tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83440570883534074202024-02-19T07:13:18.034-06:00Empirical SnarkeryFoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-63471982562287943392013-07-05T11:41:00.002-05:002013-07-05T11:41:59.357-05:00Some Things About Project EngineeringIt's never been a "fair" career in my opinion. I guess it's much like any other industry where 20-30% of the people do 70-80% of the work and many of the rest are simply along for the ride. I read this somewhere decades ago, but that's not what makes project engineering biz unfair.<br />
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I've often said that all architects lie. Now, that does not make them all liars. Regardless, I don't care if you ever worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, I. M. Pei or Louis Khan. Somewhere along the course of the project, the project deadline was discussed and then later at some point, the real deadline is revealed.<br />
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Architects have a hellish position in projects. They are the ultimate traffic cop, the judge, jury, etc. Most all project decisions land at his feet. The electrical engineer's job is just as hellish, but different. Many decisions are critical with regard to code safety, project cost and end user appeal. The hellish part of the electrical set has more to do with the inability to really begin the process until all other disciplines are near completion. Of course, we all share the same deadline, so the big push is always within the last few hours prior to submitting final drawings.<br />
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During the last two or three days of a project, information is being finalized and 80% of the electrical drawings are completed. The last day of the project brings last minute changes. This is a given. I think in the construction side, the only guys that really have it worse is the painter and flooring guys. Neither of them can finish until all the other tradesmen are done.<br />
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Maybe the only worse problem to add is that we rarely are able to work on one project at a time - it's usually more like five or six. I remember once about ten years ago, I resigned from a company. Upon my departure, I submitted a list of my projects with project status, project contacts, etc. My superior had a look of shock on his face. There were 26 projects on the list in various stages of design, jurisdictional review, construction, etc.<br />
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He simply said, "I had no idea." It happens like that. The snowball effect. I had been employed there for five years. During that time, I became sort of isolated from management due to direct contact with the clients. Yes, they knew about the projects, because they did the billing, but outside that, I was my own manager and production staff.<br />
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Most career stops that I've made have left me in the position of working extended hours. I remember a construction meeting some years ago. The contractors had a beef with the design or some such. They can be assholes at times. The client and end user were all in the meeting and they all (with the exception of the contractors) were aware that I had not slept in 36 straight hours in order to produce final drawing revisions.<br />
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I was well defended in my design defense arguments and the final blow was dealt by the end user. "Mr, Contractor, if you and your crew had the tenacity and ethics of this man, then this meeting would not be necessary." I'll never forget that.<br />
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Incidentally, during the same seven building project, the power company delivered the wrong voltage to the project. The architect called and wanted someone's head on a platter. I had met with the power company on site no less than three times to sort out such issues, but I never sent a letter confirming the discussions of our meetings. I told the architect that I was to blame for not putting in writing all of our decisions and understandings. It was unfathomable to me how the power company could have missed this one, but I took the hit straight on. The end user, who happened to be a large city independent school district superintendent, was the gallows henchman. Fifteen minutes after taking the blame, the architect called back and said, "This is a non-issue." I was confused, but he went on to say that the superintendent is surrounded by finger pointers and he was simply pleased that someone stood up with integrity and accountability.<br />
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See, the 20-80% rule that I heard years ago has been the fuel for my work ethic. I never wanted to find myself in the group that is simply along for the ride. Working 20-40 hours straight, without sleep, without a shower, many times without decent meals, to me, is part of the job - not the case with many of whom I have worked.<br />
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When people work on a fixed salary, it is generally accept that the salary fits 2080 hours per year. I never looked at that way. To me, I get paid to complete deadlines. The time involved to do so always extends beyond the 2080 hours. In fact, I am usually good for 300-400 extra hours per year and during busy years, closer to 500 hours over time per calender year.<br />
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I've been called a war horse. The reliable steed that can and will do everything from project management to the most mundane and menial tasks. I remember when I was younger, the engineers that I worked for who I liked and respected most where the ones who would shuck the coat and tie, roll up their sleeves and dig in with the production troops. Many are not like this. Me? I stay with the staff and do what I can.<br />
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Work ethic has always been important to me.<br />
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Many companies have strict dress codes, which for me, has always been a problem of sorts. Weekly runs to the cleaners for starched shirts and pressed slacks is an unnecessary burden and never mind the extra $200 per month in cleaning bills. Yes, it's important to maintain a clean a professional appearance, but its over kill in a lot of ways. I have settled into a position where appearances are less important than production. I showed up the first day three years ago in slacks and a tie. The first three co-workers that I saw that day were all wearing tee shirts and bluejeans. I was good with that...really.<br />
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I'm reaching a point in my career, I think, when all the effort, the deadline stress, the extra hours, the on going fight of deciding which horizontal or parallel deadline is most important, etc. is catching up with me.<br />
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I feel mentally spent and just plain tired. The weekend was a long work weekend with a few home chores and a family picnic mixed in. I hit my deadline of 9am yesterday. It was overall a good weekend of accomplishment. I am fortunate in having what I have.<br />
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I have always had a job - even during the economically slow years. For that, I am thankful.<br />
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Having said all that, I guess, I better get moving. There are more deadlines to slay.<br />
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Note: This wasn't supposed to be a "personal" blog. I guess it is what it is. Perhaps, I'll settle into a final direction and and focus at some point, but for now, I'll just meander along.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-41287348684671384912010-07-14T06:53:00.072-05:002012-09-21T21:04:44.542-05:00ACME Nano-Rocket Powered Exocet Beta Testing<em>While rumaging through this blog file, I found this apparently unposted entry. I barely remember writing this, but I suspect that it had something to do with my old darts team. I am pushing the "publish" button, because I really do not care about possible backlash (I mean that).</em><br />
