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30 September 07 - 11:57Ahma Diddy Scores!!!

Mr. Wad, again.This link is for a remarkable article by Tim Rutten. You don't have to read it, but you can at this link [LA Times].

Rutten's comments ramble and babble about Ahma-Diddy-Dick-Wad and his invite to speak at Columbia. In his piece Rutten points out (accurately) that Ahma-Diddy-Dick-Wad is a truely dangerous person and generally not nice.

Next Rutten points out that the press did not do a very good job of making this clear to the American public, also accurate. He also points out that the American press is mostly secular, also true, although disappointing as it tends to leave our press without a moral compass.

But I digress. why did the American press miss this seemingly obvious point? Here's the quote;

"...After being duped by the Bush administration into helping pave the way for the disastrous war in Iraq, few in the American media now are willing to take the Iran problem on because they don't want to be complicit in another military misadventure...."

Ahhh, Bush made them do it.

The mainstream press members simply don't like Bush. If what Rutten says is true, it is truely scary that the collective press are so easily "duped" and then mentally scarred into being "unwilling to take the Iran problem on..."

It's a damn good thing that Bush has more character than the whiney, weenie, "American press."

A copy of the article is available by pressing "more."

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28 September 07 - 08:08Striking at GM and my not so recent past

Caught between a rock and a hard place.When I was a young man in the 1970's there were four major car companies in the United States.  They were General Motors, Dodge-Chrysler-Plymouth, Ford, and American Motors.  There was also Jeep (actually sold to Chrysler in 1970), I think there was the Yellow Cab folks, and probably a few other minor players.  In fact, most of the US car companies died natural deaths in the first 20 years after WWII.  They simply were not able to innovate enough to differentiate themselves in the markets.

During the 1970's the market for Japanese cars changed.  Initially the cars from Japan were not up to par with the American cars.  Mostly this was due to the differences in the two ethnicities of Japan and the United States.  Japanese people seemed happy with a car that moved them from place to place and the average Japanese person was smaller than the average American person, so the cars were uncomfortable and small in the US.

The automakers in the United States grossly misunderstood the Japanese desire to penetrate markets, not only in the US, but worldwide.  In the US car makers looked at foreign markets as a place to sell a few of their cars to interested folks.  They did not adjust these cars to left side driving countries like Japan, but the Japanese had no trouble making dual versions of their cars.  They also sent their marketing folks to the US to find out what the US consumer wanted.

Long story short?  American car companies continued to look only to the US borders and accepted small foreign markets for US cars.  Japanese companies created themselves as global companies able to meet markets in each country they sold cars.  Meanwhile American car companies capitulated year after year to Unions based on short term losses due to strikes.

The solution?  My idea might surprise you.

Later.

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27 September 07 - 08:08Amma Diddy Whack Job

Would you put your trust in this man?FAQ (Frequently asked Question)

Question: 

Are Muslims permitted to lie?

Answer:

Muslims should not lie to each other, but lying to non-believers is permitted under certain circumstances in the forms called taqiyya and kitman.  Taqiyya is saying something that isn't true and kitman is lying by omission.  One of those certain circumstances is to gain the trust of non-believers in order to defeat them.


Below are some statements made by Ahmadinejad.  Test your ability to perceive reality.  If you can't detect the deceit, you are probably a liberal.

  • In his appearance at Columbia University last Monday Iranian President Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks.
  • Ahmadinejad also defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust as a means to promote healthy discussion.
  • President Ahmadinejad also said that talk of American military strikes against Iran threatened world security.
  • Mr Ahmadinejad said Iran does not have homosexuals like in our country.
  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran will not launch an attack on Israel or any other country.
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran’s foreign policy is based on humanitarian concerns and the pursuit of justice.
  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied his country was building an atomic bomb.
  • Mahmoud asserted that his country was a bastion of personal and professional freedoms.

Now you decide, is Mahmoud a telling us the truth or acting as a good Muslim to try and defeat us.

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26 September 07 - 08:08All our crap is being made in China

p.QUOTE "BEIJING, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Executive vice-president of Mattel's global operations, Thomas Debrowski, had admitted on Friday that the vast majority of recalled Chinese-made toys were due to design flaws rather than the manufacturing errors of local Chinese manufacturers...
There is an obvious misunderstanding on the Chinese-made products in the recall incident, when the label of "Made-in-China" was overemphasized as the core problem that resulted in the safety concern."

