Friday, May 21, 2004
Weekend Work
Don't know if I will get the chance to blog this weekend, off to help some Sea Scouts with training. Be back on Monday, me thinks.
Don't Mess with the Scots
Bayonet Brits kill 35 rebels.
Maybe those insurgents should of taken a history lesson before taking on the Scots. Some of the most impressive and fiercest fighters were the Scottish Highlanders. Now people may say if the Scots are such great fighters why were they taken over by the Brittish? Well the Scots also have another issue, they are also adpet at and like being leaders and they always ended up fighting eachother to be incharge.
OUTNUMBERED British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army?s first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago.
The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.
Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.
The battle erupted after Land Rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.
After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.
When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway — and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured.
An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.”
The last bayonet charge was by the Scots Guards and the Paras against Argentinian positions.
Maybe those insurgents should of taken a history lesson before taking on the Scots. Some of the most impressive and fiercest fighters were the Scottish Highlanders. Now people may say if the Scots are such great fighters why were they taken over by the Brittish? Well the Scots also have another issue, they are also adpet at and like being leaders and they always ended up fighting eachother to be incharge.
Anti-Low Carb Beer
The worst part about the low carb craze is now the local stores discriminate against good beer choices by dedicating valuable fridge-space to low-carb ass beer. Damnit!, I want my beer that has 130 calories a bottle because it tastes good, not because I'm trying to be healthy by drinking it. I think its self evident that beer isn't the best choice for a weight loss, in fact most beer drinkers could stand to loose a few pounds. Then again you see what the Rugby and Cricket players can do in terms of beer consumption (on the return flight from the Rugby World Cup in Australia, Matt Tindall attempted to break the unofficial-record of 54 beers consumed on the 24-Hour Sydney-London flight, by Australian Cricketer David Boon. Tindall got close to 50 before the curtain finally closed) and keep in good shape. If I wanted to drink that crap, I would of left galvanized steel pipe in the house to get rust water, which tastes the same, is much cheaper than low carb beer, and probably has a lot fewer carbs than the low carb beer. But if you must sell that stuff, put it on a shelf and keep the good beer cold and unoppressed by obtrusive low-carb beer.
Almost Gave Myself Whiplash on the Double-Take.
Everytime noted Conservative basher David Brock writes a book (the latest is "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy."), he gets on the Today Show for some free PR. But this time Today added a twist, Katie Couric didn't fully buy into his premise and she actually suggested there is credence to the idea that the mainstream media tilts left. Couric contended that:
and she proposed:
......And Choirs of Angels Sang.
"most people, I think, on the street would say the media it tends, tend to be more liberal than conservative"
and she proposed:
"Aren't most people in journalism, primarily, except for say on Fox, and in certain conservative publications, aren't they for the most part, and of course the media is, are not monolithic, but pro-choice, you know, against prayer in school, probably favor affirmative action? I mean don't you think that's, that's fairly typical? And if so is it, why isn't it fair to say that liberals, sort of, are controlling the mainstream media?"
......And Choirs of Angels Sang.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Random Satire
Inspirational Disabled Horse Crosses Preakness Finish Line After 11 Hours.
Kennedy Denounces Troops for Kennedy-Like Behavior
Hyannis Port, Massachusetts - Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) today denounced the Bush Administration for allowing members of the American Armed Forces in Iraq to engage in the sexual abuse of prisoners. Speaking at Tequila Shooter Drinking Contest at the Hyannis Port Hooters Restaurant, Kennedy said "that sexual abuse is a terrible crime and George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld should resign."
Senator Kennedy then licked jello shots out of the navels of four Hooters waitresses and requested that all the underage girls in the room go with him for a drive out to Chappaquiddick. Eyewitnesses claim that Senator Kennedy then unzipped his pants and approached Mrs. Esther Saddleford, a retired schoolteacher from Euclid, Ohio, and asked her if she wanted to "feel the Kennedy legacy."
In related news, the National Organization for Women has just announced that it is giving its 2004 Person of the Year Award to Senator Kennedy for his "long fight in the struggle against sexual abuse and harassment."
Just to scare children. But I'm sure there is a nice man in there somewhere, its just too bad he stumbled between Moore and the buffet. Yes apparently even a horse's ass needs to eat.
but all joking aside, good god he is fat. That cannot be healthy at all, but I think the UN found its poster-child for the anti-obesity campaign.
Update: Great quote from the Onion: "Moore's prominent presence in the news brings to light some serious questions, such as 'Can't he at least try to look presentable?'"
Havana Daydreaming
Just passing along a recent email from a friend of mine who is studying abroad in Cuba. He is normally attends Columbia and this is the program mostly designed to students to the "wonders" of Castro's Utopia.
Here is a excerpt from the only other email he ever sent from Cuba:
I have no doubt there are many out there who would disagree with his observations, or accuse him of downright lies. But there is one thing that whitewashing cannot do and that is hide the truth of everyday life. When will those like Oliver Stone wake up and realize that they are simply PR tools of a brutal, oppressive dictator?
