireless calls for help were sent out last night by the Titanic after her collision with an iceberg. The Carpathia found only the lifeboats and the wreckage of what had been the biggest steamship afloat.

The Titanic had foundered at about 2:20 A.M., in latitude 41:46 north and longitude 50:14 west. This is about 30 minutes of latitude, or about 34 miles, due south of the position at which she struck the iceberg. All her boats are accounted for and about 655 souls have been saved of the crew and passengers, most of the latter presumably women and children. There were about 1,200 persons aboard the Titanic.

The Leyland liner California is remaining and searching the position of the disaster, while the Carpathia is returning to New York with the survivors. It can be positively stated that up to 11 o’clock to-night nothing whatever had been received at or heard by the Marconi station here to the effect that the Parisian, Virginian or any other ships had picked up any survivors, other than those picked up by the Carpathia.

The first news of the disaster to the Titanic was received by the Marconi wireless station here at 10:25 o’clock last night (as told in yesterday’s New York Times.) The Titanic was first heard giving the distress signal “C. Q. D.,” which was answered by a number of ships, including the Carpathia, the Baltic and the Olympic. The Titanic said she had struck an iceberg and was in immediate need of assistance, giving her position as latitude 41:46 north and longitude 50:14 west.

At 10:55 o’clock the Titanic reported she was sinking by the head, and at 11:25 o’clock the station here established communication with the Allan liner Virginian, from Halifax to Liverpool, and notified her of the Titanic’s urgent need of assistance and gave her the Titanic’s position. The Virginian advised the Marconi station almost immediately that she was proceeding toward the scene of the disaster.

At 11:36 o’clock the Titanic informed the Olympic that they were putting the women off in boats and instructed the Olympic to have her boats read to transfer the passangers. The Titanic, during all this time, continued to give distress signals and to announce her position. The wireless operator seemed absolutely cool and clear-headed, his sending throughout being steady and perfectly formed, and the judgment used by him was of the best. The last signals heard from the Titanic were received at 12:27 A.M., when the Virginian reported having heard a few blurred signals which ended abruptly.

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Obituary

‘Tiny Bubbles’ Singer Don Ho Dies at 76
_{HONOLULU - April 15, 2007, 5:34 AM EDT}

Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune “Tiny Bubbles,” has died. He was 76. He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.

Ho had suffered with heart problems for the past several years, and had a pacemaker installed last fall. In 2005, he underwent an experimental stem cell procedure on his ailing heart in Thailand. Promoter Tom Moffatt said he attended Ho’s final show Thursday and Ho received a standing ovation. Afterward, Ho reminisced about his many years in Waikiki and talked about how Judy Garland sang with him one night. “Don was in great spirits,” he said. “He was fine.”

Ho entertained Hollywood’s biggest stars and thousands of tourists for four decades. For many, no trip to Hawaii was complete without seeing his Waikiki show—a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history and audience participation. Shows usually started and ended with the same song, “Tiny Bubbles.” Ho mostly hummed the song’s swaying melody as the audience enthusiastically took over the familiar lyrics: “Tiny bubbles/in the wine/make me happy/make me feel fine.”

“I hate that song,” he often joked to the crowd. He said he performed it twice because “people my age can’t remember if we did it or not.” The son of bar owners, Ho broke into the Waikiki entertainment scene in the early 1960s and, except for short periods, never left. Few artists are more associated with one place.

Donald Tai Loy Ho, who was Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe. In high school, he was a star football player and worked for a brief time in a pineapple cannery. After graduating in 1949, he attended Springfield College in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship. He grew homesick, returned to the islands and ended up graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1953 with a degree in sociology.

Inspired by the U.S. military planes flying in and out of Hawaii during World War II, Ho joined the Air Force. As the Korean War wound down, he piloted transport planes between Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu and Tokyo. When he returned home and took over his parents’ struggling neighborhood bar, Honey’s, he put together a band and started performing at his father’s request.

“I had no intention of being an entertainer,” Ho said. “I just played songs I liked from the radio, and pretty soon that place was jammed. Every weekend there would be lines down the street.”

Honey’s became a happening place on Oahu, with other Hawaiian musicians stopping in for jam sessions. Ho began to play at various spots in Hawaii, then had a breakout year in 1966, when appearances at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood helped him build a mainland following, and the release of “Tiny Bubbles” gave him his greatest recording success. Soon he was packing places such as the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Stars such as Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra were known to be in the audience for Ho’s shows.

