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Ladies and Gentlemen!

THE DARWIN AWARDS

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Dumb F***s of the Day.

From the state of California (gosh, what a surprise) comes the story of office supply store employees who were assaulted by some gangster (or wanna-be gangsters) for wearing their red uniform shirts in the workplace.

Staples employees shirts spark gang attack

PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) - Petaluma police say two Staples office supply store employees and a shopping center customer were beaten recently by gang members, apparently for wearing red clothing.

The attacks happened Friday near the Staples office supply store in Petaluma, where two workers and another person were assaulted.

Gosh, I guess people working for a living and having to wear uniform apparel in the workplace must be an alien concept (I say, concept!) for some folks.

Two 17-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were later arrested.

Petaluma Police Sergeant Dave Kahl says a Staples employee was standing outside the store when the suspects began yelling gang slogans and challenging him to fight. He started to walk into the store when they attacked him with their fists.

The suspects were booked into Sonoma County Juvenile Hall.

Where they will no doubt receive a good talking to from what passes for authorities in the state of California.

The other idiot of the day was some (race deleted) kid who ordered a pizza from the Pizza Hut where I work as a driver. When I arrived the kid told me that he didn't have the money and that his mother was expected to arrive at the home in about ten minutes.

No way in Hell am I going to wait around for someone's mommy when I have other customers waiting for their orders.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

I still wonder how folks on the Left manage to get out of bed in the morning (or early afternoon) without seriously hurting themselves.
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That's Interesting

What a bunch of assholes!

The Kennedy Clan and money.

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Thought for the Day

Olivia Newton-John

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Um...Okay...

A Message...

From Human Events Online:

If Republicans hope to win the presidency next year, they better find a candidate who is prepared to stand for very bold, very dramatic and very systematic change in Washington. Not only that, but they had better make the case that the left-wing Democrat likely to be nominated represents the failed statusquo : the bureaucracies that are failing, the social policies that are failing, the high tax policies that are failing, and the weakness around the world that has failed so badly in protecting America.

What the Republican Party needs to get through their collective skulls right now is the fact that the age of politics as usual is over.

No more compromise. No more deals. No more bipartisanship.

There must be a radical clean up of the mess that the Left has created. The partisans of socialism must be systematically removed from our public institutions. And if we are to have a future as the core nation of our civilization we must make a special effort to clean out the Augean Stables that our educational establishment has become under the tutelage of the Left.

And we must with volume and clarity tell the spoiled brats who imagine themselves to be the heirs of Marx and Lenin to grow up or get out.

Of course, if those idiots would just die, it would be nice too.

(Hat Tip to Dr. John Ray.)
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And Now...

Usually I post this sort of thing over at My Own Private Universe but I've already updated it this week.

From 1001 Things Mr. Welch is not allowed to do in a roleplaying game:

976. I was not issued a flamethrower for my own personal amusement.

977. Disable plot device is not a real skill.

979. Mumus do not appear in the starting equipment list for a reason.

981. My last wish cannot be for Ragnarok.

982. Trailblaze means find a path, not cut down every tree between here and there.

984. In the middle of a black ops I cannot moonlight as tech support.

990. Even if he botches his medicine roll, I can't sue the medtech for malpractice.

991. "Kiww the Wabbit" is not a proper viking battlecry.

994. Corporate Pop Whore is not a real prestige class.

998. The script for the Baywatch movie does not cause more Sanity loss than the Necronomicon.

1000. I will stop referring to the powergamer as MinMaximus.

1001. No matter how bad the game is going, I won't stradle the table like Slim Pickens riding a bomb.

What I want to know is what is the deal with the accordion?
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A Question

What I would like to know is how O.J. Simpson managed to acquire at least ten friends?

Jeff Ruby, owner of the steakhouse Jeff Ruby’s Louisville, asked O.J. Simpson to leave his restaurant minutes after Simpson arrived about 10:30 Friday night.

