I scored 76% Dixie

My necks at least pink.
I got the purely Texan one though.

Stolen from Rob

I've got the Eukauba Dog show in the background

I don't care how secure you are in your manlyness,
or you metrosexuality.

Or you're a dog.
You'd have to be gay not to be embarrased by a haircut like







THIS

Just for the ladies

The latest scaremail du jur

If there is a female you care anything about, share this with her. I
did!!!!! I am also sharing this with the males on my email list,
because they need to tell the females THEY care about as well!

Recently a brand called "Red Earth" decreased their prices from $67 to
$9.90.
It contained lead. Lead is a chemical which causes cancer.

The Brands which contain lead are:
1. CHRISTIAN DIOR
2. LANCOME
3. CLINIQUE
4. Y.S.L
5. ESTEE LAUDER
6. SHISEIDO
7. RED EARTH (Lip Gloss)
8. CHANEL (Lip Conditioner)
9. MARKET AMERICA-MOTNES LIPSTICK.

The higher the lead content, the greater the chance of causing cancer.

After doing a test on lipsticks, it was found that the Y.S.L. lipstick
contained the most amount of lead.

Watch out for those lipsticks which are supposed to stay longer. If
your lipstick stays longer, it is because of the higher content of lead.

Here is the test you can do yourself:

1. Put some lipstick on your hand.
2. Use a Gold ring to scratch on the lipstick.
3. If the lipstick color changes to black then you know
the lipstick contains lead.


Please send this information to all your girlfriends, wives and female
family members.

This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Dioxin Carcinogens causes cancer, especially breast cancer.

First, before I even looked in Snopes, I knew that you pretty much have to ingest- eat or drink relativly large quantites of lead to cause problems, and I thought it was mental type problems.

I also didn't know that Dioxin was in the lead family.

Snopes has this to say about the mailing:
We spoke with a compliance officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the possibility of lead being present in lipsticks. All dyes used in foodstuffs or cosmetics have to be vetted by the FDA for safety, and although some of the colorants the FDA grants approval to do contain lead, it is present in such miniscule amounts that is has no adverse effects on consumers. Manufacturers who wish to do business in the USA are restricted to the use of FDA-certifiable colors only; otherwise their products will not be allowed in the country or onto the shelves of American stores.

-AND-
The streaks that supposedly herald the presence of lead in one's lipstick are in reality dark marks produced by the testing agents themselves. Gold, silver, copper, and pewter leave these trails no matter what they're rubbed against, in the same way that pencils make marks on whatever surfaces they are trailed along. That these marks appear more prominent against a lipstick backdrop is attributable to contrast — streaks that look grey against a white background seem brown against a reddish background, and brown is a color more readily picked out by the eye.

Kinda like rubbing tarnish off of metal.

Anyway, go figgure- I got lied to on the internet.

This has got to be the funniest blonde joke- ever

Go read it at Denitias site.

GO NOW!

Congratulations, DONKS- for making the girl cry

Yep, the partisan, hypocritical attacks from the rabid left finally got to MRS ALITO , she couldn't take it any more when after repeated attacks on her husband by race-baiting elitist snobs from "privileged" backgrounds.

Gawd, I wish I could find that money quote

I was listening to "WOAI , the blowtorch of south Texas" on the way home, and hear a news clip I wish I could find- I guess "they" know how bad it sounded and got it lost.

The original story was about how well San Antonio is doing, job-wise. I had to hear it again when the rosy jobs prospects were dashed- yes, dashed by the news that the new border fence would hurt new employers from looking here.

REALLY?!?!!? WHAT???

And here I thought they were talking about quality jobs, not more low skilled, low wage jobs that only an illegal would take. They were just talking about all the jobs Toyota was bringing, and Wachovia- cool, maybe I'll turn into a jackbooted Union Thug- except that Texas is a "right to work" state- don't have to join a union to work.

THEN they turn around and put a soundbite of some S.A. City spokes-flack telling about how prospective new businesses will be turned off by the border fence- keeping prospective workers away, , , or some chit.
For as many air bases as San Antonio has, you'd think it would be a little more conservative. But then again 3/4 of the population is helping their illegal kinfolk sponge off the govt' here.

