Seeds & Hammers

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I spent much of yesterday pondering, and now I know. I want a Harley Davidson
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Shia Islamic satellite set for liftoff on ICBM cloaked as space booster This is another reason why patriotic atheists ought embrace a belief in an afterlife.  Sure, when all hell breaks loose after we get hit by these Islamo dickweeds, the survivors can try and hunt down congressional democrats and say , See?  We told you."  Or something.  But, what of the victims .. dead victims?  A spirit in the afterlife will have the ability to hunt them down in their hidey-holes, going right through the 18" lead walls like they was air, and harass the shit out of them.  I learned from Ghost how it's done.  Ted Kennedy toasts America's destruction with some 100 year old Brandy?   Knock it out of his hand and watch him cry like a little girl.  Hillary?  Sing "Hundred bottles of beer" in her head for eternity. Or, just open the gas valve and strike a match.  Say Amen.

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The French Socialist Party has voted to expel party leader Georges Freche for saying there are too many black players on the national soccer team.  ''Progressives'' agreed that these were not the sentiments of a ''good socialist,"  and out he went.  Freche was also recently fined $19,000 for describing Algerians who fought on France's side in the Algerian war of independence as sub-human. Here's a clue camarades. Monsieur Freche's remarks, vis-à-vis the players, are gauche by anyone's standards.  Still, the man ought to have the right to say what he thinks, but  free speech is not the Euro way.  Are we to believe that this public slur was shocking to the other commies? I'm pretty certain that, over the years, Freche has amused his fellows at the annual Brie and Truffle Roast with plenty of racist jokes - without complaint. Anyway, we must assume that our own French Socialist would have the USofA adopt these very values, and avoid being the  "international pariah" we have evidently become. Yay for us.  USA! UAS! USA!

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I don't actually remember, but I don't think the LaLa Times referred to Duke Cunningham's play-for-pay conduct (which landed him in prison PDQ) as a ''potential violation of congressional ethics." This is the third (fourth?) revelation in a year about Reid's criminal activity. Why is this man still free? Maybe he read Rep. William Jefferson's book, "Beating the Man, and Get'n Down."

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Hace unos días Hugo Chávez nos dejó unas simpáticas imágenes disfrutando de la exhibición de un grupo de samba en Brasil durante la Cumbre de Mercosur. Una de las garotas pareció conquistar el corazón de Hugo Chávez quien la besó en la mejilla y le dedico sus mejores sonrisas. You dun have to spik Spanish to unnerstand this Lucy.  Here's the real poop.  All the French kissing with that Iranian guy           What a slut left Venezuelans whispering about his chinales.  Stung, Hugo went out and kissed the first girl that he found attractive.

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I'm often critical of the way cable channels, like Discovery and History, seem to skew newer documentaries along leftist lines, and this is especially true in their treatment of Christianity. It is, for example, through this venue that the movement to replace BC (Before  Christ) with BCE (Before the Common Era) emerged. This week I was surprised when, during a treatment on Roman emperors (I just traced back, and it must have been the Lost Worlds episode that aired last Sunday) we learn that Nero, looking for a scapegoat for the burning of Rome, settled on Christians. The narration went (paraphrased) - "Religious martyrdom  is quite commonplace throughout history, even today.  But these apostles were the men who knew Christ, and knew whether his resurrection was a fable, or not.  It would be remarkable that 10 of them would suffer agonizing martyrdom for a movement they knew was based on a lie." Just so.

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I'm pretty sure I'm right when I say that the only politician in America, over the past thirty years, to consistently identify real problems, and offer starting point solutions for them, is Newt Gingrich.  From air traffic control equipment that still uses vacuum tubes, to latch key children who throw other little kids off the roofs of tenement buildings, he's been right on.  This of course terrifies congressional democrats, and send them to Plan A in their own play  book - Character Assassination.  Yesterday Newt did it again by calling for Congress to make English the official language. American civilization eventually will collapse if government doesn't do a better job assimilating immigrants into society, possible GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Wednesday as he urged Congress to enshrine English as the nation's official language. The former House speaker said political correctness and multiculturalism are clouding the debate about language. "If you are pro-immigration to America, you should be pro-assimilation into English as the common language because in fact your children and grandchildren will have a dramatically better future if they are part of the common commercial civilization," Gingrich said. - [Gingrich pushes for English as official language] Houston Chron. I'm going to guess that any national poll on this question would yield a 90% agreement rate.  I'm not exactly sure what Newt sees as detail to such a measure, but I see it meaning no public monies may be spent on any non-English language printed matter, with a few exceptions like "Tacos" on school menus. No ballots printed in Spanish, no "Recepción a los Estados Unidos."  If American manufacturers still want to annoy us by including multi language instructions for coffee makers, have at it.  Oh, the official slogan of this country is USA-UAS-USA!

