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July 31, 2005

Taking the day off

Denizens, I'm gonna be out of pocket today - grocery shopping beckons, plus I need to deliver a couple of the Mothergoose's items back to her, then we continue with the all-encompassing packing in advance of the move.

So, from the Grab-Bag™, comes something from the sibling unit:

Enjoy.

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July 30, 2005

Football, you bet

Finally, the long summer of misery is over.

Training camp starts today for the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard, California (it's already been going on for other NFL teams like, say, Miami for a week or so now).  College & high school football will crank up about four to six weeks from now and all will be right with the world once again.

And, as you've probably already guessed, that means the triumphant return of the PFW (Perfect Football Weekend), where I take four teams from high school through the pros and chronicle their game exploits.

(We may do five teams this year, as defensive coordinator extraordinaire Bo Pelini has moved on to LSU, but I'm not ready to give up Oklahoma as a favorite team just yet.  We'll have to see about that.)

Watch this space.

UPDATE:  Just to give you an idea of how much I've missed football - as I'm writing this update, I'm watching the THSCA (Texas High School Coaches' Association) North-South All-Star Game.

The game was played last Tuesday night, and the South beat the North, 37-21.

I don't give a fat rat's ass.  It's football, mkay?

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July 29, 2005

Missing person - please help if you can

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Left-bashing to bring you this item of importance. (Taken from this post over at Misha's.)

MISSING.......PLEASE HELP!

This is a photo of Cheryl Ann Magner.

She has been missing since the beginning of June. She was last seen in Marin County, Ca.

Please ,anyone who has seen this 17 year old girl please call 415-472-2994. This is her mother's phone number...please do not call unless you have information that would be helpful.Or call the San Rafael police dept. @ 415-485-3000 or www.srpd.org

Any information or help would be greatly appreciated by the family.

This post will stay on top for a couple of days.  New stuff appears below.

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No double-standard here, move along...

What's the difference between then-prospective Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and current prospect John Roberts?

If you're Teddy (hic!!!) Kennedy - one gets a free pass, one doesn't.  Three guesses as to which way that pass went, and the first two don't count.

When it comes to insisting Supreme Court nominees discuss how they would rule on future cases, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has apparently done a philosophical U-turn.

The senator has been vocal recently about President Bush's nominee John Roberts, saying the federal judge "will be expected to answer fully" any questions about his views on controversial issues; but the Democrat sang a different tune in 1967, when he noted that candidates should "defer any comments" on such matters.

ButOfCourse™.  Ol' Thurgood was a Demoscum, nominated by a Demoscum and rubber-stamped in by an Imperial Socialist Congress.  Roberts, on the other hand, is a white Catholic conservative.

(To get just the right flavor of that last, say it with the most pissy-faced sneer you can manage.  Don't hold that face too long, though, or it'll freeze that way and you might become a Donk. (grin))

In a story titled "Kennedy Flip-Flops on Quizzing High Court Nominees" by Jeff Johnson, Cybercast News Service reports it obtained 38-year-old film footage of Kennedy, who was responding to a question about senators grilling Thurgood Marshall about how he might rule in future cases should he be on the nation's highest court. The news service combined the 1967 video with footage of Kennedy's contradictory July 20, 2005, remarks. (ED. NOTE:  To get footage of that, go here.)

"We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court," Kennedy said during the 1967 press conference. "This has been a procedure which has been followed in the past and is one which I think is based upon sound legal precedent."

A standard which also applied to...let's see, what was her name again???  Ah, yes - Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  One of Kaiser Wilhelm von Slickmeister's nominees.  Time and again refused to answer any questions about her views on matters that might someday come before the Court.  Got pretty much the same free pass that ol' Thurgood did, too, if memory serves.

But not so with the white Catholic conservative  justice-designate, no-sirree-Bob.

On June 20 of this year, Kennedy delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate in which he seemed to contradict the notion of deferring any comments, saying that senators "must not fail in our duty to the American people to responsibly examine Judge Roberts' legal views."

"Because Judge Roberts has written relatively few opinions in his brief tenure as a judge, his views on a wide variety of vital issues are still unknown," Kennedy stated. "What little we know about his views and values lends even greater importance and urgency to his responsibility to provide the Senate and the American people with clear answers."

Translation:  He's a conservative, and we have to do everything we can to scuttle his nomination, no matter how well-qualified he is."

Not that it matters, of course.  Roberts will be confirmed, and the Donks' grasp on government - not to mention reality - slips that much further into the abyss.

Gotta love it.

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Various & sundry

I found myself nodding and LMAO at this, which I had found by taking this test, to which Denizen Alan Henderson had pointed me in this post.

Okay, confused yet?

For the record, this is how I scored:

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July 28, 2005

Run, Dick, Run!!!

The general consensus was that Vice President Cheney, what with his ongoing health problems and all, would retire from public office after the second Bush term.

But now I tend to think we need to get a few "Draft Cheney" parties organized.

In a page from the Alec Baldwin book, "Tantrums Featuring Promises I Have No Intentin Of Keeping", Perennial Petrified Puckish Pest™ Helen Thomas vowed to off herself were the Veep to run for the top spot.

Veteran reporter Helen Thomas, the "dean of the White House press corps," says she would not be able to live if Vice President Cheney were to run for the highest office.

"The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told The Hill newspaper. "All we need is one more liar."

Oh, Helen, ya big tease.  Say you're not kidding - say you mean it.  Please???

Run, Dick, run!!!

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Well, isn't that spay-shul?

Denizens, Lady Heather del Jeep Wrangler gives us our morning chuckle for today - a little church humor:

Last Sunday, the Gospel was the one about the ten bridesmaids. The five good bridesmaids remembered to take plenty of oil for their lamps, five bad bridesmaids did not.

The priest at our church is always very fiery and his sermons always end on a high note.

Last Sunday the priest ended with...

"Where would you rather be? In the light with the five good bridesmaids or in the dark with the five bad bridesmaids?"

Ummmmmm...can I think that one over for a minute...???

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July 27, 2005

So help me...Allah???

In yet another People's Exhibit™ of how the Limp-dicked Llama-humping Left™ sides with the enemies of this country (what is this now, Number 3,836,949,003?), that veritable bastion of tolerance (except when it comes to conservatives or Christians), the ACLU, is throwing yet another tantrum in the name of the so-called "seperation of church and state".

This time, they're kvetching about the oath one swears when taking the stand in court.

In an effort to end the Bible's monopoly on the swearing-in procedure in the courtroom, the American Civil Liberties Union is now suing the state of North Carolina.

A lawsuit has been filed in Superior Court in Wake County, N.C., on behalf of the organization's statewide membership of approximately 8,000 individuals of many different faiths, including Islam and Judaism.

Ah yes.  The tried-and-true tactic of going through the courts to get what you can't get through any other means.  Doing an end-around to thwart the will of the people, most of whom I'm guessing don't want to be sworn in on a book written about the Pedophilic Pseudo-Prophet™.

"The government cannot favor one set of religious values over another and must allow all individuals of faith to be sworn in on the holy text that is in accordance with their faith," said Jennifer Rudinger, Executive Director of the ACLU-NC. "By allowing only the Christian Bible to be used in the administration of religious oaths in the courtroom, the state is discriminating against people of non-Christian faiths."

Perhaps this moron could spend a little time actually reading  the Constitution before trying to spew his crap about what emanations & penumbras it supposedly contains.  Last we checked, that particular clause - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" - meant that there shall be no Church of the United States in the manner that there's a Church of England.  Quick, where's that Church of the US monastery again?

(crickets)

Uh-huh.  Riiiiiiiiight...

Current law mentions laying one's hand on the "Holy Scriptures," which officials heretofore have interpreted as meaning the Bible.

The ACLU seeks a court order clarifying that the existing rule is broad enough to allow the use of multiple religious texts.

I dunno - I don't think there's much holy about a book that tells its followers to kill all the infidels, or talks about Big Ol' Mo and his 9-year-old child-bride, y'know?