I thought only the EVIL Rethuglicans wanted to persecute you for your library books

Remember the kid who lied (don't have time to look it up) about getting the "midnight knock" on his door for checking out a copy of the little red book of Mao?

How about Ted Kennedy using Sam Alito's library records to try to hank him?
Is it a different thing to do the Patriot Act on a Rethuglican than a terrorist under invrstigation?
As long as I'm on the subject, how many people WERE really questioned about their library book selections?

This goes to show that the anchor doesn't fall far from the boat

We're busy with laptop problems here, so check out the mutiny against Capt. Bligh.

Really, it's the shore establishment, this time- not the crew of the HMS Bounty, and nobody named Christian was noted in the article.

I wonder if this is her?

I have an occasional commenter named Rachel, but she doesn't leave any links.
I found this Rachel's blog from
the Hatemongers Quarterly.
Go take a look at a pretty good blog.

She's cute, too!

I was going to make a post about the usual D.C. hypocrisy

But decided, hell- everyone else on the right (maybe the left, too- I don't read the D.U. or Kos) is going to, why should I add my electrons.
Besides I really don't want to spend my night dredging up alot of what the Klan Kennedy has been accused of, from Rum-running to rape.

So, when the Dems decide who gets to ask which question

Do they ever think- WHOA,,,, That guy bringing up questions about that subject could really backfire on us?
Or do they just pick questions out of a hat, and whatever goes goes?
You have Ted Kennedy lecturing about waterboarding(making people feel like they're drowning)- and why wouldn't anyone with even the faintest brush with history remember when he REALLY drowned Mary Jo? He really knows about drowning, doesn't he?


Instead lets talk about R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Generally when we think about Great Briton, we think about the polite law-abiding stiff upperlipped gentry, and their well mannered commoners.

That quaint view hasn't been reality in a decade-or so. Their education system is as bad or worse than ours, the liberal nanny state has taken over as the parents- and responsibility is on it's way out, too. Alot has to do with the fer'ners coming in from their former colonies- and their own illegals problem (thanks to the Chunnel).

Well, the liberal, lazi-fair social experiment is coming to a close.
How about the English version of Hillaries book it takes a village (NOT the dog one- or was it a cat?).

They're going to start enforcing legal actions for "actions of anti-social behavior"
Have a look at what we're looking at if we don't start acting like responsible adults. You know the drill, let everyone get away with almost anything they want, , , until it gets too far out of control- then drop the safe on everyone with the "ZERO TOLERANCE" hammer.

Which is typical Liberal way of thinking as they slam conservatives for telling kids right from wrong, and trying to turn them into responsible adults. Without having to resort to the Zero- tolerance BS.

(UPDATE JAN 11) I really shoulda done spell check before that librarian got here.

I guess you'd call this poetic justice

See, a sadist unelightened senior citizen decided to burn a mouse to death- but burned his house down instead. See, instead of bashing the poor thing with a shovel, THEN tossing it on the fahr (that's Texan of fire)- ol Luciano tosses a live mouse into the burning leaves. Read about the hilarity that ensued after the mouse ran BACK into his house.

I'm not going to make the connection between N.M., Bill Richards, a Spanish name, Democrats and casual cruelty -in spite of the ban on torture going through the Congress right now- Nope, not gonna do it. It's too easy (and cheap).

I made a post a little over a month ago forcasting something

Want to know what it was?
It was the post predicting that the Govt' will be paying for hotel rooms as far into the future as you can see.

Here's the AP story on the "Motels for life" program.

Some of the swamp people want to extend their thanks to Houston for helping N'awlins alot more than they'd barganed for.

Well, another one bites the dust

Yep, Tom Delay stepped down as House Leader today.
The Democratic attack machinery is in fine repair when it comes to hounding Republicans out of leadership positions. What's that make now? Four? Five?

Any time there's a question- a hint of not being 110% above board ethically, the same ol' lynch mob starts baying.

Then, we have the Democrats who if the story gets out in spite of the Legacy Media- you'd go deaf from the silence. These self-same paragons of finger pointing morality give the truth to the expression "It takes one to know one." In spades.

