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calendar   Sunday - January 09, 2005

A Public Service Message

I posted this yesterday but after the server’s hard drive crashed we lost all of yesterday’s posts so here it is again:

I get lots of emails every day and due to the nature of the maliciousness of attacks that have occurred recently and the fact that sometimes simply opening a JPG can be dangerous, I have made it a habit to NOT open anything sent me by people whose names I do not recognize.

Yes, I have anti-virus and a firewall but I will not take any chances.

Often times I get emails with a one word name as the sender and a link as the subject.  Could that be a reader sending me something interesting?  Maybe.  But if I do not recognize the name I will hot the delete key without second guessing.  Some of you I already recognize and you know who you are because I’ve responded to you.

But for the rest the lesson here is this:  if you want to send anything to me (and I assume to Allan, too) make sure we know who you are and make sure that the subject line says something that IDs you to us.  For example, you might want to say:  “from a BMEWS reader” or “to the Benevolent Dictator”

I know that sounds goofy but no hacker or scammer or junk mail freak would ever think to address a message that way (at least not yet!)

We now conclude this BMEWS Public Service Message announcement.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 01/09/2005 at 06:44 AM   
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calendar   Friday - January 07, 2005

A Change Of Pace

Many have been the times I’ve advocated boycotting some store or movie or artist.

But today I will be different.

I recommend all of you who have never watched it (and reinforce to those that have) to catch this season’s episodes of “24.”

What a brilliant piece of TV.  THAT’S what TV should be about.  Not that pabulum “reality” shit or those lame sitcoms.

“Whyfore do I do this?” you may ask.

Because I’m the damned Benevolent Dictator and I told you so, damn it!  No, not really.  Read this article by Daniel Pipes. Great stuff.

“24” is not like that distortion called “Sum Of All Fears” released by Hollywood in 2002 which protrayed the terrorists as Nazis instead of Muslims.  We can’t offend those poor, widdle ragheads, can we?  “Who’s the cute widdle raghead?  Coochy, coochy, coo!”

I lost a lot of respect for Tom Clancy in having allowed that to take place.

I do not consider “24” as an offensive protrayal of Muslim terrorsits.  The truth hurts so suck it up.  It portrays them as the terrorists we’ve come to know.  Hey, the Twin Towers were not taken down by Nazis or rabid Episcopaleans, right?  Virtually every single terrorsit attack in the past decade has been by sheetheads.

It’s time they are portrayed for what they truly are--murderers, cowards, low-lifes, and deserving of summary executions when caught. 


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 01/07/2005 at 06:24 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - January 05, 2005

Around The World

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I mentioned a friend who cycled around the world.

Well, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote a piece about him.

They did a nice job.  Check it out.

(NOTE: This post was spell-checked prior to submission.  Any errors should be blamed on the spell-checker program.  Grammar errors are intentional.  I speak like that.)


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 01/05/2005 at 07:41 AM   
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calendar   Friday - December 31, 2004

The Hodge-Podge Day

It’s not like all days are hodge-podge days here at BMEWS but today will definitely be one of those.  It’s barely 6 AM, I am catching a cold (again) so I will fling things up with no rhyme or reason.

Enjoy this, the last day of 2004.

May your 2005 be more fun, more prosperous and bring you good health to enjoy it all.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 12/31/2004 at 06:06 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 30, 2004

What Are You Thankful For?

As the year winds down, reflect back on 2004 and tell us what you have to be thankful for?  For the sake of avoiding shitloads of repetition, let’s just say good health and good familial relations are assumed.

I am thankful for the following:

1.  To Allan and this blog which allowed me to communicate with some great folks out there.  I’d also like to think that Allan and I did our share as part of the “pajamahadeen” of the blogsosphere.

2.  My son, Daniel, got married to his fiancée, Tiffany

3.  My granddaughter, Trinity, was born in March (what a cutie!!)

4.  My father changed his political affiliation to more closely reflect his faith, ethics, fiscal responsibility and morals

5.  I got to shake the hand of President Bush (twice!)

6.  Our President was re-elected (YAAAY!!)

7.  To all my friends and family that have helped me during the year

I know I am forgetting one or two things but if they come to me I will amend this.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 12/30/2004 at 06:28 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - December 29, 2004

Another Mis-Reported News Story

OK, these forons in the news media have finally encroached into my turf. For days now, I’ve heard how there is no warning system around the US to give us advance notice of undersea earthquakes or approaching tsunamis. Some newscasters have grudgingly admitted that there is a small system in the Pacific to warn of tsunamis on the West Coast.

All Bunk!

