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Archive for 24 April 2008
A Chuckle
We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are bothering to hold an election.
On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a war hero married to a woman with a very nice figure who owns a beer distributorship.
Is there a contest here?
Had to be swiped from CatHouse Chat.
A Good Thing!
A MAJOR plus in John McFeingold’s favor? The Murder Company gave him a ZERO rating.
And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
Another Unsavory Obama Associate, Official Blogger a Communist?
The list of Barack Obama associates that hold views that clash with mainstream America is getting longer every day and now we can add another notch in the “anti-American” column of Obama campaign workers and supporters. This time we find that the Obama campaign’s official blogger, Sam Graham-Felsen, has spent time in France participating in labor riots, has written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.
Is this a case of the media not vetting another Obama associate? Why have we not heard of this man before and why is the media silent on him? After the stories of John Edwards’ anti-Catholic bloggers, you’d think that the media would have been on the lookout for campaign blogger related stories. Yet, this guy and his questionable past has been ignored by the same media that tried to give Edwards’ bloggers a pass.
Read more here.
You Might Have Seen This But….. :)
Look Closely…..
Keep looking…..
See it now?
If a Muslim sees a naked woman — they are supposed to kill themselves.
Ya gotta love the Marines.
Feel free Mr. Muslim….
If you don’t stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them..
Courtesy of Mr Ol’ Broad and Polly.
Heh!
Had to be swiped from Disgruntled Truck Driver!
More Bias
Stephanopolis makes excuses for B. while McCain defends Tom Coburn?
H/T: Cal
Was This Even On The News?
Cuz if it was, I must have missed it.
Fox, 2/24 unearths massive weapons caches
The Marines are grateful for the intelligence given by a local Iraqi, which lead to unearthing 6.5 tons of ordinance, ammunition and an abundance of enemy weapons from several cache sights; taking away an enormous amount of possible threats to coalition forces from the enemy.
“We sent out a platoon that regularly patrols that area out on an (intelligence) driven cache sweep and at first they found a couple caches,” said Maj. Guillermo Rosales, company commander, Company F, 2nd Bn., 24th Marines. “On a hunch, they started searching in suspicious-looking areas and found additional caches. The Marines developed a ‘nose,’ thinking like the enemy, which resulted in us exploiting and finding the caches.”
(…)
“Anything you can think of the enemy having, we found it,” said Capt. Jeffrey W. Wong, the executive officer for Company F. “Third platoon deserves a lot of credit, they were out there for almost five full days and just when they thought they had found everything, another cache would be dug up.”
In addition to the caches found Apr. 7-11, third platoon, Company F located another 29 enemy weapons caches near the Habbaniyah area Apr. 16.
Seriously, I’ve got to start paying closer attention. 
Why?
Dealer who sold gun used in Va. Tech massacre to visit campus; official calls it `insensitive’
The online weapons dealer who sold one of the guns used in the Virginia Tech shootings is planning to visit the campus Thursday, a decision the school’s spokesman said is “terribly offensive.”
Dealer Eric Thompson was scheduled to speak at the school Thursday night as part of a weeklong demonstration in favor of allowing people to carry concealed weapons on college campuses.
A school administrator denounced the visit in a statement Wednesday, saying it was “terribly offensive” that Thompson would set foot on campus.
“The organizers appear to be incredibly insensitive to the families of the victims who lost loved ones and to the injured students still recovering from this horrendous tragedy,” the statement issued by Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said.
Ken Stanton, president of the university’s chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, the group advocating weapons on campus, said he lost a friend in the April 2007 massacre and it taught him “firsthand the importance of self-protection.”
Ok, so someone explain to me why it’s “insensitive” for this man to visit and speak at Va. Tech? He didn’t pull the trigger. He’s advocating for licensed students to be able to defend themselves, and others, with the ability to carry a weapon on campus. If someone had had a gun, perhaps some of those young people would still be alive today.
Poor B.
Need Some Chuckles?
I gotta say, I’m no fan of CBS. Well, I’m not a fan of any of the ‘alphabets’ actually, but this piece is just too funny, knocking on the serious bad ratings brought on by the major incompetents in the new department of the Columbia Broadcast System.
Dead Air
Why CBS should shutter its news division.
