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May 30, 2006
Of course it does, you f'in idiots. . .
Who it the hell let these fools get an advanced degree, much more to the point, who in the hell is funding this ridiculous study.
An excerpt:
Forests could become thick with more toxic forms of poisonous ivy and other noxious vines, thanks to rising levels of carbon dioxide.That's the conclusion from researchers in the United States who have shown that the higher CO2 levels expected in the next 50 years breed ivies that grow twice as fast, and, unexpectedly, manufacture a nastier form of poison. "It'll be more dangerous to go in the forest," says team leader Jacqueline Mohan of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Ok, you idiot "researchers" at Woods Hole, let me clue you in on something. Plants absorb CO2 and emit O2, a plant is pretty much exactly the opposite of a human when it comes to respiration, humans absorb O2 (oxygen) and emit CO2 while plants do. . . yep, the opposite. So it stands to reason, and has been well known for quite some time (well over one hundred years actually) that if you increase the amount of CO2 in a plant's presence, it's going to grow faster, stronger, healthier and it's "potency" will increase (Don't believe me, just go ask your local grower of premium hydro-bud, I'm sure you know one, and he'll clue you in, then inquire if you can spare some of the CO2 cylinders you wasted by pumping them straight into the open air). Furthermore, if you give a human increased levels of oxygen, they too will perform better, have more energy and be more active.
This "study" is simply ridiculous on its face, and far from showing the "evils" of increased CO2 levels, the enviro-whackos are merely showing that they have no real purpose other than to cry out in insane hyperbole and claims that the sky is falling. Or in this case, that the poison ivy is coming to get us all!!!!!! OOOOHHHH, SCARY!!!!!!!
So lemme just point this out. If you increase CO2 levels, plants get jiggy with it and start growing faster and stronger and in turn they actually scrub more of the "evil" CO2 from the air. This is a major reason that North America is actually a NET ABSORBER of CO2; we are quite fond of plants here in the U.S., we go so far as to surround our homes with lush lawns, we have flower beds and garden planters for no reason other than that we enjoy looking after our flora friends.
While these "researchers" decided to present the evil poison ivy as a "scourge of gardeners and hikers" they conveniently don't focus on the obvious other outcomes of increased CO2 levels. Not only will poison ivy grow bigger stronger and better, but so will grains, trees, pulses, bulbs, flowers, mosses and every other form of plant life. The Earth is a large ecosystem, and it's been balancing out atmospheric levels of constituent gasses for alot longer than we feeble humans have been adding our CO2 to the mix. The response to increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere by our planet is bigger and stronger plants. This should of course make our enviro-whackos happy, but of course, their goal isn't to make the "environment" better, it's merely to obstruct any and all development by humans.
Remember, kiddies, Humans are a part of the natural environment, our ability to use tools, create industry and manufacture is a NATURAL OCCURANCE. Unless of course you want to give up on Darwin and begin to proclaim that humankind is some sort of artificially introduced construct. There you go enviro-whackos, are you ready to give up on Darwin and accept a single (non-Gaia, non-Mother Earth) God that put humans here???? I thought not!
Thanks alot for this totally useless "study" by some equally worthless "researchers", if you wanted to know if increased CO2 presence would increase plant growth, you could have asked any hobby gardner or better yet, your local DEA agent. They'd both be happy to tell you that increased CO2 levels increases flora growth.
IDIOTS!!!!
--Jason
P.S. Of course, increased plant growth leads to more habitat for Manbearpig. Throw me some of that Woods Hole "research" money and I'll put out a study showing how poison ivy is actually Manbearpig's preferred foodstuff (after cartoon kids of course) and that the only way to ensure our safety from Manbearpig would be to eliminate all CO2 production worldwide so that we can kill off all the plant life, including that "scourge", poison ivy.
-JC
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Confronting the Spambots again. . .
This morning I awoke to over 400 spam comments throughout the blog, so it's time to work on tightening up the blog and beat them back again. I've upped the "junk" threshhold on this MT 3.2 installation, so that will probably reduce the numbers of spam-comments that get through.
What I'm really looking for however is a Turing Test for MT 3.2, I've browsed through SixApart's site a few times and can't seem to find one that is effective. SCode, which is recommended, but it drops the value right into the page as hidden text, so that doesn't help as most bot-writers can find it and automatically enter it.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. I don't get a ton of comments, but those I do, I appreciate, so I'd rather not disable comments altogether.
--Jason
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May 27, 2006
Who says politics can't be fun. . .
Crawling through YouTube on a lazy Saturday morning (actually, I'm procrastinating on some work that needs to be done in the basement) and came across this video.
