Tuesday - April 12, 2005

Very Interesting

Yes, I had a reason for posting the cartoon below. My first reaction was that it stank because it portrayed the Minutemen as killer vigilantes, poisoning their kids. My second reaction was that it might be how the situation looks in ten or twenty years when things along our border have gotten totally out of hand and Americans are actually patrolling the borders with hunting licenses.

Folks, this situation along our southern border is only going to get much, much worse. It’s like the Social Security problem. We can fix it now with relatively little effort or we can wait twenty years at which time the problem will be so far out of hand that it will cost many millions of dollars and probably thousands or millions of lives.

What say you? Should we pressure President Bush and Congress to treat this problem like the Social Security crisis they are screaming about or should we allow them to be hypocritical and press one issue while letting the other slide? Threats to our country come in many guises and in many places. Why ignore one dire problem and scream bloody murder about another. Methinks out government has blinders on and can only see what they want to see. That includes Democrats and Republicans.

Are we going to allow our government to give us a royal screwing over just because they want to court the Hispanic vote? Are we going to allow corporations to bring in illegal aliens to take over the low-paying jobs at the bottom of the food chain just because “Americans can then get trained for the higher-paying jobs” .... and the companies can then pay lower wages for illegals .. thereby keeping prices lower for the rest of us? That is nothing more that patronizing double-talk. There are way too many Americans at the bottom of the food chain purely because of limited ability. Why deprive them of a chance to earn a living just because some Congress-critter needs a few Hispanic votes from his/her district? Are we really getting lower priced products because of the cheap labor? I haven’t seen too many prices coming down lately, have you? In fact, inflation is starting to create problems with our economy. What the hell is that all about? I think we’re being methodically lied to here by government and American big business. This isn’t about DemocRATs or Republicans because they’re all lying to us and throwing up a smoke screen with their usual shenanigans squabbling with each other

I know, I’m starting to sound like a crap-spouting Moonbat Liberal when I say that but can you give me a better explanation? .... And don’t even think of calling me a Moonbat Liberal or I’ll have to come hurt you.

What say you?

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2005 at 08:26 AM   
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Rules Of Engagement

Brian Fairrington, Caglecartoons.com

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2005 at 07:03 AM   
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Late Posting Today

I apologize but we were spamed last night by an ignorant, piece of shiite bastard who sneaked past our blacklist and dumped a whole lot of spam trackbacks in our system. I have just spent the last hour exterminating the creatures left behind by this asswipe.

More posting will be forthcoming later this morning.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/12/2005 at 06:59 AM   
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   Monday - April 11, 2005

Ring-A-Ling-A-Ding-Dong!

According to a recent survey, 14% of cell phone users admit to interrupting sex to answer their cell phone.

The highest incidence of cellular interruptus was found in Germany and Spain, where 22 percent of users interrupted sex to answer their cell phones; the lowest was in Italy, where only 7 percent reported doing so. In the U.S., the figure was 15 percent, the magazine said, citing a study conducted by BBDO Worldwide and Proximity Worldwide.

“People can’t bear to miss a call,” said Christine Hannis, head of communications for BBDO Europe. “Everybody thinks the next call can be something really exciting. And getting so many calls proves social success,” she said. “It fulfills a fundamental insecurity.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/11/2005 at 09:30 PM   
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Blog News: Bad And Good

Please pay attention. This is not a joke.

As some of you may have noticed, yours truly has been blogging by himself since last Friday, April 8. Since last Friday, I have driven 1,000 miles roundtrip between St. Louis and Huntsville, packed up more crap in preparation for the move in two weeks and started work today in a new job. In addition, I have had to carry the full load of keeping this blog updated. Why?

Here’s my version of what happened .... Last Thursday, Vilmar decided to edit a post that wasn’t his and in the process destroyed one of my posts. As some of you may have noticed, the site was down for about an hour. This was due to my needing to take a full backup to make sure no more incidents like this could destroy over a year of work. In the process, I sent Vilmar a scathing e-mail, chewed his ass out and later decided to limit Vilmar’s privileges to make sure it didn’t happen again while I was in the process of moving and unable to monitor the blog. Vilmar has been in a snit since Friday and has decided to quit the blog. I have pleaded with him in numerous e-mails to reconsider. Apparently, his mind is set so I have decided to give up on begging him to act like an adult and continue blogging.

