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Archive for June 2008
Out Of Touch
Ya might have noticed blogging has been quite light of late. Well, when you have issues with the motel WiFi, it makes it kind of tough to express an opinion that doesn’t include numerous four lettered words due to the aggravation involved. I spoke to a nice young fella a short while ago when I had to go get more coffee for the morning (they didn’t clean my room today 
). At this present moment in time, it looks like he might have resolved the problem.
Also, visiting family has taken up a lot of my time, obviously. I drove 700 miles to see the new baby fer cryin’ out loud. Can you believe I have not once turned on the TV in my motel room? Yep, I’ve definitely been out of touch. Heh. Since doing a brief perusal of news online, I can tell I haven’t missed a whole lot. S.S.D.D.
I can tell you, watching my scrawny older sister trying to put flea and tick stuff on her 12 dogs is a WHOLE lot more entertaining that any TV show ever made.
One particular canine was having none of that stuff. I do believe he was having a high ol’ time making her follow him back and forth between the tree and my niece’s car. Then there were the goats that needed to be fed and watered, not to mention the four donkeys bellowing for their chow. The cows were fairly quiet though. Yes, my sister definitely runs a zoo. Fred, the pot bellied pig just kind of lays around, so there’s not much action there. Now, the cats….well, I lost count at around 10…or I might have counted a couple of them twice. Then again, I might have missed a few too. 
I do know there is only one lop eared rabbit though. Hmmm…. I think I need some of that flea stuff! sigh….
Evidently, there is quite a ruckus going on around here concerning the Trans-Texas Corridor. From what little I heard, it’s not a good thing for the folks who live out in the boonies where my sister and her kids and grandkids live. From what my brother in law was telling me, they’d have to drive 40 miles around to get to the town that is only 8 miles from them. Somehow, this just does not make a damn bit of sense. Looking at the website, it seems this is part of that plan to open up our roads to Mexico. I might be wrong. I’m tired, and haven’t fully delved into the info.
Driving back to Hunstville tonight, I realized it must be skunk season. Honestly, I think there was a dead skunk every half mile! Needless to say, the aroma was quite extreme for quite a while.
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Love Those Marines!
Yeah, it’s old, but who cares. 
THE PATRIOT MICRO CHIP is intended to be implanted in terrorists.
The implant is specifically designed to be installed in the forehead.
When properly installed it will allow the implantee to speak to God.
It comes in various sizes:
The Implantee may or may not be allowed to choose the size.
The implant may or may not be painless.
Some bleeding and or swelling may occur at the injection site.
Please enjoy the security we provide for you.
Best regards,
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
SEMPER FI
Courtesy of Ken the cop, retired Marine!
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Obamarama
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Morning Coffee 06/30/08 - Aggrevation Edition
U.N.: U.S. aid ship arrives in N. Korea
A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food arrived in North Korea after the impoverished nation agreed to open up to greatly expanded international aid, the U.N. food agency said Monday.
The World Food Program said the freighter arrived Sunday carrying 37,000 tons of wheat, the first installment of 500,000 tons in assistance promised by Washington.
Foreign welfare, that, of course, is paid for by the American taxpayer. I have this image in my head: I go out, buy all the latest “toys”, and expect YOU to feed my children. What is wrong with this picture?
Zahar: Hamas can exploit Kuntar deal
Hamas on Monday said it was emboldened by Israel’s decision to trade Hizbullah terrorist Samir Kuntar for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Gaza strongman Mahmoud Zahar, speaking to the independent Al-Quds radio station, said Hamas would take advantage of this decision “to release people Israel accused of having blood on their hands like Samir Kuntar. We have to take advantage of this to release our prisoners.”
This was a really stupid idea! If you appease one bunch of murderous thugs, the other murderous thugs are going to expect the same. There will be more death because of this, and Israel’s sons and daughters will pay the price.
U.S. forces to hand over hard-won Anbar Province
This is a city literally rising from the ashes. While reminders of two major US assaults here in April and November 2004 are inescapable, signs of rebirth are plenty. Men in jumpsuits busily work on construction sites, sewers are being installed, and a hospital is nearly completed.
I guess this is one of those “failures” Runnin’ Reed and the Moon Queen are always talking about, right?
Auction Ends for Australian Man’s Life, Disappointed With Final Price
A man who auctioned his life — his house, his car, his job, even his friends — on eBay said Monday he is disappointed with the selling price: almost $384,000.
Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, put everything he owned as well as introductions to his friends on the online auction site after a painful breakup with his wife prompted him to want a fresh start.
Bidding closed Sunday and reached nearly $384,000 — an amount Usher said his house in the western city of Perth was worth on its own.
The lesson here? Nobody thinks our “lives” are worth as much as we do.
River cresting below flood stage at St. Louis
The National Weather Service says the swollen Mississippi River is about to crest at just under nine feet below flood stage at St. Louis.