Told by a customer that the former football player had arrived at the restaurant, 325 W. Main St., Ruby said, he informed Simpson, “I am not serving you.”

“He had a party of 10 or 12 people,” said Ruby, who had served Simpson many times at his Cincinnati restaurants before the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman, of which Simpson was acquitted.

I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going for dinner if I ever visit Louisville.

“This was the only thing I could do for the victims’ families,” said Ruby. He said the 50 or so people in the private room where Simpson had been seated “stood up and applauded me” when Simpson left.

“And who walks in five minutes later?” asked Ruby.

Michael Jordan.

Sounds like a pretty cool place to eat.

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This Is Cool

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the Wikipedia article on one of the coolest guys in the known universe:

Sir Patrick Moore!

I used to spend hours and hours at the public library pouring over his books.

And he also plays the xylophone.
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So Anyway

I've updated My Own Private Universe today.
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Thought for the Day

One thing that I have noticed is that those who posture as mentally and morally superior people really are not the superior beings that they believe they are.

Reality is real. And the self-appointed betters are in practice some of the biggest dumbfucks on Earth.

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A Suggestion

READ THIS:

Years after the end of the war, American G.I.'s were often asked why they fought so hard in the Second World War and the answer was almost always the same:

"So my kids don't have to come over here and do this again"

Americans of that war and that generation, knew the high cost that comes from an incomplete victory and a policy of isolation because they had learned the lesson of 1919. The American nation was shocked at the cost of the First World War and chose to enter a period of isolation afterwards but the result was not peace, but the rise of Hitler and the Japanese Empire. The cost of the 'peace movement' that formed at the end of the First World War could be measured in real terms of the 52 million people world wide who died in the second period of conflict.

It was a conflict that could've been avoided. The conflict of the Second World War and its horrid cost in lives is what inspired a generation to do what it could to ensure that the lives spent in that conflict would not be wasted by the nation being forced in the next generation of American soldiers being sent to the soil of Europe to fight yet another war.

The narcissistic trash that makes up the membership of the so-called peace movement simply do not care whether you and your children live, or die, or suffer under the yoke of an unwashed barbarian. They plaster their cars with bumper sticker, carry signs, bang on drums, throw Frisbees, and perform other useless rituals so that they can feel good about themselves and show the world how morally superior they are. Never mind that they openly deny the fundamental fact which is the foundation of all valid moral law, that Human Life -- life as a rational being in control of one's own life -- is the standard of all moral values, and that those who would damage or destroy Human Life must be removed from human society and if necessary be destroyed.

The adherents of pacifism have so inverted their own mental processes that they look upon the perpetrators of mass slavery and mass murder as good and those who take up arms to defend the society of consent as the most depraved evil.

Those who profess to be a part of the "peace movement" need to understand that the emotion of "wanting peace" alone is almost never enough to actually gain the peace they so desire. On occasion, you have to demonstrate that you are willing to fight to be able to maintain the peace that you have. A large number of military people for over 60 years dedicated their lives to the cause of maintaining peace in Europe. Lives were lost, large amounts treasure were expened, and it took three generations to fully accomplish the mission of peace in Europe, but the true price of peace is never cheap or easy or fast. The cost of failure to remainvigilent fills the graveyards of battlefield after battlefield all across the world.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE.
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Quote of the Day

Today's Quote of the Day comes from the Libertas website:

Getting shot hurts.

-- President Ronald Reagan

I'll take your word for it, sir.

Fortunately,
this fact was not stated by Bill Clinton or any of the leading
Democratic contenders for 2008 presidential election. I would be very
reluctant to attempt to independently verify this fact.

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An Idea

Let's try to remember the one hundred ten million who died under Communism.
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So What Else Is New?

Some tyrannophile wants to unleash deadly force against innocent people.

So what else is new?

Read about it at Little Green Footballs.

As to what I think about it: It's time we build the Joseph Goebbels Memorial Gallows for those members of the Fourth Estate who insist on inciting violence against innocent people. There is simply no excuse for such behavior.

