Does anyone want to answer some really stupid questions?

These are basic internet questions that I probably should have picked up just by osmosis from being on AlGores intents thingy.

Things like domane registration and hosting, design how the whole thing works in a little better depth than a puddle.

You can leave a post, or hit me at kuttp-AT- wildblue-DOT_net.

I'm not sure my servers will be able to hold up under the weight of responses, but go ahead and try.

Thanks.

I was going to say something about the Lieberman purge

But I just got home and as you can see by the time stamp it's 3:30AM.
I'll need to take the 15 yr-old to her flag thing at 7:15AM then hope to get some sleep before going to work this afternoon between 5:30PM and 7:30PM.

I just hope I get another 6 loads to help with the school 'necesities'. That way I won't have to decide which bill will be shorted to buy an $80 Flag Corps uniform (and the shoes, socks and gloves that were supposed to be recycled from last year), and a couple dress uniforms for the 18 yr-olds ROTC (abortive)program.

The Whitehouse is undergoing a deluge

I was listening to a repeate of Hugh Hewits radio show last night.
He was telling of how the Anti-Israel/Pro-Hizb'allah left was flooding the White House phone, fax and e-mail about stopping Israel.

He waned his listeners to call he White House in support of Israel.
That sounded like a good idea to me, so here are some contact points for your elected critters in D.C.

I sent an e-mail to both the Whitehouse and V.P. Cheny(why not, he runs things anyway,,,,right?) thanking them for their support of Israel.

I'm fixin' to send a message to both of my Senators, and my D.C. House member. just to remind them that the vocal Left doesn't talk for all of us.

Wy don't you send them a line, too.
Just to remind them that America does stand for Right, not whatever way the wind blows.

Ok, have I got too much time on my hands?

7 minutes of play on the range.
I hope there's enough thunder and smoke for Guy this time.

I'd like to be one of the first to thank the evironmentalists

And their Liberal Democrat asslickers

Along with the spineless RINOs in D.C.

For forcing me to pay an additional FIFTY fucking CENTS a gallon.

For no damn good reason, except that those same Socialistic evironmental NAZIS forced the oil companies to stop any and all major advances in production in America.

The enironmental NAZIS (and their enablers of both parties) have ensured that we won't be able to meet our energy needs anytime in the near future. Even if we start to do something now.

The Florida delegation to D.C. doesn't want their tourists seeing wellheads from the shore, so drilling can't take place within 150 miles of shore--unless you're a CHINESE oil company. Then the environmentalists can't wrap you up in duct tape.

The Liberals have so fucked the oil companies that they haven't even seriously thought about building a new refinery in the last 30 years, and THOSE old refineries are stuck with old technology because the ENVIRONAZIS mandated that if they modernize one part of their refinery, they would be forced to modernize the entire complex to meet today's impossible standards. Not to mention the designer gas blends that they are forced to make for the most polluting markets--which happen to be in blue states (for the most part).

The Republicans are just as much to blame. Instead of forcing through a REAL energy bill that would have increased domestic production in the near future, they gave us this steaming pile of "Aternative Energy" crap.
The Demorats and their MSM lackeys hate you anyway, so tell them to go pound sand, and let the Energy companies DO SOMETHING.

AND you Libs out there, two points:

ONE- That "War for oil" is sure helping out now, isn't it?
TWO- The energy companies are going to make a profit if they sell one gallon for five dollars or five gallons for five dollars. That's called capitalism- They'd rather sell more at less because they make more in bulk.

But you Libs wouldn't understand that because you can't see past punishing success.

Looks like 'll have to get onboard the bandwaggon

The global warming bandwaggon, that is.

Facts are facts, can't argue that.

So, using my AccuWeather.com site and looking at the history, the Global Warmers win.

See back on this date in 1964 the record high was 103ºF
On this date back in 1894 it was a record low of 63ºF

Which PROOOOOVES that Global warming is real!
The fact that the sun is getting hotter won't make anyone rich, though.