The clip is a parody by Columbia Business School (CBS in the video, don't confuse with the TV network) Dean Glenn Hubbard singing about how Ben Bernanke took the job he really wanted when Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve Chairman.
Enjoy. . .
For the record, I'm a fan of Bernanke's, but that doesn't mean I can't find this funny.
--Jason
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May 23, 2006
Hopefully. . .
Hopefully this isn't the dreaded Serbian Jew Double Bluff that Cartman warned us about.
--Jason
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The Python of the Christ. . .
As an atheist, I do have a healthy realization that I could in fact be wrong. It's possible, not probable but possible there is a God.
So this is one of those posts that I'll have to apologize for profusely for in order to avoid going to hell.
Great that if need be, I can just say, sorry, didn't believe it, now I do, please forgive me, and I'm in!
Presenting. . . .The Python of the Christ. (Some graphic content, you've been warned!)
--Jason
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Can we please. . .
Just go ahead and drill in ANWR already!!!!!!
California Republican (oxymoronic I know, but it gets better) Richard Pombo has dropped HR 5429 on the House Floor to open ANWR to oil production (yes, you read that right, a California Representative dropped this bill, and he's from the 11th District just south of that bastion of liberal hysteria, San Francisco).
Here's the House Committee on Resources fact sheet on opening ANWR for drilling.
While I'm dropping links and runnnig, here's a VERY INTERESTING link on the real National Guard Response to Hurricane Katrina, grab a cup of coffee, read the whole thing, and then pass the link around to your friends and officemates.
--Jason
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May 19, 2006
Let's get ready to rumble. . .
The Space Shuttle Discovery is currently making it's way out to Lauch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle makes the four mile journey from the Vechicle Assembly Building to the Pad at the snail's pace of less than one mile per hour. An similar journey has already been made by the STS-121 Payload Canister already where it will await the shuttle's arrival before it is loaded aboard.
Payload canister on it's way to Launchpad 39B.
Click here for high res image.
Nasa TV is currently streaming video of Discovery's journey to the pad. Click here to view.
Shuttle Mission STS-121 will launch a 7 member crew into orbit with Mission Commander Col. Steve Lindsay, USAF taking his second trip as commander (Lindsay has also been Mission Pilot on STS-87 and STS-95). STS-121 will be piloted by Navy Cmdr. Mark Kellly in his second shuttle mission. Other crew members on STS-121 include Mission Specialists Mike Fossum, Lisa Nowak, Stephanie Wilson, Piers Sellers and Thomas Reiter (representing the European Space Agency and who will remain aboard the International Space Station).
The primary mission tasks for STS-121 include testing a number of new safety measures integrated into the shuttle system after the failure of Columbia upon re-entry including redesigned components of the external rocket boosters and main fuel tank which shed insulating foam leading to the destruction of Columbia. Additional tasks include delivering a Leonardo logisitics module to the ISS which will carry equipment and supplies to the station, and two scheduled spacewalks with the possibility of a third.
The first of the two scheduled spacewalks will test a 50 ft. extension of the robotic arm system and it's suitability for a work platform, the spacewalk will also work to repair or replace a cable cutter unit which was damaged and is necessary for future space station construction.
The second spacewalk will continue the tasks of the first and reattach a cable on the stations exterior which was inadvertantly cut on a previous mission. This second spacewalk will also deliver and install spare parts for the International Space Stations thermal contol system so that they will be available if needed in the future.
A third spacewalk may be carried out if time permits which would be centered around in-space repair techniques for possible damaged carbon-fiber panels or heat shield elements. Should inspection with the new Orbital Boom Sensor System, OBSS (which looks for damaged elements of the heat shield) detect a problem, we can expect a restructuring of mission tasks to make this third spacewalk a priority over the two scheduled.
I'm sure I'll be posting more about STS-121 and the Shuttle Program in general over the coming weeks, as we get closer to launch which will occur sometime after July 1, 2006. (Exact dates for the launch window have yet to be announced.)
Images courtesy of NASA and you can visit the STS-121 mission website here.
--Jason
--Jason
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May 18, 2006
A little help needed. . .
I'm looking for a bit of help from any botany geeks out there. I'm trying to identify as closely as possible, the plant below.
The plant was originally found in the woods of Alabama, so it is most probably native to this region. The stem growing in the middle currently stands about 6 feet tall. As far as I know, this plant has not bloomed in the past decade.
If you have any info, or know of a forum where people might like geeking out on plant identification, please drop a note in the comments section below. If you need a larger image, click here.
