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January 31, 2006
Oh this is too good. . . . (It's in the Koran!)
Give it a bit to load and then click play. . .
As always, give it a few seconds to load then click play, and PLEASE, no hot-linking. Link to the page, and that's great, but please don't just steal my bandwith without referencing, it's just uncool.
UPDATE: Google Video was originally serving the video but in their march toward Dhimmitude, they've taken it down. Never fear however, I had a copy laying around and am now glad to serve it up for ya.
Oh yeah, and just for Googles sake, lemme put in some keywords here: It's in the Koran song plus lyrics and audio, Islam's Not for Me.
--Jason
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DUDE!!!
Kirkwood has a 200 inch base!!!
--Jason
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OMG!!!! OMG!!!! OMG!!!!
PLEASE LET HER RUN! PLEASE, PLEASE, LET HER RUN!!!!!!
--Jason
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January 29, 2006
70 miners trapped in Canada. . .
Now we've got 70 miners trapped in Canada.
Apparently this is a bit different from the other incidents in West Virginia of late. In this case it appears the miners were able to retreat to a refuge location and are not trapped in a new section of mine tunnel. Currently all are believed safe although they are trapped a little more than half a mile down.
The mine is operated by the U.S. company, The Mosaic Company, who describe themselves on their website:
"Mosaic is the powerful combination of two leaders in the fertilizer industry, IMC Global and Cargill Crop Nutrition. We are committed to nourishing growth for our customers, our investors and our communities. "
The company is one of the world's leading producers of potash (which is what this mine produces), and employs over 8,000 people worldwide.
Their stock has been slowly climbing over the past few months, hopefully it'll stay strong as it seems like this company has the situation pretty well in hand.
UPDATE: The miners are safe, the fire is "probably" out, or at least under control and now they are waiting for the ventillation systems to clear out the smoke before they can bring the miners to the surface. Glad this turned out well.
--Jason
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January 26, 2006
Just a quick game. . .
It's actually quite fun once you get past the first few levels.
--Jason
EDIT: I fixed the link, thanks to Mr. Big from SamanthaBurns.com for pointing out the error.
-JC
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January 24, 2006
If there is a Hell. . .
Yes, yes, I know I'm an Atheist (really, I am), and I don't believe in Hell, but I'm also quite cognizant that I could very well be wrong, and there may in fact, actually be a Hell.
I'm certain though, that if there is. . . I've got a reservation for putting this on my blog.
Give it some time to load, click play, and watch the whole thing. Leave hate mail in the comments.
--Jason
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January 23, 2006
It's as if. . . .
Mother Nature creeped up on the libbies and leaned in close to their ear and then screamed:
HA! There's your Global Warming for ya!
Seriously tho', I don't subscribe to the Global Warming nonsense. Sure there's evidence that the earth is getting warmer, but there's also evidence that it's getting colder. There's plenty of evidence that our Sun is cranking out more energy than ever before and that our planet and it's various ecosystems are responding in kind.
[NOTE:It's important to realize that our Sun is going to keep getting hotter and hotter over geologic/astronomic time until it cooks us right off the planet and absorbs the Earth into it's ever expanding disk just a few million years before it collapses back upon itself. So if you want to bitch about "global warming" and use the SUN as your boogeyman, that's fine, but pretending that WE HUMANS are the culprit is just ludicrous at this point in our scientific/industrial evolution.]
In essence for me, it just seems as if we simply don't have enough of a grasp of global climate change or even the global climate in general to understand what the last 100 or so years of data means. That's really all we have ya know, about 100 years of "somewhat" reliable data on temperatures. Not to mention that MOST of that 100 years of data was collected within big concrete heatsinks that make up our cities. Those sinks keep getting bigger as cities grow so it's not really surprising that collecting data in our universities and our city-based weather bureaus over the past 10 or so decades has skewed the temperature data upwards. We're doing much better now with satellites since people began pointing out the heatsink effect of cities.
There are plenty in the Global Warming crowd that will harp that we have THOUSANDS of years of data, but that's mostly theoretical data at best and wholely fabricated at worst. Although I do just LOVE this graphic from the IPCC via the Wall Street Journal some time back.
