Sunday - January 20, 2008
A Progressive’s Journey
If you’ve not stumbled upon it before, the Neo-Neocon has been writing a series for a long time (with a one-year break) about her journey from a liberal democrat to a thinking conservative. It is a fascinating read; very well presented and thought out. It is well worth the time.
Click below to see all of the segments. Read from the bottom-up
A mind is a difficult thing to change: my journey
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Permalink • Saturday - January 19, 2008
Great, now I’m disenfranchized too.
Silly me, I don’t watch the local news much, or buy the local paper. I didn’t know the people of NJ have been disenfranchised from the presidential election for amost a week now. Did you know this? I didn’t hear anyone screaming. Maybe they’ll save me time, and save the GOP and DNC lots of money, by not even letting people vote. Why bother? Your vote no longer counts FOR ANYTHING in NJ.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009715449
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8JVYDPMFc1086Y2nkxaLPCjM7wwD8TUNHSO2
you can find more coverage over at Kim’s and Geek’s.
NJ went and passed a law that says the state’s 15 electoral votes are going to be given to whatever presidential candidate gets the most votes nationwide.
Doesn’t matter who you voted for, doesn’t matter how the votes totalled in NJ. Whoever gets the most nationwide, gets all 15 NJ electoral votes.
And it’s completely legal - the Constitution gives states the power to cast their electoral votes any way they choose.
NJ joins MD, who already has this kind of law. Illinois is expected to follow shortly.
I guess this will be called the “me too” law. After all, being popular is all that people want right? What a friggin load of shit.
This horseshit law is brought to you by the morons at the National Popular Vote Movement, who are still pissed off about Al Gore losing the 2000 election even though he won the popular vote. They just can’t wrap their pinhead sized brains around the concept of the Electoral College, and refuse to see that it balances voting power among the states, and actually gives each individual voter the most relative power. Nope, uh uh, get rid of it, cuz my first grade teacher told me “one man, one vote” and that’s all I will ever know. Glue sniffing asshats.
Hey sports fans: The NY Yankees play the Boston Red Sox for the World Series. Baseball, best of 7 games, right?
The scores for the games are
game 1: NY 85 Boston 2
game 2: NY 3 Boston 8
game 3: NY 1 Boston 4
game 4: NY 1 Boston 2
game 5: NY 0 Boston 6
game 6: NY 1 Boston 4
game 7: NY 1 Boston 3
If you applied the NJ law to baseball, the Yankees have won the series. That’s what the Electoral College is all about: winning the most GAMES, not getting the most RUNS. It’s that simple.
You know how long this law will last? It will last until the day after NJ gives it’s 15 Electoral Votes to a Republican candidate, at which point the nanny-state pinkos who make up most of this indigo blue state will scream like raped apes at the top of their shrill little voices ... that THEY were disenfranchised. What a bunch of leftist fucktards.
UPDATE Maybe NJ is just screwing with me?
From the official synopsis of the law:
The agreement becomes effective only after it has been enacted by
enough states to collectively possess the majority of the electoral votes
required to decide a presidential win – currently 270 of the 538
electoral votes.
So in other words, NJ passes a law that won’t take effect unless most (in an Electoral sense) other states also pass such a law. Pussies. Too fearful to boldly stand behind their own legislation, Governor “Seatbelts” Corzine and his Korrupt Krew of Kleptocratstm don’t even have the balls to follow the lead of Maryland. Nope, they’ll just wait around until all the other cool kids are playing, then they’ll jump in. Once again, the most important thing in life is being popular. Scaredy little cow teats {udder cowards}.
By enactment, New Jersey joins the efforts in other States to
reform the current system of electing the president and vice president
of the United States, as supported by approximately 70% of all
Americans.
Yeah right, by replacing one “70%” system by another “70%” system (see above link to Geek With a .45). Or are they trying to say that 70% of all Americans feel that the EC should go bye-bye? Hey, 40% of that crowd of chowder chuckers think 9/11 was an inside job, and 32% are sure they’ve seen Elvis ... driving a UFO.
This agreement ensures that all states are competitive in
presidential elections, makes all votes important and equal, and
guarantees that the candidate who received the most popular votes
nationwide wins the presidency.
What bullshit. What it does, as expressly mentioned on the NPVM website linked above, is come up with a plan to “force” the candidates to come visit the state. Waa waa waa, we’re such diaper rash suffering little crack babies we’re incapable of watching a debate on TV, reading an article online, or perusing a newspaper. We have to have the candidates come visit us personally, or else we’ll hold our breath until we turn blue. Um wait, NJ already IS a blue state. Is that why?
