French Sink Their Own Fleet

On this day in 1942, French Admiral Jean de Laborde sank the French fleet off the southern coast of France. Located the Toulon harbor, Laborde made the order with purpose of preventing German capture and reuse.

The French armistice with the Germans had come with the restriction from sailing in British or neutral waters. In 1940 British encouraged the French ignore the prohibition and escape to Allied waters. The French refused and as a result of the impasse, the British began firing on the French fleet, killing 1,250 French sailors, sinking one cruiser and two battleships

Two years later the Germans had broken the Vichy armistice and were attempting to commandeer the fleet. Laborde gave the order to commence sinking of his own fleet. In the end 2 battle cruisers, 4 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 1 aircraft transport, 30 destroyers, and 16 submarines went down.

The actions of the British navy in 1940 apparently fueled animosity between the two countries.

This is so freaking French. First they roll over like lap dogs to the Germans. Second that sign the Vichy armistice which is little more that an S&M agreement. Third, when given the opportunity to escape, they act like an ostrich and miss a chance for freedom. When faced with the failure of their choices, Laborde finally did the right thing and scuttled the fleet.

How do the French react? They are pissed at the British for it, not the Germans for invading their country, not the Vichy government for playing the submissive, but the British, who offered save haven, and then acting to prevent German capture of major tools of war.

This is so freaking French.

I Want to Be A Fireman

A fire fighter is working on the engine outside the station when he notices a little boy next door in a little red wagon with little ladders hung off the side. The boy is wearing a fire fighter's helmet and has the wagon tied to a dog and a cat.
The fire fighter says,"Hey little partner, what are you doing?"
The little boy says, "I'm pretending to be a fireman, and this is my fire truck."
The fire fighter walks over to take a closer look. "That sure is a nice fire truck," the fire fighter says with admiration.
"Thanks mister," the boy says.
The fire fighter looks a little closer and notices the boy has tied the wagon to the dog's collar, and to the cat's testicles. "Little partner," the fire fighter says, "I don't want to tell you how to run your fire truck, but if you were to tie that rope around the cat's collar, I think you could go faster."

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I have a new email address!

Today I received a pleasant request to share in the bounty of Africa. Sorry don't need any money, now that we are about the have a new President I will be surviving on hope....

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: kofokwesi64@yahoo.com

Attention: How are you and how is your day? I am writing this mail with your
humble permission to assist in the transfer of fund into your account which I am
sure will benefit both of us at the end of the transaction. I got your contact through your country's business/information directory. After a careful study, I am of the opinion that we can do this deal together satisfactorily and successfully. I know you will understand this deal as we make progress.
It is a deal and must! be treated as such. I am a top government official in one of
Ghana 's ministries. Sometime last year I used a fictitious (non_ existing company in your country: CHUPA INCORPORATED) with its address in your country to bid and secure a contracted valued at US$15m. The contract was awarded. Because of the laxity and inefficiency of the contract award committee, the existence of CHUPA INC. was not verified, neither was the contract executed. But the contract award committee gave us a Job completion certificate to certify that the contract was successfully completed and recommended that the US$15m be remitted to CHUPA Incubated on this the government has directed that the US$15m be remitted to the beneficiary of the fund supposedly CHUPA INC. Since CHUPA INC. does not exist and hence does not have any foreign account in your country or elsewhere, I am asking for your humble permission to remit the fund into your designated bank account for the purpose of sharing. We shall officially use CHUPA INC. letter heading to write to the ministry to domicile (or remit the US$15M) to you/your company account as an affiliate company of CHUPA INC. and beneficiary of the fund. Please be informed that it does not matter what kind of business you specialize on, the fund can be transferred into your account. This we have arranged with the officials involved and they have accepted to approve the necessary documents, if you comply with the procedure for fund transfer, as applicable under the law of this country. We shall share the US$15m in the following proportion:50% for you for providing a designated account and other assistance that is relevant to remit this fund.50% will be for me and other officials. The fund will be in your account within 14 working days, once we get the necessary information from you. I promise you a cordial business atmosphere as I await your response.

