Chirac gets his nose slapped by voters, selects Cruella De Villepen as new Prime Minister

Villepin then proposes a NEW and IMPROVED

EU Constitution which include:

• To give a greater sense belonging in the transnational government, the new name of the European Union shall be EuroNation (pronounced 'Your Own Nation')

• *The flag of EuroNation, instead of a circle of twelve golden stars on a blue background, shall consist of a more traditional hammer, sickle and star in gold, against a red background.

• Instead of basing the anthem on Beethoven's ‘Ode to Joy’, the EuroNation anthem shall be based on the more familiar, less religious, Beatles' classic 'Back in the USSR'.

• The motto of the Union shall no longer be ‘United in diversity’ but rather the more poetic: 'Liberté, Égalité, Diversité'

Here's a local posting that will give you another view of Independence Day

I can't begin to count the number of people in the larger cities that have commented that they really wish there were a small town in which to celebrate the Fourth and not have to contend with the monster crowds of the big city. You can call me nostalgic, but in my mind I keep seeing a scene from the movie "Doc Hollywood," where Michael J. Fox is walking in the park during the small town's Squash Festival contemplating why he is in such a hurry to leave. There are strings of lights hanging between the trees and
children running like imps with sparklers dancing in their hands and laughter soaking the ground in their wake. There is the soft melody from a local band in the distance as fireflies add their own special ambiance to the scene as the mayor of the town hauntingly echoes, "Turn off the Interstate, Ben Stone."
This is our little piece of Americana. It is our chance to come together as a community and celebrate the freedoms that we take for granted that have cost our nation the lives of those so dedicated in the vision of our forefathers.

This is from out local paper The Hondo Anvil.

The writer just got his pyrotechnics license and is putting the show on for cost only. His feelings even makes my cynical self want to donate to the cause.

I've said I'm in favor of nuclear power before, now tree huggers are not as opposed

"It's not that something new and important and good had happened with nuclear, it's that something new and important and bad has happened with climate change," says environmentalist Stewart Brand, who recently authored a controversial article on the topic in the May issue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review.

Brand has joined a small but growing cadre of environmentalists, which includes Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies dean James Gustave Speth and World Resources Institute head honcho Jonathan Lash, in touting new, cleaner, safer nuclear technologies as a solution to the vexing problem of how to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels before solar and other renewables are ready to take up the slack. Together, alternative renewables account for less than 2 percent of the nation's energy production, while nuclear power contributes ten times as much power to the grid today. ok, sounds good

BUT

And in a new twist, Senator John McCain (RINO-AZ) has reportedly added language to the climate change bill he is drafting with Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) that calls for major federal subsidies to pay the cost of developing new nuclear energy technologies to lessen our nation's dependence on fossil fuels, (Emagazine.com) You know if John McCain's involved, he's trying to stab consrevatives in the back- somehow.


What the problem has been -long term with nukes is the spent fuel; no one is in agreement with what to do with it. My question is WHY do we have to store it here, on earth? Park it in a far orbit, or send it into the sun; the worst we could send up thereinto the swirling radiation would be as weak as sweat-comparetivly. If you're worried about the stuff not making it into space, use something tried and true.

I've always said that when we get into a war with the ChiComs

that I hope their military machinery is as cr@ppy as the stuff they sell in Wally-world.

I guess it is!

A Chinese Navy submarine stalled apparently after a fire broke out aboard the vessel while it was submerged in the South China Sea, sources close to the Japanese and U.S. defense authorities said Monday.

As of Monday afternoon, the submarine was being towed above the water in the direction of Hainan Island. The Japanese and U.S. governments have been monitoring the vessel, and it is unknown whether there were any casualties, the sources said.

Snip. . .

In 2003, all 70 crew members of a Ming-class submarine were killed in an accident caused by a mechanical malfunction.

The accident is believed to have been caused by a rapid decline in the amount of oxygen inside the submarine. China never disclosed the cause.

Via Fark

Are there really sensitive men out there?

A woman meets a gorgeous man in a bar. They talk, they
connect, they End up leaving together. They get back to his apartment
and she notices that his bedroom is completely packed with sweet cuddly teddy
bears.
There where Hundreds of cute small bears on a shelf all the way along the
floor, cuddly medium-sized ones on a shelf a little higher, and huge enormous bears on the top shelf along the wall.
The woman is surprised that this guy would have a collection
of teddy bears, especially one that's so extensive, but she decides
not to mention this to him, and actually is quite impressed by his
sensitive side.