There is a complex system of thousands of data buoys all around the US, in the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf Of Mexico and it is linked in with data buoys off the coast of Europe operated by our friends, the Brits. The system is operated and monitored by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and managed by the National Data Buoy Center at the NASA Stennis Space Center in southen Mississippi. That’s where NASA builds and tests the engines for the Space Shuttle too.

How does the system work? These buoys are either floating or anchored in position. On board are countless measuring devices which monitor all manner of meteorlogical information, including wave height (hint, hint). These buoys communicate through a satellite uplink directly bouncing this information off of several NOAA-operated satellites down to a huge satellite farm at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The signal data is cleansed and sent down a wide pipe to the NDBC Center, where it is stored in real-time databases for instant analysis by quality specialists. The database is HUGE and is constantly updated by the stream of real-time data. What is done with this data? It is published on the NDBC web site and is also available by phone link to a voice report of conditions anywhere along our coast. The US Navy, the Coast Guard and nearly all commercial fishermen know of this system and take advantage of it daily.

How do I know all this? For two and a half years I was database administrator for this system. It was my responsibility to keep the data flowing in and out to the analysts and to the web sites and dial-up lines. On several occasions, I had to “camp out” in my office there during hurricane alerts to make sure the data kept flowing (where the hell do you think the Weather Channel gets its information from?). FYI, the NASA Stennis Space Center is just down the road from Keesler AFB where the hurricane hunters fly out of.

So there you have it. Go visit the NDBC web site. There is a lot of good information there about coastal conditions all around the US. Tell ‘em Allan sent ya!


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/29/2004 at 05:36 PM   
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calendar   Saturday - December 25, 2004

So…..Were You Naughty Or Nice?

Come on and come clean with all of us.

Were you naughty or were you nice?

Was all you got a lump of coal? (offer does not apply nor is valid to those living in the frigid hell of the midwest and north) Or did you get some good booty?  Tell us.  We want to know.

Better yet, what non-commercially available thing did you get for Christmas (not necessarily today) that you are most thankful for?

We’re waiting and listening.

Merry Christmas to everyone.  Have fun today and don’t forget to let the kids play with the boxes.  If there’s snow on the ground, kick their little asses outside and get ‘em away from th video games.

Meanwhile, I will be making Christmas dinner for the family.

See you tomorrow.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 12/25/2004 at 06:53 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 23, 2004

Anyone Know The Answer Tto This?

Tell me if you’ve noticed the same thing.

You can’t go anywhere today without seeing people donning rubber gloves before they do virtually anything.  This is especially true in grocery stores, delis, etc.  We get bombarded by TV, radio, and print media telling us to wash our hands often; we see notices in restrooms to the same end.

Employees have to wear hair nets virtually everywhere you go that serves food----for our protection against germs and disease.

But is it just me or are people getting just as sick today as they were when I was a kid 40 years ago and none of these protective measures were in place?  Have we become complacent?  Do we rely more on others to do what we used to normally do before?  Are we developing a race of people more susceptible to diseases because we take such extraordinary measures to protect ourselves from germs---making those self-same germs even more dangerous to us because we’ve not developed the anti-bodies to them.

Or can it be we’ve been duped into either spending money on useless measures or getting charged more money for something to offset the cost of these useless measures?

My father is fond of saying, “If it don’t kill you it will make you stronger.” I agree. We need to stop this namby-pambying we’re doing to ourselves.

Anyone got numbers?  Ideas?


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 12/23/2004 at 06:15 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - December 22, 2004

Thank You GEICO Santa !!

Thanks to the GEICO Gecko Santa, this is now sitting in my driveway. Pardon me while I do my happy dance ....

HAPPY! HAPPY JOY! JOY!

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VROOM! VROOM! CAN YOU SAY HIMM-EEEE????

335 Big Ponies Under That Hood, Boys and Gals! Whooo-hooooo ....

Oh, I almost forgot .... A big THANK YOU to Madison Square Chrysler-Jeep in Huntsville, Alabama!! Tell ‘em Big Al sent you!!


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/22/2004 at 03:29 PM   
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Dear GEICO Santa ….

I’ve been real good all year. I’ve worked hard, spent my money wisely, tried my best to be honest and straight with everyone, worked real hard to liberate Liberals from their brainwashing, helped re-elect President Bush, lost thirty pounds like I said I would, called Michael Moore bad names, exposed John Kerry for the liar he is, fought the good fight against the ACLU, the UN, PETA and France, and did all this with a smile on my face. Now I have a very special favor to ask, Santa. As you know, my Jeep Grand Cherokee was demolished by a drunk illegal alien in an automobile wreck last week so I submit this Christmas wish to you.

All I want for Christmas is this ....

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.... and this ....

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.... and this ....