Design flaws? Are these Chinese folks daft? Are we to believe that the good folks at Mattel specified lead poisoned paint? Is Mattel saying they specified paint which did not meet US standards for lead levels?

Note that the Chinese do not accept responsibility. That is because they do not have a clue what that is. They will one day, but for now they are clueless. It was a nice gesture on the part of Mattel, but the fact is Mattel's design flaw is the same corporate laziness that has come over most US companies. Soon this will become a problem for Mattel.

Mattel is too lazy to make toys, they are idea people and bean counters. So much the better to conceive of toys in their creative minds and then get them made by the lowest bidder. China most recently.

Mattel has reduced itself to the role of toy peddler. Just like Dell has reduced themselves to the role of computer peddler. Many companies like Dell do not even design their products any more, they let Chinese engineers design them. I like to think of these American companies as the "cheap, greedy, bastards."

Oh, the design flaw? For anyone aware of the ISO 9000 method of quality control, it would appear that the quality system at Mattel assumed the Chinese knew American regulatory requirements for paint toxicity due to lead. I suspect this when I see the words "root cause" in the analysis presented in the press.

I know the press is pretty much ignorant of how things work as demonstrated by their lack of technical expertise on other things they report.

Kinda scary isn't it. The Chinese think they are vindicated as shown in the quote from their online news rag (Xinhua). It took Japan a long time to get it right and they had excellent quality training after WWII. The Chinese don't have that advantage, and they don't seem to have the respect for others and the temperment of the Japanese, either.

Made in China deserves the bad connotation it currently is busy establishing. They need to demonstrate they are ready to learn the rules instead of choosing the rules they want to hide behind.

Personally I would like to see some industry developed in the United States, but it will take a government that understands there is more to the marketplace than cheap goods at any cost. Wait until the dollar becomes totally worthless and we will wish our companies could do a bit more than market and conceive.

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25 September 07 - 08:08AA can mean a lot of things

Last Thursday a small boo boo made the entire day "oh so special." The day started in Minneapolis, known in its early days for milling and lumbering in the mid 1800's. The grain and lumber mills clustered around St. Anthony Falls and Minneapolis back then led the world in the production of lumber and flour.

Last Thursday my day and the day for my two traveling companions started in Saint Paul, the sister city of Minneapolis. Since their bridge on I-35W inadvertently fell into the river a while back we had planned to take I-35E to the airport for our return trip after meeting with Minnesota officials as part of our job. A couple of boo boos caused our arrival at the airport to be later than required to make our flight on AA. As you know, AA can stand for a lot of things. AA can be a battery size, extra small bra size, a club for anonymous boozers, or the initials for American Airlines.

As luck would have it our tickets were with American Airlines, the largest airline in the world. These folks can take care of us, so we call from the car and let them know of our woe. The solution is easy, they have three seats available on the next flight at around 9:00. We arrived at the airport just after 6:00 AM, too late to catch our flight, but ready to go for the flight at 9:00.

Then, bad news; the plane to be used for this flight is delayed in New York while something is fixed on the plane. then the see-saw starts, The plane is being fixed, no it is being replaced, fixed, replaced, fixed.... No matter, whatever shape the plane was in when it left for Minneapolis, it was broken again when it finally arrived (really late) in the fair state of Minnesota.

The voice over the intercom was muffled by the enlarging group of disgruntled passengers for both AA and United, but I think they said, "We're sorry, your flight has been canceled. You may suck an egg or go fish. We will put you on standby for the next flight, but don't expect much."

And so the day went, standby here, standby there, stand by your man, standing room only.

I spent eight bucks to get to the internet so I could get some work done, but to no avail. Our server would not recognize me and I didn't know if it was the server in Dallas or "Boink" the internet access service in the airport. In the meantime, my battery was going dead on my phone, so it would have been helpful to access my mail through my computer. But the travel gods were angry with me.

There were a myriad of excuses for late, delayed, and canceled flights. The most popular was, "We are so darn sorry that one of the runways is shut down so we can dink around with it."