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SOOooooo



. . . How do I get into trading these pollution thingies?

Some thing the Anti-Israel Media wants us to forget

If we ever knew it.

Courtesy of my friend Janet Levy.

ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FACTS

1. ISRAEL BECAME A STATE IN 1312 B.C., TWO MILLENNIA BEFORE ISLAM;

2. ARAB REFUGEES FROM ISRAEL BEGAN CALLING THEMSELVES "PALESTINIANS" IN 1967, TWO DECADES AFTER (MODERN) ISRAELI STATEHOOD;

3. AFTER CONQUERING THE LAND IN 1272 B.C., JEWS RULED IT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND MAINTAINED A CONTINUOUS PRESENCE THERE FOR 3,300 YEARS;


4. THE ONLY ARAB RULE FOLLOWING CONQUEST IN 633 B.C. LASTED JUST 22 YEARS;

5. FOR OVER 3,300 YEARS, JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH CAPITAL. IT WAS NEVER THE CAPITAL OF ANY ARAB OR MUSLIM ENTITY. EVEN UNDER JORDANIAN RULE, (EAST) JERUSALEM WAS NOT MADE THE CAPITAL, AND NO ARAB LEADER CAME TO VISIT IT;

6. JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED OVER 700 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, BUT NOT ONCE IS IT MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN;

7. KING DAVID FOUNDED JERUSALEM; MOHAMMED NEVER SET FOOT IN IT;

8. JEWS PRAY FACING JERUSALEM; MUSLIMS FACE MECCA. IF THEY ARE BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES, MUSLIMS PRAY FACING MECCA, WITH THEIR BACKS TO JERUSALEM;

9. IN 1948, ARAB LEADERS URGED THEIR PEOPLE TO LEAVE, PROMISING TO CLEANSE THE LAND OF JEWISH PRESENCE. 68% OF THEM FLED WITHOUT EVER SETTING EYES ON AN ISRAELI SOLDIER;

10. VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE JEWISH POPULATION OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES HAD TO FLEE AS THE RESULT OF VIOLENCE AND POGROMS;

11. SOME 630,000 ARABS LEFT ISRAEL IN 1948, WHILE CLOSE TO A MILLION JEWS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES;

12. IN SPITE OF THE VAST TERRITORIES AT THEIR DISPOSAL, ARAB REFUGESS WERE DELIBERATELY PREVENTED FROM ASSIMILATING INTO THEIR HOST COUNTRIES. OF 100 MILLION REFUGEES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR 2, THEY ARE THE ONLY GROUP TO HAVE NEVER INTEGRATED WITH THEIR CORELIGIONISTS. MOST OF THE JEWISH REFUGEES FROM EUROPE AND ARAB LANDS WERE SETTLED IN ISRAEL, A COUNTRY NO LARGER THAN NEW JERSEY;

13. THERE ARE 22 MUSLIM COUNTRIES, NOT COUNTING PALESTINE. THERE IS ONLY ONE JEWISH STATE. ARABS STARTED ALL FIVE WARS AGAINST ISRAEL, AND LOST EVERY ONE OF THEM;

14. FATAH AND HAMAS CONSTITUTIONS STILL CALL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL. ISRAEL CEDED MOST OF THE WEST BANK AND ALL OF GAZA TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, AND EVEN PROVIDED IT WITH ARMS;

15. DURING THE JORDANIAN OCCUPATION, JEWISH HOLY SITES WERE VANDALIZED AND WERE OFF LIMITS TO JEWS. UNDER ISRAELI RULE, ALL MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN HOLY SITES ARE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL FAITHS;

16. OUT OF 175 UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS UP TO 1990, 97 WERE AGAINST ISRAEL; OUT OF 690 GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS, 429 WERE AGAINST ISRAEL;

18. THE U.N. WAS SILENT WHEN THE JORDANIANS DESTROYED 58 SYNAGOGUES IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM. IT REMAINED SILENT WHILE JORDAN SYSTEMATICALLY DESECRATED THE ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND IT REMAINED SILENT WHEN JORDAN ENFORCED APARTHEID LAWS PREVENTING JEWS FROM ACCESSING THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND WESTERN WALL.



