Hey, didn't they hold the primaries today?
Don't know for sure, have to withhold my vote for the Kinky petition.
I probably won't vote for him in the election, I just hope that it sends a message to BOTH parties that there are other kids to pick for our teams. They need to start playing right.
I just wonder, is there going to be any wailing about voter being "disenfranchised" by the same requirements as the last election, and the one in November? You know- bad voting machines, dishonest election officials, "stealing" the election (from your opponent of the same party).
How many stories are you going to read tomorrow about the "inequality" of polling places? Ballots that were "too hard to follow" between the to primary pols of the same ticket?
It's a good thing there's no hanging chads to decipher anymore.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
I started the new job yesterday
We started at 7AM dropped off an asphalt spreader E-side San, and headed to the jobsite.
We ended up in Dilley, TX.
We worked all day until we couldn't see anymore, because he's losing money on the job.
I got home at almost 9PM.
We started at 7AM dropped off an asphalt spreader E-side San, and headed to the jobsite.
We ended up in Dilley, TX.
We worked all day until we couldn't see anymore, because he's losing money on the job.
I got home at almost 9PM.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Remember the Alamo!
I know y'all are getting tire of this state pride thang,,, but humor me.
On December 5, 200 Texan volunteers commanded by Ben Milam attacked Cos' troops in San Antonio de Bexar, which was about 400 yards from the Alamo compound. The fighting in Bexar raged with a house-to-house assault unlike anything the Mexican army had ever before experienced. Cos finally flew the white flag of surrender from the Alamo on December 9. More than 200 of his men lay dead, and as many more were wounded. He signed papers of capitulation, giving the Texans all public property, money, arms and ammunition in San Antonio, and by Christmas Day, the Mexican army was back across the Rio Grande.
To the Texans, who lost about 20 men, including Ben Milam, the victory seemed cheap and easy.
The siege of Bexar and Cos' surrender brought immediate retaliation from Santa Anna. He whipped together a force of 8,000 men, many of them foreign adventurers from Europe and America. One of his deadliest snipers was an Illinois man named Johnson! Santa Anna, the self-styled "Napoleon of the West," marched at the head of the massive army; he was determined to stamp out all opposition and teach the Texans a lesson. The word went out to his generals: "In this war, you understand, there are no prisoners." Although it was midwinter, Santa Anna pushed his army mercilessly toward Texas. The frigid, wind-battered deserts of northern Mexico took their toll. Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the brigades strung out for uncounted miles. When the big siege guns bogged down in one of the many quagmires, Santa Anna pushed on without them. Nothing would stop him.
Meanwhile, after the defeated Mexican force under General Cos had left San Antonio, Colonel James C. Neill had assumed command of the Alamo garrison, which consisted of about 80 poorly equipped men in several small companies, including the volunteers. The rest of the soldiers had returned home to their families and farm chores. In this command were an artillery company under Captain William R. Carey known as the Invincibles, two small infantry companies known as the New Orleans Greys under Captain William Blazeby, and the Bexar Guards under Captain Robert White. On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery. But Bowie and Neill agreed that it would be impossible to remove the 24 captured cannons without oxen, mules or horses. And they deemed it foolhardy to abandon that much firepower--by far the most concentrated at any location during the Texas Revolution. Bowie also had a keen eye for logistics, terrain, and avenues of assault.
Knowing that General Houston needed time to raise a sizable army to repel Santa Anna, Bowie set about reinforcing the Alamo after Neill was forced to leave because of sickness in his family. Colonel William Travis arrived in San Antonio on February 2 with a small cavalry company, bringing the total number of Alamo defenders to about 130. Although spies told him that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande, Travis did not expect the dictator before early spring. He sent letter after letter, pleading for supplies and more men. He and Bowie also competed for command of the garrison before it was decided that Bowie would command the volunteers and Travis the regular army. On February 9, David Crockett and the 14 other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers (only three were actually from Tennessee) rode into San Antonio. Alarmed by the Mexican army on the outskirts of town, Travis vigorously renewed his pleas for help. His February 24 letter, "To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World....I shall never surrender or retreat....Victory or Death!" is considered one of the most heart-wrenching pleas ever written. Travis sent the message out with Captain Albert Martin. The day before, February 23, Santa Anna had reclaimed San Antonio. To the triumphant music of a military band, he took possession of the town, set up headquarters on the main plaza, and began the siege. He had his standard-bearers climb to the top of the bell tower of San Fernando Church and unfurl the scarlet flag of "no quarter." Inside the Alamo, Travis and the Texans fired their message to Santa Anna with a blast from their 18-pounder. They had their music, too, with Davy Crockett's fiddle and John McGregor's bagpipes. In fact, Davy's fiddle-playing and outlandish storytelling kept up the spirits of the besieged defenders. Santa Anna ordered his men to pound the fortifications with cannon and rifle fire for 12 days and nights. His idea was to wear out the defenders inside, giving them no chance for rest or sleep. He reasoned that a weary army would be an easy one to defeat. But the noise worked on his own army, too. Unable to hear clearly through the din, they allowed courier after courier to escape from the Alamo. On March 2, racing through the enemy's lines, the last group to reinforce the Alamo arrived. These men were the relief force from Gonzales, the only town to answer Travis' pleas to send help. The total number of Alamo defenders now stood at between 180 and 190.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of March 6, 1836, Santa Anna advanced his men to within 200 yards of the Alamo's walls. Just as dawn was breaking, the Mexican bloodcurdling bugle call of the Deguello echoed the meaning of the scarlet flag above San Fernando: no quarter. It was Captain Juan Seguin's Tejanos, the native-born Mexicans fighting in the Texan army, who interpreted the chilling music for the other defenders. Santa Anna's first charge was repulsed, as was the second, by the deadly fire of Travis' artillery. At the third charge, one Mexican column attacked near a breach in the north wall, another in the area of the chapel, and a third, the Toluca Battalion, commenced to scale the walls. All suffered severely. Out of 800 men in the Toluca Battalion, only 130 were left alive. Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists. The dead lay everywhere. Blood spilled in the convent, the barracks, the entrance to the church, and finally in the rubble-strewn church interior itself.
