Monday - August 16, 2004

Does Knowledge = Power (or) Is Power > Knowledge

Here's a good mathematical word problem to start the week: Does knowledge equal power or is power greater than knowledge?

Thomas Sowell walks us down these mathematical paths. Most of us are intimately familiar with the fact that liberals use their power and prestige to try and tell others what to do and how to do it. Frustratingly, it seems that It does not matter that we know, inherently, how to do something the best way possible but the liberals, due to their power, whether it be through political, monetary, or unions (like education, etc.) tell us we must do it their way.

It is past time we tell these limousine liberal bastards to kiss our ass and go fuck themselves. Then ship them all off to an island where they can boss each other around (aaahh! what a pleasant sight that would be!)

Obama---the Next Christ?

Is it just me or does anyone else get the impression the media and Dummycraps are holding Barack Obama up as the next "Christ" for their party? You'd think this was the second coming given the play he gets from the press.

But before we all collapse in a state of blissful mutual orgasms, take a gander at how he got where he is today and just what be down the pike should he win a senate seat. Methinks it would behoove the people of Ill-Annoy to vote for Alan Keyes regardless of his carpet bagging because the alternative is far, far, worse.

This is a guy who will try to cram socialized health care down our throats; who habitually votes "for" criminal rights; he wants NAFTA renegotiated; his campaign made the spousal abuse allegations that scandalized the Hull ticket and saw the demise of Hull and the rise of Obamas.

And one more thing: why is it that although his mother is white the press glorifies him as "African-American?" Why not the other way around? Is he ashamed of being white? At what point of blood percentages can one STOP calling himself something he never really was? What is it about his Black blood that spurs idolatry? Or any politician, Republican or Democrat?

Yeah, yeah, I'm a racist, right? Darned tootin'! I discriminate against EVERYONE equally! (so there! nahnnie, nahnnie, boo-boo)

News From Najaf

In Najaf, the three-day-old cease-fire is dead and fighting rages on between the gang of criminals and foreign fighters supporting radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on one side and US forces and Iraqi police on the other side. US forces have entirely surrounded Sadr's gang in Shia Islam's holiest shrine, where the fighters are now holed up. They took refuge there knowing the US wouldn't blast them out. However, the end may just be in sight soon in Najaf.

Cabinet minister Waeil Abdel-Latif warned of a new major offensive unless the militants drop their weapons, get out of the city and transform themselves into a political party.

"We shall give the peaceful way a chance ... and after that, we shall take another position," he said.

As the explosions and gunfire rang out through Najaf on Sunday, police ordered all journalists to leave the city or face arrest.

Ahhh, that last sentence tells me the Iraqi government is about to get serious. Get rid of the reporters. That's something that should have been done months ago. They're only in the way and most of them are biased against the US and a free Iraq.

During the negotiations to end the fighting, al-Sadr demanded a U.S. withdrawal from Najaf, the freeing of all Mahdi Army fighters in detention and amnesty for all the fighters in exchange for disarming his followers and pulling them out of the shrine and Najaf's old city, aides said.

Only a mentally retarded raghead would offer these terms. He's surrounded and running out of fighters and ammunition so he says if we go away and free all prisoners he will put down his arms. Bullshit, buddy! Sadr needs to die badly in a gutter and all his fighters hung by the neck until dead. That's OUR terms.

Cabinet minister Abdel-Latif said foreign fighters were among the militants captured in Najaf - a repeated government claim - and he played a video that showed interviews with Iranian, Egyptian and Jordanian fighters and boxes of weapons, reportedly from Iran.

Now there's where we need to really apply pressure. These three countries are sending in fighters and ammunition to support the rebellion. A strong message needs to be sent to those three countries, like cutting off all aid and maybe a little sabre-rattling by Rumsfeld.

This crap needs to be brought to a swift end, and Sadr and his followers need to be publicly executed before more US soldiers die. Now is the time to send in the Iraqi troops, backed up by US firepower, to take out these criminal bands in Najaf. Just do it! OK?

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Quote Of The Day

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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On This Day In History

August 16,1977 - Elvis Presley Dies
Popular music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42. The death of the "King of Rock and Roll" brought legions of mourning fans to Graceland, his mansion in Memphis. Doctors said he died of a heart attack, largely brought on by his addiction to prescription barbiturates, but some labeled it suicide. By the mid 1970s, Elvis was in declining physical and mental health. He divorced his wife in 1973 and developed a dangerous dependence on prescription drugs. He was also addicted to junk food and gained considerable weight. In the last two years of his life, he made erratic stage appearances and lived nearly as a recluse. On the afternoon of August 16, 1977, he was found unconscious in his Graceland mansion and rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was buried on the grounds of Graceland, which continues to attract fans and has been turned into a highly successful tourist attraction.

