Tuesday - September 06, 2005
What will it take?
This is an interesting articel by a city planner on what the next steps are for housing the mass of humanity in the south.
Each evacuee should be assigned a FEMA case manager. Evacuees and those residing in shelters should be interviewed within a week to determine their individual immediate and near-term needs.
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FEMA should already have people surveying rental housing markets in surrounding unaffected areas and placing deposits vacant apartment and home units. As units are held for victims, these data should be loaded into the GIS and an inventory compiled.
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FEMA will likely develop temporary and interim group sites, which no doubt will be labeled by the media “refugee camps.” Temporary housing encampments are FEMA’s bread and butter. I’m sure that there are many very experienced people at FEMA who are likely gearing up to meet this need as we speak. Remember, these will be temporary and the accommodations will be tolerable as they will be air conditioned, offer a semblance of privacy, and evacuees will have access to clean water, food, and showers. Think about the temporary facilities constructed in Iraq for our soldiers and you get the picture. Do our soldiers live in “refugee camps”?
Real interesting, especially when he delves into the question of one big “camp” versus many little camps.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 01, 2005
What’s The Difference?
.... between an “insurgent” in Iraq and a ”looter” in New Orleans?
None, whatsoever. There will always be evil people among us. Aim for the center target. Shoot to kill. Let God sort ‘em out ....
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 30, 2005
Things You Shouldn’t do ….
- Never send your 13-year-old daughter into a bank with a note saying “this is a stickup”. Banks have no sense of humor.
- Never try to smuggle Cuban songbirds into the country in your underwear. Jokes about cockatoos notwithstanding.
- Never enter an internet chatroom in China unless fully clothed. Nekkid commies are forbidden.
- Never take your pit bull to Ontario. If you do the Toronto police will fine the Shi-Tzu out of you.
- Finally, if you’re missing a jackalope, you may retrieve him from the vet at Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Shipping and handling extra.
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Permalink • Sunday - August 21, 2005
Sunday Morning Blinks
- NoDNC.com: Air America, A Liberal Media Business Lesson. Bill explains why the crooks at Air America just don’t get it.
- Pirate Ballerina: Ward Churchill will teach only one class this Fall. Chief Sitting Bullshit is just so tired after his fifteen minutes of fame.
- StopTheACLU.com: Victory Dance For Moses. Finally, a court somewhere says the Ten Commandments are OK.
- Captain’s Quarters: More confusion over Able Danger? Who knew what and when did they know it is only the beginning of this little mystery.
- Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller: Camp Sheehan now has an opposing fort across the road, Camp Qualls and the Leftys don’t like it. Misha has the cure for all their ills though. Mheh-heh.
- Michael Yon: An explanation of the term “proximity delay”. Sometimes reporting from the center of the action can be a little frustrating, to say the least.
- The Belmont Club: Domine Quo Vadis - it seems there is more to Pope Benedict’s recent speech to Muslims than you might have thought. This is a VERY interesting read. I hope the Muslims finally get it.
- Little Green Footballs: Bush goes for a bike ride with Lance Armstrong and Reuters turns it into a story about Cindy Sheehan. The Liberal Media finds new ways to attack Bush.
- UberGizmo: Scientists harvesting crocodile blood to fight HIV. It seems the nasty reptile’s immune system is the strongest on the planet - which probably explains why they’ve hung around for hundreds of millions of years.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 18, 2005
Thursday Morning News Bytes
- French vacations shortened because French economy sucks. In other news, France sucks.
- Hawaii wants to secede from the Union. They figure they’ve ripped off mainland tourists long enough.
- The State Department warned Bill Clinton about Osama Bin Laden in 1996. Slick Willy was too busy with his cigars to be bothered at the time.
- Jews being dragged, kicking and screaming out of Gaza. Say they’ll miss the regular sound of mortars slamming into their houses.
- Iraqis are now paying five cents per gallon for gas in their cars. I repeat, what happened to our oil for blood?
- For $60,000 you can have LBJ’s old Lincoln. One owner, rarely driven, still with original mudflaps.
- In Germany the fish are fighting back. Fishing now declared a dangerous sport thanks to mysterious Killer Bass.
- Social Security has its 70th birthday tomorrow and Democrats are already preparing the cake. They’re promising us we can have it and eat it too.
- President Bush decides not to rule out nukular option on Iran. Slim Pickens has been ordered to report to his bomber squadron.
- Israel is giving Gaza back to the Palestinians but Hamas wants more. Give ‘em an inch and they take the world.
- The US Military has found a chemical factory in Mosul operated by insurgents. Of course, you just know they were only brewing up a batch of Chunky Camel soup.
- Tornado hits mobile home park in Wyoming. You’d think by now most folks would realize that God just don’t like trailers.
- Stealing piggy banks from churches? People seem to have forgotten that the last time humanity stooped this low it rained for forty days and forty nights ....
- Radical cleric Abu Qatada will be deported from Britain to Jordan, where he was convicted of inciting and sponsoring terrorism, next week. Read the CNN interview with him from November, 2001 for an insight into this madman’s mind.