“Makes all votes important and equal”. Eww, what’s this stuck to my shoe? It smells like more NJ Bullshit, and it is!! Currently, each state (and DC) gets 2 Electoral votes, and one more for each Congressman. Among the 10 most populus states (and NJ is wall to wall people), NJ actually has the 2nd lowest number of people per Elector Vote ... which means my vote in NJ counts a little bit more than some voter in California. So in the interests of “equality” NJ is downgrading the power of my vote. Gee, thanks a lot you lechers. In order to take back power from the eviil Federal Government by making a chicken-shit endrun around the Constitution, you’ve managed to give away the infinitesimal power advantage your citizens may have held compared to citizens of 8 other states. The other 41 state’s citizens already have more power, and they ain’t giving it up. Thanks again nitwits.
From the law itself:
(7) If, for any reason, the number of presidential electors
nominated in a member state in association with the national
popular vote winner is less than or greater than that state’s number
of electoral votes
This makes sense ... NJ puts in a clause to play CYA just in case they forget how to count all the way to 15. Holy shit.
, the presidential candidate on the presidential
slate that has been designated as the national popular vote winner
shall have the power to nominate the presidential electors for that
state and that state’s presidential elector certifying official shall
certify the appointment of such nominees. The chief election
official of each member state shall immediately release to the public
all vote counts or statements of votes as they are determined or
obtained.
Yup, if the NJ folks are truly THAT FUCKING RETARDED, then somebody else should do the picking for them. Hell, somebody else should be wiping their asses for them, then putting them back in their little soft, white, padded, quiet rooms and carefully locking the doors as they leave.
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Permalink • The Consensus of Experts
Found over at Watt’s Up With That?
There’s an article in the New York Times pushing a something called “the five stages of climate grief” done by a professor at the University of Montana. This got me to thinking about the regular disaster forecasting that we see published in the media about what will happen due to climate change.
We’ve seen this sort of angst broadcast before, and it occurred to me that through history, a lot of ”predictions of certainty” with roots in scientifically based forecasts have not come true. That being the case, here is the list I’ve compiled of famous quotes and consensus from “experts”.
Top Ten Science based predictions that didn’t come true:
10. “The earth’s crust does not move”- 19th through early 20th century accepted geological science. See Plate Tectonics
9. “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” — Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
8. “That virus is a pussycat.” — Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV, 1988
7. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
6. “Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
5. “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” — Albert Einstein, 1932
4. “Space travel is bunk.” — Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 (two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth).
3. “If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” — Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.
2. “Stomach ulcers are caused by stress” — accepted medical diagnosis, until Dr. Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastric inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium.
1. “Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F.” — Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University in Time Magazine’s June 24th, 1975 article Another Ice Age?
So the next time you hear about worldwide crop failure, rising sea levels, species extinction, or “climate grief” you might want to remember that just being an expert, or even having a consensus of experts, doesn’t necessarily mean that a claim is true.
A friend told me one time that if you are travelling with the majority, its a good bet to turn around and go the other way.
Go Fred!
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Permalink • Friday - January 18, 2008
this’ll give ‘em fits!
via tammybruce and lotsa other places, an article from last week’s WSJ
that tells how a very old German scholar hid photographs of ancient Korans for over 60 years, pretending they had been lost in WWII. These Korans are so old that they are not even written in Arabic, a language that was in its infancy at the time of the prophet (bees pee upon him). Instead they are written in Syriac, a version of Aramaic that was common, and widely used for literature, at that time.
Very interesting. If naming a teddy bear after old Mo causes riots, and the false story of a flushing causes murders world-wide, imagine what would happen if these old books were translated and published, and there were major differences between them and today’s K-book.
One difference, worth a laugh because it actually supports a derisive right wing meme:
A scholar in northern Germany writes under the pseudonym of Christoph Luxenberg because, he says, his controversial views on the Quran risk provoking Muslims. He claims that chunks of it were written not in Arabic but in another ancient language, Syriac. The “virgins” promised by the Quran to Islamic martyrs, he asserts, are in fact only “grapes.”
Hey, after 1400 years they’d be raisins by now.
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Permalink • the politics of fear, along with a big helping of BS
Get out your hip-boots folks, here it comes:
The new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards - set by Congress and signed into law by President Bush in the new energy bill - will require vehicles to get 35 miles per gallon by the year 2020 and will add somewhere between $900 and $10,000 to the cost of buying a car, dependent upon which expert is consulted.
