AlrigggGGgggght, I won the Lottery!!!!


It was the Austrailian "Ocean Blue" lotto. I'm now worth MILLION$$$$!!!!!!!




Too bad I never entered it. How can I win something I never entered- or paid for?
There has got to be alot of gullible fishies out there, or else there wouldn't be so many terribly set up scams.

Time for the new boss, not like the old boss

Ok, I was warned when I took the job, that I'd be having problems with one or two of my people. I'd been having problems with one all week- we had a big "do" going on for the first time. The set-ups weren't new to all but me. The problem child is a favorite of the boss, and he decided that it was his time to try to see how far he could push.

I'd tried to be a mellow boss and get a consensus going, but that was taken for weakness by some people. That guy walked out the door Sat, just before I sent someone home. I've been trying to keep my "inner @sshole" under control, but it seems that some people only respect an @sshole.

The new boss is going to have a talk with my kids and let them know THAT cow ain't eating the Cabbage no more. Some people are going to need to be thinking long and hard about their future.

"My way or the highway"-Inner Asshole

I'm going to have to start making up news stories

And I don't mean something physically impossible, like say- flushing a hardback, fullsize book down a toilet.

I mean like the 42 midgets who got maimed by a lion. I believe it originated at Fark.com (reg. required). I got like 25 hits in the last two days off that.

But in real life, I just got done with a 12 hour O.T. shift, so I just want to read what has happened on my blogroll.

I'm adding another blog to my blogroll

I'm glad to say that this one will be of great service to all historians of the reality biased community.

They may as well use this one as their "unnamed souces" for all the checks and balances they use, anyway.

Just got back from an 8th grade graduation

First, when did they decide to "Graduate" kids into High School? When I was there, it was " have a good summer, you new school is over there --->"

Two points I noticed.
1 LOTS of hot moms, and
2 Some of the other moms should have a show called "How NOT to apply make-up" - seriously. I saw some moms from the "other side" of the tracks, they could be a horror movie clown- scary.

Anyway, Wife is on the way back from Houston picking up her oldest and her fiancee. That's gotta be a long sit- from U.K. to Houston to the other side of Castroville. Must be something like 11 hours on your butt.

Texas Best Grok is now posting again

and he's back on the blogroll. I understand the problems of posting while doing the real estate thing.

Just to let any Texas bloggers know,

Well, any blogger who wants to come to the Toobs,tunes, boobs and beer blogfest over in Brew Braunfels from June 24 to the 26.


Ok, it's called something else, but that would be a good blogfest to go to.

Did a lion REALLY kill or mutilate 42 midgets?

My Unnamed source tells me that:

Apparently in the city of Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia, a league of fighting midgets has lost a fight with a real live lion.

Tickets had been sold out three weeks before the much anticipated fight.

The fight was slated when an angry fan claimed that one lion could defeat the entire league of 42 fighting midgets. The president had recently advertised that his midgets would "...take on anything; man, beast, or machine."

I KNOW that unnamed sources are unquestionably truthful, so it couldn't be a posting from say The Onion or Satire Wire or another humor blog, would it?

Strike three for SBC: another no-show

They were supposed to show up today between 8 and 12 AM, nice window, huh? It looks like they'll be missing that 4 hour timeframe, and I'm out 4 1/2 hours pay.

I don't know what I can do, go to small claims court for $100? I'll keep the 4680 number active, maybe next year sometime they'll do an audit and see they've got a circuit tied-up with no revenue. But they're a big company with an uncaring Union work force, so probably nothing WILL be done anyway.

I guess when you're a huge monopoly you can treat your paying customers however you want.

(Update , , , story should now read "SBC lied, nobody died" 4:45PM May 18, 2005)

After leaving home in disgust at noon, I left the dogs out. I came home and called the SBC service center- because I'd cooled down enough not to be cursing every other word.
The call-taker got ahold of the Hondo office, and through them- the tech. , , ,

Before I get to what was told, here's a history of the last week:

Thurs May 12- after a badly cracking line, I called in for no dial tone.
Friday I was told they didn't stop, or look at it because I had dogs- they needed access to the house. Made a NEW appt for Mon between 3PM and 7PM (that's what the trouble desk said)

Monday They didn't even show up- after I'd missed 90 min. of work to get the dogs in. I called in complaining and was told that they don't do routine calls at that time. *CR@P*- ok, when?

