Monday - March 14, 2005

An Opportunity For The Republicans

Maryland Republicans have an opportunity to do a great thing in 2006----elect a Republican Senator to replace Sarbanes who is retiring.  This move by Sarbanes was unexpected and if Republicans there play their cards right we may very well have a 60 seat Republican senate come January 2007.

Let us hope!

OBTW, the Dems are toying with Squeezy Perfumey as Sarbane’s replacement.

MEMO TO MARYLAND REPUBLICANS:  It’s time to start digging into Squeezy’s past.  This guy is a dirtball!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/14/2005 at 06:36 AM   
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Killing The Rabbit

One of the stupidest things around insofar as holidays are concerned is the concept of a bloody rabbit and Easter.

No one has really explained to me how a rabbit who lays chocolate eggs (hey, a rabbit is a freakin’ mammal, fer chrissakes!) has anything to do with Jesus raising himself from the dead.  it’s a bad meld of paganism and Christianity.

But that’s beside the point.

In Florida, mall Nazis are taking down Easter Bunny displays so as not to offend anyone.  In an effort to display “diversity” they now have:

Baxter the Bunny, Peter Rabbit, and Garden Bunny

I think I am going to puke.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/14/2005 at 06:34 AM   
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   Sunday - March 13, 2005

Weekend Closure

Thanks to EroticDoll, I was directed to this wonderful web site with a fantastic Flash Movie. Being of Gaelic (Irish) descent, it touched a special chord within me. Of course, I had to rip it off and save a copy for myself. I hope this helps you bring closure to another wonderful weekend here with all the wonderful folks who visit here. May the wind always be at yer back, lads and lassies ....

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Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2005 at 07:11 PM   
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Hubble Bubble

This is the Helix Nebula, also called the “Eye Of God” nebula. Picture taken from the Hubble Space Telescope .... which will be dying soon thanks to funding cuts. What a shame .... we will no longer be able to look God in the eye.

Feb. 7, 2005 — The White House has released its 2006 (FY06) budget request. The request does not include any funding for a Hubble servicing mission. Next up, the House Science Committee will discuss NASA’s budget on Feb. 17. The White House’s budget request is posted at the Office of Management and Budget web site. NASA’s budget is posted here.

The portrait offers a dizzying look down what is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. The fluorescing tube is pointed nearly directly at Earth, so it looks more like a bubble than a cylinder. A forest of thousands of comet-like filaments, embedded along the inner rim of the nebula, points back toward the central star, which is a small, super-hot white dwarf.

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2005 at 03:53 PM   
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Boris Valejo Weekend, Final Edition

This is the final installment of the six-part series. To wrap it up, we present a two-fer. This is Boris Vallejo’s look at the Age Of Mythology. First, from ancient Norse mythology and second from ancient Greek mythology ....

Special Surprise: You can download all seven of the paintings presented here this weekend plus twenty more in my collection by clicking here (2.3 MB ZIP file).

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2005 at 03:00 PM   
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Help! They’re Going To Screw Up My Birthday Party!

FLASH ALERT: Sorry to interrupt your peaceful Sunday but we have a flash alert from the BMEWS Radar System. Pay attention, everyone! Next Saturday is my birthday (56) but the fucktards of the world are going to spoil my birthday party. It is also the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq (I can never thank President Bush enough for that birthday present two years ago). The idiotarians on the left are planning on screwing up my birthday by acting like asshats once again. Here is the scoop ....

This message is for any Protest Warrior members and for anyone living in the vicinity of Fort Bragg or Fayetteville, North Carolina: be prepared on March 19 for a bunch of asinine asshats who are going to descend on the Army post to protest the war. Michael Moore is promoting this protest on his site. Here is the official web site for the protestors: it is called “The NC Peace & Justice Coalition”. On their site you can also read that they are having a concert with various second-string hip-hop artists who, no boubt, will be “singing” “screaming” so-called “songs” urging people to kill cops in America instead of terrorists in Iraq. Stoopid shit-fer-brains forons!

Look for the usual cast of characters (it’s too bad we can’t convince the Army to turn the “snake-eaters” loose on these creeps) ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2005 at 02:11 PM   
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Boris Vallejo Weekend, Part V

Hmmmmmm .... something about this painting just doesn’t seem right ....

Note: Visit Boris Vallejo’s Official Web Site here. Buy art books, posters and browse the gallery.

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2005 at 09:49 AM   
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The Evil Beginnings Of Dan Rather

A very interesting piece in the current issue of the Weekly Standard caught my eye. It seems that Dan Rather has been an asshole for longer than many of you may have thought. It all goes back to 1963 and the Kennedy assassination ....

Wrong from the Beginning
From the March 14, 2005 issue of The Weekly Standard
Even in 1963, Dan Rather was a poor excuse for a newsman.
by Philip Chalk

When CBS Announced that it will smile through the pain of Dan Rather’s dying credibility with an hour-long retirement tribute in early March, the network released an image of a young Rather posing in front of the Texas School Book Depository, looking gravely into the distance. While a little nostalgia was understandable--what, no photo of Rather huddled over a fax machine last October?--CBS still managed to remind those who knew the anchor during his salad days in Texas how tendentious and unprincipled he was even then.

Eddie Barker, for one, remembers. The news director for CBS’s radio and TV affiliates in Dallas at the time of President Kennedy’s November 22, 1963, assassination, Barker is widely credited with first reporting on the air that the president was dead, having received word through a doctor acquaintance directly from the hospital ER. Rather, then based in Dallas as a reporter for CBS’s national news broadcast and working out of Barker’s newsroom, later took credit for the scoop, Barker says. The error is repeated in historical accounts often enough to annoy the now-retired Barker, though he says the falsehood was later acknowledged by Rather.

