Saturday - March 13, 2010

Spring Forward Tonight

Bah, it’s that time again. Daylight Saving Time starts tonight at 2am. So when you get up tomorrow at 8, it will actually be 9. You have been reminded.

European countries don’t make the shift until the end of March, and Arizona and Hawaii don’t even bother. And if you’re in Kyrgyzstan you don’t bother because your country runs on DST all year long anyway. Borat of pride for little brother-stan! Who is turn it is to wear the national wristwatch this month?

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SOPHIA LOREN AT SEVENTY FIVE …. NOT TOO SHABBY

Can’t resist. The age shows in her hands of course, but she still looks the star. So I thought I’d share.

How to smoulder when you’re older, by Sophia Loren, 75

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:07 AM on 11th March 2010

As a wise old lady once said: A woman’s outfit should be like a barbed-wire fence - serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

That lady was Sophia Loren. And judging by her daring outfit, it appears she is still using it as her dress code.

At 75, it seems Miss Loren has decided a woman of a certain age has no need to be demure.

MORE HERE

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   Friday - March 05, 2010

from the mailbag

links to stories sent in by all you guys. Ok, I’m a few days behind with some of them.

CBullit, whose other other name is either Legion or Legend, pushes back against the global warming scientists who are pushing back against ClimateGate, with language that might get him in trouble with the Navy.

Carol and Doc Jeff sent the link that Obama wants to grab more land in the west because a bunch of stupid animals are more important than the citizens or the resources on those lands. Gee, looks like one kind of ringed neck weasel looking out for another.

Behold the Moderate Muslim! Doc Jeff links to a new fatwa that says all suicide bombers are going straight to hell without their 72 raisins. Immam Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri wrote a 600 page fatwa that says that violence is always wrong and that 3 lefts do not in fact make a right. Awesome. Now, when I hear that hundreds of millions of regular Muslims are getting behind him, I’ll take it to heart.

Carol also sends in a link to a very quick political affiliation quiz. I think it’s heavily weighted towards generating “Libertarian” as a result, even when I Just Say No to the Legalize Drugs thing.

Michael Zak sends a link to his own blog’s post that points out that ACORN operates quite like the KKK. Interesting. I like Zak, he’s real good at those Today In Republican History points, but he gets too wound up if I quote more than a super tiny bit from his writing. Hey, gots to give the folks a reason to click you know. So all I’ll give you is “Like ACORN, the Ku Klux Klan operated with impunity until Republican politicians and journalists sounded an alarm.” which might just be enough.

Rich K links to a Popular Mechanics article on UAVs, the future of the military. It’s still going to take boots on the ground in the end though.

Home is where the graft is! Rich K also links us to American Thinker where they look at RICO, the corrupt Chicago government, the mafia, and how all that lead to the city’s ban on handguns.

Lastly, Old Cat Man sends in a link that the Brits are putting spy chips in people’s dustbins garbage cans, and that some folks have the gall to object to this. You see, it’s not just WHAT you throw away, it’s HOW MUCH. So I guess they have a quota system ready to go in. Will be be seeing Carbon Credits Trash Chits being traded around the UK soon? Think of the money you could make if you were a hoarder who didn’t throw anything away!

Thanks to everyone; these all make good reading. Sorry if you sent something in and I missed it; I’m always behind in the email so sometimes I have to skip ahead to stay even a little timely.

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Something to make everyone feel good.

My last for the day ... upstairs with a book (old technology).

Thought I’d leave you with this feel good video.yukyukyuk

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   Wednesday - March 03, 2010

Skool Daze

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Just for the hell of it even if I don’t understand the need.

I think they look fine and I guess this is an after the boob-job photo. The paper didn’t publish any before shots.

Anyway, why do women do this?  I guess it’s strictly a female thing and if it makes em feel better about themselves, well heck. Go for it.
I just liked their looks and felt like posting them.  But golly, £4,800. Each.  That’s a pile of dollars.  I had no clue or if I had I forgot about it, just how costly this sort of thing is.  I think they should have spent it on computers and cars.  Shows how different women heaven bless em, are.
Example.  A guy with brother wins a lotto.  Kinda doubt he’d be willing to pay for those (cough,cough) male enlargements I’ve heard about.  Guy wouldn’t even discuss that sort of thing. Would we?  Just a though.  Oh yeah, another thought worth nothing.  Just when was it that women became convinced they needed bigger boobs?  And who convinced them? Was it a change in the culture, or had women always had this subject topmost in their minds but never discussed openly?

This isn’t a bad article actually.  Human interest for a change before getting back to the usual.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:00 AM on 03rd March 2010

What would you buy if you won the lottery? It’s a question everyone has pondered.