H/T to Trail-mix
Via Tammy Bruce and the wall I ran into here.

I really wish people would include links, so that Libs can't accuse us of making up facts like they do , because there isn't a link to the original source.

We're getting there

I've been trying to get the cutting board (Prototype- 1) so it sits even.

I finally ended up making a router jig. Now I have a surface planer that will take a 3/4" wide cut at a time.
BUT it makes it flat and level.



How do you like my old Mesquite tree?
It's about 14" x 12" x 1¼ of end grain and edge grain wood.



Now I can start getting a catalogue for my Mesquite Stuff site.

Oh, yeah,,,,,,,,

This post from Guy reminded me.

I heard that Monica was having trouble with long term relationships...



Maybe it's because everyone knows where her mouth has been.

More things to admire about the IDF

Besides taking out the trash for the rest of the world....






The women of the IDF!

I stole this from someone on my blogroll, but can't remember who. If this was yours, let me know and I'll gladly give you the credit.

So I get in from work about 1AM

~~~~~~Removed for spousal harmony~~~~~~~~~~~

Put into storage for future use.

Look at what I found in my mailbox!

Dear KurtP,

On Tuesday, August 1, 2006, your WildBlue service was not available to you due to a
network outage that resulted from a cut of the fiber optic lines connecting your
portion of the WildBlue network. This was caused by a highway construction project
and we are taking measures to improve our network to prevent outages like this from
occurring again.

We sincerely appreciate your patience in this matter and are giving you a $5.00
credit to make up for the time you were unable to use the WildBlue service.
Depending on your billing cycle this credit will be automatically applied on this
month’s or next month’s bill. If you have any questions or concerns
please contact our customer service department at 866-945-3258.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this outage caused. We are doing
everything we can to make your WildBlue service experience a positive one.

Thank you for your patience,



WildBlue Customer Service


How about that? An explainaion, and a credit!
Take that AOL.


Some one either didn't get a locate, it was mis-marked, or the operator "no sabe la linia orange".
Anyway at the very least someone got a million dollar @ss-chewing if they're still employed.

A civil war in Iraq

In terms of (more) people getting killed and maimed- along with the continuing leadership fights, it's bad.

BUT,

Since the MSM and Liberal Democrats, and Comunists wordwide demand want Iran on a fast-track to a 'Full Fledged Democracy' it could be a good thing.

Lets compare the U.S. historical timeline to Iraq.

America was fighting the British on and off for about 20 years before becoming "America" - Iraq is a functioning country in what? Five years?

We were fighting our indians 'freedom fighters' until almost the 20th century; the jury is still out in Iraq, but with some well placed munitions, the Mullas and shikes instigators would stop inciting their braves.

It took about ten years to ratify and finalize our Constitution- Iraq took how many months?

Now it looks like a civil war is simmering, We took almost 100 years before ours.

Instead of being a complete failure, the Doomsayers in the MSM and their Democratic allies should be dancing in the streets that Iraq is so much farther along than say,,,,,,,,,,,Kosovo.

The difference one letter makes

I give you the difference between the "X" chromosome and the "Y".........

The ever evolving nomenclature of the MSM

During the 20th century we had a reasonably centrist media.
They stood by Liberty and Freedom during two World Wars, and were just as politically incorrect as the rest of America.
Then things began to change in the '60s.

Communism wasn't an evil dictatorship, it started to evolve into.....
an alternate civil government, almost on par with Democracy.

Lately it turns out that Communism and Socialism was actually GOOD for the people, if you disregard the Gulags, the forced confessions, the Re-Education camps(and speech control) and the killing of hundreds of millions of innocent civilians.

Lets now talk about the changing way terrorists are looked at depending on race and religion.
Timothy McVay- was an Ex-Army white guy who blew up the Murrah Building and was always called a TERRORIST.
The IRA were Irish CATHOLIC terrorists.
The Talban were started to evolve into militant islamists
Al-qaida and their street thugs in Iraq went from Anti-government Militias to Insurgents toMinute Men to freedom fighters.