I have to admit that I'll be glad to get the Bush presidency behind us. Let the open wounds heal.
I just wish the Anti-Bush lunatics would quit ripping open the scabs every time they breath.
Abe Lincoln was treated the same way in his time. Gawd how it must grate on the Moonbats to even THINK of the possibility that Bu$Halburton=Hitler could even come close to Lincoln.

I know they keep pointing to the Clinton Era and how he was (mis)treated by the "Vast Rightwing Conspiracy"- but I don't remember Republican polititians Demanding he step down for every mis-step made (or made-up) in his administration. Sure, He went through an Impeachment hearing- for LYING UNDER OATH. It's called perjury. He should have known the consequences, he's the lawyer- I'm not, and I know I'd go to jail for lying under oath.

But that's the difference between Liberals and Conservatives/Republicans isn't it?
One gets a free pass and all their buddies tripping over themselves in order to praise and protect the (alleged) wrongdoer; and the other side tripping over themselves to kick their ex-leader/friend/political ally when their down.

Funny, I thought I'd be a badger,

You know how friendly they are.






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Now, here's an idea that took alot of genius

As if we didn't have enough crappy, loud music that we can't get away from-
I give you The Ghetto Blaster symphony.

Imagine being serenaded by thousands of Barroi blasters.

Sorry, gotta say it

Sam is looking very Sexxxey tonight.

Any body notice the price of gas lately?

Ok, stop throwing rocks!
Down here, in the last two days- or so, gas has gone up between a dime and 20 cents/gal. I heard THIS increase was oil speculators.

It doesn't matter, we shouldn't be at the mercy of anyone except our own "Big Oil". Not those camel humpers in the mid-est, not the neo-commies in South America, not the speculators on the floor of the stock market. And for sure not at the tender mercies of those eco-Nazis that want us to melt down every internal combustion engine in America to make bicycles.

I just wrote a note thanking my Congress critters for their efforts in our energy problems,
it went to:
Kay Baily-Hutchinson
John Cornyn
(Both Republican Senators)
And my Representative, Henry Bonilla (R-Tx)

I would like to thank you for the job youÂ’re doing up there in Washington, D.C.
I know you have all kinds of things on your agenda to take care of, so IÂ’d like to tender my heartfelt feelings on the way youÂ’re running things up there- being the majority party in the White house and both houses of Congress. I know it is VERY important to act in a Bi-partisan way, to get along with the Democrats; which brings me to the point of my letter.
IÂ’m not sure if you know that in the past two days (as I write this) gas prices have risen between 9 cents and 20 cents per gallon out here in middle America. IÂ’d really like to thank you for letting the Democrats and their Eco-Nazis set our energy policy.
If you and the rest of the Republicans would ACT like youÂ’ve been in power for the last five years, we wouldnÂ’t be at the mercy of oil speculators, hurricanes and other factors in energy price spikes.
I fully expect you (the party) to cave in to every Liberal Democratic temper-tantrum that they want to throw–interestsintrests of “Bi-Partisanship”. After all, if you started acting like the Majority party, then the News Media would say bad things about you- that’s OK, they didn’t vote for you- and never will.
I voted for you, and a lot of people feel that youÂ’ve left us standing here all by ourselves in your quest for more votes. We didnÂ’t move to the right, we sat here and watched you drift to the left.
Again, thank you for letting the Democrats run policy up in DC, IÂ’m sure IÂ’m not the only one whoÂ’ll remember why weÂ’re standing here on the right all by ourselves. IÂ’m just wondering, how high are you going to let fuel prices rise before you get the backbone to try to force the issue?


I'll let y'all know when I recieve my replies begging me for my vote.

Stop LAUGHING, I'm serious here.

Well, we're going to the Saxet gun show this weekend

I've been trying to find out if the anti-gun Nazis have made background checks mandatory at gun shows in Texas. I can't find it by searching. I can find alot of cr@p from about 2002, but nothing telling me if I have to make the trip the next day to pick up the gun.