When I came down here, I decided to make an effort to keep in touch with friends and family back home, and I did a miserable job of it. Sorry. Its been tough getting in front of a computer. I wanted to send out tons of clever emails about daily life and the absolutely bizarre things that happen here, and even wrote quite a few, but they all somehow turned into 2000 words about everything wrong, frustrating and heartbreaking about this country. So I didn't send them because I was worried that you might hurt your head on your keyboard when you passed out from boredom.
Its been a great trip all in all, though horrible at times. I've seen the place where Columbus first landed in the Americas, had my pocket picked in a disco beneath a 400-year old Spanish fort, gone scuba diving in the Bay of Pigs, met Patch Adams and called him the worst kind of pessimist ever, seen Fidel speak for two hours, seen hundreds of Cubans yawn while Fidel spoke, passed on news articles to Cuban students, been used as a political prop by the Cuban legislature (itself a political prop), been on Cuban TV, had hours of conversations with kids about their country and mine while drinking rum on Havana's seawall, seen hundreds of western tourists on resort packages be completely oblivious to Cuba, seen people scared to death by their government after being assured on the news that a US invasion was imminent, smoked the best cigars in the world, failed to learn to salsa, been hit on by prostitutes, convinced a prostitute that I was a prostitute too so she'd leave me alone, gone swimming in an underground cave, stopped a bus from flying down a hill when the driver got out of his seat to beat a passenger for smoking, gotten several parasites, driven a '56 Chevy, broken down on an electric railway built by the Hershey Chocolate Co, stayed in a remote fishing village on a eastern lagoon, slept on miles of empty sand beaches, met some of the most decent people in the world, had Cuban friends detained by the police for sitting on my porch, and taken pictures of statues of both Vladimire Lenin and John Lennon. And that's just the beginning.
Here is a excerpt from the only other email he ever sent from Cuba:
I am doing fantastic. I've got some nice digs in what used to be the posh part of Havana before the revolution. Living is cheap (2 cent bus rides, 20 cent mojitos), and the people are some of the friendliest I've ever met. Life is good, for a gringo with dollars.
I wish that I could describe what the city looks like. At one time, this was probably one of the most beautiful metro areas in the world. Old Havana is full of neo colonial buildings and stone plazas, which have all fallen into states of ruin over the years. Its amazing to walk down the streets past hollowed out shells of water front mansions whose interiors have been scrapped or burned, leaving behind only enough structure to buttress the neighboring buildings. It'd be like walking down East 75th and finding weeds and dirt inside of every fifth brownstone. Even more amazing is to see two, three, or ever four families still living inside. Despite the cracked stucco and acid-rain washed columns, its one of the most strangely beautiful cities I've ever seen.
As for classes, they theoretically started last week. I pick up the communist party newspaper (not at all unlike the Columbia Spectator) every day to try to pick some new Spanish vocab. Last week, the covered a conference of leading Latin American Universities, and reported that society as a whole can be reformed by improving and expanding the university system. As a first step, I've suggested actually having classes at Latin American Universities. I attended an hour of class last week, and spent the rest of my time trying to discover if my professors were dead or alive, once going to four buildings to discover that one professor was on vacation. No one knows when he's coming back. None of the Cuban students I've met seem concerned, so whatever. I'm happy for the free time...
...Internet prices are kept artificially high and service scarce to prevent ordinary Cubans from getting hooked up (I just spent a Cuban's monthly wages for a 100 minute internet card), so I'm trying to save scrap. Of course there's plenty more to tell about what things are really like down here, but I'm still trying to figure that out.
I have no doubt there are many out there who would disagree with his observations, or accuse him of downright lies. But there is one thing that whitewashing cannot do and that is hide the truth of everyday life. When will those like Oliver Stone wake up and realize that they are simply PR tools of a brutal, oppressive dictator?
Can you guess which papers are liberal?
Just a snapshot of newspaper headlines across the country about Nick Berg's slaughter.
Of course it gets worse when you get to the moonbat sites like atzlan.net, indymedia.org, moveon.org, and so on. The thing I find most disturbing is some liberal friends I have feel that the liberal media is completely correct, but what ever you do don't blame the people who did it. Then again it was the CIA who did it.......
"American beheaded in revenge for abuses" -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Grisly Vengeance" -- The Hartford Courant
"Militants avenge abuse with taped beheading" -- The Des Moines Register
"Vengeance on Video" -- The Arizona Republic
"With a Vengeance" -- Newsday (Long Island)
"Amid prison inquiry, revenge" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"U.S. civilian beheaded in Iraq; abuse responsibility in dispute" -- The Providence Journal
"Terrorists Behead American" -- The New York Sun
"Pure Evil" -- New York Daily News
"Savages" -- New York Post
"Bastards" -- Philadelphia Daily News
"Murderous revenge: U.S. hostage dies in wake of Iraq prison abuse." -- Globe and Mail (Canada)
"Al-Qaeda Beheads American. Businessman was in Iraq to help build antennas." -- National Post (Canada)
Of course it gets worse when you get to the moonbat sites like atzlan.net, indymedia.org, moveon.org, and so on. The thing I find most disturbing is some liberal friends I have feel that the liberal media is completely correct, but what ever you do don't blame the people who did it. Then again it was the CIA who did it.......