August 16, 1948 - Babe Ruth Dies
On August 16, 1948, baseball legend George Herman "Babe" Ruth dies from cancer in New York City. For two days following, his body lay in state at the main entrance to Yankee Stadium, and tens of thousands of people stood in line to pay their last respects. He was buried in Hawthorne, New York. Ruth, who had a colorful personality and an unmistakable physical presence, began his major league career in Baltimore in 1914. That same year, he was traded to the Boston Red Sox and during the next five years proved himself to be a formidable left-handed pitcher and batter. In 1919, he was sold to the New York Yankees, where he played outfield to better exploit his phenomenal hitting talents. At a time when baseball was suffering through the disgrace of the Black Sox scandal, Ruth almost single-handedly salvaged the sport's popularity, hitting a record 60 home runs in the 1927 season and leading the Yankees to seven pennants. Yankee Stadium, opened in 1923, came to be known as "the House that Ruth Built." However, the Babe also made headlines by his charitable actions, such as visiting sick children in hospitals. In 1935, he retired from baseball, having hit a record 714 home runs in his career. In 1946, Ruth was diagnosed with throat cancer, but doctors could do little. Early the next year, treatment ended. On June 13, 1948, a uniformed Ruth appeared at Yankee Stadium one last time to retire his number. On August 16, he died.

August 16, 1896 - Gold Discovered in Klondike Alaska
Sometime prospector George Carmack stumbles across gold while salmon fishing along the Klondike River in the Yukon. George Carmack's discovery of gold in that region sparked the last great western gold rush, but it was pure chance that he found it. In contrast to the discoverers of many of the other major American gold fields, Carmack was not a particularly serious prospector. He had traveled to Alaska in 1881 drawn by the reports of major gold strikes in the Juneau area, but failing to make a significant strike, he headed north into the isolated Yukon Territory. There he spent his days wandering the wilderness with the friendly Tagish Indians and fishing for salmon. On this day in 1896, Carmack and two Tagish friends were salmon fishing on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. As he habitually did, Carmack occasionally stopped to swirl a bit of the river sand in his prospector's pan. He had seen a little gold, but nothing of particular note. At day's end, the men made camp along the creek, and Carmack said he spotted a thumb-sized nugget of gold jutting out from the creek bank. Carmack did get rich, reportedly taking a million dollars worth of gold out of his Klondike claims and retiring to Vancouver. He died in 1922 at the age of 61, a wealthy and honored benefactor of the city.

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Today's Birthdays

Menachem Begin, (1913–92), Zionist leader and Israeli prime minister (1977–83)
George Meany, (1894–1980), American labor leader, president of the AFL-CIO (1955–1979)

_{Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.}

   Sunday - August 15, 2004

Weekend Pinup Gals (and Guys)

It's time for the weekly pinup gal and since this week saw the opening of the Olympics in Athens we decided to honor the summer games with a couple of cuties who will be competing for Gold in Athens. In the spirit of fairness we also have a pinup guy for our female readers (we hope they approve of our choice).

First, we have Amanda Beard, US Olympic swimmer ..



Next, we present Tamsyn Lewis, Australian Olympic swimmer ..



And finally, for the ladies out there .... Antonio Banderas ..
(who is not an Olympic swimmer by the way)

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Quote Of The Day

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
-- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

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On This Day In History

August 15, 1914 - Panama Canal Opens
The American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. vessel Ancon, a cargo and passenger ship.

The rush of settlers to California and Oregon in the mid 19th century was the initial impetus of the U.S. desire to build an artificial waterway across Central America. In 1855, the United States completed a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama (then part of Colombia), prompting various parties to propose canal-building plans. Ultimately, Colombia awarded rights to build the canal to Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French entrepreneur who had completed the Suez Canal in 1869. Construction on a sea-level canal began in 1881, but inadequate planning, disease among the workers, and financial problems drove Lesseps' company into bankruptcy in 1889. Three years later, Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, a former chief engineer of the canal works and a French citizen, acquired the assets of the defunct French company.