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There is no question about  Jeannemarie Devolites Davis' qualifications to be a girl senator from Virginia.  I mean, she gets a 10 on the Babe-O-Rama meter.  So, why did she have to go and act like a democrat?  Now, she can never be president, or even be invited to my crab feast this June. A Senate committee on Wednesday killed legislation to require private sellers at gun shows to obtain a criminal background check on buyers. The Courts of Justice committee voted 9-4 to reject the measure, marking the fifth consecutive year that lawmakers have refused to close the so-called gun show loophole. Under current law, licensed dealers are required to run background checks on buyers at gun shows but unlicensed dealers — typically individuals selling guns from their personal collection — aren't. The bill sponsored by Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, R-Fairfax, would have required unlicensed sellers to run a background check through a licensed dealer before completing a sale. Davis said the bill would help prevent the sale of guns to criminals. Davis acknowledged that most gun show customers are law-abiding citizens but added that "clearly a lot of criminals also go to gun shows to procure firearms." [Measure to close `gun show loophole' fails for fifth time] Mother was right when she warned me about beautiful women ... no, not that (she was wrong there) -  I mean, "Son, beautiful women in government ain't no good."

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Today's Menu Sliced Boef Lot's of Au Jus on the roll - and horseradish sammiches on Kaiser roll.  Grilled Italian Sausage OMFG! , with onions and peppers in secret sauce on torpedo rolls, Stouffer's vegetable lasagna I just love this stuff, Pumpkin Tea Bread (Recipe) .

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''But unions poured an estimated $104 million directly into the November elections; far more, acknowledges union consultant Jon Tasini, is spent on indirect expenditures that need not be disclosed. Organized labor expects a return on its investment. No proposal is more important than the misnamed "Employee Free Choice Act," which would substitute card check for elections, allowing unions to win legal recognition based on a preliminary, and very public, show of hands. (The legislation also includes other remarkably bad provisions, including compulsory arbitration if an employer and union don't reach an agreement.) Says Stewart Acuff of the AFL- CIO, "We want to remind Congress that this is the AFL-CIO's No. 1 priority." - "The Secret Ballot Destruction Act"

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Mother Superior and The Me watched Munich last night because Greeper said it was riveting. Oh, and it was free on cable. Greeper's assurances were necessary because of the early hype. When Spielberg made the grandiose claim that his treatment of violence in Munich would lead to peace in the Middle East, my nose twitched at the familiar odor of liberalusfartsmellum. Such pomposity places him squarely into the circle of self important (redundancy alert) liberal thinkers who, for instance, think they can stop epochal climate change with a gasoline tax. Maybe my favorite movie of all time is Day of the Jackal, so assassins paying painstaking attention to detail is one genre I'm inclined to like. Munich, which I assume most of you have seen, had that, but at 180 minutes was about 30-40 minutes too long. One plot line that could have been edited out was the seemingly contrived CIA effort to thwart the Israeli attempt on hard Salami, and I include the chick scene [Marie-Josée Croze NSFW]. Yes, she was lovely, and yes she had wonderful, precious boobage, but give me a break. Spielberg's world shaking device for causing world peace to break out was hardly new. It can be seen in 1962's The Longest Day, where a Nazi officer's belt buckle, engraved with the legend "God Mit Uns," (God is with us) was displayed in an intentionally ironic fashion after Allied troops voiced the same belief. Here we see Palestinian and Israeli families displaying grief at news that the Olympic athletes- and their kidnappers - were all dead. As if there was moral equivalency. Who gives a rat's ass what hatreds allowed those rag pickers to feel justified in perpetrating that outrage? They are/were mad dogs. Later we see the two factions placed together in another utterly contrived scene. Spielberg seems to suggest that if the Israelis had rolled over and let the Black September swine bask in their victory, instead of being cut down like dogs -- what? There would be no Hamas? No al-Qaeda? No Jimmy Carter? Peace in our time? Yes. That's his epiphany. Ich bin mit uns Well la-di-da, who the hell doesn't want heaven on earth? In this war on terror - that the entire world is engaged in like it or not - both sides wear the God is with us buckle. So what? If you're a Muslim, or are comfortable living under a theocracy ruled by "the world is flat" pinheads, then you root for Palestinians. If not, you cheer for the other guys, who by the way include Americans. If you want to argue that there can be no winner, okay, but there can sure as hell be a loser. Like other Hollywood liberals, Spielberg is quite talented, but grown too filled with the liberal disease to know reality when he comes across it. That's what I think. I give Munich 4 Boogers

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At first glance I thought this map I received from Mostly Cajun represented square miles, and was about to call bullshit, but after going to the source I discovered it was a map with the names of the states replaced by countries with the same gross domestic product. He linked it to the Coyote Blog, who pondered, "And is it really saying New Zealand and the District of Columbia have the same GDP?" And I'm thinking, "not unless GDP stands for Graft, Democrats and Parolees." So I looked it up. New Zealand has an exchange rate adjusted GDP of $98.77 billion, while the District of Columbia has a GDP of $81.83 billion. Sumbitch. Close enough for gummint work. The headline for Cajun's post is "Why America still matters." My problem with that is it seems to insinuate that there is some question about that. He does make this spot-on observation though. That, dear readers, is a key to a lot of anti-American sentiment: it’s just really easy to fall into jealousy. [continued] All I can add to that is USA-UAS-USA!

