Monday - June 16, 2008
Some Good News For A Change
An Israeli rabbi has declared giraffe meat and milk to be kosher, although his pronouncement is unlikely to have observant Jews clamouring to consume the exotic products, it has been reported.
“The giraffe has all the signs of a ritually pure animal, and the milk forms curds, which strengthened that view,” the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot daily quoted Rabbi Shlomo Mahfoud as saying.
The rabbi based his ruling on a recent finding by researchers from Bar Ilan University who took a milk sample while treating a giraffe at Ramat Gan safari park near Tel Aviv.
They found that the milk forms curds as required under Jewish religious law, a finding confirmed by another research institute, the daily said.
Giraffe meat is also considered ritually pure because the animal has a cloven hoof and chews the cud.
“Indeed, the giraffe is kosher for eating,” said Mahfoud, who was present when the researchers made their finding.
Yigal Horowitz, chief veterinary surgeon at the safari park, is not overly worried by the development.
“This doesn’t mean that tomorrow we are going to drink giraffe milk or eat soup made from giraffe necks,” the paper reported him as saying.
New quadruple length barbeques are being built in Tel Aviv as we speak.
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Permalink • Oh Goody, the kiss of death
After remaining neutral throughout the Democratic primary season {carbon neutral?}, former Vice President Al Gore is officially backing Barack Obama’s presidential run, and will appear with him at a Michigan campaign event Monday night.
“A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama,” said the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee in a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters Monday. “From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States.”
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Permalink • GO BMEWS YOURSELF
This is a bit of a blog paean to Go Fug Yourself, a famous fashionista blog. Why am I doing this? Damned if I know. It’s Monday. Isn’t that reason enough?
I ran across this one at the UK Telegraph while looking up the gas trucker’s strike Peiper posted on. I gather The Royal Ascot is a very English To Do, a combination of horse race, garden party, and fashion show for the rich, famous, and trendy. But it’s a formal affair, and things have rather gone downhill lately. Sharply and tartly downhill. So this year an extensive dress code has been created, and The Telegraph is only too happy to provide pictures of the various fashion Dos and Don’ts the code addresses. Except that the old Telegraph got them all wrong. Thank goodness BMEWS is here to set them straight.
I left out pictures 6 and 10 because they were boring.
Telegraph faux pas: “Women face being turned away from the Royal Enclosure during Royal Ascot if they wear off-the-shoulder or strapless tops.”
Actual faux pas: If you can show off a rack like that, it should be illegal to wear such a depressing hat. Which, by the way, totally clashes with the dress made from 1950’s lawn furniture fabric that you’re wearing.
Telegraph faux pas: “Halter necks are also a no-no”
Actual faux pas: Don’t try to show off side boob if you haven’t got any. Also, your hat is made from dried puke.
Telegraph faux pas: “Spaghetti straps are considered unsuitable”
Actual faux pas: Your hat is actually an intergalactic giant man eating oyster. Bad form, having your brains sucked in public.
Telegraph faux pas: “Midriffs must be covered”
Actual faux pas: Who let the friggin hippy chick in? This is supposed to be a classy event. PS: missy, you’re only 23. Where did that fat gut come from? And this is a formal dear. That means both washing your hair AND ironing your faded denim.
Telegraph faux pas: “Mini-skirts are considered “unsuitable” “.
Actual faux pas: None whatsoever. This bird is smashing. Oh miss, is that your fiver there on the ground? Go on, bend over and pick it up.
Telegraph faux pas: “Bare legs are frowned upon”.
Actual faux pas: If your legs look this good, why are you even wearing a dress? Get up on stage and twirl for us. Slowly. Please.
Alternate actual faux pas: Who the heck invited Bai Ling to this thing anyway?
Telegraph faux pas: “Knickers,” the guide says. “A definite yes, but not on show please ladies.”
Actual faux pas: What knickers? If you wish to show off your deliciously tight little bottom, get up on stage there with Miss Legs from the previous picture.
Telegraph faux pas: “Ladies must wear hats...”