Here, the Mail speaks to 11 winners to find out what they spent their cash on - including a girl who bought her two sisters breast enlargement operations.

Bonnier lasses: Sarah Cockings (centre) from Newcastle won £3million in May 2005 and treated herself and her sisters Emma (left) and Alex to boob jobs costing £4,800 each

MORE WITH PIX HERE

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   Tuesday - March 02, 2010

Wearing thin

I can’t blog about this damn health care bill. Don’t want it. Don’t need it. Reconciliation should not apply. Government takeover is the wrong approach. This merde has been going on for over a year now, and I’m pretty much out of patience. I’m tired of the lies, the posturing, the empty noise. The grandiose “summits” that are just more of the same.

Global Warming, Cap ‘n Trade, Health Care. There is no middle ground. Both sides are unwilling and unable to work together. It’s all politics and bribery. There is no discussion; it’s only talking heads mouthing empty talking points and throwing ad hominem attacks around. The nation is split and I don’t think there is anything that will heal the wound. Half the population pays no taxes yet has the right to vote, and they vote to keep their personal gravy train running. Always.

Want to read the latest, the one millionth go-round? And all the angry responses that will go unheeded? Have at it. Here. And here. And ten thousand other sites, where they are all preaching to the choir in front of empty pews. It’s a huge waste of effort. There is no compromise. One side wants to ram through their effort to “fundamentally change America” no matter what, and the other side is unwilling to swallow a small dose of poison instead of a big one. One side is traitorously wrong, and the other side has the worst PR folks since Jefferey Dalmer.

Fuck it. Get out the guns and let’s fight. To the bitter end. And then the survivors winners can have it their way. I really don’t care any more. I don’t want to live in their America, and they’ve been pushing for 100 years or more to turn my America into a socialist shithole utopia. The soap box doesn’t work; government doesn’t listen. People don’t listen. There is no actual debate, there is no actual understanding the other side’s views. Just empty talking points going back and forth forever. The ballot box doesn’t work; no matter who gets elected they immediately turn into corrupt porkaholics. The jury box? Puh-lease. That system is just as corrupt as the rest of the government. And let’s face it: those who make the laws are above them, because they control who will enforce them and how. Come on; do you have the slightest faith that Charlie Rangle is going to get fired for his “ethical lapses”, or go to jail for his tax evasion? Snowballs in Hell is the better bet.

That leaves only one box.

We need fundamental change in America. That’s right. We do. We need to dismantle the entire government and start over. Keep the Constitution and throw out almost all the rest. Government must be severely limited, and always curtailed. I’ve got a laundry list of repairs, repeals, fixes, and new approaches. So do you. The bottom line to each and every one is personal responsibility; the other side of freedom’s coin. Anathema to the commies on the left. But it’s the only way forward. Which means a whole lot of folks are going to have to stand on their own two feet. Or else they’re going to starve. Too bad. Maybe if we hadn’t destroyed the upper-lower and lower-middle classes by sending all our production jobs to fucking China and outsourcing all our smarts to India, because of anti-business taxes, environmental NIMBYism, union corruption, and genuine ethnic laziness, we wouldn’t be in this boat in the first place. But we are, and it’s sinking fast. So maybe it’s time to shoot all the rats that have spent generations gnawing at the timbers, and hope that tossing them overboard will let the old boat float a bit longer to give us time to patch the leaks. It might not. But I’m really tired of having my money taken to buy fancy cheese to feed those vermin.

To hell with it. I think I’ll go brine a chicken, and just watch old movies on TV. I can’t take this any more.

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   Monday - March 01, 2010

Just Disband Already

Sometimes I think these feminist organizations are a bit past their Sell By date. Sure, back in the day they did all sorts of good things, equal pay for equal work, and so on. But their latest big issue seems more than a bit farcical. Especially when they continue to ignore the plight of the treatment of women in Africa and under the thumb of Islam. Two huge issues, worthy of a big worldwide fight. Nearly completely ignored. Instead, their latest crusade is ... for nap time.

TWO of America’s leading feminists are on a crusade to get the women of the world to have a lie in, or at least to take a nap, The Times of London reported.

Arianna Huffington, the powerhouse publisher of The Huffington Post, and Cindi Leive, the equally indomitable publisher of Glamour, have joined forces to identify women’s sleep deprivation as “the next feminist issue”.

They cite studies that indicate that women are more sleep-deprived than men, including one that says American women are getting 90 minutes less than the seven to eight hours recommended for someone to be well and perform well.