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.... and this ....

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.... oh yeah, and make sure it has one of these ....

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Thank you Santa. If you bring me all this I promise to lose thirty more pounds and will be even meaner to the evil Liberals and Leftists than I was last year. I will even give you a ride in my new “sleigh” if you want .... but you better buckle up tight.

Sincerely,

Little Allan (BMEWS SecWar)


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/22/2004 at 03:44 AM   
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calendar   Monday - December 20, 2004

An Awesome Trip!!!

Scott’s Adventures

You may remember that occasionally I mention my other web site (link found under my avatar in the right hand bar of this blog) and the bicycle trip I took across the US in 1997.  Well, on that trip, while in Wyoming in the Tetons our group met a cyclist named Scott.  He’d started near D.C. and faced all sorts of travails on his trip cross country.  It was good to have him with the group and we had great discussions.  You can read about our meeting here.

Anyway, a year later we all got together again (for some, for differing lengths of time depending on their schedules) but for me it was a trip from Oregon to Mexico along the Pacific Coast. Scott joined us north of San Francisco.

Well, Scott and Dennis started planning a trip AROUND THE WORLD by bicycle!  Scott finished the trip last month.  It took him 3 years.  They started the day before 9/11.

Scott will try writing a book about his adventures and hopes to find a publisher.  He did write a book about his cross country trip and I read the manuscript.  I thought it was awesome.  So far, no publisher agrees with me. 

Scott sent me a copy of an essay he submitted in a publishing contest.  I thought I’d share it with you.

Before I get to that, here are some links you might enjoy:

Scott’s website for his trip.

A link to his last journal entry.

His journals archive.


My Life Story By Scott Stoll

I left home vowing never to return until I found happiness. This quest led me to ride my bicycle 40,220 km (the circumference of the planet) over 39 months, through 48 countries and 6 continents. Here is the summary of my life story:

I was about to burst with angst; like a lot of Americans, I had everything but was still unhappy. Then —all in one week—I was fired from a career that had become the meaning to my life, my girlfriend left me for lack of love, and my “best friend” abandoned me in a strange city without enough money for rent. I thought, “I never wanted this life, anyway. What happened?” Fortunately, my thoughts spiraled up instead of down: “I only have one life - one chance. If I could do anything—anything in the world—what would I do?”

After several years preparation, including knee and eye surgery, I left my home in San Francisco intending to ride my bicycle around the world. Five days later the terrorist attacked New York City, and I realized that many people would rather see Americans dead than alive. For weeks, I cycled slowly towards Mexico unsure whether to continue, but again I renewed my vow to find happiness or die trying. I had nothing to lose.

As my confidence grew and depression disappeared, I realized that there was nothing fundamentally wrong with me, yet I was still unfulfilled; my quest for happiness turned to a quest to fill that God-shaped hole in my soul. I divorced myself of books and dogma. I felt that whether I was a product of evolution or creation, the answer was ingrained inside myself and written in the stars.

I had many wonderful experiences, but it is the misadventures that forge our character and reveal our soul: In Mexico, I cycled until I fell over from exhaustion. In Costa Rica, I dislocated my wrist and rode for two months until it popped back into place (the local doctors couldn’t fix it). In Ecuador, I ate some bad cheese and contracted acute salmonella intestinitis that ate holes in my bowels. In Argentina, I was stung three times by a scorpion in my bed. In Egypt, I was held hostage in the tombs of Giza. In Israel, I was interrogated for three hours, my luggage x-rayed, and sniffed for bombs and drugs, because I was a suspected terrorist. In India, I was assaulted by an angry mob. In Nepal, I was nearly trampled by an elephant. In Vietnam, some teenagers lost control of their scooter while playing chicken and slammed into me. In Zambia, I met some dangerous poachers. In Zimbabwe, I was thrown in prison for money changing and espionage. Blizzards, floods, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, thugs, thieves—I suffered many things, but the most difficult aspect of my trip was the loneliness and my lack of faith.

The most rewarding experiences were simply things, like dying of thirst in the desert and knowing everything I own was worth one glass of water. I was overwhelmed by the fundamental goodness of people, especially strangers, who would shelter me and feed me their last bowl of soup. And, yes, I found God and happiness along the way. Evidence for God is everywhere. It seemed to me that sometimes God, Himself, as
pedaling my bicycle. I found peace knowing that life is designed to be difficult and mysterious, that questions are more important than the answers, that I will always be able to surprise myself, love more, and grow closer to God.


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Scott cycling past Mt. Everest

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Scott in South Africa

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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 12/20/2004 at 06:34 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - December 19, 2004

Allan’s Back

Sorry, but I got called away on an emergency mission for the Justice League. Supergirl (see below) ran into some trouble and I had to help. I’ll explain later ....