Actual faux pas: hats should not wear ladies.
Telegraph faux pas: “The guide also warns that streaky tan lines are “a total fashion faux pas”. Other faux pas to avoid in the Royal Enclosure are chewing gum and talking on a mobile phone”.
Actual faux pas: Perfectly dressed and coordinated ultrababes dating really rich guys should not bring their cougar-iffic mothers along to the event, especially if mom is an out of work pirate wench.
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Permalink • Fuel shortages spread as tanker drivers’ strike, gas stations running dry.
Due to past and VERY bitter experiences with unions, I am not too quick to defend them and simply wish they’d go away.
But ... I’m not 100% certain they are to blame for this crises. More research needed to refute or back up what I’m hearing, so will not make personal comments on this topic.
In our area, there are gas petrol stations with signs out saying that the pumps aren’t working. In other words, they haven’t anything to sell anymore as ppl topped up just before the strike or just after it started. So far no lines as there isn’t anything to line up for in some areas.
Fuel shortages spread as tanker drivers’ strike enters fourth day
By David Millward, Transport Editor
Last Updated: 3:44PM BST 16/06/2008Motorists are facing increasing fuel shortages with queuing spreading to several parts of the country as the strike by Shell’s tanker drivers entered its fourth day.
Fuel rationing was imposed by some garages in the South West, while drivers were facing difficulties filling up in parts of Wales, Worcestershire and in the South East.
Alarmingly Shell was not the only retailer to see its pumps running dry. Esso’s garage in Barry, south Wales, was completely out of fuel.
There were long queues reported at the service station at Junction 30 of the M5 near Exeter.
According to the AA there was also confusion with some garages running out of diesel, while others were unable to supply unleaded petrol.
Elsewhere, a garage in the Gorton area of Manchester has raised prices by 14 pence a litre, charging motorists 129.9 pence for unleaded.
Its prices were on a par with half a dozen remote forecourts on Shetland and the Isle of Wight, which have traditionally charged far more than the national average.
“The impact of the strike is really being felt today particularly in Wales and the South West. In some localised areas motorists are struggling to find fuel,” said Edmund King, the AA’s president.
In the South West the fuel situation was described as “dire” by Ray Holloway, president of the Petrol Retailers Association.
This led several independent retailers to impose limits as low as £10 as they wait for new stocks to arrive, according to the UK Petroleum Industry Association.
“It’s been happening at rural areas,” said a spokesman. “Supplies have been getting quite low away from major centres like Truro.”
The problem had been caused by picketing at a Plymouth refinery which meant that supplies were not only being blocked to Shell forecourts, but other garages were getting embroiled in the dispute.
According to the latest Government figures 647 garages – including 249 Shell outlets – have either run dry completely or had to turn away motorists looking for diesel or petrol.
That number is expected to rise today as the strike by 641 drivers hits home.
Next weekend could be even worse unless a deal is reached between the drivers’ union, Unite and the Shell’s contractors: Hoyer UK and Suckling Transport.
The two sides have restarted talks raising hopes that the dispute, in which the union has submitted a 13 per cent pay claim, could be settled before the next four-day walkout on Friday.
If agreement is not reached, there are fears that next weekend could be even more difficult because of an overtime ban which will run between the walkouts.
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Permalink • Bee Killer part 2
This ought to do it. After 3 days of having that vent flap taped closed, the bees are still trying to get in. How many bees? I don’t know. It’s pretty hard painting little numbers on them as they buzz around.
So I made a big square of super sticky duct tape, sticky side out, and used more painter’s tape to stick it to the siding and cover the entire vent flap. It ballooned out when I attached it via a squeegee on the end of a pole; I guess the pipe really is open somewhere inside and this thing is acting as an attic vent. Anyway, my hope is that the outside bees will land on it and get stuck. Mwahahaaahaha!
So of course the first couple of bees that showed up went straight for the little gaps and crawled underneath. GRRRR. I hate being outsmarted by bugs.