"In the alternative, if the Court does not agree that the phrase 'Holy Scriptures' in North Carolina state statute must be read to permit texts such as the Quran, the Old Testament and the Bhagavad-Gita in addition to the Christian Bible, then the ACLU-NC asks the Court to strike down the practice of allowing the use of any religious texts in the administration of religious oaths," said a written statement from the civil-liberties group.

See, this is what they've been driving at all along with this legal POS.  This is just another step in the ACLU's ongoing war to remove Christianity from our heritage, and remake this great country into its own sniveling image.

The swearing-in issue began last month after Muslims from the Al-Ummil Ummat Islamic Center in Greensboro sought to donate copies of the Quran to courtrooms in Guilford County.

The gift was rejected by the county's top two judges, noting an oath based on the Quran was not legally binding.

It isn't, of course, but that's not the reason I'd've  cited in rejecting it.  Somehow, I'd have trouble accepting a gift that says I have to stick my ass up in the air and pray to a black rock several times daily, lest I lose my head.

Gifts like that would tend to end up in my fireplace, KnowWhutImeanVern???™

I suppose it's no small wonder, then, that the American Camel-humper's Liberties Union would side with them on this.

ESAD, ACLU.

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A skateboarding what???

We'll start your day today with a good site from the Lady Heather del Jeep Wrangler - a page from The Skateboarding Bulldog.

"Awwwwwwwwwww..." alerts in effect.

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July 26, 2005

Gee, Ibbie, was it something we said...?

From the Department of The Truth Hurts, Doesn't It?, comes this story about how We Don't CAIR designated piehole Ibriham Hooper has once again been offended that Americans would dare  to tell the truth about him and his Religion of Peace (My Ass).

A local radio talk show host touched off complaints from an Islamic civil rights organization yesterday after repeatedly describing Islam on the air as "a terrorist organization" that is "at war with America."

In other news, the sun rose in the east, water was discovered to be wet, and the sky turned out to be blue.

The organization, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), asked the station to take disciplinary action against Michael Graham, who hosts WMAL-AM's late-morning call-in program.

A station executive, Randall Bloomquist, said yesterday that Graham's comments were "amped up" but justified within the context of the program. He said the station, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., had no plans to reprimand Graham.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!  DADDY, HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT US ISLAMOSWINIANS!!!!!  MAKE HIM STOPPPPPPPPP!!!!!"

The show host touched off the flap during a discussion of the Muslim community's response to recent acts of terrorism. Graham suggested the fault lies with Muslims generally because religious leaders and followers haven't done enough to condemn and root out extreme elements. "The problem is not extremism," Graham said, according to both CAIR and the station. "The problem is Islam." He also said, "We are at war with a terrorist organization named Islam."

CAIR denounced the comments yesterday as "hate-filled" and "Islamophobic" and asked its members to contact the station's advertisers to express their dismay.

In other words, looks like Graham hit the nail on the head, and the jackasses over at CAIR have their burqas in a wad over it.  Film at 11.

"It's amazing," said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's communications director. "I talked with Mr. Bloomquist and asked him if he would reprimand someone who used the n-word on the air. He said yes. I asked him if he would reprimand someone who read [approvingly] from the [anti-Semitic] 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' He said yes. So I asked him if he would do the same if someone had called Islam a terroristic organization. Well, he said, it's all about context, but he never quite explained it to me."

Well, it's like this, Ib:  See Islamopricks.  See Islamopricks hate America.  See Islamopricks fly planes into American buildings.  See Americans not take it very well.  See Americans see you and your fellow Islamonazis for the terrorist bastards they are.

Those other folks didn't destroy the World Trade Center and try for the Pentagon and the White House.  Your  people did.  That's not too hard to understand, is it, Ib?

Added Hooper, "The First Amendment allows people to be idiots and bigots. All you can do is embarrass people and have them defend their reputation.

Somehow, Ibbie, I don't think WMAL is terribly embarrassed by the whole thing.  I imagine they take it as sort of a badge of honor, y'know? (snicker)

If WMAL doesn't feel embarrassed and doesn't want to defend its reputation in the face of anti-Muslim bigotry, then there's not much we can do about it."

Except cry and whine, whine and cry, and generally make turbaned tumblefuckheads of yourselves.

F.O.E.S.G.B.R.O.A.D, Ibbie.

UPDATE:  Looks like the bastards at WMAL have broken out the kneepads for Ib Hooper and suspended Graham.

Hey, you morons - did it ever occur to you that right-thinking Americans don't give a shit  what Ibriham Hooper thinks?  And that there are still a helluva lot more of us paying your station's bills than there are of them?

Suggest you people reinstate Mr. Graham soonest.  Before some of those right-thinkers take their $$$$ elsewhere, y'know?

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July 25, 2005

New digs

The Great Apartment Search of 2005 has completed, and your Friendly Neighborhood King & Tyrant™ has located his new digs.

Bent Tree Forest will be vacated in about six weeks or so.  Hence, it's now time to pack, set up services like electric, phone, internet, etc - in addition to the usual stuff at work.

Therefore, don't be surprised if posting is somewhat lighter than usual for the next couple of months.  Plus, the Grab-Bag™ will get even more of a work-out.

Thatisall.

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July 24, 2005

PotKettleBlack™ much, Botox Boy???

(Hat tip Imperial Liaison Officer L.S. Mope.)

Oh, he didn't say that.  Tell me he didn't just say that...?!?!?!

John-Boy F'n Qetchup-ass, who 175 days ago promised, on national television, to release all his military records - AND STILL HASN'T DONE SO!!!!!  - is now calling for the White House to release Supreme Court Justice-designate John Roberts' records during his service in the Reagan Administration.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry urged the White House on Friday to release "in their entirety" all documents and memos from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' tenure in two Republican administrations.

"We cannot do our duty if either Judge Roberts or the Bush administration hides elements of his professional record," said the Massachusetts senator who was his party's presidential candidate last year.

But yet, you  expected the American people to do what you thought was their  duty to send you to the White House while hiding elements of your military record, isn't that right, Botox Boy?

Opening what is expected to be a broader attempt by Democrats to pry loose documents

...that is to say, an attempt by the Demoscum to drag this out past the first Monday in October, when next the Supreme Court re-convenes...

Kerry issued his statement as Roberts made the latest in a series of courtesy calls on senators in advance of confirmation hearings.

The amazing thing is that this was the candidate best adjudged by the Demoscummic Party to lead the country for the next four years in our fight against the Islamonazis, not to mention the rest of our foreign policy and our economy.  And they wonder why they're the minority party now?

I mean, think about it for a second.  If you're the Party of Asses™, the absolute last  person you send out there to make this call is Mr. Lavender Heart himself.  Hell, you send out Dr. YEARRRRRGH!!! to deliver that particular sound bite before you send out Mr. T'raisin Heinz, y'know?  Chief Screaming Flea has got  to be asleep at the switch on this one - there's simply no other explanation.

Not that we mind, you understand. (snicker)

For what it's worth, I think Justice-designate Roberts should  release the records the Donks are seeking.

At least one hundred and seventy-five days after promising Tim Russert he will on national TV.

And counting.

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July 23, 2005

Bastard Operator From Hell invades the Realm™

Gonna be out of pocket pretty much all day, so we dive into the Grab-bag for a classic - four episodes of Simon, the Bastard Operator From Hell.

Spew warnings in effect.

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July 22, 2005

Can't profile that guy with the suicide vest - he's Middle Eastern

For a few bright, shining years, New York City was a beacon on a hilltop.  The city had finally shed it's Rotten Apple image, cleaned up its act and set an example for all to follow.

Even during 9/11, the city took the best the ragheaded Islamofucks threw at it, and stood tall.

Then Rudy Giuliani stepped down as mayor.  His replacement, a RINO fuckwit by the name of Bloomberg...well, let's just say that he's demonstrating that not everyone is cut out to be the mayor of the Big Apple.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that terrorists come "in all sizes and shapes and forms" and it wouldn't be fair for police to profile terrorism suspects on the basis of a Middle Eastern appearance.