Ninety minutes after it began, it was over. All the Texans died. Santa Anna's loss was 1,544 men. More than 500 Mexicans lay wounded, their groans mingling with the haunting strains of the distant bugle calls. Santa Anna airily dismissed the Alamo conquest as "a small affair," but one of his officers commented, "Another such victory will ruin us." As many of the Mexican dead as possible were given the rites of the church and buried, but there were so many that there was not sufficient room in the cemetery. Santa Anna ordered all the bodies of the Texans to be contemptuously stacked like cord wood in three heaps, mixed with fuel, wood and dry branches from the neighboring forest, and set on fire--except one. Jose Gregorio Esparza was given a Christian burial because his brother Francisco was a member of General Cos' presidio guards.
Six weeks after the Alamo, while the Mexican wounded still languished in San Antonio, Santa Anna met his Waterloo at San Jacinto. The men who died inside the walls of the Alamo had bought with their lives the time needed for General Sam Houston to weld a force that won Texas its independence. The great sacrifice would not be forgotten by history, nor would the Alamo's many legends and stories, most of which can never be proved or disproved because all the defenders died.
One of the most enduring questions is whether Travis really did draw a line in the earth, the "grand canyon of Texas," and ask all to step over who were willing to die for the cause. It is probably based on fact. Travis anticipated a battle to the death. Since he was also one for fairness, it's logical to believe that he would give the men an opportunity to leave the ill-fated garrison. It is a fact that one man did leave. Louis Rose was from France, and he had already served in one bloody war as a noncommissioned officer in Napoleon Bonaparte's army. Before the final assault on the Alamo he left, sustaining many leg wounds from cactuses and thorns during his escape that plagued him the remainder of his life. Asked why he chose not to stay with the rest, he replied, "By God, I wasn't ready to die." It is Rose's tale of the line in the dust that has become legend.
-snip-
Juan Seguin was on a courier mission for Travis when the Alamo fell, but he vowed to one day honor the Alamo dead in a church ceremony, a ceremony that had been denied by Santa Anna. Legend claims that Seguin collected the ashes and placed them in a casket covered with black. Inside the lid, he had the names of Travis, Bowie and Crockett engraved. He then buried the casket. Where? No one knows. Shortly before his death, when he was in his 80s, Juan Seguin stated that he had buried the casket outside the sanctuary railing, near the steps in the old San Fernando Church. In 1936, repair work on the altar railing of the cathedral led to the unearthing of a box containing charred bones, rusty nails, shreds of uniforms and buttons, particles of coal, and crushed skulls.
You can read the whole story here at historynet.com. I think it is the most (least PC anyway) accurate description that I've read today.
I've been to the Alamo, the low barracks is long, narrow and would have been dark and choked with black powder smoke. There is/was little or no natural ventilation (windows or doors).
Imagine 3 motor homes backed in line with each other.
THAT was the final space that the Battle of the Alamo took place in.
A desperate, dark, choking confusing fight to the death.
Nothing like the John Wayne gallant death in the sunshine movies.
I know y'all are getting tire of this state pride thang,,, but humor me.
On December 5, 200 Texan volunteers commanded by Ben Milam attacked Cos' troops in San Antonio de Bexar, which was about 400 yards from the Alamo compound. The fighting in Bexar raged with a house-to-house assault unlike anything the Mexican army had ever before experienced. Cos finally flew the white flag of surrender from the Alamo on December 9. More than 200 of his men lay dead, and as many more were wounded. He signed papers of capitulation, giving the Texans all public property, money, arms and ammunition in San Antonio, and by Christmas Day, the Mexican army was back across the Rio Grande.
To the Texans, who lost about 20 men, including Ben Milam, the victory seemed cheap and easy.
The siege of Bexar and Cos' surrender brought immediate retaliation from Santa Anna. He whipped together a force of 8,000 men, many of them foreign adventurers from Europe and America. One of his deadliest snipers was an Illinois man named Johnson! Santa Anna, the self-styled "Napoleon of the West," marched at the head of the massive army; he was determined to stamp out all opposition and teach the Texans a lesson. The word went out to his generals: "In this war, you understand, there are no prisoners." Although it was midwinter, Santa Anna pushed his army mercilessly toward Texas. The frigid, wind-battered deserts of northern Mexico took their toll. Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the brigades strung out for uncounted miles. When the big siege guns bogged down in one of the many quagmires, Santa Anna pushed on without them. Nothing would stop him.
Meanwhile, after the defeated Mexican force under General Cos had left San Antonio, Colonel James C. Neill had assumed command of the Alamo garrison, which consisted of about 80 poorly equipped men in several small companies, including the volunteers. The rest of the soldiers had returned home to their families and farm chores. In this command were an artillery company under Captain William R. Carey known as the Invincibles, two small infantry companies known as the New Orleans Greys under Captain William Blazeby, and the Bexar Guards under Captain Robert White. On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery. But Bowie and Neill agreed that it would be impossible to remove the 24 captured cannons without oxen, mules or horses. And they deemed it foolhardy to abandon that much firepower--by far the most concentrated at any location during the Texas Revolution. Bowie also had a keen eye for logistics, terrain, and avenues of assault.
