Thursday - August 11, 2005

Outta Sight!

In Encinitas, Calif. a gallon of gas will cost you a three-dollar-bill. There’s a joke in there somewhere but I’m afraid the punchline involves Arabs, me and vaseline (or the lack thereof) ....

(LA TIMES)—Motorists got a barrelful of bad news Wednesday when oil prices soared to a new high, gasoline set another record in California and the Department of Energy warned that pump prices could remain above $2 a gallon through much of next year.

The latest round of woe was spurred by a spate of refinery problems in the U.S., increasing instability in the Middle East and a growing imbalance between demand for petroleum, which is rising rapidly, and production capacity, which isn’t.

After briefly touching $65 a barrel, the U.S. benchmark crude closed at a record $64.90, up $1.83, or almost 3% on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That was up 46% from a year ago and boded ill for motorists already paying sky-high prices for gasoline — which also hit a new national record Wednesday.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/11/2005 at 02:33 PM   
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Dark Future?

“America was founded, built and expanded by mostly white Europeans. Sure, a few minorities contributed and a few minorities were wiped out or driven out by those hard-nosed Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Spaniards, Italians, etc. from the European continent. They braved unbelievable dangers crossing the ocean, fighting nature and indigenous natives to carve out a new homeland, far from the intrigues, insanity and unending wars of the Old World. They fought the Old World powers as well as each other. They stood defiantly and fought at Trenton, Valley Forge, Saratoga, New Orleans, the Alamo, the Little Big Horn, Appomattox, Gettysberg, San Juan, Vera Cruz and a million other places with strange names like Ticonderoga, Horseshoe Bend, Tippecanoe, and San Jacinto. They were a tough bunch, mean and nasty and determined not to take any s**t from anyone. They built this country with their bare hands, in spite of what the modern-revisionists want you to believe. They fought, suffered, bled and died so you could travel the interstates and stop for a Big Mac when you get hungry. Now, they’re gone. All that’s left is you.”

“Yes you! All you whining, complaining white men and women out there who are content to coast on your ancestor’s accomplishments, who are willing to let minorities flood across our borders and displace us, our language, our society - everything our ancestors handed to us. We must stop them now. They must all be deported or imprisoned before they destroy the purity of the Aryan race here in America. They are stealing your country away from you right in front of your eyes. They are leeches, parasites and have no place in our homeland! In recent years, socialists here have sought to destroy the moral fabric of America and tear down all I speak of. The socialists are allied with these minorites from abroad and their ultimate goal is the total destruction of America. They and they alone, are responsible for America’s defeat in Vietnam and in the recent war in Iraq. They have humiliated the proud, strong Aryan peoples in America time and time again. We must put a stop to this now .. by whatever means necessary. Seig! HEIL!”

-- From a speech to the Aryan Party faithful by Adolphus White on March 24, 2076 at the party’s annual meeting in West Virginia. The next year, the Aryan Party won control of the Senate and House. Within months, aging President Schwarzkopf, the beloved hero of the First Gulf War, died in his sleep and Vice President Adolphus White was sworn in as the nations’s 58th President. The pogroms and purges started within months. The first concentration camps were built in Nevada the following year.

Source: The Encyclopedia Americana (formerly Britannica), 85th Edition, Volume 4, copyright © 2144 C.E.

Think it can’t happen here? Are you sure? There are already white supremacist groups running around the hills and backwoods out there today. Preparing and praying for the day that the above fictional scenario becomes real. The current alarming trends in immigration and birth rates are headed in a direction such that white Americans will be in the minority within 40 or 50 years, at most. Maybe sooner, with the sudden influx of illegal aliens from Mexico. Personally, I don’t want to be alive if my fictional account above ever comes to America. We need to convince our leaders to get a handle on this situation while we still can. Convince Mexico and Vicente Fox to help us stop the flow of illegals. What is happening now is wrong and wrong things like this only serve to feed the fires of radicals like “Adolphus White” and their followers. We’ve already seen the insanity and mindless, march-step propagandizing and hatred from the extreme Left and the socialists. May God help us all if a similar movement ever gains strength on the extreme Right, like happened in 1932-34 in Germany.