In all intellectual honesty we simply don't have enough information to say that WE are doing THIS or doing THAT with regard to the climate, even with ice cores and tree ring fossils.
Sure pollution is bad, but industrialized societies compensate for pollution with wealth. Yep, I said it, wealth. Think about it for a second. I'm not rich, rich, rich, but I'm Bill Gates when it comes to most of the third world, and I do something with that wealth that many people take for granted. I landscape my yard. That's right. I have a lawn, I have flowerbeds, I have trees and schrubbery that not only enhance the value and appearance of my property, but also absorb far more CO2 and produce more O2 than the same piece of property would if left to the natural state. I'm not alone either, there are MILLIONS of us doing this. Think about it.
Now I'm not about to say that nice lawns and landscaping are the cure for global warming, but I do know this, they certainly help quite a bit. In case you hadn't noticed, North America is a NET ABSORBER of CO2 (That's one of dem der "greenhouse gasses" ya know). Yep, that's right, even with all our cars, our power plants, fireplaces and heavy industry, we still absorb more CO2 than we crank out. I suggest that's mainly because of our land use practices, especially our more modern ones (post WW2). We rarely let land go to "waste" in the United States. We do hold some aside and we do have some that doesn't appear to be doing anything, but the vast majority of land in the U.S. is managed in one way or another.
That management can take many different forms, it could be local and individual, as in the case of my house, which is surrounded by a green lawn in summer, regularly watered and cut so it's always growing and cranking out O2 and absorbing CO2 at a fair clip. I also spread rye grass in the winter to keep a lawn growing, then I have fruit trees, decorative cypress, some schrubbery and plenty of other decorative plants which I try to keep healty and do my best to avoid them becoming deer food (which I'll come back to later), as well as another area set aside in it's natural state to provide a bit of habitat for critters, birds and the like.
There's also the big agri-business land use and management on the other end of the scale. The United States produces ALOT of vegetation for foodstuffs, and that vegetation has a significant impact on the CO2 level. This vegetation has also been selected, domesticated and hybridized to produce a fast growing crop, maximizing both the amount of food produced and also the amount of CO2 and O2 processed and produced (not necessarily intended, but definately a benefit). We grow far more than we need as a "people" and then we sell the extra to others who don't grow quite so much because either they can't, they won't or they try and fail to produce enough to feed their own people. We also grow alot of food for fun (private gardens which hardly every outproduce commerical farms economically) and then we do strange things like grow corn in Indiana, ship it to Alabama and then spread it out in our backyards to encourage a deer population that's already over-abundant to visit our yards and eat our ryegrass, but hopefully not to eat the pansies in the front yard or kill our fruit trees (go figure).
Then we have trees. Lot's and lots of trees. The libbies are going to react to that statement and bitch and whine about logging, but that's ridiculous. Responsible logging, like that practiced in North America and most other industrialized areas of the world, is GOOD for the environment. Sure, it might be better, if we let wildfires rage out of control every few years to take out our older forests, but managing the forest seems to be a little better for all concerned. So we cut down a tree and we plant 7 in it's place, and those 7 young trees are going to process more CO2 and produce more Oxygen over a given reasonable period of time than that one older tree did. Then that tree is going to be processed into lumber for a house that's going to have a lawn and landscaping around it. So yeah, I'll say it. Logging is GOOD for the environment.
I know this is all VERY VERY simplistic, but I didn't really intend to write this at all. I just wanted to point out that just when you think the clamor about Global Warming can't get any louder or be any more insane, Mother Nature herself tosses us a curveball to just point out how little we actually do know and throw all the proconceived notions about climate change and how evil us humans are right out the window.
I also love the recent "Global Warming CAUSED by plants" info that's recently surfaced. Showing that we plainly and simply have no freaking idea what we've been talking about, are talking about or think we might be talking about.