I'm going up to Mom's house for the weekend. Will be back Sunday Night.
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Fred Vs. Hillary?

Mark Whittington has some things to say on the subject.

Indeed, whom would you rather have as President if it came to past that Al Qaeda was about to set off a nuclear bomb in your town? Hillary Clinton? Or a man like Fred Thompson, who has played Admirals and prosecutors, and could be President of the United States.

Which is to say do we want a conservative fellow who can be reasonably expected to push the button, or do we settle for a woman with a verifiable history of wetting the finger and sticking it in the air to see which way the wind blows and who really doesn't care what happens as long as she is in charge?

We know Fred can certainly act like a President.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

I want this to be read at my funeral.

The Agnostic's Prayer
(Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness, © 1969)

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.

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And Now...

It's time to go to the Zero-G spot!



Babylon Park!

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Anniversary

Here is about a thousand words on why I will never vote for a member of the Democratic Party.



Here is an interesting website on the Massacre of the Branch Davidians.

Fourteen years ago a small community in Texas was attacked by two packs of predatory animals.

The first pack was a federal agency whose functions were in part a deliberate and explicit violation of the charter and supreme law under which the Federal Government was established.

Even under regulations in effect at the time, the BATF could have sent a couple of agents in coats and ties in a plain government issue sedan to the Branch Davidian residence and asked the federally licenced firearms dealer living there to open his place of business and records to examination. Or if they needed to place the leader of the congregation under arrest they could have taken him into custody while he was out on his morning run. Given Mr. Koresh’s past history of cooperation with local law enforcement they could have simply asked him to come down to the local sheriff’s station.

The BATF did none of the above.

Instead the BATF attempted to stage a military-style assault, code-named Operation
Showtime, in order to impart a positive impression of the agency upon the socialist filth that had just moved into the White House. Never mind all the innocent women and children who could have been maimed or killed during the raid.

After the BATF goons were driven off another pack of predators, the so-called Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI, descended upon the Branch Davidians.

If it had been necessary to take the Branch Davidian residence by force a trainee platoon from the Benning School for Boys could, in accordance to their training, have entered the building and taken down any armed individuals without deliberately harming the non-combatants. Instead, the HRT, the alleged experts in hostage rescue, proceeded to terrorize the people within the residence. And when the Branch Davidians refused to surrender, they were exterminated by the HRT.

The HRT used some armored vehicles to destroy the exits from the building and to allow the ambient wind to blow through the structure while other armored vehicles injected CS gas, known to be inflammable and toxic to children and elderly persons, into the wooden structure.

And then the HRT fired incendiary devices into the building.

While the Branch Davidian residence burned to the ground on live television, HRT gunmen stationed behind the building out of sight of the TV cameras shot anyone who attempted to escape the fire from the rear of the building.

The Democrat majority in both houses of Congress were not the slightest bit appalled by the atrocity, instead of condemning the president for his actions and initiating the process of impeaching and removing President Clinton, they chose instead to condemn the victims and those who dared to speak up for them.

Given the choice of obeying the supreme law or violating the law, they chose to violate the law.

Given the choice of preserving innocent life or destroying it, they chose to destroy innocent life.

President Clinton and the Democratic Party could have obeyed the Constitution, the Supreme Law to which the President, the Congress, and the Federal Government in general were subject and stopped the terrorization and murder of the Branch Davidians, but instead chose to violate the Supreme Law.

And like a number of illiterate barbarian chieftains before him, President Clinton and his party used the murder of the Branch Davidians to demonstrate to the rest of us what would happen to anyone who refused to submit to their will. Instead of standing up for the rights and lives of Americans they chose instead to terrorize and murder Americans.

Since then the name “democrat” has become in my mind synonymous with the concept of
“murderer.” If there is one complaint I have about President Bush it is that he has done nothing to bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice.

Nothing. At. All.

Mister President, we are still waiting for justice.
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