Knowing that General Houston needed time to raise a sizable army to repel Santa Anna, Bowie set about reinforcing the Alamo after Neill was forced to leave because of sickness in his family. Colonel William Travis arrived in San Antonio on February 2 with a small cavalry company, bringing the total number of Alamo defenders to about 130. Although spies told him that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande, Travis did not expect the dictator before early spring. He sent letter after letter, pleading for supplies and more men. He and Bowie also competed for command of the garrison before it was decided that Bowie would command the volunteers and Travis the regular army. On February 9, David Crockett and the 14 other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers (only three were actually from Tennessee) rode into San Antonio. Alarmed by the Mexican army on the outskirts of town, Travis vigorously renewed his pleas for help. His February 24 letter, "To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World....I shall never surrender or retreat....Victory or Death!" is considered one of the most heart-wrenching pleas ever written. Travis sent the message out with Captain Albert Martin. The day before, February 23, Santa Anna had reclaimed San Antonio. To the triumphant music of a military band, he took possession of the town, set up headquarters on the main plaza, and began the siege. He had his standard-bearers climb to the top of the bell tower of San Fernando Church and unfurl the scarlet flag of "no quarter." Inside the Alamo, Travis and the Texans fired their message to Santa Anna with a blast from their 18-pounder. They had their music, too, with Davy Crockett's fiddle and John McGregor's bagpipes. In fact, Davy's fiddle-playing and outlandish storytelling kept up the spirits of the besieged defenders. Santa Anna ordered his men to pound the fortifications with cannon and rifle fire for 12 days and nights. His idea was to wear out the defenders inside, giving them no chance for rest or sleep. He reasoned that a weary army would be an easy one to defeat. But the noise worked on his own army, too. Unable to hear clearly through the din, they allowed courier after courier to escape from the Alamo. On March 2, racing through the enemy's lines, the last group to reinforce the Alamo arrived. These men were the relief force from Gonzales, the only town to answer Travis' pleas to send help. The total number of Alamo defenders now stood at between 180 and 190.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of March 6, 1836, Santa Anna advanced his men to within 200 yards of the Alamo's walls. Just as dawn was breaking, the Mexican bloodcurdling bugle call of the Deguello echoed the meaning of the scarlet flag above San Fernando: no quarter. It was Captain Juan Seguin's Tejanos, the native-born Mexicans fighting in the Texan army, who interpreted the chilling music for the other defenders. Santa Anna's first charge was repulsed, as was the second, by the deadly fire of Travis' artillery. At the third charge, one Mexican column attacked near a breach in the north wall, another in the area of the chapel, and a third, the Toluca Battalion, commenced to scale the walls. All suffered severely. Out of 800 men in the Toluca Battalion, only 130 were left alive. Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists. The dead lay everywhere. Blood spilled in the convent, the barracks, the entrance to the church, and finally in the rubble-strewn church interior itself.
Ninety minutes after it began, it was over. All the Texans died. Santa Anna's loss was 1,544 men. More than 500 Mexicans lay wounded, their groans mingling with the haunting strains of the distant bugle calls. Santa Anna airily dismissed the Alamo conquest as "a small affair," but one of his officers commented, "Another such victory will ruin us." As many of the Mexican dead as possible were given the rites of the church and buried, but there were so many that there was not sufficient room in the cemetery. Santa Anna ordered all the bodies of the Texans to be contemptuously stacked like cord wood in three heaps, mixed with fuel, wood and dry branches from the neighboring forest, and set on fire--except one. Jose Gregorio Esparza was given a Christian burial because his brother Francisco was a member of General Cos' presidio guards.
Six weeks after the Alamo, while the Mexican wounded still languished in San Antonio, Santa Anna met his Waterloo at San Jacinto. The men who died inside the walls of the Alamo had bought with their lives the time needed for General Sam Houston to weld a force that won Texas its independence. The great sacrifice would not be forgotten by history, nor would the Alamo's many legends and stories, most of which can never be proved or disproved because all the defenders died.
One of the most enduring questions is whether Travis really did draw a line in the earth, the "grand canyon of Texas," and ask all to step over who were willing to die for the cause. It is probably based on fact. Travis anticipated a battle to the death. Since he was also one for fairness, it's logical to believe that he would give the men an opportunity to leave the ill-fated garrison. It is a fact that one man did leave. Louis Rose was from France, and he had already served in one bloody war as a noncommissioned officer in Napoleon Bonaparte's army. Before the final assault on the Alamo he left, sustaining many leg wounds from cactuses and thorns during his escape that plagued him the remainder of his life. Asked why he chose not to stay with the rest, he replied, "By God, I wasn't ready to die." It is Rose's tale of the line in the dust that has become legend.
-snip-
Juan Seguin was on a courier mission for Travis when the Alamo fell, but he vowed to one day honor the Alamo dead in a church ceremony, a ceremony that had been denied by Santa Anna. Legend claims that Seguin collected the ashes and placed them in a casket covered with black. Inside the lid, he had the names of Travis, Bowie and Crockett engraved. He then buried the casket. Where? No one knows. Shortly before his death, when he was in his 80s, Juan Seguin stated that he had buried the casket outside the sanctuary railing, near the steps in the old San Fernando Church. In 1936, repair work on the altar railing of the cathedral led to the unearthing of a box containing charred bones, rusty nails, shreds of uniforms and buttons, particles of coal, and crushed skulls.
You can read the whole story here at historynet.com. I think it is the most (least PC anyway) accurate description that I've read today.
I've been to the Alamo, the low barracks is long, narrow and would have been dark and choked with black powder smoke. There is/was little or no natural ventilation (windows or doors).
Imagine 3 motor homes backed in line with each other.
THAT was the final space that the Battle of the Alamo took place in.
A desperate, dark, choking confusing fight to the death.
Nothing like the John Wayne gallant death in the sunshine movies.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
If you didn't like it, wouldn't a slap be appropriate?
Remember when Scarlet Johannson got herself felt-up by the gay guy at the Golden Globe Awards?
She's telling the L.A. Times that she didn't like it. Funny, in this backwards, unhip red state if someone would have tried feeling a country girl up (without her consent) he would have been wearing a handprint across his face all night.
Mizrahi, who was doing pre-show interviews for the E! cable channel, created a flap when he groped Johansson's breast, asked Eva Longoria about her pubic hair and peeked down Teri Hatcher's dress.
"Mostly, I was thinking, 'Oh, my God. This is happening on live TV,'" Johansson recalled, adding she didn't buy the openly gay designer's explanation that he was trying to determine how her dress was put together.
And I just thought he was trying to see if they were real- because he's gay and all- he wouldn't be interested in anything else, would he? Not-that-it's-bad-that-he's-gay, or anything.
Johansson, who doesn't plan to attend the Oscar show, said she won't go out of her way to avoid him at future red carpet events. "I can take care of myself," she said. "I'm from New York."