So in short, Europe, break out the winter gear, it's probably going to continue to be a chilly one for you. As for me, I'll keep working on my lawn and hope that one day I can match my Dad's skills in cultivating the perfect patch of grass. For the rest of you out there, stop worrying so much about global warming and start concentrating on just being good to yourself and those around you, get yourself a hybrid if you're worried about it, grow some plants, blacktop that driveway instead of concrete, or vice versa (think about reflection vs. absorbsion) and stop worrying about Global Warming (which we don't really know exists anyway).
I suggest you start worrying about REAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS, like the nutcase in Iran who can't wait to start splitting the atom in the open atmosphere in order to bring about the 12th coming or something like that. Freaking nutcase.
How's that for a RANT!!!
Oh yeah, there's always THIS IDEA too.
--Jason
PS - The above was provoked by someone who e-mailed that I hadn't been ranting enough on my blog lately. Is that good enough for ya!?!?!?!?!
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Sometimes I wish. . .
I could just reach out and grab people that are reading this blog and say "HEY, What do YOU think?"
So why am I saying this here and now??? Because a few different IP's from the "Water and Sewerage Board of New Orleans" have been pouring through my Katrina Archives and passing my Copyu/Nutria article around their intranet.
I noticed their perusing while doing some blog-maintenance and just wish they'd either comment or drop me a line.
I get quite a bit of traffic from New Orleans, but I'd really like the opportunity to talk to some people inside the Water and Sewerage Board of New Orleans. I've got quite a few questions about recovery in the city, the water supply and other issues concerning their particular bailiwick
--Jason
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The Maple Revolution?????
For years (over a decade of 'em), the liberals have been in charge of our neighbors to the north. Today it seems, "could be" the Maple revolution we've all been waiting for. With scandals in their state controlled media, failings in their state sponsored "free"(NOT!) healthcare system and a general sense of rudderless drifting in the land of Snow and Beer, the conservative movement may finally be making it's run for the money and taking control of Canuckistan. Let the rejection of Leftist adgenda's continue, HOORAY!!!
Thank goodness.
Welcome back to the real world Canada, it's glad to have you back on the right side of the fence (hopefully).
Sam has been tracking the wierder of the Canadian political candidates.
Michelle Malkin has a good roundup today.
-and, of course-
For anything Canadian you have to check Small Dead Animals.
--Jason
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January 22, 2006
"Trash Talk" props for Birmingham (News). . .
The Birmingham News isn't very "up" on things happening on the internet, they occasionally throw a few stories about internet happenings here and there, but it takes a bigger connection to get the news to chime in.
College Football is definately one of those connections, hence the Friday story about OnePeat.com.
"Memo to USC: Your college football "dynasty" won exactly one BCS championship in a row.You didn't win the 2003 BCS title. LSU did. You lost the 2005 BCS title game to Texas.
Even your 2004 BCS ring should include a diamond asterisk. You may have gone 13-0 that year, but so
did Auburn.In case you've forgotten these true facts, some LSU fans, with the help of a Mobile ad agency, are going to
remind you very soon in a very big way." [Emphasis mine.]
You gotta admit that's some hellacious trash talkin'.
Find out more about the billboard at OnePeat.com.
--Jason
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January 21, 2006
No comment (yet). . .
Don't have the time to comment on these now, but some folks were having trouble opening them via their email programs, so I'm posting them here so they can see them.
Clicking on the images will take you to a larger version.
Maybe I'll make some comments on these later, but for now I'm just throwing them up. If you like them save them now, because I'm probably gonna have to take them down later as morons begin hotlinking to them.
--Jason
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January 18, 2006
Could be a rough one today kiddies. . . . or a banner day . . . who knows???
Somethings brewing over in the Pacific, so the powers that be took the pot off the stove so things could cool off.
Enough dancing around the issue for you?
Ok, here it is. The Nikkei got shut down overnight because of a massive sell-off triggered when the Japanese government raided the offices of the internet company, Livedoor. The sell-off amounts to $300 million in assets in the last three days, or roughly the gross domestic product of Sweden. That's quite a bit of cash that doesn't have a home right now.
The sell-off has triggered a shut-down of the Japanese exchange as it approached it's daily volume limit.