Palestinians were never terrorists, they always were cloaked it the armor of "Victimhood"- and an invincible cloak that is.
Hizb'allah -which the MSM changed to Hezbollah to mask the islamic taint- has gone through the gamut of names and is now labeled as guerilla fighters.
The always handy and utilitarian "Victim" is as always, on the "Cont. + Alt +V" shortcut of every contributors PC that helps undermine the Anti-Islamo/Nazi cause.

The Liberal Legacy media- always in search of legitimating those that would imprison them all.

Is anyone else getting tired of Mel Gibson?

Everywhere I tune into I'm hearing the Mel-meme.
Get over it! There are alot of other things happening in the world.

There's a moslem guy who shot six women -one pregnant- and killed one,,,who just happened to be JEWISH.
There are Mosques in America spewing the same anti-western hatred as those in Islammo-land.

There's a nut-job in Syria that got alot of Saddams WMDs while the UN had a collective cranial-rectal inversion.
There's another waco in Iran trying to get the bomb so as to get credit for carrying out the "Final Solution".

That's alot more newsworthy than some Catholic actor running at the mouth.
Well it would be if you weren't some Anti-Semitic Liberal Hollywood adoring party flack.

Hugh Hewitt asked tonight on his radio program: 'Why is/are the media all over Mel?'
How about this:
Mel made a killing (figuratively) on his "Passion". A Bible story from a conservative Catholic, that outgrossed anything the Liberals had in their arsenal at the time.
Israel's kicking @ss in Lebanon. Friday a moslem gunned down 6 unarmed Jewish women and killed one ( that story is pretty well buried already).
They (the MSM) might want to take the light off their cheering for moslem terrorists and put it on a drunken loudmouth- who isn't trying to change world opinion.

Ok, Hugh- how many did I get right?
Do I get a cookie?

Boy, that sucked

I feel like somehow Bluewave (my broadband) was affiliated with the airline industry.

They had a problem on the east coast and I was out all day, here in Hondo. It was still out when I got back from work at 1AM.

Condi is going to try for a permanent peace

The UN wants a permanent peace, too.

I can only see three ways to achieve a permanent peace in regards to Israel in the Mid-east:

1) Let Israel finish the job.

2) Where are you going to put them


This time?


3) OR, Koffi------------
would THIS be easier?

No, I'm sure they won't meekly walk into the showers this time.
As a matter of fact, Koffi- that's why they're fighting right now. To stop you Anti-Semites from pushing them into the showers.



You Jew haters in the UN and Old Europe have some hard choices to make.




NOTE-
I was thinking of using even more graphic pictures, but didn't want to offend anyone too much. Also I didn't want to increase my hits by islamo-Nazis who'd abuse themseves with glee.

Curiouser and curiouser

I'm sure you've heard about the Qana building collapse.
The one that supposedly killed around 50 "innocent" civilions.

Have you heard about the 8 hour delay between the attack and the collapse?

Israel hit it at around Midnight and it collapsed around 8AM.
I know those "Freedom Fifgters" are tenacious "Minute Men" of the Islamic Crusade, but why were there so many alleged children in that dammaged building?

Not that you'll hear of this during the accusations of Irael from the MSM.


Thanks Allah

I found the cure for global warming!

Yes, I did. It hit me yesterday as I was backwashing all the butterflies out of Karens radiator.

See I'm going to use the same kind of science as AlGore and the rest of the global warming climat change crowd.

See both of us agree that Air conditioning is a great contributor to global warming.
THEY say it's the CFCs destroying the Ozon layer. That might be, but I think it's a lot closer to home.

Have you ever stood next to a working air conditioner exhaust? Hot isn't it?
You've seen or heard about the "Heat Islands" that must cities are, I'm sure. They say it's the heat storage of the concrete and asphalt that makes cities.
No, it's all the air conditioners working and spewing that overheated air out into the world.

The Libs are always telling us that we're producing more 'Global warming' than any other first world country- right? We've also got more air conditioners than anyone else- per capita. Even out poor people have air conditioners.

So My solution is..............

Are you ready?


It's really simple.........


Lets get all these Global warming alarmists to disconnect their A/C's!