- Heathrow airport is shutdown and 70,000 passengers are stranded because of an unofficial strike by ground staff in support of sacked catering workers.
- Bill Clinton defends his wife and says Hillary hasn’t decided to run for President. It seems the former President decided to “stand by his woman”.
- NARAL has withdrawn their bullshit, pit-bull attack ad that tried to smear Judge John Roberts. They claim the ad was “misconstrued”. Once again, the Leftists find their insane venom unwelcome by most Americans.
- Tropical Storm Irene is building in strength and gradually turning to target New York sometime next week. If this storm stirs up the East River, there’s no telling what (or who) might float to the surface.
- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech patterns and voice tones to rate people - it’s called the Jerk-O-Meter. Guess why?
- Today’s Fwance-bashing story is about a Fwench fireman who started fires so he could report them and be interviewed by journalists. It seems his fifteen minutes of fame are almost over.
- Total Weirdness Of The Day Award goes to Australian Shane Wilmott and his surfer-mice .... KOWABUNGA!
- Peter Jennings Is Dead. I have no comment at this time.
- The Price Of Oil Is At A New High. My wallet is at a new low.
- Bill Clinton Is In England Campaigning For Cherie Blair. What is it with Slick Willy and the gals?
- The Space Shuttle’s Landing Is Delayed One More Day. Astronauts won’t explode until Tuesday.
- Iran Is Re-Starting Its Nuclear Plants. Nuke ‘em now before they get too far along.
- The UN Head Of Oil For Food Program Resigns. Wow, now that’s a shocker!
- Another military coup in Africa, this time in Mauritania. Where the f**k is Mauritania and does anyone care?
- Another corrupt Democratic Congress-critter under FBI investigation. Where is the media?
- The media is wringing its collective hands over Dubya’s vacation days. It appears Bush-bashing is too much work in the Texas heat.
- CNN is right on top of the body count in Iraq. They seem to relish counting US troops deaths.
- London is on high alert for another Thursday Surprise. Prediction: one more bombing and the mosques will start burning.
- Martha Stewart was naughty and now must endure an extra four weeks of house arrest. Bad domestic diva! Go to your room!
- South Korean scientists have cloned a dog. New cookbook also available next week.
- Atheists are being oppressed in Birmingham, Alabama. Break out the fire hoses and attack dogs.
- The ACLU of North Carolina has called on the state Administrative Office of the Courts to adopt a policy allowing the Quran and other religious texts for oath-taking in North Carolina courtrooms. What next, swearing on a book of witchcraft?
- Saddam Hussein was harboring and training 4,000 terrorists in Iraq prior to being overthrown. It appears Ol’ “BVD” Hussein was neck deep in terrorism.
- Suing gun manufacturers if their product was used in the commission of a crime may no longer be an option if the Senate has its way. Just one more piece of crap from the Clinton era done away with .. and about time ....
- 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
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
BERLIN (Reuters) - A fish caught in an east German lake near the Polish border not only got off the hook but also lured a 46-year-old fisherman to his death, police in the eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt said Tuesday. A police spokeswoman said the fish pulled the fishing rod out of the man’s hands and dragged it about 100 metres away from shore at the Kleinen Pohlitzer lake near Eisenhuettenstadt. The man took off his clothes and swam after the pole.
An eyewitness said the man reached the rod floating on the surface but then suddenly stopped moving. The witness, 54, swam out to help him and pulled the fisherman back to shore, where he was later pronounced dead, police said. “I know it sounds like an incredible story but it really happened,” an Eisenhuettenstadt police spokeswoman said. “It was apparently just an ordinary fish.”
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 17, 2005
Nothing to see here. Move along please.
Iraqi Chemical Stash Uncovered
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13—U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.
Monday’s early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, “some of them quite dangerous by themselves,” a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.
But wait, there were no chemical weapons in Iraq, right? Right? Hello. Is anyone home?
U.S. military photos of the alleged lab showed a bare concrete-walled room scattered with stacks of plastic containers, coiled tubing, hoses and a stand holding a large metal device that looked like a distillery. Black rubber boots lay among the gear.
The suspected chemical weapons lab was the biggest found so far in Iraq, Boylan said. A lab discovered last year in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah contained a how-to book on chemical weapons and an unspecified amount of chemicals.
Chemical weapons are divided into the categories of “persistent” agents, which wreak damage for hours, such as blistering agents or the oily VX nerve agent, and “nonpersistent” ones, which dissipate quickly, such as chlorine gas or sarin nerve gas.
Developing.....
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Permalink • Saturday - August 13, 2005
Saturday News Bytes
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Besides taking a laptop computer and some petty cash, whoever broke into Trinity Lutheran Church also raided piggy banks the church’s kindergarten and first-grade Sunday school classes were filling to donate to a Lutheran children’s ministry.
Seven-year-old Jacob Haire’s blue piggy with green eyes containing a few dollars was stolen. “They just took my whole piggy bank,” Jacob said, “and the rest they threw on the ground and broke.”
One or more burglars broke into the church the night of July 21 and took or broke eight banks, each containing no more than $8. “They didn’t get very much,” said Bobbie Haire, Jacob’s mother and Trinity Lutheran’s secretary. “The killer to me was (the) piggy banks.”
