No, not me.
Og, the Neanderpundit has a rant about the idiots who try to drive in the snow in his area.
If you don�t read it, you�ll miss one of the funniest rants of the month.
Here is the closing line,
All in all, it makes me wonder: WHY CAN’T I MOUNT AUTOMATIC WEAPONS ON MY TRUCK?
Not safe for small children, grandparents and drink items near your PC.
And when you number is up, even moving halfway around the planet won�t save your ass.
Snowboarder’s change of plans had saved him from tsunami
Bay Area native Daniel Berk had planned to spend the Christmas holiday in Sri Lanka, getting his scuba certificate, but canceled his plans at the last minute. He missed the deadly tsunami, but on Saturday, he was killed in an avalanche while snowboarding off-trail in the Austrian Alps.
When your name is on the Reaper�s clip board, making him switch from bermuda shorts to a parka only pisses him off.
New `Warthog’ rolled out at Eglin adds brains to brawn
The retro look that helped give the straight-winged, snub-nosed A-10 “Warthog” its unofficial nickname remains unchanged, but a $360 million modification program is giving the rugged ground support jet some brains to go with its brawn.
The first A-10C, the designation that all 356 Warthogs will get once they undergo the most significant update in the plane’s 30-year history, was unveiled Tuesday at this Florida Panhandle base.
�This is a new beginning for the guardian of the ground troops,” said Col. Mark J. Donohue, A-10 systems program manager. “The 2010 A-10 will not be your daddy’s ‘hog.”
By then, all A-10s will receive what Donohue, of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, termed an “electronic brain.” The first of the modified jets are expected to go into service next year after flight testing at this Florida Panhandle base.
Keeping the flying rotary cannon in the air.
Found @ Sworn Enemy
“exactly?”:http://www.wral.com/news/4126577/detail.html
Nanny stateism at its finest – I wonder if they are going to adopt a similar compnay policy for drinking alcohol, or eating red meat, or any of the other “health risks” that lurk out there.
It’s a private company, they can hire and fire whoever they wish. But describing draconian rules that affect what people do in their private lives as a “victory” seems rather shallow to me.
Here, let’s try another group of people to discriminate against, and see how it flies:
The Seattle based Wanker corporation announced that it had fired 3 Muslim employess who had refused to convert to Christianity. “We just felt that it fit better in our corporate image to only have employees who were good Christians working for us”, said company spokesperson Scott Zealot. Zealot claimed that about 18 of 200 workers were Muslim prior to the announced policy change. Since then, 1 worker quite voluntarily, and 14 others had been converted to Christianity with the help of the Wanker corporation. Three employees who refused to convert to Christianity were fired for failure to live up to the new policies. “We see this as a great victory”, continued Zealot. “We have used economic pressure to force our employess to adhere to our own personal beliefs. All we want is what’s best for them, and we feel we’re in a better position to know what that is than our employees”.
So, if it’s discrimination in my alternate universe, why isn’t it discrimination in the “real” world?
Who is grateful for the US-l “liberation of Iraq.”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857145/site/newsweek/
And look, the Iraqis really *were* better off under Saddam:
bq. *_Mostly, Iraqis miss the freedom to read by electric light, or to bathe with running water�which were in extremely short supply in Baghdad the past week. Compared with Liberty with a capital L, those may seem like minor inconveniences�until you don’t have them._*
Apparently no need to comment on freedom from rape, torture, murder – I guess the Iraqi people would really rather have all of those things back – as long as the can take a hot bath and be tortured under the glare of electric lights.
Keep an eye out for this to wander on through the halls of Congress.
Dear Mr. President,
We write to urge you to take immediate steps to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
Although the initial invasion of Iraq may have occurred with minimal troop deaths, the subsequent occupation of the country has been anything but successful. Already more than 1,300 American troops have lost their lives since the war began on March 19, 2003. At least 10,000 American troops have been injured as well, and it is impossible to know exactly how many thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed. Despite the enormity of the war�s casualties, the Iraqi insurgency continues to grow stronger with every passing day.
Iraq is no closer to becoming a stable democracy today than it was two years ago, as evidenced in recent weeks by the daily torrent of insurgent attacks on American forces and Iraqi civilian leaders.
Again, while it may be logistically difficult to immediately remove every American soldier, we urge you to take immediate action to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. This is the only way to truly support our troops. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Sincerely,
Rep. Lynn Woolsey
That is the partial text of a letter that is being sent to the Oval Office on behalf of some of the Democrats in the House. The list of those Representatives is at the bottom of that letter. Check to see if you recognize any of the names.
At the ardently left wing website and Democrat mouth piece, Common Delusions, ummm, I mean Common Dreams, Norman Soloman comments on this letter.
Sixteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives launched an initiative in that direction on Jan. 12 with a letter to President Bush urging him “to take immediate steps to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.”
Led by Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California, the signers contended: “It has become clear that the existence of more than 130,000 American troops stationed on Iraqi soil is infuriating to the Iraqi people — especially because Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction and did not have a connection to the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, or to the al Qaeda terrorist organization. Indeed, the very presence of Americans in Iraq is a rallying point for dissatisfied people in the Arab world.”