Take a look at the article excerpt below and go read the full article. Then decide ....

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state. According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state.

Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations - with Hispanics the largest group in every state but Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans. Five other states - Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona - aren’t far behind, with about 40 percent minorities.

Public policy analysts said these states and the country as a whole need to bring minority education and professional achievement to the levels of whites. Otherwise, these areas risk becoming poorer and less competitive. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., said lawmakers need to start with immigration reform, while striving to bring minorities’ education and salary levels in line with Anglos.

“Immigration is good for the United States ... it’s important for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an eye on the people coming in,” Frey said. “While initially it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national issue, and education is the best way to deal with it.”

Complications from the cultural shift aren’t likely to be exclusive to states that already have majority-minority populations, Frey said. Nevada, for instance, has seen a massive influx of minorities in the last 15 years, reducing the percentage of Anglos since the 1990s from nearly 80 percent to about 60 percent. Such a rapid shift is likely to cause growing pains that include trying to balance the needs of a bigger and younger minority community with an aging Anglo community, Frey said.

“That’s the kind of state that is going to have to deal with quick transition,” Frey said. Though some areas may never see this shift, the country as a whole is expected to continue the trend first noticed more than a decade ago. The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050, said Steve Murdock, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/11/2005 at 01:10 PM   
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Democrat Vs. Republican

We report, you decide. 
(from Boortz)

Posted by Drew458     on 08/11/2005 at 01:06 PM   
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Sympathy For The Devil, Baghdad Style

At this rate, we’ll never figure out the Iraqi people and how to help them. Sunnis, Shias, Kurds, all are squabbling over who gets what and who gets to do what - and that’s just the three main divisions in the Iraqi population. Yesterday’s parliamentary session was interrupted when one minister and his followers protested the somewhat negative attitude of the rest of parliament toward the devil, whom they worship as Lucifer ....

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Devil looked in on Iraq’s parliament when an MP upbraided Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari for speaking ill of Lucifer. Kameran Khairi Said, a Kurdish MP and a member of the minority Yezidi community which worships the peacock angel, also known as Lucifer, angrily interrupted the prime minister during a parliamentary debate.

“Mr prime minister and ministers, my speaking out might seem strange to you but we feel insulted when you repeatedly use the expression in your speeches and statements ‘God protects us from the Devil’. “Each time the word is pronounced, my colleagues turn towards me as if I were a representative of the Devil,” he added amid guffaws from other MPs.

Yezidis follow a pre-Islamic religion, which some believe was founded in the 12th century by Sheikh Uday bin Masafel al-Amawi, although many scholars trace its origins to the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia. Sheikh Uday was born in Damascus but died in the town of Lalish, in northern Iraq, where his tomb has become the Yezidis’ holiest shrine. The community is still largely based in the foothills north of Iraq’s main northern city of Mosul and in the Sinjar mountains on the border with Syria.

But followers of the faith can be found throughout the Kurdish diaspora, in neighbouring Syria and Turkey as well as the former Soviet republics of the Caucasus, or in Germany and Britain. “There are 600,000 to 700,000 Kurdish yezidis and they feel insulted whenever you use that phrase and we call on all those in a position of authority to take account of this,” Said said. The Yezidis do not believe in heaven or hell, and do not regard Satan as evil. In fact, they worship him—but dare not say his name.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/11/2005 at 08:43 AM   
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Are You Ready ….

Spring has sprung, Fall has fell, summer’s here and it’s hot as hell. Never fear though, college football is about to start. The first pre-season poll is out. Where’s your favorite team? Mine is ranked #24 ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/11/2005 at 07:04 AM   
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Gitmo By The Bay

It seems rice pilaf, honey-glazed chicken and restful nights with a good book are no longer enough for Gitmo detainees. Now, some are getting the full vacation package with TV, stereos and a nice view overlooking the Caribbean beaches ....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)—The U.S. military plans to ease conditions for some detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba—housing them in a renovated section with televisions, stereos and a view of the Caribbean, the detention center’s commanding officer said in court papers.

For the past several weeks, the military has been renovating Camp Iguana for detainees who are deemed no longer a threat to the United States, Brig Gen. Jay Hood said in an affidavit filed late Tuesday in federal court in Washington.