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/19/2004 at 08:06 PM   
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Life With Steel (Part 3)

I worked in a hard rock gold mine. So far away from any other humans that we called kerosine lights and a diverted creek water. A hole in the ground was ... well ... the shitter. Far away.

Just me and another. He owned the claim. We spent a summer in a shaft about 75’ down.

Here’s the drill. Me and him would hand drill (star drills made by my own hand in a hand powered forge) a couple of holes every morning. Using a single jack. That’d be a one handed sledge for the unknowing. Bang a few times and pull the drill out of the hole and use a ‘spoon’ to clean the hole out. Tedious.  Had to make the spoons myself too. Deeper the hole, longer the spoon.

Soooo, after the holes got to be about 2’, I set charges.

Now the guy I was with could not handle powder. Read dynamite. Nitro glycerin will go right through your skin. And give ya a REAL BAD HEADACHE.

So just before lunch, I’d plug a couple of sticks in the holes.

That was because the smoke from dynamite will hurt your head too. So we’d time it so the shot was over lunch.

Now I’m in a shaft. We ain’t using primacord or those detonator thingies you see in cartoons. No, we had to use real cord. The black tarry cord you also see in cartoons.

Contrary to popular thought, you really can’t light off a fuse with a match.

You have to split the cord down about 3” and make a ‘splitter’.

You mate that to the splitter that’s in the charge. That way, you are guaranteed a light. Sometimes fuse will fool ya. Looks like it’s lit and ain’t. Or worse, looks like it ain’t lit and boom.

Now in the bottom of this shaft I cut the fuse and make splitters. One thing you always do is time the fuse burn to know when it’s gonna blow.  Just make a sample fuse split and see how long it takes to get to the end.

Crude. But that’s the way it’s been done for a very long time.

There was a ladder to the top of the shaft. Hand made. A bit rickety, but sufficient.

The other guy vacated when I was setting charge. Can’t blame him.

So every day, I’d blow and eat lunch.

I had a game. Fun game.

I time the splitters so that I had JUST ENOUGH TIME to climb the ladder out of the hole. JUST ENOUGH.

But I could cut it close, so to speak.

Sometimes too close.

That was the game.

Well, my wife always brought lunch and she was up on top waiting for me to get out of the hole and blow.

I cut it a bit close. Imagine, if you will, I set the charge and started climbing up the hand made ladder and *&^%$#@ a rung broke. Whoops.

When I was almost at the top rung BOOM. And I mean BOOM!

Blew my ass out of the shaft and about 20’ away. Damned near landed in her lap.

Her eyes were as big as eyes can be. And she had big eyes.

I rolled over and said ‘what’s for lunch?’

I couldn’t hear her reply. Hell, I couldn’t hear her for days.

Roast beef sandwiches I recall. She spaced the horseradish.

Boom.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/19/2004 at 01:53 PM   
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Life With Steel (Part 2)

I’ve made mention that I was a commercial fisherman. Did that for a decade. Funny things happen when it’s just you and a few others driving a sea tractor around.

Here’s one.

I was on a small trawler (70’) and we were trawling for sole. Bottom fish that. You ‘set’ the gear, which means you put out the net and tons of cable and drag it along the bottom for a while. For sole the ‘scope’ was 600 fathoms. Which means you put that many fathoms of wire down and just drag it around.

This was off the Oregon coast.

This was the first tow of the morning. Skipper was still in the rack and I was driving and making breakfast. It was time to ‘haul back’. Which means you turn on winches and roll up the wire till ya get the net back.

Soooo, in between the bacon and the wheel, I was busy.

Got the catch aboard and reset the net. And I hear this bang bang bang coming from the back deck. But I’m too busy to pay it much mind. Tap tap tap. Someone was banging on something but I couldn’t see what.

I got curious. I walked out and there was this big (3’ diameter) concrete looking thing and the crew was busy trying to extract a shiny thing from it. Kind of gold colored. I didn’t pay it much mind.

After breakfast they went at it again. Bang Bang Bang.

As I was cleaning up the dishes one guy runs in breathless and shows me what they’d extracted from said large concrete thingie.

It was brass. Encrusted with barnacles. About the size of a melon. So since I was washing dishes anyway ... I took to scrubbing this find down.

Turns out it was a piston kinda thingie going into a larger brass thingie and it said .... stamped very clearly after it was cleaned .........

MINE MK 1942.

Ever see those Warner Brother’s cartoons where the character is hammering on the bomb?

That was one of those ‘your whole life passes by’ moments.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/19/2004 at 09:44 AM   
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