The river’s high water has closed only the President Casino and a handful of other businesses along the city’s riverfront.
Upriver from St. Louis, the river is slowly receding in hard-hit towns like Winfield and Foley, Mo., but it will be some time before residents can assess the damage.
Finally, some positive news. It will take time, but perseverance will pull them through.
Court Rules Against Canadian’s Torture Suit
A federal appellate court has ruled that a Canadian man who claims American officials sent him to Syria to be tortured cannot sue this country.
The man, Maher Arar, a native of Syria, was on an American terror watch list because Canadian law enforcement officials had told their American counterparts that they believed Mr. Arar had ties to Al Qaeda, according to a report by a Canadian commission that investigated Mr. Arar’s case.
American immigration officials detained Mr. Arar at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 2002. Mr. Arar was then forcibly transported to Syria where he says that he was held in a small cell and beaten repeatedly. Syria released him in 2003. The Canadian commission subsequently found that Mr. Arar poses no security threat. Canada has paid him close to $11 million in compensation.
I think the court was right. If the man has issues, it’s between him, Canada and Syria. Has he filed a suit against Syria?
Ford trial in Nashville delayed again
Jury selection in former state senator John Ford’s federal court trial in Nashville was delayed again today — for at least a day — as Ford’s defense attorney was hospitalized over the weekend with an inflamed finger.
Asst. Federal Public Defender Isaiah Gant was admitted to the hospital and underwent surgery on Sunday after his finger ailment did not respond to antibiotics, attorneys assembled this morning for the start of jury selection said.
Y’know, when I first read that headline, without even reading any of the content of the story, my immediate thought was “What is it this time? Does he have a hangnail?” Guess I was pretty close, eh?
‘Iran Preparing Graves for Its Enemies’
The Mehr news agency quoted Gen. Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying the graves would be dug in Iran’s border provinces, to provide for the burial of enemies in line with the Geneva Conventions.
“The burial of slain soldiers will be carried out decently and in little time,” said Bagherzadeh, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who heads a propaganda body called the Sacred Defense Foundation.
“We do not wish the families of enemy soldiers to experience what Americans had to go through in the aftermath of the Vietnam War,” he added, apparently referring to the ordeal faced by families of MIAs during and after that conflict.
How very nice of them. Perhaps they’d like to prepare a few million sites for the Iranians who will perish as well? And while their at it, let those who have already died at their hands know where their loved ones are buried? I hear there are a few folks who have never been heard from again after the Iranians honchos got through with them.
Kenya urges AU to suspend Mugabe
Kenyan PM Raila Odinga has urged the African Union to suspend Robert Mugabe from the bloc until he allows free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.
The call came as the Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said the country faced a constitutional crisis.
The Zimbabwe crisis has overshadowed the African Union summit in Egypt.
Correspondents say the AU’s response to the Zimbabwe crisis will be a major test of the bloc’s effectiveness.
Is the AU any more effective than the EU, or the UN at protecting the innocent and promoting freedoms? I doubt it, considering the recent atrocities they’ve witnessed, and done nothing.
UK statesmen call for world free of nuclear weapons
Four former British foreign and defence secretaries Monday put aside their party differences to issue an appeal to the world’s nuclear powers to reduce their arsenals in the hope of dissuading other countries from pursuing nuclear ambitions.
The word “naive” comes to mind.
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Da Bebe!
Ain’t he cute! And the brilliant great aunt forgot to take her camera. sigh… I guess it’s a good thing that phones have that little feature these days.
I would have posted this last night, but of course, I had no internet connection.
