Sarah Palin's presence in the lower 48 means the Arctic ice cap can finally return.
Sunday - August 08, 2004
Weekly Pinup (Guys Version)
This week's pinup gals are from featured artist Michael Mobius. Mobius is a native of East Germany, born there in 1968. He didn't encounter western art until the Berlin Wall came down. Since then he has flourished and established quite a reputation as an extremely talented artist.You can purchase "The Art Of Michael Mobius" at Amazon for only $14.95. It contains quite a collection of this artist's works.
All Images Are © Michael Mobius.
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OK, one more attempt to satisfy the ladies out there in readerland with a pinup "guy". They complained because we didn't have weekly pinup guys, then they complained that they were not turned on by the young studs we presented, saying they preferred older men. Vilmar tried to placate them last week with a very sexy picture of Groucho Marx. Didn't work.Then I remembered something a young girl I was dating a few years ago told me. She was absolutely fascinated by "older, more mature men". She said older men "floated her boat, got her hot and rocked her world". Since she was fifteen years younger than me, I swallowed it hook, line and sinker. One day I asked her who she thought was the sexiest man on the planet.
Here are pictures of the man she named ....
Don't worry, guys. The weekly pinup gals will be along shortly ....
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Quote of the DayGood judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Barry LePatner
On This Day in History
1876 Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
1963 "The Great Train Robbery." 15 thieves robbed the Glasgow-to-London mail train, stealing over $6 million.
1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1918 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
1988 Chicago Cubs starts 1st home game under lights (rained-out) (what else can you expect?)
1988 Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
1942 German saboteurs executed in Washington
During World War II, six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure are executed by the United States for spying. Two other saboteurs who disclosed the plot to the FBI and aided U.S. authorities in their manhunt for their collaborators were imprisoned.
In 1942, under Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's orders, the defense branch of the German Military Intelligence Corps initiated a program to infiltrate the United States and destroy industrial plants, bridges, railroads, waterworks, and Jewish-owned department stores. The Nazis hoped that sabotage teams would be able to slip into America at the rate of one or two every six weeks. The first two teams, made up of eight Germans who had all lived in the United States before the war, departed the German submarine base at Lorient, France, in late May.
Just before midnight on June 12, in a heavy fog, a German submarine reached the American coast off Amagansett, Long Island, and deployed a team who rowed ashore in an inflatable boat. Just as the Germans finished burying their explosives in the sand, John C. Cullen, a young U.S. Coast Guardsman, came upon them during his regular patrol of the beach. The leader of the team, George Dasch, bribed the suspicious Cullen, and he accepted the money, promising to keep quiet. However, as soon as he passed safely back into the fog, he sprinted the two miles back to the Coast Guard station and informed his superiors of his discovery. After retrieving the German supplies from the beach, the Coast Guard called the FBI, which launched a massive manhunt for the saboteurs, who had fled to New York City.
Although unaware that the FBI was looking for them, Dasch and another saboteur, Ernest Burger, decided to turn themselves in and betray their colleagues, perhaps because they feared capture was inevitable after the botched landing. On July 15, Dasch called the FBI in New York, but they failed to take his claims seriously, so he decided to travel to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. On July 18, the same day that a second four-man team successfully landed at Ponte Verdra Beach, Florida, Dasch turned himself in. He agreed to help the FBI capture the rest of the saboteurs.
Burger and the rest of the Long Island team were picked up by June 22, and by June 27 the whole of the Florida team was arrested. To preserve wartime secrecy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a special military tribunal consisting of seven generals to try the saboteurs. At the end of July, Dasch was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Burger was sentenced to hard labor for life, and the other six Germans were sentenced to die. The six condemned saboteurs were executed by electric chair in Washington, D.C., on August 8. In 1944, two other German spies were caught after a landing in Maine. No other instances of German sabotage within wartime America has come to light.
In 1948, Dasch and Burger were freed by order of President Harry Truman, and they both returned to Germany.