And a nice fast full face slap would go a long way to stop it in the future- but then that's being "mean" by forcing your morals onto some-one who wants to take advantage of you, , , or something like that.
Remember when Scarlet Johannson got herself felt-up by the gay guy at the Golden Globe Awards?
She's telling the L.A. Times that she didn't like it. Funny, in this backwards, unhip red state if someone would have tried feeling a country girl up (without her consent) he would have been wearing a handprint across his face all night.
Mizrahi, who was doing pre-show interviews for the E! cable channel, created a flap when he groped Johansson's breast, asked Eva Longoria about her pubic hair and peeked down Teri Hatcher's dress.
"Mostly, I was thinking, 'Oh, my God. This is happening on live TV,'" Johansson recalled, adding she didn't buy the openly gay designer's explanation that he was trying to determine how her dress was put together.
And I just thought he was trying to see if they were real- because he's gay and all- he wouldn't be interested in anything else, would he? Not-that-it's-bad-that-he's-gay, or anything.
Johansson, who doesn't plan to attend the Oscar show, said she won't go out of her way to avoid him at future red carpet events. "I can take care of myself," she said. "I'm from New York."
And a nice fast full face slap would go a long way to stop it in the future- but then that's being "mean" by forcing your morals onto some-one who wants to take advantage of you, , , or something like that.
Has anyone else been the least bit curious about why the hype of
'Brokeback Mtn'?
I really haven't because I'm not "all about" glorifying homosexuality. I'm also not "all about" spending my hard earned cash on people who want to trash and stomp my beliefs into the mud.
I admit I'm wondering about the storyline, though- just a passing thought, kinda like you wonder what happened to that cute girl in the 4th grade you had a crush on (when you were in 4th grade, too- you perve).
I found out in a FREE 30 seconds. As you know, you get what you pay for so with out further ado (or "all abouts"), I send you to the Brokeback Bunnies movie.
Go get your dose of Hollywood 'culture', and wouldn't you know it- it's "all about" shoving liberal ideas down our throats.
'Brokeback Mtn'?
I really haven't because I'm not "all about" glorifying homosexuality. I'm also not "all about" spending my hard earned cash on people who want to trash and stomp my beliefs into the mud.
I admit I'm wondering about the storyline, though- just a passing thought, kinda like you wonder what happened to that cute girl in the 4th grade you had a crush on (when you were in 4th grade, too- you perve).
I found out in a FREE 30 seconds. As you know, you get what you pay for so with out further ado (or "all abouts"), I send you to the Brokeback Bunnies movie.
Go get your dose of Hollywood 'culture', and wouldn't you know it- it's "all about" shoving liberal ideas down our throats.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
I was reading about new inventions over at wired.com
and wondered, how many of you remember back about 6 or so years ago- the morning "news" shows were hyping a 'new and revolutionary' transportation invention that would make everything we now know 'obsolete'.
It was a platform with two wheels that was supposed to take the place everyting from walking to medium distance commutes. The reason it was supposed to be big news was that it was being pattented by some bigmoney name inventor.
Why do I get the idea that it wasn't "news" so much as an ad campaign camouflaged as news.
Not that the Legacy Media would try to pull a fast one, or anything questionably ethical like that.
Where is the thing? I know they're making it because I saw John Ratzenberger (Cliffy from 'Cheers') working on one on "Made in America"
What reminded me of this wonderful new must-have invention is a new ABC show
about Garage geeks who are looking for their big break.
After looking at some of the highlighted ones- I hope nobody's gonna get sued for patent infringement by the companies already making several of the products.
and wondered, how many of you remember back about 6 or so years ago- the morning "news" shows were hyping a 'new and revolutionary' transportation invention that would make everything we now know 'obsolete'.
It was a platform with two wheels that was supposed to take the place everyting from walking to medium distance commutes. The reason it was supposed to be big news was that it was being pattented by some big
Why do I get the idea that it wasn't "news" so much as an ad campaign camouflaged as news.
Not that the Legacy Media would try to pull a fast one, or anything questionably ethical like that.
Where is the thing? I know they're making it because I saw John Ratzenberger (Cliffy from 'Cheers') working on one on "Made in America"
What reminded me of this wonderful new must-have invention is a new ABC show
about Garage geeks who are looking for their big break.
After looking at some of the highlighted ones- I hope nobody's gonna get sued for patent infringement by the companies already making several of the products.
Who has the "Moral Authority" now, muthah sheehan?
I hope you and the rest of your anti-American leftist are proud of this:
3/1/2006 11pm report
By Kyle Meenan
First Coast News
BRUNSWICK, GA -- The reward is growing in a community manhunt for those who vandalized a local war hero's grave last month.
"It was as if they slapped us in the face. Spit on my son's grave. That they would desecrate or even vandalize a hero," said Crystal Merillat.
When Crystal Merillat buried her son, Marine Sniper John Stalvey in October, he was hailed a hero. Stalvey had gone into the Marines after 911 and was protecting U.S. troops in Iraq when he was killed by a roadside bomb.
Hundreds of people, many waving American flags lined the procession route through Brunswick to Stalvey's final resting place. He was buried with full military honors.
Crystal Merillat wanted a tribute to her hero son. Something that would stand as a proud reminder and tribute to all who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
She ordered a very detailed grave marker for her son's burial place, along with a special bronze sculpture of a life-sized pair of boots, M-16 rifle and helmet.
"It's just unbelievable that somebody would stoop to something so low -- to do something this low," said Billy Stalvey, John's father.
What somebody did was pull up to John's grave a pickup truck. They proceed to rip the sculpture out of the ground -- tossing it less than a mile away like garbage into a roadside ditch.
Crystal Merillat got the call from her son and raced to the cemetery.
"When I pulled up, it was like they killed my son again."
It has taken weeks to repair and re-install the bronze sculpture, but now it is the vandal or vandals that are the hunted.
"People are just outraged," said Billy Stalvey, talking about the community response.
