Saturday, August 18, 2007

Ladies, I'm sorry

I know I've been kinda sexist here, but after viewing this, I've seen the light.










Well, actually not...
Because we all know that sensitivity training is a bunch of Bravo Sierra, and this is how sensitivity training SHOULD turn out like if people wouldn't be cowed into letting this PC cr@p make Libs rich be being payed to push this stuff on captive subjects.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Git in mah belly!



Who else would come to mind when you read this article about a Scotsman who ate $20,000 in one sitting?

How appropriate

For this arcticle about even *MORE* global warming!



I mean, c'mon-
"Today is a historic day," said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center. "This is the least sea ice we've ever seen in the satellite record and we have another month left to go in the melt season this year."

That's not even half an eyeblink in geologic time.
Not even a tic in modern history.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Two things on a semi related topic

As they both are about plastic.

First, I'm sure you've heard about the Mattel toy recall.
After reading the site, I wouldn't mind being a shareholder in 'Big Toy", and appreciat them being proactive in taking care of the problem.
I just wish we had someone to actually go to the source of some of our national problems like that and be able to force a recall of 20 million lawbreakers.

Second is the newest scary "New car smell is dangerous" story.
I had a post about it before. About a week before it was a national scare story- if I remember right.
Anyway, if it were soooo bad for you- why isn't the majority of the worlds population keeling over dead? Most people HAVE ridden in a brand spankin' new ride before.
It's just like secondhand smoke. Why only recentlyhas all this come up, and where are the stats showing in the 40's to mid 60's when *EVERYONE* was smoking weren't kids keeling over in death throws all the time?


Anyway, time to get on the road---there's a big storm in the gulf, hope you filled up before gas hits $4/ gal.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

She'll work

She's a Brit.

Welsh, actually:

More Fun Quizzes at QuizPox.com




And this for Karen:


What? More pipes?

Monday, August 13, 2007

Are y'all ready for dis?

(Que the basketball bump music)

As you will be hearing incessantly for the next three weeks...

Darth Rove is resigning!

Yep, now the only one that'll be running the country is Cheney.
It's almost like the American ship of state will be rudderless.

The Left will be besides it's self, so you may as well just not even bother turning on the radio or TV for the next month and a half, because of the pre and followup gloating.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

A picrure is wort a thousand words

Not much happening here

We have a re-run of Ice road truckers on.

In this episode, TJ has to be airlifted to a hospital for emergency care.
(If you didn't click the link, they're in Canada.)

He got a bill for $12,000 in care and fees.
I thought Canada was, you know "free". Socialised medicine that we're supposed to copy.

I'm not even going to bother fisking this

Except to note that it doesn't mention our influx of disease carrying illegals from third world countries over the last 20 years.
And to mention the ever increasing trend of our blacks to live in the 'hood' with absolutely NO adult supervision or responsibility.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

I read about the famous Mustang Ranch

In this article. Which naturally reminded me of this:


And since it's a weekend, and we're talking about soiled doves, their various places of work, and maybe their names...

La Grange



Suzy Q


Penicillin Penny



Walk on the wild side

Now we have concrete evidence of global warming

We have positive proof that melting ice caps can and DO, flood human habitats.

Melting ice caps have flooded a busy village along the British channel.

Except that this happened over 8,000 years ago.
Before the advent of overwhelming human populations polluting mother earth.

I wonder what AlGore has to say about that?

Added to the revised NASA temperature data that puts 5 of the hottest(recorded) ten years on earth before 1940, and only a score of years after the discovery of petroleum power.
But I'm sure the Legacy Media already made sure you knew that, right?

Score another one for the RACE! La Raza

Because they and their third world constituancy just caused another hospital to close.
Actually they weren't even mentioned in this AP article, but the underlying cause was most likely the burden that the hospital couldn't meet the Federal requirements.

LOS ANGELES - Federal regulators said Friday that they are pulling $200 million in funding from a troubled hospital that serves one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, forcing it to all but shut down.