This excuse was followed up by, "There is an air traffic control delay on this flight."

And, of course, weather has caused the flight to be delayed excuse. Our plane seemed to be the only one that was grounded because AA could not fix the problem described as involving "navigational equipment" malfunctioning on the plane. I guess the worry was we would go to the wrong place or something.

Finally we get on the 5:30 PM flight for Dallas. I settle into my seat and my two travel companions do the same elsewhere on the plane. Now comes the storm. Lightning keeps us from getting pushed off, followed by the high winds and driving rains that wiggle the airplane. When it is over we finally depart the northland around 6:30.

I hate to say it, but there was more to this, however, between this and the geyser in Austin, this is how my week went. At least it wasn't my birthday last Thursday, like it was for someone I know. Not the best way to spend a birthday, but probably not the worst.

What a day, what a day....

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24 September 07 - 08:08The last of the garage door incident.

The new door is white.One of the life events that happened a couple weeks ago (if you remember) was the collapse of the garage door. Interestingly, two of three companies involved have distinguished themselves, and one sorta gets by.

Lowes took the lead with Amarr Doors in close second. These companies were concerned that the door was not installed correctly, something the door installer agreed with when he installed the door. The installer was probably a senior, trusted installer, because he did an excellent job and the door runs smoothly and quietly. something the last door did not do, ever. The prior door always hesitated as it went up or down.

AAA doors, again, installed the door even though we asked for another installer, if possible. Their contribution was trying to reschedule the installation to a later date once the date was promised. Once they got their man out, however, the installation seems to be a good one.

We did have to settle for a white door, since that color was in stock.

At least this minidisaster had a happy, even though not timely, ending. It did take a while.

A tip of the hat to Lowes and Amarr. Especially Lowes.

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23 September 07 - 21:13Building the Nest

Fixing the faucet

The past week has been so full of mini-disasters that I can't really decide where to start, so I'll start at the end. The end starts with a Friday night trip to Austin, Texas, home of my daughter's condo. She is attending school in Austin and the place needed a bit of work. The task list was short and simple. Install microwave over stove, figure out how to install a fan in the bathroom, install a couple of smoke alarms, put in a security hasp, and a bit of painting.

The greatest amount of time needed to be spent on the microwave oven. The height above them stove was only 29 inches and the instructions demanded 30 as a minimum. In order to meet this requirement I needed to cut down the cabinet over the stove and reassemble it so it looked decent. Once the cabinet is done, I install the microwave. Installing the microwave took about 25 minutes, diddling with the cabinet took 3 1/2 hours including a run for parts. Not bad for using a hand saw and it looked 96% professional.

Next I am trying to figure out a fan for the bathroom. We have discussed trying to fit a fan into the exhaust circuit for the dryer. As I study the bathroom it seems there is a fan in the ceiling disguised as a really battered light fixture. Closer study proves this to be the case. All I need to do is remove the old fan and replace it with a new one. All is going as well as can be expected when I drop the new fan onto the cold water faucet in the tub, breaking the plastic stem on the cold handle.

As luck would have it, this is the only faucet I cannot turn off. I can turn off all the hot water at the water heater and I can turn off all of the other faucets in the place with individual shutoff valves, but not the cold faucet on the tub.

I ended up replacing the cartridge with the water on. Water pressure in this area is excellent, I might add. Water squirted.... No, gushed.... No, blasted all over the bathroom. At one point I thought I would need to sit by the tub in my wet clothes while Marla found an emergency plumber will to come out on a Sunday.

The money pit.As additional help Marla covered my face with the shower curtain to try and keep the floor dry as I fumbled around for a pliers, and then started in with an endless supply of useless questions which tended to make me feel stupider than I already must have looked. Finally I got the thing lined up and the threads bit enough to put the thing back together with enough parts to make the faucet semi-functional again. Since the faucet was only semi-functional to begin with, this meant I had repaired the faucet to it's original state. This side show and the trips to two places for parts added about 3 more hours of fun to the agenda.

The final fun came at just before 2:00 when we were packing the car and Marla contributed to the day by dumping a good portion of a gallon of paint on the new kitchen flooring. This blessed event kicked off at least an additional one hour cleaning event.