Everyone who believes in global warming does without A/C.

Al Gore can start first, and all the other outspoken Hollywood spokesflacks. I'd like to see Barbra Streisand, George Clooney, Darryl Hanna, Joan Baez, or any of those other Hypocritical elitists pull up in their limos with the windows down and sweat streaming down their faces.

I got this in my mail

I didn't do a Snopes on it, but I like what it says:

I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but here's the bottom line, I want my country back.



I want my kids to be able to walk to the store or walk to school without being abducted by some 3-time convicted child molester. And the politically correct powers that be in this country just can't seem to get over themselves with "CAN'T WE JUST HELP THIS PERSON!" No! You can't. But they're let loose to prey on more children. I want my kids back.



I want my country back.



I don't agree with everything this President does. I've never agreed with anything 100% that any President has done or said.



You know, I was very young during the Vietnam War. So I probably missed that thing by a hair. I don't know whether I would have agreed with that or not at the time. I was too stupid to have an opinion at that point and time even though I thought I did.



I want my country back.



I want some semblance of respect for authority, whether I agree with it all or not.



I want the Boy Scouts to be "boy" scouts, not boy and "we think she's a girl" scouts. I want Girl Scouts to be "girl" scouts not Girl Scouts and "Bruce."



I want my country back.



I want to be able to wake up in the morning knowing that I can walk outside without some gang-banger on parole taking my life.



Or being able to go down and purchase a car without having to worry about you know 90% of the parts being made overseas in some sweatshop.



I want my politicians, when they finally do get my vote, to do what the hell they said they were going to do in the first place.



I want the Abramoff's of the world to be labeled what they....nothing more than organized crime in a better suit.



I want people to say something and when they say something look at me in the eye. And mean what they say. Not say what they think I want to hear.
And then do what they want to later politically or any other way.



I want to be able to go out and work and make a decent wage and buy a home. Half the people that are listening to me right now can't even afford to buy a house unless they're working three jobs.



And I want America to be America. All of those opportunities, all of those things that made her great, I want those returned to the forefront. If you want to come to this country we welcome you with open arms. We simply ask that you abide by our laws. I don't want you to snub your nose at our laws, then take advantage of our opportunities, and then cling to the constitution most of which you can't even read because you don't speak the language.



I want us to secure our borders because the country is worth securing. The people that live here are worth protecting.



I want my country back.



I want my children back. I want some semblance of what this country used to be.



It's worth protecting. It's worth defending. I don't recognize this country anymore.



Not politically, not philosophically, not spiritually.



Whether you like it or whether you don't, God was a part of building this great nation. To remove him is to take away the very foundation of what this country was all about.



I don't care about your political correctness!



I don't want to know your sexual preference!



I could care less about all of that. Stop making it the headline of the day!



That's not America.



I want my country back!



And the only way I'm ever going to be able to get this country back is if I reach out to the brothers and the sisters that all feel the same way and we say "Hell No! You can't have our country. " It's not for sale!
Take the price tag off this country!



Take the price tag off the heads of our children! Stop it already!



The politically-correct-psychobabble-hug-a-tree-experts ~~ You are not qualified to release sex offenders back into our neighborhoods.



The southern border, more than any other border, needs to be secured tomorrow. For all those that wish to come to this country to take advantage of her opportunity, to live under a constitution~ a living document that breathes in and out just like you do~ this country is not for sale. I should know. I'm one of the owners. You can't sell it without my permission.