The decision came after the county-run Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital failed two federal inspections.
At a news conference late Friday, Los Angeles County's chief medical officer told reporters that the hospital would close its emergency room Friday night and that patients would be moved to other hospitals within two weeks. The emergency room was closed at 7 p.m. Friday.

"We brought every resource to bear, but in the end it just wasn't enough, fast enough," Dr. Bruce Chernof said.

Friday, August 10, 2007

How about this answer?

John Hawkins is having a Q & O over at rightwing news.
One of the questions was:
Q&A Friday #71: Why Do Average Americans Idolize Bill Clinton?
John gave his answer here.

Mine is much shorter; a con man is supposed to be likeable.

Happy Frank Zappa day!

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Can someone answer me?

Why, am I the ONLY ONE one the road at quitting time who wants to go home?
I mean I want to at least drive the frigging SPEED LIMIT, not sit 10 cars behind some
JACK @SS doing 5 TO 10 mph BELOW the speed limit.
You know, pacing the guy in the slow lane and admiring the empty highway in front of you. Or, like the 2008 Suburban, jacking your jaw on a figging cell phone while going 25 in a 40 MPH city.

Gawd, I'm still pissed.
Being assigned to north San didn't help either. Everything takes longer because of either the rock, or the overgrown gardens- or both. It seems hotter up there, too.

I'm looking for a replacement work truck, and can't remember when GMC became the premiere truck of the GM stable. The Japanese trucks are just as expensive- if not more than the Union cost vehicles. I *know* for a fact that Toyota doesn't pay union wages to their labor force in San Antonio. So, is the extra price all profit?




Ohhh, Ford Ranger and Mazda's B series pick-ups are the same- Mazda costs about $500 more. A Ford/Mazda costs about $1500 more for the same trim level as the Chevy Colorado.

(UPDATE)
Can anyone tell me about the supposed tax break that everyone uses (according to the Greenies) to drive around in absolutely free (Tax break) SUV's?
Is that just for an "S" corp, or could I use it as a sub-contractor for a large nameless cable company?

I've been saying they were Commies

Now I have support fom someone who really knows.

Propaganda Redux
Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.
BY ION MIHAI PACEPA
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror. Mr. Brown acknowledged "the debt the world owes to the U.S. for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism" and vowed to follow Winston Churchill's lead and make Britain's ties with America even stronger.

Mr. Brown's statements elicited anger from many of Mr. Bush's domestic detractors, who claim the president concocted the war on terror for personal gain. But as someone who escaped from communist Romania--with two death sentences on his head--in order to become a citizen of this great country, I have a hard time understanding why some of our top political leaders can dare in a time of war to call our commander in chief a "liar," a "deceiver" and a "fraud."


Good enough creds?

Now we see the parallels between the Communist propiganda and the Liberals echos:
Sowing the seeds of anti-Americanism by discrediting the American president was one of the main tasks of the Soviet-bloc intelligence community during the years I worked at its top levels. This same strategy is at work today, but it is regarded as bad manners to point out the Soviet parallels. For communists, only the leader counted, no matter the country, friend or foe. At home, they deified their own ruler--as to a certain extent still holds true in Russia. Abroad, they asserted that a fish starts smelling from the head, and they did everything in their power to make the head of the Free World stink.

The communist effort to generate hatred for the American president began soon after President Truman set up NATO and propelled the three Western occupation forces to unite their zones to form a new West German nation. We were tasked to take advantage of the reawakened patriotic feelings stirring in the European countries that had been subjugated by the Nazis, in order to shift their hatred for Hitler over into hatred for Truman--the leader of the new "occupation power." Western Europe was still grateful to the U.S. for having restored its freedom, but it had strong leftist movements that we secretly financed. They were like putty in our hands.


And the Lefts' Viet Nam policy?
During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.

The final goal of our anti-American offensive was to discourage the U.S. from protecting the world against communist terrorism and expansion. Sadly, we succeeded. After U.S. forces precipitously pulled out of Vietnam, the victorious communists massacred some two million people in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Another million tried to escape, but many died in the attempt. This tragedy also created a credibility gap between America and the rest of the world, damaged the cohesion of American foreign policy, and poisoned domestic debate in the U.S.

