Buckethead is coming to the service station on March 19, tickets are $18 in advance.
Go to this link and scroll down to near the bottom.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
January's Poll Results
Who is Jake?
#1. The wierdest person I know: 50% (2 votes)
#2. The coolest person I know: 25% (1vote)
The nerdiest person I know: 25% (1 vote)
#3. The ugliest person I know: 0% (0 votes)
#1. The wierdest person I know: 50% (2 votes)
#2. The coolest person I know: 25% (1vote)
The nerdiest person I know: 25% (1 vote)
#3. The ugliest person I know: 0% (0 votes)
Berkeley vs. Those who defend her freedom
Some things just tick me off. People treat or troops like they were criminals. :-(
Quote of the Day III
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
John McCain: a true American Hero... and a Liar
Liar, liar, mouth for hire. Oh, yes that's John McCain, a big, hairy mole on the face of the Republican party. Explore his many qualities with the Queen of Sting, Ann Coulter.
GOP TO EDWARDS: HOW MUCH FOR THAT CONCESSION SPEECH?January 30, 2008The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems -- like, for example, a first-term senator with a 100 percent rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is "Hussein." But we won't let them. The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president -- on a personal level, she's still a little creepy.) I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility. Also, McCain lies a lot, which is really more a specialty of the Democrats. Recently, McCain responded to Mitt Romney's statement that he understood the economy based on his many years in the private sector by claiming Romney had said a military career is not a "real job." McCain's neurotic boast that he is the only Republican who supported the surge is beginning to sound as insane as Bill Clinton's claim to being the "first black president" -- although less insulting to blacks. As with the Clintons, you find yourself looking up such tedious facts as this, which ran a week after Bush announced the surge: "On the morning of Bush's address, Romney endorsed a troop surge." -- The National Journal, Jan. 13, 2007 And yet for the 4 billionth time, at the Jan. 5, 2008, Republican debate, McCain bragged about his own raw courage in supporting the surge despite (apocryphal) Republican attacks, saying: "I said at the time that Gen. Petraeus and his strategy must be employed, and I was criticized by Republicans at that time. And that was a low point, but I stuck to it. I didn't change." A review of contemporaneous news stories about the surge clearly demonstrates that the only Republicans who were so much as "skeptical" of the surge consisted of a few oddball liberal Republicans such as Sens. Gordon Smith, Norm Coleman and Olympia Snowe. They certainly weren't attacking McCain, their standard-bearer in liberal Republicanism. But even if they were, it was a "low point" for McCain being "criticized" by the likes of Olympia Snowe? In point of fact, McCain didn't even stand up to the milquetoasts. In April 2007, when Democrats in the Senate passed a bill funding the troops but also requiring a rapid withdrawal, "moderate" Republicans Smith and Chuck Hagel voted with the Democrats. McCain and Lindsey Graham skipped the vote. But like the Democrats, McCain thinks if he simply says something over and over again, he can make people believe it's true. Thus again at the South Carolina debate on Jan. 10, McCain was proclaiming that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. Since he would deny it about two minutes later, here is exactly what Mr. Straight Talk said about the surge: "I supported that; I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did. And I condemn the Rumsfeld strategy before that." The next question went to Giuliani and -- amid great flattery -- Giuliani noted that he also supported Bush's surge "the night of the president's speech." Mr. Straight Talk contradicted Giuliani, saying: "Not at the time." Again, Giuliani said: "The night of the president's speech, I was on television. I supported the surge. I've supported it throughout." To which McCain finally said he didn't mean that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. So by "the only one on this stage," McCain really meant, "one of several people on this stage." OK, great. Now tell us your definition of the word "is," Senator. I know Republicans have been trained not to go prostrate at Ivy League degrees, but do we have to admire stupidity? Mr. Straight Talk also announced at that same debate: "One of the reasons why I won in New Hampshire is because I went there and told them the truth." That and the fact that Democrats were allowed to vote in the Republican primary. Even in the Florida primary, allegedly limited to Republicans, McCain lost among Republicans. (Seventeen percent of the Republican primary voters in Florida called themselves "Independents.") That helps, but why would any Republican vote for McCain? At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they're supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas -- tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals -- Republicans in Congress will support "our" president -- just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush's great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers. You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid. Republicans who vote for McCain are trying to be cute, like the Democrats were four years ago by voting for the "pragmatic" candidate, Vietnam vet John Kerry. This will turn out to be precisely as clever a gambit as nominating Kerry was, the brilliance of which was revealed on Election Day 2004.