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I've been in the ACME Lab quite a bit lately working on the Exocet design. Early mock ups have been, shall I say, less than successful.<br />
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I've hired a couple of assistants for my lab work since the "nano" portion of the development is still in, well, development. Due to certain complications, I found it necessary, to conscript an assistant or two. Perhaps developing dart warheads is similar to the development of computers where, in the early stages, they are rather large in scale.<br />
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Please meet Nevil and Frances. I have negotiated a contract of unconditional labor hours for match tickets and free ACME lab samples.of other ACME products. Nevil was quick to agree to the terms, while Francis required additional coaxing. Therefore, I reluctantly offered each of them room and board in the Lab...for now.<br />
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<i>Above: Nevil and Francis hauling out the prototype beta test ACME Destroyer 1. Little Sebastian is perhaps camera shy, but has provided invaluable help around the Lab. </i><br />
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<i>Above: The first successful beta test.</i><br />
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Now, I must develop the pocket size prototype due to the original prototype being somewhat on the cumbersome side of convenience. In a perfect world climate, the final design should be in the neighborhood of 4-5"...not just small enough to fit in the neighborhood itself. I have labeled the next stage of prototype, the ACME <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: yellow;">Nano</span>-Rocket Powered Exocet.<br />
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I have contracted a company located in Brooklyn in order to reduce the overall size of the Exocet power plant. They have sent me the first ever ACME <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: yellow;">Nano</span>-Rocket Power Plant sample. Impressive I say, and yet, affordable.<br />
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In other developments, the government has become quite interested in the ACME Laboratory work. I was able to workout a treaty of sorts. Of course, I didn't give them the actual name of our cause, because, well, that would violate all rules of Top Secret endeavors.<br />
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That is all I have for now. Be safe out there. I have heard rumors that, in our midst, are spies representing the opposing forces. It is imperative that we maintain secrecy in all of our ACME Lab works.<br />
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<i>Grackle</i>Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-26536036536418511362010-07-13T08:39:00.001-05:002010-07-13T08:41:03.246-05:00MalathionYes, this is the insecticide that used to I murdered my garden.<br />
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What I now know about Malathion:<br />
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- I bought a quart of the hellish substance. I should have known that since it didn't come in a spray bottle, it wasn't ready for immediate use. Once I peeled off the label and read the instructions, the quart was supposed to be diluted times 48 gallons of water. Think about a quart bottle of oil versus and oil drum. Dangit!<br />
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- Malathion has a military use. It's called Serin Gas. Yes, the very same nerve gas found in some of Saddam's weapon stockpiles and also, what he used against the Kurds a few decades ago.<br />
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I have to wonder how this stuff is even legal to buy at the local mega-home-improvement-marts. Crikey!<br />
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Makes me also wonder why I had to buy AMDRO for my ant hill problem. I can make 48 gallons of anti-ant nerve gas solution with little or more than adding an oil drum full of water.<br />
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All this explains why after application, my garden lasted 60 seconds before folding up like the Democ voting base.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-82288140718758558142010-07-13T08:22:00.002-05:002010-07-13T08:24:38.702-05:00Aargh!Ok, so I am way the hell behind here. I'm blaming it on Summer...and Obama.<br />
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Actually, much of my time has been spent tooling up a new dart team. Not that putting it together has much difficulty, but I finally have it together and the team signed up for the fall leagues. I have nine player (self included) plus one hopeful. Should be a blast. I also built a<a href="http://acmedarts.blogspot.com/"><b style="color: #990000;"> team blog</b></a>, which could be fun...well, I hope it's funny anyway.<br />
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Ok, I've actually been playing a few tournaments and practicing about 1-4 hours a day. I'm dead serious about the upcoming season. Will the hard practice make a difference? Probably not, but it won't hurt.<br />
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The benefit concert on Saturday with Decyfer Down and four or so other bands was awesome. I found it strand to attend a concert with heavy, hard rock and roll of the highest quality that not only has a strong message, but also breaks to simply point upward, if you know what I mean. Just inspiring in every sense of the word.<br />
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Can ya dig it? The Democs are bailing on President Inexperience like the vermin that they are from a sinking Flotilla One. I wonder what the reasoning might be that is the pivot point I was gonna say lynch pin, but, well, that just might be taken all wrong)?<br />
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Let's if I can answer my won question. Could it be...<br />
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Health care? <br />
The Oil Spill?<br />
Immigration?<br />
Crap and Tirade?<br />
NASA in charge of Arabic relations? Wait...what?<br />
New Black Panther voter intimidation issues?<br />
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While any of these could be the cause, I tend to think it's something much, much simpler. How about this?<br />
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<div style="color: #990000;"><b>THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS TO BE THE MOST INEXPERIENCED, DIM-WITTED, ILL-CONCEIVED, ILL-PREPARED, FINANCIALLY IRRESPONSIBLE, PRESIDENCY IN THE HISTORY OF ANY COUNTRY ON THE PLANET...</b></div><br />
Yeah, that's probably the reason. I figure none of that other stuff would have happened otherwise.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-41636351128039675922010-07-08T07:05:00.002-05:002010-07-08T07:06:27.656-05:00US v. AZThis whole case is maddening. This, while Obama continues to lose the Independent voter support. I wonder how long it will be before his Democ support begins to fade.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/07/federal-suit-arizona-cites-concerns-mexico-relations/">Fox News</a>:<br />
<blockquote style="color: #990000;">S.B. 1070 has subjected the United States to direct criticism by other countries and international organizations and has resulted in a breakdown in certain planned bilateral and multilateral arrangements on issues such as border security and disaster management," the suit claims. "S.B. 1070 has in these ways undermined several aspects of U.S. foreign policy related to immigration issues and other national concerns that are unrelated to immigration.</blockquote>Undermines national security? Excuse me?<br />
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<blockquote style="color: #990000;">The suit cites Mexican President Felipe Calderon's May address to Congress where he blasted the Arizona immigration law and a travel alert Mexico's Foreign Ministry issued in late April for Mexicans visiting Arizona.</blockquote>Wait..what? Visitors? <br />
