29 August 09 - 20:30POW justice, Obama style.
Gitmo Detainee With Bin Laden Ties Ordered Freed
Courthouse News Service - Aug 24, 2009 - By AVERY FELLOW (CN) - A federal judge in Washington, DC, ordered the government to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee with family ties to Osama bin Laden. ... evidence of his brief presence at the camp is not enough to detain him at the military prison in Cuba, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled....
I was reading the news articles today about various things and this one reminded me of something that our cheerleader for change was on board with. The Bush haters often pushed to have Guantanamo cases brought into federal courts. You don't do that with prisoners of war. This is what happens when you do. Some judge named Gladys will say you don't have enough to hold the prisoner based on whatever standards they think may apply, and our safety clicks down another notch.
Gladys, terrorists around the world applaud you I am sure. I place Gladys on the same plane with other international heroes of justice such as Kenny MacAskill of Scotland who keeps saying, "The Libyans promised they would give Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahia a 'low key' welcome." And don't worry, this pair of morons will not be alone. There are plenty of judges out there who think the same way. Tnese are the judges that, when your daughter has been raped, disfigured, and murdered, point out that the strict execution of the law was not followed when her murderer was caught, so he may go free.
So sorry.
By the way, what did Barack have to say about the Lockerie Bomer release debacle? President Barack Obama said the Scottish decision to free terminally ill Abdel Baset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds was a mistake and warned Libya not to give him a hero's welcome. Perhaps he should look at his own actions, such as his rush to close Guantanimo for the sake of change.
What the hell, let's put Barack up there on the pedestal with Gladys and Kenny.
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27 August 09 - 20:43A Robot Bartender
Guy goes into a bar, there's a robot bartender.
The robot says, "What will you have?"
The guy says, "Martini."
The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "168".
The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology.
The guy leaves, but he is curious, so he goes back into the bar.
The robot bartender says, "What will you have?"
The guy says, "Martini".
Again, the robot makes a great martini, gives it to the man and says, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "100."
The robot then starts to talk about NASCAR, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.
The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time. He goes back into the bar.
The robot says, "What will you have?"
The guy says, "Martini", and the robot brings him another great martini.
The robot then says, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "Uh, about 50."
The robot leans in real close and says, "So, you people still happy you voted for Obama?"
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25 August 09 - 00:11Some various sayings....
I don't mind going to work, but that eight hour wait to go back home is a bitch!
I didn't say it was your FAULT, I said I was going to BLAME you!
Silence is golden, duct tape is silver.
What if the HOKEY POKEY really is what it's all about?
Welcome to MONTANA! Set your watch back 20 years.
In just two days from now, tomorrow will be yesterday.
I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.
I am a Nobody. Nobody is Perfect. Therefore I am Perfect.
I love cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food.
Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.
I might have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough.
Reality is only an illusion that occurs due to a lack of alcohol.
My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my short-term memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake!
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23 August 09 - 21:40Good!
New Release
Suspect in model's murder found dead
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) 8/23/09 -- Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV contestant who is suspected in his wife's slaying in California, was found dead in a hotel in British Columbia, Canadian authorities announced Sunday.
Marla and I agree on this one. When we heard the news we both said, "Good!"
No cost to the taxpayers of either Canada or the States. He is in the condition he deserves and now life can go on.
As a bit of a comment, my own jealously never gets beyond disappointment. It takes a lot more ego to take that jealous feeling to the point where you think it is OK to kill. Apparently it takes a bit more of a disconnect with reality than the rest of us have as well. It would appear the "reconnect" with reality is a bummer.
Mr. Jenkins hung himself, probably after realizing he had no future once the body was identified. Good by person of interest. You gave yourself what you deserved.
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19 August 09 - 23:59Socialism by any other name is, . . . Socialism
Headline: Obama Calls Health Plan a 'Moral Obligation'
I have been expecting this plea. This is it, the far left liberal viewpoint, the people who have little sense of the overall ramifications, they just know that sympathy feels good. This "moral obligation" means that subsidized healthcare, government healthcare, the right to healthcare, whatever you call it is not something that is a benefit for working hard or something you buy, it is a birthright. (He implies that I am not saying it, because I do not believe it.)
Keep in mind the two things about any healtcare subsidfy program, whether private insurance or Obamacare, is a pay as you go propesition which will lead to difficult choices. Remember only these two things:
1) The provider must pay out no more than they take in.
