Birthday Boy

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Phil Kadath

Not that he’ll tell you, but it’s the Kid’s birthday nextweek. I’d say what day it actually is, but he’d probably pull my posting ability for doing that, so I’ll keep the secret.

Over here OTI, in honor of the intrpid day the Kid set foot on this here planet, I gave my students an assignment to show me their best Surprise Party attire and they loved the idea!

So for the Kid, if he’d let me host a surprise party for him, Miss Monica would wear black to wish him wonderful nights, Miss Krissy would wear gold as a wish for money and Miss Raisa would wear a flower in the hope that he will have a beautiful 34th year.

I’d better stop now. He’s probably already fuming.

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This Weekend is the Superbowl

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Professor Booty

…in my household.

At the age of eight or so I became aware of football, and when given a choice to pick out a plastic toy NFL helmet (about the size of a racquetball, it’s still in the garage somewhere), I picked the Steelers ’cause I thought it was the coolest-looking of them all. Shortly thereafter I actually saw the Steelers’ home uniforms. Mega-cool, and that cemented the Steelers as my team. Nevermind that I lived across the country from Pittsburgh and had never been to Pennsylvania in my life (still haven’t).

Anyway, from that early decision, I’ve continued with the Steelers as “my team” through the team’s few good years of my youth and the, well, the other years.

In the meantime, I fell in love with and married a football fanatic whose team is…

the Colts.

This Sunday’s Steelers-Colts game is the Superbowl as far as we’re concerned. Whatever happens afterward doesn’t matter.

(I just hope the Steelers don’t eke out a win by taking out Manning like they took out Palmer. That would probably result in me suffering grievous injury from thrown pots and pans.)

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The More Democrats I Meet

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Phil Kadath

The more I like my dog.

On Tuesday, Kim du Toit posted about the New Hampshire Legislature’s attempt to head off at the pass gun confiscations like the ones we saw in New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina.

House Bill 1639-FN, prohibits the confiscation of lawfully owned and lawfully carried firearms during a state of emergency, making a felon of any law enforcement officer who attempts to seize such a firearm during a disaster.

Text:

“Any law enforcement officer, person acting as a law enforcement officer, or other public official who confiscates or attempts to confiscate lawfully carried or lawfully owned firearms in this state during a declared state of emergency shall be charged with a class A felony.”

Well, I live in Washington, where the only thing that they learned from Katrina was that people cried when they had to leave their pets behind. So they are now of the mindset that I am too stupid to care for my pets during a disaster.

I give you Senate Bill 6265 from the 2006 session of the Washington State Senate:

Section 1: The Washington State Legislature finds that pet animals are important to their owners. In addition, their presence may bring comfort and enhance recovery for victims distressed over injury or damage resulting from disasters caused by all hazards, whether natural, technological, or human caused.

Section 2: It is the policy of the State of Washington that in the event of an emergency or disaster, and for the purposes of search and rescue activities, an emergency worker will make every practicable attempt under the circumstances , when engaged in emergency management, to rescue the victim’s pet animal.

(Entire text here in PDF form)

You may want to avoid the below the fold section if you don’t like me when I’m angry.
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RNS Quote of the Day

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Phil Kadath

The legal treatment accorded to actual criminals is much superior to that accorded to businessmen. The criminal’s rights are protected by objective laws, objective procedures, objective rules of evidence. A criminal is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. Only businessmen – the producers, the providers, the supporters, the Atlases who carry our whole economy on our shoulders – are regarded as guilty by nature and are required to prove their innocence, without any definable criteria of innocence or proof, and are left at the mercy of the whim, the favor, or the malice of any publicity seeking politician, any scheming statist, any envious mediocrity who might chance to work his way into a bureaucratic job and who feels a yen to do some ‘trust-busting’.

From a lecture given by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston, December 17th, 1961

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Paging Michelle Malkin….

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Professor Booty

…Mark Tapscott puts two and two together and makes a very interesting conjecture that OU (Oklahoma, not Oregon) suicide Joel Hinrichs’ death was connected to the recently revealed Algerian terror plots against the US — plots that were intended to outdo September 11 by targeting stadiums, among other things…. The bit about the Algerian professor next door and the roomie’s plane ticket to Algeria is pretty damning, I would think. Well, at least it’s worth further investigation.

They’re still out there, folks. “The price of liberty…” etc., etc.

Good eye, Mark!

Update: Jason at Generation Why notes that the Algerian plot was uncovered via one of those eeevil domestic electronic surveillance programs.

Further update: my bad, it’s University of Oklahoma (apparently commonly called OU) not Oklahoma State. Error corrected above. Thanks to DBJ for pointing this out.