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This is pure abomination of American rights as citizens. What I can't figure out is why the hell the States aren't bringing suits against the federal government. Every US citizen should be fighting against this sort of infiltration. One needs to look no further than Lebanon, Afghanistan and any of the African countries to see what insurgency looks like.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-90557652429614748422010-06-30T09:11:00.005-05:002010-07-08T06:54:30.093-05:00Decyfer Down - Ride With Me<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xKuyubdFGQ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xKuyubdFGQ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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Goind to see this band on July 10th. I can't wait.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-90100282526679403122010-06-23T06:08:00.002-05:002013-07-05T11:15:08.493-05:00Quick Hitting - Somebody Make It Stop<b style="color: #990000;">Garden: </b>I killed my pepper plants. Not intentionally, so I guess it's more like plantslaughter rather than herbicide in the first degree. Niel Sperry, noted Texas plant expert said on his Saturday morning radio broadcast to use Malathion for spider mites. So, I did. Ten minutes later the plants were deader than Obama's administration. I hate it when manufacturer's place the instructions for using said products under the label so that you have to peel it back to see that the chemical is supposed to be diluted. I don't see very well these days and when such fine print is so well hidden, I have a tendency to miss it. Bah! Put it like this, gasoline would have taken longer to kill the garden than Malathion. at least I now know what to do on that giant fire ant metropolis out by the curb. However, I fear that it might melt the concrete, so perhaps I should just stick with the Amdro and be done with it.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">California: </b>Are You Effing Serious?<br />
Digital license plates? The CA Senate has passed a bill that will force residents to have digital license plates. The goal is to sell advertisements such that when a car stops at a red light, then the license number fades and advertising can scroll for the car behind to read. Now, I can't help but think that this is a bad idea. My first thought was that I can't wait for the hackers (and we know CA doesn't have many of those, right?) to seep into that market. Ok, so they can run public service announcements like Amber Alerts and such, but they can also begin a brain washing campaign for politicking. Perhaps the worst thing is that an individual will have no control over what is being displayed in his/her car: feminine hygiene products, Hooters, BP Oil, Sierra Club, etc. .<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Funeral:</span></b> Yeah, I Went To One<br />
Long time dart buddy passed away last week. Hundreds showed up for the visitation. He was one of the good dudes and will be missed.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Weather:</b> Hotter than two rats making a porn flick in a wool sock...and not a drop of rain. I fear the Texas Summer of 1980 is making a comeback.- 89 straight days without rain, 14 straight days of 110-plus temps, 100 days over 100 degrees or some chit.<br />
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Ok, I'm starting. Since He's on the war path with BP Oil, I guess that's spilling over to our military generals who question the leadership of the administration. Can these two just play Jeopardy so that we can see who the "smarter" man happens to be? Barbara Boxer can be the third candidate just for the whimsical side show and the general can degrade her by addressing her as ma'am (madam would work better, since she's such a fucking whore).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Oil Spill:</span></b> Two plus months in and...I'm Waiting, Mr. President.<br />
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You know? I was waiting for a national disaster, because it became apparent early on that this idiot only sees money that can be used to further the socialist agenda. It's not like every other president in history hasn't had hurricanes, earthquakes or Lewinskys to rob the public funds for unprecedented aid. Who died and made this fucker boss...oh, yeah. the dead voters did.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Arizona:</span> </b>Can I donate $1 on my tax return to AZ for legal defense versus that fucktard in our White House?<br />
Immigration: I'm ready to just burn Mexico to the ground and be done with it. Have you seen the way these fuckers drive? Ok, that was a little strong and I didn't really mean it - well, the first part anyway. Since the Idiot in Chief is threatening to blow off congressional due process once again and sign an executive order to give amnesty to the illegals, who needs Congress to begin with? The Idiot has czars to handle anything that that Congress can do, right?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">College Sports:</span> </b>Where to even start? How about my very own US Regress person, Joe Barton. Buh-Bye, Joe. This will have to be a post in itself. Too much to say and I am officially out of time.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-74690219254977138142010-06-22T14:38:00.001-05:002010-07-13T08:25:17.140-05:00A-Holes Live Among UsCrap...leave the blog for a week or two to take care of my walk-about life then comeback and the shit has changed.<br />
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The way to format and what ever changed. I had a little blog entry hammered out, hit the backspace button to retype something and the fucking hell began. It asked if I wanted to go to the previous page. What? No, I want to back space over the last word. I tried a couple times with the same result. What ever I did the last time emptied the post and left me with none of it.<br />
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Ok, so I'll be posting a few things in the near future. I have a lot to say and since most of it has been held tightly in the recesses of my good nature, I feel a volitile release brewing.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">PREVIEW OF COMING DISTRACTIONS</span></b><br />
Garden: Dead<br />
California: Are You Effing Serious?<br />
Funeral: Yeah, I Went To One (Not the Garden One, But That Of A Friend)<br />
Weather: Hotter than two rats making a porn flick in a wool sock.<br />
The Administration: Oh, don't EVEN get me started.<br />
Oil Spill: Two plus months in and...I'm Waiting, Mr. President.<br />
Rumors of Wars: Obama on the war path with a general? What?<br />
Arizona: Can I donate $1 on my tax return to AZ for legal defense versus that fucktard in our White House?<br />
Immigration: I'm ready to just burn Mexico to the ground and be done with it. Have you seen the way these fuckers drive?<br />
College Sports: Where to even start? how about my very own US Regress person, Joe Barton. Buh-Bye, Joe.<br />
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Ok, all I got for now. Oh, there's more, believe me. No time though.<br />
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Be back shortly.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-91437307301355530272010-05-26T20:06:00.003-05:002010-05-26T20:46:19.974-05:00Smadi Terror Plea Confuses JudgeI guess confused is the proper term.<br />
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District Judge Barbara Lynn says more time is needed to decide how much time our friendly local bomberman should spend in prison.<br />
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Well, his attorney says he's all roses and candy...<br />
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<blockquote><i><span style="color: #990000;">Defense attorney Peter Fleury said his client's crime doesn't fit the man. </span></i><br />
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I'm a little stuck on the "nice, kind and generous" part. But I'm sure that once the smoking ears cool off, then I can allow the "...he's not political" part to cause <span style="color: #cc0000;">FIRE TO SHOOT OUT OF MY EYES!!!</span><br />
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What am I missing? Does he say "please, thank you and excuse me" Does he bring chocolate chip cookies? Does he say grace before he eats? Perhaps he wears pink floral underwear? Doe eyes? C'mon!<br />