Bob Lutz, vice chairman at General Motors, predicts the highest increase per vehicle -between $4,000 and $10,000 - with the average about $6,000.
“No matter what the cost is - $900 or $9,000 - is the consumer willing to pay that much more or should they be forced to pay that much more because of a government mandate?” Kelsey Zahourek, federal affairs manager with Americans for Tax Reform, told Cybercast News Service.
In fact, Zahourek said, because the CAFE standards are a federal regulation, the cost to consumers is no different than a new tax.
“If the cost is incurred due to a government regulation, it’s just a hidden form of taxation,” Zahourek said.
“Like my colleague Sam Kazman likes to say, ‘CAFE kills,’” Ebell told Cybercast News Service. Ebell cited a 2001 study by the National Academy of Sciences that examined the earlier CAFE standards imposed in the 1970s.
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“It also noted that downsizing of vehicles in the 1970s and 1980s may have contributed to an additional 1,300 to 2,600 fatalities (alone)” - a number that could add up to thousands more deaths on American highways under the new CAFE standards, Ebell said.
There could be other victims of the CAFE standards, said Ebell. The American men and women who work for automakers could face job cuts, a possibility that would be devastating in states like Michigan, which has the highest unemployment in the nation at 7.4 percent.
“It seems to me that when Congress says over and over again that they care about protecting American jobs and then pass something like this, I think they are being incredibly short-sighted,” Ebell said.
I’m not a fan of CAFE requirements. I’d much rather we exploit all the other energy sources we have and refuse to use. But if it has to be, then it has to be. It’s for The Chiiildrentm after all.
Original article here
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Permalink • Do The Hustle!
Doot doot doot de doot de de doot doot, Doot doot doot de doot de de doot doot, Doot doot doot de doot de de doot doot ... No, sorry, Disco isn’t making a comeback. I’m just cracking up over this loser, who conned LA out of a million and a half bucks, then went right on being a gang bangin scumbag. Eventually the law caught up with him. Too bad they didn’t put him away for about 200 years, because in LA you only serve 10% of your time, regardless of what the judge demands.(just ask Michelle Rodriguez).
Founder of Anti-Gun Group Pleads No Contest to Weapons Charges
LOS ANGELES — A former gang member who founded an anti-violence group called No Guns has pleaded no contest to federal weapons charges.
Hector “Big Weasel” Marroquin, 51, and co-defendant Sylvia Arrellano, 25, entered pleas Thursday for three counts of manufacture, distribution and transport for sale of an unlawful assault weapon.
Arrellano also pleaded no contest to machine gun conversion and possessing a silencer and acknowledged that the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
She was given until Tuesday to surrender for sentencing and would likely be sentenced to four years in prison, prosecutors said.
Marroquin attorney Patrick Smith did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment Thursday. No phone listing was available for Arrellano.
Marroquin was arrested in June at his Downey home following a nine-month investigation into weapons sales by the 18th Street gang, to which he once belonged.
Arrellano was arrested at a Cudahy home as a result of the same investigation
Marroquin founded No Guns in 1996, ostensibly to reduce gang and gun violence. The group received $1.5 million from the city as a subcontractor on anti-gang efforts but its contract was canceled last year after authorities learned that Marroquin had hired relatives, including his son, Hector “Little Weasel” Marroquin.
The son is an acknowledged 18th Street gang member who pleaded no contest in June 2007 to home-invasion robbery and was sentenced to nine years in state prison
So, unlawful possession of 3 genuine assault weapons, offering them up for sale to felons, doing the illegal conversions, and having a silencer on one of them ... only adds up to 4 years in the pokie, which in LA means he will serve about 5 months. Meanwhile he’s been collected $150,000 a year for a decade from the city?
Gratuitous Johnny Dangerously quote: “and remember kid, Crime Don’t Pay ... well, it paid a little!”
The city of LA fell for his crap hook, line, and sinker ... and they only broke the contract a decade later because of nepotism. Holy shiite.
Full article at FoxNews
PS - No, it isn’t the other end of the investigative chain. I thought so at first too, but the TI case was months later. Same kind of weapons though.
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Permalink • Right vs Left - if you leave out Defense, how do you tell the difference?
News items: McCain surging ahead in PA, McCain tied for lead in SC. We’re doomed.