Yours sincerely, Kofo Kwesi

My company's spam filters cannot seem to catch these stupid little things. You have to love how he happily tells me that he has a new email address, like I might have saved once out of the last ten times. These things are seldom opened and always deleted. Don't ever give information to anybody that ever asks for it and watch out for fake emails that look like they are from you bank or stock broker. Whenever I get these type of inquires, I go directly to the company's website and enter in the normal fashion using my username and password.
These folks are tricky little bastards looking to steal your money. No matter how much fun and retarded the letters are, THEY HOPE TO STEAL YOUR MONEY. If an individual was doing this in person, he would need a gun to forcibly steal your money.

Socialism = Slavery

On this past Wednesday Walter E. Williams, of George Mason University, offered an editorial titled "Evil Concealed by Money". Within this he suggests that the goverment under the guise of caring for less fortunate citizens impugns moral legitimacy of the entire society.

Mr. Williams says....

Imagine there's an elderly widow down the street from you. She has neither the strength to mow her lawn nor enough money to hire someone to do it. Here's my question to you that I'm almost afraid for the answer: Would you support a government mandate that forces one of your neighbors to mow the lady's lawn each week? If he failed to follow the government orders, would you approve of some kind of punishment ranging from house arrest and fines to imprisonment? I'm hoping that the average American would condemn such a government mandate because it would be a form of slavery, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another.
Would there be the same condemnation if instead of the government forcing your neighbor to physically mow the widow's lawn, the government forced him to give the lady $40 of his weekly earnings? That way the widow could hire someone to mow her lawn. I'd say that there is little difference between the mandates. While the mandate's mechanism differs, it is nonetheless the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another.
Probably most Americans would have a clearer conscience if all the neighbors were forced to put money in a government pot and a government agency would send the widow a weekly sum of $40 to hire someone to mow her lawn. This mechanism makes the particular victim invisible but it still boils down to one person being forcibly used to serve the purposes of another. Putting the money into a government pot makes palatable acts that would otherwise be deemed morally offensive.
This is why socialism is evil. It employs evil means, coercion or taking the property of one person, to accomplish good ends, helping one's fellow man. Helping one's fellow man in need, by reaching into one's own pockets, is a laudable and praiseworthy goal. Doing the same through coercion and reaching into another's pockets has no redeeming features and is worthy of condemnation.
Some people might contend that we are a democracy where the majority agrees to the forcible use of one person for the good of another. But does a majority consensus confer morality to an act that would otherwise be deemed as immoral? In other words, if a majority of the widow's neighbors voted to force one neighbor to mow her law, would that make it moral?
I don't believe any moral case can be made for the forcible use of one person to serve
the purposes of another. But that conclusion is not nearly as important as the fact that so many of my fellow Americans give wide support to using people. I would like to think it is because they haven't considered that more than $2 trillion of the over $3 trillion federal budget represents Americans using one another. Of course, they might consider it compensatory justice. For example, one American might think, "Farmers get Congress to use me to serve the needs of some farmers. I'm going to get Congress to use someone else to serve my needs by subsidizing my child's college education."
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.

It seems like such a small effort on my part to copy the text from this editorial. The content articulates my feelings accurately. Taxation in the United States is applied forcibly. Those that approve of the system would suggest that the income tax pattern is voluntary. I would disagree, all of us have only the choice to work or not to work. To work requires acceptance of the precondition that the goverment will exact its price before gross payment is received. To circumvent this system is to do so under the assumption of risking penalty fees and or incarceration. Like Madison said, there are no provisions for benevolence in the Constitution. The federal goverment was designed to govern over interstate commerce, administer treaties and maintain a standing force for the protection of the citizenry. Starting in the early 20th century the federal goverment installed the constitutional amendment for legalization of income taxation and as that revenue stream grew it fed the escalation of class pandering by politicians. Now all, corporations and individuals alike can demand he benevolence of the federal goverment by applying the threat of mutual destruction, suggesting that if the weekest link fails, we all fail. It is wrong to assume this to be an all encompasssing mutual destruction, weakest link fail because they are the weakest, to stave off the envitable only weakens the community. Like Atlas Shrugged the receivers are bound to outnumber the providers in ever increasing numbers.

Accepting socialism is no different that accepting slavery.

We're screwed.