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Boomershoot Rifles

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Professor Booty

Well, I had some things to do at the office so I wasn’t able to get to the range last weekend as I’d hoped. But I was able to develop our Christmas pics, including these of the 2006 Boomershoot rifles:

Here’s the .300 Weatherby under the tree. The box is the old-style box, back when one of the Weatherby slogans (on the other side of the box) was “Step Up to Perfection.” I don’t think they’re using that one anymore….

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The Soundboard: Got to Mellow Down Easy

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Phil Kadath

Last night was such a messed up evening at work and the whole earlier portion of the week there so mind twistingly tweaked that I hadn’t even given a thought to the tunage for today until about 15 minutes ago.

But when I came home, the first song in the file I loaded into the the media player was today’s selection, so I figure it’ll work for today because it mellowed me right out when I got home, headache and all.

Bag of Jewels – Lou Donaldson

I was quite happy when Blue Note records started reissuing their older jazz albums on CD a few years back because I could listen to all the songs I liked in the car without having to worry about the cassette tape warbling.

While I like Lou Donaldson’s saxophone style, I really like his choice in band mates on the album, 1968’s Midnight Creeper (which you can and really should buy here).

Besides some excellent playing by George Benson on guitar, the album also features Lonnie Smith on the Hammond B-3 organ. Donaldson lets Lonnie run loose on this tune and it is worth the wait for a dial up download, so you cable modem and DSL people have no excuse.

This is not a slow tune by any stretch of the imagination. And while it is really more suited to be summertime music, best if listened to while driving down the coast with the roof down, I figured that since most people in Seattle are crying about the 25 straight days of rain we’ve had, that everyone else out in the sphere could use some summer music too.

Myself, I like the rain. Not only because Seattleites are making me laugh about their whining about it, but because it ups the chances that I won’t have to listen to any speeches about a ‘drought’ this summer.

There’s no prize involved, but can anyone tell me where I got the tagline for the title of this post?

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I hope this isn’t a new discovery for him

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Phil Kadath

Local left wing blogger, Goldy of HorsesAss.Org (aka: Ron Sims Ass) decided to toss his hat in the ring and put in an application for the open spot on the Seattle City Council.

He had all the right qualifications: Lives in Seattle, is highly opinionated towards the left hand side of the aisle and fought on Gregiore’s side during the re-re-recount for the governorship. He even got the fact that he applied in the Seattle Times.

I figured he would be a shoe-in for getting his name high up on the list of candidates.

But like Rodney Dangerfield, bloggers just don’t get no respect.

They bumped his application on a technicality. Mostly being that he is an amateur political writer and uses curse words in his writing (and they figured he would probably use them during meetings).

The council board didn’t put it in those terms, of course; they said that putting his resume in his application letter was a no-no and needed to be completely separate from the letter.

By the book. Playing by the rules. Just following orders.

Those are the things an applicant needs to do to get on the Seattle City Council. That way, they’ll have something to forget so that they don’t forget who is in charge on the council.

Goldy is, of course, quite pissed about this.

“As far as I’m concerned, the Council, like much of government, is filled with a bunch of fearful, self-serious, humorless drones. They need to lighten up.�

And that is him putting it lightly.

He seems to have forgotten to honor his betters. At least that is what I’m sure the elitists on the council thought.

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RNS Quote of the Day

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Phil Kadath

If I were asked to choose the date which marks the turning point on the road to the ultimate destruction of American industry, and the most infamous piece of legislation in American history, I would choose the year 1890 and the Sherman Act, which began that grotesque, irrational, malignant growth of unenforceable, uncompliable, unjudicable contradictions known as the antitrust laws.

Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly, or, rather for a successful “intent to monopolize�; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “unfair competition� or “restraint of trade�; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “collusion� or “conspiracy�.

From a lecture given by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston, December 17th, 1961

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Haven’t I called them hypocrites before?

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Phil Kadath

Maybe they didn’t get the trackback?

From the leader of the Klueless Kos Kids on Saturday:

This is huge. Beyond huge: Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls, cell or land-line, for $110 online.

Journalists, politicians, businessmen, abused spouses, law enforcement, and everyone frickin’ else — your business is now everyone else’s business for the low, low price of $110.

Not only must this be plugged immediately, and this service shut down, but whoever is giving this company these phone records must pay. A lot.

I agreed with him. One of those rare times that I actually do.

But then Michelle Malkin reported this yesterday,

Several readers have e-mailed word that a far Left website, Democrats.com, has called on its readers to attempt to obtain the private phone records of prominent conservatives through shady online information brokers as some sort of retaliation against the Bush administration for monitoring al Qaeda’s international communications.

See her site for all the links.

As of 0330PST there is still no word from anyone at dKos as to the denunciation of this tactic by Democrats.com.

Typical.

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