Cr@p, all I want is to walk out with a revolver. A .22 revolver that the neighbor's think is a pellet gun. Anyone with common sense knows that most crimes are committed by criminals with (somekind) of illegal weapon, anyway. Thanks alot you woosy 'fraidycats who would rather see your kids grow-up without morals or consciences than see them learn self control by having to hold back any kind of impulse.


(UPDATE 01-04-05) I found it, had to go to the enemies site to find out. I kinda like seeing all those red "NO"s up there.

(UPDATE to my UPDATE)
The anti-gun lobby has one state/Federal law wrong.

ASSAULT WEAPONS
Are there limitations on assault weapons and magazines? No

No state restriction on the sale or possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons like the AK47 and Uzi. Assault weapons are as easy to buy as hunting rifles. No restriction on the sale or possession of rapid-fire ammunition magazines that can fire up to 100 bullets without reloading. Federal law does prevent the sale of some assault weapons and rapid-fire magazines manufactured after 1994, but the federal law will sunset in 2004 unless Congress and President Bush renew it

See, REAL assault weapons HAVE been banned (exept for special licences) since about the '30s. No public citizen can own or fire a fully automatic weapon without the gov't approving it. These so-called "Assault Weapons" are ugly semi-automatics. You can do as much harm with a semi-automatic that doesn't fit the decription of "Assault Weapon" as you can with one of those ulgly ones that do fit the description.

So, what's the difference? One type is "scarier" than the other.

Just one of those slow days here at casa trainwreck

I din't find anything impelling enough to post about yesterday, and today isn't much better.

I tried searching for some information on the way Mexico treats their own Illegal immigrant problem on their southern border. All I could find was one position type paper and one blog- neither had links to any really concrete evidence. I DID- however find pages of search results on how (badly)we treat the few illegals we actually arrest.
I guess that's a post for someone why has the time and ability to dig for facts.

Wife and I were off yesterday, we went to San Antonio to spend some more money. I wanted to stop at a gun shop to price a .22 revolver but they were closed, so we stopped into Sportsman's Warehouseto see how some fitted her hand. That's ALL we did- I'm not going to pay almost $300 for a .22 revolver -plus tax. We did find out that the one that's comfortable for her hand is a little too small for me. I did like the Academys prices, but just thought that this hoglegporkchop was a little too long at 9" worth of barrel for backyard shooting (it was the only one they had in the showcase).

The 14 yr old 15 in Feb year-old liked the ChexMix so well that she made some for herself last night. I supervised from the computer. She did well. I hope she decides to be the next Racheal Rae , that way she can be "famous" an not be living on the left coast with all those Cali crackpots.

It look like I was wrong in my post on the SPYING investigation.

(Cue the "Patton" music)
It looks like divulging top secret information that your enemy can use to elude detection is now called Patriotism and not traitorous acts.

I can see doing this to some d*ckhead

But not your girlfriend. Read the second question to click and clack
the tappet brothers.

Here's A HINT:
Tom: Gee, I don't know, Melissa. My brother tops off my headlight fluid all the time, and he usually charges me more than that.

Ray: Actually, there are two possibilities here, Melissa. One is that you misunderstood what your boyfriend said. Perhaps instead of saying he replaced the "fluid levels in the headlights," he actually said he took care of the "fluid levels AND the headlights." That would be perfectly reasonable.


D*ckhead yes, someone I'm trying to get somewhere with- a definite NO.

File this under "cool"




No matter how non-geeky you are, you have to admit this is cool.

I really can't believe that I agree with Nancy Pelosi (D Ca.)

When she's giving her weekly radio address about the Federal budget.

Can you believe that we BOTH think the budget should be redone?
Listen to what she's got to say:

"Today as Americans are making New Year's resolutions, our Democratic New Year's resolution is to renew America's promise," the California congresswoman said.

A budget that addresses issues such as health care and education would create a better future for the American people, she said, but the current Republican spending plan fails to do so.

"The federal budget should be a statement of our national values," Pelosi said. "Sadly, the Republican budget fails that test."

How can we disagree with that? We should be rethinking what kind of message we're sending when we throw half our budget away on entitlement programs. Not to mention the fact that we're going to be spending only gawd-knows how much on Bush's flood of Federal perscription votemongering. We need to address healthcare and education! We need to get the lawers and unions out of them both. Lets stop shovelling money into a bottomless pit that's gaining exactly Jack-chit in efficiency.

