Thursday - August 04, 2011

One For CB

“Betty” is actually Olga Kaminska and she has been competing in beauty pageants for 5 or so years now, going from a finalist in the Miss Teen Poland 2006 to winning 2010 Miss European Tourism contest at the World Bikini Model pageant. If that sounds a bit confusing, don’t worry. Both contests are held at the same time, and are sponsored by a small aircraft repair shop in Malta. Seriously.

But somehow, by January, she was the curvaceous centerfold for the Polish Playboy magazine.

Must be that good Polish food, to help a skinny girl fill out so quickly.

Olga works as a model and trade show hostess.

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   Wednesday - August 03, 2011

We’re Goona Loose

We got hosed tonight at league. 0-7 against the team we beat 7-0 the last time we played them. Their weakest bowler has moved to another part of the state, and they replaced him with a guy who is really really good. Total sand bagger. JS has a book average just over 200, but in truth he’s a 255 bowler, thereabouts. We bowled well in the first game, all of us well over average; I shot a 237. And we had an 82 pin handicap. They beat us by 62. We didn’t bowl as well the second game, but neither did they. They beat us by 54. We rallied a bit in the third game, rolling about a 750 raw (832 with handicap) and they rallied as well, and beat us by 70. So we got creamed, but we forced them to show their mettle. 164 average bowlers throwing 230 games twice in a night? I don’t think so Timmy. So while we will hold onto first place, this team stays in second place and picks up 7, which cuts our lead to 4.

Next week is the last week of regular bowling. We can probably win at least 5. Then the last two weeks are the play offs, where we will face tonight’s team again two weeks in a row. Unless some kind of miracle happens, they’re going to beat us right at the end of the season. Just like sand baggers. Which is what you call bowlers who do tactical bowling far better than you do.

Rats.

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Next Task

Oh joy, I’m Mr. Housework today. In between projects; I’ve got 2 coats of Minwax stain on those oak doors and they’re looking great. As much as I want to rush things, I’m going to wait until tomorrow to put the polyurethane on. Let the stain dry a full day, even though it’s warm enough in the garage that 5 minutes after a heavy rub on of stain there’s hardly anything left to wipe off. But better safe than sorry. I’m also going wireless with the house. Somehow we’ve amassed 4 devices that are WiFi capable, so it’s high time I joined the 21st century. I got a really nice dual band high speed router for a great price, which should be delivered by the weekend. My brother assures me set-up is a breeze, and online reviews say it’s all PHD these days (Push Here, Dummy). Fingers crossed.

I love hot wings, but there isn’t much meat to eat on them. So I made hot wings with chicken thighs. I love grilled chicken, and the condo park does have a really nice Jenn-Air BBQ grill down by the pool ... half a mile away. A bit far to walk with a tray of chicken, and it’s not too much fun standing by the grill when it’s 100° F outside. So I figured I could grill in the oven. Put a cooling rack over a baking sheet pan, turn up the heat, and away you go! Right? Mostly. The thing about grilling, and the reason you do it outside, is all the smoke it creates. So it was another case of me opening all the windows and doors suddenly, getting out the window fan, and doing my best to clear the air in the apartment and keep the smoke alarm from going off. Which rather obviated all that nice air conditioning.

I put the thighs on the rack upside down, and gave the bottoms a quick basting of Tabasco and Sriracha sauce and into the 450 oven they went. 20 minutes later I flipped them and coated the skin side the same. 20 minutes after that I turned off the oven, pulled out the tray, and coated each thigh with Sweet Baby Ray’s Buffalo Chicken Marinade. I could have made my own sauce easily, but I was feeling lazy. Ray’s is good, and it was on sale for half off. Back into the cooling oven for another 15 minutes to dry the sauce out a bit, and I had nicely cooked thighs with crispy skin and a good hot but not crazy hot sauce. Most of the hot pepper heat cooks off, just leaving flavor behind.