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Permalink • Daddy’s Little Girl
Wow, 11 year-old Mackenzie field-strips and re-assembles an AR15 in less than a minute.
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Permalink • As God Chuckles
I find it totally amuzing that global warming conferences, speaches and protests seem to be held on unusually cold days. No different in Annapolis yesterday.
Global warming protest frosted with snow
It snowed, but they still came. A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this morning, but it did not dampen the shouts of about 400 activists who urged lawmakers to pass the nation’s toughest greenhouse gas control law.
As supporters waved signs, chanted and banged drums, 18 legislators walked down a symbolic green carpet to sign up as co-sporsors to a bill that would mandate that all businesses in Maryland cut emissions of global warming pollution by 25 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050.
“We are going to pass this bill this year,” said State Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Democrat from Prince George’s County and chairman of the senate’s environmental matters subcommittee. “We are not going to rest, we are not going to stop....We are going to keep going until we pass this bill.”
The Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Constellation Energy and many Republicans oppose the 90 percent mandate, saying such aggressive regulation could cripple the states economy if other states don’t have such limits.“It would be harmful for employment,” said Senate Republican Leader David R. Brinkley. “We have a conscientious business community, and nobody wants to contribute to pollution, but these guys are intent on making Maryland uncompetitive.”
What is it with the chants and drums? It’s not like MD is the free-market capital of the country now, with its confiscatory tax laws and draconian gun control regulations.
Many of the protesters who endured the cold to chant “Stop Global Warming!” said they didn’t think the snowfall conflicted with their message. Davey Rogner, a 22 year old student at the University of Maryland College Park, beat on an African Djembe drum to rev up the crowd. He said the snow was a “gift” to remind eveyone about how rarely Maryland has been blanketed with beautiful white in recent years as temperatures have increased.
Low on facts and science, but high on energyand passion...and that’s all that really matters.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 17, 2008
Bubba gets pwn3d
From Hot Air.
Video: Billy Jeff gets testy with reporter over voter suppression lawsuit
And gets his ass fact-checked for his trouble. It’s a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Hillary’s teachers union trying to block Obama’s culinary union in court by objecting to rules not only agreed to long ago by the DNC but which, per the clip, even ABC’s political reporters have known about for months. When was the suit filed? Two days after the culinary workers endorsed Obama. Nuance.
The Sun says the mayor of Oakland tried to pull Clinton away, but to no avail.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 16, 2008
Is it any wonder people are fleeing London? This won’t be an easy read people. It’s horrific!
Isn’t it well past the time to invoke VIGILANTE justice? It really does work if given the chance.
These animals will of course have a trial, won’t they? And what will their bogus defence be?
Even their lawyers should be strung up as an example to other lawyers who would take a case like this.
Is it any wonder people are fleeing London?
By Jan Moir
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 16/01/2008In a north London suburb last week, a schoolgirl was beaten, gang-raped and then had drain-cleaning fluid poured on her body apparently to destroy DNA evidence. In the eternal cesspit of senseless urban crime, I feel that a dreadful nadir of sorts has been reached, a benchmark of slaked lust and casual, sadistic cruelty.
I hate to say it but the “nadir” was reached some time ago, and at the risk of a charge of that ever popular ism, racism, this is NOT the first time a group of black rapists have done this.
Police sources say the 16-year-old will never fully recover from the injuries caused by the caustic soda and, at the time of writing, she remains under heavy sedation in a burns unit, fighting for her life.
One could weep an ocean for this young woman, her life ruined by these savages, who hunted in a pack like animals and dragged her to an empty house, caring nothing for her wellbeing or future.
Drain cleaner? The callous premeditation is shocking, and underlines the fact that some of the rootless delinquents who roam the London streets are now scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
I’m almost embarrassed to say that the attackers have been described as “five black youths”, in case you think I’m being racist in highlighting this crime.
Yes, these are the peculiar times we live in, particularly in a week when Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has pointed out that “white flight is accelerating” as Britain becomes increasingly polarised along ethnic lines.
Following the controversy started by the Bishop of Rochester, who said that some Muslim enclaves were “no-go areas” for Christians, it all seems to suggest a country that is becoming increasingly fragmented; a patchwork of rigidly delineated little pockets of race and religion, knots of unyielding humanity who just can’t rub along with each other.
This is not a Britain many of us would care to recognise, or even want to live in, although it is true that certain sectors of the middle class are fleeing from inner London like pashmina-wrapped lemmings, desperate to escape the creeping spread of urban decay.
