Thursday, April 06, 2006
Today's feel bettah news.
‘bout time
A navy warship being built with World Trade Center steel and to be christened the “New York" has earned a special place in the heart of Avondale, La., shipyard workers.
Junior Chavers, operations manager of the foundry, said when the steel first arrived in 2003, he touched it and the “hair on my neck stood up.”“It had a big meaning to it for all of us,” he told an Associated Press reporter. “They knocked us down. They can’t keep us down. We’re going to be back.”
The bow stem of the 700-foot boat - the front section that slices through the water - was molded from 24 tons of scrap taken from the Twin Towers.
When finished in 2008, the $700 million vessel will serve as an amphibious transport “landing dock,” carrying 360 sailors and 700 Marines on missions around the world.
The ship’s slogan is “Never Forget,” and the vessel is expected to play a role in the war on terror.
“It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to make sure that Bin Laden is taken out, his terrorist organization is taken out,” said Glenn Clement, a paint foreman.
Steel from the fallen World Trade Center rises today with the USS New York, a new class of warship.
One day, more of that steel will help forge the USS Somerset, named for Somerset County and the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93, who fought terrorists and forced the plane into its final, fatal descent over Shanksville.
“The courage and heroism of the people aboard the flight will never be forgotten, and USS Somerset will leave a legacy that will never be forgotten by those wishing to do harm to this country,” former Secretary of the Navy Gordon England said.
As with the USS New York, the USS Somerset’s bow will contain about 24 tons of steel salvaged from the scorched, crooked framing and interior makeup of the towers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Naval Vessel Register.
Instead of futile arguments over an embarrassing hole in the ground or absurd hassles about some crescent-shaped mongrel, this is a living memorial.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
McKinney Admits Guilt!!
or offers up a lame-o ‘apology’
“There should not have been any physical contact in this incident,” McKinney said in brief remarks on the House floor. “I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize."
This started March twenty-freakin’ninth
just sayin…
[wonder where on McKinney’s person Pelosi’s teeth marks are...]
Never pet a burning dog.
That’s good advice, I don’t care who you are.
Dave in Texas
Cleb-bratty "Brainstorms"
Laaame-O La-a-aame-O
Daylite come and me wanna fwo up
Lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Tonio K.
Who are these people that keep telling us lies
And how did these people get control of our lives
And who’ll stop the violence cause it’s out of control?
Make em stop
Who are these people that destroy everything
And sell off the future for whatever it brings
And what kind of leaders can’t admit when they’re wrong?
Make em stop
This stupid mess we’re in just keeps getting worse
So many people dying needlessly
Looks like the liars may inherit the earth
Even pretending to pray
And getting away with it
Who are these people that keep telling us lies
And how did these people get control of our lives
And who’ll stop the violence cause it’s out of control?
We’ve got to make them stop
Who are these people that keep telling us lies
And how did these people get control of our lives
and who’ll stop the violence cause it’s out of control?
Make em stop
See things really have to change
Before it’s too late
Geeze, Burt—Shut Up and… no, just shaddap.
Speaking of which:
Not Ready To Make Nice
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waitingI’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep payingI’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I shouldI know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like itI made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be overI’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I shouldI’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I shouldForgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting
Monday, April 03, 2006
Yes, Missy McKinney -- America is RAAACIST
is she, like, actually, like, a blonde
Leipzig‘s Nigerian midfielder Adebowale Ogungbure was walking off the pitch when hooligans ran up to him, spat at him and called him “Dirty Nigger,” “Shit Nigger” and “Ape.” He ignored it and walked on. Then, when he passed the main stand and heard fans making whooping monkey noises at him, he decided he’d had enough. He put two fingers above his mouth to symbolise a Hitler moustache and stuck out his right arm in a Nazi salute to the crowd.
Given their behavior, one might think they would have appreciated the gesture and even returned it. But a Halle supporter attacked him from behind with a corner flag and another grabbed him in a stranglehold. Ogungbure pushed them away as a teammate intervened and dragged him towards the tunnel, to the safety of the changing rooms.
Where’s Danny Glover, now?
Mr. Sensenbrenner!
get crackin’!!
Tuscon AZ ...a 12’ X 8’ horse trailer ...one designed to transport two horses at a time. ...crash[ed] into a light pole ...knocking it down. It fell into the bed of another pickup....
The driver then got out, unhitched the trailer and drove away.
Suddenly, [customers and workers at shops along Ajo near Mission] saw heads popping out of the trailer, and they weren’t horses heads.
“They started running out of the trailer,” said Brenda Collins, who was working at a dog grooming shop. “They wanted to come in. We held the door and locked the doors, and they were just running everywhere."