2) The provider must make choices to decide how to keep this balance.
The system will make us pay more or give us less based on these decisions. Euthenasia, I really don't think so. Reduced care for the very elderly, probably. You get to decide on the most exotic cancer treatment? I doubt it. What will it be like? Ask Michael Moore, he thinks that Cuba has a great program. I have asked Canadians what they think about their socialist healthcare system, there is little good to be heard.
Hard choices, pay as you go. This is not a humanitarian decision, it is a business decision, and Obama is ill equipped to work in the realm of fiduciary responcibility. This will work not better than the stimulus plan. That was a lie, this is a lie. We cannot afford first rate medical care for everyone in the country. We can, of course, afford something less. Once things average out, who knows how bad it will be here.
Socialism is never the answer. Nor is communism. They are related, you know.
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18 August 09 - 06:06Throw Back Guy
This website, Throw Back Guy, is a site that solicited me via email. At first I throught I should just "shitcan" the email as a blatant solicitation, then I thought about it. Whoever this person is, and the email is signed "Kathy" it seems that the idea of having a business on the internet is very much in the "now".
So, Kathy, I am certainly willing to plug your website. The website sells what appear to be high quality specialty jerseys that mimic any major football, basketball, hockey, baseball, or whatever sport. There is a very wide and specific selection. Since I don't know squat about this sort of thing, I would love to have you tell me what you think.
For my part, any guy named Kathy is a friend of mine.
I did not see any cricket uniforms, for those friends of mine that play that game. You can't have everything. Just having a guy named Kathy is enough to get me excited.
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16 August 09 - 23:33Alternative Universe
I was watching one of my favorite channels last week and they were talking about the Universe, it's origins, etc. They actually did a nice job of explaining for my simpleton mind about additional dimensions, branes, and the possibility of unlimited parallel universes in which all likely choices by all of consciousness exist.
Today I watched an aspirin commercial, Bayer, most likely, and a lady says she was walking along having a heart attack and ingested an aspirin she had in her purse. Viola! Her doctor said it saved her life! What a testimonial. Really!
In the alternate universe I am living in Tylenol is recommended by doctors and hospitals everywhere. I don't really know why, because it is not as safe as aspirin, as cheap as aspirin, and it isn't really good for your liver. That aside, however, have you looked at the benefits of aspirin lately?
I see it reduces risk of and increases chance of survival from colon cancer, reduces risk of breast cancer by 20%, helps prevent and mitigates heart attacks and some strokes, and I think some other stuff. This raises two questions.
1) What is happening in the alternate universe where doctors and hospitals recommend aspirin to mortality rates?
2) Why do doctors and hospitals recommend Tylenol? Do they need the additional business from heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and what not?
So many universes and so little time to investigate them.
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11 August 09 - 00:10Where is this guy, and, do we care???
It seems that Osama Bin Laden has not only slipped from our gunsights, he has slipped from our view. Our administration no longer talks about getting him and we seldom hear anything worth hearing from him. No tough stuff, no death to infidels, no real threats.
It appears that the terrorists are picking on easy local targets in their own Arab and Muslim countries. I guess you have to clean your own infidel house before you clean up on others.
Where it comes down to it, I don't care if he is dead, retired, or disallusioned. He hasn't done squat in years. Bush eliminated Bin Laden as a threat. That was Bush's job. Thank your.
Currently we are diddling around in Afghanistan again. Does anyone know why? Once getting Bin Laden became a thing of the past, it did not make sense to upgraden this conflict, or if it did I failed to see the analysis.
Good by Bin. Sorry you failed. (NOT!)
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08 August 09 - 06:06Jersey Girl Joke (Warning: Bad Taste, not PC)
Drinking with a Jersey Girl
A Mexican, an Arab, and a Jersey Girl are in the same bar drinking beers together.
When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces, saying, "In Mexico, our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one twice."
The Arab, obviously impressed by this, drinks his "no-alcohol" beer (because he's a Muslim!), throws his glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots the glass to pieces, stating, "In the Arab World, we have so much sand to make glasses, we don't need to drink with the same glass twice, either!"
The Jersey Girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the air, whips out her .45, shoots the Mexican and the Arab, then catches her glass before the bodies even hit the floor.
Wiping her mouth on her shirt, she sets the mug on the bar, and calls for a refill.
