An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Archive for February 2008
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A Japanese doctor says, “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in six weeks.”
A German doctor says, “That is nothing. We can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in four weeks.”
A British doctor says,”In my country medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have both of them out looking for work in two weeks.”
The American doctor, not to be outdone, interjected, “You guys are way behind. We are about to take a woman with no brains, put her in the White House, and half the country will be out looking for work.
Courtesy of Mr Ol’ Broad.
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One Bright Note
I’ve learned how to play Spider solitaire while waiting for pages to load. I don’t think dial up was EVER this slow. Well, maybe it was (300bps anyone?), but that was a VERY long time ago.
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The Do Nothings
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Kowtowing
State GOP’s Obama name use changes
The Tennessee Republican Party reversed course and removed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s middle name from a press release on its Web site.
The party said in a clarification at the bottom of the release Wednesday night that it removed Obama’s middle name Hussein “to diffuse attempts by Democrats and the Left to divert attention from the main point of this release.”
Pfft! Wusses!
Barack Hussein Obama.
John Sidney McCain.
Hillary Diane Clinton.
Michael D. Huckabee. Ok, what’s the D stand for??
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Morning Coffee 02-29-08 - Leap Year …….
…….and WildBlue still sucks edition!
Chemical Ali’ to Be Executed Within 30 Days in Iraq
Iraq’s Presidential Council endorsed the death sentence for Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during a 1988 campaign of genocide.
Al-Majid, a cousin of former President Saddam Hussein, will be executed within 30 days, President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said today on the party’s Web site. Talabani, a Kurd, is joined on the council by vice presidents Adel Abdul al-Mahdi, a Shiite Muslim, and Tareq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim.
Dang! And here I thought he had already done his “swing dance”.
Vallejo Strikes Deal to Avoid Bankruptcy
A last-minute deal between city leaders and labor unions could allow this cash-strapped Bay Area suburb to avoid becoming the first city in the state to declare bankruptcy over a budget shortfall.
The two sides reached the tentative agreement Thursday to cut labor costs just before the City Council was set to vote on whether to seek bankruptcy protection. Vallejo has grappled with spiraling employee expenses, a slowing economy and a rash of home foreclosures.
And yet, people still don’t get the connect between unions and financial woes. Go figure. “Spiraling employee expenses”? That translates to benefits the average Joe doesn’t get, at the taxpayers expense.
Nader announces his running mate
Beginning a climb as steep as some of the streets in his hometown, former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez signed on Thursday as running mate in Independent Ralph Nader’s mid-stream - and many say, quixotic - bid for the White House.
Gonzalez defended Nader, now a five-time presidential wannabe whose reputation as a spoiler was set in cement after Al Gore’s narrow loss to George W. Bush in 2000.
“Everyone wants to blame him for running,” said Gonzalez, a 42-year-old consumer activist who will take a leave from his law practice to focus on the campaign. “But he has to run, because the other parties don’t want to fix the problems with election reform. They’ve put us in an awkward position - either we never run for office, and the problems never get fixed; or run, try to win votes on substance and get criticized for it.”
Never heard of the guy, but I guess they’ll get a lot of the moonbat vote. 
Highly Poisonous Ricin Possibly Found At Las Vegas Motel
Police were called to the Extended Stay America Motel on Thursday and retrieved a package from the motel manager that was determined to be a chemical or controlled substance, Officer Ramone Denby said.
Two preliminary tests indicate it contained ricin, he said. Results from further tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a second local lab are expected Friday, police said.
“Ricin has no medical uses other than cancer research,” police Captain Joseph Lombardo said at a news conference Thursday night. “An individual citizen other than being involved in cancer research or cancer prevention would not have any legal means or proper means of having that.
And they’re saying this isn’t a terror related incident? Wonder what they were going to use it for? Starting their own cancer research facility? Hmmm….
Prince Harry to Return Home After Combat
Prince Harry will be immediately brought home from Afghanistan, where he has spent the last 10 weeks fighting on the front lines, the British Defense Ministry said Friday.