This despite the fact that the last five or six beheadings in Iraq, the bombings in London, 9/11, the USS Cole  bombing, the Marine barracks in Beirut, the first WTC bombing, the Achille Lauro  attack, etc, etc...all done by people with a definite Middle Eastern appearance.

But noooooooo,  Bloomberg...wouldn't be fair  to maybe keep a closer eye on those types, now would it?

Asked about the city's random stop-and-search policy, which Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday would forbid racial profiling, Bloomberg told WABC Radio host John Gambling, "I think if we've learned anything, it is you can't predict what a terrorist looks like."

Maybe you  can't, Bloomy, baby - if it's not colored green, you tend not to give a flying fook about it - but I'll bet the rest of us can, very easily.

In fact, I'd say that the Middle Easterner with the unidentified bag or suitcase or wearing the overcoat in 70+ degree weather looks awfully funny, waddya you t'ink?

"You want to have restrictions [on police terrorism searches]," Bloomberg explained. "You want to have the police to have the burden of being very careful and never discriminating."

Why?  If you have a pretty good description of the last few dozen folks to commit terrorism acts, isn't it a good idea to start searching amongst those folks?  Are you trying to find terrorists, Bloomberg, or just look & feel good pretending like you're trying to?

"If you think that everybody with blue eyes is a terrorist, you can't just stop everybody with blue eyes," he added. "Terrorists come in all sizes and shapes and forms."

So despite the fact that of the last ten or fifteen terrorist attacks on our soil or our interests, only one of them was carried out by non-Middle Easterners, "terrorists come in all sizes and shapes and forms"?  Bloomberg, did you parents have any kids that lived?

When Gambling reminded Bloomberg that "a higher percentage of them come from a certain section of the world," Bloomberg acknowledged: "That is true."

"But John," the mayor shot back, "the essence of our freedom is that you are presumed innocent - you're innocent until proven guilty. The presumption of innocence is the fundamental [value] of our society. And you just can't go and say everybody who has blue eyes - my example - is a terrorist just because most terrorists that you've caught have blue eyes."

No, but it's a pretty damned good place to start.  Which is what makes it such a terrible idea for Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomberg acknowledged that his profiling ban would make it easier for terrorists to succeed in their next attack, but still insisted the practice was "unreasonable."

Because we've just got  to make it as easy for the ragheads to plan their next attack as possible, yes-sirree.

"It is just not a reasonable, not a rational - nothing that we want in our society," he maintained. "That does make it more difficult for the police, yes. But it's been more difficult for 235 years and we've kept the democracy and that's the challenge that we have to meet."

No, Bloomberg, you idiot - people who care a lot less about offending a certain segment of the populace than you have kept the republic.  People who give far less of a shit about PC than you have kept the republic.  All you  want to do is give those who want to kill us a free pass.

I talked to a gentleman who works in Homeland Security a couple of weeks ago.  He's of the opinion that the next attack happens within 18 months.  With morons like Mikey Bloomberg in charge, it'll likely be sooner.

Stupid fuckhead.

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July 21, 2005

Yep, we're glad she's gone, too...

Yet another One-Legged Man™ day, so LC MrSpkr fills in on yet another reason to rejoice at Sandy Ditzy O'Conwoman's departure.

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Say wha'...?

The folks over at WorldNetDaily had this story about the re-introduction of Ebonics at the San Bernadino, CA school district.

Then, as is their fashion, they came out with a poll to gauge the response of its readers.

The question was: "What do you think about Ebonics in today's school curriculum?"

Here were the possible answers:

Da mo Ebonics, da better

Gots to have it, 'cause dats how many kids be talkin'

Dis be no different than Spanish

Ain't nuttin' wrong with dat

Homeboy teacher gots to be speakin' da same talk as da students, ya dig?

Say wha?

Day be promotin' wrong speakin'

Ridiklus, da only ting American chillin' be needin is trainin' in basic English

Stupid is as stupid do

None o' da above

Who says Joseph Farah doesn't have a sense of humor?

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July 20, 2005

James Doohan:  1920 - 2005

Scotty has beamed up for the last time.

James Doohan has died of complications from Alzheimer's at his home in Redmond, WA.  He was 85.

A character actor in the '50s, one audition and three years changed his life & career forever.

The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different accents.

"The producers asked me which one I preferred," Doohan recalled 30 years later. "I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, 'If this character is going to be an engineer, you'd better make him a Scotsman."'

The series, which starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic following of science fiction fans, especially among teenagers and children, but not enough ratings power. NBC canceled it after three seasons.

When the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as Montgomery Scott, the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973, he complained to his dentist, who advised him: "Jimmy, you're going to be Scotty long after you're dead. If I were you, I'd go with the flow."

"I took his advice," said Doohan, "and since then everything's been just lovely."

He was this scribe's favorite character on the show.  Not to mention a lot of other Trek fans', as well; the Next Generation episode "Relics" was one of the fans' all-time favorite TNG episodes.

Farewell, Scotty.  You'll be sorely missed - the starboard power coupling won't be the same without you.

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July 19, 2005

The left side of the aisle:  An ongoing Looney Tunes™ flick...

Okay, so let's see:  Lying to a federal grand jury doesn't "rise to the level" of impeachment.

But, according to Bonnie Fwank (D-Maththachuthettth), mishandling an investigation where there's not even any evidence of a crime is.

Rep. Barney Frank said late Monday that Congress should begin an impeachment investigation into the Bush administration's handling of the Leakgate scandal and not wait for Special Proscecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to determine whether any laws were broken.

For some reason, I'm reminded of the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd scene:

BUGS:  Would you like to shoot me now or wait 'til you get home?

DAFFY:  SHOOT HIM NOW!!!!  SHOOT HIM NOW!!!!

BUGS:  You keep out of this!  He doesn't have to shoot you now!!!

Just sayin', is all.

"During the Clinton impeachment, the Republicans kept saying, remember, impeachment does not mean the end of the process. It is the beginning," Frank told MSNBC "Hardball" substitute host Campbell Brown.

Well, we first had to gather evidence that a crime was committed.  And we did, Bonnie.

You've got...pray tell, what again?

"I must honestly say, I do not trust the president to do an independent investigation here," Frank explained.

That's quite alright, Reprethentatve Fwank.  We don't exactly trust you to be an objective voice in the matter, either.

When reminded that the Leakgate probe was in the hands of a special prosecutor, Frank sounded confused, telling Brown: "Yes. But it is still also the president, because I don't think not being convicted of a crime [should] be the only qualification for being deputy chief of staff."

Actually, that's true.  We also like it when they run campaigns that score clear victories over the opposition  and help gain/retain majorities in Congress.  That's a good qualification, too. (chuckle)

Moments later, Frank was asked whether Democrats should really be "pursuing impeachment proceedings on this" rather than addressing issues like Social Security reform.

"Yes. No, I think we can do both," he insisted.

Well, you might - if  you were the majority party.  Last I checked... (crickets chirping)

On Friday, Rep. Frank and his House colleague John Conyers asked the Library of Congress to determine whether "high-ranking members of the President's staff are subject to the Congressional impeachment process."

Well, that's doubtful, but I'm sure you can find a black-robed, tin-plated asshat excuse-for-a-judge to find an emanation or penumbra in the Constitution.

Have you tried looking in Florida?

The Frank-Conyers letter continued:

"We believe that the rationale for impeachment clearly applies to high-ranking officials who wield presidential authority in many cases with even more impact than some cabinet officers. And we do not see any Constitutional language that would exclude such officials from the impeachment process."

"Except when there's a Democrat in the White House.  Can't touch 'em then."

F.E.T.E., as the Imperial Torturer™ might say...

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July 18, 2005

This says it all, I think

Courtesy of the Sibling Unit™...

Makes one kinda wish that the Demoscum were right on this one, and it was  really all about the oil.  That way, we might not be paying two-and-a-quarter for a gallon of regular, y'know?

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July 17, 2005

Why would the Slimes  protect him???

For your Sunday Tidbit™, Denizen David Hartung provides us with this very-well-written column by Victoria Toensing and Bruce Sanford concerning the Lame Plame Blame Game™ that Val & Joey are playing with Karl Rove.