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Permalink • Sunday - June 15, 2008
Today in GOP History
Sorry. We can’t have teh big excitement every day ya know. Ok, it’s actually Trinidad Romero’s birthday, but I’ve never heard of him. Maybe he was the very first Republican from New Mexico or something.
However, I did get Zak’s book, Back To Basics For The Republican Party, and it’s quite a read. It’s history, and lots of it. It’s like being back in 10th grade Social Studies, only this time without the sugar coating. He’s got about 800 references in the bibliography, so it’s pretty obvious he can back up whatever he says. And it’s quite interesting. I’m only 80 pages into it at this point, but so far the concept is that the slavery question was a huge thorn in America’s side since the very beginning. It didn’t just pop up one day and there was civil war over it the next. But the people who were against it, even during the Revolution, were the people would form a political outlook that would eventually become the Republican Party. And the people that were for it were the Democrats. Always. Always.
Some interesting things in there too, as little factoids.
Do you know who hillbillies really are? I didn’t. Everybody knows that during the Civil War the southern soldier was ubiquitously called “Johnny Reb”, the same way a British soldier was Tommy Atkins during WWI. But less widely known is that “Johnny Reb” was fighting “Billy Yank”. And that the “northern” and “southern” attitudes were not universal; New York City was strongly “reb”, and parts of the south - many parts of the south - were pro-Union. As an aside, this often got people killed; 44 folks in Texas were hung from the same tree at one time for their loyalty to the union. Texas Governor Sam Houston was kicked out of office for opposiing secession. There were Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi regiments in the Union Army during the war. So things weren’t exactly homogenous. And one place they weren’t was up in the mountains of Appalachia, in the border states. So the Billy Yanks who lived up in the hills ... were hillbillies. I did not know that. Course, that was long before NASCAR.
Let me get another few days of reading done on this one, and I’ll put up a review. No question that this is a history book, but it is a good bit more interesting than what we got in school.
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Permalink • Young Lust
Ah, memories!
Once upon a time, in the land of long ago and far away (1984 in Pearl River NY actually) I was young and foolish and had lots of money. I was night shift manager in a grocery store, working 12 nights on and 2 off. Lots of OT, and it was a union job back when union jobs still meant something. Having sent myself on several tropical vacations, having stocked up the basement with fine wines to age, having purchased a brand new 1984 Mercury Capri RS - 4bbl 302 and a 5 speed - and proceeded to pay it off so fast the car loan company called up and told me to stop sending them payments please, I went looking for something else to buy.
I’d been riding dirt bikes for several years, thanks to the bad influences of friends. One guy, Kevin, had a dual purpose bike that was actually street legal. I wanted a street bike, so I found a mint second hand Yamaha SECA 550 and got my street license.
This was a great bike. It was lightweight, handled well, and went zooom!! in a good way. the brakes weren’t the best, but it was hella faster than Kevin’s one-lung 250 dual purpose thumper. And since Bob, one guy I was working with, had some punk-ass Honda 350a, with a faggy automatic transmission - on a motorcycle!!! - I was happy with it. King of the Road and all that. It didn’t have huge amounts of torque, but when you wound the engine up really high it suddenly woke up, and away we go!! That was pretty neat, and I enjoyed it for a few months.
Then one night I got to work and Bob’s bike looked different. It had a windshield and saddlebags, and seemed somehow bigger. I asked him when he got all the accessories and he just laughed at me.
“I guess you didn’t look too closely, did you?”
So back out to the parking lot, and a closer look showed that he had a brand new Honda 650. With gears this time. Day-um.
Now Bob wasn’t much of a rider. He wasn’t into major leaning, or dragging the foot bars, or two wheel drifts. But when we went out for a ride in the morning, his Honda ate my little red Yami alive without even trying. I was not gonna take that lying down.
So a few days later I was back at the bike shops, looking to trade in the SECA on something better. I looked at all the Yamahas, the Suzukis, the second hand English bikes ... nothing there that really stole my soul. Finally I went back to the Honda shop, and there she was. Right off the truck, the shop crew had just put her together and were wheeling her into the showroom. The bike never got there; I bought it on the spot. A 1984 Honda CB700SC Nighthawk S.