I want my country back!



By Rick Roberts - 760 KFMB AM

Sunday timewasters

Shouldn't you be out, like enjoying the weekend?

A Mac attack- parody

Boy, what is it with Macs?

Ok, how about a Commodore 64?

Mac being artistic.

This shows that Mac and PC can get along,,,,,,,,,,,,,with porn.

And this one lets you know how to make money with a Mac!

And, no- I don't have a dog in this fight. I hardly can run my PC- don't know nufing 'bout running macs.

This is interesting

First we had the lazy bloggers best friend.

Now we have . . .

You-Porn!
It really is NSFW.


So Katemonster, the internet really IS for porn!

This plea kinda caught my attention

I linked it from Texas Freds.

Red Cross Asks for $81 Million for Lebanon
GENEVA (AP) - The international Red Cross appealed Friday for $81 million to help victims of the fighting in Lebanon. Life is becoming "unbearably dangerous" for civilians who have been trapped by the violence, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

Resources and access to water and basic services are also very limited, the ICRC said in a statement, while medical evacuations and aid operations are very difficult and cannot meet the population's needs.

"In southern Lebanon, the No. 1 issue today is ensuring the safety of civilians and securing safe access for those engaged in medical and other humanitarian activities," said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the ICRC's director of operations.

"At the same time, the damage to civilian infrastructure and the country's economy, coupled with the large-scale displacement of civilians, requires an emergency response that is likely to extend into next year," Kraehenbuehl said.

"The effects of the military operations mean that life for the remaining civilian population trapped by the fighting is rapidly becoming unbearable and the suffering excessive," Kraehenbuehl told reporters at the organization's Geneva headquarters.

The ICRC's top priority in southern Lebanon is ensuring the safety of civilians and securing safe access for those engaged in medical and other humanitarian activities, he said.

Ok, I can understand them wanting to help, BUT-
Don't they have other things on their plate besides aiding the same people who helped cause the problem in the first place? he ones who STAYED behind? The ones who rented rooms for rocket storage? I know that there's been tsunamis and earthquakes in Asia lately, not to mention refugees starving in Africa.


The U.N. refugee agency said Friday it was hoping to send 550 tons of bedding, cooking equipment and other emergency supplies from Damascus to Beirut by early next week.

Security and logistics issues have prevented the aid from crossing the Syrian-Lebanese border for about a week, but these issues are being resolved, said Jennifer Pagonis, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva.

The convoy is part of a joint effort by U.N. aid organizations to help meet the needs of up to 800,000 displaced people in Lebanon - one-fifth of the population.


The World Food Program said it was coordinating three aid convoys to southern Lebanon.

The agency hopes to increase shipments to two convoys per day by next week, said WFP spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume.

Did you get that? Damascus, Syria to Beirut. Wouldn't it be more time and cost effective to use a ship?
I'd think so, but then I'm not planning to use relief convoys to resupply Hizb'allah terrorists who target REAL civilians. Who aren't staying in place to be human shields.

Good thing it wasn't a HATE crime

An islamo-Klansman goes into a Jewish community center and guns down 6 Jews- one pregnant.
That's ok, because they deserved it, being Jews and all.
Right Koffi?
It's OK for the Arab version of the KKK to go around killing innocent Jews wherever they are- but as soon as they get their back up, you and the rest of the Anti-semetic UN and old Europe want to tie their hands to protect your terrorists. Impose a cease-fire for your terrorist pals to rest and rearm.

We're seeing plenty of pictures and videos lately about the complete complicty of the UN and islamo-Terrorists in killing Israelis. The UN guests co-habitors of Observation Posts with their Hisb'allah hosts?

Sorry for getting off track.
So, we have six people who happen to be Jews shot -one killed- by an intolorant islamist.

In Seattle Washington.
The Left coast.
Who has a population almost as Liberal as Cali.
I haven't heard a word about any HATE CRIME,,, because the moslem gets a pass from the Anti-Semitic left.
Again.