By the turn of the century, sole possession of the isthmian canal became imperative to the United States, which had acquired an overseas empire at the end of the Spanish-American War and sought the ability to move warships and commerce quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In 1902, the U.S. Congress authorized purchase of the French canal company (pending a treaty with Colombia), and allocated funding for the canal's construction. In 1903, the Hay-Herrýn Treaty was signed with Columbia, granting the U.S. use of the territory in exchange for financial compensation. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, but the Colombian Senate, fearing a loss of sovereignty, refused.

In response, President Theodore Roosevelt gave tacit approval to a Panamanian independence movement, which was engineered in large part by Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla and his canal company. On November 3, 1903, a faction of Panamanians issued a declaration of independence from Colombia. The U.S.-administered railroad removed its trains from the northern terminus of Coln, thus stranding Colombian troops sent to crush the rebellion. Other Colombian forces were discouraged from marching on Panama by the arrival of U.S. warship Nashville.

On November 6, the United States recognized the Republic of Panama, and on November 18 the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed with Panama, granting the U.S. exclusive and permanent possession of the Panama Canal Zone. In exchange, Panama received $10 million and an annuity of $250,000 beginning nine years later. The treaty was negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and Bunau-Varilla, who had been given plenipotentiary powers to negotiate on behalf of Panama. Almost immediately, the treaty was condemned by many Panamanians as an infringement on their country's new national sovereignty.

In 1906, American engineers decided on the construction of a lock canal, and the next three years were spent developing construction facilities and eradicating tropical diseases in the area. In 1909, construction proper began. In one of the largest construction projects of all time, U.S. engineers moved nearly 240 million cubic yards of earth and spent close to $400 million in constructing the 40-mile-long canal (or 51 miles long, if the deepened seabed on both ends of the canal is taken into account). On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was opened to traffic.

Panama later pushed to revoke the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, and in 1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos signed a treaty to turn over the canal to Panama by the end of the century. A peaceful transfer occurred at noon on December 31, 1999.

August 15, 1969 - Woodstock Begins
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, "An Aquarian Exposition," opens at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in upstate New York. Promoters expected the music festival, modeled after the famous Monterey Pop Festival, to attract up to 200,000 for the weekend, but nearly a half a million people converged on the concert site. Promoters soon realized that they could not control access to the site and opened it up to all comers free of charge. Because of the unexpected size of the audience, volunteers were needed to help alleviate many of the logistics problems, while helicopters were used to fly in food, doctors, and medical supplies, as well as many of the musical acts that performed during the three-day festival.

Despite rain and mud, the audience enjoyed non-stop performances by singers like Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, and Joan Baez, as well as the bands Creedence Clearwater Revival; The Grateful Dead; The Jefferson Airplane; Sly and the Family Stone; and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Although many different types of people attended the festival, many were members of the counterculture, often referred to as "hippies," who rejected materialism and authority, experimented with illicit drugs, and actively protested against the Vietnam War. Much of the music had a decided anti-war flavor. Representative of this genre was the "Fixin' to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish. This song and its chorus ("And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for...Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam....And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates...There ain't no time to wonder why...Whoopie, we're all gonna die!") became an anti-war classic. Jimi Hendrix closed the concert with a freeform solo guitar performance of "The Star Spangled Banner." Woodstock became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture and a milestone in the history of rock music.

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Today's Birthdays

Napoleon Bonaparte, (1769–1821), Emperor of the French
T. E. Lawrence, (1888–1935), British adventurer, soldier, and scholar, known as Lawrence of Arabia

_{Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.}

   Saturday - August 14, 2004

Kerry’s War

Michael Moore Angers Arabs

Michael Moore sent copies of his movie "F-9/11" to the Mideast for review. Almost every country over there said "thanks, but no thanks ....

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is provoking strong Arab reaction. Kuwait banned it, Jordan tried to cut it, Syria has not decided, and Saudi commentators are denouncing it.

Why am I not surprised that the fat f**k's movie angered even our "Arab neighbors"?

Many Arab moviegoers say with a twinge of envy that they wish the region, where free speech is for the most part restricted, had its own Moore. Some say it reinforces their bad image of the United States and shows Americans what their own media does not.

They want their own "Moore"? Good. We have a very large one that we could cut up and ship quite large pieces to every country in the world if they want one. There's plenty to go around. Warning: you may still have trouble feeding even the "smaller" pieces of this bloated egomaniac.

"When he condemned the war in Iraq ... he pictured it this way: Baghdad was happy and safe until cowboys Bush and Blair came," Saudi columnist Reem al-Saleh wrote in Kuwait's Al-Siyassah daily.

"He ignored 30 years of muscle-flexing invasions, villages massacred by chemical weapons ... millions of bodies, and mass graves. He has no right to hide the full truth."