I was told years ago that I look like Tom Hanks (that's changed}. Now I feel like him as the character he portrayed in the movie "The Money Pit." Of course, anyone who has met Marla knows that she looks just like Shelly Long, right? This is too coincidental to believe. I am going to check my Nostradamus book to see if this day was predicted by the master predictor.

Oh, well, you be the decider.

I now know how the salmons feel when they swim upstream to mate, only I didn't even get to do that when I got done. All I got was wet.

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17 September 07 - 23:19At Last - Microsoft unmasked!

My First ComputerHere's a misguided analysis in CNNMoney.com reprinted from Investors Business Daily. You can find the article on money.cnn.com.

The quote "Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), a company that has enriched millions and provided an immeasurable boost to the global economy, is being treated like a criminal in Europe -- which has a funny way of defining justice."

Here's my two cents worth. I am not a specialist in the area of computers, instead, I would call myself a retired computer enthusiast. I started out hearing about what was called Microsoft when I worked with "IBM compatibles" in the mid 1980's.  I was a partner in a small computer store in Fargo, North Dakota.

Minicomputers became personal computers, or PC's on August 12, 1981 when IBM released their new computer named the IBM PC. It was the MITS Altair 8800 computer which was introduced six years earlier that gave Bill Gates and Paul Allen the adrenaline shot they needed to write BASIC for this early microcomputing machine. In fact they wrote BASIC (and other languages) for practically all of the original microcomputers including the fabled Apple and my machine, the TRS-80 Model I with a three digit serial number.

So did Microsoft do a lot of good? Perhaps, but the bean counters publication quote (above) shows the lack of understanding that I really hate from the bean counting community. Let's put this in perspective, Microsoft has raped, killed, plundered, robbed, conspired against, ruined, absorbed, or raked over every software company or even entire software company categories in their lust to grow.

They are guilty, plain and simple, if the American courts had any sense, they would have come to the same conclusion as the European courts. My hat is off to the Europeans for calling Microsoft what it is. A monopoly that has rolled over legions of companies and their loyal and talented employees in their quest for more dollars.

Again, call them what they are Europeans. You rock!

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16 September 07 - 14:11Button Button

Shiny Alibris ButtonI have been fiddling with Linux a bit more.  It seems that it is an excellent operating system, I just need to learn a bit more about it.  I have found that making icons for the Gnome desktop is very easy.  All I need to do is create an image file and drag it into the icon window in the properties box.  To that end I have been making green buttons that look shiny.  Why?  I really don't know, I just think they sorta match the green stuf that SUSE Linux has.

At left is a green icon button that I use for my link to Alibris.com.  Alibris is a great site for finding used books.  I have used it for years.

I also have made bank buttons, a Lincoln's Log button, ebay, etc.   When this is an icon it is about half or less this size.  The operating system does a temporary gamma change to make it look brighter on mouseover. and darker when it has been clicked.

I think I have enough new buttons for today.  Time to do somethings else.

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12 September 07 - 21:57Lowes, Firestone, and the BBB

Lowes is no longer a train wreck on this issue.UPDATE!!

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Lowes responded earlier today (Thursday) with a positive response.  They will be installing a new door next week.  They are also upset with AAA Garage Door and Opener of Terrell, Texas, 4646 W Highway 80, Terrell, TX 75160 (214) 275-6772.  It is this company that installed the doors.

I did not personally talk to Lowes, but they accepted full responsibility for the situation.  The store manager agreed that garage doors should not be expected to fall off the wall.  They were also kinda ticked that AAA charged them to come out and agree that the door had fallen off the wall without doing anything.

AAA is under agreement with Amarr Garage Doors, 165 Carriage Court, Winston-Salem, NC 27105 (800) 503-3667, the door manufacturer.  I certainly hope Lowes looks very carefully into AAA, a company who has the attitude, "sometimes doors just fall off."

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I will probably be visiting the BBB tomorrow, a lost cause because they are not the organization they used to be. I do think when businesses are truely wrong, the complaint should be registered even if the agency of choice is impotent, such as the BBB.

Here is the note I sent to Lowe's customer service link on their website. It will at least get the issue documented in their computer system. It also explains quite nicely why I am a bit miffed at Lowe's.