Today's Birthdays
1930 Andy Warhol, artist/movie producer
Thanks to The Quotations Page Famous Birthdays Snopes
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Permalink • Saturday - August 07, 2004
Kids Say the Darnest Things
...on their T-shirts!
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Man, it would suck to have this happen. Will he ever use a chainsaw again?NOT!! the Good HUMOR man!
These guys just aren't the brightest thieves in the world.
This guy needs some serious bikini waxing all over his body. And laser hair removal. And acid based depilatories. And a shitload of razors.
Check out what he looked like as a child and what he's had to recently do. Can you hear me now!?!?!
OK, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I'll grant you. Especially when you fear criminal elements and don't know enough to NOT put a cocked pistol in your pants. FORON! (for those who do not know what FORON is, take the first letter of the gerund form of a four letter word for fornication and add the last 4 letters of moron)
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Permalink • Friday - August 06, 2004
Aaaahhhhhh, Broadband At Last!
At last. I have broadband again. After traveling to Boston and moving to Alabama, I finally have broadband again. I might just have an orgasm over this.Is it any wonder Vilmar is so cranky, connecting through a dial-up connection all the time?
I'm almost back in the saddle again, kids. I've got the laptop on cable modem and will be wiring the main computer network up tomorrow.
Thanks to Vilmar for taking up the slack during my travels. Starting Sunday, I'll be back on-line full-time kicking Moonbat butt. Let's hear a round of applause for Vilmar. He's a real stand-up guy.
I'm working on "The Heavenly Poker Game, Act III" and "World War IV: The Arab Wars, Part III". Stay tuned.
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Permalink • LADIES!!!
Tired of a slob you drops his dirty underwear everywhere expecting you to pick it up? Tired of a guy who gets home and plonks down in front of the TV with a beer, ignoring you? Tired of a man who'd rather be out with the guys on the weekend?Do you enjoy snuggling and nuzzling but your boyfriend would rather be left alone?
Dump him and run out to your favorite bedroom accessories store because the "boyfriend pillow" is for you!
Geez, am I gonna catch hell for this one! (**runs away, ducking and covering!**)
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From Leno:Well today the White House released a terror warning for the Olympics. Okay, it was the 1980 Olympics. They admit the information is a little old.
According to the "Wall Street Journal”, al Qaeda’s new strategy is to destroy our financial institutions and bring the nations big businesses and major corporations to its knees. No wait I’m sorry that’s Ralph Nader’s platform. I’m sorry.
According to "Drudge Report”, a domestic centerpiece of Republican agenda for the second Bush term is getting rid of the internal revenue service. They want to do away with the IRS. Whew! So I guess they are serious about going after terrorist organizations.
Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions? Like at the Democratic Convention, Kerry’s daughter told a story about how her dad once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican Convention, the Bush girls are going to tell the story of how, when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.
Political experts continue to be baffled over John Kerry’s failure to get a bump in popularity after the Democratic Convention. Jimmy Carter got a bump in 1976. Ronald Reagan received a bump in 1980. And Bill Clinton not only got a bump in 1992, he got a bump and a grind.
"The Village” was the number one movie making $51 million. It’s all about these villagers who get attacked by these creatures who live in the woods. President Bush said, "See what happens when you don’t cut the trees down!”
From Conan:
Residents in Missouri overwhelmingly voted to make same sex marriage illegal. They also changed their state motto to the "don’t show me state”.
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From Jay Leno:Concrete pieces of Wrigley Field in Chicago have been falling to the ground. Which is strange this time of year because usually for the Cubs, the collapse doesn’t occur until the playoffs.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 05, 2004
A Reminder
As a public service reminder, I'd like to inform you that Imperial Centurion, Barb, is running a little contest on her blog to pick a song that best describes the GOP in Illinois.Run up her guest numbers and give her a visit, OK?
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Permalink • What Was Going On With Allan & Vilmar?
Allan here. I just thought I'd chime in with my two-cents worth on the recent bullshit between Vilmar and myself. It was all a joke, kids .. and none of you fell for it. Bummer!Before I left for Boston, Vilmar and I decided to start some crap to keep you guys and gals distracted while I snuck behind enemy lines (or is that "enema" lines?).