The other thing about grilling chicken outside is that it spatters. A lot.

So on my honey-dew list for today, after taking out the garbage and the several kinds of recycling, is cleaning the oven. And then scrubbing that baking sheet clean. But it was worth it!

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never mind what you say. watch what you think as well.

We are the world?

The whole world has changed since you and I were youngsters.
And not I think for the better.
And a whole lot worse since 9/11.

I read 1984 when I was very young and I know many of you did as well, because some of you have said so.  But I thought at the time that is was just good fiction and scary fiction at that.  But fiction nonetheless.
Well, times sure have changed.  If the 2011 version of 1984 isn’t political correctness, I guess I’ve lost the thread and don’t know what is.

In Norway, after the murders of all those people, the prime minister called on the country’s leadership to “show restraint” in their public speeches with regard to immigration and related problems.  It’s been suggested that he was referring to the often (as elsewhere) heated arguments on that very touchy subject.

In an address to his parliament, he suggested that after the mass killings of July 22, people needed to reflect on … “what we have thought, said and written.”

Uh huh well.  Things are getting scarier by the day now.  Yeah, I suppose folks need to be somewhat smarter then me when suggesting ways of problem solving.
But somehow the message I got from his remarks were less to do with the sort of uncivilized thinking and solutions as championed by folks like myself, and more to do with what I think is his deep seated liberal desire to actually control a person’s thoughts (or alter them) and the speech that might follow those thoughts. And the same with the written word.  In short …. please let us not be too critical about immigration legal or otherwise as it might incite and inflame.  Lets not talk out loud about the things that bother us, as it may bother the sensitivities of some minority or other.  Think pure thoughts and write kind words. Lets all hold hands and sing …

“We are the world”

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Meatloaf, still great after all these years

He sparked worry amongst his fans when he fainted mid-performance during a concert in Pittsburgh last Thursday, and collapsed again after a gig in New Jersey on Sunday.

The 63-year-old singer passed out backstage following his set, and had to be given oxygen.

Fortunately, the singer recovered after 10 minutes on the breathing apparatus and did not require any further assistance, according to TMZ.

The Bat out of Hell singer - real name Marvin Lee Aday - suffers from asthma and collapsed while singing his hit I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) in Pittsburgh last Thursday. He managed to finish the show, despite lying unconscious on the floor for 10 minutes surrounded by aides.

He made light of the incident before performing Paradise by the Dashboard Light, saying: “I ******* fainted. I have asthma, I can’t breathe.

“Oh wait, I forgot. I got poked by a pin and bled half to death, and then I got slapped in the face and my tooth is loose.”

Meat Loaf’s publicist Maureen O’Connor said: “He hadn’t been feeling well the past few days as his asthma had been bothering him. He fainted on stage and got back up and did the rest of the show. We’re happy he’s okay.”

Source: Meatloaf collapses on-stage

Just for fun, I include a couple of Meatloaf song; This is from the late 70s.

This is from 2003: Note that he’s lost weight and cut his hair.

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   Tuesday - August 02, 2011

Mr Busy

I just got back from driving across 2 counties to get to the cable TV office. Had to get a new box for the new HD service we signed up for on the phone. “You can save the $35 installation fee if you come to our office and pick up a box”, says the sales guy, “just stop in anytime and give them your account number.” So I drove there yesterday, a 50 mile round trip. No boxes. Say what?
“Lotta people be axin about them”, says the service clerk when I got there, “I don’t know why. I got a whole list of people wanting one of them boxes. The other girl, she got a big list too.”
Gosh, could it be because your company advertises 24 hours a day, and the price right now is just a tiny bit more than the old style basic plan?
I was a mite peeved, so the _omcas_ cable company got an email from me when I got home, saying they’d better get squared away. “The number one rule of business is ‘Never make it hard for the customer to give you money’; your office in ****borough needs to shape up.” That was last night. 11 o’clock this morning I get a phone call. “We have your new cable box.” Well. Fine. I’ll be right down. This time there was less traffic, and I think it’s a little cooler today.

