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May 31, 2005
So there you have it. . .
I have a pretty set routine in the AM, grab some juice, or coffee, depending on how much sleep I got, turn on the tube, check email, then make the rounds of about 15 websites/blogs to see what's up.
Frontpagemag.com is on the list and while normally just fly past them after a brief scan, the article on the front today caught my eye. I'm not sure why it grabbed me, maybe it was Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" episode last night, but read it I did. The following quote just SCREAMED at me. [Here's the permalink for the article.]
Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha: "You often call for uniting Muslim and progressive forces globally. How far is it possible under current situation?"Galloway: "Not only do I think it's possible but I think it is vitally necessary and I think it is happening already. It is possible because the progressi ve movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. Their enemies are the Zionist occupation, American occupation, British occupation of poor countries mainly Muslim countries. They have the same interest in opposing savage capitalist globalization which is intent upon homogenizing the entire world turning us basically into factory chickens which can be forced fed the American diet of everything from food to Coca-Cola to movies and TV culture. And whose only role in life is to consume the things produced endlessly by the multinational corporations. And the progressive organizations & movements agree on that with the Muslims."
"Otherwise we believe that we should all have to speak as Texan and eat McDonalds and be ruled by Bush and Blair. So on the very grave big issues of the day-issues of war, occupation, justice, opposition to globalization-the Muslims and the progressives are on the same side."
So there you have it, the poster-boy-du-jour of the left is calling for "progressives" to unite with Muslims against the US and the evil corporations, who act all corporation-y.
I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Has the left finally just lost all sense of themselves, and reached a point where they're willing to give up their stance on women's rights, gay marriage, the welfare state and human rights? Are they now actually suggesting that the Muslims are closer to their views than the majority of Americans?
Let's see, last time I checked, the Muslims that Galloway wants to get in bed with were chopping the heads off of gay people in the town square, stoning women for going outside alone and blowing up women and children with suicide attacks. I'm pretty sure that the Muslim world is pretty much anti-abortion and I'm quite sure that we won't see any female presidents or potentates in Arabia anytime soon.
OH WAIT, I SEE IT NOW. . . . It's the corporations, those evil corporations that are acting all corporation-y. Yes, it's evil Coca-Cola and McDonald's that are to blame. How dare the Coca-Cola executives offer their product for sale to people that want it. Shame shame on McDonald's for granting franchises overseas or even selling their product at all. Yes, it's the "globalization" argument all over again.
So let me get this straight, you make a product, you offer that product for sale, you sell that product to whoever wants to buy, and that makes you evil??? Yes, it's all perfectly clear now --- NOT!
The left has finally come out of the closet. Their issues don't matter, they have no principles and their willing to get into bed with anyone as long as it means that the evil corporations get theirs. Come on now!!! Is the left rank and file going to stand for this?? Of course they are. Why? Because they've never really cared about anything they spew as long as it goes against what the current status quo is.
That's their whole line, hook and sinker. Rail against anything successful because it's all driven by the Zionist corporations. They must believe somewhere in their dark little clouded brains that uniting with the Muslims against the US will somehow gain them sufficient favor in the Muslim world that suddenly the Muslims will see the error of their ways and begin treating women equally, respecting human rights, stop beheading gays and be happy happy joy joy with the rest of the world. Delusions, evil delusions.
NEWSFLASH FOR GALLOWAY AND THE LEFT --- Wahhabists and Muslim fundamentalists want YOU DEAD TOO. Just because you're willing to make speeches extolling the virtues of hybrid cars and express your hatred for everything Western isn't going to ingratiate you with the Muslim extremists. They still want you dead, the most you can possibly do is buy yourselves a bit more time, or convert to Islam and start chopping the heads off gays and stoning women for fun.
I find it very ironic that the left, which has now taken to calling itself "progressive" would choose to rail against progress at every turn, even going so far as to align themselves with possibly the most backward, oppressive and anti-thetical (to their previously stated views) major culture on the planet.
I also find it very ironic that the left doesn't realize that Muslim's hate the far left even more than they do the right. Yet they still look at the Muslims as their final saving grace. Yes, the Left thinks that the Muslims will overlook their embrace of women's right (a definite no-no in the Arab world) and gay rights (which is right OUT over there). Do they believe that the Muslims will invite them in with honest open arms??? I'm afraid they do, the delusional moonbats they are.
I am glad though, that the left is finally showing their true adgenda. It's not about human rights, it's about defeating those evil Zionists and Corporation-y corporations. Personally, I can't wait for Hilary to pull out her burka and show us her true colors.
--Jason
PS Before someone emails me or comments about what a right wing rag FrontPageMag.com is, keep in mind that it's only one of quite a few sites on the morning survey. It's balanced with DailyKOS, Democratic Underground, Air America and The NYT. Instapundit, WaPo, LGF, American Thinker and FreeRepublic also are on the list along with a few other "mainstream" media outlets.