I agree that the budget should be a statment of our values. We need to quit kissing @ss on everyone who has their hand out as a gimmie vote.


Now, though I have to stop myself from giving her a swirly when she hypocritically brings the religious right into her diatribe.

"We must draw a fiscal line in the sand. And we must join the religious community in drawing a moral line in the sand," Pelosi said. "Nothing less is at stake than the well-being of America's children, the strength and soundness of our economy, and the respect that America commands in the world."

The ONLY reason she's with the religious community -now- is because they oppose the Republican budget, and lets not go into her moral stance against most things America embraces.
BUT you notice how she finally worked in the "for the children" kant.


You can read more over at Robs place.

Good morning blogworld and I hope a better year than the one just behind us.

And just to show you what's in store for us this year, I give you a sample of the wondrous scientific finds awaiting us!

We've all heard of the mysterious "Elephant Graveyard" where they go to to die.
Now, scientists have found the elusive Dodo graveyard down in Mauritius.

No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set of bones was destroyed in a fire at a museum in Oxford, England, in 1755.

Researchers believe the bones are at least 2,000 years old, and hope to learn more about how dodos lived

The discovery was hailed as a breakthrough in the Netherlands.

"This new find will allow for the first scientific research into and reconstruction of the world in which the dodo lived, before western man landed on Mauritius and wiped out the species," the country's Natural History Museum announced in a statement.


Imagine the wonders that await us with the discovery of Dodo civilization.

I'm sure you've all heard about Farris Hassan,

the 16 year-old who hied off to Iraq without anyone knowing about it- right?

As a parent AND someone with a bit of common sense, I'm wondering exactly how he got away with it?

First question (not the first that popped into my mind-but): it costs $3,416 for a round trip ticked from Fla. to Kuwait. Where did he get the money? It's obvious that his parents are loaded, but still a $3,000+ credit card limit -for a 16year-old???

Second: Why didn't anyone tell the parents?
Skipping a week of school, he left the country on Dec. 11, telling only two high school friends of his plans. His travels took him to Kuwait and Lebanon before he arrived in Iraq on Christmas Day. He left without telling his family and sent an e-mail after his departure, Atiya said.

The teen traveled to Kuwait, where a taxi dropped him in the desert at the Iraq border, but he could not cross there because of tightened security ahead of the Iraqi parliamentary elections on Dec. 15. He went to Beirut, Lebanon, to stay with family friends, and flew from there to Baghdad. What, they don't believe in calling home to tell mom and dad that sonny made it here safe?

Julie Schiedegger, who teaches English at Pine Crest, said Friday that she learned Hassan was headed to Iraq about two weeks ago when she overheard some students talking about it.


After his second night in Baghdad, he contacted the AP and said he had come to do research and humanitarian work.
The AP called the U.S. Embassy, which sent U.S. soldiers to pick him up.


State Department officials then notified his parents.

So, we have three examples of foreknowledge and no-one dropped a dime to mention it to the parents?

What about his passport? Can minors make their own international flight plans, and board without parental notification (don't ask-don't-tell) ? He's in the United States. Why did he have his Passport with him instead of in safe keeping with the rest of the family's? Oh, am I the only one that doesn't carry their Passport with them at all times- just in case I need to drop by some Mid-eastern sand pit at a moments notice?
Does Julie Schiedegger still have a job? Of course she does, she's probably got tenure- besides telling the parents that their son was heading off to some God-forsaken sandy chit-pile would be like "imposing" moral judgment (or some liberal garbage).

Hey, remember Joe Wilson's wife?

Yeah, the secretary spy undercover agent who worked for the CIA! That's the one! The New Yankme Times and the rest of the Leftwing media was all on the bandwagon to "Find the REAL killers" find the source of the leaked name St. Plame.

Now, lets fastforward to ohhh, say May of this year where "secret CIA flights" originated. Remember the outcry?

Nope, me neither.