Wednesday (today) I lost 4 1/2 hours waitng for SBC to show up between 8AM and 12AM-no show. I left, and left the dogs outside. I cooled down enough after work, and called the trouble desk again, and was told that the tech. WAS WORKINGON THE PROBLEM. OK, why did I have to wait almost a week, if they didn't have to get into my yard?

Somebody's LYING- not that you'd expect any pro-comunist Democratic political machine to have any qualms about twisting the truth any way they want.

Well, the new StarWars movie opens today

Not that I'm interested in it that much, since I know what a vagina looks like and I can grow a beard.


No- the reason I know it's opening is that I can't get away from the hype.
Any channel that can work it in is mentioning it, some how. Fox and Friends is running its StarWars program interrupted by periodic news updates. If I watched the Weather Channel, I'd probably be treated to the weather highlights inside the DeathStar.

Just FYI, as of this writing the Kyoto experiment

Has cost about $37,315,869,389 with a POSSIBLE temprature savings of 0.00039º C. by 2050.

- - - Just thought you might want to know.

Now if we could only convince ol' Sol to cool his jets, we'd be able to win the Global War on Temperature.

Via Dave from Garfield ridge

Can you imagine waking up to THIS every morning? A shiver of ewwww runs down my spine>.



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Run Forrest, RUN!

Strike TWO for SBC today

WTF is with SBC? They're service techs are afraid to go into yards with dogs in them-- guess what the required adornment is down here in south Texas ranches, farms and residences? Some are working dogs, most are pets.

Now, today, I was supposed to be home to control the ferocious Bodus, and the Meglet between 3PM and 7PM. I just got done calling the trouble desk--- again. Their highly trained service tech showed up at 10AM, yep 5 f*cking hours before he was supposed to.

Now I'll have to miss ANOTHER hour and a half of work.

I now work for a small utility company now, and have before. When we have an appointment and we couldn't complete it for some reason, we'd put a door hanger where our customer could find it---NOT just say "lo f'ing siento" and walk away. I have also read meters and done leak surveys. In both of these jobs, I went itno yards with all kinds of dogs and had very little trouble because generally, you can tell if you'll get into trouble by the dogs attitude.
But then again, I wasn't an overpaid UNION lackey either.

We actually VALUE out customers.


Even when we have a monopoly on our service. Hear that SBC? Ma sure didn't raise you right.

Newsweek lied- people died


Newsweek, a weekly mag with REAL editors and fact checkers vetted their Koran desicration story not even as well as I factcheck my last post.

Just wondering, when will the Libs start to demand resignations?

I won't be holding my breath.

I know we payed too much for our house

But it wasn't in this league at all.

Four years ago this week, President Bush nominated Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the federal bench.


Four years later, she and six other appeals court nominees remain unconfirmed and unvoted upon because of Democratic filibusters.

-Just thought I'd mention that.

I'd heard about this Nickelodeon "My Backyard" Alamo thing on WOAI on the radio
And I thought it was lost untill I saw Grim talking about it in his blog.

In case you don't know the history of the Alamo, here's a quick thumbnail, the way I remember it ( it's not completely accurate, but I'm not a nationally syndicated kids show-with access to history experts)