The community reward for an arrest is increasing with local police going door-to-door -- committed to finding those who defaced a local hero's grave.
"For something like this to happen is just beyond words," said Billy Stalvey.
The question on everyone's mind... Who would do such a thing?
"We thought of maybe, teenagers. Could have been an anti-war protester, we don't know," said Merillat.
"Somebody that was awful. Cruel. Evil. To even think of doing something like that."
If you have any information about the vandalism to John Stalvey's grave you're urged to call the Glynn County Police Department, or First Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.
That's right, I'm calling you, and all the rest of your hate America first komrads on this. If it weren't for your vilification of everyone involved in the mid-east democratization attempt, I really doubt that this would have happened.
You used your hero son to badmouth everything he stood for- just to get facetime with your hero's, the communist Chavez, the Racist Jackson, and anyone you thought could extend your 15 minutes of fame.
The only "Moral authority" you had came from your fellow bigoted anti-Semite Socialists.
No-one in the real world of gave you more credit than as a grieving mother. You lost any call of superior morals when you advocate things like this to "teach a lesson" to us mouth-breathing cretins who actually think we can do some good over there.
We'll keep up the good fight while you goad your morally superior followers to keep disrupting funerals, and tearing up private memorials to your sons' fellow heroes.
(UPDATE MAR 5, 7:55AM) I forgot about your famous tagline- is this how you "Support our troops"?
I have to appologise for not seeing it at Rednecks revenge when it was posted.
I hope you and the rest of your anti-American leftist are proud of this:
3/1/2006 11pm report
By Kyle Meenan
First Coast News
BRUNSWICK, GA -- The reward is growing in a community manhunt for those who vandalized a local war hero's grave last month.
"It was as if they slapped us in the face. Spit on my son's grave. That they would desecrate or even vandalize a hero," said Crystal Merillat.
When Crystal Merillat buried her son, Marine Sniper John Stalvey in October, he was hailed a hero. Stalvey had gone into the Marines after 911 and was protecting U.S. troops in Iraq when he was killed by a roadside bomb.
Hundreds of people, many waving American flags lined the procession route through Brunswick to Stalvey's final resting place. He was buried with full military honors.
Crystal Merillat wanted a tribute to her hero son. Something that would stand as a proud reminder and tribute to all who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
She ordered a very detailed grave marker for her son's burial place, along with a special bronze sculpture of a life-sized pair of boots, M-16 rifle and helmet.
"It's just unbelievable that somebody would stoop to something so low -- to do something this low," said Billy Stalvey, John's father.
What somebody did was pull up to John's grave a pickup truck. They proceed to rip the sculpture out of the ground -- tossing it less than a mile away like garbage into a roadside ditch.
Crystal Merillat got the call from her son and raced to the cemetery.
"When I pulled up, it was like they killed my son again."
It has taken weeks to repair and re-install the bronze sculpture, but now it is the vandal or vandals that are the hunted.
"People are just outraged," said Billy Stalvey, talking about the community response.
The community reward for an arrest is increasing with local police going door-to-door -- committed to finding those who defaced a local hero's grave.
"For something like this to happen is just beyond words," said Billy Stalvey.
The question on everyone's mind... Who would do such a thing?
"We thought of maybe, teenagers. Could have been an anti-war protester, we don't know," said Merillat.
"Somebody that was awful. Cruel. Evil. To even think of doing something like that."
If you have any information about the vandalism to John Stalvey's grave you're urged to call the Glynn County Police Department, or First Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.
That's right, I'm calling you, and all the rest of your hate America first komrads on this. If it weren't for your vilification of everyone involved in the mid-east democratization attempt, I really doubt that this would have happened.
You used your hero son to badmouth everything he stood for- just to get facetime with your hero's, the communist Chavez, the Racist Jackson, and anyone you thought could extend your 15 minutes of fame.
The only "Moral authority" you had came from your fellow bigoted anti-Semite Socialists.
No-one in the real world of gave you more credit than as a grieving mother. You lost any call of superior morals when you advocate things like this to "teach a lesson" to us mouth-breathing cretins who actually think we can do some good over there.
We'll keep up the good fight while you goad your morally superior followers to keep disrupting funerals, and tearing up private memorials to your sons' fellow heroes.
(UPDATE MAR 5, 7:55AM) I forgot about your famous tagline- is this how you "Support our troops"?
I have to appologise for not seeing it at Rednecks revenge when it was posted.
Who are you, Lan Whu?
Lan is a new blogger over at Reproduction studio that Guy, over at Just Charming let me onto. He just started, but can use all the support he can get- since he's a conservative canadian.
Lan is a new blogger over at Reproduction studio that Guy, over at Just Charming let me onto. He just started, but can use all the support he can get- since he's a conservative canadian.
Yesterday was supposed to be my last day
I'm working today because I'm the only one who knows about the power Auger.
Yeahhhh!
I worked 9 hours today, Gawd- I'm glad that drive will be over with soon!
At least it's OT.
I also told the boss that until they got another operator, I'd be available on Saturdays, IF we can agree on price (and gas and travel time).
The other operator gave his notice, too.
Anyone with a class A license want a job?
I'm working today because I'm the only one who knows about the power Auger.
Yeahhhh!
I worked 9 hours today, Gawd- I'm glad that drive will be over with soon!
At least it's OT.
I also told the boss that until they got another operator, I'd be available on Saturdays, IF we can agree on price (and gas and travel time).
The other operator gave his notice, too.
Anyone with a class A license want a job?
Thursday, March 02, 2006
An urgent alert for Animal lovers and PETA people
Quick, go here to save Jill from Dr Phatt Tony.
Get all your anaphilic friends to donate to a good cause!
That's right Dr. Phatt Tony is holding "Jill" hostage for $1600!
Go over to his site and be sure to let him know I sent you on a mission of "humanity"- or drop a recipe in his comment section. I'm sure he'd appreciate either one.
Personally, I agree with one of his commenter- March 15, 2007 is WAYYyyyyy to long to hold Jill hostage. She'd taste way better about July 3rd 2006- in my opinion.