UPDATE: Thaks to Southtrek, I believe it's save to say that this is indeed a Yucca, more specifically, I believe it's a Yucca Filamentosa. Here's the USDA NCRS Plant guide on Yucca Filamentosa, and interesting excerpt:
Ethnobotanic: The Catawba, Cherokee, Nanticoke and other Native American tribes used Yucca filamentosa for a variety of purposes including food, medicine, cordage and even soap. The roots, which contain saponin, were prepared by boiling and pounding for use as soap. Roots were beaten into a salve or poultice that would then be used to treat sprains or applied to sores on the skin. The roots were used to treat gonorrhea and rheumatism. Skin diseases were treated by rubbing the roots on the skin and by taking a decoction of the roots. The plant was used as a sedative to induce sleep. An infusion of the plant was used to treat diabetes. The flowers were eaten both raw and cooked. The pounded roots were thrown into fishing waters to “intoxicate fishers” allowing for easier catch. The green leaves are easily split into long strips that can be plied into cord. The leaves have long, very strong fibers, a type of sisal, which were twisted into strong thread used as cordage for binding and to construct baskets, fishing nets, fishing lines and clothing. The leaves of Yucca filamentosa contain the strongest fibers native to North America.
There is of course a catch, I believe this is some sort of a hybrid, perhaps Yucca Filamentoas / Yucca Flaccida, the plant is rather weak leaved like the Flaccida, but it also produces the filaments on the leave edges characteristic to the Filamentosa. These weak leaves could be a result in the plant growing in nearly permanent shade, I'm not sure.
If you're a plant geek, botanist or just have a green thumb about such things and can give more info, please drop me a line, or better yet, leave info in the comments. So far though, here's what I believe it to be:
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Liliidae –
Order Liliales –
Family Agavaceae – Century-plant family
Genus Yucca L. – yucca
Species Yucca filamentosa L. – Adam's needle
You learn something new everyday.
UPDATE 2: This Floridata page on Yucca Filamentosa has alot of info as well, I especially like this this bit:
There is much confusion regarding how many species of Adam's needle there are. Some experts (the "splitters") recognize Y. flaccida, Y. smalliana and Y. concava, as separate species, and others (the "lumpers") lump them all with Y.
The "splitters" bit reminded me of that Monty Python Life of Brian bit about the Romans, PFJ, JPF and the rest:
REG: Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f-ing Judean People's Front.Which would lead me right back around to this.
P.F.J.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We're the People's Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
I really never imagined that a plant in my front flower bed would lead to all this. I promise.
--Jason
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May 17, 2006
Ouch. . .
I've been bloggin pretty lightly over the last month or so, mostly because I've had other things going on and getting ready to implement some layout/structure changes with the blog itself. So you can imagine my surprise when I decided to check out my server stats (not Sitemeter) and saw that somehow my bandwidth had skyrocketed to over three times it's normal level (So far this month I'm 10 gigs over the blog's busiest month.). At first I thought it was a result of the server migration my webhost conducted at the end of April, but after a deeper look, I realized that after a year and a half of getting away with light controls on the blog, the hotlinkers and bandwidth theives had finally raped my site and have been directly linking alot of the videos here.
I began tracking down alot of the bandwidth thieves over the course of the day, and most have responded politely and agreed to save the hotlinked videos to their own sites, a few even worked with me to transfer alot of the videos and flash presentations here over to YouTube, Google Video and other sites more friendly to the casual blogger who wants to throw up a video now and then.
A relative few reacted with anger and threats, very surprising actually, but hey "Some people's kids. . . " right?
So starting tomorrow, alot of the video clips, audio clips and large images will be gone until I can lay in some controls. I hate hitting broken links just as much as anyone else, but I've got to do it.
If you're using something and suddenly it's gone, drop me an email and I'll send you a copy or give you a temporary link to download a copy. I probably won't bother with alot of the smaller images, and if you're someone I like (hint, hint, Mr. Dunbar) I'll leave it alone until I can get in touch with ya.
My apologies in advance if you come looking for something and it's unavailable, check back later and I'll be putting it back up, you just won't be able to hotlink it (if you do wind up hotlinking it, and I find out, don't be surprised if suddenly in turns into a gay porn video on your family webpage).
--Jason
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May 16, 2006
For the first time, I'm worried. . .
Abu Grahib never really bothered me. I realized almost immediately that AG was the result of bad apples given the keys to their own sadistic version of a candy store and they made everyone look bad in the process. I was just as outraged as everyone else that a few of our soldiers could be so incomprehensibly stupid, but I knew that the truth would come out and the end result would be fine.