It was a different lie--one delivered on national news, and at the expense of children--that caused Rather trouble at the time. As reporters from around the world descended on the Texas city, Rather went on the air with a local Methodist minister who made a stunning claim: Children at Dallas’s University Park Elementary School had cheered when told of the president’s death.

The tale was perfect for the moment, reinforcing the notion among distant media elites that Dallas was a reactionary “City of Hate.” It slyly played to a local audience, too: The school named was in upper-income University Park, one of two adjacent municipal enclaves that shared a school district and a reputation for fiercely protected, lily-white privilege. Finally, for the ambitious Rather--a native Texan and then a Dallas resident--the account represented the very sort of revealing, local dirt that the throngs of out-of-town competitors would have to work far harder to get.

Except that it wasn’t true, and Rather knew it, Barker says.

Approached earlier by the same minister with what was a second-hand account, Barker himself had run the story by the school’s principal and some teachers, all of whom denied it outright. Because of the shooting, which took place at 12:30 p.m., the principal had decided to close the school early, though without telling the students why. The children at the school--including three of Barker’s own--were merely happy to be going home early, he was told. There couldn’t have been any spontaneous cheering at the news of Kennedy’s murder, because no such news had been announced.

Undaunted, the dogged minister--"a very, very strong liberal and a very, very strong Kennedy supporter,” Barker says--moved on to Rather.

“Rather came to me, and I said, ‘My kids are in school there, and I checked it out, and there’s not a darn thing to it,’” says Barker. “He said, ‘Well, great--I’ll just forget it.’ But instead of forgetting it, he went out and did this gut job on Dallas and its conservatism,” with the preacher’s story at the center of his report.

With the discredited account likely to be challenged by the local affiliate’s editors before being fed to New York, Rather sidestepped a customary film-editing session with Barker and arranged to file the report live instead, Barker says. “And so here’s Dan with the preacher, telling this story about kids at UP cheering when told the president was dead.”

Livid at being lied to, Barker laid into Rather as soon as he returned to the newsroom, expelling the reporter and all his national-news colleagues from the building on the spot. “I said ‘Get the hell out of here--you and this whole damn bunch!’” he says.

Barker’s local TV and radio crews scrambled to arrange on-air interviews with teachers to rebut the story, but the lie had already traveled halfway around the world and would become an enduring part of JFK assassination lore. In the meantime, CBS was threatening to pull its affiliation with the two local stations for having given Rather and his colleagues the boot.

“The next day I let him back in,” Barker says. “But I wanted to make darn sure that he knew he couldn’t pull that kind of crap with me.”

While well-known in broadcast-news circles, the incident did nothing to slow Rather’s rise; his Kennedy coverage was decisive in his eventual move up to CBS’s New York headquarters. “You have to give him credit,” says Barker. “He’s a very aggressive guy.”

Aggressive to a fault, as the ignominious end of his four-plus decades at CBS makes plain. As Barker himself--a CBS newsman for most of his career—says, “Anybody who followed CBS’s coverage last year knows that they were doing a gut job on the president.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/13/2005 at 09:04 AM   
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And Now For Something Completely Different

Guys, how many times have you popped the question and either gotten this for an answer or felt like if you kept on that train of thought you WOULD get this for an answer?

Come on, tell the truth!

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/13/2005 at 09:02 AM   
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Another “Sunday-Type” Post

OK, so it’s corny.  But it IS cute!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/13/2005 at 08:57 AM   
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There May Be Hope After All

Since it is Sunday it is appropriate to post this. 

Granted, it comes from the Baptist Press, but I will assume their polls are legit.  So if that is the case, it appears that teens today aren’t quite taking this evolutionary bullshit taught in their public schools as gospel.  Almost 81% percent feel that God is somehow involved in the process.

That has to be good news.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/13/2005 at 08:51 AM   
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On The Meaning Of Fatwahs

Remember a couple of days ago when everyone got excited about the Spanish Muslims issuing a “fatwah” against Osama bin Laden?

“A corner has been turned!”

“The Muslims are serious now!”

“Bin Laden better watch out!”

In so many words, basically, that was how the significance of this “fatwah” was fed to us.

Have you all really thought about what happened and why they may have done so?

Did you, like me, cast a cynical and very jaundiced eye at this news? 

Come on!  Really!  They’ve had years to think this through.  I would not be surprised if there is some sort of collusion going on between the radical sheetheads and this group in Spain.  In order to lull us into some sort of complacency because finally someone’s DOING something.

But if you want to know how ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY meaningless I think this “fatwah” is, ask yourselves THIS question:  Why is Salmon Rushdie still alive?  Didn’t he have a fatwah issued against him for years?  And he lives openly in London.  He travels around the world.  He does not hide in caves with armies to protect him.

He’s still alive, isn’t he? 

So this most recent fatwah is supposed to do what?  Be as useful as the “feel-good” shit our politicians pass all the time?  A lot of words?  No actions?  No meaningful solution to the real problem?

I’ll let you all kick that around a bit amongst yourselves.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/13/2005 at 07:32 AM   
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A BMEWS Public Service Announcement

Starting soon everyone will be entitled to a free credit report once a year.  This program will be incrementally started across the US in order to reduce demand load.

Click on this link to find out when you can ask for yours.

Hat Tip: BobF

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/13/2005 at 07:25 AM   
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2 From Annoying Little Twerp

Thanks to Barb, at her Annoying Little Twerp blog, I found this post about how that nasty little “Italian Incident” from a few days ago could have been prevented.  The guy is spot on!

While you’re at it, check out the pictures she put up from the Protest Warrior meet they had.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/13/2005 at 07:22 AM   
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