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.