"In Jersey," she says, "we have so many illegal aliens, we don't have to drink with the same ones twice."
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06 August 09 - 06:06Another Old Guy Joke
This is a joke, son!
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An elderly gent was invited to an old friends home for dinner one evening.
He was impressed by the way his buddy preceded every request to his wife with endearing terms such as: Honey, My Love, Darling, Sweetheart, Pumpkin, etc.. The couple had been married almost 70 years and, clearly, they were still very much in love.
While the wife was in the kitchen, the visiting elder leaned over to his oldster host and said, "I think it's wonderful that, after all these years, you still call your wife those loving pet names."
The host shrugged,
"I have to tell you the truth," he said,
“Her name slipped my mind about 10 years ago, and I'm scared to death to ask the cranky old bitch what her name is.”
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05 August 09 - 06:06When life gives you lemons, drink beer...
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is the way the old story goes. Now, we have a solution for presidential foot in mouth issues. A foot in the mouth is especially bad when it involves presidential racial prejudice with respect to white police and one of the president's good good buddies.
What to do?
Set up a free beer stand as a diversion. The free beer is probably optional, what is not optional is an honest approach when a diversion will do better. It stands to reason this is not a standard presidential activity, there will not be any beer stands on the white house lawn for the rest of us. Our diversions are elsewhere, I expect.
I really do think this was a good public relations move, and the suggester should definately get a bonus, if the white house gives out that sort of thing.
Cheers!
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03 August 09 - 06:06Gitmo, Kansas, Michigan, what's the difference
This is in the news,
New Detainee Site In U.S. Considered
Facility Would Contain Courtrooms, House Some Guantanamo Prisoners
Washington Post - Monday, August 3, 2009 ...Officials said administration planners looking for one site for the facility have focused on the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and a state maximum-security prison in Standish, Mich., that is scheduled to be closed...
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I usually don't predict the future, I leave that to folks like Nostradamus and the like, but this is too easy. There are only two contingencies, execution of the plan, and the time frame.
Bush appeared dumb at times, but on the detainee issue he was smart. He and his advisors knew that if there were detainees on US soil it would become a terrorist magnet. Also, it would be a great place for kooks to hang out and protest.
I predict as follows:
If detainees are moved to a location or locations in the US these locations will be come magnetic attractors for terrorists. Fankly, although they claimed to "care" about detainees, I think the kooks don't care about detainees, they just hated Bush. Since the love Obama, they will stay home or demonstrate in a wierd way that even I cannot think of.
The terrorists hate all of us, Obama included. If this plan is carried out there will be at least one more terrorist attack, possibly more as a result of this move.
I do not believe that prisoners of war should be tried in American courts. Since law seems to feed on itself through what lawyers call "precedent" this is a bad idea. In common law legal systems, a precedent a legal case (cases in this case) establishing a principle or rule that a court or other judicial body utilizes when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues.
Obama and his bunch are mortgaging our future here because they are in a position to make stupid decisions that can effect legal precedent in this area. Bad news, for our children.
It takes a while for charisma to tarnish, but I hope it is sooner rather than later so we can get some rationality back into government again.
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02 August 09 - 12:22Yup, yuppy, yup,...
Ever try to define a yuppie? Here are a couple of viewpoints.
Far left viewpoint: I hate these damn yuppies! They claim to be "liberal", for "change", and for "the little guy", yet their materialistic pursuits embody the very opposite since they price real people like me out of the neighborhoods they move to!
Far right viewpoint: I hate these damn yuppies. I can't stand how they flaunt their metrosexuality with their designer labels, lattes, luxury cars, and globally conscious health food stores. It's european-wannabe wimps like them that corrupt America!
If those viewpoints don't help, try this story. Sometimes an example works better than a definition.
This example is a joke, son.
A cowboy named "Tex" was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in Texas when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a one?"
Tex looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer with a satellite interface and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPhone that the image has been processed and the data stored so he goes back to the laptop and accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet and, after a few minutes, receives another email response with the results attached.
Interfacing his iPhone with the laptop, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 creatures in your herd."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one," says Tex.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man wrestles with the creature as he stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Tex inquires of the yuppie, "Hey, if I can tell you who you work for, will you give me back my calf?"
The yuppie thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You work for the U.S. Government", says Tex.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.
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Now give me back my dog.
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