I bet today, maybe tomorrow is the last you hear about this as the Legacy Media sweep this away as soon as they can. Because it might raise some inconvienient question about the lack of outrage anywhere.

But it's ok because they are Jews, always have been trouble makers trying to stay alive and all.


BTW, the cops are protecting Seattle mosques now, just to protect the "moderate" moslems from 'retribution' from the EVIL Jew.
Because, you know islam is a 'Religion of....................
Cr@p, I'm not even going to finish that lie.


UPDATE-
Well, I was wrong. Looks like the authorities are looking at it as a hate crime. BUT, he not only wan't inluenced by his 'religion' he was also MENTALLY DAMMAGED. So our MSM comes through to defend the indefensable- yet again.

Grab some popcorn

and watch my first video



It doesn't have the BOOM that it really makes though darnit!

Lets all step into our personal wayback machines

Now set it for the last time you worked for minimum wage.

Ready?

GO!

Mine stopped back when I was in High school, sill living with my parents. You might also make the argument that based on the salary VS working hours that my Navy time was minimum wage, too.
No, that was training for the real world.

It looks like not only are the Dems going to raise the minimum wage, but now the Republicans are too. I really don't understand this,,,,,,,,,,,pandering.
I do, but the adults working for minimum wage aren't exactly the kind of people who'd have the initiative to go vote anyway. No matter HOW easy you make it for them- but that's another rant.

Any adult that's been in the workforce more than a couple years and is STILL working for the Federal minimum wage needs to sit down and try to figure out where their life went wrong, and how to fix it.

Bill Millers BBQ is starting servers out at $7.25 in San Antonio
Mc Donalds was already paying $6.50 back in the late 80's
You can fine tune wages here, I took an average starting job with 0 experience and a H.S. diploma in San Antonio:
An amusement park attendant average $7.70
A lumberyard worker averages $12.31
This Cashier in a department store gets about $8.14

I could go with more examples, but the site is pretty slow. You can check it out jobs using the "what if" tag on the left side.
I had a H.S. diploma from Lee H.S. (this IS the south- besides it's easier to type) and zero years of experience if you want to find a wage.


What -if anything will that bill to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 have on any of those jobs?
Lots of entry level jobs are screaming for workers, and so the entry wage shows it.
Nobody (except Democrats) expects you to raise and support a family on an entry level job.

I've said it before, anyone who's a reasonably decent worker who shows up on time won't be making their starting pay before too long. If you're a 30-something slacker with a minimum paying job, dude- you need to make a change.

I've gone through a lot of jobs, but each one was either at a higher wage, or the benefits made it worthwhile. Now, I'm driving a tanker at night delivering corn sugar, making $xx per load and making a pretty good paycheck for 4- 6 hours work per nite. It'll be better when we get moved to Hondo.

I know it's just political pandering, but still- if you can't work yourself out of a minimum wage job; don't expect any sympathy from me. Oh, and pull your pants up, get that ring out of your lip and turn down that vile rap.

Just a suggestion because, you know I care.

More on the UN outpost attack

From where I sit it looks like a case of "he said-she said" in regards to what really went on.
It also looks like some @ss covering and a chance for a notably anti-Semitic organization to try to stab Israel. Again.

First today's Examiner says that the UN claims that they were asking Israel to stop attacking them for 10 hours.

JERUSALEM - U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

The U.N. observation post near Khiam came under close Israeli fire 21 times Tuesday - including 12 hits within 100 yards and five direct hits from 1:20 p.m. until the peacekeepers' post was destroyed at 7:30 p.m., Jane Lute, assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the U.N. Security Council in New York.

U.N. officials said Hezbollah militants had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them.

"We did repeatedly in recent days say (to Israel) that this was an exposed position, that Hezbollah militants were 500 meters (yards) away shielding themselves near U.N. workers and civilians," U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said. "That's why it is so inexplicable that what happened."