That should only take a minute to install. Then I get can back to staining and finishing those cafe doors my customer wants installed. Nice rig, that. The doors are 1 1/2” thick clear oak with louvers. Heavy duty. They’re going to look awesome when I’m done. And I did a bit of wheeling and dealing, and got the heftier ones from the new supplier for the old price, so I saved my customer almost $100 bottom line. Good Drew.

Ok, break’s over. Back to work.

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   Monday - August 01, 2011

Strokin’ redux

I know. I’ve posted this before. What I’ve never done is tell the story of how my wife and me first encountered the song.

Many years ago, we used to frequent bars with live bands. One of our favorite bands was a local group called ‘The Dinosaurs’. They covered oldies, a sprinkling of their own, which we loved but apparently never hit the top 40.

We’d been married two or three years, and we were at a nightclub that The Dinosaurs were playing. We’d already spent an hour dancing their covers of 60s and 70s hits, when they did Strokin’.

That was different! The lead singer came out wearing a kilt. And we found out what’s under the kilt. He had a huge strap-on dildo, which he stroked during the song.

I had to check if my wife was upset/offended, but she laughing louder than most of crowd. Especially the time the lead singer was ‘Strokin’’ and a drunk young woman pulled her top down. There was something in that dildo he was strokin’ because he ‘stroked’ all over her.

Well, at that point, I took my wife to the dance floor, though I must admit, both of us were laughing too hard to actually dance.

So, now you why I like this song.

It’s a shame, I believe the Dinosaurs broke up and retired in late 90s.

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She’s a Mystery Girl

Okay folks! Who is this? I’ll just give a small hint: the photo is about thirty years old.

When you all give up, let me know!

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Monday Motivators

Sorry. I keep telling myself to do this, but what with normal problems, abnormal problems (wife’s mother just died) I’ve been preoccupied.

Anyway, nothing has changed:

Haven’t actually watched any of the Twilight shows. I think this is about Twilight:

Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking hot.  I might even let her stake me. After I ‘stake’ her, of course.
Meanwhile, it might be a good idea to review how to reach a man, for staking, or other pleasures:

That’s right ladies. We give you atrociously expensive French perfumes, and all we ask in return is bacon.

And finally, the requisite ‘boobies’ post. Posted below the fold (just to keep BMEWS R-rated)

Before you get angry, I did not lie. I promised boobies. I delivered.

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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britain at war … a real one … august 1st, 1941

Every day for the last few years, The Telegraph has been running a reproduction, reduced in size of course, of the lead stories and page leading up to and then including events of the 2nd World War. 
Usually they are short and just the bare bone headlines and comments.  They are really very interesting and I think it’s a good way to present history.
Today’s war story is from August 1st, but it’s not the phony war in Libya 2011, where modern planes, unopposed, are now strafing and bombing TV stations.
Really.  You couldn’t make this up.
The newspaper and radio news say that attacks were made against Transmitters and the TV stations to, “PROTECT CIVILIANS.” So help me that is exactly word for word the quote.  Oh, and a chief commander, a general who defected from Gaddafi forces and was leading the folks who previously were called rebels but are now officially recognized by Brits and French as .... the Provisional Libyan Government, well the general was shot dead by ..... wanna guess?  anyone?

Hard Line Muslims! Now see ... there’s something right away wrong with that news report because the muzzies fighting against Gaddafi are supposed to be only the good muzzies.  Not those other rop lice farms. 

So then ..... it’s August 1st .... 1941 for awhile.  This is a very interesting read.  It isn’t available on line.  I called the Telegraph and spoke to someone there and they very kindly emailed me the following, which btw took me more then an hour to lay out as close to the way they had it as possible here.  And I also had to do it twice due to a goof I made.  I have no idea what is meant by Japan’s “medical condition” unless it was a typesetting error at the paper. I have reproduced it here exactly as sent to me. Enjoy.

