Bwahahaha!

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   Wednesday - October 06, 2010

not funny ……

H/T Sultan Knish

We have the media getting outraged because people are offended by a mosque near the place where Muslims murdered 3000 people in the name of Islam. Or a Disney employee who wants to wear a Hijab. Or a pig’s head left outside of a mosque. The Telegraph actually calls this incident “a serious racist attack”.

Personally I don’t consider an act in which no one was injured and which there wasn’t even any property damage to be a serious attack. On the other hand murders, rapes and synagogue burnings seem like actual “serious racist attacks”.

SULTAN SOURCE

This blog site is huge and the articles (some of them) can take a day to read. Or so it seems. But they are well written if long, and there’s plenty here.

The Sultan obviously has a sense of humor but don’t look for too many jokes except for the cartoons here and there. This is a serious place.
BTW ,,, for those who wouldn’t know and there are many who don’t, a “Knish” (pronounced kin-ish) is a Yiddish word that was derived from the Russian knysh means “kind of bun.” It is described in the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases as “a baked or fried dumpling made of flaky dough with filling.”
I’ve also heard it referred to as a pastry. So, Sultan Knish.  Kinda funny. 

Posted by peiper     on 10/06/2010 at 01:49 PM   
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   Friday - October 01, 2010

Kick the Hippies To The Curb

For lumberjacks who have to deal with tree huggers, sure. This is a great solution. And the higher the tree, the more spectacular the results.

But for blogs a chainsaw doesn’t work. Instead we have the banning button.

Which I have been forced to press. First time in 4 years. And I so hope it to be the last time.

You can disagree with the bloggers here all you want. You can express that disagreement in some pretty strong terms. We can deal with it; we aren’t children. But if you don’t have the common sense to realize that in all things there is a line that should not be crossed, and that extraordinary comment flames are one of those things, then we don’t need you around. And we will use the digital chainsaw. No, you don’t get a warning, just like real life. Step on the mine, boom. Game over.

Accusations of treason based solely on a blogger’s location or ex-pat status are intolerable. That is not stepping on a mine, It’s dropping a cement mixer on a whole field of them and then bouncing it up and down, daring one to go off. And one did.

Hit the road hippie. And take your stinky old bong with you.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/01/2010 at 01:04 PM   
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   Thursday - August 19, 2010

Today In Weather History

Today in weather history ...

August 19, 1896

The famous Cottage City (Oak Bluffs) waterspout occurred off Martha’s Vineyard, MA.  The vortex was 3,600 feet high, formed three times, and was well photographed.

Martha’s Vineyard is a small island just off the coast of Massachusetts, right by New Bedford and Newport. It’s south of the Cape Cod peninsula, 60 miles south east of Boston and about 80 miles east of the end of Long Island Sound. Not exactly the kind of place you’d expect tornadoes. But they had one once, and it was a big job. Martha’s Vineyard is also where Chappaquiddick is, and the whole Kennedy compound. This waterspout never touched land, thus no Kennedys had the chance to be sucked into the vortex.

Waterspouts are like little tornadoes that form over water. Most are of the non-tornadic variety, but some can form the same way from thunderstorm clouds that a regular tornado can. Generally they are not dangerous, winds about 30mph, and rate a 0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.



Speaking of small tornados and thunderstorms, we have a new member. Well, actually a very old member who went away and has now come back. Banned, but now unbanned. Guess who?

Posted by Drew458     on 08/19/2010 at 02:29 PM   
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   Friday - July 09, 2010

The Circle Closes

Damn, and I put off writing him the whole time. What a schmuck I am. But I thought about it almost every day, and I even went out and bought pads of paper to write on. Handwriting? I’m not sure I remember how. Heck, I don’t even know where the stamps are. We might use one a month. Maybe. Everything else gets done online.

Oh, I hear the price of stamps is going up again too, to 46¢. Buy those forever stamps now!

Posted by Drew458     on 07/09/2010 at 09:54 PM   
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woo hoo!

Just a little post to congratulate CBullit, who seems to be CMonster these days, about getting his first significant link from behind the Iron Curtain. It seems that some comrade over there found his place and has been borrowing his photo collection on a regular basis. But that comrade publishes some kind of proper online newspaper, so CB/CM’s pics get used as the Page 3 material there. And that’s the straight pravda! So I guess ... since his source material is being published in an officialish news organ ... that makes him an official journalist! An international journalist no less. Impressive on the resume, and we won’t tell anyone that it was all stuff he borrowed in the first place. Can The Daily Snooch Report be far behind?

He toasted his own sudden transcontinental prominence by posting a nice pic of Olga Kurylenko, the model-turned-actress who was in the latest Bond film Quantum of Solace. So to toast his toastiness, here she is again.