Unfortunately, partisans today have taken a page from the old Soviet playbook. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, for example, Bush critics continued our mud-slinging at America's commander in chief. One speaker, Martin O'Malley, now governor of Maryland, had earlier in the summer stated he was more worried about the actions of the Bush administration than about al Qaeda. . .


Ok, go read the rest!

Beth is a gold mine today, that's where I found our ex-KGB buddy at.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Here, we'd call that a dust devil

But up in 'Da City', thay call 111mph winds a tornado! (everybody panic!)

The National Weather Service confirmed that the storm brought with it Brooklyn's first ever tornado since such weather events were recorded. Officials measured it to be an EF2 twister, characterized by winds of anywhere from 111 to 135 miles per hour.

Between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. a string of severe thunderstorms blew through the region, making for an incredible headache for morning commuters. Thousands of New Yorkers found themselves enduring hours of delays in the sweltering heat with subways shut down and vacant taxi cabs hard to come by.

Subways don't run in the rain? Aren't they like, underground and isolated from that weather stuff?

Oh, HI Erica!

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Isn't it coming up on the second Katrina anniversary?

And ol' chocolateboy Nagin hasn't even gotten abandoned cars off the street yet.
Much less even trying to do ANYTHING except try to finagle more money out of the rest of Americas taxpayers.

Her — mainly the poor, elderly and infirm — are still sitting in FEMA trailers expecting the government to take care of them.
Naturally BusHitler isn't doing enough after steering Katrina right into the Big Easy.

Apples and oranges

Tonight, I guess there will be a home run record broken- sort of.
This new record will be set off with a huge asterisk because of the differing ideas the players had on winning.

Barry Bonds overtook Babe Ruths record the other night, but the only performance enhancing chemicals the bambino used were hot dogs and beer.
I bet Barry can't even name the cr@p he used.

The only dope Hank Aaron used came in a red and white can.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Ok, I bashed the Air Force the other day

.....Deservedly so... (I was stationes at Sheppard AFB), but now here's one for the Navy!
I don't think we've still lived THIS song down yet.






And yes, I was in CE-"A" school in Gulfport, Miss. shortly after this came out.
Just out of curiosity, any signalmen out there? Just wondering what they said with the flags???


And as a nod to the wife's country...
I DO notice the British Navy is made up entierly Officers,,,
I guess the enlisteds were busy dancing with the Capitains daughter on the gun deck for farting, or not showing the proper respect to a Middie's coat...
(Which is why we had that little dispute in 1812)

Did anyone else catch this?

In the most recent AP article about how badly we're running the entire Iraq thing, and just how badly the Iraqis have it; two things kinda jumped out at me.

BAGHDAD - Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces that are unplugging local power stations from the national grid, officials said Saturday.

Rising demand? Isn't that kinda like people are USING more?
If the economy was so bad, it seems like the demand would be falling.

Electricity shortages are a perennial problem in Iraq, even though it sits atop one of the world's largest crude oil reserves. The national power grid became decrepit under Saddam Hussein because his regime was under U.N. sanctions after the Gulf War and had trouble buying spare parts or equipment to upgrade the system.

The power problems are only adding to the misery of Iraqis, already suffering from the effects of more than four years of war and sectarian violence. Outages make life almost unbearable in the summer months, when average daily temperatures reach between 110 and 120 degrees.


The U.N. sanctions couldn't keep Saddam from building palaces all over the country, or working on WMD's, but somehow he just couldn't find the off the shelf parts to maintain the electrical system?
If I remember right, the only reason Baghdad had 24/7 electricity when Saddam was in power was because the majority of electricity was funneled into Baghdad, and the rest of Iraq was left to live in the stone-age.

No power for A/Cs makes life almost unbearable? Is that just for Baghdadians? Do the rest of the Iraqi citizens have less of a hard time living like they have for millennia just because some reporters are without A/C in their hotels?

I couldn't help it



Stolen from Bullwinkle.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Fergit politics for the week-end

Lets just let the killer take over...

Whole Lotta Shakin' Going on



Great balls of fire


Good golly Miss Molly!