Some things just should not happen. Look at the picture on the left. Would it be acceptable for the engineer to simply say, "Hey, boss, sometimes I don't get the train stopped where I want to."?

Here is the note:

Dear Reader:

This is to document my complaint with Lowe's corporate prior to filing a complaint with the BBB.

In October or November of 2004 we purchased a garage door from Lowes's of Plano, TX, Store Number 0666. We also purchased installation at the time with the understanding it would be a professional installation.

Last week the door wrenched itself from the wall and is jammed in a partially down position. Pat the manager talked with my wife and your installer sent out to see what was wrong. The installer had no authority and simply reported back to a third party manager in another town that door support mechanism had, in fact, fallen off the wall. The installer turns out to be a second party, not Lowes, and the manager of that company sitting at a desk in another town said they were not responsible and that sometimes doors do this.

Properly installed garage doors do not fall off the wall.

When leaving the hapless installer said not to touch the door as the spring is dangerous.

I will be going to the Lowe's store and complaining myself on 9/13 AM and if no appropriate action is taken I will file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.

The collapse occured on Thursday evening last week, one week ago tomorrow. It should be possible to get resolution in this time. There is no door on order, no person is taking responsibility, the manager "Pat" indicates he has sent two emails and talked to the door company. He also initiated sending the low-level door installer who was not even a Lowe's employee out to affirm that the door had fallen off the wall.

This is not a warrantly issue, it is an integrity and workmanship issue. The door was improperly installed and it was simply my misfortune that it did not happen immediately.

Properly installed garage doors do not fall off the wall. Period.

Lincoln Armstrong

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08 September 07 - 14:40Bin Laden is a Democrat!

Bin Laden from Al-Jazeera.Bin Laden seems to be very excited with the American political scene. Overall he seems to side with the Democrats.  If we are simply nice, nothing mean will happen to us.

Kinda makes you wonder if that is true.  I have always believed there are no guarantees in the world today, and quite frankly I have a funny feeling that doing nothing won't be the solution to world peace.

What follows is the text of the Bin Laden speech.  This was provided by Al Jazeera and it is word for word from the translation at the bottom of the screen.

Bin Laden is speaking to you, Americans.  Remember, he is the voice of reason, right?

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07 September 07 - 00:51I Bin Noticing again

Osama Bin Laden - in his prime.This guy is back in the news.  It kinda makes me think about history and recent and ancient together.  People like Attila the Hun, if running the United States would have killed this guy years ago.  Reading the news you note that Bin Laden is figured to be in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Recent terror suspects in Germany were apparently trained in Pakistan, probably in the same region.

The world conquerers like Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Alexander, and the like knew how to gain loyalty quickly and that was "kill anyone who stands in your way."  This worked very well because they did it in the open and they explained clearly what they were doing.  Also, these leaders may have been ruthless, but they were fair and delegated well.  They commanded great respect for this reason.  You do not get troops to follow you all over the place without leadership skills.

Now, I am not saying that this is the way to do it, but a few days ago the US Air Force flew eight cruise missiles from  North Dakota to Louisiana suspended under the wings of a B-52.  They were moved to be decomissioned and raised a fuss because they were not transported properly.  It seems we have a potential solution here.  We have a lot of spare old nuclear cruise missiles we no longer need, or they are just plain getting worn out.  Hmmmmmm.

Why not dispose of them along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.  We could continue disposal until we no longer hear any more from Bin Laden.  Kill two birds with one stone, sorta.

Collateral damage?  Well, perhaps we should be diplomatic and warn the residents of the area first.  Remind them that there is a large reward for Bin Laden (Dead or alive, I guess) and they can choose.  Turn him in for money, or find your part of the world the official waste dump for nuclear devices from any country that needs to get rid of them.

You decide, bad idea or good idea?

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04 September 07 - 22:09Old Lisbon - North Bridge

What a mess - look at the mud!!I remember years ago in the seventies, I think, Highway 32 North out of )or in to) Lisbon was redone.  When I was a child it was a paved road, but a twisting and turning road that lowered you into the valley that holds the City of Lisbon.  It was a fairly treacherous road and at least once a year a car would roll down the steep embankment on the west side.

