We have a fenced-in area on the side of the house (“Netherfield”) where the dogs have been trained to…attend to more solid matters, shall we say. So after I grilled the boigers tonight I yell for Claude, anmd the dope doesn’t come, and I walk around to the side of the house and look into Netherfield and there he is, looking guilty by a small hole in the ground. Now Claude is a Lab who’s never dug a hole in his life, so I thought this was odd. So i walk over and look at El Guilto and his hole and there’s all this, well, it looked like dryer lint until I realized it was fur. Some dopey rabbit made her warren in the middle of Netherfield, right next to the house, and of course he found it and the bunnies, who couldn’t have been more than a few days old. I mean, the place absolutely stinks of dog, there are tons of dry places in the yard where he hardly ever goes, and places where a dog has never been because of the invisible fence (when it works), but no, she has to make her burrow where he’s gonna find it. Dang. So one of the babies is dead; I closed the gates and hope she will move the others, other wise they’ll be killed too. I think if I move them, then she won’t be able to find them and they’ll die anyway.
Stupid ass rabbit.
dang.
So NJSue is out of town this weekend giving a paper on cross dressing men in tights (which I guess means they’re back in pants) and I decide to do a PROJECT. The back yard of our house is fairly sloped (“That ‘rising ground’ is a hill, Miss Eliza”) and a sandy soil that seems to only grow moss or erode. So I reckoned that I’d plant some ground covering junipers to sort of hold the soil there (and to use to make gin if things get tough), since we never can get any grass to grow in that area.
So I went to Lowes today and bought a bunch of them, and whilst daughter was at school Claude and I started digging holes for the bushes. Dig dig dig. Hmmm, what’s that? Looks like a…a wire. Oh shit; I just sliced the wire for the invisible fence. This is not good.
To assuage my dear bride, who may be reading this if she’s got internet access, I looked online to see if this was spliceable, found that it was (and let’s all let out a big wheeewww!), went to the hardware store and got some insulated wire (one foot for 31 cents) and a lot of electrical tape. I spliced the wire bag together and encased the two splices in enough electrical tape to wrap King Tut several times over, than wrapped all that in a couple of Ziplocs™ and taped it up again. It should be waterproof.
I am a moron.
…doesn’t seem so cute now, does he?
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…justice has prevailed as far as the senior troglodyte* at Abu Ghraib. Yes, you guessed it.
Army Demotes General in Abu Ghraib Scandal
The Army has offered its last word on holding its generals accountable in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but Congress is going to have the final say.
The Army announced that it demoted Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, whose Army Reserve unit was in charge of the prison compound during the period of abuse. Dropping her in rank to colonel required approval from President Bush, and officials said that he granted it on Thursday.
You go, George!
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FDA to Implement Gay Sperm Donor Rules
NEW YORK (AP) — To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Drug Administration is about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor.
The FDA has rejected calls to scrap the provision, insisting that gay men collectively pose a higher-than-average risk of carrying the AIDS virus. Critics accuse the FDA of stigmatizing all gay men rather than adopting a screening process that focuses on high-risk sexual behavior by any would-be donor, gay or straight.
Regardless of one’s take on the whole gay issue, I would think this is going to be extremely hard to enforce. And I wholeheartedly agree that it’s discriminatory, especially since they’d still allow sperm from the pond scum that would do this:
Come on…if you’re going to protect the public, then PROTECT the public.
From the Appeals Court decision on the ‘Broadcast Flag’ FCC ruling (page 4 of 34):
As a result, the FCC’s purported exercise of ancillary authority founders on the first condition. There is no statutory foundation for the broadcast flag rules, and consequently the rules are ancillary to nothing. Therefore, we hold that the Commission acted outside the scope of its delegated authority when it adopted the disputed broadcast flag regulations.
The rules are ‘ancillary to nothing‘, as in ‘we just made this shit up‘. Ah jeez, that’s great! As a non-‘DaveJBarristerExtraordinaire’ type, I found the first few pages of the decision easy to digest. The explanations in Circuit Judge Edwards’ opinion were surprisingly accessible (Harumph! Who knew?) and that made for a pretty neat read. Some days ya just gotta love the law.
I need my Bleat!
“This site is temporarily unavailable.”
Did he finally get dragged off to AsKKKroft’s Gualgs in North Dakota?
neat movies you can watch online here.
A Marine corporal who was videotaped shooting an apparently injured and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last year will not face a court-martial, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday.
A review of the evidence showed the Marine’s actions were “consistent with the established rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict,” Maj. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, said in a statement.