Other "scandals" like the inconsequential "Downing Street Memo", the Koran Flushed, and the myriad of other "scandals" never really bothered me, especially when viewed in the context of my side of the aisle. I had faith and assurances within myself that the Right-Center of American politics would find their way out of the sandtraps and put the shot up close to the pin. Each and every time, this has been the case; we are not perfect as a nation, and we're certainly not perfect in the context of political parties, but generally, at the end of the day, we come out pretty well. We, being the Right-Center of American Political life.
Today however, I'm not as sure we're going to be OK. This is cause for great concern within me.
This issue that concerns me is the birth of what I'm going to begin calling the "Angry Right" who've become drunk with political power.
If you look at my blogroll, you'll see that it's pretty short. This is pretty intentional and I've fought to keep it small for a reason. It's a list of the sites I visit almost daily, at least weekly, and which I return to again and again in my examination of the world. It's not a complete list of sites I visit, but it's a list of those that I feel somewhat politically aligned to. It's a list of those who I think share a similar world view, and I want to promote that world view. I do visit Democratic Underground to see what the most loony of lefty moonbats are talking about, I visit the HuffPo to find out what their commanders are saying, I visit Drudge for gossip and breaking news and I'll even drop over to Freeperville to see what nuts in my own party are bitching about on any given day. I also just wander around cyberspace looking for this or that or the other, following random links and generally trying to discover whatever I can about whatever I can.
I'm noticing something within my own little sub-section of the web however, it's not all-pervasive, but it's there nonetheless. I'm seeing the rise of the Angry Right within a self-moderated community of people whom I have respected in the past and who I found close kinship with in my Political Construct. The issue that crystalized it for me was the current Immigration debate, although now I'm beginning to question how long it's been there and how deep the sentiments are.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way shape or form breaking with my Republican Party, nor am I moving to the left. I'm still firmly rooted to my Republican-Libertarian roots and living in my Pro-Demo-Captialist sphere, but I'm questioning some of my peers and betters, and even more so, I'm questioning their motives.
The Immigration Debate has turned some of my kinsmen into downright loons. Some have let their passion on this issue cloud their better judgement, some have let this image become their White Whale and some have simply gone off the deep end.
I think it's important at this point to state my own position on Immigration and in particular, Illegal Immigration. So lets just lay out my position in a list.
1. I'm all for a fence. I realize that a ocean to ocean fence is a bit of overkill, there are some areas that can be better controlled with UAV's and patrols, but a fence must be built in many areas, it should be a strong fence, preferably double or triple layered in areas; and it should be supported with sensors and all the technology we can muster to reinforce it. It should also be patroled by humans with their attendant technology. It should be built sooner rather than later.
2. I'm for an unskilled guest worker program, just as I am for a skilled worker program. We already have a plethora of guest worker programs, some with and some without a path to citizenship. I think we can easily accomodate another guest worker program and that program should have two parts, one with and one without a path to citizenship.
3. I oppose amnesty. Additionally, I don't view paying back taxes, paying current taxes, paying a fine and going to the back of the line a form of amnesty. I look at it as a form of restitution and probation. I don't see it as amnesty.
4. I oppose the idea of mass round-ups and deportation. I believe that if we offer a restitution and probation program, coupled with a guest worker program, and if we give that a reasonable period of time to get up and running, that we'll see a large number, a super-majority of illegals currently in the country sign up and work on getting straight with the American people.
After that reasonable period of time, I fully support incarceration at hard labor followed by deportation for anyone who remains in this country illegally for whatever reason and who does not take advantage of the restitution and probation options.
5. I support a national I.D., preferably supported with biometrics. Additionally I support a screening process for communicable diseases and criminal background checks. I support this for citizens, citizen applicants, guest workers and generally anyone who happens to set foot at any time on American soil.
6. I support using any and all available resources to support the above measures including the National Guard, local, state and federal law enforcement, citizen watches (a la The Minutemen), as well as any current or to be developed technology to support the above points.
My position I think jibes closely with the President's and I think it also jibes closely with the American people and our history as a Nation of Immigrants. My postion does not however seem to jibe with many of those who I felt were my kinsmen and women within what is generally called the Blogosphere.
This came especially to light with a popular site which I've always considered Right-Center, Polipundit.com. In recent weeks, the tone of the Polipundit.com authors/bloggers has become more and more hostile to one another. I watched as the various authors went from blogging about their views and opinions to a defense of their views and opinions against one another. Finally, today, the entire group blog broke down when the site owner declared that if any of the "guest authors/bloggers" disagreed with Polipundit (the owner/author, not the site in general) on the Immigration issue, that they were no longer welcome as "guest authors/bloggers".