American author Naomi Wolf has taken up the baton in her column in The Times Saturday writing that the pair make a persuasive case that female exhaustion is undermining women’s creativity, judgment, and relationships.

I’m sure they want government issued blankies in gender-neutral colors, and a free glass of non-GM organic low fat milk heated to a safe but pleasant temperature too.



Personally, I think it’s more of a human rights issue. Most of us could benefit from a couple hours of mid-afternoon siesta, even if we didn’t get the glass of warm milk.

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   Wednesday - February 24, 2010

Catch me I’m gonna faint

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has become the first Obama Administration official to publicly describe last year’s deadly shootings at Ft. Hood, Tex., as a terrorist act, according to a search of news clips and transcripts.

“Violent Islamic terrorism ... was part and parcel of the Ft. Hood killings,” Napolitano told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday morning. “There is violent Islamic terrorism, be it Al Qaeda in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen or anywhere else, [and] that is indeed a major focus of this department and its efforts.”

During the Senate hearing on Wednesday morning, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), the Homeland Security Committee’s chairman, called the administration’s “reluctance” to use terms such as “Islamist extremism” or “Muslim terrorist” a “pet peeve of mine.”

He said his “concern” about the issue was “aroused again” when an internal Pentagon review of the events leading up to the attack by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan on Nov. 5, 2009, never used such terms.

Lieberman asked Napolitano: “Has the administration made a decision to avoid any public reference to ‘violent Islamist extremism’ or ‘Muslim terrorists’?”

Napolitano denied any such move.

“There has been no such decision,” she said. “The [phrase] that you refer to, ‘violent Islamic terrorism,’ is something that we fight and deal with every day at the Department of Homeland Security. There is no doubt about that. It was the motivation [for the failed Christmas Day bombing], it was part and parcel of the Ft. Hood killings and other incidents we have seen this year within the United States.”

Emphasis mine. “Other incidents we have seen this year within the United States”?????? Care to elaborate there, Janet baby?

Shame those in charge had to wait until their whitewash was entirely worn off before they had the moxie to admit the truth. Only took them 3 1/2 months.



Hmm, now I’m wondering ... if pisslamic terrorism can be defined in terms of violence done against anyone because of religious beliefs that influence behavior, then isn’t the Almaleki case a form of terrorism? And isn’t terrorism a capital offense?

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   Tuesday - February 23, 2010

LOST

Psycho Claire (Rousseau II?) to captive black guy: “Don’t make me axe you again!”

This, the final season, is supposed to answer all the questions. Really? How, by coming up with several hundred new ones? And just why can’t black people survive on this show? Sure, sure, Rose. You mean dying of cancer Rose, who along with Bernie is probably the ‘Adam and Eve’ skeletons in the cave? I rest my case.

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still here

I’ve been very busy the past week, doing all sorts of odd jobs. I’ve got one coming up this weekend where the lady has 16 different little tasks for me to do, from patching a couple holes in the walls to installing some carved wood handles on an antique dresser to repairing some baseboard to fixing the sweep on her front door. Nothing I can’t do, but it will mean bringing a whole pile of different tools to her place to do half a day’s labor. Good thing I have lots of tools. I had better start looking for my miter box now. It’s out in the garage somewhere, and the garage is still a mess from that moving fiasco we went through last summer. Actually the house is still a half fiasco too. We never fully unpacked everything, and at this point we’re realizing that all the stuff we’ve managed to live without for the past six months maybe we should just throw out. Thin things down and simplify a bit.

We managed to win 2 games at bowling last night, but lost the wood. Don’t ask me how, but conditions were such that the straight ball rollers on the other team were hitting the headpin square on and getting strikes. Reliably. So those 120 bowlers both were scoring in the 200s. Arrgh. But that’s the game - adapt, overcome to changing conditions. I’d like to be able to write “improvise” there too, but unfortunately that’s not allowed. Though it would be loud fun bringing my 1911 and just shooting the damn pins down and then rolling the ball!

Let’s see if this will publish. I upgraded to the latest Firefox 3.6 late last night, and this morning somehow I can’t use the Preview feature in the editor, or get things to Submit. So I’ll drag out Opera and see if it works there.

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   Sunday - February 21, 2010

Good Intentions

Dr. Walter E. Williams’ 1985 PBS special

He’s got more. Visit his webpage WalterEWilliams.com

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   Saturday - February 20, 2010

Crowder Time

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   Tuesday - February 16, 2010

THIS VIDEO NEEDS A NEW CATEGORY … NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.

The Wagah border is the only road linking India and Pakistan. And every night, the border is closed with a most unusual ceremony.  Only 156 seconds long, it is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen.

H/T Jim Miller

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