Why I Don’t Have Wi-Fi

This would be happening all the time (not the prosecution, but the snooping/stealing). There are too many computer geek kids in my neighborhood.

Kidnapped Ambassador Killed

I’m getting word that Al-Qaeda is claiming they have executed the Egyptian diplomat they kidnapped in Iraq.

A Governor’s Son, An American

(Pataki) added that graduates from Yale have a lot of options, but not all are as rewarding as being a Marine. “I wanted something more exceptional; something that would make the most out of me.”

Thank you, Teddy Pataki, and God Bless.

Our Prayers Are With Our English Friends

Reports are coming in that suicide bombers may have been involved. Sadly, it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. We must redouble our efforts to hunt down and exterminate these scum and those that support them.
Bastards. Are they still ‘minute men’, you fat piece of shit Michael Moore?
Update: Wunder Kraut has some good thoughts on this.
UpdateUpdate: And for gosh sakes go read Nightfly.

A Study In Contrasting Styles

The Big Guy took a tumble today, as he is wont to do when peddling along.

Bush falls off bike after colliding with officer
President suffers minor scrapes in incident at G-8 summit
GLENEAGLES, Scotland – President Bush collided with a local police officer and fell during a bike ride on the grounds of the Gleneagles golf resort while attending a meeting of world leaders Wednesday…
…The president was concerned about the officer’s condition and talked with him for some time after the collision, McClellan said. The president also asked White House physician Richard Tubb to monitor the officer’s condition at the hospital*.

Remember now, the other guy who wanted that job tended to be a bit ‘klutzy’, too. But I don’t recall him being gracious…or concerned.

When Sen. John F. Kerry fell – or was toppled by a Secret Service agent – from his perch on a snowboard recently, the would-be president clarified events with rare grace:
“I don’t fall down,” he said. “That son-of-a-bitch ran into me*.” Or “knocked me over,” depending on which version you read.

Two things to take away from this. First, Red State types look wiser every day. Secondly, it proves that old childhood adage:
“Weasels Wobble But They Don’t Fall Down.”
*all emphasis (and quiet snickering) mine.

Sniffle…

One of five children born into a military family in Fort Bragg, N.C., Duncan moved frequently when he was growing up. The high school dropout often felt lonely and displaced, particularly after his parents’ divorce in 1979, the Times reported.
Rape at gunpoint
It was these feelings that prompted him to victimize others: by the time he was 16, Duncan estimated he had raped 13 younger boys, some at gunpoint, it said.
“It was an outlet for my feelings [of] rejections. One from my mother and one from my father,” Duncan wrote in a personal history cited by the Times. He said he didn’t feel wanted at home and at school, he was bullied by peers because of his constant moves.

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Sorry About The Slow Loading Times Folks

But we are getting pounded by trackback spam today. I’ve deleted 30 or so, and they really clog things up.
Bastards.
PS – Anyone who even thinks about click through to some of those sites and encourage the turds will be gleefully emasculated.

Why Are Some Citizens…

…so much more important than others? My heart breaks for her mother and family. I know I would be foaming at the mouth at the thought that someone could hurt the most precious thing in my life.
But now comes word that Senator Richard Shelby (AL) (in a FoxNews video) has spoken to Sec. Rice, the FBI Director and now the Sec. of the Navy (Fox says it has a copy of the letter), to ask for a deep diving team and ship to head on out to Aruba. Isn’t it enough that the Dutch government has F-16’s streaking over the island, flying ‘grid patterns’? Color me a cynic, but if her name was Tameka, it wouldn’t matter how much her mother ran her mouth. There wouldn’t be camera ONE around to cover it, less mind a Senator actively soliciting Federal help. (Though it does pay off handsomely in TV appearances for him.) I want to think that oh, say…Senator Nelson would do the same for me…or Tameka. But I think not.

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Pensacola, Full Steam Ahead

In honor of Bingley BASTARD‘s incredibly callous sense of humor and appalling lack of empathy, not to mention good taste, I have put together a short
Photo Essay.
Once you’ve seen it, realizing how cruel the Dennis graphic below really is, I shall be covered with good wishes and love, whilst he will be shunned for the cretinous schmuck he is.
Now.
I have blue tarp to duct tape.
Thank you for your support.

Ken Finds Some Ward Goodness I Missed

You’ve got to hand it to Ward; he’s got a set of brass ones (handsomely crafted by native craftsmen from indigenous materials, natch). Ken’s got the scoop on his latest venture. As each day goes by Ward is turning into Al Sharpton in buckskin (although, in his defense, Rev. Al actually is of minority extraction).

Sis, Better Set An Extra Place For Supper…

‘cos Dennis is coming to town.

This…

6 attackers die in raid on Hindu shrine in India
Security forces end standoff with gunbattle
AYODHYA, India – A suicide bomber blew up a security fence Tuesday and gunmen used the breach to storm a Hindu shrine complex at the center of Hindu-Muslim strife, setting off a two-hour gunbattle that left all six attackers dead, police said.
An attacker in a jeep blew himself up, with the blast tearing a hole in iron railings surrounding the shrine and allowing the other five attackers to get within 50 yards of the temple’s inner sanctum, police said.