I have way too much to do and way too much on my mind right now to worry about this. I hate losing a friend in this manner and I wish him well in his future endeavors. Who knows, you might see him out there with his own blog soon. Anyway, that’s my version of the story in a nutshell. If you wish, you may contact Vilmar directly at his e-mail address (vilmar@barking-moonbat.com) to hear the other side of the story.

I will continue to post news and our usual fare as best I can. I hope you can all understand if the posting during the next few weeks is light. I will do the best I can under the circumstances. Starting a new job, moving my household 500 miles and unpacking everything to set up housekeeping in a new place .... altogether will be a daunting task by itself. I will post several stories in the morning and several more in the evening as I am able. Bear with me.

In other blog news, Illegitimi Non Corborundum (which is Latin for “don’t let the bastards grind you down) and Apathy Or Freedom (his lovely wife), our favorite New Zealand couple have finally gotten their own blog on-line today. It’s called The Bohemian Conservative and in addition to some great stories, there are a whole gaggle of great pics from “down under”. One of a surfer watching a large (very large) shark cruise by his board grabbed my eye. Barb (Annoying Little Twerp) should like that. So give them a visit and tell them BMEWS sent ya!

Memo to potential Vilmar replacements: Forget it for now. I have no desire to replace Vilmar, either temporarily or permanently. Sometime in the near future, after everything has settled down, I will solicit the readership for a partner as I flat out don’t have time to devote to this blog as I should and as you deserve. This is a very popular site and you folks deserve the best. For now, let’s just take it one step at a time, OK? I apologize for any inconvenience.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/11/2005 at 06:23 PM   
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Poor Hillary

New York state Republicans are targeting Hillary Clinton to bring her 2008 Presidential campaign to a screeching halt before it gets started. Hillary is screeching back that it is a “vast right wing conspiracy”. Yeah, like there’s no such thing as a ”vast left wing conspiracy”?

Clinton, who has said she is not looking beyond her Senate re-election effort, has countered with fund-raising appeals of her own, including a March 31 e-mail warning supporters she is “the No. 1 target for the right-wing attack machine.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/11/2005 at 06:32 AM   
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Monday Headlines

■ Iraqi President proposes illegal alien amnesty program. I guess blowing up people is now part of the guest worker incentive?

■ John Kerry just won’t quit whining about the last election. It sounds like Teresa has cut him off and he is just being grumpy.

■ Speaking of Teresa, she says teaching evolution is better than teaching creationism. She must have looked at her husband and seen a cheese-eating surrender monkey in his ancestry.

■ Tiger Woods is back in form, winning his fourth Masters. Four .... erh .... Fore!

■ Finally, what fine April day in St. Louis with beautiful sunshine and highs in the 80’s would be complete without the obligatory picture from Denver?

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/11/2005 at 05:59 AM   
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   Sunday - April 10, 2005

Where’s Vilmar?

Open discussion thread. Feel free to use the comments to try and figure out where Vilmar is hiding.  He hasn’t been seen since Friday. Prepare the milk cartons ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/10/2005 at 07:53 AM   
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Sunday Oddities

■ France is losing its cheese. To be now known as home of “unwashed surrender monkeys”.

In an attempt to alert the nation to the gradual disappearance of its splendid and varied cheese heritage, hundreds of events were held across France to celebrate National Cheese Day.

“In the past 30 years, more than 50 varieties of French cheese have disappeared for ever. Other types are down to their last two or three traditional producers,” said Véronique Richez-Lerouge, head of the association which promotes traditional French cheeses. “The share of the market taken by industrial, pasteurised cheeses, which are actually fake cheeses, with a fraction of the true taste and character, is growing all the time.”

■ Your “Village Idiot” lives in Indiana. Annual winner of award was really trying hard.

The competition was fierce and foolish, but a man who accidentally sawed through a live wire and topped that by wrecking his truck hours after buying it more than earned the honorary title “Village Idiot.”

Mark Carmichael’s blunders won him the good-natured award that’s been handed out for years in the tiny Brown County town of Story. The winner is whoever gets the most votes from regulars at the Story Inn’s saloon.

Carmichael, the inn’s maintenance man, won in part for an incident in which he cut through a live wire while using a circular saw to replace the inn’s galvanized steel roof. But he also damaged his just-purchased 1998 Dodge truck — the day after he got it — by getting it stuck atop a whiskey barrel planter outside the inn.

