Monday - January 15, 2007

Resurrection

Finally! I gots my TV and internet back a little while ago. Power flickered out yesterday around 10:00am and came back on about an hour later. Unfortunately, cable service from Charter stayed out ... and stayed out. No football yesterday so I didn’t get to see the Saints win or the Chargers lose. Up ... down. I figured the Chargers would go all the way. Oh well.  New Orleans vs. Indianapolis should be a good Super Bowl (if Peyton Manning can break the Patriots playoff jinx).

In related news ..... KMOV-TV, CBS in St. Louis SUCKS! I thought cable companies were greedy but our local CBS station has trumped them this time. I tuned in to channel 786 (CBS-HDTV) on Saturday and found a message from Charter. It seems KMOV decided to start charging Charter for the HDTV broadcasts and Charter told KMOV to shove off. Charter still carries KMOV but on channel 3 (no HDTV). What makes KMOV a real goober in all this is that they broadcast HDTV over the air for free (well, paid by advertisers). What makes them believe they can charge cable for what they broadcast for free? Greed? Yup.

So I can watch the games on FOX (KTVI-TV) in HDTV but not the ones on CBS (KMOV-TV). This greatly sucks - especially with the playoffs and Super Bowl coming up ... and CBS has coverage of Super Bowl XLI. ARGH! Who do these ratbags think they are?

OK, I feel better now that I got that off my chest. KMOV still sucks but I’ll get over it. What else can I do? STOOPID SEE-BS!

I’ve spent the last 24 hours without TV or internet and it was really peaceful. I’ll have to try this more often. It’s 24 degrees outside right now and that will probably be our high today. Brrrrrrrh! I’ve been reading Winston Churchill’s “World Crisis: 1911-1918”. At 880 pages and 2.26 pounds, it’s heavy reading but I highly recommend it. This is an abridged version of the five volume masterpiece Sir Winston wrote in the 1920’s to encapsulate the “Great War”. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of WWI and the diplomatic, political and military cluster-f**k that saw the death of tens of millions in one of the most useless wars ever fought.

I haven’t finished the Barking Moonbat Hall Of Fame voting poll yet. Sorry. I’ll have that for you tomorrow and the voting will go on all week. We’ll have the big announcement on Sunday. So hang in there, peeps. All things must pass .... except KMOV - which STILL SUCKS!

In totally unrelated news, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother is a head of his time .... 

Head of Saddam’s Half Brother Severed in Botched Hanging
_{BAGHDAD, Iraq (FOX) - Monday, January 15, 2007}

Saddam Hussein’s half brother and the former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, officials said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.

Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam’s half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court, had been found guilty along with Saddam in the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the town of Dujail north of Baghdad.

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh confirmed the executions, saying those attending the hangings included a prosecutor, a judge and a physician. He also said Ibrahim’s head was severed from his body during his hanging.

“In a rare incident, the head of the accused Barzan Ibrahim al-Hassan was separated from his body during the execution,” al-Dabbagh told reporters. The official video was screened for reporters by the Iraqi government Monday.

The video showed the two being hanged side by side in red prison jumpsuits with black hoods over their heads. Five masked men surrounded them. After the trap doors opened, al-Bandar could be seen dangling from the rope. Ibrahim’s body was lying on the floor, chest down, his severed head yards away.

The execution was conducted on the same gallows where Saddam was hanged Dec. 30. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the gallows were built to international standards and in accordance with human rights organizations. “We will not release the video but we want to show the truth,” he said. “The Iraqi government acted in a neutral way.”

Prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi said Ibrahim looked tense when he was brought into the room and said “I did not do anything. It was all the work of Fadel al-Barrak.” Ibrahim was referring to a former head of two intelligence departments.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/15/2007 at 04:50 PM   
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