Yep, he ignored a lot of "truth" but that's what we've come to expect from Mr. Moore-on.

For Radwan Rizk, a 47-year-old Lebanese gym owner, the message was double-edged: Moore's presentation shook his idea of American democracy, yet reinforced it, too.

"I hope that we can come to a point where we can criticize our own governments the way he did — freely," Rizk said.

That's easy, Radwan. All you folks have to do is what the Americans did .... gather up as many firearms as you can and distribute them to the people so the people have more guns than the government does .... and never let them take those guns away from you. I guarantee you will be able to criticize your government whenever you want to.

And if you want Michael Moore, you can have him. And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

Barking Moonbat Of The Week Award

This week we have another dual winner. That's right, two winners of the coveted Barking Moonbat Of The Week Award.

One of them is a "blow-hard" and the other is a "hard-blow".

We just report, you decide which one is which ........




Awarded to:
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and Hurricane Charley

Where’s Daddy?

Many people forget that our troops have to sacrifice being able to do things that most Americans take for granted. For instance, the happy moment a new father has when his child is born. Most American fathers dread the waiting and nervousness (I know I did). I was there waiting anxiously in the hospital when my first son David was born but my second son was born in a USAF hospital while I was on duty thousands of miles away. I didn't see Sean until he was several months old. I regret not being able to have been there even though I could have done nothing but wait.

Today, that tradition carries on. There are troops in Iraq who are new fathers and it will be some time before that happy moment when they can lay eyes on their new children. In particular there are seven new fathers in Iraq right now. Click below for the story ....

Catching Up

Sorry folks but I'm running behind a little lately. You're all aware of my recent "odyssey" from Indianapolis to Boston to Alabama. I've quit one job, moved 500 miles, sneaked into the Democratic Convention and started work at a new job, all within a three week period. In short, I live in "interesting times". I carried all my computer equipment with me on the voyage in the back of my Jeep Grand Cherokee (along with my clothes and a few other essentials). All I missed was strapping Granny Clampett onto the top of the Jeep for a real cool image. I've been living in hotels (and a friend's borrowed apartment in Boston for a week) the whole time, connecting to the internet through a bummer dial-up connection. I feel like a frontiersman (heh-heh).

I finally settled into a new house in my new home last week and got broadband hooked up so my computer equipment is functioning again (YAY!). The only problem is my household goods are still on the way (Mayflower is SLOW!). I'm in my new house but still living out of a suitcase for the moment. Unlike Vilmar, I have to have a TV to keep up with the world of Moonbats so I decided to buy a new set for the bedroom. I settled on a 32" Sony WEGA ($1300). Awesome picture and features galore. The clarity is so good I can count the wrinkles on John Kerry's botox face.

Unfortunately, I'm trying to settle into a new job while I'm trying to manage all the little details of the move. Which means I'm sleeping on an air mattress at night and eating out a lot. This sucks but it too will pass. I've been catching up on e-mails from all you folks (I only have about 4,000 in my Inbox) so bear with me. I've also been concerned about Vilmar's health during the recent storm. Even though we've never met in person, we're a close team here at BMEWS and I appreciate my buddy's help during the past few weeks. He'll be going on leave around the first week of September (another secret mission?) so I'll have a chance to return the favor. I hope to have caught up by then and be settled in.

For right now though, I have an interesting observation .... there are no black people in North Alabama. But there are about a trillion Mexicans. What's going on here? Signs and stores in Spanish abound in the area. When did this mass migration occur? Where did all the black folks go? It's kind of interesting though. From what I've seen, the Mexicans moved in here, took over all the "shit-jobs", saved their money and are opening up their own businesses: auto mechanic shops, beauty parlors, restaraunts, etc. I'm sure there's a social statement there somewhere but I haven't figured it out yet. I need to investigate this phenomena a little further. Oh, I almost forgot .... there are also about a giga-trillion good ol' boy NASCAR fans living here too (Talladega Raceway is just south of here). Everyone seems to get along real well though. Amazing!

Best of all, this is "Bush Country". Folks here have no tolerance for Liberal Democrats. That is something that has occurred all over the South in recent decades. Along with racism, the old "Dixiecrats" (who helped promote racism) have almost disappeared. There are now Republican Governors, Senators and Congressmen all over the South. That is a good thing.

I'll have more observations on all this later. For now though, I'm glad to be back home in "Sweet Home Alabama" (Aahhh, love Skynard's music). For the record (pardon the pun), the multiple-Grammy-winning country group Alabama lives in Ft. Payne, about 40 miles east of me. I'm more of a rock music fan but I always liked their tunes too.