Harry, 23, third in line to the British throne, deployed to Afghanistan on Dec. 14 and has been fighting Taliban forces from a forward combat base in southern Helmand province.
Why didn’t they just put a bulls-eye on the boy’s back? Asshats! Obviously, the “story” outweighed his safety.
Israel warns of Gaza ‘holocaust’
Israeli leaders are warning of an imminent conflagration in Gaza after Palestinian militants aimed rockets at the southern city of Ashkelon.
The deputy defence minister said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he called a “bigger holocaust” in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip.
Israeli air strikes have killed about 30 Palestinians, including six children in the past two days.
The Gazans don’t much care about their children. If they did, they’d do their utmost to stop the trash from bombing Israel, and make an effort to live peacefully.
Italy: Human rights court sides with terror suspect in deportation dispute
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that Italy would violate its obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights if it deported Tunisian terror suspect Nassim Saadi from Italy as he ran a real risk of torture and ill treatment in his home country.
I don’t suppose it’s occurred to these so called ‘human rights’ types that is exactly what he would do to others, if given half a chance?
McCain: Citizenship issue settled
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Thursday that the question of whether he can run for president, despite being born in the Panama Canal Zone, was put to rest 44 years ago during Barry Goldwater’s run for the White House.
McCain added that he does not know why his campaign sought a legal opinion on whether his birth outside the continental United States might disqualify him from the presidency.
Why indeed. Perhaps prompted by some left wing loon fringe group trying to derail? Who knows. If the kid of an illegal immigrant is born in El Paso (aka anchor baby), he/she could run, so what’s the problem?
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MAJOR Server Issues
Welp, we’re gonna kiss WildBlue g’bye! It turns out they don’t much care for folks who actually use their computers….A LOT! Since there are 3 people using the internet on a regular basis (one of them listening to the ‘radio’) and they only allow us just so much broadband usage per 30 days, no matter how ridiculous the price the charge, we’re going to switch to DSL.
Odds are, posting will be on a very limited basis for the next few days. I honestly don’t think a page should take 10 minutes to load, even on dial-up. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Morning Coffee 02/28/08
U.S. border “virtual fence” to be delayed: report
Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many from Mexico. Immigration is a highly charged topic and a major issue in the campaign for November’s presidential election.
Department of Homeland Security officials and congressional auditors told lawmakers on Wednesday that problems found in the 28-mile pilot project built near Nogales, Arizona, by Boeing Co. will require a change in plans, the Post reported.
High tech is nice, but nothing will ever replace real people, with real guns and a REAL high fence. Moat….gators…..piranhas.
8 Wounded in Los Angeles Street Shooting
Police are searching for a gunman who wounded eight people at a busy South Los Angeles bus stop and trying to figure out why he opened fire into a crowd of children and adults.
Armed with a semiautomatic handgun, the man apparently was aiming at somebody but missed his target and shot others at the bus stop just after schools let out Wednesday, Lt. Ruben De La Torre said.
Are they sure he wasn’t just shooting people at random?
Nude runner arrested near Aurora
Authorities are still trying to figure out what prompted 28-year-old Kevin Lininger to run naked up and down South Shawnee Street near Aurora today.
“He didn’t demonstrate any signs of alcohol or drug use,” said Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.
Isn’t it COLD in Colorado this time of year? Nutty!
‘We should wipe out Hamas leaders’
Israel, he said, must rather go the way of upping targeted killings among the full gamut of Hamas leadership.
“We must not let anyone involved in the shooting stay alive,” Sheetrit, who is also a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said. “I am opposed to hesitation and in favor of wiping out anyone who is in Hamas; from the military and political echelons, no matter who.”
I’m not so sure just taking out the ‘heads’ is going to do the trick. They seem to regrow them in short order, so it would be a never ending battle.
As the possibility grows that voters may bestow the nation’s highest public office on an African American, serial public apologies — largely by Democrats — show just how sensitive race remains. What is less clear is how race could help or hinder Obama, who has struggled to keep it in the background.