So what does all this mean to us here in the States??? Who the hell knows. There's alot of money out there that needs a place to go, alot of investment capital is up for grabs, but it's skiddish capital at best. I expect we'll get alot of that capital flowing into U.S. markets and companies in the next few days and we'll see a bump (after what will probably be a VERY shaky start to today's trading), then some profit taking and the Dow will settle into a solid 11K plus stance. I think what's bad for our friends in the Nikkei, in THIS case, should be good for us.
We'll see though, won't we.
IMAGE: Market Close 1-18-06
If you're curious who Livedoor is, here's their translated portal/homepage.
Oh yeah. . . I am not a stock-broker, nor do I play financial advisor on this blog. If you take any of this for "financial advice", you are an idiot and had better not come crying to me. . . EVER!
--Jason
UPDATE: Well, with a little more than half the trading day to go, doesn't seem like my prediction is panning out. I'm surprised that such a dramatic event in the Japanese exchange hasn't had a more noticible effect on our market, either positive or negative. Twenty point swing by mid-day just doesn't seem to match the chaos the Japanese are experiencing. I guess that just shows how stable and robust our market really is. See why I'm not a broker?
-JC
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January 17, 2006
Another Cup 'o' Coffee Post. . .
If you're not up to speed on the "domestic spying" non-flap, or just want to get a good overview with lots of perspective, here's your cup 'o' coffee post for the day. So brew one up, kick back and start reading, don't forget the linkfest at the end.
I've said it before, if some terrorist a-hole is calling me, I damn sure hope the guvmin't is listening in. I hope that they use that information to catch the bastard and send him or her on their way to their 72 virgins (Do female terrorists get 72 virgins??? I'll have to check on that one.).
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Oh yeah, by the way, you know that "botched" attempt to get the al-Queda No.2? Turns out it wasn't so botched after all, score at least 4 or 5 dead terrorists for US and al-Zawahri can count on many "missed meals" in the future if he wants to keep his head.
--Jason
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January 16, 2006
On this of all days. . .
On the annual observance of "Martin Luther King Day", a day when it's suggested that people reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King and the principles he stood for. A day when people should take a moment and think about the "One Nation" and about the "liberty and equality for all" and about King's, dreams.
Among those was King's dream that one day this nation would be:
"where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers"
We now present Ray Nagin, soon to be ex-mayor of New Oreleans (hopefully). . . Go ahead, click the play button. I dare ya.
CLICK HERE for the "Chocolate City" video clip.
Oh, oh, but wait, that's not all . . . Nagin's channeling Pat Robertson as well. . . just in case you weren't confused, befuddled or dumbfounded enough already, click here for more.
I could probably type for hours about how angry I am, how totally offensive, counter-productive and hypocritical Nagin is; but I won't, I'm just going to leave it there, and point to it whenever someone trys to drag out the "racist" crap when speaking of Katrina and her aftermath. I'll tell you where the racists were and ARE, they're right up there in those videos, and Ray Nagin has become their leader apparently.
As Ian asks, "Is that a “black power” swastika on his shoulder?"
Sick I tell ya, I'm just sick over this, and sick because the main stream media will give Nagin a pass, they will gloss right over this and pretend it never actually happened.
Oh well, while I got ya. Go back and read this and this about Nagin's success as Mayor of New Orleans. I no longer have mixed feelings, Nagin's got to go.
--Jason
PS, If you'd like to have your own copy of that little gem by Nagin to send to friends and family and don't want to link here, just RIGHT CLICK HERE and "Save As. . .", or for the God comments, right click here and "Save As. . . "
-JC
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January 15, 2006
Dammit people. . .
LOOK! If you really want the rest of us to rebuild New Orleans, ya'll have just got to stop doing stupid stuff like THIS!!!!
--Jason
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January 13, 2006
Premature Electulation. . .
Boy do I wish I could take credit for coining that term, but I can't.
--Jason
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January 10, 2006
Need to get. . .
Some Frontline for Speckle (he's a cat who's taken over my home).
--Jason
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January 9, 2006
In case you hadn't noticed. . . . .
I'm not so amazed we got there, I'm amazed it held until close. I really thought the 2PM profit taking would force it under 11K for the close, but another late rally pushed it back up.
WOOT!
--Jason
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