Rumor Has It

It is so unlike me to rent a movie like this, a light Jennifer Anniston touchy feely thingy. This is a PG-13 movie, directed by Rob Reiner, released in 2005 and lasts 1 hour and 37 minutes.

The main characters in the movie are.....

• Jennifer Anniston as Sarah Huttinger, engaged New York obit writer with cold feet.
• Kevin Costner as Beau Burroughs the internet billionaire. The late middle aged man who knows how to get the women.
• Shirley MacLaine as Katherine, Sarah's as the grandmother and first woman of the family to partake so to speak. The best part in the movie, who wouldn't want to play a bitchy old Mrs. Robinson.
• Mark Ruffalo as Jeff Daly, Sarah's on, off, on again fiance.

The plot, I might as well tell you because I will not be recommending the movie, Sarah comes home for her younger sister's wedding with her fiance. Sarah does not tell the family she is engaged. During the rehearsal dinner, her fiance suggests that Sarah was born a little bit short of the requisite none months. Then Sarah catches wind that her deceased mother ran off just before getting married, to Mexico, to be with Beau. Sarah puts together that she might not be her father's daughter. Sarah then visits here mother's best friend, played well by Kathy Bates, and learns that Beau's best friend was the man who wrote the Graduate. Sarah leaves her fiance at the airport to search for Beau, she finds him in northern California, a fantastically rich debonair man. After learning that her mother and grandmother were the inspirations for Graduate, it is not possible that Beau could be the father because of a high school soccer accident. So what does Sarah do, she gets turned on a bones Beau so to speak, after which is scared by the possibility of Beau not having had an injury and worse, a discovery by her fiance. Sarah returns to her grandmother's house for couple of busy scenes where everybody get happy, and then heads off to New York for a reconciliation with her fiance.

Not much of a movie, score 18 of 50.

• Character development 5of 10. A woman evolves from self doubt to confidently stepping forward.
• Writing 3 of 10. Predictable.
• Photography 3 of 10. Plain, plain, plain.
• Acting 3 of 10. Plain, plain, plain.
• Concept 4 of 10. A sequel to the Graduate is a fun thought, that ended right there.

Thanksgiving Revenge?

The people of Massachusetts have a gobbler problem. No I am not talking about Barney Frank. Beth Daley of the Boston Globe Staff writes an article titled "Tips To Stop Wild Turkeys From Terrorizing You".
The item is simple enough, there are a lot more wild turkeys, the turkeys have adapted to their surroundings and suburbanites have have not. The author writes....

They can be very aggressive – especially if a person is not. And if you feed them, well, expect them to literally follow you.

The comments section is fun, most suggest something that starts with a gun and ends with a meal. One comment with a difference.....

So I live on the corner of Beacon and Park Drive...a few blocks away from Fenway park. Anyway a few months ago it was raining really hard out, so I looked out my window to make sure I had closed my sunroof. Sitting on the roof of my car was a huge turkey!!! Next morning I go to my car, there are MOUNDS of turkey poop everywhere!!

It wasn't the turkey mister, it was Big Poppy.

Skipping Socialism

The most recent "The Bent Pin" article in National Review, written by Florence King suggests that conservatives are upset with the advent of American socialism, but should not be, for the country has skipped right over that stage into being "Globalist-In-Training". This is the result
of powerful global corporations that have no national allegiance combined with liberal trends of sifted education, political correctness, diversity and absence of guilt.
The result is a growing lack of national identification.
I would suggest that as the globalist movement expands, politicians lead us to a "consensus" aka "lowest common denominator". For a culture to prize "consensus" would lower the standards of that culture. The need for improvement comes from perceptible difference, the delta.

Citizens should resist fitting into the largest possible group. Be better than the man next to you, make him yearn for what you have achieved and the rewards that come with it.

A wise man said.....

"I'd trade the whole Acropolis for one American bathroom."

H.L. Mencken

Why is that an attitude that now considered xenophobic?

I want to be proud, I want to achieve, and I want to live in a country that continues to be strong.

SHEEPLEr1

How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters

This is a must see. ..Otis posted SHEEPLE earlier but now we have another example of SHEEPLE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8

I just have to ask a question…we all have to pass a TEST too move from K- 5th,, 6th - 8th,, 9th and graduate, one to drive a car, but we don’t have to be tested to vote??? WTF!!! I am completely amazed at the lack of knowledge, that should be a given, most Sheeple have.