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This bastard said <a href="http://empiricalsnark.blogspot.com/2010/05/are-they-fing-shtting-me.html"><b><span style="color: #990000;">this</span></b></a> and he's a nice guy...right?<br />
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BUT-But-but!!! There's more.<br />
<blockquote><i style="color: #990000;">The defense attorney told the judge that Smadi has been diagnosed with a mental disorder. </i><br />
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</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i> "We will present to the judge evidence that he suffers from schizophrenia as part of our argument that that lessens, in some way, his culpability," Fleury said. "But it's not going to be an excuse for the offense." </i></div></blockquote>Doesn't that make things a little better? Of course it does. Makes me sorta wanna cry.<br />
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Just out of curiosity, I wonder what might have happened had Smadi not been as big of an idiot as he was by asking the freaking FBI to help him. Let's just suppose that he succeeded in blowing up the Fountain Place Tower and a thousand people were killed. In Texas?<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i>It's an I.M. Pei building...or so I am told...hmm... (if only there was a way I could find out...)</i></span> <br />
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This guy would be rushed to the front of the death row line, if he even made it THAT far.<br />
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So, exactly what's the difference? Does it depend on whether he passed or failed?<br />
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Ok, so can kind of understand where the Judge might be. She's probably thinking that if she gives the guy life, then perhaps she gets her name on the terrorist hit list. However, maybe she should just let him go in west Texas somewhere with a tee shirt saying who he is and what he did, hand cuffed with a gallon of soapy water and a peeled banana.<br />
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Hell, I don't know about anything I see in the news anymore. If I didn't know any better, then I'd think a bunch of flippin' clown Smart Cars flipped over in front of every courts building, every city hall, every state legislature, and at every federal building at every level of the government. Then all at once, thousands of clowns bounced out of each of the Smart Cars and straight into political position.<br />
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Wait a minute...what if...Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-21630285211402851032010-05-26T07:17:00.003-05:002010-05-26T07:22:55.020-05:00Are They F'ing Sh!tting Me?Here's<a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/smadi-94876414.html"> <b style="color: #990000;">another example </b></a>of our court system bartering away our freedom and national security.<br />
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Jordanian Hosam Smadi, the 19 year old terrorist who tried to use FBI provided fake explosives to blow up a Dallas skyscraper, has been offered a plea bargain of 30 years in prison as opposed to facing life in prison and a $250,000 fine. According to Dallas news WFAA who reported this after Smadi admitted his reasoning.<br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #990000;">He was quoted in an FBI affidavit saying that blowing up the building would "shake the currently weak economy in the state and the American nation." In addition, he is quoted as saying there would be "psychological impacts for the loss of this beautiful building."</span></blockquote>There will be a hearing today in order for the courts to decide if the plea bargain is acceptable. I can help them with this.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">HELL NO!!!</b> <b><span style="color: #990000;">Fry the bastard!</span></b><br />
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Any bets on how the fucker got into this country?Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-76463634941595700382010-05-26T05:44:00.003-05:002010-05-26T07:19:53.629-05:00There are Defacers of Green Backs Among UsOne of my colleagues approached me yesterday with a little story. He said he went to the ATM the night before and made a withdrawal . One of the twenties that was spat out of the machine was this one. This is the kind of civil disobedience that I find funny.<br />
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All it took was a rubber stamp and red ink pad and someone made my whole freakin' day.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-43760075689887675602010-05-24T20:51:00.010-05:002010-05-26T06:25:49.891-05:00So I Am a Simpleton... ...and perhaps that I am; however, as simple as I may be, I have in me the core beliefs that are the very fabric of the REAL America. I get it. I was raised right as rain. To my parents: Thank you for that.<br />
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Some libtard Obama suck up by the moniker of Center Square or some shit says this among other things over at my buddy <a href="http://cmblake6.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/this-brought-a-big-smile-a-big-smile/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>C</b><b>mblake6's blog</b></span></a><b>.</b> Right funny joke (in the blog post), too...at least I thought so.<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #0b5394;"><i>"In fact, it is remarkable that he [Obama] managed to stop the recession dead in its tracks and turn around, with essentially no change in the deficit."</i></div></blockquote><br />
Wait...what? And there was more...much, much more.<br />
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Yeah, I sort of went off with the somber strings of America the Beautiful singing in he background. Ok, so that's a little melodramatic, but I was a little puffed up to say the least. I ended up hijacking his (cmblake6) comment section with the following. I hate it when I do that. But then there were a few others doing the same. I had no intentions of doing so, but it is what it is, I suppose.<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;"><i>Somehow I think you've forgotten something...like the truckload of expenditures that Obama has put off to the next president. Your mathematics are as flawed as those of the CBO and the rest of the remedial course flunkies in Washington.<br />
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Remarkable is what Reagan did to inspire capitalism and not just stop Carter's blunders. <br />
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Running over seas to every subversive and troubled nation in order to throw America and her people under the bus is not remarkable.<br />
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Spending hundreds of billions of alleged stimulus monies on marsh mice, lobsters and </i>[bald eagle killing]<i> wind mills is not remarkable.<br />
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Cherry picking Obama supporting states for selective stimulus funding is not remarkable.<br />
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Sending monies to fake districts that do not exist is not remarkable.<br />
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Losing $350 billion of TARP monies is not remarkable with little other explanation than the bailing out foreign banks.<br />
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Penalizing those who have learned to succeed by supporting the US economy via job growth is not remarkable.<br />
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What's truly remarkable is that this idiot president has ANY support in spite of the monthly increase in jobless claims, the increase in racial divisions within America, the increase in the amount of Americans who will pay no taxes at all, the security threats against our home land security due to wide open borders, the infiltration into our government and our society of the very socialist ideology that generations of Americans have fought and died to prevent abroad, etc. The list goes on and on.<br />