Robert Budewig, the church’s senior pastor, said there was also damage to several doors and a Coke machine. He said that the money taken probably amounted to about $200, Budewig said. Police have no hard evidence in the case, said Sgt. Bill Mabe in the San Angelo police criminal-investigations division.
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Permalink • Friday - August 12, 2005
Friday News Bytes
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia—land of sun, sand and ... surfing mice? Australian Shane Willmott is training three mice, named Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen, to surf small waves on tiny mouse-size surf boards at beaches on the country’s Gold Coast. The mice are put through rigorous bathtub training and then some have their fur dyed when it is time to hit the beach.
“Usually if he is surfing big waves, I usually color his hair up. Because he’s white, when he gets in the whitewash it’s hard to find him,” Willmott told Australian television. Despite Willmott’s training, Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen—who live in miniature custom-made villas and own specially made jet skis—are proving no threat to world champion Kelly Slater just yet.
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Permalink • Monday - August 08, 2005
Monday Morning New Bytes
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Permalink • Thursday - August 04, 2005
Early Morning News Bytes
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 02, 2005
The Fudge Report
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Permalink • Thursday - July 28, 2005
The Fudge Report
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 20, 2005
Star Fleet Bulletin: Cmdr. Montgomery Scott
1920-2005
LOS ANGELES, California (AP)—James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died early Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, he said.
The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different accents.
“The producers asked me which one I preferred,” Doohan recalled 30 years later. “I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, ‘If this character is going to be an engineer, you’d better make him a Scotsman.’ “
The series, which starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic following of science fiction fans, especially among teenagers and children, but not enough ratings power. NBC canceled it after three seasons.
When the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as Montgomery Scott, the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973, he complained to his dentist, who advised him: “Jimmy, you’re going to be Scotty long after you’re dead. If I were you, I’d go with the flow.”
“I took his advice,” said Doohan, “and since then everything’s been just lovely.”
From Doohan’s Biography: You may have never noticed, watching the Original Series and the movies, that Mr. Scott has a physical handicap — he’s missing the middle finger of his right hand. That’s because the actor kept it very well hidden. (Watch the shows again carefully — Scotty is almost always clenching his right hand, or hiding it behind a console — but if you know to look, the missing digit is occasionally apparent.) That injury occurred on D-Day. Lt. Doohan successfully led his Canadian troop onto the beach and pushed inland to establish the best possible gun position (along the way Doohan shot two German snipers, never knowing whether he killed them). A field was secured and command posts were established, but not all Germans between the beach and their position had been captured. That night about 11:30, Doohan and another officer were walking between command posts when machine gun fire broke out. Doohan was hit; he fell into a shell hole, looked at his hand and saw blood. Three bullets struck the one finger. Never losing consciousness, he actually walked to the regimental aid post, unaware he also took four bullets in the leg.
There was an eighth bullet, and it was nothing less than a miracle that he’s still with us today. It hit his chest, four inches from his heart. But it ricocheted off the sterling silver cigarette case in his pocket, the one his brother had given him for being best man at his wedding. It’s like a trite plot twist, he acknowledges — his brother saved his life from thousands of miles away. Jimmy pushed the dent out of the cigarette case and continued using it until he quit smoking years later. He stayed in the military, learned to fly and came to be known as the “craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces.”
Well, back in Canada after the war, Jimmy never gave thought to a career in acting until one night around Christmas of 1945, he took a break from his VA school studies and turned on the radio. “And I heard the worst radio drama I had ever heard. Couldn’t believe how terrible it was,” he said. With no training whatsoever, he was sure he could do better. So he found some Shakespeare and other reading material and marched into the local radio station to say, “I want to make a recording.”
That “tryout” eventually led to a scholarship at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he trained under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner. “He turned out to be one of the greatest drama teachers in the world,” Jimmy would say years later. He then knew he had a career, and he was soon working in the fledgling medium of television.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 14, 2005
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Pro-Gun Industry Measure Poised to Pass Senate
After Danny Guzman was shot to death outside a Worcester, Mass., nightclub six years ago, his family did what few grieving families do: They sued the gun maker.
The Guzmans’ attorney, Hector Pineiro, contends that internal security measures at gun maker Kahr Arms were so lax that one of its employees was able to systematically steal the 9 mm guns’ component parts and assemble them outside the factory before their serial numbers were affixed. One of those guns, police have determined, was used to kill Guzman.
The Guzman lawsuit, as well as larger, pending lawsuits against the industry by several municipalities, including the District of Columbia and New York City, would come to an abrupt halt if legislation Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., wants to bring to the Senate floor as early as this week passes.
The bill would effectively ban lawsuits against gun manufacturers when the guns they make are not used for legitimate self-defense, recreational or sporting purposes.
Gun control advocates and gun supporters alike say the legislation, known as the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, is one of a handful of bills where the GOP’s net gain of four—the party now holds 55 Senate seats—could spell the difference between last Congress’ defeat of gun legislation and a victory this year. And this version may be the most sweeping.
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