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What a week if you're soliciting gas money for your B-52 in order to "neutralize" the real estate known as San Francisco ($20 in the bank!). Let's start with Hitler's love child.  The people's choice to remake America in her own image is trucking right along with her Hankey Polanky.  In their effort to make us a fairer nation, her minions are pushing a new and revised Fairness Doctrine which states that nobody is allowed to have a larger radio audience than Al Franken.  Then there's this idea from the  wide-eyed gal           Mrs. Hankey Polanki with a belly button under her lip.  From now on when I appeal to you to call Pelosi's office [(202) 225-0100] and complain that she smells like yeast, I will be required to file a government report detailing my expenditures, the issues I'm focusing on, and the federal officials I'm targeting (I prefer the term "getting coordinates on." ).  This is her idea of making government more responsive to the people.  But here's my  QOTW. "Anyone with a rational mind and a sense of decency is being positioned as a lefty by the extreme right," he said, responding to an attendee who asked whether he thought Sundance selections were politically oriented to the left. "I believe in the tenets of democracy, and when they get pushed, it pisses me off." Famous leftwing activist Bobby Redford - who uses Pelosi's plastic surgeon-  is complaining about being labeled left-wing?   The man who forced  viewers to watch Air America radio on his Sundance Channel, because nobody was tuning in, a leftist?  A man who thought Hollywood wasn't left wing enough, so he started his own colony of Robert Altman wannabes? A leftist? Go figure. One more question Bobby.  Do you find that muscians mistake your new face for a snare drum?

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Newly elected Wisconsin Democrat Steve Kagen was our Monday National Villain for bragging to some Wisconsin rag that he had taken the opportunity of a White House soiree for new Congressfolk to insult Laura Bush, Karl Rove, and everyone else he happened across.  It's instructive the the title of this article was Kagen introduces a little levity to the White House."  Pretty much what I expect from these pissants. In the comments to my post TFV           Samurai Attorney General TFV wrote " Not only is it immature and classless but according to the article I read-- it's a damn lie! He made it up! Who makes up crap that makes you look bad?? I meant to follow up on that, but Mother Superior had just left on holiday, and I'd found where she hid the keys to my Hovaround            And it didn't cost me a penny and was off to the liquor store. Today Tom Bevin has all sort of interesting things to say about this classless peace of offal.  Short story, he barely squeaked by in a Republican leaning district, winning by 2% of the vote.  His constituents are not happy.  Here's just a taste. Needless to say, Kagen's antics and subsequent obfuscations have brought him an avalanche of bad press. On Wednesday the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran an editorial telling Kagen to "grow up" and saying the episode "calls into question both Kagen's judgment and maturity." The left-leaning Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial board also wrote an open letter to Kagen on Wednesday that read, in part: At this point, we really don't know what to believe -- and we increasingly don't care. We recognize the truth may be somewhere in between "kicked your ass" and "social interaction." And we're not sure which is worse: being a boor or being a blowhard. Columnist Stew Rieckman called it Kagen's "George Costanza moment." Letters on the subject have been even more harsh.   Let's call Kagen the first brick in 2008's Road Back to Sanity.

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A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following:

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I am here to correct a major injustice.  J.D. Allen [ Mouth of the Brazos] included me - moi -  among those blogs  he "routinely look[s] at that are not on my blogroll," because I am a  "mouthpiece'' for a major political party.  ''I will check them, like Curmudgeonly, because his blog is just fucking wild, and I like that kind of shit, but I took him off because of what I perceive as his love of all things Republican. " <snip> Curmudgeonly – Too eat up with partisan politics. I KNOW there are some good Democrats. I KNOW all Republicans are not godly beings. Okay ... I am disgusted by most elected Republicans.  For many           Official POS., their only virtue is they are not a Democrat (a quite considerable virtue).  OMFG.  Wait.  Okay. Of course there are good Democrats, I know lots of them.  Good people all, politically ignorant yes, but well meaning.  Elected Democrats are a different story.  There are NO office holding, party working Donk M'Fkrs who have not shed all moral reluctance to lie, cheat, and, and,  and  generally behave in a despicable fashion.  If a meteor crashed into the convention center holding the entire party and their media monkeys, there would be rejoicing in Heaven, and the dawn of a national prosperity unsurpassed in the annals of history.  Like when Maryland won the NCAA hoops championship.  Like that. The only godly Republican in all of history, as any decently schooled child knows, was Ronald Reagan.  And Sue Myrick           She gave me a chubby.,  , because she's cute.  That's all. I DEMAND reconsideration.