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What's remarkable is that there are so many Americans in this country who have yet to understand how this same progressive mind set will land the entire United States of America in the same latrine that many of our states like California, Michigan, etc. are currently finding themselves.<br />
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What's remarkable is that the last time the conservatives held congressional power, the unemployment rate was...4.9%. Then the Democrats took over in 2006.<br />
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Yes, I place all of the current recession at the feet of the Democrat's socialistic ideology from which the "moderate" Republicans were so spineless that they could summon up little more than to raise a thimble full of token resistance.<br />
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Our greatest generation is leaving us and with them the true values that made the United States the envy of every eye from every foreign square foot of real estate around the world. <br />
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What are we doing to thank them for the sacrifice they made and the examples they set? <br />
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We are throwing them and their values away without so much as the salute that they rightfully deserve. In fact, we are destroying their hard earned pensions and retirement savings in order to give it away to those who choose not to participate in the America that made us great, but rather the America that prefers the protests of "what about me" over patience, perseverance and hard work.<br />
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Center Square...YOU (and people like you) are what's wrong with this country.</i></div></blockquote><b><i><span style="color: #444444;">EDIT: added the following...</span></i></b><br />
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His response:<br />
<blockquote><i style="color: #0b5394;">Exactly my point. Thank you, Grackle. Can (some in) this group drop the pretense that they accept the legitimacy of this presidency? You don’t. Have the courage of your convictions. Just say it.</i></blockquote>My response in his blog:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Your initial accusation in cmblake6′s post was, first of all, inflammatory by design. Secondly, you failed to notice the date and assumed that the implied result of the storyline was by assassination.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><i style="color: #990000;">If your assumption, in response, was that I favor such actions, then you are mistaken.</i> </blockquote><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Further, if you assumed that I favor the US Military to involve itself, there again, you are mistaken. These are fears, not desires.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>It must only be by the people’s voice that he is stopped. When 60-70% of the people say “no” and government ignores them, then therein lies the possibilities for radical recourse. As I said, this is my fear and not my desire.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Dude, I accept his legitimacy as president as he was elected under Constitutional Law. I haven’t a clue whether his birth in this country is true or not, but it doesn’t really matter to me at this point.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>I do not accept…</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The radical appointments, and subsequent approval by a puppet Congress, of unqualified personnel to cabinet posts.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> </i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The unconstitutional appointment of various czars given similar powers as cabinet members without congressional approval.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The buying off of members of Congress by promise, accusation and threat.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Encouraging Congress to circumvent Constitutional Law to smash through dangerous and careless legislation for little other purpose than to leave a destructive mark on this country by, and I’m fairly certain of his goals here, economic racism.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The legitimizing of illegal aliens for the sole purpose of winning the next election. (Just wait, this one will most likely become the next step in our undoing.)</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The backdoor deals, the blatant lies and manipulation of US law.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>But mostly, the attempts to criminalize the people’s rights in his attempts to ignore, destroy and render weakness to the first ten amendments to the US Constitution.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>He was elected, as far as we know, legally under the same US Constitution that he seeks to ignore, render useless and quite possibly destroy.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>THIS is my objection. What you liberals fail to understand is that this president’s reign will end and the next president will rule under the same manner. Your kind will object mightily without considering that it was your kind that allowed it to persist.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>You reap what you sow…and the pendulum will swing the other way.</i></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Sadly, we are witnessing our own demise, if we don’t rise up and find a way to stop this nonsense.</i></div></blockquote>His response:<br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">@ Grackle: “These are fears, not desires.” I appreciate that clarification. I share your fears, as I think is abundantly clear. Whereas you see the fears arising from the actions of the president, I see them arising from extremist rhetoric. Thanks again.</span></i></blockquote>My response:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;"><i>It’s cause and effect, don’t you think?</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>Ignoring the people propagates civil unrest. America has had riot after riot over the last 250 years over the same sort of “wronged” proletariat.</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>Government, especially, BIG government can not mend the mind set of its public when the proletariat is responsible for funding such a beast.</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>When does big government overtake the ability of the masses to fund it? Is the objective to rid us of the private sector all together? What then? Soup kitchens, bread lines?</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>I can only look at where this appears to be heading. Sooner or later another riot of epic proportions is eminent. Why? Well, it’s not like America hasn’t seen a riot on some level every five years on average, because we have.</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>Under the previous administration, the left feared and violently (Seattle, WTO) protested the notion of one world government. Now they apparently support the very one who is trying to lead us there.</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>Does any of this make any sense to you?</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>My fears are that the next riots won’t be local. They will be national and simultaneous and in every city across America.</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>The Kent State shootings will look like a minor disagreement by comparison.</i></div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;"><i>Look at recent riots in Denmark, France, Greece, etc. to illustrate the human psyche, regardless of left or right wing affiliation. Side with big government as you see fit, but do not blame the citizenry for reacting to government’s mistake in disregarding the will of the people.</i></div></blockquote><br />
And likely, it will end there, because he won't release my comments for public viewing. Only his response. Of course, if I ran a liberal blog and riled the constitutionalists to the point of response, then I guess I'd censor the rebuttal, too. Actually, I wouldn't. I'd post them whether I was in the right or wrong.<br />