For what it's worth, ask yourself this:  Given that a NY Slimes  reporterette is now serving time in jail over her refusal to testify before a grand jury over her source for this leak of the identity of a CIA analyst - not a crime in and of itself, if the truth be told, but work with me here - and given that everyone seems to want to finger Mr. Rove for this...would the Slimes really  want to stay quiet about this, if there was even the remotest chance that Karl Rove could be perp-walked out of the White House?  Would the Paper of Broken Record honestly  shut up to protect the Demoscum's Public Enemies Number One and Two (Bush & Rove)?

(crickets)

Mm-hm.  Thought  so...

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July 16, 2005

Quiz for professionals

The lease on Bent Tree Forest is up in six weeks, so it's time for the Great Apartment Hunt of 2005™.

I'll be out pretty much all day, so here's something from the Grab-Bag™:

QUIZ FOR PROFESSIONALS

The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and tells whether you are qualified to be "professional".

Scroll down for each answer. The questions are not that difficult.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

2.How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Wrong Answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant and close the refrigerator.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your actions.

3.The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct Answer: The Elephant. The Elephant is in the refrigerator. This tests your memory.

OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your abilities.

4.There is a river you must cross, but crocodiles inhabit it. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer: You swim across. All the Crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong. But many preschoolers got several correct answers.

Andersen Consulting says this conclusively proves the theory that most professionals have less brains than that of a four year old.

No kidding.

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July 14, 2005

Coupla things you cowardly leftist fucks need to realize

They say you know a man by the enemies he has.  Looks like I'm going great guns.

Now, I realize you liberal fucktards who are members of the "I Play With Inflatable Dolls Too, Rev. Myk!!!" club generally can't ponder or pontificate in words of more than one syllable, but try to keep up anyway.  There are a couple of things that need to be explained to you.

I'll try to type slowly so you can understand.

First off:  You people can bloviate all you want about the Revvvvvvvvv'r'nnnnnd Mykki pointing me to a satellite map all you want.  'Til you're blue in the face would suit me just fine - you're wasting our oxygen as it is.

The chickenshit Cortese has my address.  He knows where I am.  His best response is to...come halfway here to Tennessee?  He'll go halfway (or so he says), but he won't come all the way down here?  That's  why the "meet him halfway" argument fails.  I didn't post my address with the intention of catering to this punk's every last whim.  I gave him the chance to come be a hero.  I gave him the opportunity to show the world what a bad-ass he really was.

Your boy was challenged to come down here, and he wimped out.  Period, end, stop.

(Side note to Mr. von Vockerman:  If you were, in fact, willing to pay my full way up there to Nashville (that's not the impression I got from reading your comments, but still), could you not have taken that money and paid for Cortese's full way down here?  Oh, and another side note:  It sounds like you were interested in making this a Marquis de Queensbury affair.  With all due respect, sir, this is "Come say it to my face", not Golden Gloves.)

The other thing is this:  Yeah, this is a gated community.  So fuckin' what?  That gate is broken at least a third of the time, and it's not that hard to get past as it is.  Besides, we have some pissant vandals/robbers who aren't letting it stop them - there have been a couple broken-into cars in the last couple weeks alone.  It ain't like this is Fort Knox, y'know.

So using a gate as an excuse - "Ohhhhhh, there's a gate here...guess we'll have to turn around and go home, darn" - is pretty damned lame, even for you retarded leftist fucks.

But I've come to expect it from the likes of chickenshits like the Revvvvvvvvv'r'nnnnnnnd Mykki and his "flock".

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July 13, 2005

Credit for the Liberty Symphony

Went straight from work to go fix a friend's computer and didn't get home until after 10:00 p.m, guys, so today's gem is from Denizen Robert Mullane.

Complaint:
Quote:
A wake-up call from Luke's jets

Jun. 23, 2005 12:00 AM

"Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base: Whom do we thank for the morning air show? Last Wednesday, at precisely 9:11 a.m., a tight formation of four F-16 jets made a low pass over Arrowhead Mall, continuing west over Bell Road at approximately 500 feet.

Imagine our good fortune! Do the Tom Cruise-wannabes feel we need this wake-up call, or were they trying to impress the cashiers at Mervyns' early-bird special? Any response would be appreciated."

The reply is classic, and a testament to the professionalism and heroism of the folks in the armed services.

The response:

Regarding "A wake-up call from Luke's jets" (Letters, Thursday):

On June 15, at precisely 9:12 a.m., a perfectly timed four-ship of F-16s from the 63rd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base flew over the grave of Capt Jeremy Fresques. Capt. Fresques was an Air Force officer who was previously stationed at Luke Air Force Base and was killed in Iraq on May 30, Memorial Day. At 9 a.m. on June 15, his family and friends gathered at Sunland Memorial Park in Sun City to mourn the loss of a husband, son and friend.

Based on the letter writer's recount of the flyby, and because of the jet noise, I'm sure you didn't hear the 21-gun salute, the playing of taps, or my words to the widow and parents of Capt. Fresques as I gave them their son's flag on behalf of the President of the United States and all those veterans and servicemen and women who understand the sacrifices they have endured.

A four-ship flyby is a display of respect the Air Force pays to those who give their lives in defense of freedom. We are professional aviators and take our jobs seriously, and on June 15 what the letter writer witnessed was four officers lining up to pay their ultimate respects.

The letter writer asks, "Whom do we thank for the morning air show?"

The 56th Fighter Wing will call (for you), and forward your thanks to the widow and parents of Capt. Fresques, and thank them for you, for it was in their honor that my pilots flew the most honorable formation of their lives.

Lt. Col. Scott Pleus
CO 63rd Fighter Squadron
Luke Air Force Base

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July 12, 2005

Whatever happened to...?

Today's tidbit comes courtesy of the Mothergoose.  And, believe it or not, Snopes has verified this one.

Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it? Did you know his trial is over?

Did you know he was sentenced?

Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV/Radio?

Didn't think so.

Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.

Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.

Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say.

His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his "allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah," defiantly stated "I think I will not apologize for my actions," and told the court "I am at war with your country."

Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:

January 30, 2003, United States vs. Reid. Judge Young:

"Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.

On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutive with the other.

That's 80 years. On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 for the aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines. The Court imposes upon you the $800 special assessment.

The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further. This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.

Let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is all too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.

You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether it is the officers of government who do it or your attorney who does it, or if you think you are a soldier. You are not----- you are a terrorist And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.

So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big You're no warrior. I've know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and where the TV crews were, and he said: "You're no big deal."

You are no big deal.

What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?

I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing. And I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.

It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea.

It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.

We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bare any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. Day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.

Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.

See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.

Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down.

So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young, but that's another subject. Pass this around. Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say.

Powerful words that strike home.

God bless America.

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July 11, 2005

Now this  was a wedding!!!

Denizens, it's been a One-Legged Man™ day, so here's something from the ol' Grab-bag™.

I think you'll like this one.  Spew warnings and all that, mkay?

Subject: A wedding story

For anyone who feels they've been invited to too many weddings lately, have a laugh. This is actually true. It was in a local newspaper in South Carolina and even Jay Leno mentioned it on the Tonight Show.

This is a true story about a recent wedding that took place at Clemson University. It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests.

After the wedding, at the reception, the groom got up on stage at the microphone to talk to the crowd. He said that he wanted to thank everyone for coming, many from long distances, to support them at their wedding. He especially wanted to thank the bride's and groom's families for coming and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a fabulous reception.

To thank everyone for coming, bringing gifts and everything, he said he wanted to give everyone a special gift just from him. So taped to the bottom of everyone's chair, including the wedding party, was a manila envelope. He said that this was his gift and told everyone to open their envelopes.

Inside each envelope was an 8X10 photo of his best man having sex with the bride. He had gotten suspicious of the two of them and hired a private detective to trail them weeks prior to the wedding.

After he stood there and watched the people's reactions for a couple of minutes, he turned to the best man and said, "F**K you!". He turned to his bride and said, "F**K you too!" Then he turned to the dumbfounded crowd and said, "I'm out of here!"