God help us all!!!

Lawyers Are Important Too!

During a recent award cermony lawyer Gerry Spence, was awarded the CAOC Lifetime Achievement Award. Had this to say.....

"We have to redefine who we are: We are the most important people in America,"
"There is no other profession in America that fights for freedom, that fights for what America is about, that fights for justice for ordinary people."

Mmmmm, the most important people in America? To eloborate and leave no doubt to what his beliefs are....

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?"
"We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."

Perhaps he has drawn a comparison to doctors because trial lawyers appear bent on destroying the free market in health care and forcing the country into a single (government) source system. Yes they are prepared to kill the golden goose, to make it financially infeasible for people to become doctors. Don't these folks realize that they will destroy a revenue stream? Spence drones on ........

"There is so few of us and the responsibility and the opportunity and the need is so great,"

So few, aren't there more lawyers today than all of time deceased? What the world could use is a few less lawyers and a few more industriaists. Spence continues on and on ....

"I want you to be proud you are a trial lawyer," he said. "It isn't what we call ourselves; it's what we do."

Yes, we want you to be proud of yourelves, because nobody else loves you. Believe it or not Mr. Spence some people do love their doctors, nobody loves their lawyer, unless they are married.

Taking shots at the current exective branch, Spence says this about the Vice President .....

"He is a man who has been more responsible for more of the destruction of the American Dream, more of the destruction of the myth of justice, has destroyed more of what we search for and fight for and pride ourselves in as being American than any other human being on the face of the earth,"

Since when is the American dream in the best interests of a trial lawyer? Spence demonizes a man who has had to courage to speak out against the trial lawyers excess and propose tort reform.

I wish that this self-aggrandizing, narcissistic jackass could have spent some time in a real profession like being a soldier, building cars, making steel, dairy farming or building houses. Then he might have enough sense not to treat his customer base like lawyers are the shepherds to salvation. The customer base knows better, they just don't have the keys to the system. The lions share of lawyers are only interested in the well being of a citizen if there significant payment potential. I do not suggest that people should work for free, but if a lawyer smells a source of money he will do his best to create a suit regardless of injury, right or wrong. Gerry Spence tells fellow lawyers to feel good about what they are doing, f-u, lawyers live off the productivity of people who produce and create, they serve no purpose other than to redistribute wealth for a cut.

Gerry Spence is such a colossal dickhead.
And what's with that damned jacket he always wears?

• For those of you familiar with GOPU, the Davis Cup title is named for the classically inappropriate Rob V. Davis.

Hartwell is Empty

Went up to Lake Hartwell this weekend, right on the border between Georgia and South Carolina. The drought in the southeast is taking its toll on water reserves. The diminished reserves have not been in the news much, perhaps because of the presidential race. If we don't get some serious rainfall soon the lake will be empty.

Took about a 2 hour walk around a portion of the lake, where there should be water. The pictures above are both taken from places where there is normally water. The bottom picture is a warning marker for what should be an underwater shoal.

The good part of vist is that it was very quiet, no boats.

Body Heat

Because it was a movie that I enjoyed so much 26 years ago, I wanted to see if this film noir still carried some impact.
Written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who went on to direct The Big Chill, Silverado, The Accidental Tourist, Grand Canyon and Wyatt Earp. This movie was appropriately released in the summer of 1981, and provides 113 minutes of a 40's style crime drama.
The cast was made up of...

• William Hurt as Ned Racine, the small town Florida lawyer with a keen eye for available women and not so much for his profession. Hurt later worked with the director, having main roles in the The Big Chill and Accidental Tourist.
• Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker, worth the price of the ticket, the voice of Jessica Rabbit, enough said. Whewww.
• Richard Crenna as Edmund Walker, hood and husband of Matty, a man of significant wealth that is the motivation for the adulterous couples murder. Crenna, who passed in 2003 had a acting career that started in 1950 and included Ramo series.
• Ted Danson as Peter Lowenstein, Ned's friend and assistant district attorney. This is a pre-Cheers role and he plays it as a dance loving man who lives vicariously by Ned's love life.
• Mickey Rourke as Teddy Lewis the ex-con who trains Ned how to create a fire bomb. This role was created a year before Diner and shows the promise of a career that never quite made it. He says to Ned....
  I got a serious question for you: What the fuck are you doing? This is not shit for you to be messin' with. Are you ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar: any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius... and you ain't no genius. You remember who told me that?