That one’s one of my favorites. It shows off her rather striking face without distractions. Not that there’s anything wrong with distractions. She rather reminds me of a young Karina Lombard, who was Catherine Zeta-Jones before CZJ was CZJ. Strong faces, bold eyes, rich dark hair, richer accents. Perfect but normal figures. Drewski likeski!

Posted by Drew458     on 07/09/2010 at 09:06 AM   
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   Sunday - July 04, 2010

New Members

Just to show Doug and the other folks who write in and tell me that they want to make comments but membership registration is closed, here are the new members from the last month. All it takes is an email; provide a screen name/user name if you want one, otherwise I have to dream one up. The email address is right over there on the side bar in plain sight, now moved up higher so that not even a quarter page of scrolling down is necessary.

And the “guessed” member is still alive, with password “open sesame”, for those unwilling to do even that. It says so right in the comments pop-up; if you can’t be bothered to spend a few seconds to even log in, then I guess what you have to say isn’t worth the time for the rest of us to read.

Anyway, here are our latest BMEWSers:

renan
elinor1127
Reiuxcat
dedbird
BOGEYB
jameel
Eldad
miss tammy

Welcome aboard, and thanks for making the microscopic bit of effort required to join our horde.



Thank you KGrupa for the address update!

And for anyone else sending me mail, PLEASE don’t use a secure signature digital certificate crypto-thingy. I am not willing to go through the hassle of installing one of these - I tried, and the process sucks, and the good ones cost actual money - nor am I willing to use up my precious storage space keeping a list of certificates just so I can respond to your semi-annual email. And let’s face it, there is nothing any of us is going to say that requires encryption. If Obamba and his MIB want to shut down this blog and drag me off to Camp Ayers they are going to do it, and no security gizmo (that the NSA has the key to anyway, you know it) is going to make a bit of difference.

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   Wednesday - June 23, 2010

get the dash out

I have set up a simple redirect so that people who try to get to this blog by using barkingmoonbat.com will arrive at barking-moonbat.com.

Actually, I set this up from both ends: from the DNS server because I now own barkingmoonbat.com, and from the CPanel tool at my server’s hosting service. It seems to work.

I dunno, maybe it was a waste of $9 to register that other domain. But if it gets me some more traffic then I think it’s a good investment.

Ack, that’s enough messing about with source code and blog engines and internet domains and IP addresses for one day.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/23/2010 at 11:47 AM   
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An Experiment

I am going to try to figure out which switches to flip to allow comments to be left by anyone.

Update: Well, he did, and then again, he really didn’t. Member “guest” is in the member category Anonymous, and that means they can’t leave comments. Even when I changed that setting, guest still couldn’t leave comments. This means there is another switch or bit of code somewhere else that is disabling that enabling, and I can’t be bothered to go hunt it down.

Instead I created member “guessed” with password “open sesame”. Guessed is in member category Guest, and can leave comments.

So I didn’t feel like devoting the time necessary to allow for universal open comments. But I gave visitors a way to log in without registration, and after that they can leave comments. I’d prefer that my regular members actually use their normal log IDs, but I’m sure everyone is going to have fun with this for a bit.

I did this so that a few lazy folks can be happy. Not that I expect folks that are too lazy to shoot me a registration email are energetic enough to come back here for a second visit and read this, but hey, I tried.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/23/2010 at 09:22 AM   
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   Sunday - June 20, 2010

Blog Lesson

Blog Rule #17: Always read the whole article before you link to it. ALWAYS.

Case in point? I’m sure R thought he was being funny. Those old-school books were about the dumbest things ever written. But nobody in this day and age is going to see the humor if they read past the silly picture and the first paragraph or ten. No, they’ll only see the crimes, the ones that don’t surface until near the end of each linked esay. And that it gets labeled at the blog end as “fun”.

Lots of tar in that old tarbrush.

Don’t let this happen to you.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/20/2010 at 04:33 PM   
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   Friday - June 04, 2010

No character??

I just got off the phone with my friend mkmchevy down in Texas. He was complaining about my blog posts. Whether on SomethingsRotten or BMEWS, he claims my posts have no ‘character’.

Now, my first response to mkmchevy was that he has a standing invitation to post on SomethingsRotten. I challenged him to post something with ‘character’. ‘Put up or shut up’, I told him.

He declined.

Well, I’ve decided to post something with ‘character’. Something that would make mkmchevy happy. Maybe happy enough to quit complaining about ‘character’?

This is dedicated to mkmchevy…


Poll closes ... Monday.

UPDATED Update:

It’s a TIE !!!!


UPDATE!!