His foolishness earned the 27-year-old a $100 bar tab at the Story Still.

■ Bogus Windows Update coming to your e-mail box soon. All stupid people are encouraged to go ahead and get infected.

An e-mail scam making its way around the Internet purports to be a message from Microsoft warning users of the Windows operating system that they need to download a security update—only to leave their PC infected.

Once users link from the e-mail to a bogus Web site their computers will be infected by a “Trojan horse” program that allows hackers to control their personal computers, anti-virus software maker Sophos said Friday.

The campaign of bogus e-mails could be timed for around the same time as Microsoft’s latest regularly scheduled security update, planned for Tuesday.

A Romanian thief has been charged with organ smuggling after a routine prison check revealed he was missing a kidney.

Robert Mihaly, 30, from Cluj, is the first Romanian to be charged in the country with illegal trading in organs.

Police started investigating when they were told of the discovery following the check at Gherla prison.

■ Finally, in Korea they’re having a fashion show for big women to protest a diet and plastic surgery operation boom in that country. Yep, I likes dem big women, Uh-huh!

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/10/2005 at 07:17 AM   
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   Saturday - April 09, 2005

Season Of The Wolf

You gotta go read this story from Steel at his blog site. Steel is known for some of the best dang stories in the blogosphere ‘cause he has lived such a wild-ass life all over the world. This one takes place close to home and involves a wolf who proved to be a real survivor. True story. Go read it now!

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/09/2005 at 08:39 PM   
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C’Est Moi!

Yes, yes, yes. I have changed my avatar. I was getting bored with the “Captain Kangaroo” look so I dug back through the family album and discovered this portrait I sat for ten years ago when I was a young lad of 46. I also had fewer chins and sixty pounds less weight. Quite a dashing young fellow if I must say so.

Anyway, this is my incentive to lose weight. I figure if I have to look at this picture every day it just may piss me off enough to get off my rear end and lose the weight my doctor tells me I need to lose. Throughout my life my weight has fluctuated wildly anyway. When I married my first wife in 1969 (at age 19), I weighed 165 pounds (soaking wet). At 6’3” that was one tall, skinny dude. The wedding pictures are still passed around the family as a joke. When I enlisted in the USAF in 1975 my weight had shot up to 260 pounds. After six weeks at Lackland in the hot summer (May-June), I was back down to fighting trim at 205 pounds, which is where my doctors say I should be. When this picture was taken I weighed about 215 pounds. Nowadays, I tip the scales at 275 pounds. Since I cannot endure another six weeks at Lackland I will have to do it all on my own this time.

So pay no attention to this handsome fellow in the avatar. I will be him again in about six months. One damn way or another. Without Sgt. Scott and Sgt. Plaxico’s assistance this time, thank you very much! FLIGHT, ATTEN-HUT! RIIIGHT-FACE! FOR-WAAAARD HARCH!

“I don’ know but I been tol’
Eskimo pussy’s mighty cold ..
Sound off, ONE-TWO
Sound off, THREE-FOUR
......”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/09/2005 at 08:01 PM   
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Political Cartoon Of The Year

^{Eric Allie,Chicago}

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/09/2005 at 06:02 PM   
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Photo Du Jour

Breathtaking view of the Straits Of Florida. The Straits of Florida lie between the Gulf of Mexico and the Yucatan Channel and the Atlantic Ocean. They connect the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean, extending for about 180 km between the Florida Keys, U.S., on the north and Cuba and the Bahamas on the south and southeast. The light green-bluish colours of the sea indicate shallow waters and high rates of sedimentation. In fact, the strait carries the Florida Current, the initial part of the Gulf Stream, which flows eastward out of the Gulf of Mexico with a mean surface velocity of 6.5 to 9.5 km per hour. (Photo courtesy of RedNova).

Click on the image for larger 1000x1000 high resolution view of same image (opens in popup).

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/09/2005 at 04:41 PM   
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Proper Attire

I ought to make these people pay for this plug but I’d rather you all just know about some really great t-shirts, mugs and buttons. You really need a t-shirt with the design below on it. Get it here and other designs here. Wear ‘em proudly and if you’re in Arizona, have some fun and make your next captured mess-can wear one too. Take pictures.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/09/2005 at 04:27 PM   
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