The plot is simple enough. Horny man tracks good looking woman. Woman ensnares horny man with hidden motives. Man kills woman's wife for the money. Woman frames the horny man for the murder that he did. There are some other little twists but in a nutshell that is it.

I still like the movie, score 36 of 50.

• Character development 9 of 10. Opens the depravity of people who commit murder without regret.
• Writing 6 of 10. Done in a 40's style that fits.
• Photography 7 of 10. There are many scenes that have a unique Kasdan soft feel.
• Acting 8 of 10. Hurt and Turner are good.
• Concept 6 of 10. Its hot.

Howard Cosell Didn't Say That

Read the caption.

Senator?

Can you imagine this man in the United States Senate, it is possible. I loved the comedians work in the movie Trading Places and on SNL, especially "The Decade of Al Franken".
The personality does not translate to politics, his Air America work and candidacy reveal a set of personal beliefs that are absurd.

Monday I Have Friday On My Mind

Boom, boom, Gonna have fun in the city, da dada dada da.
With our new elected leader, we will be trying more to fit in with the rest of the world view, namely western Europe's goal of international socialism. This story is for real, having first found in the National Review and easily all over the Internet. UPI reports....

Italian court: Boy cannot be named Friday

ROME, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A court in Italy ruled Wednesday that a couple cannot name their son Venerdi, which means Friday.

Italy's supreme court, the Cassation Court, said the name Friday, which is taken from the famous Robinson Crusoe character, was ''ridiculous, susceptible to irony and mockery and liable to cause serious harm to the person who bears it,'' ANSA reported. The high court said the Robinson Crusoe character is one characterized by "subservience and inferiority, who would never reach the condition of a civilized man,'' the Italian news service reported.

The judges ordered the couple to call the child Gregorio, after the saint's day he was born on.

The head of the Italian Association of Matrimonial Lawyers said Italian law mandates name changes ''when the child's name is likely to limit social interaction and create insecurity.''

This is a government telling parents what they can and cannot name their child. God help us if the liberals deliver a Supreme Court like they have in Italy. If they did the brothers across the United States would revolt. In a family of teachers, all of whom worked in the Atlanta area the names of students have often been a topic of jovial derision.
Examples...

• Nosmoking
• Pretty (last name Tale)
• Spatula
• Quanitia
• Dominqua
• Malik
• Ouchey
• Lactreria
• Starkeesha
• Laquonda
• Aquanetta
• Shalonika
• Knowshon

Don't get me wrong, I think that it is a good thing to give a child a unique name and it IS a parent's right to do so. In my own family middle names are odd.....

• Otis
• Claude
• Tyrus
• Benice

Like the Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue" a different name can make you tough.

More Toilet News

Thinking back to the recent post about a Frenchman stuck in a train toilet, this report seemed worthy of attention. The title Exploding Toilet Sends Boy To The Hospital about says it all.

After finishing his 'business', Dennis Bueller gave the bathroom a liberal dousing of Purple Rose air freshener then decided to hang around for a bit.

"Then I began fiddling with a lighter my dad left in there and suddenly there was this big orange whoosh! of flame. I woke up outside with my clothes burned off me and smelling like a barbecue,"

He will now need months of medical care for the burns on his burns face, arms, legs and upper body. The boy's dad sympathizes with his son's pain, but hopes he has learned a lesson. "He said the downstairs loo smelled but I think he realizes he was a bit dim in playing with a lighter," said Artur Bueller. Maybe it is just me, but if I had been the adult who left that lighter laying around in the bathroom, I might be blaming myself for what happened.

Because the boy was hurt, it would be inappropriate to jest, but doesn't this have the makings of a Monty Python parody. There could also be material in the German-gas connection and because of the last name, the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Christmas Shop at Sears

Copied verbatim from an email, I did follow the links to Snopes and confirm the claim. Link at the title will take you to the confirmation.