He had the marriage annulled the first thing that Monday morning.

While most of us would have broken off the engagement immediately after finding out about the affair, this guy goes through with it anyway, as if nothing was wrong.

His revenge:

1. Making the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for 300 guests for a wedding and reception.

2. Letting everyone know exactly what did happen, and best of all, trashing the bride's and best man's reputation in front of all of their friends and their entire families.

This Guy has balls the size of church bells. Do you think we might see one of those MasterCard "Priceless" commercials out of this?

Elegant wedding for 300 family and guests - - $32,000
Photographers for the wedding - - $3,000
Deluxe Honeymoon accommodations in Maui for 2 weeks - - $8,500
The look on everyone's faces after seeing a photo of the Bride and Best Man having sex - - PRICELESS!

ROFL. 

UPDATE:  According to Snopes, this is yet another urban legend.

What The Hell™.  It's funny anyway. (grin)

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July 10, 2005

Yet another chickenshit who can't back up his big words

(NOTE:  Cross-posted over at the Rott - will show up later today.)

LC Marcus has alerted us to a Loony Leftist Libtard™ named Michael "Po' Widdle Mikey" Cortese, who fancies himself some sort of Mostest Leftest Reverend of the Church of the SubGenius. (We note, for the record, that the term "SubGenius" technically means "a level underneath genius" - and, since "half-assed, pathetic, brain-dead fucking lunatic loser moron" is a level under "genius", we supposed that the "Revvvv'rnnnnnd M'yker'uuuuuuu", as he's wont to be called, is technically correct.

Just sayin', is all.)

Anyway, we were advised that this Lame-Assed Leftard Loser™, in the words of Marcus, "talks big about his M-1 carbine and dares "wingnuts" to take him on" - so were were obliged to go have a look and see if, indeed, we finally had a worthy adversary to issue a "CSITMF" challenge - or if we had just another limp-dicked weasel whose balls were papier-maché.

We were pointed to this toxic-wasteland website to get a gander at what we were up again.  The stench was overwhelming, to be sure, but it wasn't too bad if one held one's nose.

After a little wading through putrid sludge and snooping around, we came upon this bleat.  We'll fisk it some other time, but I found one paragraph where Our Hero (*cough*) throws down and dares us to take him on - physically.

3. Bring it on. In the immortal words of Han Solo, I'd prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around. This, unfortunately, isn't as risk-free as anonymous harassment. In fact, it would require a minor modification in the physiology of the stereotypical keyboard warrior. Specifically, it would require a pair of balls to drop into their otherwise empty nut sacks.

Obviously I don't expect anyone to actually do anything like that. That would break the creed of the cowardly scumbag. You'll notice that the people most prone to advocating violence are the least prone to actually do it themselves. The only motivation anyone would have for posting someone's personal information on the net, along with a slanderous aside or two, is out of expectation that some minion will do the work for them.

You could almost see my eyes grow to the size of saucepans. (grin)

So, I wrote this turdbucket and issued the standard challenge:

That can be arranged, you know. 5330 Bent Tree Forest Dr, #712 Dallas, TX You wanna call me a "Christian Fascist"? A "wingnut"? A "cowardly scumbag"? Come call me those things to my face. Ready when you are, chickenshit.

Even signed my real name to it, just to let him know I was serious.

Ever the Welshing Weasel™, Our Intrepid Coward answered thusly:

Can be, or will you be taking the lead and/or the bus from the Texas Reich?

I suspect not.

However, I will be more than happy to post your email on site with a java scripted clock to measure how long it takes you to get around to Arlington, VA. Most likely I will also be posting your hysterically amusing, cowardly scumbag Christian fascist weaseling with directions to your home. Which is fun too.

In a subsequent email, he says this:

Yes, and your emails will end up on my site complete with your "cowardly scumbag Christian fascist weaseling" as predicted. Should you ever work up the nerve to make a trip out to VA and make good on your talk, let me know. Until them, I tremble in fear at your awesome power behind the keyboard.

Pussy.

So, basically, he invites me to come up to Arlington, VA (note that he doesn't say exactly where  in Arlington), while not bothering to mention that he doesn't really want to come down here.

In other words - he's just another needle-dicked little wanker who talks real big, but doesn't have the cojones  to back it up.

Why are we not surprised?

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July 09, 2005

Taking Sherri to task.  Sort of.

Welcome again to the five or six readers of Straight Up With Sherri who have the balls to sign their names/handles to their posts...the dozens of cowardly fucks who hide behind their mommies' skirts and post as "Anonymous"...

...and, hopefully, Sherri herself.

Some background:  As most of you should know by now, a couple of days ago I was running through one of Sherri's comment threads (now since deleted...for shame, Sherri), and decided that I'd had enough of seeing her constantly attacked by cowards who didn't even have the decency to sign their name, and decided to speak up about it.

I employed the standard CSITMF schtick I've been employing for the last two years in the Blogosphere, and before that on the old NewsMax forums.  (Any of you old Forumites who might be traipsing by - remember "sgc284"?  Guess who? (grin))

Anyway, it got the standard reaction from the first-timers (the ones who'd never seen it before) - less-than-righteous indignation, pooh-poohs and the obligatory "he posted 'his' address..." (read:  "oh, he's lying; that's not where he lives...")

So I replied to that  and posted the link to Blogfest Saturday at my place.

Well, that  engendered a whole new round of indignation - "...they have guns there!!!!!  And they're posing in front of an apartment complex!!!"

Almost what you'd expect from old crotchety grandmas at a quilting bee, y'know?

Amongst that  was yet another exchange I've already chronicled, both below and at Misha's.  Suffice to say, it's not good to be an anonymous asshat today. (chuckle)

Anyway, Sherri herself has finally weighed in, so to speak, on all the goings-on of the last couple of days.

(It's kinda long, guys, so back out now if you get bored easily.)

Wow!

It looks like a playground spat.

No, Sherri, a playground spat  usually involves kids on both  sides.  Here, you've got the kiddies...and then you have me, giving them the paddling of which they've been richly deserving for a while now.

I don't have tolerance for foul language and violence.

Noble.  Naïve, but noble.  Would that you'd have less tolerance for disrespect than you do, but that's your affair.

Anon hit it on the head.

Question:  Which one???  How do you know which cowardly little fuckface you're dealing with on a daily basis?

Anon may not like me- may try and bait me into petty banter- but the people who have come here for any time do know the rules, and follow them.

Y'know what?  That's your right.  It's your blog, and you have the absolute right to run it any way you see fit.  And I have never said otherwise.

Now, I wish you'd be a little more consistent,  but we'll cover that here in a moment...

I have the option of taking away anon posting, or implementing HALO, etc. I don't because I don't want to create any type of barrier that may keep people from sharing their thoughts.

Sherri, I submit to you this:  If such a simple thing as registering with Blogger and posting under a handle...say, like "Right Wing Nut Job" or "Lord Spatula I, King & Tyrant"...is a barrier to posting one's thoughts, then said thoughts are not of sufficient worth to post.  If a man is unable to back up what he says and take whatever heat comes his way and be a stand-up kind of man, he is not worthy of my respect...and I further submit, should not be worthy of yours.

I only ask it be clean (intelligent)- and respectful.

Indeed?  As we're about to discover together, you seem to have an odd definition of "respectful"...

One of the anon's tried to bait me into a discussion and defend myself for calling him/her out on degrading JWL's views. Anon knew and I knew that I was really calling anon on the fact that once anon disrespected someone else's views- then they disrespected him/her- they claimed "NOT NICE" (UnChristian). It was the attack then cry victim that I called anon on- not the degrading. He/She knew it- It is just a game that people like to play. I just have better things to do with my time than defending myself against untruths and false accusations. If they don't get it- a hundred posts won't explain it.

If that's the case, then you should adopt yet another policy:  No anonymous post shall be degrading to another poster - said posts will be deleted.  Either be stand-up enough to put your name on such a post or don't expect it to stay online.

Personal attacks don't bug me. I am secure with who I am and my walk.

You may be expecting me to say something pithy here, but I'm honestly pleased about that.