How about part of the big brouhaha about extradition
rendition? Remember the demands for the source of the leak? Probably not, because almost the only people who knew about them were getting Top Security briefings about it.

And now we have the latest breach of secrecy -again from the mouths of those in Congress the know about wiretaps on terrorist sympathizer, supporters and operatives. The white House finally decided to get off it's @ss and try to find the most likely sources of those Top Secret leaks.

Well, now that they have- my first prediction of the year will be that the Legacy Media and it's hangers-on will be wailing about the WITCH HUNT about to take place.


My guess is that Rove did it.

(UPDATE DEC 31)
DonJr just reminded me of the "secret" cookies dropped onto your browser by the NSA site. Personally I feel less vulnerable from an NAS cookie than I do knowing GOOGLE is getting the ability to track almost every keystroke I make on my computer.

The Trainwreck Awards

Well, since everyone else is doing the year -end thing, I thought I'd toss y'all these trainwrecks of:

A life Britney Spears Trailer trash baybee.

A political ideology The HoDea chairmanship and the leftward lurch of the DNC

A world government body the U.N. if you don't know why, the back button is at the top- left.

An environmental treaty I give you the Eurowienies' Kyoto protocols


An outdated, anti-consumer energy policy is shown by the aftermath of Katrina, and what, exactly has congress done to change anything?

An "explanation" of being 'roid pos. we give you Rafael Palmeiro.

Ok, that's enough steam, screeching metal and coal dust choking the pristine environment of the southwest.
And so we conclude this outing of the "Trainees".

The difference between men and women(an example)

HER side of the story....

He was in an odd mood Sunday night. We planned to meet at a bar for a drink. I spent the afternoon shopping with the girls and I thought it might have been my fault because I was a bit later than I promised, but he didn't say anything much about it. The conversation was very slow going so I thought we should go off somewhere more intimate so we could talk more privately. We went to this restaurant and he was STILL acting a bit funny. I tried to cheer him up and started to wonder whether it was me or something else. I asked him, and he said no. But I wasn't really sure. So anyway, in the car on the way back home, I said that I loved him deeply and he just put his arm around me. I didn't know what the hell that meant because you know he didn't say it back or anything. We finally got back home and I was wondering if he was going to leave me! So I tried to get him to talk but he just switched on the TV. Reluctantly, I said I was going to go to bed. Then after about 10 minutes, he joined me and to my surprise, we made love. But, he still seemed really distracted, so afterwards I just wanted to confront him but I just cried myself to sleep. I just don't know what to do anymore. I mean, I really think he's seeing someone else.

--------------------------------------------

HIS side of the Story:

The Titans lost. Got laid though.

Am I the only one that thinks it looks really dorky

to see one of these kids (or "fshionable adults) driving down the road leaning soooo far over that they look down the centerline of the hood? Yeah, I know- it's supposed to be cool.

Unless you're left handed it's also a good way to get into a wreck. If you don't write or do anything else requiring fine movements wiith your left hand, why lie on your dominant hand and control a 4,000 pound vehicle with your left? The ones I've been behind have a hard time keeping it between lane markers.

Besides I was following two gys yesterday, both were leaning into the middle- it looked like they were the stars of "Brokeback Mountain".

Gimme a kiss hunny.

So tell me something,

I'm just surfing, and got off of the Day by Day cartoon.

If I saw Jan in real life- would I think she's as slutty as she's drawn?

Would I be a dumbstruck adolescent if Sam walked into the room?

Is it "strange" to have the hots for a cartoon drawing?. . . Not that I would ever think of Sam that way- but -you know hypothetically?

Well, it's kinda late

but the Chex mix is in the oven. I finally had time to look up a recipe I liked, and mix it.

The computer is working alot better since I uninstalled the newest Adobe upgrade- and the photoshop trial that came with it. I was suspicious when the clan Singh took over my computer to install the newest Adobe. I also uninstalled Quicktime, which got installed about the same time the computer went south.

The Presario is getting fixed, and I'm stealing the 14-yr-olds *new*(e-bay) computer until I get mine back. He's going to charge $45 to solder a lead to the motherboard and leave a flex connection out of where the old pre-engineered breaking point power socket used to be in the case.