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Personally, I think the dude is short in his thinking and is probably scurrying about trying to find himself or trying to find an appropriate rebuttal, since he's big on attempting to turn my words into his words in claiming such non-sense as "exactly my point." <br />
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I'm done with this jackass.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-68641233558887115652010-05-21T12:45:00.010-05:002010-05-22T05:56:57.737-05:002012 The Mayan Calendar HoaxIf I am wrong on this, then there will be no one around to say, "I told you so."<br />
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There are too many problems in trying to correlate December 20-21, 2012 (winter solstice) of today's calendars with the ancient calendars of the Mayans or any other alleged calendars from antiquity.<br />
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First, and most important, did the Mayans begin their calendar somewhere in the middle of Earth time? Could they have possibly known that Earth is some 4.6 billion years old (give or take a millenia)? Or did they begin 13 plus trillion years ago at the beginning of the universe as we know it? Or are they marking since the dawn of Man? Do they even know the date of the dawn of Man? Perhaps they simply started day one at the beginning of the Mayan civilization.<br />
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If they knew the end, then they should have known the beginning.<br />
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If we can't pinpoint our humaniod beginnings on this planet, then how the hell could we even get started in nailing down the time of our demise? We damn sure don't have a clue about that and we do know some shit. A lot of shit.<br />
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See, this whole concept of time is twisted. We've been chasing it since we began our species on this planet. Personally, I think time is a non-existent in that, if I were to carry my watch to Mars, my watch would be so irrelevant that it would be reduced to jewelry and nothing more. This would be true of any point in the universe except here on Earth.<br />
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It seems to me that if there were some applicable date pointing to our demise and it could be known thousands of years ahead of time, then it would be based upon something larger than our civilization as a species. It would have to be some sort of universe driven hierarchical sequence laid out by some overlord or deity. I'm pretty sure that the Mayans had no clue that we would all die of AGW or thermo-nuclear war or President Obama or what ever else lies ahead of us. <br />
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Let's face it, our killer is not known yet and I doubt the Mayans could possibly know, since it didn't work out very well for them, if they expected to make it to 2012. <br />
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I find it difficult to believe that the Mayans would build a calendar out of stone from their beginning to what? Infinity? Hardly. No one could ever illustrate a calender detailing every day from a certain point in time to infinity. Point being, you build what you need for the moment and as time passes, you build the next pages or tablets.<br />
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I'm certainly not interested in obtaining a calendar for the year 2020 until I need it. I believe the Mayans, since they were hammering out of stone, probably lived the same way. Never mind that they are now an extinct civilization. If you ask me, I'd say they've already missed the end of their days. They over shot...by a very long way. If they knew about the end of time, then surely they could have predicted the end of, well, the Mayans. Right?<br />
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Now, I can understand why others would propagate such a hoax. Look how many have profited from books, movies, etc. Look how many WILL profit over the coming months and years?<br />
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My final item of skepticism is that we already know that our calendar is off from all other previous calendars but honestly, no one knows by how far we might off from the ancients. Many believe that the Mayan end correlates to October 2011, other believe we are off by 130 years (I have no clue if we are fore or aft).<br />
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Of course, there could be some dark metaphysical black druidian sorcerer with a magical staff made of pure prophecy and oraclical stuff out there who knows for a fact when we will witness the end, but my bet is that he would be mum on the subject until such time that he would maximize his benefit.<br />
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Like I said, if I am wrong, then be sure to rub it in my face on 12-22-2012.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-3444999209385038052010-05-21T06:48:00.004-05:002010-05-21T06:58:26.016-05:00While the Rat Spoke......another rat scurries.<br />
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As if we didn't already know that the White House had a pest problem?<br />
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From <b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/21/rodent-scurries-obama-lauds-wall-street-vote/" style="color: #0b5394;">Fox News</a></b>... <br />
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<blockquote><span style="color: #990000;">"Obama had just begun a Rose Garden statement lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul when some kind of rodent dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office."</span></blockquote>Now, I don't want to speculate, but plenty of reporters jumped to the clammor...<br />
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<blockquote><span style="color: #990000;">"Once he was safely inside the Oval Office, a fierce debate erupted among the photographers and reporters who'd witnessed the dash. Was it a rat or a mouse? Or maybe a mole, or some other kind of related creature."</span></blockquote>"...safely inside the Oval Office?" Wait...what? Do they seriously consider a rodent, a security threat?<br />
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<b style="color: #0b5394;">...WAS THE FREAKIN' PRESIDENT!!!</b>Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-18438628754836145212010-05-20T06:18:00.007-05:002010-05-20T06:51:53.670-05:00Silver Screen Series and Babes of Antiquity<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"> I wrote this sonnet some fifteen years ago in response to raging epidemic of plastic surgery. I'm not one to favor such surgeries unless there are honest medical reasons behind such decisions. Yeah, there are a few other acceptable reasons, but when a 20 year old goes for it for little reason other than to increase the bust line, then I object.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">I just happen to prefer natural.</span></i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">BABES OF ANTIQUITY</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Remember bustle-butted, hanky flips, <br />
and guarded garters, tight below the hips, <br />
When braided corsets forged her hourglass? <br />
The look became her vintage crassy class. </span><br />
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She used these tools to work the hearts of men, <br />
Her aire, pristine and pure, defiled the grin, <br />
Of dapper, derbied gents all tailed and tied, <br />
with Grandpa’s watch still vested by his side. </span><br />
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Today, the gals are golden, all through and through. <br />
The corset's gone, because their breasts are new. <br />
Doc’s vacuum cleaner left no girdle lines, <br />
To show beneath their vane augmented minds. </span><br />
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Those debs of old, though plated, were, oh so bold, <br />