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TOWER:

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From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff line:

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TOWER

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The ongoing saga of P2P engineers Pirate Bay have led me to something I actually care about. Sealand.           SEALAND  In brief, the UK built four naval platforms at sea during WWII as a defense against Nazi invasion.  After the war three were dismantled, the fourth, '' Roughs Tower," was simply abandoned. This is where the intrigue begins. In contrast to the original plan to locate the tower in the sovereign territory of England, this base was situated at a distance of approximately 7 sea miles from the coast, which is more than double the then applicable 3 mile range of territorial waters; to put it briefly, this fortress was situated in the international waters of the North Sea. <snip> On 2 September 1967, former English major Paddy Roy Bates           Mt Liege. formally occupied the island and settled there with his family. After intensive discussions with skillful English lawyers, Roy Bates proclaimed the island his own state. Claiming jus gentium, he bestowed upon himself the title of Prince and the title of Princess to his wife and subsequently made the state the Principality of Sealand. After the Brit legal establishment sided with Prince Roy, Britain extended her sovereignty to 12 miles.  Prince Roy countered by extending his own territorial waters.  Finally the British courts finished the matter by siding completely with HRH Roy.  There was an invasion where some Dutchers employed by a German company captured Sealand,  and took Duke Michael hostage.  Prince Roy's forces recaptured Sealand and held the Dutchman as prisoners of war.  There's more, and you can read it here.  If someone will finance me, I'll turn this into a motion picture.  I have the script already written in my head, and it's just gangbusters.  Think Robin Hood meets Count Rupert. With the proceeds I'll buy a decommissioned aircraft carrier, anchor it 13 miles off the West Coast, and declare myself Prince Schlong.           AKA "Schlong the Terrible". Then I'll invite Barbara Boxer to my coronation, and cut her head off.  Yes, I will be a ruthless prince.

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Mazda Ryuga Love the easy access Jeep Trailhawk Add a .50 Cal and you're ready Chevy Camaro But, how much muscle?s

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Click For The Story You gotta love Christopher Hitchins.  I mean, how many people would call the blessed Mother Theresa a fraud? Here he sticks to facts and pulls the pants off of Rep. Keith Ellison, which is a pretty brave thing to do. Not only is Ellison a Black with no experience, he trumps Obama Rama by not only not being a Christian, but having abandoned it for Islam (the even phonier Black Muslim variety.) Wham, the guy is a liberal's presidential wet dream. On top of that, I learned stuff I didn't know. You can too.  (PS, Ellison never was able to pull out that rabbit.)

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I just stumbled upon this 2006 post on JTURN, a blog by 'Jonathan Lundqvist, "a masters student in Media and Communication Studies at JMK / Stockholm."  While in Iran,  Lundqvist purchased three magazines and scanned them for censorship.  The results are at least amusing, at best instructive about the mindset of this Islamo fascist regime.  The full post, with many more examples,  may be seen here. The Economist, May 6 2006, Cover. The cover of the magazine that also had the previous picture in it. This cover is not censored, but included here to point out that the entire magazine is full of articles that are extremely critical to the regime. Leaders and op-ed’s that say that the Iranian regime is outright dangerous. Yet, that is not censored. Not one word of it. It’s all there. But the word “Playboy” is a no-go. As an aside, without fail every hit from Iran I get is to some picture containing nipples.  STG.

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Where's Bucky Beaver? If you can't read the caption, rollover the poster.  I am coming to this conclusion.  There are only about 1000 self loathing, uneducated True Believer losers in the world - the whole of planet Earth - behind every SAVE THIS, FREE HIM, STOP THAT, and THIS KILLS movement. I know this because my actuary tables say that the odds of there being more than one of these moonbatic slugs in 6,667,000 are prohibitively high. So, the same pasty-faced, officious prick, or prickette, who decides what fat we cannot eat is also mounting a campaign to prevent Turkey from building golf courses. First off, I know virtually nothing about Turkey. I know from watching Lawrence of Arabia, and Midnight Express that Turks bugger their prisoners, and from the Camel cigarette           See ... all desert and three trees? pack I know that Turkey only has a clump of trees for every, what? thousand acres? And, by the way, did anyone explain to these hugger-muggers that trees grow back? So give me a break. One more thing, that axe is just like a portable guillotine, isn't it? Hmmmmm :D

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