Fortunately a steep embankment in North Dakota is nothing like a Rocky Mountain or Black Hills cliff.  Just the same, it messes up the car and distresses the driver to end up stuck in a tree or the like.  The road even hit close to home when my Grandfather was heading home and wiped out a string of guardrails by accidentally swerving into them while tuning the radio, all the while negotiating the S-curves into the valley.

Another highlight was the time the car with two drunks rolled off the last curve on the way down the hill onto the golf course, ending up on the number one green.  The car was upside down as it were and they crawled out the windows and staggered around the green just as the city fathers were standing in front of the clubhouse trying to impress the Governor who was visiting the city.  I believe the governor was probably impressed, it's not often you get a show like that.

Well, gang, take a look at this old picture of the north bridge.  This picture was taken 100 years ago from the north hill in the area of the radio tower.  The time is apparently fall as the river is thawed and the field to the right has wheat or corn or something shocks in it when looking at the bigger picture this detail came from.  The road is a mess.  Take a close look and see the buggy just coming off the bridge (heading toward you).  The tracks from wheels of previous buggies has made a pretty precarious path.

No matter what I thought of that improvement in the 1970's, it was not the upgrade the new bridge and the paving of the road must have been.  Sometimes we don't know how well we have it!!

Later, Lisbon.

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03 September 07 - 22:35Morons in the News

Typical whale jumping about.It seems that jobs in the area of lawyering and judging attracts more morons than you can shake a stick at. I have long been trying to figure out how a judge is involved with saving whales to the point of placing the well being of whales as more important status than our own well being. Now to continue the circus, another judge has overturned the first judge's misjudgment. Why?  No, wait, hold the presses, the first judge is from Los Angeles and the second is from San Francisco, both in California, the home of the goofy.

I read about this some time ago that a goofy judge had placed a restraining order on our Navy to stop testing sonar because it owies the whales and makes them unhappy.

The way it works is this. Some bleeding heart chucklehead comes into a lawyer's office (and it could be a lawyer's office from a typical special interest group). The bleeding heart brings a pickup load of pseudo-science and dupes the easily duped judge to go along with the plan. Save the whales, they're so cute and you can swim with them!!

What are we saving them from? Naval sonar. What is the navy doing with the sonar? Protecting us!!

Get your head out of the sand Florence-Marie Cooper, the world is a dangerous place and it is not the whales that make it that way. If they threaten me I consider them an enemy. You have made them a threat. Here is what this misguided judge had to say (as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle)....

"In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper said the underwater sound waves could harm nearly 30 species of marine mammals, including five species of endangered whales. She said the Navy's planned protective measures were "woefully inadequate and ineffectual," and cited the Navy's estimate that the tests would cause 466 permanent injuries to whales."

The case is not done yet as lawyers for the whale huggers are still persuing the case, however, the Navy can now carry out their training exercises which are designed to protect us from external threats. Now if only we could get protection from the California whale lawyers.

These misguided people really scare me. We (the United States and it's freedoms) are more likely to be undone by the attacks of liberal lawyers and judges than from terrorists. The scary part is they really believe in their misguidedness.  They think they are doing the right thing.

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01 September 07 - 00:05Surprise Surprise

Last night Marla and I had a check to deposit so we piled into the car and buzzed off to the bank.  The event was without any undue problems and so we headed my favorite car (The Lincoln) back home, about 4 or 5 blocks up the road.

As we got onto the road Marla noted that the Dunkin' Donuts stand also had Bresler's Ice Cream as advertised by the very bright sign just to the right of the Dunkin' Donuts sign.

With this in mind, Marla suggested zipping in for an ice cream cone.

So in we zipped and I told the very alert young man how impressed I was that Dunkin' Donuts had added an all night Bresler's to their array of junk fare.  Now I can stop in for a sugary donut and coffee in the morning and have a large cone of ice cream in the evening.

Two years he said.  Two years?  Yes, that's how long we have had the ice cream stand in the donut shop.  Well, so much for keeping on top of things.

The next thing I did was order a penguin ice cream cone.  M-m-m-m-m-m-m was it good.  Good and black (practically stained my face) and nice and sweet.  And the really remarkable thing was the next day.  The penquin ice cream produced the nicest lime green poop you have ever seen.  Yes, this green crap scared the crap out of me until I eventually figured out what had happened.

Moral?  There isn't one.

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