• Tejas was an unexplored, and pretty much ungovernable province of Mexico.
• Mexico invited Anglos(Americans) in to help passify the province(some were slave owners).
• Mexico changed governments (again) and Santa Anna decided to crack down on immigration (boy, things sure change in 170 years) and tossed out their Constitution.
• Mexico repudiated it's agreements with most of its colonists.
• These new laws grated on whites AND Hispanic colonists (who weren't peons)
• There was agitation for independance from white AND brown
• In the run-up to the big blowup the ummmm,,,'rebels'- lets call them 'Texians'were pushing back against the frontier troops.
• One of these skirmishes was at a place called The mission at San Antonio de Vallero - the Alamo.
• The Mexican scouts were pushed out and the Texians took control of the Alamo.
• Col. Travis decided to stay untill Sam Houston could decide what to do.
• Santa Anna wanted to crush the revolution in a show of force, and marched on San Antonio and Goliad.
• The men of the Alamo were surrounded and determined to fight to the death. There were around 186 (no one's sure), more than 50% were hispanic, and I believe two were slaves.
• Santa Annas' army of more than 2,000 men surrounded the Alamo, playing the "Dugello"(?) which ment 'no quarter'.
• The Mexican army began the final assault before daybreak on March 6 1836.
• When the sun came up, all the defenders of the Alamo were dead, and 600 dead plus wounded from the Mexican army. The survivers were one white woman-and kids and two spanish women-and kids and two black slaves (if I remember right).
• Santa Anna then Marched on Goliad, but there's been enough slaughter on this blog tonight.

Contrast my recollections to Nickelodeons "My Backyard" Liberal cant:

The fifty second long piece on Nickelodeon, which is part of an ongoing series of features about the U.S. called 'My Back Yard," shows a San Antonio teenager telling the largely pre-teen audience that 'in the early 1800's, most of the people living in San Antonio were white farmers who brought their slaves with them.' It goes on to claim that conflict over slavery between slaveholding settlers and a Mexican government which had abolished slavery 'led up' to the Battle of the Alamo.

Ok, I forgot that part of the Mexican law- which was observed more in the written law than the occasional non-enforcement of it. There weren't *per capita* that many black slaves. Slavery wasn't the issue- Independence was.

WOAI has some of the background on this hit-peice:


E-mails obtained by WOAI radio show Alamo historian Dr. R. Bruce Winders, one of the country's leading experts on pre Civil War southwestern history, told Nickelodeon producers that the slavery claim was 'simplistic and inaccurate,' but the piece was aired anyway.

Mark Lyons, a senior producer for Nick News at Lucky Duck Productions in New York City, a contractor to Nickelodeon, which is a unit of Viacom, Inc. says the piece, called an 'interstitial,' was not meant to convey the full story of the Alamo.

"We recognize that there were several key issues in the Battle of the Alamo and one of them was slavery," Lyons said. "We want to tell our viewers something they may not have known, like the fact that at the time Texas was a part of Mexico."

Winders remains critical of the way the piece was presented.

"I think this is an extreme interpretation that was very one-sided as well as inaccurate," he said Monday. They replied that they wanted to get a Hispanic opinion of the battle. I pointed out that many people would not be able to tell that the piece was opinion and not fact, but they ran the story as it was."

Ok, if they wanted a Hispanic opinion, why bring up slavery? They weren't slaves, and generally didn't own them. For them the Texian cause was Independence from Mexico.

John McCain (R.I.N.O.-AZ) why don't you just get it over and declare yourself a Liberal Democrat?

I know it's a rhetorical question, because if you did that, you'd NEVER get re-elected.
Your constituents see a big ol' 'R' behind your name and don't realize that you're behind something like this illegal amnesty plan with your good buddy Chappaquiddick Ted (who, by the way Borked John Bolton for his past behavior).

Anyone with any kind of intelligence knows that the gov't- from Bush down- doesn't want to control our borders. I know that MSM isn't giving much- if any air to this story about this WashTimes expose on the orders the Border Patrol got from D.C.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration..

And yes, I know the B.S. about "they only take the jobs Americans won't do" - that's because the illegals have sunk the wages so low that Americans can't. afford. to. do. the. job!

As far as the "labor intensive agriculture" goes, harvesting can be done just as effectivly by machines. We have the ability and capability to produce any kind of machinery needed. What "Big Ag"(riculture) doesn't want is to put the money into purchasing the equipment when they can get illegals for just a little more than operating costs- with NO startup expenses.