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May 30, 2005
Ok, Ok, I'm sorry
I thought I'd gotten autoplay off all the videos. Sorry to those of you that got caught at work or had multiple instances playing at once. They should be dumbed down and converted over to links. Lemme know if any are broken.
--Jason
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May 29, 2005
Race Day
Seeing as how I'm blogging from Birmingham, Alabama, you may think that this red-blooded Republican male is also a NASCAR fan. Truth is, I'm NOT. I really dislike NASCAR, I don't think it has near the difficulty of other forms of auto racing, and the "NASCAR" mentality leaves something to be desired by your humble author.
INDY RACIN' is a totally different story, and today's the holy day for IRL (Indy Racing League). The Indy 500, the race of races is going hot and heavy right now. Actually in truth, it was hot and heavy until about the 140th lap, now things are in slow motion after 4 yellow flags.
Why do I like Indy racing? It's simple actually. The "rubbins' racin'" is gone when you get to the big 650-hp open wheel indy cars. The slightest touch usually means one or the other car is about to spin out, crunch the wall or dive into the infield. Another high point for me, is that when crashes do occur they usually create a domino effect and chaos for all the cars around the offenders.
Now I don't want you to think that I only watch for the crashes, that's far from the truth, I like Indy racing for the surprises, the hole shots, the importance of drafting and the technology involved in the cars themselves. Sure NASCAR has drafting, and hole shots and high tech cars, but it's an order or magnitude higher in Indy racing and even higher still in Indy's older bigger cousin, Formula Racing.
So there you have it, I'm out of the closet and I've said publically that I like auto racing --- I'm just a snob about it.
I also like Rally Racing, most people don't actually know what rally racing is, but I have to say that I REALLY enjoy rally racing because it's as close to watching a blind man race as anything. Bascially a Rally Race car consists of a car, driver and a navigator. The cars are usually beefed up smaller cars similar to many consumer models out there. They of course are stripped and highly customized, and lately most are all wheel drive. These hot rods are then thrown around a course carved out of the countryside on winding uphill, downhill, forest and village roads as hundreds or thousands of spectators line the course.
The nature of the courses mean that a driver needs a little help in course management, with anywhere from 100 to 1500 turns in a Rally course, a driver could never memorize the course to take the turns at full speed. Instead, Rally teams rely on a navigator whos plotted out the course and constantly feeds the driver information on what's coming up. Changes in road surface, number of degrees in a turn and even placement of wayward telephone poles are all things on the navigators list of things to warn or inform the driver about.
Rally racing isn't exciting in terms of passing and hole shots and drafting. Rally cars generally race in a timed stage format. The excitement comes from knowing that the driver is coming around a blind turn at 90 mph to negotiate two back to back hairpins with spectators standing just a few meters off the course with no walls or barricades between them and the action, but maybe there will be a hay bale or two there.
So there you have it. My take on Sunday racing. I'm enjoying the Indy 500, really liking Danica Patrick's run right now. Could this be the first female win of the INDY??? Who knows, but it's fun.
Lap 174 out of 200 and the Chick is out front.
Do Danica Go!!!! Woot. Ok, it helps that she's attractive.
UPDATE: Well, she couldn't hold onto it. Seems like earlier problems with the front wing of her car forced her to pit out of series and coming into the last laps she was simply running out of fuel. Oh well, she made a good run and I'm sure she's gonna be scaring the bejebus out of the boys for a few years to come (after all, this is her just her ROOKIE season). Not bad for a rookie to take fourth in the INDY 500. I take back MOST of what I've said in the past about woman drivers. For the record, the winner, Dan Whelden, ran out of gas on the victory lap, HAHAHAHA. Good show.
--Jason
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May 24, 2005
Wow, what fun
So on Saturday, I had a great time. My cousin Eddie, he's about 10, went to Space Camp a few weeks ago and came back with Rocket Fever. My uncle and I thought this was just a great idea and that we should support him in his newfound hobby. So, to make a long story short, this past Saturday was the Birmingham Rocket Boys - Birmingham Blast-Off, and a great time was had by all. Rocket Boys of all ages came out for the event and even a few Rocket Girls were in attendence.
I shot ALOT of video of launches, both with my digi-cam and on tape. It'll be a little while before I sit down and cruch all the video to digital, but I started working with the .mpegs from my camera tonight. There's a brief sample below. Hopefully this weekend I'll find time to crunch all the video over to digital and put it together with some Death-Rock or something to make an interesting short. I just gotta bone up on my video editing and compression skilz to avoid winding up with a 75meg video.
Click here to watch one of the launches.
Click play to watch.