First, I’d like to thank Drew for posting the poll. The results are now tied between ‘Hell Yes!’ and ‘I Blame Bush’.

I did feel the need to clear up my avatar’s origins. See if you can spot my avatar in this YouTube clip:

Posted by Christopher     on 06/04/2010 at 09:00 PM   
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   Thursday - June 03, 2010

Welcome Aboard

A big howdy to new members Miss Tammy and Eldad.
Welcome aboard!

We have another new member in the queue too, but I’m waiting to hear back about what user name he wants.

Anyone who wants to join the BMEWS gang: send me and email, and tell me what user name you want. If you want to log in by a different name than that, let me know that one as well. That’s all it takes!

Now it’s time for me to go get some lunch.

Posted by Drew458     on 06/03/2010 at 02:44 PM   
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   Saturday - May 15, 2010

Waldo Spotting

Jay Jay
PeiperD PeiperD
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great care of his missus
Though he was seventy three
Jay Jay said to his missus,
“Missus” he said, said he;
“You must never go down
To that hot desert town
If you don’t go down with me!”



The Peiper has resurfaced. The two of them are out in Palm Desert CA for an extended vacation. He is doing his best to make up for time lost while living abroad by watching several baseball games a day ("The Dodgers” he writes, “Da Bums!!") and stuffing his face with local food. Screw the waistline, it’s time to eat.

He is living without a computer, without internet, and feeling it badly. BWS. Blog Withdrawal Syndrome. It’s like quitting smoking. Worse. Says he might be forced to get some basic PC just to be in touch with the world.

So he sent me an “analog post” - a handwritten letter, in which he worries about the elections in Britain, that fink Cameron who blew a 20 point lead which let too many from Labour in, what atrocity the EU is up to today, and he’s right POed that the USA (via the IMF) is bailing out Greece. 20% of Greece works for the government, he says, and many of those jobs are sinecures - no show jobs that come with a paycheck and a pension!! - while having an actual job on the side. With the gravy train derailed, The Peasants Are Revolting. [you can say that again!]

On the other hand he is joyfully agog at having an American washing machine and an American clothes dryer once again. I gather that in England both devices are built into the same machine, and not only is it half the size, it does neither task very well at all. Go figure.

Desert life is forcing the two of them to get up and about extra early, so that they can have their errands out of the way before the heat gets too intense. Smart move.

If I read between the lines properly, I think it’s their plan to be there until the fall. He writes that it’s going to be hard to go back to England in a few months ... my guess is that it will be harder than he thinks, as I’m sure that the gyppos moved into their place the moment they drove away. Probably 3 caravans on pads in his backyard already, and a basement hockshop selling stolen goods. But at least this time he’s going back with a proper frying pan for making proper American breakfast pancakes [not the English after dinner kind], and a whole case of Bisquick too I hope.

And of course he’s angry at everyone who is angry at Arizona. Good. Just because he’s taking a trip to the Left side of the country doesn’t mean he’s lost what is Right.

So I’m going to get a card off to the two of them very soon ... probably Tuesday ... and will add in any comments or messages y’all have.

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   Wednesday - April 28, 2010

IE Problem Solved???

A nice Thank You to

who all sent me emails saying “hey, problem here!” and especially

Larry and the other Gary who sent me a screen cap of the problem as well!!



BMEWS has been having a problem with the sidebar being wrapped around when the blog is viewed with IE. Since Sunday. And Drew has been having a very busy few days and he hasn’t checked his email since Saturday. Serves me right. D’oh!

Anyway, I checked the last 16 posts for html errors. I shrank all the graphics an extra 10%. I made sure every single html tag was matched and properly closed. I turned the left alignment off on the picture of Jesse Jackson’s head. I pulled the animated .gifs. Nothing seemed to work.

I went into the source code and went over the main blog template and the main .css files. Nothing ... although I did see that Allan had used an old form of the code for a text bullet, which is why you may have seen the “&bull” several times at the bottom of each post instead of a • when you read BMEWS using IE. That’s minor, and I fixed that next.

But I could not find it. I could not find where the problem was.

So I had to play Dr. House and do exploratory surgery. Yank a post, reload the blog in IE. Problem solved? No, so put the post back and try another. Finally I found the culprit. I think. But for the life of me I can’t really see anything wrong with that post. All the widths seem Ok.

IE has a notorious history of having problems with blog sidebars. My advice is to use Firefox, Opera, Safari, or damn near anything else if you can. But sometimes you can’t, so I did what I could to make things Ok with IE.

At least this time the issue was not due to a table entry. That’s another bloggy bugaboo that gives some browsers hiccups.

At any rate, now it looks fine when I run it with my IE. I hope it looks fine on yours. I still hate IE though. What a slow motion POS.

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