http://www.anncoulter.com/
GOP TO EDWARDS: HOW MUCH FOR THAT CONCESSION SPEECH?January 30, 2008The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems -- like, for example, a first-term senator with a 100 percent rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is "Hussein." But we won't let them. The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president -- on a personal level, she's still a little creepy.) I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility. Also, McCain lies a lot, which is really more a specialty of the Democrats. Recently, McCain responded to Mitt Romney's statement that he understood the economy based on his many years in the private sector by claiming Romney had said a military career is not a "real job." McCain's neurotic boast that he is the only Republican who supported the surge is beginning to sound as insane as Bill Clinton's claim to being the "first black president" -- although less insulting to blacks. As with the Clintons, you find yourself looking up such tedious facts as this, which ran a week after Bush announced the surge: "On the morning of Bush's address, Romney endorsed a troop surge." -- The National Journal, Jan. 13, 2007 And yet for the 4 billionth time, at the Jan. 5, 2008, Republican debate, McCain bragged about his own raw courage in supporting the surge despite (apocryphal) Republican attacks, saying: "I said at the time that Gen. Petraeus and his strategy must be employed, and I was criticized by Republicans at that time. And that was a low point, but I stuck to it. I didn't change." A review of contemporaneous news stories about the surge clearly demonstrates that the only Republicans who were so much as "skeptical" of the surge consisted of a few oddball liberal Republicans such as Sens. Gordon Smith, Norm Coleman and Olympia Snowe. They certainly weren't attacking McCain, their standard-bearer in liberal Republicanism. But even if they were, it was a "low point" for McCain being "criticized" by the likes of Olympia Snowe? In point of fact, McCain didn't even stand up to the milquetoasts. In April 2007, when Democrats in the Senate passed a bill funding the troops but also requiring a rapid withdrawal, "moderate" Republicans Smith and Chuck Hagel voted with the Democrats. McCain and Lindsey Graham skipped the vote. But like the Democrats, McCain thinks if he simply says something over and over again, he can make people believe it's true. Thus again at the South Carolina debate on Jan. 10, McCain was proclaiming that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. Since he would deny it about two minutes later, here is exactly what Mr. Straight Talk said about the surge: "I supported that; I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did. And I condemn the Rumsfeld strategy before that." The next question went to Giuliani and -- amid great flattery -- Giuliani noted that he also supported Bush's surge "the night of the president's speech." Mr. Straight Talk contradicted Giuliani, saying: "Not at the time." Again, Giuliani said: "The night of the president's speech, I was on television. I supported the surge. I've supported it throughout." To which McCain finally said he didn't mean that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. So by "the only one on this stage," McCain really meant, "one of several people on this stage." OK, great. Now tell us your definition of the word "is," Senator. I know Republicans have been trained not to go prostrate at Ivy League degrees, but do we have to admire stupidity? Mr. Straight Talk also announced at that same debate: "One of the reasons why I won in New Hampshire is because I went there and told them the truth." That and the fact that Democrats were allowed to vote in the Republican primary. Even in the Florida primary, allegedly limited to Republicans, McCain lost among Republicans. (Seventeen percent of the Republican primary voters in Florida called themselves "Independents.") That helps, but why would any Republican vote for McCain? At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they're supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas -- tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals -- Republicans in Congress will support "our" president -- just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush's great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers. You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid. Republicans who vote for McCain are trying to be cute, like the Democrats were four years ago by voting for the "pragmatic" candidate, Vietnam vet John Kerry. This will turn out to be precisely as clever a gambit as nominating Kerry was, the brilliance of which was revealed on Election Day 2004.
http://www.anncoulter.com/
Goodbye: Margaret Truman Daniel
Only Child of President Truman Dies at 83 1/29/2008
Margaret Truman Daniel spent her life as a singer, commentator, and novelist. She was born to Bess W. and Harry S. Truman, who later became president, on February 17, 1924. In 1942 she married editor Clifton Daniel. She died Tuesday of complications following an infection.
This Day in History: Assassinations!
First and Only Execution of an English King 1/30/1649
Off with his head! King Charles I is beheaded for treason by order of Parliament and England is put under the authority of Oliver Cromwell's protectorate.
186 years later...
First Assassination Attempt on a U. S. President 1/30/1835
Lady Luck misfires (twice) Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Andrew Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and shot at him, but his gun misfired. A furious 67-year-old Jackson confronted his attacker, clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence managed to pull out a second loaded pistol and pulled the trigger, but it also misfired. Jackson’s aides then wrestled Lawrence away from the president, leaving Jackson unharmed but angry and, as it turned out, paranoid.
and another 113 years roll past...
Ghandi Assassinated 1/30/1948
Poor pacifist. Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi was murdered in New Delhi at 78.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4721
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/30&categoryId=presidential
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/30&categoryId=crime
Off with his head! King Charles I is beheaded for treason by order of Parliament and England is put under the authority of Oliver Cromwell's protectorate.
186 years later...
First Assassination Attempt on a U. S. President 1/30/1835
Lady Luck misfires (twice) Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Andrew Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and shot at him, but his gun misfired. A furious 67-year-old Jackson confronted his attacker, clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence managed to pull out a second loaded pistol and pulled the trigger, but it also misfired. Jackson’s aides then wrestled Lawrence away from the president, leaving Jackson unharmed but angry and, as it turned out, paranoid.
and another 113 years roll past...
Ghandi Assassinated 1/30/1948
Poor pacifist. Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi was murdered in New Delhi at 78.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4721
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/30&categoryId=presidential
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/30&categoryId=crime
Freedom of Choice: the other side
If this bill goes through, doctors will be able to choose not to murder unborn babies. Wow, who woulda' thought.
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19241248&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19241248&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6
Freedom in Education
Freedom of choice? Should parents have the right to choose which school their children attend? Should they be able to move thier kids from a dysfunctional school to one with a better reputation? I say yes, but you do the math for yourself.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9118
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Kansas enters the Union. 1/29/1861
Oh, Yipee. We can take today to thank Kansas for 2 staples of the American Experience:
Dwight Eisenhower and corn.
Edgar Allen Poe publishes The Raven 1/29/1845
Knocking on my chamber door. Pretty cool, not his best. kinda repetitive. Kinda repetitve.
President William McKinley is born!!! 1/29/1843
Who?! Born in Niles, OH, McKinley fought bravely in the civil war, served in congress, and the engulfed America in the Spanish-American War. Oh, and most importantly, he enabled his vice, Theodore Roosevelt to become one of the most productive presidents in American history by, you guessed it, being assasinated. It may sound macabre, but that's probably because it is.
Do you have $20,000 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, consider buying a Donk.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326474,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326474,00.html
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