Go, tell Dr Phatt Tony what you think of him and the entire "Jill" thang.
(UPDATE MAR. 3, 5:30PM) I need to let everyone know that the ransom is $16,000 not $1600, a typo n the laptop. Thanks to commenter Rachel.
Quick, go here to save Jill from Dr Phatt Tony.
Get all your anaphilic friends to donate to a good cause!
That's right Dr. Phatt Tony is holding "Jill" hostage for $1600!
Go over to his site and be sure to let him know I sent you on a mission of "humanity"- or drop a recipe in his comment section. I'm sure he'd appreciate either one.
Personally, I agree with one of his commenter- March 15, 2007 is WAYYyyyyy to long to hold Jill hostage. She'd taste way better about July 3rd 2006- in my opinion.
Go, tell Dr Phatt Tony what you think of him and the entire "Jill" thang.
(UPDATE MAR. 3, 5:30PM) I need to let everyone know that the ransom is $16,000 not $1600, a typo n the laptop. Thanks to commenter Rachel.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Having second thoughts on the job thang
One of those "the Devil you know", , ,things and all.
The current job doesn't pay that badly.
Actually they pay pretty well for what I do compared to other companies. Part of the pay is to put up with a mercurical boss, or his brother (the one who signs the checks). I won't have payed vacation or holidays for another year and a half.
The real problem is the 110 mile daily commute- 2+ hours driving and $70 in gas a week (in the B3000) I work 7Am to 3:30PM.
The new job is/will be alot more physically demanding, and I'm starting to feel my age.
It's 15 min. away with bad traffic, 8AM to 5PM (that's the heat of a south Texas day) and $2 less an hour. I do get 1 week vacation and 5 paid holidays. I can have all the OT I want, but 5PM is late already.
I'll see what the current boss is willing to offer, maybe worth my while to stay there.
One of those "the Devil you know", , ,things and all.
The current job doesn't pay that badly.
Actually they pay pretty well for what I do compared to other companies. Part of the pay is to put up with a mercurical boss, or his brother (the one who signs the checks). I won't have payed vacation or holidays for another year and a half.
The real problem is the 110 mile daily commute- 2+ hours driving and $70 in gas a week (in the B3000) I work 7Am to 3:30PM.
The new job is/will be alot more physically demanding, and I'm starting to feel my age.
It's 15 min. away with bad traffic, 8AM to 5PM (that's the heat of a south Texas day) and $2 less an hour. I do get 1 week vacation and 5 paid holidays. I can have all the OT I want, but 5PM is late already.
I'll see what the current boss is willing to offer, maybe worth my while to stay there.
Can someone tell me, please
Is there, or is there not, the start of an Iraqi religious civil war?
I keep hearing from theLiberals Legacy Media that there is almost a full-blown war over there. I go to blogs and "centrist" news outlets and it's not as bad as being made out in the deathloving non-partisan media.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least that there would be a religious war over there- look at the manufatured outrage and rioting going on over a group of FRIGGING CARTOONS. People are dying because the religious "leaders" decided that this was a good enough excuse for a religious holy war.Europe Everybody needs to get their chit together and step on this now while they can still cut the fuse on the bomb.
We haven't have any(?), much moslem riots about this BS, but that doesn't mean they still aren't plotting to take over America with their willing allies- the Liberal PC apologists for "diversity" in the upper ranks of "Progressive" organizations.
Maybe they'll get their heads out of their collective @sses in mid-January 2009 when Bu$Haliburton=Hitler is out of office and they don't see everything through a filter of impeachment and raw hate.
Is there, or is there not, the start of an Iraqi religious civil war?
I keep hearing from the
It wouldn't surprise me in the least that there would be a religious war over there- look at the manufatured outrage and rioting going on over a group of FRIGGING CARTOONS. People are dying because the religious "leaders" decided that this was a good enough excuse for a religious holy war.
We haven't have any(?), much moslem riots about this BS, but that doesn't mean they still aren't plotting to take over America with their willing allies- the Liberal PC apologists for "diversity" in the upper ranks of "Progressive" organizations.
Maybe they'll get their heads out of their collective @sses in mid-January 2009 when Bu$Haliburton=Hitler is out of office and they don't see everything through a filter of impeachment and raw hate.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Anybody out there speak German?
If so, what's on this kids computer?
It's either a Cindy Sheehan rally or a pr()n chatroom.
If so, what's on this kids computer?
It's either a Cindy Sheehan rally or a pr()n chatroom.
HTML for dummies
Like me.
I found these links from a link at Wired.com which took me to Web Monkey who was talking about 'master pages mastery'.
Like me.
I found these links from a link at Wired.com which took me to Web Monkey who was talking about 'master pages mastery'.
I thought I had a democrat I could vote for
If I lived in San Antonio- and was going to vote in this primary.
I'm not voting so I can sign on for Kinky.
I've been hearing Frank Madla's radio ads dumping on Carlos Uresti about how un"Democratic" he's acting in Austin. How he basically sold his constituents downstream. "Cool," I said to myself, "a Dem that doesn't toe the DNC line- He votes for what he thinks is right"
I started looking for their sites and came across Just another blog that has alot of information on local Texas politics. I'll probably link to them (it's a group blog) even though they tilt to the left. They don't seem completely unhinged even though they DO link to Koz and the DU. I'll do it when I get on the big computer, his one doesn't keep my Blogroll sign-in active for some reason.
If I lived in San Antonio- and was going to vote in this primary.
I'm not voting so I can sign on for Kinky.
I've been hearing Frank Madla's radio ads dumping on Carlos Uresti about how un"Democratic" he's acting in Austin. How he basically sold his constituents downstream. "Cool," I said to myself, "a Dem that doesn't toe the DNC line- He votes for what he thinks is right"
I started looking for their sites and came across Just another blog that has alot of information on local Texas politics. I'll probably link to them (it's a group blog) even though they tilt to the left. They don't seem completely unhinged even though they DO link to Koz and the DU. I'll do it when I get on the big computer, his one doesn't keep my Blogroll sign-in active for some reason.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Ok, here we go again.