We came up with the idea of a treason to see if our readers would take sides. Only a few did. The rest of you must have seen right through the crap right away. That is good. It means you can cut through the bullshit and sort things out for yourself without any help from the Democrats or the national news media. Either we've trained all of you well or you already had good heads on your shoulders. Either way, we congratulate you on having more sense than God gave to earthworms (and Liberals, who have less sense than earthworms).
Vilmar was fascinated at the idea of watching the experiment to see what social interactions might occur in two opposing groups. I have to admit, I was also a little curious.
In summation, we were a couple of wankers having a little experiment with you good folks. You proved, however, that you are all too smart for that shit. We hope you will forgive us for trying to have a little fun with youse guys.
Carry on!
Oops, almost forgot .... GO CUBS! GO CUBS! GO CUBS!
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I've received email from people concerned that what was going on between Allan and myself was the result of a falling out of some sort.As it turns out, it was nothing more than a well orchestrated hoax upon those who were not sure (and a bunch of bullshit to all others.)
It was, however, a lot of fun and somehow I suspect it kept Allan checking in periodically to see what crap I was spewing and what hijinx I was up to with the site while he was in the middle of his move and his clever infiltration of the Dummycrap Convention.
Hope you had fun with it. I know I did.
Now we will resume our normal ranting and raving (unless Allan's got something up his sleeve he's not told me about.)
Thanks for sticking with us through the madness.
Vilmar
P.S. I must admit it was interesting to see, from a sociological perspective, which side people took.
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Quotes of the DayThe keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
On This Day in History
1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1861 For the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax.
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala; Adm David Farragut orders "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island.
1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
1962 Marilyn Monroe died.
1981 Pres Reaan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
1944 Hundreds of Jews are freed from forced labor in Warsaw
On this day in 1944, Polish insurgents liberate a German forced-labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners, who join in a general uprising against the German occupiers of the city.
As the Red Army advanced on Warsaw in July, Polish patriots, still loyal to their government-in-exile back in London, prepared to overthrow their German occupiers. On July 29, the Polish Home Army (underground), the People's Army (a communist guerilla movement), and armed civilians took back two-thirds of Warsaw from the Germans. On August 4, the Germans counterattacked, mowing down Polish civilians with machine-gun fire. By August 5, more than 15,000 Poles were dead. The Polish command cried to the Allies for help. Churchill telegraphed Stalin, informing him that the British intended to drop ammunition and other supplies into the southwest quarter of Warsaw to aid the insurgents. The prime minister asked Stalin to aid in the insurgents' cause. Stalin balked, claiming the insurgency was too insignificant to waste time with.
Britain succeeded to getting some aid to the Polish patriots, but the Germans also succeeded-in dropping incendiary bombs. The Poles fought on, and on August 5 they freed Jewish forced laborers who then joined in the battle, some of whom formed a special platoon dedicated solely to repairing captured German tanks for use in the struggle.
The Poles would battle on for weeks against German reinforcements, and without Soviet help, as Joseph Stalin had his own plans for Poland.
1914 Red Light, Green Light
The first traffic light was installed at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Earlier roads, shared by horses, cars, and streetcars, were chaotic. As accidents and traffic increased it became apparent that some rules of the road were required. The traffic light was only one of several improvements to arrive in this period--the traffic island was introduced in 1907, dividing lines appeared in 1911, and the "No Left Turn" sign debuted in 1916
Today's Birthdays
1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
1604 John Eliot "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
1624 William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
1930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, loyal readers, valiant soldiers and defenders of the realm:I've just affixed my signature to an agreement with Caesar hereby ending all hostilities. The shields are down, the armies are dissolved, the automatic launch sequencers disabled.
Peace will reign upon our glorious lands!
Hail! Hail! Unto me!
Hail! Hail! Unto Caesar!
(we now resume our normal broadcasting.)
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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
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- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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