Illegal alians are needed here- give me a frigging break. Yeh, they're needed by POLITITIANS on both sides of the border, and wanted by bean counters in business and Liberal activists.

And here I though SBC was interested in their customers

I gues they are as long as it's convienient for them, and someone takes the whole day off to babysit two friendly mid-size dogs. God knows they won't call a cell phone for someone to let them in- or even leave a tag to let the homeowner know they'd been there.

My 2nd line is out- the back-up line if the computer's online. It's been popping and cracling for two days, now I have no dial tone. They told me that I need to be there between 3PM and 7PM Monday.
GREAT! Now I'm without a second phone for the busyest time of the week. did I mention I have 2 teen age daughters?

SBC, those two morons you have as spokesflacks here on San Antonio radio are dorks; and I guess they represent the company, too.

And y'all thought watching a "Blue Norther" on the Texas plains was something

You need to see these pics of a sandstorm over at Diggers Realm.

How come it's always "over reacting" when Libs gets their just rewards?

Has anyone been staioned in Spain (or lived their), that doesn't know just how much of a bunch of bad@sses the La Guardia Civil are?

Well 5 men from the illustrious Rainbow Warrier found out the hard way when they trespassed in a joint US/Spanish naval port in Rota. They face between 9 months and 3 years -in a Spanish jail.

"Our resistance is always totally peaceful. We never use violence because we are against it on principle," Luis Pérez, a spokesman for Greenpeace in Madrid, said yesterday.

Greenpeace accused Spain of overreacting to the protest, which saw the Rainbow Warrior sail into the mouth of Rota's port.

"Greenpeace activists in other countries such as the UK, the Netherlands, Chile and France were also arrested during anti-war protests but none received such severe charges and violent treatment as those in Spain," a statement said. Of course not, exept for the UK, they were probably hailed as heros.

Greenpeace accused Spanish police of using unnecessary force against the Rainbow Warrior crew. "One of the crew was elbowed in the nose and put in a headlock, another punched in the stomach and put in a headlock," a crew member wrote in an online diary.

Well I guess this guy must have slipped, then:

Two Spaniards, an American, a New Zealander and an Argentinian face prison sentences of between nine months and three years in connection with the Rainbow Warrior's "symbolic blockade" of the joint US-Spanish naval base at Rota. All the accused yesterday denied the charges, which included resisting arrest, disobedience and, in one case, causing injury to the civil guard who boarded the vessel in March 2003.

And since they were violating Spaines sovgrenity and security, ya get two choices:

Prosecutors yesterday demanded a three-year prison term for the Rainbow Warrior's Argentinian captain, Daniel Rizzotti, and a New Zealand crew member, Philip Lloyd.

Spaniard Carlos Bravo faced two years' jail while Martin Lawrence, an American, and Spaniard María Teresa Ambrós faced nine month terms.

"We still think they should be absolved," the Greenpeace campaign coordinator, Eva Suárez, said after the trial. Judgment is expected within days.

I was stationed in Rota, Spain. I know exactly where this happened. I could have watched it from our power plant.

The "Million Muslim March"?

I saw this letter over at Deans World about Muslims against terror. They say they aren't being backed by the big dogs who claim to be against terror.

I'm running late- go look.

How's your history? Who made these statements?


"Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman."


Correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and X:

"Dear X, Here are two tickets to my new play. Bring a friend, if you have one."
"Dear GBS, Sorry, but I can't make it to the opening night of your new play. However I
would appreciate tickets to the second night performance - if you have one."

Conversation between Lady Astor & X:

"Sir, if I were married to you, I would serve you posion in your wine."
"Madam, if I were married to you, I would drink it."

"So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute,
adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Here's a
hint: He was known worldwide, and his main clame to fame began 65 years ago today.

I was going to post this last Friday, but got busy with something else.

That was the 200th anniversary of our FIRST unilateral invasion of the Mid-East (Algiers, actually).