A snippet:
Taking a cue, I propose that it is time for CBS News to be put down, in the Old Yeller sense of the phrase. It’s time to turn out the lights and just start airing Hollywood gossip at 6:30 p.m. The network could follow Schieffer’s lead and simply dissolve the thing after the inauguration, maybe keeping 60 Minutes around, either as a commercial-free public service program (because what exec doesn’t love a prestige-hogging loss leader?) or under the auspices of CBS’ entertainment division (because why keep pretending?). The farewell would be handled with dignified pomp—tributes to Murrow and Severeid and so forth. And if Walter Cronkite is in good health, he could do the honors with a final sign off. I’m serious. That’s how bad things are, and that’s the way it is.
Read the whole thing here.
The Nutty Buddy
Some things just must be seen to be believed.
Reckon these guys could have used it.
Heh.
Swiped from Taxing Tennessee.
Drill!!!! Refine!!! NOW!
More Horse Manure From South of the Border
Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries
Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, Rafael Quintero Curiel, served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and guiding the Mexican media around at the conference. He took six or seven of the handheld devices from a table outside a special room in the hotel where the Mexican delegation was meeting with President Bush earlier this week.
Everyone entering the room was required to leave his or her cell phone, BlackBerry and other such devices on the table, a common practice when high-level meetings are held. American officials discovered their missing belongings when they were leaving the session.
It didn’t take long before Secret Service officials reviewed videotape taken by a surveillance camera and found footage showing Quintero Curiel absconding with the BlackBerries.
Sources said Quintero Curiel made it all the way to the airport before Secret Service officers caught up with him. He initially denied taking the devices, but after agents showed him the DVD, Quintero Curiel said it was purely accidental, gave them back, claimed diplomatic immunity and left New Orleans with the Mexican delegation.
What a crock of crapola! How much information do “high- level” store on their BlackBerries? I’d definitely look into the possibility he’s not only a thief, but a spy as well.
Uh…..
German Artist Looks for Volunteer to Die as Work of Art
The prizewinning artist Gregor Schneider, enfant terrible of the German cultural scene, is looking for a volunteer who is willing to die for his — that is, Schneider’s — art.
He wants someone whose dying hours will be spent in an art gallery with the public admiring the way the light plays on the flesh of a person gasping for the last breath.
Politicians and curators are in a state of uproar about Schneider’s plans. The 39-year-old artist has been concerned with death for much of his career. He gained critical acclaim for a sculpture, “Hannelore Reuen,” of a dead woman. He has been hatching his current idea since 1996, and now has a sympathetic pathologist and art collector to help to find a candidate who wants to become a work of art in the final days of his or her life.
“The dying person would determine everything in advance, he would be the absolute center of attention,” Schneider said. “Everything will be done in consultation with the relatives, and the public will watch the death in an appropriately private atmosphere.”
I can’t think of anything to say except…..
Preserving the Past
First-ever oil paintings found in Afghanistan
Scientists have found what they described this week as the earliest oil paintings ever discovered.
Murals found on cave walls in Afghanistan prove that painting with oil had been going on in Asia for centuries before artists used the technique in Europe, scientists said this week.
Until now, art historians believed that oil painting started in Europe in the 15th century.
Scientists found the murals in a network of caves where monks lived and prayed in the Afghan region of Bamiyan, according to a statement on the Web site of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, where the ancient paintings were analyzed.
Until 2001, two colossal 6th-century statues of Buddhas stood at the mouth of the caves. Then the Taliban, which then ruled Afghanistan, blew up the statues on the grounds that they were un-Islamic. The action drew international condemnation.
That action by itself should have been enough for us to bomb them into oblivion. Might have made that Islamic trash think twice about flying those planes into the Twin Towers. Probably not, but…..
Inside the caves, scientists found murals painted in the 7th century. They show images of Buddha in vermilion robes sitting cross-legged amid palm leaves and mythical creatures.
In 12 of 50 caves, the murals were painted using drying oils — perhaps from walnuts and poppy seeds — the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility said.
How cool is that! I honestly can’t tell what the painting is, but it’s still cool.
“This is the earliest clear example of oil paintings in the world,” said Yoko Taniguchi, leader of the team of scientists.
Bamiyan, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) northwest of Kabul, was once a thriving center of commerce and Buddhism. The paintings, scientists say, were probably the work of artists who traveled along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route between China, across Central Asia’s desert to the West.
Such a rich history, yet some don’t seem to think it’s worth preserving.
The Taliban used dozens of explosives to demolish the Buddha statues in Bamiyan.
If it doesn’t promote Islam, it must be destroyed. Obviously an attempt to destroy anything and everything that doesn’t push the Religion of Pieces.
Now, the United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, is trying to restore the bigger of the two statues. The task could take years.
The one thing that the UN is doing that I actually approve of. I hope they’ll preserve those paintings! All history should be preserved for future generations, whether we like the history or not.