These gals of gold, are solid, but bought and sold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">So, I decided that perhaps I should start my weekly siren photo series. Besides, have you seen some of these silver screen ladies? Crikey!</span></i></span>Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-12076151783442060202010-05-20T06:07:00.001-05:002010-05-20T06:22:52.764-05:00Siren of the Week - Jean Harlow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xg9jT4v4l7xXoQOgu5bKKGGAX2LlHPm-znqFj0arb6MQbUzmoHGtaz64FIrP_p2miRqtkWWgh7exOAGb269yW05vgFLxT-mazsNm7bbU0z25sGYCRzqoYTPtCl6HMI7uf8iJUykyFA0/s1600/6a00d83454de4669e200e54fd033938834-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xg9jT4v4l7xXoQOgu5bKKGGAX2LlHPm-znqFj0arb6MQbUzmoHGtaz64FIrP_p2miRqtkWWgh7exOAGb269yW05vgFLxT-mazsNm7bbU0z25sGYCRzqoYTPtCl6HMI7uf8iJUykyFA0/s320/6a00d83454de4669e200e54fd033938834-800wi.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="border: medium none;">And a bosom ample in the fleshy, </div><div style="border: medium none;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.necn.com/pages/landing_business?Gov-Brewer-Obama-Comic-in-Chief=1&blockID=235463&feedID="><b><span style="color: #990000;">Brewer responds</span></b></a> to the Idiot in Chief.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-13359643192795197592010-05-18T12:49:00.012-05:002010-05-19T07:37:32.475-05:00BofA and Others Offering Reduced Criteria for Illegals? AND, Oklahoma Is More Than OK, AND, I'm Hot for Governor Brewer (and I don't care what she looks like.)<div style="color: white;"><b>.</b></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Bank of America is Racists.</b></span><br />
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Verified by <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Snopes</span></b></a>...<br />
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An individual closes his bank account over Bank of America's lending practices to illegal aliens. This is a verified occurrence according to Snopes.<br />
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Bank of America, can I help you?<br />
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Customer: You're giving credit to illegal immigrants and I don't think it's right. I'm taking my business elsewhere.<br />
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The Bank: Well, Mr. Customer, we don't want to see you do that, but we can't stop you. I'll help you close the account. What is your account number?<br />
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The Bank: For security purposes and for your protection, can you please give me the last four digits of your social security number?<br />
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Customer: No?<br />
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The Bank: Mr. Customer, I need to verify your information, but in order to help you, I'll need verification of who you are.<br />
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Customer: Why should I give you my social security number? The reason I'm closing my account is that your bank is issuing credit cards to illegal immigrants who don't have social security numbers. You are targeting that audience and want their business. Let's say I'm an illegal immigrant and you've given me a credit card. I have a question about it and call for assistance. You wouldn't be asking me for a Social Security number, would you?<br />
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The Bank: No sir, I wouldn't.<br />
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Customer: Why not?<br />
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The Bank: Because you would have pressed '2' to speak in Spanish. We don't ask for that information when calling in on the Spanish line.<br />
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Keep in mind several banks are using this same practice - Wells Fargo, Citi, etc. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">OOOOH-Klahoma Rocks:</span></b> <br />
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Over at Pajamas, there is this: <br />
In 2007, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/two-years-after-strict-immigration-reform-oklahoma-is-more-than-ok/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Oklahoma passed an illegal immigrations bill</b></span></a>. They did, really. And get this...nobody said a word about it. <br />
<blockquote>"House Bill 1804 was passed by overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate of the Oklahoma legislature. The measure’s sponsor, State Representative Randy Terrill, says the bill has four main topical areas: it deals with identity theft; it terminates public assistance benefits to illegals; it empowers state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws; and it punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>Oklahoma is no longer “O.K.” for illegal aliens, Terrill observes. “When you put everything together in context,” he contends, “the bottom line is illegal aliens will not come here if there are no jobs waiting for them, they will not stay here if there is no government subsidy, and they certainly won’t stay here if they know that if they ever encounter our state and local law enforcement officers, they will be physically detained until they’re deported. And that’s exactly what House Bill 1804 does.”</blockquote>Care to guess what happened? Well, you can check out the<a href="http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2008/04/unemployment-picture-darkens.html"> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Greenspan graphical version map</b></span></a> style showing the progression of unemployment over the difficult time span of the last couple of years, or you can read this:<br />
<blockquote>"Since 1804 passed, Oklahoma has not suffered nearly as much economically as most of the rest of the U.S. In fact, the state can fairly be described, especially on a relative basis, as prosperous."</blockquote>I don't think I need to go on about this much further, because anyone who might happen by, already knows what would happen if such plans were implemented nationwide. It's no secret, right?...Unless you are one of those who sleep late then get out of bed to little more than to plant your head in the sand.<br />
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Either way, go read it. Its worth it if for no other reason than to shove it down the throats of your nearest mind-fucked liberal.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">More OOOOh-Klahoma Rocks:</span></b><br />
Miss USA is crowned. Yep, there is no end to the prejudice, just ask Miss Oklahoma, Morgan Elizabeth Wollard, the competition's runner up. Actually, Ms. Woollard shot off her foot when she claimed to support states rights and publicly leaned toward support for Arizona in the illegal alien dust up by stating that states should have the right to pass such laws. <br />
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Baaad, girl! How dare you state such radical ideology in a public forum.<br />
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Meanwhile, Miss Michigan - Rami Fakih, the winner got a softball abortion question:<br />
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Oh, I would be remiss if I ignore the state of the Governor's office in Arizona. Governor Brewer, you rock, lady! <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/gov-jan-brewer-on-obama-its-fair-to-ask-whether-he-intends-to-be-the-commander-in-chief-or-comic-in-chief/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Comic in Chief?</b></span></a> Priceless.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-50829613949317953162010-05-17T19:40:00.003-05:002010-05-19T07:18:54.629-05:00The Trouble with the Civil War Letters and Texting While DrivingI stopped with the the Civil War letters for a couple of reason. First, in following the trek of the misfortunes Mr. Burns, I noticed that a couple of letters must have been mis-dated. By that I mean, that Lum had two letters dated 1863 when they obviously had to have been 1862. That being my hypothesis, I stopped until I could confirm the case.<br />