BRITAIN AT WAR

The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941

U.S. MOVE IN ECONOMIC WAR AGAINST AXIS

ROOSEVELT SETS UP DEFENCE BOARD

INTENSIFIED Anglo–American economic warfare against the Axis and its associates, including Japan, is the primary purpose of the appointment by President Roosevelt tonight of a United States Economic Defence Board.

The Board, which is headed by the Vice–President, Mr. Henry Wallace, will maintain close contact with the British Ministry of Economic Warfare. 

The establishment of the Board follows the issue of a blacklist of Axis firms in South America and neutral countries, and the embargoes against Japan.

A notable change which the President’s executive order makes is to give administrative authority to the Vice President.

Vice Presidents usually do nothing but preside over the Senate. But Mr. Wallace is looked upon by many as a Presidential possibility, and it was politically desirable to give him an important defence post that would keep him in the public eye.

SERVICE CONFERENCES

The frequency with which the President is calling in his naval and military advisors for consultation on the critical developments in the Far East is arousing especial interest in Washington because of the widely known Service opinion on Japan’s present medical condition.

Service chiefs do not advise the President on policy, but can assume as a hypothesis that a certain policy has been accepted and proceed from that to draw conclusions on how events would work out.

The hypothesis on which the Service departments are now working is that the United States would resist any attack on the Dutch East Indies by Japan.

The possibility of such an attack has been publicly referred to by the President himself when he stated that Japan has been allowed to purchase American oil in an effort to prevent it.

Thus, if a contrary policy is followed and the economic weapons recently acquired by the President are used to clamp down a tight oil embargo, a Japanese attack may be anticipated.

There are some officials who feel that a loaded economic gun should be pointed towards Japan, but should not yet be fired. Others urge that the sooner it is fired the better. 

This is where the view of the Service experts becomes interesting. They start from the assumption that Japan is the third most war–weary nation in the world today, only Italy and Spain being more so. Her resources are strained and her armed forces dangerously extended.

By a great effort her army might be increased to 66 divisions, but that is held to be the limit. Even if 10 extra divisions can be sent to Siberia the Japanese forces would not be as great as the Russians, whose Siberian army is thought to comprise 30 divisions.

A drive southward might appear more promising, therefore, to Tokyo.

But Japanese warplanes are not as modern as the British, Dutch and American aircraft in that area, and her first–line strength is not placed higher than 2,000 or 3,000.

Her chief difficulty, however, is oil. If no oil can be imported and vigorous combatant work has to be undertaken, aircraft, mechanised equipment and naval vessels will use up Japan’s reserves rapidly.

This constitutes another reason for attack on the Dutch East Indies.

But naval forces engaged in such an attack would be operating far from their bases, and the land forces available are comparatively small, while bombing attacks would amount to suicide excursions, since interception would be possible both from Malaya and the Philippines.

In other words, always assuming that the United States is ready to engage in a shooting war, a Japanese attack on the Dutch East Indies would be a gamble with the dice loaded against Japan. 

It is possible that the bombing of the gunboat Tutuila may have been deliberately designed to test American opinion. If so, Tokyo cannot have derived any satisfaction from the result, since the immediate reaction of Congress as well as one of the Administration was one of vigorous protest.

Copyright: Telegraph Group Ltd

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NEEDS NO EXPLANATION

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Nothing Ever Changes

1967:

graphic from Ed Thelen’s web page, home to more Nike missile info than you ever thought possible.

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$450 FINE FOR THE WRONG NO SMOKING SIGN. MOONBATS AT WORK

Well, I guess some Brits have proven that it isn’t just Americans who can be dumb.  And I very much doubt that any American authority would act in this way and plumb to this sort of stupidity.  But then, ya never know for certain in today’s pc world.

What do ya make of this?
Take a look.