--Jason
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May 23, 2005
Fun Star Wars Stuff
Ok, you have to try this. For the record, I picked "a hat" and beat Vader. I wouldn't try "a hat" again as you enter what you were thinking of at the end. So he'll be sneaky and get ya.
Props to Burge Royale for this one.
--Jason
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The NYT has corrupted another one. . .
Here's a VERY interesting opening paragraph. . . .
For a certain segment of the population, Nascar's raid on American culture -- its logo festoons everything from cellphones to honey jars to post office walls to panties; race coverage, it can seem, has bumped everything else off television; and, most piercingly, Nascar dads now get to pick our presidents -- triggers the kind of fearful trembling the citizens of Gaul felt as the Huns came thundering over the hills. To these people, stock-car racing represents all that's unsavory about red-state America: fossil-fuel bingeing; lust for violence; racial segregation; run-away Republicanism; anti-intellectualism (how much brain matter is required to go fast and turn left, ad infinitum?); the corn-pone memes of God and guns and guts; crass corporatization; Toby Keith anthems; and, of course, exquisitely bad fashion sense. What's more, they simply don't get it. What's the appeal of watching . . . traffic? It's as if ''Hee Haw'' reruns were dominating prime time, and the Republic was slapping its collective knee at Grandpa Jones's ''What's for supper?'' routine. With Nascar's recent purchase of a swath of real estate on Staten Island, where it intends to plop down an 80,000-seat racetrack and retail center for the untapped New York City market, the onslaught seems poised on the brink of full-out conquest. Cover your ears, blue America. The Huns are revving their engines.
You might want to read the whole New York Times article before we continue.
You may not realize until you're half way through what is, in reality, a book review. Yep, there it is, halfway through page two is the first mention of the book that the reviewer is covering. Actually, it's 2/3rds of the way down.
So what do we have here? Bash the Red States, hate the moronic Southerners that gave us President Bush, stereotype and slander every NASCAR fan, essentially engage in racist behavior, and insult 75 million people because they "aren't like YOU."
I really wonder if this is "fit to print", or even what that means anymore.
For the record, I'm no NASCAR fan. I'm not a big race fan, period. I don't even drive my own car very fast. About 5 miles over the speed limit is my limit, I just don't see the point. Now I will say that I "appreciate" racing. I enjoy watching coverage of the Tour de France, Kentucky Derby, Olympics Track and Field and I'll sit and watch any Formula 1 race or Rally Car race. I'll also watch parts of big NASCAR races, especially if it's close to the end.
I'm curious? Miles must feel the same way about ski racing, bike racing and horse racing as he does about NASCAR. I'm quite sure he doesn't. In fact? I'm wondering if Johnathan Miles feels the same way about NASCAR as he says he does in the article. I suspect that the fact that Miles was writing for the NYT was the source of his vitriol.
I say this because This Article just doesn't make sense when you compare it to the NASCAR piece. So this Miles is all happy bout hunters killing rabbits and cooking them up but he doesn't like NASCAR? Does anyone see where I'm going with this? Maybe he just has a thing for wild birds.
Personally, I think Miles just graduated up to the big time now with the New York Times and part of his selling his soul is to hate that segment of America that put him there. I'm sure the percentage of NASCAR Fans that read Field and Stream is far greater than the number of Field and Stream readers that read the New York times.
Hey but what do I know, I'm just one of those Huns.
--Jason
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May 20, 2005
The US Navy Entry
Finally found some US soldiers (in this case US Navy) trying their hand at a music video.
--Jason
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Cool Vids
Since I'm on a video kick lately.
I Found this video on Big-Boys that I thought was pretty interesting and cool.
Background:
Some Iraqi Defense force soldiers are in a prolonged firefight with some AIF (Anti-Iraqi Forces). Attached to the Iraqi troops are some U.S. Air Force Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC's). The JTAC's get permission to call in a Maverick Missile airstrike.
You can hear the missile come in.
I'm not glorifying war by posting this, I just find it amazing sometimes how technologically advanced and effective our Military Forces are. Plus I just found it cool.
Other videos that I just feel like showing. (All .wmv files)
Don't fly with these guys. . . .
I SAID, DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE!!!
I MEAN IT, DO NOT PLAY WITH FIRE!!!!
And REALLY don't play with hairspray and fire!
And Gasoline? That's just RIGHT OUT!!!
The French arrive in Iraq (almost)
I don't know if this is real or not, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Although I'm still firmly PRO 2nd Amendment.WARNING: Content may be disturbing!!
This is just audio, and it takes a bit to get started, but it's hilarious.
--Jason
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May 19, 2005
Yeah right!!! Blame us?
Get this:
Thu May 19, 1:15 PM ETMOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.
I love that last line, no matter what "Blame Bush!"
