Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Death Valley Days
holy cannoli—what beauty!
Here’s what Mr Ranger called a “once in a life time” scene; Death Valley’s Badwater Dry Lake filled with.... water—and flowers in the foreground, to boot! There were actually kayakers on the water.
Here’s a more ‘regular’ DV view
The Council Has Spoken 3.03
This week’s winners are:
Freedom on the March
by Alpha Patriot, and
The United Kingdom and the United States: Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror
by New Sisyphus
Full results of the vote are over at The Watcher’s, along with this week’s entries! Lots of good reading: Go See . . .
Spambots: byte hot bits and die!! [Thanx, Watcher!]
These Kids Today....
email.... I get email.... ThanQ!
There is a huge rock near a gravel pit on Hwy 25 in rural Iowa. For generations, kids have painted slogans, names and obscenities on this rock, changing its character many times. Some time back, the rock received its latest paint job; and since then, the rock has been left completely undisturbed.
The artist, Ray “Bubba” Sorensen, with The Rock
ThanQ! Ron
Dumbass Quote of the Day
in case your reading diet is irony-deficient today...
Soros heard from: “There is a sort of fundamental misconception in President Bush’s mind,” Soros told the 3,000 delegates at the forum. “When Bush says freedom will prevail, he means the American will shall prevail.”
“He seems to think that we ought to be right, we are the dominant power in the world, therefore we must be right,” he told the panel in Jeddah – which just happens to be Osama bin Laden’s hometown.
“That is very dangerous because that comes very close to saying that might is right."
Oh, Georgie—this isn’t about might. It’s about success. What civilization has been more successful at providing the good things in life—opportunity, medicine, useful work, leisure, education and the freedom to enjoy them—than the good ol’ USofA. Isn’t that why you came here from the perfectly socialist / fascist Euro of old? Hmmm, Georgie goy boy?
So, you’re saying, just because one is successful doesn’t mean one is right? So whyinhell ya flappin’ your puffy, over-invested lips, eh, Georgie? Isn’t that why you tell us we oughta listen to you?
this photo needs an arrow somewhere....
'Bout Time Somebody Said This
file under “Excellent Questions"
Ron: “And I STILL wanna know why Bill Clinton could lie to the entire American populace, why Richard Nixon could lie to the entire world, why Ken Lay could lie about ripping off billions of ENRON employee retirement dollars, why Senator Rednose Kennedy could get thrown out of Harvard for lying/cheating and then get reinstated because of family connections, and why John Kerry could tell boldfaced lies about nearly everything in VietNam, but Martha Stewart can’t do the same thing ANY accused murderer does in court without having to go to jail. Why did she have to be locked up for “lying” about making $40,000 lousy bucks when OJ Simpson murdered two people, lied about it, and spent less time in jail than she did?"
ThanQ! Ron
Tech Question
Sitemeter—fulla shite?
Why am I still getting 75 hits a day from Sitemeter on a site that is not even up ?!?!?
FWIW
oooh, I’m goin’ to the Hot Place...
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.” So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets! .
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job known to man and some known only to woman.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:
“It’s gone! It’s all GONE! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate.
“Wait!” he screamed. “That’s not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don’t have any?”
God just shrugged and said, “__________________________”
Monday, March 07, 2005
Further Steps
Americans don’t stand for cruelty to the disabled...
Terri Schindler’s family is making progress against her would-be murderer Michael Schiavo, the former McDonald’s manager.
Washington Today, Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Congressman David Weldon (R-FL) introduced legislation that could save the life of Terri Schiavo, who suffered a brain injury 15 years ago. The Incapacitated Person’s Legal Protection Act (HR 1151, S 539) will give Terri, and those in similar situations, the same Constitutional protection of due process as death row inmates…
“In the United States we don’t execute people without due process and we shouldn’t execute the incapacitated by starvation. Beyond being cruel and unusual punishment, this is an opportunity for Congress to finally check the power of runaway courts.” ...[said] Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council.
Let your CongressCritter know your thoughts on the matter.
Much more good news at TerrisFight.org
Honey, I'm Hoooome!!
long and ‘net-free road
Some pics on the left-bar....
Watching bits of news on the TandV is verra verra strange—‘specially when I’m accustomed to getting it on the Lovely Interweb.
What *is* this love-fest with Martha?!? Everywhere I looked for days and daze were stories and features on Martha coming out. [of prison...] CNN and Wolfie were practically piddling the rug as they did wall-to-wall Martha gets out coverage. WTF?!? I mean, *I* noticed that it was all her publicity machine priming the peons for her new show/book/frozen food lines. Earth to CNN? *tap*tap* yeahnevermind.
I caught FOX*AM from LA this morning. Yikes! Whatta buncha skeezy sleezy skankoid hasnever-weres. Making icky crotch jokes, laughing like hyenas. yick.
Speaking of “yick,” I seem to have picked up the flu on Sat and Sunday was spent in dizzy-hell and the well decorated bathroom at the Best Western in Bishop. I hear it is a lovely town and I look forward to seeing it some time soon. *sigh* My tummy and I are making up, now, but still dizzy as hell. WTF is up with that?!?!?
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Impulsive 'R' Us
whaaaaa?
Just took it into our heads to run off to Death Valley and check out the spring bloom!
I have no idea about the availability of the Lovely Interweb, but I’ll be taking some pics....
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Didja Notice?
it’s The Pickle...*
That little photo in the upper left side-bar? Ya can *click* on it and see a bigger version.
[wait ‘till you see the nesting heron pics we got this weekend!]
*[Pickle = PittBull as in “It’s a vicious Pickle!!"]
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