Roll over Beetoven


Chantilly Lace

Well, chalk up another one

Yep, besides actively working to lose the war, Nan and crew are working on screwing the poor even more.
They just passed an unnecessary price increase to everyone who uses anything that oil touches. Way to go Nan, food will be going up, so will all commodities that travel on truck or rail...which is basically-----EVERYTHING.

I can't believe that the dems are so dense that they think increasing taxes on "Big oil' that prices won't rise to meet the new user tax. Or is that what they want.

Foods going up because of the fertilizer going up, and the transport cost.
fuel is going up because of taxes AND the increased cost of just transporting it.

Toilet paper...oh, they can use the Constitution, they're already shredding it when it comes to stealing votes in the House.

Life lessons

Learn everything you can before going off half cocked!

A Cowboy sitting in a saloon one Saturday night, he recognized an elderly
Man standing at the bar who, in his day, had the reputation of being the
Fastest gun in the West.

The young cowboy took a place next to the old-timer, bought him a drink and
told him the story of his great ambition.

"Do you think you could give me some tips?" he asked.

The old man looked him up and down and said, "Well, for one thing, you're
Wearing your gun too high. Tie the holster a little lower down on your
Leg."

"Will that make me a better gunfighter?" asked the young man.

"Sure will," replied the old-timer.

The young man did as he was told, stood up, whipped out his 44 and shot the
bow tie off the piano player.

"That's terrific!" said the hot shot. "Got any more tips for me?"

"Yep," said the old man. "Cut a notch out of your holster where the Hammer
hits it. That'll give you a smoother draw".

"Will that make me a better gunfighter?" asked the younger man.

"You bet it will," said the old-timer.

The young man took out his knife, cut the notch, stood up, drew his gun In
a blur, and then shot a cufflink off the piano player.

"Wow!" exclaimed the cowboy " I'm "learnin' somethin' " here. Got any More
tips?"

The old man pointed to a large can in a corner of the saloon.

"See that axle grease over there? Coat your gun with it."
The young man went over to the can and smeared some of the grease on the
Barrel of his gun.

"No," said the old-timer, "I mean smear it all over the gun, handle and
all."

"Will that make me a better gunfighter?" asked the young man.

"No," said the old-timer, "but when Wesley Harding gets done playing the piano,
he's going to shove that gun up your ass, and it won't hurt as much."

Friday, August 03, 2007

Long story short

Karen wants to make money to go home to visit.
she got a part time job, guess what she's doing?





I'd rather talk about that than the cr@ppy day I had.
Every time they put me on the north side, every drop is f8cked-up somehow and it takes longer, too.

...AND, I bypassed a two lane wreck on 410 by going thru town and discovered the truck's starting to run hot. I just replaced the water pump two years ago, too.


(UPDATE) 08-04-07
Scot is the winner...it's Mary Kay!
Can't believe no woman got that.


Also on the truck front, I fixed a vacuum leak on the A/C-heater vents, and the truck's running like it was four years younger. Shouldda fixed it when I first started having probs....instead of relying on mechanics.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Ummm,,,you Air Force peeps

You really need to work on your people skills.



Report on military bullying
August 1st, 2007 by lex

I received an advance copy of the investigation results into allegations that bullying was widespread in the US military - allegations that, if true, might have shaken a volunteer organization to its very core. Fortunately for the US Army and Navy, the results are reassuring.
But I’m sufficiently worried about the Air Force to quote the entire report at length:

“DEFENSE BULLYING REPORT - Air Force Worst of the Three Services

A recent report by experts has found that allegations of “a culture of widespread bullying and brutality” within the Military are, in the most part, unfounded. The audit team, which traveled to every Defense establishment across the country and abroad and interviewed staff from all three services, found surprisingly few cases of unfair treatment and bullying within the Army and Navy.

When it came to the Air Force, however, the report told a different story. Complaints to the team came from a total of 3,555 Air Force members, compared with three from Navy and just one from Army...

Continued here...

and a Texas H/T to Guidons.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

MMMmmmmmmm, ribs

Karen and I were talking about the ‘baby’ (Goliath), and how he’s almost got the last rib bone gnawed down. She thought he (and the rest of the dogs) could use another supply dump.