I start my new job Monday. I told the boss I was giving my weeks notice- unless he needed two.
He asked how much I was offered and was kinda surprized when I said I was loosing a dollar an hour, but I'd make that up in not paying $70 a week in gas.
I can make the money up in 2 hours OT, if I want to. I probably will- I'm greedy, and the job is only about 15 min away from home. Since I'm used to being gone from 5:45Am to 4:40PM for 8 hours work, I should be able to do 9 hours easily enough.
Now I just gotta remember everything I forgot about laying water systems.
I start my new job Monday. I told the boss I was giving my weeks notice- unless he needed two.
He asked how much I was offered and was kinda surprized when I said I was loosing a dollar an hour, but I'd make that up in not paying $70 a week in gas.
I can make the money up in 2 hours OT, if I want to. I probably will- I'm greedy, and the job is only about 15 min away from home. Since I'm used to being gone from 5:45Am to 4:40PM for 8 hours work, I should be able to do 9 hours easily enough.
Now I just gotta remember everything I forgot about laying water systems.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
I'm happy because I'm a pessimist?
According to a Pew Research center survey I am.
I'm happy because I'm a conservative (in belief, not a Bush sycophant), or is it that I'm a pessimist and I'm happy when things don't go south? It's also not the (entire) result of the last two elections, either:
Election results do not explain this happiness gap. Republicans have been happier than Democrats every year since the survey began in 1972. Married people and religious people are especially disposed to happiness, and both cohorts vote more conservatively than does the nation as a whole.
-snip-
Begin with a paradox: Conservatives are happier than liberals because they are more pessimistic. Conservatives think the Book of Job got it right ("Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward"), as did Adam Smith ("There is a great deal of ruin in a nation"). Conservatives understand that society in its complexity resembles a giant Calder mobile -- touch it here and things jiggle there, and there, and way over there. Hence conservatives acknowledge the Law of Unintended Consequences, which is: The unintended consequences of bold government undertakings are apt to be larger than, and contrary to, the intended ones.
Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong, they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.
Ok, I understand that, I consider myself an optimistic pessimist; If it goes the way it's supposed to- great! If not, then I've thought about it, and here's my idea to unf*ck it.
Liberals, on the other hand think that there is a RIGHT to "happiness" and Bu$Hitler=Halburton is standing in the way.
According to a Pew Research center survey I am.
I'm happy because I'm a conservative (in belief, not a Bush sycophant), or is it that I'm a pessimist and I'm happy when things don't go south? It's also not the (entire) result of the last two elections, either:
Election results do not explain this happiness gap. Republicans have been happier than Democrats every year since the survey began in 1972. Married people and religious people are especially disposed to happiness, and both cohorts vote more conservatively than does the nation as a whole.
-snip-
Begin with a paradox: Conservatives are happier than liberals because they are more pessimistic. Conservatives think the Book of Job got it right ("Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward"), as did Adam Smith ("There is a great deal of ruin in a nation"). Conservatives understand that society in its complexity resembles a giant Calder mobile -- touch it here and things jiggle there, and there, and way over there. Hence conservatives acknowledge the Law of Unintended Consequences, which is: The unintended consequences of bold government undertakings are apt to be larger than, and contrary to, the intended ones.
Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong, they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.
Ok, I understand that, I consider myself an optimistic pessimist; If it goes the way it's supposed to- great! If not, then I've thought about it, and here's my idea to unf*ck it.
Liberals, on the other hand think that there is a RIGHT to "happiness" and Bu$Hitler=Halburton is standing in the way.
Nautical PSA
This is why a small boat should ALWAYS turn behind a big ship.
A bit of nautical trivia: you can put a boat on a ship, but you can't put a ship on a boat.
This is why a small boat should ALWAYS turn behind a big ship.
A bit of nautical trivia: you can put a boat on a ship, but you can't put a ship on a boat.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Well it figures, it IS MinneSOta after all
Not that that's bad- or anything , , ,
There was a gas station fined for selling gas too cheaply for the state regs.
The Minnesota Commerce Department on Thursday announced plans to fine a gas station chain $140,000 for repeatedly selling gas below the state's legal minimum price.
The fine against Midwest Oil of Minnesota is twice as large as any imposed on a company since 2001, when the state established a formula based on wholesale prices, fees and taxes to determine a daily floor for gas prices.
Not that those Vikings are in the same league as Cali, or Hawaii for government interference on private businesses, but they DO have a liberal bent.
It's not that the snowbelt is inherently Liberal, it's just that they trust the government wayyyy too much for their own good. I hope they get to see this article up in the frozen north.
That's omething I thought I'd never see- a LIBERAL government setting a minimum price to hurt the "people".
Not that that's bad- or anything , , ,
There was a gas station fined for selling gas too cheaply for the state regs.
The Minnesota Commerce Department on Thursday announced plans to fine a gas station chain $140,000 for repeatedly selling gas below the state's legal minimum price.
The fine against Midwest Oil of Minnesota is twice as large as any imposed on a company since 2001, when the state established a formula based on wholesale prices, fees and taxes to determine a daily floor for gas prices.
Not that those Vikings are in the same league as Cali, or Hawaii for government interference on private businesses, but they DO have a liberal bent.
It's not that the snowbelt is inherently Liberal, it's just that they trust the government wayyyy too much for their own good. I hope they get to see this article up in the frozen north.
That's omething I thought I'd never see- a LIBERAL government setting a minimum price to hurt the "people".
I left a comment over in this blog
It was my usual B.S. comment. I didn't realize that he was a lib, or wouldn't have bothered- save my crappy typing for here, ya know.
It was a post about voter fraud (the Rethuglican type), and it reminded me of what I've believed for quite a while.
If you want to ACTUALLY get better, more accurate results from the ballot, then make it HARDER to vote.
That would give people some incentive to actually THINK about who they're going to vote for. It would weed out those who are too stupid to follow a ballot from name along the same line to the ..........CHAD.
Instead of making people actually make some kind of commitment in the democratic process by putting out a little effort and hopefully getting them involved in the process- making it easier to vote seems to bring out the idiots.