~snip~

Officials in the outpost called the Israeli army 10 times during those six hours, and each time an army official promised to have the bombing stopped, according to a preliminary U.N. report on the incident, which was shown to an Associated Press reporter on Wednesday.

Once it became clear those pleas were being ignored, the force's commander sought the involvement of top officials in New York, a senior U.N. official in New York said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation of the incident was not yet complete.

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown and Lute herself then made several calls to Israel's U.N. mission "reiterating these protests and calling for an abatement of the shelling," Lute said.

The bombing put Israel on the defensive two weeks into its campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Just like they hoped it would.

So here we have a notoriously anti-Israel organization making claims and investigation entirely anonymously.

I wonder if in their 'investigation' they'll have any mention of this e-mail from one of the Canadian soldiers who was killed in that bunker? I had to look hard for it because I have to rely on the liberally biased major search engines out there. I am also kind of surprised that CNN didn't purge this bit of exonerating evidence from their site.

It's a longish e-mail from Canadian Major Praeta Hess-von Kruedener- who died in the UN outpost- giving a thumbnail history of his outpost.

I'll let you read the body at your convenience, but give you the money quote here:

What I can tell you is this: we have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both artillery and aerial bombing. The closest artillery has landed within 2 meters of our position and the closest 1000 lb aerial bomb has landed 100 meters from our patrol base.
This has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity. I thank you for the opportunity to provide you with some information from the front lines here in south Lebanon.

Maj Hess-von Kruedener

Hmmmmm

I think I have some software issues with my laptop.
I installed the software for the Logitech Quickcam on it. I took it to the range to bring you some real, live blackpowder p0rn, but it didn't want to work. Said it needed an update to work.

Cr@p! Ok, I need to go back home to download the thing. I got home, and everytime I try to download, it "encounters a problem".
Ok, I'll uninstall it and have another go.
Put the CD in and tell in to uninstall itself, so it goes through the noise and motion- including restarting it's self.

The Logitech and PealPlayer are still on my desktop.

Well, let me try "repairing" it.
Wish me luck. Oh, it worked on 'Danica's' computer yesterday-an IBM Thinkpad 2000.


UPDATE- That sucks, sorry ligos.com also known as Indeo. You tell me I need to BUY a $14.95 download to make a cam work on that HP Pavillion? It worked before without it.

So, as the Mexicans say "Lo f*ckin' siento, buddy", I'll use my other computers.

You'd think that after I bought the software for my Logitech (ok, 4 years ago) that they'd have somekind of free patch to make it work without ponying up $15 dollars for a one-time use.
And the codec is made by Intel- for pros.
That's just too f*cking bad that I'll go out of my way now NOT to buy anything I have a choice in regarding Indeo or anything else Intel.


Thanks for nothing geeks!


UPDATED UPDATE- All I had to do was go the the Logitech site and download the updated drivers for the cam- after I downloaded the outdated everything else.
NOW I can use the HP for pics, too. It's too bad that it's battery has a life of about 10 minutes anymore.

I wonder who came up with this idea?

I was surfing around, looking for cutting board designs I couls steal use and saw this brilliant idea. I guess the idea is to keep the raw meat from contaminating the veggies. Good idea, right? That's why people use more than one cutting board, or wash between the different ingrediants. I'm a washer :-D

Anyway, these brains decided to sell a "Two-in-one" cutting board. The idea? You cut the meat and flip it over to cut the veggies. What if you did the salad veggies then did the chicken- and then flipped it over again for the finger food?

Do you use the same knife when swapping out the chicken for raw veggies?
What about cleaning up the chicken juice? If you're going to clean the counter, why not the board, too?
I'd hate to learn too late that I ate something that was prepaired on a two-for-one board,,,,urp.......skews me.