And the history behind the fist verse of the Marine Corps Hymn:
'From the Halls of Montizuma to the shores of Tripoli'

The article gives this reminder of why we were there, then:
One of the unpleasant realities that the young and still untested United States had to face at the turn of the 19th century was the threat of piracy against its merchant shipping in the Mediterranean. The leading European powers had long dealt with the threat by paying tribute - we would now say protection money - to the rulers of the Barbary States of North Africa: Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. At first the United States followed suit, but in May 1801 the Pasha of Tripoli was overthrown by a usurper who brazenly demanded more and, when it was refused, declared war on the United States.

President Thomas Jefferson decided to fight, despite the fact that the Navy had been nearly dismantled after the Revolution. In August a blockade of Tripoli was established by Commodore Richard Dale, who had fought with John Paul Jones. The blockade, small and ineffective at first, continued for nearly four years and gradually, with reinforcements from home and some borrowed vessels from the King of the Two Sicilies, took command of the waters of the Barbary Coast. The naval war is best remembered for the daring raid into Tripoli harbor led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur in February 1804 to burn the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia.

A couple of parallels jump out at me. The EUropeans were paying off bloodthirsty dictators then, too. Also Tripoli signed a treaty of peace on June 4, and other Barbary states quickly followed. State-sponsored terrorism piracy in the Mediterranean was ended, kinda like what's fixin' to happen in Iraq.

Everyone has their favorite, but which is safer?

Wood baseball bats or metal? This question was brought by the American Legion after an American Legion pitcher was hit by a line drive and died- in 2003.

When I first glanced at this, I thought they ment the breaking, bending, or throwing of them. The safety here is the line drive question, which is a safer hit- I guess.

The answer is ummm,

well,

they're the same.

“We were concerned then and we are concerned now for the safety of the game and the safety of the young athletes who participate in it,” said Larry Price, Chairman of the subcommittee. “With deference to the family of the young man we have given the matter our fullest attention over the last nine months. We have collected, compiled and distributed for the committee’s study a great deal of technical information, scientific analysis and expert opinion. We have heard from both camps – wood and non-wood – and we have found no clear evidence of unreasonable risk of injury or death with the use of non-wood bats in the game of baseball.”

That being said, Baseball is one of the safest sports around.

In a twenty-year study by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (1982-2002), 7 deaths of high school aged baseball players were recorded. In that same period, there were 6 deaths in soccer, 20 deaths in track, and 92 deaths associated with football. Price
offered that the game of baseball is one of the safest sports played today in high school and at the college level, noting that, “Injuries and, tragically, deaths occur in nearly every sport. By comparison, death on a baseball diamond is extremely rare.”

What a surprise, Libs are race baiting- again


Via the American Thinker comes this review of the British election.

Most of us want to think well of the British. We feel a fondness for them, a kind of family tie. Britain seems more like America than the rest of Europe. Historically the United States grew as a sturdy branch from the British oak. We think of the people there as utterly decent, as most of them genuinely are. It comes as a nasty shock, therefore, to realize how slimy the Labour Party has been in the campaign culminating in today's election.

Consider these puzzles. Why did Labour put posters all over London showing two Jewish Conservative Members of Parliament as flying pigs? Why did they picture Tory Leader Michael Howard as the hated Dickensian stereotype of Fagin, the evil Jew? And why did the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, go out of his way to insult a Jewish reporter as "a war criminal" and "a Nazi concentration camp guard"? All that just weeks before the election was called.

Was it because they really FELT (since feeling is what Libs are known for)that way?
Well, no actually.

Tony Blair's political manager let the answer slip out that those three gambits led to media coverage worth million pounds of free publicity. It didn't just happen by chance.

But which voters is the Labour Party riling up with its free publicity? The purpose is not just to insult Jews. There are not enough of them to elect Labour. As Rod Liddell pointed out in The Spectator,

“There is no ‘Jewish’ vote in Great Britain any more. …Certainly, right now, Labour seems to be going out of its way to antagonise the Jews. … Right now, there is nothing Labour won’t do to protect its Muslim vote — and the reason for that is very, very simple.”

So why the flying pigs? Good question.