New Member Of The Blogosphere Team

There's another new kid on the block helping out in the effort against Moonbats. It's a site called The Key Monk. Slick design and good reading. There are some excellent recent posts about John Kerry, Jim McGreevey, etc. I've added them to our blogroll. Check it out!

What’s Up With Greyhound?

I got an e-mail from James B. about a breaking story in Greenville, SC where a Marine was denied a bus ride even though he had a ticket. I'm sorry but this makes my blood boil real bad .... and that ain't a good thing. I cannot and will not allow this kind of thing to happen without declaring full-scale war on somebody.

An area Marine says he wasn’t allowed on a Greyhound Bus, despite having his ticket for several weeks.

All PFC Jay Griffin wanted to do was make it to combat training camp on time, he had his ticket in hand and was at the Greyhound Bus Station in Greenville before the bus arrived, but he was not allowed to board the bus. He was dressed in full uniform, and his mother says that may be the reason why he was denied the ride.

It was Griffin ’s first time using Greyhound, so he asked plenty of questions to make sure he was at the right place at the right time. Fifteen minutes before the bus even arrived, he says he was waiting with his bags at the curb. His mother, Carol Holden says when the bus got there, no one attempted to load his camouflage bags. "So I tapped [the baggage loader] and said, 'what about my son's baggage? And he looked at me and said he may not have a seat."

That’s when the bus driver called for all ticket holders.

"So Jay went on around and he went to board the bus and when he did, the driver put his arm across the doorway and said I don't have a seat for you," explains Carol.

Greyhound says, “We do not have reserved seats, seating is on a first come, first serve basis. An advance purchase ticket guarantees a discounted fare, but it does not guarantee a seat.”

Something stinks about this story, folks. A Marine in full dress uniform is denied a ride even though he had a ticket? I haven't ridden a bus in ages but I thought servicemen and women were given some sort of preference to show our appreciation for their sacrifices. Has that changed? Greyhound spokesmen had this to say ....

A Greyhound spokesperson says they are not familiar with the “stand-by” tickets used by the Greenville station, but an investigation is underway and Greyhound has zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind.

Hmmmmmm .... I wonder what color skin PFC Griffin had. The news article doesn't say. Is Jim Crow back at work in South Carolina? There's something going on here and I sure as hell want an answer. I've e-mailed Greyhound for clarification.

You may contact Greyhound yourself by using their customer assistance web site at http://www.greyhound.com/contact/customercontact.asp or at the address below if you want to express your displeasure over this incident. I urge everyone to do so. Let's see if we can find out what happened, why it happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. OK, troops?

Greyhound Lines, Inc.
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266-0362

Customer Assistance
(214) 849-8966
7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., CST weekdays

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"Nature does nothing uselessly."
-- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

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On This Day In History

August 14, 1893 - First License Plates
On this day, the world's first automobile license plates were issued in Paris, France. However, plates were not issued in the United States for a few more years, when they were finally instituted as a safety measure. The city of Boston was the first to require its motorists to hold a license and register their vehicle--the owner would make his own plate with the corresponding registration numbers. The rest of Massachusetts soon followed the trend and began issuing registration plates made of iron and covered with a porcelain enamel.

August 14, 1935 - Social Security Act Passed
While the Social Security Act was passed on August 14, 1935, the roots of the legislation can be traced back to the crash of 1929. No one was particularly well prepared for the ensuing Depression, including the elderly. Government surveys taken during 1934 estimated that more than half of the nation's elderly lacked the means to support themselves. Clearly the country needed some sort of system for providing for its aging citizens. Various plans were hatched, including State-run pension programs, while America's leftist leaders marshaled surprising support for their economic proposals. But, as 1935 chugged along, the nation was still in need of a pension program. New Dealing U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt finally pushed a proposal through the legislative chain. Compared to some of the other solutions developed at the time, the Social Security Act was relatively moderate: the bill mandated the now familiar "contributory system" in which workers forked over part of their salaries to a joint pension fund. Shortly after the passage of the bill, the government wheeled into action, creating an elaborate system for collecting, collating and doling out pensions. By January of 1937, the Social Security program was open for business. Over the years, Americans have socked away over $4.5 trillion in the fund, while more than $4.1 trillion worth of benefits have been paid out to the nation's retired citizens.

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Today's Birthdays

Steve Martin, (1945), American actor
Magic Johnson, (1959), American basketball player

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