Instead of an informed and committed electorate, we have "Motor-voter" and No-ID voters who have no clue about who's even on the ballot. Except for the name they were told to vote for "Because they're . . ." or "They told me . . ." or "They'll do . . . for me."
You want better results, lets start screening voters. I don't mean a Jim Crow literacy test or a poll tax. I mean a quick pre-vote questionnaire with about 3 questions on the ballot.
They could be as easy as "Which (major position) candidates are running?" "Who is the Senate majority (minority) leader?" "Name two Supreme Court justices (your Senators) (your City councilman)". If you can't answer these questions you don't know enough about the United States to deserve a counting vote.
In English. The LAW states that to be a citizen, you should know the basics of english. (If you want to become a productive, positive contribution to American society - be an AMERICAN VOTER.) If you answered the questions right, your ballot counts- if not, it goes into the "tie-breaker" stack.
I know a certain political party would have a screaming tizzy fit about "disenfranchising" their chosen voters. Thedrunken derelicts bums homeless, the shiftless drug addicts helpless on public assistance, the plantation residents barrio vatos illegal aliens minorities, and the rest of their "base".
But hey, if you're actually serious about voter fraud, machines aren't going to stop it- no matter WHO makes the things, committed citizens are the key. If you want to cut out alot of questionable votes, and get a better handle on it- identify the voters, and make sure they're eligible to vote.
Make voting mean more than just buying a lottery ticket.
It was my usual B.S. comment. I didn't realize that he was a lib, or wouldn't have bothered- save my crappy typing for here, ya know.
It was a post about voter fraud (the Rethuglican type), and it reminded me of what I've believed for quite a while.
If you want to ACTUALLY get better, more accurate results from the ballot, then make it HARDER to vote.
That would give people some incentive to actually THINK about who they're going to vote for. It would weed out those who are too stupid to follow a ballot from name along the same line to the ..........CHAD.
Instead of making people actually make some kind of commitment in the democratic process by putting out a little effort and hopefully getting them involved in the process- making it easier to vote seems to bring out the idiots.
Instead of an informed and committed electorate, we have "Motor-voter" and No-ID voters who have no clue about who's even on the ballot. Except for the name they were told to vote for "Because they're . . ." or "They told me . . ." or "They'll do . . . for me."
You want better results, lets start screening voters. I don't mean a Jim Crow literacy test or a poll tax. I mean a quick pre-vote questionnaire with about 3 questions on the ballot.
They could be as easy as "Which (major position) candidates are running?" "Who is the Senate majority (minority) leader?" "Name two Supreme Court justices (your Senators) (your City councilman)". If you can't answer these questions you don't know enough about the United States to deserve a counting vote.
In English. The LAW states that to be a citizen, you should know the basics of english. (If you want to become a productive, positive contribution to American society - be an AMERICAN VOTER.) If you answered the questions right, your ballot counts- if not, it goes into the "tie-breaker" stack.
I know a certain political party would have a screaming tizzy fit about "disenfranchising" their chosen voters. The
But hey, if you're actually serious about voter fraud, machines aren't going to stop it- no matter WHO makes the things, committed citizens are the key. If you want to cut out alot of questionable votes, and get a better handle on it- identify the voters, and make sure they're eligible to vote.
Make voting mean more than just buying a lottery ticket.
What kind of illiterate are you?
Ok, you don't HAVE to be illiterate to take this test.
Which is good, but you don't need to read the questions, either.
Ok, you don't HAVE to be illiterate to take this test.
Which is good, but you don't need to read the questions, either.
The Picto-Personality Test When alone, you appreciate being able to do nothing if you want to, and setting your own pace for things. You are intelligent. You use your time to its fullest potential and will go very far in life. In the future you will be happy and live richly. |
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Friday, February 24, 2006
A VERY long day
I don't even want to think right now, so something from the mailbox.
Now I understand why radical Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit
suicide.
Just look at their lifestyle:
* No premarital sex.
* No oral sex. Giving or receiving. Never.
* No booze. None. Never.
* No TV. No cable TV. No satellite TV.
* No Spice channel. No Playboy channel. No ESPN. No SPEEDVISION.
* No Hooters.
* No Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
* No organized one ball sports of any kind. That's right-NO ONE BALL
sports.
* Women have to be completely covered and wear veils. No thongs. NO
G-STRINGS.
* No Victoria's Secret.
* Very, very, very few cars. Camels. Lots of camels. Stinking, filthy
camels.
* Sand. F---ING sand everywhere!
* More sand.
* Ever try to fish at an oasis? No bass boats. No bass. No fish.
* Sandstorms. More F---ING sand everywhere!
* Rags for clothes and hats.
* Camel and goat burgers cooked over burning camel dung chips.
* Eating with your right hand only-because you wipe your A-- with your
left
hand.
* Constant wailing from the a--hole next door ... no wait, that's
music!
* And when you die it's supposed to all get better......
I don't even want to think right now, so something from the mailbox.
Now I understand why radical Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit
suicide.
Just look at their lifestyle:
* No premarital sex.
* No oral sex. Giving or receiving. Never.
* No booze. None. Never.
* No TV. No cable TV. No satellite TV.
* No Spice channel. No Playboy channel. No ESPN. No SPEEDVISION.
* No Hooters.
* No Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
* No organized one ball sports of any kind. That's right-NO ONE BALL
sports.
* Women have to be completely covered and wear veils. No thongs. NO
G-STRINGS.
* No Victoria's Secret.
* Very, very, very few cars. Camels. Lots of camels. Stinking, filthy
camels.
* Sand. F---ING sand everywhere!
* More sand.
* Ever try to fish at an oasis? No bass boats. No bass. No fish.
* Sandstorms. More F---ING sand everywhere!
* Rags for clothes and hats.
* Camel and goat burgers cooked over burning camel dung chips.
* Eating with your right hand only-because you wipe your A-- with your
left
hand.
* Constant wailing from the a--hole next door ... no wait, that's
music!
* And when you die it's supposed to all get better......
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