…DOESN’T HAPPEN with the Baptists, Catholics, Wiccans and Brownsville Revival types ’round here and, trust me, they like each other about that much. If they believe your lack of their brand of worship will be sending you to nasty netherworlds of individual description, they will pray and preach and ‘tch-tch’ you there. Truly devout people of any religion ‘of peace’ do not ignite explosive bandilleros, spray bullets around (ending with the obligatory police shoot out and scenes of carnage) and have anybody-can-be-an-ayatollah issuing proclamations portending/inciting doom, with reward promises of a carnal nature in the hereafter. If you need to get laid to make Heaven worth getting there, you have a whole ‘nuther set of problems. And we shouldn’t be kissing your Neanderthal patootie. Overseas or here.

Yo! M. Diddy! How’s It Hangin’ Girlfriend?

I want to barf:

Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy

Heh.

Judging By The Picture…

…whatever he’s protesting against…

…I’m for.

Time For A Pop Quiz From Uncle Granola!

Ready? Here we go:
What’s more dangerous to a marine reserve*: A – old fishing nets or B – a ship full of researchers?
*No, “The MPs” is not an acceptable answer.

Speaking of Creative Complaints…

…this one, whilst not a hoax, rings with insincere poetry.

In the Louisiana case, Johnson said she suffered physical and psychological harm when she discovered the object in a take-out salad from an Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson in June 2004.
Her lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, accuses the restaurant of unsanitary food preparation and improper training of employees, as well as “failure to prevent the inclusion of a human fingertip in a salad to go.”

So, if she’d eaten said salad while dining in the restaurant proper, it wouldn’t have been so bad?
There’s a moral to the story here, but I can’t put my finger on it.

Mark Steyn on “Live8”

I really don’t need to say anything else, do I?

Oh Yeah, That’ll Make a Difference

First GM, now McDonald’s. Clueless, completely clueless.

Mickey D’s wants to make workers ‘phat’?
Report says McDonald’s had asked Tommy Hilfiger, P. Diddy, among others, for a ‘uniform’ makeover…
…“We’re looking at how do we make our uniforms more appealing, more desirable*,” Bill Lamar, chief marketing officer for McDonald’s (Research) USA, was quoted in the report as saying.

Okay, Lucy, lemme ‘splain this one. More. Time. It’s a PRODUCT and CUSTOMER SERVICE/lack there of issue. Both of those need to be “more appealing, more desirable”, before some sweaty teenager at the register’s polo shirt. AND I could give a rat’s ass what your uniforms look like, when the doofusses enrobed in them stack a BigMac with the two hamburger patties in one layer and the cheese in the other. Routinely.
Yeah, Micky D’s. Welcome to my world.
*emph. mine

Not Only Didn’t We Ratify Kyoto

But NASA, those Chimpy McHitler Rovearian Pawns, with the Deep Impact probe have “ruin(ed) the natural balance of forces in the universe” and thus owe one Marini Bai

damages totaling 8.7 billion rubles ($300 million) – the approximate equivalent of the mission’s cost – for her “moral sufferings,” Izvestia said, citing her lawyer Alexander Molokhov. She earlier told the paper that the experiment would “deform her horoscope.”

Funny how quickly some former soviet citizens have discovered lawyers, eh?

Sophisticated French Diplomacy

Gosh, I must admit, us cowboys do have a lot to learn about suave, sophisticated discourse from Messr Chirac:

(Jacques Chirac), chatting to the German and Russian leaders in a Russian cafe, said: “The only thing [the British] have ever given European farming is mad cow.” Then, like generations of French people before him, he also poked fun at British cuisine.
“You can’t trust people who cook as badly as that,” he said. “After Finland, it’s the country with the worst food.”

See what happens when you let old Europe sit around a table and have a few glasses of wine?

Mr Putin and Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, laughed. Mr Chirac then recalled how George Robertson, the former Nato secretary general and a former defence secretary in Tony Blair’s Cabinet, had once made him try an “unappetising” Scottish dish, apparently meaning haggis.
“That’s where our problems with Nato come from,” he said.
Mr Schröder and Mr Putin laughed again.

Somehow I don’t see Blair or Bushy McChimphitler acting in the same fashion.

Survey Says: “eight in 10 Americans of all ages…say patriotism is in.”

Well! I would hope so!

“That [patriotism] appears so long after the period of frenzied flag-waving following 9/11 suggests that it is settling in as a fixture of American perceptions,” according to Roper Reports…
…The poll also found that, African Americans and Hispanics are among those most inclined to have patriotic feelings. The survey found “virtually no difference between blacks’ views and those of the nation as a whole.”
Eighty percent of black Americans and 78 percent of Hispanics strongly identify themselves as patriotic, as well as 81 percent of white Americans, the poll found.
Some 87 percent of baby boomers — the bloc of Americans demographers generally consider born between 1946 and 1964 — said patriotism is a central identifying fact of their lives. Seventy-eight percent of Generation Xers, born between 1965 and 1980, felt the same way.

I think that’s kinda the whole idea of “We, the People“.

When In the Course of Human Events

It took a little work. And a lot of courage.

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Not So Fast

Wise words from a subordinate at the Second Battle of Trenton.

That he would “bag the old fox” in the morning was the confident forecast of Cornwallis.

“If Washington is the General I take him to be, his army will not be found there in the morning,”was the cautious rejoinder of Sir William Erskine, Baronet, Colonel and aide-de-camp to the King.

It wasn’t.

142 Years Ago Today

Pickett’s Charge.

230 Years Ago Today

This guy
took command of the Continental Army.
Lucky stroke for us, huh?