She turns to him ... they kiss...and then they rip each other's clothes off and make hot steamy love. After an intense night of passion with this sensitive guy, they are
lying there together in the afterglow, the woman rolls over and
asks, smiling, "Well, how was it?"
The guy says:


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"H elp yourself to any prize from the bottom shelf "

I was just surfing when I came upon this article in the American Thinker

It talks about Kosovo (remember that?), and how badly that is going under the UNable abilities of the UN and it's EU forces, and how the MSM refuses to talk badly about it.

If they want to carp about how badly the US (and our unilateral allies)"quagmire" is doing in Iraq, then the Balkins would be called, , , what? a Black Hole?

The Deutsche Welle yesterday relayed a report from the Brussels-based International Crises Group (ICG) that says that the UN Administration (UNMIK) in Kosovo “lacked credibility and was scrambling for an ‘escape strategy’". Six years after Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic cried “uncle” after a NATO bombing campaign, the situation in Kosovo is deteriorating rapidly. The ICG report said,

Funny how no one demanded a withdrawal strategy two years, hell six months after the first "invading" boot stepped foot on that soil.

We celebrate this Memorial Day because of This

and This.

And we have this day to remember those that died so that you could enjoy the freedom to read and say whatever you want without the Government throwing you in prison for doing so.






Thank You

What an "interesting" weekend

I took stand-by for one of my kids. We've had some good ol' south Texas thunderboomers going on.

I just got in from a call at the airport - no power. It was our supplier again. When you have hundreds and hundereds of miles of high wire, lightning will do that.
In the last two nights; I've gotten 9.75 hours of overtime. All but one of them has been after midnight callouts; and that's clock-time, not doorstep to doorstep.

El Capitan has a Superhero post up

That reminded me of this Comic Book critique.

Kinda like a SuperHeros' "What not to wear". This includes the full 'Grizzly Adams' beard, and flowing white sleeves.

Down here in Texas, we'd call it a cloud of feathers

It seems that in California, they give tickets to CHICKENS! Yep, if a chicken is a traffic hazard they get a ticket.

And if they have a good lawer, it gets tossed.

Even our Democrats wouldn't try to openly overturn an election (yet)

But Chirac and his Socialists wouldn't think twice about disregarding the popular "NON" vote against the EU PC bible Constitution that's expected.

A "no" vote would leave M Chirac seriously weakened. His rival Nicolas Sarkozy, the UMP leader who aspires to become president in 2007, was blaming the Chirac Government's policies for fuelling the voter rebellion. M Chirac is expected to react to a French "non" by promising to listen to the people before making a second attempt at ratification.

He and other "yes" campaigners have said repeatedly during the campaign that there is no “Plan B” if the treaty is rejected and that there would not be a second referendum.

But one option being discussed in senior diplomatic circles is for candidates in the French presidential election in 2007 to promise to ratify the treaty in parliament rather than by referendum.


Then again, don't our Socialists Liberals Democrats have that idea too?
That we, the great unwashed are too stupid to do what's best for us.

It seems like the best thing that could happen over there is for that piece of paper to just go away. Don't try to be a "United" europe. Europe is Europe, it will never be America. Our histories are too different. Our mindsets are too different.

I don't want to say that European reliance on big government is ingrained, and self reliance is a unique American trait; but it is a byproduct of our differing histories.

Europe has had some kind of centralized government since at least the Romans were in charge, and they're used to looking to Government for all their needs. Americas' feeble Federal Government was almost forgotten beyond the foothills of the Appalachian Mts for the majority of our history, and citizens and (legal) immigrants were forced to be self reliant..

The United States are CITIZENS who (originally) gave our Federal Gov't the ability to use our strength of numbers for our common good on a limited basis. The European Union seems to be a group of seperate NATIONS who only have #1's best interest at heart, and a (seemingly unenforcable) business contract to hold everyone accountable.

Mix one part lighter fluid, one home tracking device and a moron

And you have this months entry for the Darwin Awards.

The idjit tried to BURN the thing off.

Yesterday I linked to a satieristic posting

It was about a moron who decided to kill himself by wrecking his car.

This, however is true.

What's big- and red- with flashing lights - and has a SIREN?
Well, this guy hit it anyway.