Good. I’m glad the evidence proved this, and he was cleared.
Thanks to Gunslinger for the heads up.
…which, in our neck of the woods, equates to the very first chartreuse leaves peeking from the pecan branches. They’re the very last to bloom and, when they finally do, there will be no more frosts. Guaranteed. (An ironclad promise compared to that rodent up North.)
To honor the groves fleshing out (and use up the pecans in the freezer), I humbly submit a
Bourbon Pecan Pie with Bourbon Cream.
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Shockingly I am getting grief for movies I haven’t seen. Unlike the cowed DaveJ I will not succumb to the dual pressures of wine and women; I will not yield!
But to aid in their efforts, here is a list of the “must see” movies that I haven’t seen (first list of 50 stolen from Sheila):
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So we find out that the reason that despicable toad Lynndie England did what she did is becaues she was “oxygen deprived at birth”? Give me a god damned break already. The Toadette herself said the truth the other day:
“I had a choice, but I chose to do what my friends wanted me to,” she said.
And that is probably the one and only honest statement that will be heard from her defense team.
*Update: So now the Judge is telling her she doesn’t know what she’s talking about?
“There is evidence being presented that you are not guilty,” Pohl told England.
WTF?
*Updated Update: Oh, the feckless bastard:
A military judge Wednesday threw out Pfc. Lynndie England’s guilty plea to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, saying that he was not convinced that she knew that her actions were wrong at the time.
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The USS Oriskany will be towed back to Beaumont, Texass for the foreseeable future. The money quotes (and man, am I looking like the Amazing Kreskin or what…)?
Safely mooring the 888-foot “Mighty O” at the Port of Pensacola would be costly, and preparations could not be completed by June 1, the beginning of the hurricane season, said Pat Dolan, deputy director of the Navy Sea System Command’s office of congressional and public affairs…..
Port of Pensacola Interim Director Leon Walker said the port will miss the monthly $90,000 docking fees the Navy has paid since the Oriskany’s arrival in December…..
Outfitting the port with a mooring that would be rated for a Category 3 hurricane, as recommended by the U.S. Coast Guard, would cost about $6 million and could not be completed this month, Dolan said.
Dolan estimates the round-trip trek to Beaumont, which is equipped with a hurricane mooring, will cost about $1.8 million.
The Navy has spent $12.3 million on the Oriskany reefing project so far, including environmental assessments, PCB remediation, towing and berthing, Dolan said. To dismantle and scrap the ship would cost an estimated $24 million.
…and it is me. Oh. God. My tarty blonde locks no longer beach babe bleach out unaided, as grey is it’s own stubborn shade, resistant to change. Unamenable to subtle shifts of seasons, from the darkened winter shades of Valhalla to the shimmer of platinum at Newport Beach. It just stays grey. Touch-Up = ‘Just do the roots for 40 minutes’. A horrific, nauseating realization came upon me as I busted open the box of chemicals, dragged the noxious pudding through my hair and looked in the mirror, focusing by mistake on my head vice those careful rows scraped across my scalp.
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Unlike these assholes. But ideologues, be they on the left or the right, have never been known for their senses of humor.
*Update: hahahahaha, it turns out that this is an Onion-esque site, and this is satire. Read the comments; some of them are funny as shit!
And I guess I should read a bit more before I post; oh well, I had a looong weekend!
-When you watch the waitress empty a can of Raid into the booth you are shortly going occupy, you do need to drink more (and Bill and I did).
-It’s also not polite to mention the above to the rest of the party until 3 days after the event.
-If you’re a college-aged girl, and your beau’s reaction to your heartfelt “I love you” spoken to him at midnight on 10th St. is to turn and sprint away, that should tell you something.
-Young ladies roaming around the Village late at night need to wear more clothes.
-I am getting very old.
-The Smoking Ban in NYC bars and restaurants is the greatest legislative achievement of the last 20 years.
Today’s Travel Section in Pravda offers an article on the coming of age of Mexico’s viniculture. And a truly horrific explanation for why Mexican wines were so abysmal.
Forgive me. I had to share:
In the land of tequila and cerveza, wine has traditionally been a hard sell. Annual wine consumption in Mexico is less than that of the city of San Diego, just across the border. One reason for this was that Mexican wine was notoriously bad: it was often aged in used whiskey barrels, which had an understandably adverse affect on the wine’s flavor, and, thanks to onerous trade restrictions, it was often made in a creative vacuum without any comparison to European or American vintages.
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