Few media outlets beyond California did any substantive reporting on the letter. But it could turn out to be an initial step on a long journey for efforts to achieve a congressional cutoff of funds for the Iraq war. Such efforts can only be successful if immense grassroots pressure develops to compel members of Congress to take action.
Rep. Woolsey is set to take another step by introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for U.S. troops to come home from Iraq as soon as logistically possible. Her office told me on Jan. 19 that Woolsey’s resolution — still in draft form and not yet circulated to House members — was scheduled to be introduced in late January.
Their basic plan of attack seems to be, �get the troops out now or we�ll fight funding the effort�.
Way to support the troops there, jackass!
Of course, those of us on the right have known that the left�s weakly spoken �We Support Our Troops� line was a load of horse hockey.
They support the troops as long as those troops have low pay, low morale, out of date equipment and are sitting around doing very little so that the Dems can use them as a test bed for social engineering.
Bush is getting set to ask for another special appropriation of $80 Billion to fund Iraq, Afghanistan and some things here at home. Of course, you might not know that the money was going somewhere other than Iraq if you listen to the nightly news.
Make sure that any of these chuckleheads who are from your state get a verbal kick in the pants for their now barely invisible disdain for our fighting men and women.
The Kossuckers are having a class project. They want to come up with a slogan to help the Dems in 2006.
They have noticed that the Republicans have an �elevator pitch�
We believe in freedom and liberty, and we’re for low taxes, less government, traditional values, and a strong national defense.
And they want one of their own.
Since I am always willing to help, here is my contribution to the Dems:
We want to tax you until no one has any more money than anyone else, we believe that the government can take better care of you than anyone one. Rely on us.
You can go here and take a look at the nominal pap that the Kos Klan has come up with, or, if you so choose, you can leave your suggestions for the Democrat Party in the comments section.
UPDATE: If you haven�t heard about MoveOn.Org�s “take back Congress and make 2006 our 1994” e-mail, go here to read about it.
Kirk at the Fun Turns to Tragedy Blog does an absolutely ruthless job of disassembling a new piece of proposed feel good legislation that would serve to make up a list of �Officially Recognized Assault Weapons� in Maryland.
Just a taste,
Maryland legislators are famous for making lists.
They then go on to use these lists to make it hard to get things.
Here is an example of said lists. In order for the sales of a handgun in the state of Maryland it must be on an approved list that is approved by an arbitrary panel over at the state police HQ. If it is not on this list you can�t get it in Maryland. They did the same thing with the integral firearm locks in MD (and are currently being sued) by not approving new types of locks. This did a very nice job of banning new guns in MD for the last 3 years. Now many manufactures include the integrated (you can open most of them with a bent piece of wire) locks which not many use.
That was just a mild bit of it. Head on over and check out the rest.
He also includes a list of legislators. If you know a gunny in MD, get them to that list and let them know that they need to get on the horn.
Was That a Burglar Alarm?
Police in a prosperous Californian city near San Francisco will begin ignoring most burglar alarms, prompted by too many false alarms and too little money.
Fremont police said the overwhelming majority of warning signals they receive are false alarms that cost the city $600,000 a year. Because of budget cuts, starting next month they will only respond if they have additional verification, such as a video feed of a crime occurring or a witness report.
“We had 7,000 alarm calls last year and 66 of those were burglary,”
Here in Seattle/King County, the policing agencies have a gradually increasing fine scheme for each false alarm. It would be interesting to see if this and other agencies moving to a “No Answer†policy had tried that as well.
But if you remember this news from late last year,
Gun ban weighed in San Francisco
Frustrated by an increase in homicides, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has proposed a sweeping ban on handguns, injecting this liberal city into the national debate over gun control.
The proposal would bar residents from keeping handguns in their homes or businesses and prohibit the sale, manufacture and distribution of any firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.
I think we’re looking at having to wall San Francisco off from the rest of the world, ala “Escape from New Yorkâ€.
Of course, you could do that right now, in my mind.
Found @ Right Thinking
Was That a Burglar Alarm?
Police in a prosperous Californian city near San Francisco will begin ignoring most burglar alarms, prompted by too many false alarms and too little money.
Fremont police said the overwhelming majority of warning signals they receive are false alarms that cost the city $600,000 a year. Because of budget cuts, starting next month they will only respond if they have additional verification, such as a video feed of a crime occurring or a witness report.
“We had 7,000 alarm calls last year and 66 of those were burglary,”
Here in Seattle/King County, the policing agencies have a gradually increasing fine scheme for each false alarm. It would be interesting to see if this and other agencies moving to a �No Answer� policy had tried that as well.
But if you remember this news from late last year,
Gun ban weighed in San Francisco
Frustrated by an increase in homicides, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has proposed a sweeping ban on handguns, injecting this liberal city into the national debate over gun control.
The proposal would bar residents from keeping handguns in their homes or businesses and prohibit the sale, manufacture and distribution of any firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.
I think we�re looking at having to wall San Francisco off from the rest of the world, ala �Escape from New York�.
Of course, you could do that right now, in my mind.
Found @ Right Thinking