As Christmas shopping has already started I knew I needed this reminder since Sears isn't always my first choice. Amazing when you think of how long the war has lasted and they haven't withdrawn from their commitment. Could we each buy at least one thing at Sears this year? How does Sears treat its employees who are called up for military duty? By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up. Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years. I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its contribution. I suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement it well deserves. Pass it on. Decided to check this before I sent it forward. So I sent the following e-mail to the Sears Customer Service Department: I received this e-mail and I would like to know if it is true. If it is, the Internet may have just become one very good source of advertisement for your company. I know I would go out of my way to buy products from Sears instead of another store for a like item, even if it's cheaper at that store. This is their answer to my e-mail: Dear Customer: Thank you for contacting Sears. The information is factual. We appreciate your positive feedback. Sears regards service to our country as one of the greatest sacrifices our young men and women can make. We are happy to do our part to lessen the burden they bear at this time.

Bill Thorn Sears Customer Care webcenter@sears.com 1-800-349-4358

As a kid Sears was the only department store close enough for us to visit and for a time my father worked there. Then as an adult Sears refused my credit card insisting that I sign up for one of their accounts. I stayed away for about a decade, before they ceded their credit policy and their sales lines started to included more external OEMs. It is hard to forget how as kids every fall we would scan the catalog for all the gifts we hoped for, Mom and Dad must have been watching and assessing because I never remember being disappointed and very often surprised beyond my expectations. I will shop this Christmas at Sears and buy at least a few gifts, even if they do cost a little more.
Thank you pjms.

Great Moments In American Politics

Ten years ago today....
President William Jefferson Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones
$850,000.00 for the withdrawal of her lawsuit. The agreement included
with no apology or admission of guilt. The settlement ended a four-year
legal struggle that had spurred the impeachment proceedings against him.
It was during the deposition for this lawsuit that President Clinton
lied to investigator about extra marital affairs while in office.

One of the most sickening aspects of the recent presidential campaign
was the incessant reference to how good things were in the 90's during
this douche bag's tenure. Sure enough the economy was solid, but by no
effort on his part. Personally Clinton was a pig. On national social
issues he sponsored failures such as universal heath care, Waco, and the
military's don't ask, don't tell. Internationally he lead us into the
shit storms of Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, North Korea and Bosnia. It wasn't
great, it was embarrassing.

Sheeple

There is a report on Fox of a Turkish celebration that wold cause the PETA followers to vapor lock. This is the report, copied verbatim....

ANKARA, Turkey — Residents of a mainly Kurdish village in southeastern Turkey have sacrificed 44 sheep to celebrate the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.
Friday shows villagers in Cavustepe village, in the province of Van, bordering Iran, holding Obama posters smeared with blood. In overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey, the practice is believed to protect people or property from bad luck.
The posters read "you are one of us" and "we love you."
Abdulkerim Kulaz of Cavustepe village says Obama's election and his Muslim ancestry have excited the villagers. Kulaz says Obama's election was a "proof of an end to racism in the world."
Turkey is a close U.S. ally.

Sarcastic Otis genuflects, Obama, sheep,,,, Obama, sheep,,,, Obama, sheep, slaughter. Just imagine, you are a happy little ewe, with a nice coat of wool ready for shearing. You follow the cheering men wearing a checkered towels on their heads expecting a trim and wham your entrails are being swung around some lunatic chanting something about CHANGE. Is it just Sarcastic Otis or can this be a metaphor for the kool aid drinking sheeple who expect just a little trim of their personal income. Remember that the original kool aid drinkers ended up the same as their leader Jim Jones.

Did you catch that comment "proof of an end to racism in the world". This, I believe is a result of liberal western's media practice of self loathing. This self loathing, spread to the world, is interpreted being a flaw inherent to only western culture, when in fact by comparison to eastern and middle eastern cultures, advances against racism have been enormous. Here you have a people that are killing sheep as tribute to a black man with Muslim roots being elected president in the USA, these people are saying that now that racism is ended in the United States there is no more racism. While I give Turkey as a nation credit for trying to maintain a secular government, the people are exhibiting behavior that you would read about at the time of the Crusades.