Last year, nearly a quarter of a million decent, law-abiding citizens packed their bags and left the capital for good, seeking what they hope will be a better life elsewhere. They moved to outer boroughs, other city suburbs, rural areas, abroad, the back end of beyond, anywhere but here.
While their fairytale, roses-around-the-door belief in the safety of the countryside and the romantic ideal of a thatched cottage for two is touching, it does point to an underlying urban unease.
I would rather take my chances in the city than the country, but one can hardly blame them for wanting to move.
Elsewhere in London this week, a medical student was stabbed to death in a row over an orange in a Brixton fruit shop. A pupil who was expelled for allegedly having a knife took his school to the High Court. And about the time most of us were sitting down to dinner, watching The Bill on television or putting the children to bed, a teenage girl underwent an unimaginable ordeal in an ordinary suburban street.
What is going to happen to those of us left to live here if youths across the city continue to feel quite comfortable and confident in running amok? That’s before you even factor in the older, more professional criminal gangs from more than 25 countries, who operate prosperous drug trafficking, people smuggling, prostitution, money laundering and fraud rackets on the capital’s streets.
London is a welcoming city, where home-grown and particularly international criminal networks are flourishing nicely. Somewhere in the city, a great termite nest of law-breaking and corruption grows by the day, nourished by immigrants, some of them illegal, from Algeria, Nigeria, Jamaica and Pakistan, among others.
Is it racist to point that out, too? I don’t know any more. All I know is that London has room to absorb them all, particularly as so many of its citizens have recently left in a hurry. And while cosy family evenings by the fire remain one of the few benefits of a wet British winter, how alarming that fewer and fewer people feel safe doing this inside their own homes.
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Permalink • Yet another ‘fake soldier’
These things seem to thrive in Kalifornia. Especially as elected officials.
An elected official charged with falsely claiming he earned the military’s highest honor has filed a motion to dismiss the federal case against him on free speech grounds.
The motion argues that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, under which water board member Xavier Alvarez was charged, is incompatible with the First Amendment because it restricts free speech by criminalizing false claims of military honors.
Alvarez, an elected representative to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District, said last year at a water district meeting that he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his deeds as a Marine.
After admitting he never served in the military, he was charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act. He pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge.
Alvarez’s lawyer Brianna J. Fuller argued in the motion to dismiss, which will be heard Jan. 14 in federal court, that “protecting the reputation of military decorations” is not a compelling enough reason to place “restrictions on false statements.”
But government prosecutors said in their opposition submitted Wednesday that the First Amendment does not protect deliberate falsehoods.
Original here.
Rush was right!
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Permalink • Saturday Morning Cartoons… 1948
I know, it’s only Wednesday. But this needs to be seen.
Hat tip to Random Nuclear Strikes
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Permalink • The View From Maine
In another of his cut-through-the-bullshit posts, Maine gunsmith Joe from Realguns.com takes a hard look at the GOP candidates. Somehow I don’t think he really gets behind any of them. I think an awful lot of people share that viewpoint, even among the Democrats. Look how well DNC “undecided” did yesterday in Michigan.
John McCain is an interesting guy, the kind of guy you’d have a beer with, or swap lies with during a poker game. Tough and resilient, tested. That said, he is a guy with many hidden agendas, most that fly in opposition to the will of the voters.
Fred Thompson had been represented as the great hope of conservative values, who was being subjected to a conspired negative news coverage. Unfortunately, lack of public disclosure may be what has kept his candidacy alive.
Rudy Giuliani, a moderate Democrat thinly disguised as a Republican, would probably make a good cabinet member.
Mike Huckabee is an invention of the press and the darling of the Democratic party. On the issue of...issues, he offers little more than criticisms of the other candidate’s positions and squirms whenever asked about his own.
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When he speaks, all I can hear is Jim and Tammy Fay Baker.
Ron Paul is...an idiot, or at least he plays one on TV.
I always appreciate the real Yankee viewpoint when I can find it. This is the kind of bedrock “get the government out of my hair” Conservatism we don’t hear enough about, or when we do it gets bunched in with the Religious Right and surrounded by scare quotes. You may not agree with him, but Joe gives us his opinions without the slightest bit of nuance or sugar coating. I admire that.
Oh, and for you 1911 owners out there, he has also put up Part II of his series on tuning up the old warhorse. Part I has about the best detailed disassembly instructions you will ever find, and explains that pesky parts relationship underneath the hammer really well. Thanks Joe.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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