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Next, I figure this is not the proper depository for such serious business. Upon much thought or as much as I could fit into 425 seconds, I've decided to start the war letters over in a new all historic blog. Why? Well, simple. Some of what is in the letters is too much for what I intended for this depository. I also believe that they deserve some analysis and commentary. In order to do them some sort of honor, I will post them one at a time with additional factual extrapolations.<br />
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The car? Oh, yeah. I saw a texter behind the wheel eat it big time this morning. The idiot was entering the freeway as I sped along in the right lane of three. As I approached the on coming entrance ramp I looked upon the ramp in time to see the car simple right turn off the roadway, down into the ditch, up the other side and into the over growth of bushery and tree.<br />
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Once its forward momentum came to a pause, the auto then began to turtle over back into the ditch and onto its top. I saw all the windows explode as I passed. Just passed the entry ramp, there were construction barriers in the form of thick concrete and no, I said no shoulder on which to stop and render aid.<br />
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I did the next best thing. I whipped out my archaic, yet still nifty, cell phone.and punched in 9-1-1. A half hour later, I heard the accident reported on the radio and was somewhat relieved that the word fatality was not in the report. Five minutes after that, an officer of the law telephoned me and the inquisition was on. My first question was, of course, "Is the person ok?" after which the officer said the person was fine.<br />
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So, the accident was a little disturbing for a spell, but now that I know that he/she is "fine" I can address the idiot as just that, an idiot.<br />
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Folks, I don't care how good you think you are at multi-tasking, attempting any sort of multi-task that averts your eyes off the roadway is not only stupid, but potentially deadly. This car was going perhaps 45-50 mph and whether it was texting or a coffee spill, this could have turned out much worse.<br />
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That is all.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-82735481736337020392010-05-17T15:04:00.002-05:002010-05-19T07:20:28.360-05:00I Heart...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Peppers by the peck...even if Peter (or Pedro) picked them.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqYhhQ5pxGxW6Xex7tmNrsTkIpPgrKki42QA76LjEiItzdjG0iO12lnv92t5Uet7cg0vM7uF5dDuswLMpe29_AEHBFoBaaSqr7flPROy-bLBSX6BsjhvVT75137eHYc6jxO9kDRr69Is/s1600/aa1_0045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqYhhQ5pxGxW6Xex7tmNrsTkIpPgrKki42QA76LjEiItzdjG0iO12lnv92t5Uet7cg0vM7uF5dDuswLMpe29_AEHBFoBaaSqr7flPROy-bLBSX6BsjhvVT75137eHYc6jxO9kDRr69Is/s320/aa1_0045.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div><br />
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I ate a fresh picked scotch bonnet (habanero) once on a drunken bet and I am very cautious of those, too. However, they have such wonderful flavor and are superb in cooking - especially in queso (cheese dip) or Caribbean jerk sauces.<br />
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This isn't the exact bug, but its close. One got into my Fresno Chili plant yesterday. Fortunately, I have them in pots and can move them into the garage for a day until I can develop some sort of repellent.<br />
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<h3 class="stepNumber Heading5c">Step 1</h3>Place 1 quart warm water, 1 Tbsp. cayenne pepper and 1 Tbsp. mild liquid detergent in a bowl. Chop the six cloves of garlic and the small onion into small pieces and add to the water in the bowl.<br />
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I chose the Fresno for a couple of reasons. First being that I don't think I've ever had one. I really wanted to grow something that is a little exotic from what I typically use in cooking. I'm well acquainted with the jalapeno, poblano, bell, anaheim, yellow banana, cherry, serrano, and others.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">The Fresno Pepper</span> - Also known as Caribe Guero and Kenyan. This chile is about the same size as a Jalapeño, only with broader shoulders. A bit hotter than the Jalapeño. 75 days to ripen. Plants grow to 30 inches. (Capsicum annuum).<br />
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But for now, I have pests to conquer.Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09442827151236172987noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344057088353407420.post-37934992378878840782010-05-16T08:36:00.017-05:002010-05-19T07:22:55.091-05:00Joe Legal vs Joe Illegal - A Lesson in Screwed Governmental Policy<pre> </pre><pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shamelessly stolen. I'm not sure of the origin, but I lifted it from </pre><pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://cmblake6.wordpress.com/">Cmblake6</a>, who is spot on target on all of his current posts.</pre><pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </pre><pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> No editorializing necessary.</pre><pre style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </pre>I like this one!<br />
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You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California.<br />
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Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted. Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".<br />
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Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.<br />
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.<br />
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Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.<br />
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.<br />
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Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.<br />
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Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.<br />
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Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631.00.<br />
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.<br />
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Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.<br />
Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.<br />
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Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.<br />
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.<br />
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Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.<br />
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.<br />
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Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.<br />
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If you vote for or support any politician that supports<br />
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<span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText">I wonder when these subversives will become listed in Napalatano's (or whatever the fuck her name is) book of domestic terrorist? - even though most of them are proabably not technically domesticated.<br />
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I'd bet biscuits to boots that if the Tea Partiers wore berets, the national guard would be summoned to squealch the uprising. Hell, if they weren't so frenchy gay, I'd go get myself one of them just for a laugh.</span><br />
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<blockquote style="color: #c27ba0;">"Although worn as military headgear in ancient Greece, the modern origin of the beret is traced to the Basques, people living on both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees Mountains."</blockquote><span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText">So, I guess that when the Mexicans were beating up the French, they didn't dislike them so bad that they resorted to banishing all things French, but rather adopted the head gear?</span><br />
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