Five Easy Pieces

Lord, this DVD sat in my mail pile for weeks. This weekend I finally took the time to watch it.

Five Easy Pieces is a drama directed by Bob Rafelson, 96 minutes long and was released in 1970.
It is fair to argue that this movie put Jack Nicholson on the map as a big talent.
A story about a disillusioned classical pianist who has cast aside his talent for the life of wandering. The movie starts with Robert (Jack) working on an oil drilling rig in California, as a go-fer, just a job that brings in enough money for a place to live and beer to drink. His girlfriend is Rayette, a pretty but stupid blond with insecurity issues. The beauty isn't enough to hold him and he is involved in dalliances. Soon into the story, Robert learns that his father is sick, have had a couple of stroke, for this he make s the long drive to Washington. While visiting we see that Robert's anxiety is increased in their musically blessed family. Robert ends up fooling with the woman his brother, this leads to a connection that cannot be fulfilled. Frustrated, Robert heads for home with Rayette, when he stops for gas, he slips away in a logging truck and leaves his girlfriend with the car and his wallet. He even leaves his jacket. Off on another escape.
The cast...

• Jack Nicholson played Robert Eroica Dupea, the main part, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award setting his career on the upper road.
• Karen Black as Rayette Dipesto, as a kid I always wondered why Karen Black was so popular and considered so pretty. Her looks are different, but now I understand. Sorry that she didn't do more work.
• Billy Green Bush as Elton, Robert's oil rig and drinking pal. A laugh so deep and unique it almost worth replaying.
• Fannie Flagg as Stoney, Elton's wife, bit part, nondescript.
• Stoney Sally Struthers as Betty, the first of Robert's extra-circular affairs. Never though this this movie would treat me with Archie Bunker's little girl in the flesh.
• Ralph Waite as Carl Fidelio Dupea, what names, plays Robert's older brother, a classical violin player with an injured neck. Ralph Waite is better known as John Boy's father in the Waltons. He was also in Cool Hand Luke.

The best part of the movie takes place during the drive north. In a diner Robert is trying to order lunch...

Robert: I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Robert: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Robert: I want you to hold it between your knees.

I enjoyed the movie, score 34 of 50.

• Character development 8 of 10.
• Writing 6 of 10.
• Photography 6 of 10.
• Acting 8 of 10.
• Concept 6 of 10.

Carried Across The Finish Line

Forwarded to me by dgj_ga.

During the campaign I religiously read the New York Times website. Within the comments on editorials I found that the readership overwhelmingly agreed with the paper's editorial positions. This suggests that they are giving their audience the product they desire. The classlessness of of the comments, especially directed at Sarah Palin also indicates that publication has a symbiotic relationship with its target audience. The writing is top notch but the position is not tuned with center America. It is unfortunate that the paper carries so much influence on a national level, except for the quality of writing, it is no more informative than the dimocratic party's talking points.

Catching Up

Took the day off yesterday to help on some family business, used some of that time to read a stack of editorials. A publisher are the Patriot Post said.....

Its been tough, fellow Patriots; tough to stomach the idea that more than half of my fellow citizens who vote, have booted a genuine American hero to the curb for a rudderless charlatan, What a sad indictment on our citizenry that some are so eager to overlook his myriad flaws -- his radical roots, his extreme liberalism, his utter lack of experience or achievement. Barack Obama is the antithesis of King's dream: He's a man judged by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character. If it's God's will that Barack Obama is our next president, then so be it. We Patriots will pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and wade back to the war front, intent on liberty or death. This battle is over, but not the war. Let's roll.

Mark Alexander, Publisher

I will support the president-elect, now the choice of the people. In the last two days have seen with much amusement the liberal talking heads gnashing teeth over what policies the president will endorse. There are many who say that current conditions will force the administration to delay such things are tax reform. My amusement comes from the fact that these same talking heads criticized the McCain candidacy for negative commercials that explained the very same facts, there was no cogent plan order than "Change". My thoughts are deepening on this subject into the realm of a narcissistic public voting their desire for an immediate gratification which includes superficial band aid on a financial problem that will self correct without intervention. Handouts will not create jobs, tax structure and investment encouragement grow business then business creates jobs. Handouts take money from potential investors and promote consumerism, which may will not generate real industrial growth.