Ho also became a television star, and hosted the “The Don Ho Show” on ABC from 1976-77. One of Ho’s most memorable TV appearances was a 1972 cameo on an episode of “The Brady Bunch.” Besides “Tiny Bubbles,” his other well-known songs include “I’ll Remember You,” “With All My Love,” and the “Hawaiian Wedding Song.”

Can you .. BZZZ .. Hear Me Now?

It is now official ... we are destroying our planet and killing off species right and left. With cell phones. No, really. Scientific authorities have already determined that cell phones cause cancer, brain tumors, early senility, reduced sperm count (YIKES!) and sore thumbs ... not to mention countless automobile accidents as idiots drive along at 70 mph while arguing with their spouse on their cell phones.

Now, the final “evidence” is in. Because of cell phones, we’re all going to starve to death. Yep, Verizon and Sprint are killing off bees ... and without bees, no crops get pollinated. Cell phones are probably responsible for whales and dolphins beaching themselves as well. Who knows?

And who’s to say that cell phones aren’t causing half the people around us to go stark, raving mad and blurt out obvious insanities like “WTC 7”, “Bush lied”, “Vote for Hillary”, “CIA spy Valerie Plame”, “I will go to Syria”, “Kill all the Jews”, and “Insh’Allah “. Have any of you read Stephen King’s “Cell”? You better.

First the whales, then the bees and finally ... us! We’re all going to die! Put down that cell phone NOW! BZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz ....

Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious ‘colony collapse’ of bees
_{(INDEPENDENT-UK) - 15 April 2007}

It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees’ navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive’s inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast. CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London’s biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: “There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK.” The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world’s crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, “man would have only four years of life left”.

Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up. Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.

Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today’s teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives. Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of “text thumb”, a form of RSI from constant texting.

Sunday Funnies

   Saturday - April 14, 2007

SURPRISE!

Blind Date

It’s Saturday night. Mid-April ... 1967. One of your college buddies has set you up on a blind date with a friend of his girlfriend. His girlfriend says her friend “has a great personality”. This is what greets you at the women’s dorm when you go to pick up your date.

Do you: (A) fake a heart attack and collapse on the floor, writhing in pain and calling for an ambulance, (B) suddenly remember that you have a dentist’s appointment and jump out the nearest window, even if you’re on the fourth floor, (C) scream uncontrollably at the top of your lungs, “WHY ME, LORD?”, (D) get drunk, marry the wench, have a kid, move to Arkansas and wonder why, forty years later, you have twenty-eight girlfriends on the side, been convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, been impeached from office and “your better half” hates all men and wants to rule the world.

Choose wisely, Billy. Choose wisely.

The French Are Depressed

I just got back in from another afternoon down at the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibit. The freezing rain and almost-snow kinda put a damper on things but the Americas Center was crowded both days. I picked up a ton of literature from vendors and got a peek at some new firearms for 2007. Lots of other goodies too for the hunter/sportsman.

I didn’t get any pictures for you wankers. Sorry. I didn’t see anyone else taking pictures so I put the camera back in the Jeep at lunch yesterday. Then I got too busy talking to vendors and even spent some time in a few training sessions. The general feeling I got from the crowd was it was mostly middle-class, well-dressed, polite people just interested in something they like. The questions and comments I overheard at the booths were informed and informative.

Which is why I needed some comic relief when I got home. I got it at AP News a few minutes ago in a news article entitled “France Wrestles With Its Own Decline”. Somehow I couldn’t visualize France joining the WWE so I had to read on.

“It’s a feeling of lost glory,” said Perrossier, sheltering under the arch from a spring squall. “The French have lost the aura they once had, and France—barring a few small exceptions—no longer occupies the place it used to internationally.”

Philippe Souleau, a history teacher shepherding a party of schoolchildren, was gloomier still: “France no longer has military strength worth speaking of. It is no longer economically competitive, and all this means is that it has become a second-tier nation internationally and diplomatically. Its voice is no longer heard by all.”

Chirac sparked a brief uptick in French confidence by going toe-to-toe with President Bush against the war in Iraq. “It was a moment when France looked at itself in the mirror and found itself beautiful,” says Emmanuel Riviere of the TNS-Sofres polling agency.

But the war went ahead, anyway, and some believe that the strain in relations with Washington was too great.

“In France, there is a particular strain of melancholy,” political philosopher Chantal Delsol said in an interview. “The British tell themselves, ‘We are no longer a great power, so we will live as a middling one.’ But the French don’t say that. They say, ‘We are intrinsically a great power, so why isn’t it working in reality?’ For a while we try to shut our eyes, but that doesn’t work for long. When reality truly dawns, then the first phase is extreme sadness, and that is the phase we are in now.”

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