Today I got done early (12 drops buried by 1:30- thankyouverymuch) and dropped by H.E.B. (A major grocery chain in Tx) to get some *dog food* and other things I forgot on the Sunday shopping run.

Anyway, beef ribs for $1.42/lb and tomato sauce satisfied the meal needs. $65 took care of the rest I couldn’t remember Sun. (Because I forgot the shopping list).

Got home about 3PM and turned on the oven to 370 and started the BBQ sauce.
I don’t usually like candy or much sweet- but when it comes to BBQ- I’d kill a diabetic with my sauce.
This is what went on the ribs:

can tomato sauce (1 LG- or 3 small)
1 good squirt of mustard
2/3 (or 1) sweet onion diced fine
Garlic powder - to cover the entire sauce pan (or to taste)
Cumino - a good TBS (or to taste)
Chili powder - double the Cumino
Brown sugar - at least 2/3 cup (or more)
Honey - a good squirt (or two)
Cinnamon - a quick dash.

Stir while heating to get everything melted and mixed.

Spoon it on the ribs and cook the ribs until the wife gets home.
The sugar will be crunchy caramelised on the top and end pieces and the rest will be juussst right for finger liking, AND the meat will almost want to fall off the bone.

Also we had Cottage Fries per Karen’s request.

And nothing helps ribs like a good cold beer. This happened to be a Shiner Bavarian Amber anniverary brew #98.




Now, after hearing about my meal, do you think I’d be worried about the nutritional content of my beer? The TABC BATF Treasury Dept. thinks you should be, that’s why they’re thinking about mandating nutritional labels on your alcohol.

NEW YORK — The Treasury Department is considering a new rule that would require companies to put alcoholic content, serving sizes and nutritional information on all alcoholic drink packaging.

According to the proposed rule being published Tuesday for public comment, labels on all alcoholic beverages — from beer cans to wine bottles — would include a statement of the drink's percentage of alcohol by volume.

The labels would also include a "serving facts" panel, which would list the number of calories, carbohydrates, fat and protein for a standard serving size.

Because evryone is worried what alcohol will do to your diet :-S

Monday, July 30, 2007

Dear Brit.,

I read about your last attempt at being some-kind of hot.
Please stop.
Really!

No matter what you sycophants say, your sexy hot-nobody-cares-about-your-frog-voice is, like so 10 years ago.

Today you're a late 20-something with visibly slack , , , things.
You've had two (or three-who knows) kids you don't take care of.
You're not much better than trailer-trash.

So I guess it falls on me to tell you.

Sorry toots, not alot of people want to see a has-been chunker doing a pole-dance if she still sounds like a frog.

...And your little dog, too!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Google: 'we only want whats best for you'

You know, the Liberal kant.
Their official motto is . . . ummm 'do no harm'?

Anyway, after buying You-tube for all the money it's pulling in enhancements it can bring computer users, it got sued by the entertainment industry for copyright infringement.

They came to an agreement and will now see how popular they can stay without music videos. They have a new program to block copyrighted uploads that will start in fall (or winter,,,or whenever).

The technology will be as sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI and Google plans to roll it out in the fall, "hopefully in September," attorney Philip S. Beck of Barlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton, according to the AP. Fall runs from late September to late December.

~snip~

The video recognition technology will allow copyright owners to provide a digital fingerprint that within a minute or two will trigger a block from YouTube whenever someone tries to upload a copyright video without permission, the AP reports.

So, the Peoples Internet default everything will now be the filesharing police?
Sounds kinda hypocritical appropriate for an avowadly Liberal company to be the enforcer of approved content, doesn't it?

Give it enough time and Google will be our new masters.
Not because it will have 'power', but because it will control everything on the internet, and only allow *approved* content to anyone- including governments.



(UPDATE) 11:45AM

Speaking of computers, I just got this note in my e-mail.


Apple Computer announced today that it has developed a computer chip that can store and play music in women's breast implants. The iTit will cost $499 or $599 depending on size. This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.