That was mine, in rich irridescent blue. A full size bike with a full size engine, in my unhumble opinion. With a seat big enough for two and power aplenty. While just about every other street bike ever made went for a rounded look - rounded tank, rounded fenders, rounded handlbars, round headlight - this one was angular. It was raked. The front tire was tiny and the back tire was huge, so that when parked the bike had that “jacked up” look that street rods were still using. And dig that sexy little bikini fairing wrapped around a huge square headlight. The engine was the narrowest thing you’d ever seen. It was even thinner than the 550 I was trading in. Instant lust. Drool central. And it was a Honda in the very best way: anti-dive forks, automatic cam chain tensioner, hydraulic valves that never needed adjustment, and a shaft drive with anti-backlash: no chain to oil or fuss with. Hydraulic brakes, hydraulic clutch, 6 speed. Just put gas in it and go. And go it did. Boy howdy.
The other two 750 class bikes Honda was selling at the time, the Saber and the very first Interceptor, both used a water cooled V4, and both weighed dozens of pounds more than the Nighthawk. But the CB700 was no tinfoil piece of crap. It had a very stiff frame and very strong suspension. It was pretty much the last of the UJMs, and the frame was the best that could be made that used the old school double shocks in the back. Heck, this one even used part of the frame as an oil cooler. Strange, but neat. So power to weight was in my corner, and the price was pretty right too.
That’s when I found out about the protectionist “motorcycle industry revival bill” that was in place back then. You see, Harley Davidson was turning out some bikes that nobody was buying. I think they were still owned by AMC back in 1984? Whatever, they were dying on the vine. So they used their political connections to “get a level playing field” and managed to get a HUGE tariff stuck onto every imported motorcyle over 700cc. So Honda, who had designed this scoot as a 750, destroked it. They kept the engine’s bore, kept the cams, kept the nice big carbs, but swapped in a shorter throw crankshaft, so it only displaced 698cc. No tariff, and that was probably $500 saved right there.
But the result was that this 700 wasn’t a 750. No, it was the world’s nastiest and most overcammed 550. At low revs it only had a touch more torque than the SECA I traded in, but when it came on the cam the damn thing took off like a raped ape. VRRRRRROOOOOMM!!! I remember the first time I cracked the throttle open in 3rd gear on Middletown Rd. The front end came right up, a good 18” off the ground, and I carried a wheelie at 65mph (in a 30mph zone) for a good 400 yards. No bull. Holy crap. What a bike. I never dropped it, nor did I ever hit anything with it. I was in love; that bike got two coats of wax each and every time I took it for a ride. After 80 or 90 coats it just about glowed in the dark.
I did put the lower, smaller Interceptor mirrors on it, which looked super cool, and of course I had a set of loud pipes and a carb jet kit, which saved 30lbs, made a few extra horsies, and made the 550-on-steroids experience even more of a rush. The thing would run the quarter in 12 flat and still got 45mpg. But time passed, I grew up a little, and seven years later when I was a piss poor starving college student with thousands of dollars in credit card debt, I had to sell it. There’s never been another motorcycle that had that look, and good luck even finding a new UJM 750 today. After 1984 motorcyles split, amoeba-like, in their design. The hot engines went into “sport bikes”, with their “oh look at me, I’m humping the gas tank” bent over riding position and the full fairings. Fast, but to me riding one looks like you’re having sex with a bass. On wheels. The torquey engines went into “cruisers”, with their laid back, relaxin on the toilet bowl riding position, and got tons of chrome. Little Harley wannabes. Then big Harley wannabes. Both styles have matured in the last two and a half decades, but a middle of the road, straight up UJM is really hard to find anymore. For years and years they weren’t even made. And never again was there an angular, jacked up ride like that Nighthawk S.
Oh, and the rest of the world got theirs with the 750 engine. At one point, I was planning a trip to Canada just to order the crankshaft and rods, but the cost just wasn’t worth it. They came in red too.