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
"Old Man" throws out.....
No not his back, but a Perfect Game.
Congratulations Mr. Johnson.
Randy Johnson had pretty much done it all -- Cy Young Awards, a no-hitter, strikeout records, a World Series championship.
Only one thing was missing in his brilliant career, that rarest of pitching feats.
At the ripe ol' age of 40, the Big Unit took care of that, too.
Johnson became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0 Tuesday night.
"A game like this was pretty special," said Johnson, a five-time Cy Young Award winner. "It doesn't come along very often."
Congratulations Mr. Johnson.
Monday, May 17, 2004
Hispanic Homeland Idiocy
Anyone who says this idea came from a far left College Professor would be right.
The following statements are something only a intellectual (n. Referring to one educated beyond one's brain capacity) could believe
A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico...
...the Republica del Norte, the Republic of the North, is an inevitability...
...Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be brought into being by any means necessary, but recently said it was unlikely to be formed by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished by the electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region, he said.
...Educated elites are going to have to pick up on this idea and run with it and use it as a point of confrontation if it is to succeed...
...Truxillo...believes it's his job to help develop a cadre of intellectuals to think about how it can become a reality.
Give me a break. Lets see any means necessary, has the country been that hard on him. He gets paid to dole out bullcrap. But he does a great job of explaining those hispanics who disagree with him.
We remain subordinated, he said. We have a negative image of our own culture, created by the media. Self-loathing is a terrible form of oppression. The long history of oppression and subordination has to end.
Truxillo said Hispanics who have achieved positions of power or otherwise are enjoying the benefits of assimilation are most likely to oppose a new nation.
There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, 'Give me a break. I just want to go to Wal-Mart.' But the idea will seep into their consciousness, and cause an internal crisis, a pain of conscience, an internal dialogue as they ask themselves: 'Who am I in this system?'
So hispanics who live here who don't agree with him are subordinates and sell outs to "White America." Becoming part of the greater American Culture and taking full participation in the society has nothing to do with it, nope nothing at all. But he does have a semi-supporter (which speaks volumes about where he stands), good ole-Castro.
Cuban President Fidel Castro said that the United States should return to Mexico huge chunks of that country's territories it acquired more than a century ago.
It must really hurt to realize that by living in New Mexico or paying to go to school there pays this man's salary.
On a side the website lists their location as Los Angeles, Alta California.....agenda anyone?
Oh heck!
Why, Why, Why......
Bad luck strikes again, hopefully he will return in the late summer for a Series run. With any luck though Salmon and Garret will be back soon to add some offense. Also include Donnelly's return, which should be soon. At least this year however we have Vlad and Jose to add to the offense, while it still stinks they have the tools to deal with it better this year.
Anaheim slugger Troy Glaus, a three-time All-Star and this year's AL home run leader, will have surgery on his right shoulder Friday and might be sidelined for the rest of the season.
The surgery will be performed by Angels team physician Dr. Lewis Yocum to repair fraying of the labrum and rotator cuff, and Glaus will be placed on the 60-day disabled list, the team said Monday.
Bad luck strikes again, hopefully he will return in the late summer for a Series run. With any luck though Salmon and Garret will be back soon to add some offense. Also include Donnelly's return, which should be soon. At least this year however we have Vlad and Jose to add to the offense, while it still stinks they have the tools to deal with it better this year.
Too Late for the East Germans...
IOC gives go-ahead for transsexuals to compete in Olympics.
First time? Well I guess in terms of surgically yes. But lets be serious here, the hormonal changes in the East German Women (and other communist countries) from the massive amounts of steroids is just about the same as a pre-op transsexual, except with roid rage.
Understatement of the year. Sure it would take a guy with some serious issues to change their sex to be one of the best at a sport, but just chance of being the greatest ever at some sport would involve a deeply disturbed individual. However, I have seen the extreme seriousness that some guys put into club sports or beer league softball, I mean come on its not the world series, its more of a elaborate sobriety test. But, I still wouldn't be surprised to see some those egos lining up for the chance to go down in history, even if it means sacrificing their "manhood" to do it.
Transsexuals were cleared Monday to compete in the Olympics for the first time.
First time? Well I guess in terms of surgically yes. But lets be serious here, the hormonal changes in the East German Women (and other communist countries) from the massive amounts of steroids is just about the same as a pre-op transsexual, except with roid rage.
They're probably looking for trouble down the line. There may be a true transsexual -- not someone who's nuts and wants to make money -- who will be a very good champion player, and it will be a young person, let's say a Jimmy Connors or a Tiger Woods, and then they'll have an unequal playing field. In some sports, the physical superiority of men over women is very significant.
Understatement of the year. Sure it would take a guy with some serious issues to change their sex to be one of the best at a sport, but just chance of being the greatest ever at some sport would involve a deeply disturbed individual. However, I have seen the extreme seriousness that some guys put into club sports or beer league softball, I mean come on its not the world series, its more of a elaborate sobriety test. But, I still wouldn't be surprised to see some those egos lining up for the chance to go down in history, even if it means sacrificing their "manhood" to do it.