Pub landlady hit with £300 fine for displaying homemade no-smoking signs
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A pub landlady who put up handwritten ‘No Smoking’ posters while waiting for official signs to arrive has been taken to court and ordered to pay nearly £300.

Inspectors who visited Dawn Lemm’s pub – the Judge and Jury in Colwyn Bay, North Wales – discovered she had violated regulations which decree that No Smoking signs must be rectangular with the shortest side at least 6.3in long.

Inspectors discovered the pub’s landlady had violated regulations which decree that No Smoking signs must be rectangular with the shortest side at least 6.3in long

Nor did her posters bear ‘a graphic representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar which crosses the cigarette symbol’.

Miss Lemm, 39, was given a £150 fixed penalty which she declined to pay. At Llandudno magistrates court she admitted failing to ensure proper signs were displayed and was fined £150 with £120 costs and £15 victims’ surcharge.

Last night she called the decision ‘ridiculous’.

SEE SOME COMMENTS HERE AT THE SOURCE

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   Sunday - July 31, 2011

America And The Imperialism Of Ignorance. does that include our money too?

I came across this a few days ago and saw red in all its shades.

I can not begin to tell you how pissed off I was reading all of this. Or even a part of it.
Not being very articulate or terribly literate either, my immediate response was filled with four letter words and combinations of same.  And while this is perhaps about the worst of the anti-American crap I’ve read so far, and in a conservative paper I want ya to know, I became angrier still at many of the comments made by idiots in tin hats that followed his Americans are stupid diatribe. 
To be sure, not all Brits think this way. BUT …. a lot do and so you’ll understand my frustration living here, and coming up against this sort of thing from time to time. 

Wife says I should know better then to read idiots.  Thing is, that’s hard to do when ur surrounded by em.  And many get their info from … ?  Darned if I know. One person writing in comments even says that America was so paranoid after WW2, we thought we were going to be invaded by the Brits and so started shoring up east coast defense.  Have you ever heard or read anything so insane?

So then …. I managed to get through this without using any ‘F’ words.  Not sure what that means.

Take a look fellow Americans ….. 

Forget Russia, forget Iran… is America the greatest threat to world peace, asks ANDREW ALEXANDER in his provocative new book
By TONY RENNELL

Truman was in an ebullient mood after his first summit meeting with a senior minister of the Soviet Union, who’d made the mistake of interrupting the U.S. President. ‘I gave him the old one-two,’ he proclaimed with a swagger, ‘straight to the jaw!’

The Russian departed, complaining that he’d never been spoken to before in such a way, not even by his boss, Josef Stalin.
From that moment in mid-1945, relations between West and East plummeted and would soon enter the big freeze of the Cold War.

America often acted tough abroad to avoid being seen as weak back home

The confrontational pattern of world politics was set for the next 40 years — a constant clash between the two super-powers, underscored for all of us who lived through it by the terrifying threat of global annihilation from their huge nuclear arsenals.

But, according to veteran current affairs commentator and Mail columnist Andrew Alexander in a provocative new book that rips apart decades of U.S. foreign policy, all that was totally unnecessary.

The Cold War would not have happened — should not have happened — if it had not been for America’s profound ignorance of the rest of the world and what made it tick.

Between 1945 and 1991, Washington’s gigantic power coupled with immense naivety made the world a much more dangerous place than it need have been.
What’s more, it’s still doing so. In the Cold War’s successor, today’s so-called ‘war on terror’, only the enemy has changed. America’s skewed approach to international affairs remains the same.

History repeats itself. Just as the U.S. concocted the fantasy threat of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in 2003, so at the end of World War II it conjured up and exaggerated the menace of a rampant Soviet Union set on world domination.