Many years later, my mother told me she was so glad when I sold that bike. “I used to worry myself sick every time you went out. All I’d hear was Brrraaaaaa all the way across town, and I kept waiting for the crash.” Moms. They’re all alike.
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Permalink • Saturday - June 14, 2008
NOPEC?
A quote from this month’s Limbaugh Letter, which I received a couple of days ago:
On May 20, the Democrat House approved legislation allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC with the so-called “NOPEC” bill:
It shall be illegal and a violation of this Act to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product ... or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for oil, natural gas or any petroleum product when such action, combination, or collective action has a direct , substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price or distribution of oil, natural gas or other petroleum product in the United States.
Oh please, please, pass this Act! I can just imagine the resulting hilarious lawsuits against ... Congress! As Rush continues:
Folks, I can’t believe a single Democrat actually read that with a straight face, because the only people truly responsible for limiting the production or distribution of petroleum are liberal Democrats.
During the 90’s Clinton vetoed legislation passed by the Republican Congress to drill in ANWR. Had we started drilling back then, ANWR would now be producing about 1 million barrels a day ... about what we import daily from Saudi Arabia
Oh, pass this legislation.
I know, wishful thinking.
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Permalink • Wonderful
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after a sophisticated Taliban assault that even NATO conceded was a success for the militants.
A roadside bomb, meanwhile, killed four U.S. Marines sent to southwestern Afghanistan to help train the country’s fledgling police. The deadliest attack on American forces this year came one day after the U.S. defense secretary highlighted the fact that more American and allied troops were killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq last month.
Afghanistan’s deputy interior minister, Munid Mangal, said about 1,000 prisoners were housed in Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison when dozens of militants on motorbikes attacked the facility late Friday. Seven police and several prisoners died in the assault, he said.
One suicide bomber detonated a tanker truck full of explosives at the prison gate while a second bomber blasted another escape route through a back wall. Rockets fired from inside the prison’s courtyard collapsed an upper floor.
The police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said 390 Taliban prisoners were among the 870 inmates who escaped. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force first said Saturday that 1,100 prisoners had escaped but later revised the figure to around 900.
The NATO force’s chief spokesman, Brig. Gen. Carlos Branco, conceded that the militants pulled off a “very successful operation.”
And now for the required CYA:
“We admit it,” Branco said. “Their guys did the job properly in that sense, but it does not have a strategic impact. We should not draw any conclusion about the deterioration of the military operations in the area. We should not draw any conclusion about the strength of the Taliban.”
Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to capture these guys and put them in prison in the first place. Maybe they should just be shot on sight. Or deported to Gough Island to rot. Yeah, that’s it. Close Gitmo and build a prison on Gough Island. ( 40°16’52.80"S, 9°57’54.08"W). And don’t tell anybody.
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Permalink • Think it will work?
I’ve written before about the siding project going on at our condo complex. Here’s another little part of it. While our building seems to be finished at last, ours was the first building worked on. So it was some kind of training project for the contractors I guess. Whatever. The very first thing they did was come around and remove all the balcony railings and the vent caps for the kitchen fans and the clothes dryers. So for the better part of a month we had these nice 4” metal lined holes in the walls. The insects found them and started making nests. When the siding went on, the vent pipes got nice plastic caps, but these aren’t the kind with screens inside. Just flaps. It took the bees perhaps a day to figure out how to get in.
So now the lady downstairs from us has a bumblebee nest in her dryer pipe. Except the pipe is broken inside, probably disconnected from all the bashing and banging that went on during the project. And the way this place is built, that pipe runs through her attic. Which is also MY attic, as the whole thing is open upstairs. (don’t get me started on that. The design here is bloody stupid. There is as much volume up in the attic, unusable space that heats up to 140 in the summer, as there is in either her unit or mine. Duh. I could build an entire extra bedroom with walk-in closets, and there’d still be plenty of waste space. Since this is a condo association, the nearest thing in America to a Socialist Republic, I’m not allowed to go and spray the bees. Cuz that might stain the new siding. And I’m not supposed to be up in my attic anyway, because the triangulated truss arrangement that holds the roof on isn’t designed to carry any weight on it’s lower parts. Duh. So what am I supposed to do? Her vent is level with my back balcony, and just about 10 feet away. I go out there and the place is abuzz with bees, wasps, and carpenter bees. So I had an idea, and since she’s away this weekend, I put it in place last night after dark. I got a real long pole, and a roll of painter’s tape, and taped the vent closed.