J. Sidney McCain lost points with me when he delivered that useless apology. He didn’t have a whole lot of point to begin with, so losing a few puts him back on the bottom of the heap. B. Hussein is an empty suit with pretty platitudes.
Gov wants Cole Hall demolished
As a frigid wind swept across campus, student Laura Wayman silently took in the memorial of snow-crusted teddy bears and dying red roses lying outside Northern Illinois University’s Cole Hall Wednesday afternoon.
Wayman, 21, had not heard the big news delivered earlier in the day by Gov. Blagojevich and NIU President John G. Peters: The site of the Valentine’s Day massacre was to be torn down and replaced, nearby, with a new “state-of-the-art” facility — Memorial Hall.
Other than the obvious, is something wrong with the building? Is it full of asbestos? Are the walls crumbling?
Investigation of Clemens Is Sought
In a letter sent to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said it could not definitively say if Clemens had lied under oath during its investigation into his challenge of accusations contained in the report on baseball and drugs prepared by George J. Mitchell. But the committee said it believed that the Justice Department should pursue the matter.
I wonder if Congress has a clue of how ridiculous they are making themselves appear to the public?
Children held hostage in Cameroon
John Fru Ndi of the opposition Social Democratic Front, denied being behind the unrest but he said he could understand the frustrations felt by Cameroonians because of the high cost of living.
“It’s a miserable situation and the government has not addressed this,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.
“The people have no other alternative than to express themselves by marching on the streets to draw government’s attention to issues affecting their everyday lives.”
And by using children as shields, this will help their cause…….how?
Ford seeks further prison delay
Six months after being sentenced to prison for bribery, John Ford is proving harder to incarcerate than to convict.
U.S. Dist. Court Judge J. Daniel Breen, who has twice delayed Ford’s prison report date, listened Wednesday as the former state senator said he feared his children would be “put out on the street” if he is not there to provide food and shelter.
That judge needs to be removed from the bench. Ford isn’t the only person who has been sentenced to jail time with children. If this weasel hadn’t broken the law, this wouldn’t be an issue. Why should he be given special treatment? Just because his name if Ford? I don’t think so!
Sen. Bond: House finds time for steroids while FISA sits
Senator Bond (R-Missouri) contends Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) are “getting their marching orders from the MoveOn.org and CODEPINK constituency” of their party. Bond is denouncing Reid for arranging another vote on a resolution that would cut funding to U.S. troops and order a military withdrawal from Iraq.
According to Bond, the work in the House is “even more ridiculous.” He believes its top priority should be to vote on the bipartisan terrorist surveillance bill (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA) that overwhelmingly passed the Senate.
Feckless weasels bowing to moonbats. Our so called representatives have sunk to a new low.
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Ann On Buckley
William F. Buckley: R.I.P., Enfant Terrible
by Ann Coulter
William F. Buckley was the original enfant terrible.
As with Ronald Reagan, everyone prefers to remember great men when they weren’t being great, but later, when they were being admired. Having changed the world, there came a point when Buckley no longer needed to shock it.
But to call Buckley an “enfant terrible” and then to recall only his days as a grandee is like calling a liberal actress “courageous.” Back in the day, Buckley truly was courageous. I prefer to remember the Buckley who scandalized to the bien-pensant.
Other tributes will contain the obvious quotes about demanding a recount if he won the New York mayoral election and trusting the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book more than the Harvard faculty. I shall revel in the “terrible” aspects of the enfant terrible.
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WildBlue
Hey WildBlue lady!
Just in case ya decided to stop by, don’cha know! :) Thanks for your help, and your service to our country! Honestly, I will try very hard to behave, and not go over my usage (which is weird).
And for anyone who noticed, we were having computer/connectivity issues.
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Knock? Knock?
Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.
I think we should start a movement to get the Boracle to return not only his Oscar, but his share of the Nobel Peace Prize!
Since actual science proves that he is nothing more than a con-man and odds are he’s bilked many out of their hard earned bucks, maybe he should see the world from a different perspective for a while?
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