I appreciate you taking the time to call anon on some of the idiotic behavior he/she exhibited- and I got a laugh out of it- but it did get ridiculous.

Sherri, it's not as ridiculous as you may believe.  These are craven cowards with whom you're dealing, and as much as I realize you want to not hinder their expression, they should meet you halfway - "straight up", you might call it - and have the balls to post something resembling a name.

Either that, or they should not be surprised when they get their heads handed right back to them in spades.

I did welcome you- when your language was a bit "hidden."

Sherri, my first post on that now-closed thread did not "hide" anything.  What you saw was the same schtick I've employed now for the length of time I've been in the Blogosphere, and well before that, too.  I knew you might delete it, but I was willing to take that risk to get my point across - and I believe I did so.

You are still welcome if we clean it up. You can be strong and make a point without the foul language.

I question that, Sherri.  Some chickenshits need to be called just that - chickenshits - because that's the degree of cowardice that they've attained.  I am not in the slightest opposed to calling a spade a spade.  And to me, posting in bold and all caps is not my idea of "be[ing] strong and mak[ing] a point", save in extreme (and rare) circumstances.  Get to doing that all the time and the practice loses its impact.

You can debate the issues and use your head- not muscle or pics of guns- I know you can.

Sherri, I'm going to say this only one more time, and I expect you to take me at my word:  The focus of the picture was proving that I live at 5330 Bent Tree Forest Dr, #712, in Dallas, TX.  That's the only picture I currently have of the place that has me in it, thus proving that I live there.

That there were three guns in the picture is - to use a style of text I know you understand - IRRELAVANT!!!!!

If you, or the cowardly little anonymous fuckheads who trash you on your site want to take it as a threat - when no threat has either been intended or even implied - that's really not my problem.

I should have said something about the language right away- but I figured since you coded your language you knew the rules. So - we will count this one as MY BAD. Forgive me for not calling you on it and letting someone else call you out on it.

Thanks for respecting my rules. MY HOUSE- MY RULES!

That's fine, Sherri.  As I've already said, it's your blog, and you have the absolute right to run your blog the way you see fit.

But now we come to the point I've been saving in reserve:  Consistency.

As you've already said,

I only ask it be clean (intelligent)- and respectful.

So now, tell me why I subsequently read this from you:

By the way

The Colonel Measuring Cup name is HILARIOUS! I LOVE IT!

Dang- ya'll add GREAT relief to my day! And I needed it today!!

Thanks!

Sherri, this asshole (who, I'm convinced, would otherwise post as one of your anonymous cretins) used this name in a direct attempt to disrespect the moniker I've used now in the Blogosphere for the last two-plus-years.

And you found this funny?  "Hilarious", even?

Don't get me wrong.  I don't give a fat rat's ass what the prick calls himself; if he wants to demonstrate absurdity by being an asshole, that's fine with me - in fact, his moniker's already been made fun of over at Misha's, and I got a good chuckle out of that.

What bugs me is how you seem to define "respectful".  Seems to be all over the place, and that's something on which I think you need to work.

Anyway, Sherri, this is your blogging lesson for today.  Take it with as many grains of salt as you wish - or learn from it and become a better, even-more-respected blogger.

Your choice.

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July 08, 2005

(gasp) They posed! In front of an apartment!!! With guns!!!!!

(NOTE:  I posted this over at the Rott, but what the Hell™ - you guys can read it, too. (grin))

Y'know, LCs, we have a pretty good thing going here.  Even before TypeKey took all the fun out of hunting limp-wristed trolls like Dumb Yeah...

(NOTE TO CASPIAN:  There will be no angst about the words we use or how you were treated as a child on this thread.  I don't want to hear it.  Shut.  Up.)

...we have multiple of you guys here to instruct the poor simps on just how the cow eats the cabbage.  Y'know? (grin)

For example, Sherri over at Straight Up With Sherri has a cadre of anonymous chickenshits that abuse her pretty much at every turn, and accuse her of ducking & running when she can't oversee her blog 24/7 to respond to their crap.

Now, we love Sherri, okay?  She's one of us.  So, when I stepped in to take up for her...ooooh, did that ever make them...angry mad indignant.

A sample exchange can be found here.

Some background:  I had posted one of the Blogfest pictures after one of Sherri's anonymous asshats implied that I was lying about where I lived.

That prompted an exchange like this:

Colonel Measuring Cup said...

Oh, how clever.  How witty.  How boringly droll and unoriginal.  MonkeySeeMonkeyDo much, simp?

Are you attempting to threaten posters here with that picture of you and your (cough, cough) gang?

I'm proving that, unlike you and your fellow anonymous cowards, I'm not hard to find.  Shame you can't say that, huh?

Sherri, you should send all of this guy's posts, including the link to that picture, to the Dallas Police Department

Maybe it's because Sherri knows that the Dallas Police Department has better things to do, and would laugh her off the phone.

They are pointing weapons at one another

OooOOOooooo, a real, live GFW (Gun-Fearing Wussy)!!!  Quick, Misha, get Kim du Toit, Doc Russia and the rest of our gang  together!  We got us a live one here!!! (snicker)

Here's a clue, moron:  Go have your eyes checked.  If any one of us in that group is pointing our guns at another, we have some pretty bad aim.

they have a child present while brandishing weapons

Yeah.  So?  You'll note that the child was in his mother's arms, very well protected, and that none of us were pointing our guns his way.

Do you have a point?  Other than the one on top of your head?

and they are obviously posing in front of an apartment complex (or maybe public housing).

Oh, yeah, the Dallas police really love  cracking down on gun owners who violate the city ordinance against posing for a picture in front of an apartment building holding guns.

There were two pictures total taken - so, at 250 years per count for the Mostest Firstest Degree Felony™...

Or maybe you just have your head up your ass like you do the rest of your comment, huh?

Spatula dude, for your part, you are incredibly stupid to threaten people, and then post a picture of your "family" and your address.

Well, if you wanna get technical about it - I've threatened no one.  (ED. NOTE:  And I haven't - at least, not there. (grin))  I have  invited the cowards who trash Sherri here anonymously to come say it to my face if they had the testicular fortitude to do so.

But I strongly suspect that they're like the rest of the cowards I've challenged - which means that I won't be holding my breath to expect them (or you) to show up.

I could care less what happens to you and the other adults, but you should be thinking of the safety of the children in your clan.

Oh, here we go - yet again, it's FOR THE CHILLLLLLLLLL'RUN!!!!!™

Y'know, that meme died out about the time Gore lost the 2000 election.  You really oughta try something a bit fresher.

Sherri, please ban this guy, for the safety of the children and the innocent neighbors. Let the Dallas PD sort it out.

Are you really that stupid to think that:  1) the Dallas police are going to give a flying **** about words on a blog, and 2) banning me is going to have any effect at all?

Have you started to realize just what a fool you are yet, "Colonel Measuring Cup"? (chuckle)

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July 07, 2005

London

Been in class all day, Denizens, so that's why I haven't had anything to say about the London explosions.

I'll have something to say this evening.  Watch this space.

For now, read what the SpatulaGoddess had to say about it.

UPDATE:  I could not put it any better than Misha did when he said this:

May their death come soon, and may it be brutal, massive and without mercy, for those who show no mercy deserve none in return.

Nuke Mecca and let their heathen god sort them out.

I think that's a good start.  I think you start with Mecca and  Medina, then get all the peace-loving Iraqis out of there and nuke that country.

Then Iran.  Payback's a bitch, and ours has been 25 years in coming.  And then you overthrow the Saud government, because they've never been our friends, either.

In fact, every Arab country that doesn't immediately bow their knee to us is a candidate.

I'm serious, Denizens.  This War on Terror has gone on long enough, and enough innocent citizens, both American & British, have paid a price they didn't need to pay.

It.  Is.  Time.  To.  End.  It.  Every mosque, every Qu'ran, every burqa - nuke it all.  Get rid of these bastards now.

One of Misha's commenters on the above thread, a guy named Ed from Ohio, put it better than anyone I know could:

hunt down the terrorists. slaughter them. burn their korans. humiliate them. beat their families. desecrate their graves.

no mercy.