I donno why they’re maligning the poor coyote. The picture clearly shows a three horse slant with tack room [nice rig]—plenty of room for the reported 45-60 people inside.
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*bangs head on wall*
this time—not my head...
...civil rights attorney James Myart said: “Because she was assaulted and placed in impending fear of her safety, she responded. This case has just begun and we’re going to fight, and we’re going to use the U.S. Constitution."
Ok—lawmaker believes she is placed in “impending fear of her safety” in the Capitol Building by a law enforcement officer. And then tells everyone how irritated she is that Whitey insists she live up to “white standards” of compliance with the law.
Sentence: Off ya go to the Home for the Irony Impaired. Followed by a little stint at the Spa for the Racially Paranoid and/or Cornrowfuzzed. Then back to the barbarshop for youuuuu!
TODAY's Obscene? or Just Me©
‘70’s version
George Clooney and Vince Vaughn are both competing for the role of “Magnum PI” in a big screen remake of the hit TV series.
One. Two. Three—eeeeeww.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
You First, Fella
then the rest of us can have a smoke and relax
a few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth’s population by airborne Ebola. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka ...the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
It's a TEST yanno
to find out if there is any rebellion left in the American soul
DENVER - Colorado Gov. Bill Owens said on Friday he will sign a statewide smoking ban into law, the same day lawmakers gave the bill their final approval.
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Saturday, April 01, 2006
Typing Out Loud
What I see in the comments made here, and elsewhere, on the illegal immigration / Aztlan subject is frustration and some alarm.
Americans are essentially a generous and kind people, willing to give a fella the shirt off their back if he’s in need. For the last few decades, we, Americans, have been under attack from within; we’ve been told that our success in beating back the forces of fascism in WWII and our efforts to help those directly affected rebuild was a valid reason to resent us. We’ve been told that we are ‘too successful and too rich’ and therefore owe “entitlement” payments to those who aren’t so successful. So we set up a giant and ever-growing system to help.
Then we were told we were raacist. But it seemed the more things we did to not behave in a raacist manner, the more—and more angrily and insultingly—we were called raacist. But, with some very few exceptions, it is not the case. Truthfully, I would bet ‘most anything that each and most Americans anywhere take folks as they come on an individual basis—no matter what race or ethnicity or so on. I see it every day.
Look over the last few decades. Every time ya turn around, some new group has come out of the woodwork to tell us—in increasingly insulting terms—how we done ‘em wrong and now we owe ‘em. And every time, bewildering it’s becoming, we acquiesce and change our language or our behavior or our approach or something.
And now we’re waking up and realizing we’ve been played for a sucker; some anger will naturally be generated. More anger each time our intelligence or integrity is insulted—as when Rep McKinney announced that holding her to the same standards as the other 500-something in Congress is wrong because she is a “black female.”
Now consider the photos below:
That is a statement of war. Not to be upset by that is a form of mental derangement. Not to be angered by that is to invalidate all that one and one’s ancestors have done to make this country great. Not to respond to it is suicide.
So I am glad to see sparks of anger at the contumely effrontery being spat at my country and my people. I am glad to see the willingness to challenge the ‘politically correct’ presumptions that we have seemed to swallow hook, line and sinker. I am glad to see my fellows ready to put down their foot and say, ‘No More.’
I want US to recognize that The Great Experiment worked beyond even the fondest dreams of the Founding Fathers. This country is the best fed, best educated, healthiest, most productive country in the history of the world—all due to our basic values of respect for the individual and the belief that Humans are essentially Good. In a mere 200 years, we have gone from dirt subsistence to the Moon. If we give that up we will have stolen something precious from all of Humanity.
And if one or another of us—hell, all of us—steps over the line from response to reaction once in a while, we have each other to nudge us back to thoughtful ground where we produce considered response to the dangers at hand. But without the energy of that anger we will continue to do nothing until we are taken over by the hordes of barbarians and vandals at our gates.
If the people seeking to ‘take back this continent’ or ‘kill the Great Satan’ could have done any better than we, they would have. They didn’t. We did. We can continue. We must continue.
We don’t hate these people. We do hate what they stand for. We hate their burkas, we hate their Che shirts, we hate their hatred of all that is Good in Humanity, we hate their ignorance and their racism [yes, their racism] and we hate their insults. We are finally standing up to say “We do not deserve those insults and we will not take them anymore. If you want to have a respectful discussion, we are perfectly willing to do so—and to work hard at coming to an agreement to benefit us all. But if you want to have a fight—go ahead and start one. We will finish it.”
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