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Verse of the Day
Proverbs 11:27
27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
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Blogs 4 Borders 06/30/08
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Sunday Afternoon - Waiting To Dry Out - Food For Thought
TexasFred for President: A Grass Roots Movement - Texas Fred’s
Please Watch This…….. - silent E speaks
MSM content is mostly bunk and the form is under par. - Colonel Neville
The Aldermanic Privilege debate - Badger Blogger
An informed citizen fights back - Jihad Watch
Keeping the gun issue alive? - Wisdom is Vindicated
Mold Follows Flood- What Can You Do? - The Happy Circumstance
My Friend And Movie Star Runs For Senate - Blue Collar Republican
English Democrats Harassed by Police for Flying the Flag - The Brussels Journal
Obama Was Against Guns Before He was For Them… - Dragon Lady’s Den
Park Service refuses to say who broke the circle - Faultline USA
Milblogger Taken Offline for Telling Truth Without Asking Permission First - Paterico’s Pontifications
Tony Perkins Asks Barack Obama: When Does Life Begin? - Real Debate Wisconsin
San Francisco sneakily applies slow poison to JROTC - Bookworm Room
Sports Quote Of The Day… - Ick’s Corner
Bubba-licious Addresses The Nation - Support Your Local Gunfighter
Iran threatens oil in the Straits of Hormuz - This ain’t Hell
The most reliable PalArabs are the most bloodthirsty - Elder of Ziyon
Conejitos : Spanish for “Practical Joke”? - The Daily Scoff
Every Murderer a Hero - The Cult of Jihad - Sultan Knish
Know the enemy part 3 - Ban the Ban
Right Videos: Dr. No-bama; Bias Reporter - Ft. Hard Knox
Media Hysterics Post Heller - Snowflakes in Hell
Mexico frees killer of U.S. Border Patrolman - Lone Star Diary
The Morning Scramble - 6/29/2008 - No Runny Eggs
The Axis Of Idiots……… - ChristmasGhost
Reflections on Dickie Scruggs’ Sentencing - Y’all Politics
McCain’s Pick - Lance Burri
The Second Amendment Is Under Attack! - Mad Irish Man’s Conservative Consortium
Caution: Clown congress at work - Michelle Malkin
British Warn of Ambulance Bombs - The Jawa Report
TN Democrat, Jim Cooper, Alleged to be Under FBI Investigation - Blue Collar Muse
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Reality
We’ve heard just how great ethanol is for the last few years. Reality has been setting in recently. The price of food has sky rocketed. When you use food to put fuel in your vehicle, common sense SHOULD have told those pushing for all those “mandates”, there would be some serious consequences. Naturally, the corn farmer thought, “Wow, I’m gonna make a boat load of money”. All well and good, except at what price in the long run? When there isn’t enough food to feed those who are truly starving, I’d say there was a big problem.
The fact that stupidity is causing children to cry themselves to sleep with hunger, ethanol in the gas tanks suck! It’s not efficient. When you get 40 to 50 miles LESS per tank, there is no efficiency involved.
Can we PLEASE knock off the idiocy, get back to reality and start looking for REAL alternatives? While drilling in our own “back yard” is not going to solve the problems in the long run, it’ll sure put a damper on the “speculators”. While we should have been thinking towards the future of our nations energy and security, people in D.C. have been playing politics. Using their positions of power, and the desire to keep said positions, they have allowed this country to be so dependent on foreign sources, not just for energy, but for nearly everything we use in our daily lives. Enough already! It’s time to wake up, and start dealing with the issues right here at home!
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An Interesting Read About The EU
How EU Leaders Are Trying to Rescue the Lisbon Treaty
Last week’s summit in Brussels failed to resolve the EU crisis caused by the Irish “no” to the Lisbon Treaty. But Europe’s politicians are determined to avoid asking the people their opinion. And they are right to do so.
This must be the biggest collection of scoundrels in the world. There are 27 of them. No, more: It’s not just the heads of state and government who are here, but also the foreign ministers. Sitting there at their enormous table, they seem to be chatting amiably, but it’s far less innocent than that. They’re plotting something, once again, searching for a way to put one over — and a really big one, this time — on the people they represent. They’ve been working on it for a long time, picking up where their predecessors left off. Again and again, they trick their populations into accepting the European Union.
It’s been going on for 50 years: politicians making policy against the people. The only time anyone ever notices is when the people — one people, in this case — are asked for their opinion. It happened in Ireland recently, when the Irish made it clear that they refuse to accept the politics of scoundrels. They voted against the Lisbon Treaty (more…), and in doing so they plunged the EU into yet another of its many crises.
It was the big topic at the meeting of the European Council (more…) last Thursday and Friday, when the heads of state and government got together, hoping to devise a way out of their current impasse, a way that would enable them to continue making policy against the people without the people noticing what they are up to.
What they were in fact discussing was a handful of tricks, tricks involving lawyers, tricks that would enable them to palm the Lisbon Treaty off on the Irish after all.
Of course, they would never admit it. It sounds awful, and it certainly doesn’t sound democratic. But what if these smooth-operating politicians, and not the general public with their supposed wisdom, were right after all?
For now, it looks as though Brussels has no choice but to agree with the Irish. It is 4:20 p.m. on Thursday, and the current president of the European Council, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, and his State Secretary for European Affairs Janez Lenarcic, are waiting to meet with their colleagues. They wait and wait, but no one shows up. After a while, the prime minister and his state secretary begin fidgeting awkwardly. Aren’t Europe’s politicians interested in Europe’s future any more, they wonder?
One man, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, eventually appears, and soon the rest trickle in, one by one. It takes a full hour before this contingent of European politicians has managed to shake hands. By the time they have all flooded into the conference room, the scene resembles a “Where’s Waldo?” of European politics, a bustling, confusing mass of politicians and their aides.
The doors close. Everyone knows that what is about to happen — supposedly a “debate” — is nothing but a series of casual two-and-a-half-minute speeches at the microphone. Everyone has to step up and put forward the position of his or her respective country.
And this is something we are supposed to applaud? Something we should trust and support?
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