Precisely.  No mercy.  They're not worthy of it, and our supply has long since been exhausted.

End it, President Bush.  Now.

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July 06, 2005

Welcome, Sherri-ites!

Spatula City BBS! welcomes the readers from Straight Up With Sherri.  Particularly the cowardly fucks who don't have the balls to post under anything except "Anonymous".

The offer I made over there stands. (Relax, Denizens, you didn't miss much - it was the standard CSITMF line.) Should any of you grow 'em past the size of pinheads, feel free to come on by and say to me in public what you've been saying to Sherri from behind your mommy's hoop skirt.

And we'll see who gets dropped first.

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That's gratitude for ya

In yet another shining  example of Your Tax Dollars At Work™, one of the police departments down where we were at the Bacchanal on the Comal arrested a man for committing the most cardinal of sins - showing them up.

A San Marcos man was arrested after rescuing a swimmer from the swirling waters near a restaurant on the San Marcos River over the weekend.

Police say Dave Newman, 48, disobeyed repeated orders by emergency personnel to leave the water. The police report does not mention Newman's rescue of 35-year-old Abed Duamni of Houston on Sunday afternoon.

Very likely because that would raise the obvious question:  Where the Hell™ were they  during this sequence and what in Great Honkin Cthulu's name were they doing while this guy Duamni was drowning?

"I was amazed," Newman said after getting out of Hays County Law Enforcement Center on $2,000 bail Monday morning. "I had a very uncomfortable night after saving that guy's life. He thanked me for it in front of the police, and then they took me to jail."

After being handcuffed and put in a Texas State University police squad car, Newman was taken to jail and charged with interfering with public duties.

Seems Newman was taking the Tea-sip State college cops away from their very public duty of scarfing donuts & coffee.

Duamni, who said he did not see any signs warning swimmers of the dangerous currents, jumped into the water several times before the current caught him. He had just finished eating at the restaurant when he decided to go for a swim.

"I reached a point where I said, 'I'm dead,' " Duamni, who was visiting San Marcos, said from his Houston home Monday night. "There's was nothing I could do. I thought, 'That's it, I'm over, I'm gone."'

After reaching Duamni, Newman said he swam with him under a waterfall and deposited him on the shore opposite the restaurant. He could hear law enforcement personnel telling him to come back to the shore by the restaurant.

According to the report, Newman smirked and seemed annoyed by officers' requests.

I'd be smirking too, if I'd just shown a horde of trained professionals that I could do their job better than they could.

He stood in the water for about 15 seconds before swimming downstream, to avoid the turbulence from the waterfall, and across the river to the officers, the report said.

"When he came across the river, the officer stuck out his hand like he's going to help him out of the water, and he put cuffs on him," said the Rev. John Parnell, pastor of St. Augustine Old Roman Catholic Church in Fort Worth.

"Our donuts are gettin' stale, Verne!  We better teach this S.O.B. a lesson 'ere, ayup."

According to the police report and witness accounts, the crowd that had gathered to watch the rescue was upset when they saw the police arrest Newman.

Parnell and another man blocked the police officer's path to the squad car while other members of the crowd yelled at the police, telling them Newman had saved Duamni's life and should not be arrested.

They should  consider themselves damned lucky that's all  the crowd did, the tin-horned little tyrant bastards.

University spokesman Mark Hendricks said he did not know whether Newman rescued Duamni. Hendricks said it was his understanding that Newman was uncooperative with authorities.

Because never  do the so-called "authorities" ever  do anything wrong, never  are they possibly at fault, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

When Duamni got out of the water, he saw Newman in handcuffs and asked who he was. "I said, 'What's the deal,' and the police said, 'He got you out,"' Duamni said.

San Marcos resident Bob Ogletree said he understood why emergency personnel wanted to clear the water, but didn't understand why Newman had to be arrested.

You're not the only one, Mr. Ogletree.  Lot of us wondering when it became a crime to save someone's life, as well.

In 1999, Texas State University, which owns the dam and the land around it, erected a fence to prohibit access to that part of the river. Later that year, the City Council enacted a swimming ban on that portion of the river. But Newman led a successful campaign to get the fences around the swimming hole removed and the ban relaxed.

Guess they got their pound of flesh from him, whaddya think?  Can you say "retaliation"?  "Official oppression", perhaps?

Fucking goons...

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How hot is it...?

We'll start out the morning with a laugh from Denizen Robert Mullane:

You Know It's Hot Outside When...
** you ask your boss for extra work so you can be in the air conditioning as much as possible
** you've been getting hot flashes, and you're a man
** the swans in the park come in "original recipe" and "extra tasty crispy"
** the strawberries are ripe, and the cab drivers are even riper
** your pool water starts to boil in the sun
** the hot-dogs sold outside Yankee Stadium are actually hot
** pigs complain about sweating like fat humans
** a scalding hot shower still cools you down
** people walking down the sidewalk spontaneously burst into flames
** a $20 surcharge is added to your bill when you eat at air-conditioned restaurants
** the politicians take their hands out of your pockets to fan themselves
** you need a spatula to remove your clothing (Ed. note:  Did someone say "spatula"?)
** you wish you had gotten the cloth seats instead of leather
** you are sweating in both directions -- up and down!
** your brother's braces make blisters on his lips
** you are sitting inside reading these jokes

Mheh.

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July 05, 2005

Let that be a lesson to you libs

As most of you have probably guessed, I'm on board with the flag-burning amendment.

The way I see it, burning a flag is not speech - it's action.  And while speech is protected by Article I of the Bill of Rights, actions are not.  Were the the case, I could come burn down your house and claim it was a protest - but you wouldn't like that very much, now would you?

Nor does the "well, if it's your  flag..." argument hold water with me.  I could burn down my house, for example, and still be charged with arson.  So, with me, the anti-amendment argument fails on both counts.

That said - I'd be perfectly happy if, instead of an amendment, a law were passed making it open season on those fucktards who actually did the burning.  Such as what happened to this bozo when he tried to be an smart-ass (hat tip:  Denizen David Hartung)...

An alleged attempt to stir up an anti-government protest by burning the U.S. flag during the city's 14th Birthday Celebration led to the arrest of a Murrieta resident Saturday night, police officials said in a written release Sunday.

The suspect, identified as Lee Henry Vollick, 19, was charged with the misdemeanor counts of obstructing and resisting a police officer, disturbing a public assembly and attempting to incite a riot, and booked at Southwest County Detention Center in French Valley, according to jail records. He was released Sunday after apparently posting bond, which had been set at $2,500, records show.

From what I'm told, this assclown did more than attempt  to start a riot - he did  start one...at least, a mini-one.  And got his ass handed to him as a result.

Sgt. Sean Hadder said Vollick angered many attending the city's celebration at California Oaks Sports Park earlier in the day when he had dragged a U.S. flag on the ground behind the scooter he was riding, proclaiming he was staging an anti-government protest.

Though Vollick reportedly left, he returned at about 7:55 p.m. during a musical performance and, amid the crowd, lit a flag with a cigarette lighter, incensing many spectators, Hadder said.

He said a Murrieta police officer contacted Vollick based on the danger his flag-burning posed to the audience, including children. When an officer attempted to escort Vollick out of the venue, the suspect refused and resisted an officer who attempted to grab him, the sergeant said. Several spectators along with two off-duty Murrieta police officers brought Vollick to the ground, enabling an on-duty officer to handcuff Vollick.

Note that part about "several spectators" helping to bring this pissweasel down.  From what I understand, the jerkface got his face partially rearranged during the fracas.

According to the police, the man told officers he was trying to disrupt the gathering and get others to join him as a protest against the government.

And got it shoved right back up his skanky ass as a result.

Heh.  I love this country...

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Oh, and about that "illegal war", Maxi-Pad Waters...

It ain't.  So bite me.

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July 04, 2005

Happy Birthday, America

(NOTE:  This post stays on top all day.  Look below for new stuff - and there will  be some, trust me.  -LSI)

Denizens, today is our day to celebrate.  The country to which we (as well as our forefathers before us) have pledged "our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor" turns 229 years old today.