Many Muslims in Europe watch Al Jazeera on satellite TV and hear a daily flood of Jihadist hate speech on the web. Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims are even more numerous in the UK, and many of them are awash in Saudi-funded propaganda.

It's for their new core base!! We've got all these illegal aliens who both parties want a vote from (right "W"?) and they have the hordes of moslems funneled through France that they want a vote from.

I like Tony Blair. I don't know anything about Howard, exept that he was a Tory. I was put off when he had Slick Willy campagning for him, but he overcame that in his support of regiem change in Iraq.

To me Blair is in pretty much a no-win situation. He's got to try to mollify his Libs, keep the EU at arms length, and try to keep Britan as an asset to the world as a whole- not easy when he's got socialists nipping at him fron every corner.

I like Brits, they're not anything special(I live with 3- 2 of them teens, so I know how average they are), they just sound smarter because of their accent. I assume from my limited conversations that they are pretty conservative. Their preceptions are filtered through their (almost) completely leftist media.

Not only do we share a common history, we need to share a common vision. I hope we can.

Due to the enormous success of the "State" Quarters, the U.S. Mint is going to do another coin


WASHINGTON, DC—Following the success of its 50 State Quarters program—deemed one of the most popular commemorative-coin programs in American history—the U.S. Mint announced its next ambitious project: releasing a unique penny for every county in the nation.

"Located in the first state in the union, Delaware's Kent County will be the first county honored in this grand celebration of America," U.S. Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore said Monday. "But over the coming years, citizens all across the nation will see the best aspects of their own counties celebrated on the obverse side of a penny. Collecting all 3,143 county pennies will be a fun activity your family will enjoy for generations."

Starting in 2006, the U.S. Mint will release five new pennies per year for the next 629 years. While the process will be a long one, residents of the nation's 3,143 counties and county equivalents have already begun debating how their regions should be depicted.

"I hope they get the old stone water tower just right," Ypsilanti, MI resident Gina Dalton said. "It's the most well-known landmark in Washtenaw County, so it's definitely what they should use."

While Fore agreed that Ypsilanti's historic water tower—completed in 1890, boasting an 85-foot-tall base made of Joliet limestone, and standing at the important intersection of Route 17 and West Cross Street—is a good suggestion, she cautioned Washtenaw County residents that their penny is scheduled for release in 2315.

"We're encouraging counties, especially those beyond the first 50 or so, to think creatively to find a truly unique representative icon for their penny," Fore said. "Water towers—along with mountains, covered bridges, and lighthouses—will be among the first images to get snapped up. We'll need to see some shoe factories and cell-phone towers, too.

But, as usual, there is controversy too:

Citizens of Alaska and Louisiana have expressed worries that they may not be represented at all.

"I have spoken to numerous concerned Alaska and Louisiana citizens, and I tell them all the same thing: Settle down," Fore said. "Although they are technically called the county pennies, the coins will certainly include Alaska's census areas, Louisiana's parishes, and independent cities like St. Louis and the District of Columbia."

Here's the rest of this exiting numismatic article.

And now, , , something to p!ss off most of the "English" speaking world

In a posting from the Dogsnot Diaries,is this gem about the Angloshpere.

It takes a swip at Brits, "Yanks*", Aussies, and Canuks.




* To those not from the US -an American: but 'here' --> A Yankee- anyone north of the Mason-Dixon Line, ^or^ north of the M-D Line and on the East Coast, ^or^ Anyone on the N.E. coast(Mass, R.I., Conn. etc.)

Remenber the guy who REALLY found a finger in his custard?

I hope the jury hears this part of the story when the d!ckhead sues for emotinal distress.

After he losses that suit, I hope the LAW goes after him, and the employee who lost the fingertip wins whatever he can get.

f*cking @sshole.

Common sense in the UK

I was just surfing and came upon the EnviroSpin Watch. A blog as well written as you'd expect a well educated Brit to write. To me, he has much the same style as Aelfheld in the enjoyment of the written word. It is now a fixture in my blogroll (and a crutch for future posts).