It was the small-town politician Harry Truman, catapulted from vice-president to President on the death of the revered Franklin D. Roosevelt, who found himself facing — as he was assured by his excitable intelligence service — a communist red tide that would sweep over Europe and Asia unless he stopped it.
Afraid of being thought of as weak — a perennial paranoia of U.S. Presidents as they look over their shoulders at the rednecks in their electorate — he acted tough, hence his roughing up of Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister in 1945.
‘I am tired of babying the Soviets,’ he wrote. The only way to rein-in Russia was ‘with an iron fist and strong language’.
But Truman was tilting at windmills. The idea that Stalin’s exhausted nation had the will or the resources to conquer any more of the world than the eastern half of Europe it already held sway over was absurd and groundless, says Andrew Alexander.
Yes, it was now a superpower to be taken seriously, and would be formidable if not downright obstructive in negotiations. And, yes, it wanted to secure its borders with a firm grip on the countries around it. But global conquest was not on Stalin’s agenda.

Government papers from the Kremlin archive show that, at that crucial point in 1945, the Soviets were intent on finding a working relationship with the West, not fighting it.
If the Americans had been smarter, if they had grasped the intricacies of Moscow’s mindset, if they had ignored communist rhetoric and concentrated on realities, if they had stopped to think instead of rushing in like blind bulls in a china shop ……
Instead, the real possibility of a stable post-war settlement that would reduce tension
in the world was blown out of the water by Truman’s wholly unwarranted and ill-informed belligerence.

Moscow countered intransigence with intransigence. The descent began from mutual suspicion to outright rivalry and the brinksmanship of the Cold War.
Behind his Iron Curtain, Stalin — cut off from the world community and with no one to answer to — purged the last vestiges of democracy from those East European nations whose fate Truman had been so concerned about.
Not for the last time, American foreign policy achieved the precise opposite of what it intended.

Minds were now firmly closed, positions immoveable. When Stalin died in the early Fifties, a new regime in Moscow hinted it was time to call off the dogs and work towards peaceful co-existence with the West.
But Washington hawks interpreted this as the Soviets running scared. They piled on pressure to widen the gap, not close it.
The arms race speeded up; spending on the military soared relentlessly. Dr Strangelove ruled.

Foreign policy and the art of diplomacy and compromise were reduced to the simple issue of military preparedness.
Meanwhile, any event in whatever part of the world — Greece, Italy, Berlin, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, the Middle East, Israel — took on a confrontational East-West dimension. In any international issue, no matter what the subtleties, all that mattered was where Moscow and Washington stood. Invariably, they took opposite sides.

From what they perceived as their moral high ground, free-thinking Americans howled at the Russians for being enslaved to communist ideology, ignoring the fact that their own belief systems were equally questionable.
In Andrew Alexander’s words, a ‘messianic mission’ developed that all countries should be remade in America’s image — despite the demonstrable fact that democracy is not a universally saleable commodity in all parts of the world, let alone a global cure-all.
At the heart of the problem was — and is — America’s deep-seated ignorance about the cultures of the countries it wants to change. The average American takes little real interest in the outside world.

THERE IS A LOT MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM HERE

Below the fold I have posted some reader comments. But if you go to the link you’ll see all of them. You will note with interest, if you’re an American reading this, that anyone making pro American comments or not agreeing with the column, has earned a number of red down arrows.  In fact, I haven’t seen any green pro American arrows so far.  Just shows ya.

One of the flaws in this I see, is the diplomat saying even Stalin didn’t speak to him that way. Yeah. He’d have just had ya shot and your family too for that matter.  And that quote by Truman doesn’t sound like him at all.  At least not stated that way. But it doesn’t matter. 

I am not saying we have always had it right btw.  Heaven knows that isn’t the case.  But I sure as hell don’t believe we’ve played any worse then anyone else and we are not the devil or his spawn.  I will say however that I wish we really could rediscover isolation to some degree, stay out of everyone else’s business, stop playing Officer Goodguy and tell the world to go fuck itself, keep our money at home, stop ALL foreign aid and quit the UN.  I guess I just HAD to get that one ‘f’ word in here.

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