The renovations are scheduled to be finished around Aug. 15, and some of those designated “No Longer Enemy Combatants,” or NLEC’s, will be able to live in communal housing with air conditioning, unlimited showers and additional food, Hood said.

“The living conditions for NLEC’s have been evolving and will continue to do so,” the general said in the affidavit.

Camp Iguana, which was previously used for daytime recreation for Guantanamo detainees considered the most compliant, has been closed for six months. The reason for the closure or the cost of the upgrade was not immediately available, a military spokesman said Wednesday.

Hood’s affidavit was filed by the government in the case of two Chinese Uighurs, A’Del Abdu Al-Hakim and Abu Baker Qassim, who the government says were captured in Pakistan as they fled a Taliban military training camp near Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/11/2005 at 06:30 AM   
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How Things Work

_{Clay Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston}

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/11/2005 at 06:23 AM   
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   Wednesday - August 10, 2005

Bonnie & Clyde Captured In Ohio

The manhunt is over. The Tennessee couple who broke out of jail and killed a police officer have just been captured in Columbus, Ohio ....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Aug 10, 11:39 PM (ET)—A fugitive inmate and his wife, wanted in a brazen courthouse escape and shooting in Tennessee, were captured Wednesday night at an Ohio motel after a tip from a cab driver who had dropped them off, authorities said. George Hyatte and Jennifer Forsyth Hyatte were in a room at an America’s Best Value Inn in Columbus and were arrested without a struggle, said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

“We have found weapons,” he said. “We don’t know if it’s the murder weapon, but we’re processing those as we speak.”

On Tuesday, authorities say Jennifer Hyatte, 31, ambushed two guards as they were leading her 34-year-old husband from a courthouse hearing in Kingston, Tenn., about 300 miles south of Columbus. Guard Wayne “Cotton” Morgan was fatally shot in the escape. Jennifer Hyatte had some injuries, Gwyn said, but he declined to elaborate. He said the couple would be brought back to Tennessee on warrants for first degree murder.

Authorities had already tracked the Hyattes to the Cincinnati area when they got a tip around 9 p.m. that the couple was at the Columbus motel. A cab driver who had apparently driven them from Columbus from Erlanger, Ky., just south of Cincinnati, called Erlanger police, U.S. Marshal John Schickel said. He declined to give any additional information or identify the cab driver.

After the tip, authorities surrounded the Columbus motel, said John Bolen, a supervisor for the U.S. Marshals Service in Columbus. Authorities called the motel room where the couple was staying, told them they were surrounded, and the couple came out of their room and surrendered around 10 p.m., Bolen said. They didn’t say anything during the arrest, he said.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/10/2005 at 10:42 PM   
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Stupid Criminals, Part II

BWAH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-AH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-AH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-AH ....

TAMPA TRIBUNE (AP) --Marvin Williams thought it would be funny to put a blue-and-red flashing light on the dashboard of his friend’s car and pretend to pull over another motorist, police said. But the joke backfired Sunday night when Williams picked a car with two undercover Tampa cops inside.

It didn’t help much when he laughed about it as he drove by. Then, when police followed him, the 22-year-old Williams ran from the vehicle, officials say. He left behind two female friends who were riding with him, and 7 grams of cocaine on the center console, police said. The officers caught up, caught him and found the drugs.

Williams was charged with cocaine possession, impersonating a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. Officers also arrested a woman riding in the front seat and charged her with cocaine possession. Williams posted $4,500 bail Monday night and was released. A working phone number could not be located for him Tuesday, and it wasn’t known if he had an attorney.

Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Williams joked with his passengers about pulling someone over in the moments before pulling behind Officers Sean Kruger and Jason Degagne shortly before midnight. “The joke was on him,” McElroy said. “His victims turned out to be police officers who escorted him to jail - with a real blue light.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/10/2005 at 10:26 PM   
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Nightly Maniac Report

Tonight’s Nightly Maniac Report is brought to you from Simi Valley, California where guns don’t kill car alarms, people kill car alarms ....