I Knew It

This is a contrast study to a recent unscientific study that showed Atlanta men had the worst bathroom habits in the nation. Men aren't the worst women are. It seems that no matter how little men clean themselves, women have, on average, more bacteria on their hands.
This Associated Press report was offered on the Tampa Bay Online site, on Monday, leading off with the title...

Study: Women's Hands Dirtier Than Men's
"The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a big surprise, and so was the greater diversity of bacteria we found on the hands of women," added lead researcher Noah Fierer, an assistant professor in Colorado's department of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Asked if guys should worry about holding hands with girls, University of Colorado biochemistry assistant professor Rob Knight: "I guess it depends on which girl."He stressed that "the vast majority of the bacteria we have on our body are either harmless or beneficial ... the pathogens are a small minority."

The old joke where one man asks another why he hasn't washed his hands after urinating and being told that he has enough enough to not go on his hands must be accurate.

O' Brother

A few weeks ago I saw a bumper sticker in this character that had a simple "F". That I liked, did not agree with, but liked.

O SHIT will be my reaction if this site causes me to get audited.

Not to worry, don't have very many follwers.

Election Day Is Here

A nice non-denominational quote from one of today's most rational columnists.

Elections should be held on April 16th, the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Thomas Sowell

I would like to see the election delayed 6 months as well. By April the markets will have reached equilibrium and what the government is capable of succeeding at will be seen in a more realistic perspective. Before the current financial situation, the presidential race was close to even, since the dimocrats hung the issue around the neck of Republicans like a noose, effectively I might add. There is more than enough blame to go around, but in the end it was inevitable. Why should citizen's put their trust in any politicians, do they have special skills, special knowledge or special insight. No they don't.

Citizens should break down their choices to fundamentals.

• Vote for conservatives, this will not stop or reverse pandering but will decelerate its advancement. Taxation will remain level, allowing businesses and individuals to rebound in a natural cycle. Courts will continue on the path to increasing punishments for the convicted. Supreme Court may impact Roe vs. Wade. Gun ownership will continue as is.

• Vote for the liberals, this will accelerate the path to socialism. Socialism, for many, is acceptable as a basic human need, with this I have no quarrel. Taxation will increase. Courts will become more permissive. The Supreme Court will expand the interpretation of the Constitution. Gun restrictions will be erected.

Unfortunate Blog Title

This afternoon, an email flashed across my left monitor, the title saying...

Atlanta Sports Blog: Georgia Tech Calling For White People

My mind went right to the negative interpretation. As it turns out this was no big deal, on Thursday, 20-November, Tech will be playing Miami. Tech's athletic association is calling for fans to wear white to the game.
I can just see it, tomorrow Barack wins the presidency. One day after the inauguration, Michelle is nominated to be Secretary of Education. Confirmation hearings in the Senate are suspended and Michelle is confirmed by a straight line party vote of 59 to 41. At which point Georgia Tech swiftly looses all of its Federal research money.
You've got to be careful with those titles.

I Ain't Gonna Have To Work No More

Found this on my favorite web site in the world, Grouchy Old Cripple.

Sort of like Forest Gump....

"don't have to worry about money, that's good, one less thing to worry about".

Sort of like, except she's fat, black and hasn't earned any of it.

I'm sorry, but this kind of crap can make a man racist.

Soft Landing

I've always enjoyed Michael Ramirez cartoons, this was scanned from my most recent issue of the National Review.
Generally I have a laissez-faire attitude toward government intrusion on things financial. In this case, different from the S&L crisis of the late 80's, there were advocates for governmental encouragement of expanding home ownership. Both Republicans and Democrats bragged on how they were expanding the privilege of home ownership to people who had not been able to afford them. In 2005 Republican attempts to get a reign on the loose credit were rejected and criticised by the dimocratic leadership. These are facts. They, our government, were eager to claim being helpful, but have no sense of responsibility for the beast they created.
Why should we trust a government is complicit in the failure to have enough ability to correct the situation?
I predict that the next financial failure will bring government support in a more automatic fashion, the underlying ethics are reshaped. Now government and business leadership have established a precedent that is sure to encourage more risky business practices.
Who suffers when it fails?
The tax payer.