And I would be remiss in not pointing out that today is also the libtards' least favorite day.  For they are reminded yet again that they are a sniveling minority that gets a hard-on at the prospect of this country going to her destruction in favor of their socialistic Utopia.

Let us once again vow that we'll bury their skanky asses - or die trying - before we allow that to happen.  I will not  stand by and watch my country become a socialist hellhole - not while I still possess life & breath.  And I know that you, my loyal Denizens, join with me in that sentiment.

I was at services yesterday at Prestonwood Baptist Church - one of the many freedoms that we are able to enjoy because of those patriots who gave themselves up 229 years ago.  And I listened to Neal Jeffery give a very inspiring message on freedom. (For those who are wondering, yes - same Neal Jeffery who was the Baylor quarterback back in the '70s.)

Neal mentioned a point that we all too oft forget:  Freedom isn't free - it's been purchased by blood.  No American has enjoyed a freedom that hasn't been paid for by someone's ultimate sacrifice somewhere.

We would do well to remember that today.  We would do well to remember that every  day.

Happy Birthday, America.  May the God of our fathers continue to bless & keep you.

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Churchill opens his piehole again

What really confuses me about Ward Churchill, the Pansy-Assed Prof™ from Buffalo Chip University, is why the fucktard is still wasting our oxygen.

Wasn't bad enough that he called the vicims of 9-11 "little Eichmanns".  Isn't enough that he seeks the destruction of the United States.  Now the bastard dicklick is advocating fragging line officers:

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill suggested to a forum on conscientious objection they might be more effective in opposing war if they supported the "fragging" or killing of line officers.

As reported by the "Pirate Ballerina" blogsite, during a Portland meeting on resistance to military recruiting, Churchill, famous for comparing Sept. 11, 2001, victims in the World Trade Center to "little Eichmanns," twice suggested anti-war activists should support those who kill their officers.

Sir George over at Misha's has already covered this.  And I liked what one of the LCs had to say in response:

"But Mr. Churchill, when you engage in neutralizing a military unit by means of lethal force, aren't you engaging in...WAR??????!!!!!"

Precisely.  More to the point, the Colorado Colostomy Bag™ is engaging in something else:  Treason.

"For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of supporting a conscientious objector who's already been inducted [and] in his combat service in Iraq might have a certain appeal," he said. "But let me ask you this: Would you render the same support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit?"

Later, in a question-and-answer period, Churchill was asked whether the trauma "fragging" inflicts on that officer's family back home should be considered, he responded: "How do you feel about Adolf Eichmann's family?"

About the same way most of America feels about you, O Coward of Colorado:  That several pieces of hot lead, .22 caliber or larger, should be forcibly impelled towards whatever object it is that sits atop your shoulders.  If you can advocate killing line officers, you son-of-a-bitch...then certainly we can advocate that, now can't we...?

UPDATE:  Credit where credit's due:  The SpatulaGoddess had it before any of us did, and it's an excellent analysis.

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July 03, 2005

"No Justice No Peace" this,  Maxi-Pad!

(NOTE:  Because of yesterday's posting problems - which, by the way, still haven't been corrected (thanks for nothing, Hosting Matters) - I'm putting this one back up top for your reading enjoyment.)

I remember precisely where I was on the day of the LA riots.

I was working for an alarm monitoring company, and I was watching our stores in South Central LA systematically being destroyed by a collection of losers, chickenshits and pussies who thought they were a bunck of Billy-Bob Bad-Asses taking up for one of their "homies", Rodney "I Never Met A Female Cop I Didn't Like To Shake My Naked Ass At" King.

Had it been my call to make, I'd've finished what they started, Napalmed™ the entire region - which, presumably, would have taken the chickenshits out, too - and started over.

Instead, this country was stupid enough to rebuild South Central, and even allow those bastards to send one of their own to represent them:  Maxi-pad "No Justice No Peace" Waters.  Ever since then, she's been a boil on the ass of Capitol Hill, and she was in fine form the other day as she continued to show the country just what a crack-whore-bitch she really is.

Using unusually intemperate rhetoric even for a Democrat, firebrand Congresswoman Maxine Waters is blasting President Bush and Vice President Cheney over their conduct of the Iraq war, calling Bush "a liar" and Cheney "a thief."

After attending a mock impeachment hearing two weeks ago staged by House Democrats, Rep. Waters told cheering onlookers, "Finally Congress has come alive and decided to take on this president in a real way."

Oh, yeah - by having a pretend session of Congress in a basement somewhere and pretending to be the majority showing its pretend balls.  Yeah, that's taking on the President in a real  way, alright. (snicker)

"The president is a liar," she continued. "Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the Big Lie, is not only a liar, he is a thief."

As opposed to you, an uppity bitch.

She accused Cheney of helping his former company Halliburton rake off illicit war profits in Iraq.

Prove it, slut.  Show us the receipts, show us the Swiss bank accounts, show us where Vice-President Cheney has profited one thin dime out of the ordinary from these so-called "illicit war profits".

You can't, of course, because you're a lying skank who's throwing yet another temper-tantrum because your cadre of Communists aren't in power anymore.  Your playtoys have been taken away from you and you're thowing yet another screaming hissy-fit, just like the infantile brats you are.

Waters' comments went unreported by the mainstream press, only to be picked up by the People's Weekly World Newspaper - a Communist publication.

And this surprises...how, exactly?  Cthulu Forbid™ that the Lame Stream Media™ in the Demoscum's back pocket should expose them for the assholes they are, after all.

Rep. Waters declined to respond to repeated calls from NewsMax this week, asking if she disputed the quote.

The California Democrat is a leading member of the House Out of Iraq caucus; a group whose roster includes John Conyers, Barbara Lee, Charles Rangel, Carolyn Maloney, Jose Serrano and other anti-war Democrats.

Speaking alongside Waters, Rep. Lee vowed to apply "street heat" to Congress to bring an end to "this illegal war."

Excuse me, BaaBaa?  "Street heat"???  That sounds suspiciously like a threat to me.  Do you seriously believe that you limp-wristed freaks can pull off in Flyover Country™ what you managed to do in South Central?  Do you honest-to-Maitreya think that we out here in the heartland will just bend over and grab our ankles for you and your fellow tantrum-tossers?

Well, feel free to come out this way and try it, bimbo.  "Bring it on", as the President is fond of saying.  Just be advised - we don't take kindly to petulant bastards going off on their little crying jags around here, so don't be surprised if you and your yellow-assed little mob winde up getting themselves severely "ventilated"...if you know what I mean.

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July 02, 2005

What a difference a week makes

Last Saturday afternoon, I had just come back from a three-hour float down the Comal River, having ingested a goodly (for me, anyway) quantity of adult beverage - one beer and a jello shot...

...Hey, I don't drink that much anyway, plus I'm a diabetic.  Cut me some slack, mkay...?

...and was munching down on the best ribs I've ever had, and that includes Tony Roma's.

This Saturday, I was in East Garland dealing with a flat tire in 100-degree heat and 79% humidity.

Where the Hell™ is that time machine when I need it...?!

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Merlin, go check out the starboard power coupling...

Denizens, we have a slight problem on the Pegasus.

Seems the server is choking on new posts that exceed a certain length.  I get the dreaded HTTP 500 "Internal Server Error", and very damned little else.

I have a trouble ticket in to Hosting Matters on the problem.  Who knows - maybe they'll even get back to me on it at some point...

Stay tuned.

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Test

Denizens, this is a test.  Feel free to ignore.

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July 01, 2005

Goodbye, O'Connor, you ditzy bint

Sandy Dipshit O'Crapper - sorry, best parody I can come up with at the moment - has retired from the United States Socialist Soprano Court.

All I can say is, "Hallelujah.  Thank God."

She leaves a legacy of being one of President Ronaldus Magnus' few mistakes.  This bitch should never  have been confirmed to the Supreme Court, and it's a shame that she will be forever a black mark on President Reagan's record.

I'll have more later.

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