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP)—A man annoyed by a noisy car alarm fired at least three bullets into a Toyota Camry, silencing the alarm and bringing out police who hauled him away in handcuffs, authorities said. David Owen Rye, 48, was arrested and booked for investigation of reckless discharge of a firearm and felony vandalism, Sgt. John Adamczyk said. Rye allegedly told officers he grabbed his handgun and went out to put a stop to the car alarm.

The owner of the Camry, a sailor whose ship the USS Theodore Roosevelt just returned from an eight-month cruise, was visiting a friend when he heard the gunfire at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, KCAL-TV reported.

“I mean, that’s not a safe guy. I mean, you get upset over an alarm, over a noise like that, (then) there’s some little kids making too much noise and he decides to do something awful,” sailor Nicholas Moreno, 25, said.

Police were called to the Yosemite Avenue apartment building and Rye was ordered out of his apartment by an officer with a bullhorn. A Los Angeles Police Department helicopter also responded and Rye was arrested. Neighbor Ken Davis said he heard gunshots and looked outside to see Rye holding a gun.

“It was little scary,” Davis said. “I didn’t know what kind of mood he was in. I didn’t want to say anything to him.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/10/2005 at 09:25 PM   
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Stupid Criminals

When you’re planning on robbing a TV show host, it’s best to do so when he’s no on the air, on live TV.

FORT SMITH, Ark.—Viewers of an Arkansas cable access show helped Fort Smith police crack a case late Thursday night after they watched a robbery on live TV.

When a man came in and demanded Spirito’s car keys, Spirito informed his audience that this was no joke.

“There’s a guy robbing us, somebody call the police, he came in with a gun. Somebody call police, there’s a guy in here trying to rob us,” Spirito said.

That’s when Spirito addressed the alleged robber directly.

“Then I looked up at him and said, ‘We’re doing a live show here and there’s probably hundreds of people out there right now calling the police to come down on this building, just so you know,’” he said.

Two guys caught a short time later.  Ijits.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/10/2005 at 12:50 PM   
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Member Survey

Sheila Coggins has posted an excellent editorial on what it takes to be a good blogger. She offers twelve tips for bloggers. I would like to ask all members to read her article and keep BMEWS and Ye Olde Skipper in mind as you read it. Let me know how I compare to these “tips”.

Yes, I really want to know ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/10/2005 at 12:45 PM   
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Boots on the ground

We already know that the MSM doesn’t tell us the whole story of what’s going on in Iraq, and thanks to a link I read on Kim’s site this morning, I have a new source for real reporting from the front.

Michael Yon : Online Magazine

Jungle Law
Mosul, Iraq

The first person to use a shield might have been a hairy man who, days earlier, barely survived a barrage from the stone-throwing man in the cave next door. As the use of weaponized sticks and stones spread, improved shields probably were not far behind. Throughout recorded history, bigger and better shields always play catch-up to their bigger and better ballistic brethren. Common wisdom posits that defense systems are preventative measures, but in fact, they are reactive. Every castle wall can be defeated. Somewhere along the line people realized, “the best defense is a good offense.” Adherence to this maxim provided at least one of the philosophical rubicons to our landing in Iraq.

The best modern armors, which can include everything from sandbags to special alloys and “reactive armors,” are simple to use and can work well for short periods. Sandbags are good and cheap, but are cumbersome and blow apart easily. As for the reactive armors, modern explosives are more powerful than modern alloys and their associated engineering can withstand. Pound for pound—and volume for volume--explosives are miles ahead of metallurgy and engineering. No matter how sophisticated the science behind the shield, someone can make a bomb to beat it.

During the first phase of this war, many of our troops were riding in unarmored Humvees and other vehicles. Soon they were being torn to pieces. Once the vehicles were up-armored, the enemy was unable to defeat much of that defense. For a time. But today—although armored Humvees are great and can defeat many threats—the latest generations of IEDs can effortlessly swat them away, spreading their parts over city blocks. The enemy has destroyed our most powerful armored tanks with underground bombs that leave craters in the roads large enough to make swimming pools.

Go read the rest (and the archives), you will be a better person for it.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/10/2005 at 10:52 AM   
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Photo Du Jour

Sunflowers in Virginia
P. Meyers

Posted by Drew458     on 08/10/2005 at 10:32 AM   
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