I Don't know where to start with this

Diggers realm has a post on Indian Reparations.

I also don't know where to go with this, or how to end. I know what I think, and that's to call BULLSH*T on the thing. Sen. Sam Brownback (R. Kan) wants the Federal Gov't to offer a formal apology to American Indians. John McCain's involved, too.

Tex Hall (nice Native American name) has this to say:
"Tribal leaders have cautioned that the apology will be meaningless if it is not accompanied by actions that begin to correct the wrongs of the past and the present," Hall said.

THAT sounds alot like somekind of reparation talk.

Ok, we did what everyone in America has done to their predisesors since man walked upright. the whiteman did it more efficiently. Who, besides Liberal appologists think that Indians were nature-loving-peace freaks? Who lived in harmony with their neighbors, and never starved during winter, or tortured their prisoners to death?

OK, they have problems on the Res., but that is fixed by something to live for, NOT the Gov't dole.

If the News media and cops told the truth


You'd see alot more stories like this one:

WHEATLEY, AR—Although reckless driving and minor driver impairment were cited as additional factors, police investigators ruled pure, unadulterated stupidity as the primary cause in the death of an unlicensed motorist involved in a single-car accident Sunday.

"We're fairly positive the deceased was operating under the influence of being an unbelievable dumbass," forensic investigator Evan Lawrence told reporters at the scene, a stretch of road littered with SUV parts, beer cans, food containers, fishing equipment, and pornography. "I mean, we're not saying alcohol, fatigue, poor vehicle maintenance, and driver error didn't play their parts—but mainly, that driver was a goddamn dipshit."

The violent and inane mishap occurred at approximately 4 p.m., just north of town, where Highway 63 passes beneath the railroad bridge.

Just look at some of the drivers around you every day, and don't you wonder "Why aren't they wrapped around a tree already?"

NEWSFLASH - PBS has no Liberal political slant!

WASHINGTON -- Public broadcasting must -- and will -- remain free of political influence, PBS prexyprexy Pat Mitchell declared Tuesday.

"PBS is not the property of any single political party or activist group or foundation or funder with an agenda of any kind," Mitchell said in a speech at the National Press Club.

"Our editorial standards ensure it, and public opinion polls verify it," she continued. "PBS does not belong to a red or blue or purple constituency, and it does not shrink in the face of political threats.

"PBS has built and maintained a steadfast resolve to never give in to pressures to reflect a political agenda. That resolve is as rock solid today as it has ever been," she asserted.

She goes on to say that polls say that most PBS viewers concider that agency to be unbiased. Yeh, that's because most regular viewers are Liberals who think Clinton was a moderate.

Mitchell also has an ace up her sleeve:

Mitchell also highlighted initiatives meant to help keep PBS bankrolled and competitive. The org has started a foundation to solicit major donations; it secured its first gift recently from the Ford Foundation, which ponied up $10 million.

Ok, now rest assured that our Gov't sponsered broadcasting company is as unbiased as the BEEB.

Have you seen the commercial for the Tyco-Scott airpacks?

It's not an in-your-face commercial. It just kinda torques me that they're using firemen to get their name out there, for what? The SCBA isn't the firedogs choice, it's his employer, weather it's city, county or an evil big corporation.

His employer could have easily chosen from MSA, Draeger, SurvivAir (which I've used with great effect), or any other resperatory protection.

If I were going to buy any kind of personal protective equipment, that commercial would tell me that I didn't want a Tyco-Scott Airpac. If it leaks so bad that my face was covered in that much soot, I'd know my breathing would be adversly affected, too.

The senate came to a compromise on the so-called Fillibuster

AGAIN!

There are times when you just have to stand up and tell someone to "Shut the f*ck up", or your precieved weakness will be proved to be real.

The R.I.N.O.s have showed that they aren't even a paper TIGER, maybe a paper kitten.
They've been the majority for what? 5- 7 years now? And have let the Dems run roughshode over them ever since- in the "Spirtit of 'bi-partasinship'."

The only time in the last 60 years that the Democrats (and their LLL MSM apologists) cared about the minority party being heard has been since they've BEEN the minority.

I'm looking for a real, viable conservative party to replace the R.I.N.O. party.

There is a column of bones in your back, it's called a spine.
Bill Frist- see if you can grow one! - or borrow one, anyway.

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!