If the bees inside can’t get out, how long before they starve? Or cook off in the heat in there? What do bees eat anyway? If the bees outside can’t get in, will they eventually give up and go elsewhere? Or will they beat themselves dead trying to get into the nest?
I’m thinking I should get out the ladder and go up there again tonight, and lay on some duct tape, sticky side out. That way I can catch all the outside bees, and the tape won’t leave marks on the siding.
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Permalink • Goose Creek Update
Remember those two Egyptian “students” from almost a year ago, the ones who were caught outside the US Navy’s armaments yard in Goose Creek MD? The two guys who had “fireworks” in their car, that turned out to be plastic explosives? Yeah, the same two with the laptop PC chock full of jihadi shit and plans for making bombs. The same two guys who had that remote control RC car in the trunk?
Student facing explosives charges agrees to plea deal
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An attorney for an Egyptian college student facing federal explosives charges says her client will plead guilty to a charge of providing material support to terrorists.
Attorney Lisa Moreno said Friday Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors will dismiss all other charges under the deal, according to court documents. South Carolina Deputies say they arrested Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed in August after finding explosives in the trunk of their car. Defense attorneys have said the explosives were merely ingredients for homemade fireworks.
Megahed is still awaiting trial on federal explosives charges.
As part of the plea agreement, eight other charges against Mohamed were dropped.
Mohamed and another former USF student, Youssef Megahed, were arrested last August in South Carolina after a traffic stop. Police found materials in their vehicle that can be used to make explosives.
Megahed is facing charges of illegally transporting explosive materials and a destructive device across state lines. If convicted, he faces 10 to 16 months in prison. He has been released on $200,000 bond.
So either The Man got to this one and waterboarded him into a phoney guilty plea, or it turns out the little freak was out there trying to be a terrorist after all. No shir, shitlock. The only good news is that they caught these two before they were “in the act”, so I guess charges of actually committing terrorism didn’t stick. After reading the second (original) news story, I guess Mega-head was just the driver, while Ahmed Mohamed was the wannabe bomber. Fuck ‘em both.
As the FBI said at the time “Nothing to see here, move along. This is absolutely not a case of terrorism.” Who do they think they’re fooling with that crap anyway?
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Permalink • Flag Day June 14, 2008
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Permalink • Friday - June 13, 2008
Today in GOP History
What, the Democrats have a guy running for President, and he’s half black? Shucks, that ain’t nothing.
The Republicans had that one beat ... 80 years ago!
Senator Charles Curtis (R-KS), Vice President under Herbert Hoover, was 3/4 Native Amercian, and grew up on a reservation. Read a little bit more about it. Curtis was the first, and so far the only “non-european” to get elected to one of the Top Two positions in DC. Go here, and read a lot more about him.
When Curtis was a Senator, he and fellow Kansas Congressman, Republican Daniel Anthony, Jr, introduced the first attempt at an Equal Rights Ammendment. In 1923.
Curtis is also the guy who invented the five day work week, as a way to reduce unemployment at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Wake up Republicans. This is our history. This is who we are.
There is NOTHING good that the Democrats can try and claim credit for that the GOP didn’t do first. Integration? Equal Rights? Desegregation? Minorities in high office? Worker safety? Human rights? Phooey. We’ve got them beat by a landslide on each and every issue. All we have to do is remember our history and fight their lies.
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Permalink • An Engineering Masterpiece
During the construction phase......
All finished! Note the size of the palm trees in the foreground. This thing is immense!!
Can you guess what it is? Go on, try and guess! Remember, this is in the middle of the desert. The very HOT desert where temperatures get up to 140 degrees.
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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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