--Jason
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May 18, 2005
More Martial Music Madness
Judgeing from the email and hits, people liked the Norwegian effort (you can either scroll down or click here for that performance), our next contestants come from the British Isles and are performing in sunny, sandy, scary Iraq.
So without further ado, take it away Lucky Pierre. . . go click play now.
So what do the judges say?????
--Jason
PS, if you have other military parody music videos, drop me a line at Jason[AT]JasonColeman.com.
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May 17, 2005
American Idol, eat your heart out!!!
This just in. . . . .
MUST SEE MUSIC VIDEO courtesy of the Norwegian Armed Forces stationed in Kosovo.
--Jason
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Mythbusting
When I first heard of the "Koran flushing" incident falsely reported by NEWSWRONG, I wanted to test the theory behind it.
Unfortunately, Silent Running beat me to it.
--Jason
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May 12, 2005
Gone Fishing!!!
Heading down to Mobile Bay/Gulf of Mexico for a few days. Hopefully they'll be biting and then I can come back and make a useless post about catching fish and piss off the PETA people.
Haven't decided if I'll bring the laptop or not, so if you email me, and I don't respond right away, please forgive.
--Jason
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May 10, 2005
Visitor Update
I promised to keep people updated, so here's the overcrowding situation here at my humble abode.
I need to apologize for the quality of the image. The babies were asleep, but that didn't stop mommie bird and daddy bird from attacking me when I got near the nest. It's difficult to snap a picture when you're trying to stop a mommie bird from pecking your eyes out.
--Jason
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Up, Up and away
I've mentioned the Space Elevator before, and the Space Elevator Blog has been on my blogroll since I started this blog. Today though, the frontrunner in the "slow" race to space is making news. Liftport group, based in Seattle is in the news talking about their carbon nanotube ribbon and the climber design they are working on.
Liftport plans to have their first lift in just under 5000 days, they're shooting for April 12th, 2018.
Check them out at Liftport.com and take a look around their site.
In other related Space Elevator news, NASA, who also wants to develop the Space Elevator has set up two contests for design issues related to the project. The Tether Challenge and the Power Beam Challenge are both part of President Bush's return to space initiative.
Both challenges are encouraging private entities to design a system that beats what NASA's engineers are proposing. If a private design team can beat the current NASA technology, they get $50,000. Not much in terms of cash, but the design will be worth millions. The contests will be conducted again in 2006 with a prize of $150,000. The goal is to keep the pressure on NASA engineers and infuse the project with new ideas as it moves forward. NASA is looking at 2010 as a date to begin construction of the elevator.
NASA has over $80 million set aside for what they call "Centennial Challenges", contests designed to bring more private sector research into the US Space Program. While not as flashy as the "X-Prize" the contests are great motivators for private engineers and university teams to get those thinking caps warmed up.
IF you have no clue what a Space Elevator actually is, take a look at this short video.
The NASA Space Elevator program is part of the Advanced Space Transportation office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, right here in Alabama. Yeah, we got more rocket scientists down here than anyplace else, not to mention the best public high school in the nation.
Yeah, that last one surprised the hell outta me too.
--Jason
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Kerry? Kerry? Bueller? Bueller?
Well, folks, it's been 100 days now since John Kerry promised to sign his Form 180. That's the form that would release his full military records. You know the ones that were supposedly all on his website during the campaign, later found to leave out such things as a "less than honorable discharge" then a special dispensation by President Carter cleaning up his record. Of course, we'd like to know about those medals with stars that only Kerry has, as well. You know, the ones that he threw over the fence. Oh, yeah, they were only the ribbons. Oh wait, they were someone elses medals, er, ribbons. If you're going to call for the President to release his info, then not be satisfied with the results of your fishing to the point you have to forge more documents, you should at least put your laundry out too.
You may think it's not important, but it really is. This guy blew smoke at us all through the election. Hoodwinked the media and the electorate and promised time and time again to sign a simple form all the while criticising the Presidents service. While the Dems had to go out and make documents up from scratch, parade them on CBS, then claim that they were "false but accurate", Kerry got away with never releasing anything about his service record but some tall tales (Christmas in Cambodia) and 8mm re-inactments of his heroics in Vietnam.
If you'd like to fax Kerry a copy of the Form 180, you can find it here. His fax number in Washington is (202) 224-8525.
--Jason
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May 6, 2005
More useless info
It's my birthday. Woot! Big 34, which equals 7, which is a lucky number, with should bring good things this year.
But then, in the back of my mind are those comments my mother's psychic made to me one day. Right off the bat, first time I meet the guy. He looks at me and says --- "Ohhh, you need to be very careful."
I think to myself . . . this doesn't sound good.
"One day, you will be framed for murder."
Can you believe that, right outta the box and the guy just wants to freak me out like that. NO FAIR!!!
Anyway. Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to you. Da Dee Da Dee Da!
--Jason
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