Of course, this has resulted in much animosity within the community that Polipundit.com supports. It's caused "camps" to develop and strike out at one another, and much hate laced vitriol to be spewed back and forth among the authors, commenters, and unfortunately, even myself. I finally realized what was happening in a larger sense, shook my head and withdrew, loaded up my own admin page, and began this post.
What I am seeing however, is not merely limited to Polipundit, it's much more widespread and has "infected" a number of the sites on my blogroll. I'm curious as to why, and I have a theory.
Politics in America has become severly polarized. Actually it's always been polarized, it's just that politics is moving much faster now and the Army of Davids is experiencing for the first time in historical memory, a real sense of power, and further, actual real power. With power, however, comes corruption, and I don't mean corruption in terms of paying for this opinion or action or that opinion or action, I mean corruption of the ideas, and positions of the individuals that acquire power, the groups that acquire power, the BLOGGERS who have acquired power.
It didn't begin with Harriet Miers, but Harriet Miers was a sort of "turning point" where the pundits began to realize the power they wielded. When the uproar from Harriet Miers resulted in her pulling her nomination, the Right-Center blogosphere erupted with a sense of victory, a sense of accomplishment and a sense of the true power they could wield. They went from commentators and observers and influencers of public opinion to actual players in the political game. They realized that they had political capital to spend, and by golly, they were going to spend and spend and spend it like a drunken Congressman just before they crashed their car into a barricade.
The turned their sites on issues across the board. Some fights were good fights, some were bad ones (most notably in my opinion is here, with the reasons) they won some, and they won some more. Their capital increased and their spending of it increased.
Now, some, like Polipundit, are drunk with that power, and in their drunken stuppor, they are kicking people out of what was the big tent that the Right-Center blogosphere represented. Further, they have begun to turn on their allies and their leaders when they feel resistance. Some have even broken completely and are advocating outright rebellion. Polipundit is a medium sized fish, and I realize that, I also realize his passion for the issue. I still think I'll find common ground with Polipundit and I'm not going to de-list his site or turn this into a rant against him, because I'm not mad at him. I just think he's a bit tipsy or buzzed at the moment and will return to his sensible self soon and realize like anyone who's had a few too many that he may have said a few things out of line, made a few bad decisions and made some mistakes. Hopefully he can reconcile with his "guest authors/bloggers" and that happy little community can return to what it once was.
Others however, I'm a bit more concerned with. Michelle Malkin has gained alot of political capital with Harriet Miers, Dubai Ports and alot of other issues. She's invested alot, and I mean alot of energy with the Immigration issue, and I commend her for all the work she does, even the parts I don't agree with have been very valuable to me in exploring issues. However, now, she's taken the position of the beligerant drunk, breaking with her parties leadership and her allies on the immigration front and has begun a mini-revolt, using her capital not to invest in issues and causes, but to wield like a club and batter away.
Powerline's, John Hindraker has also begun to behave in a rather poli-drunk fashion, suggesting that he has the speech that President Bush should have given and linking to it again and again. Suggesting that the President dropped the ball and betrayed the Right with his stance on Immigration.
Bob Owens of the Confederate Yankee, one of my favs, seems himself a little tipsy now that he's started into one of the refuges of the left by assigning cutsy, derogatory names for President Bush. I think C.Y. has just had one or two completely legit poli-beverages and hasn't become drunk yet, nor do I think he will continue to binge, but rather is just enjoying his light inebriation. However, the trend is visible across the right-center blogosphere, and it's becoming disturbing.
These are just a few examples, and I don't need to go into any more, I don't see any of them becoming raging poli-holics anytime soon, I just think they are a bit over the edge, and the former bar owner and bouncer in me wants them to calm down, have a cup of coffee and rejoin the party and have a good time.
So what's the point? I think that what I'm seeing is not only a result of the Center-Right blogosphere having a few too many and getting a bit rowdy, but I think it's a result moreso of the Political Left sitting this one out. The Political Left knows that they can't play with the big boys and girls anymore, they've simply become marginalized and actually resemble the rambling, paranoid, ragin alcoholic who comes into the bar, bellies up and begins to rant about mind control devices, black helicopters and ChimpyMcHaliCheneyburtonBushHilter. Without the Political Left engaging on this issue, the bar-fight has broken out among friends, who are itching for a fight, but can't find a real enemy. (It's a brilliant move by the Left to sit this one out, probably the first actual show of political sense that they've had in years.)
Now that the barfight has broken out, the Political left is sitting back waiting for the bartenders and bouncers to step in and break it up so they can make a grab for one of the bottles behind the bar. They realize that the Angry Right duking it out may wind up as an opportunity for them, so rather than jump into the fray and try to stop it, or jump in and join the fight, they are sitting back waiting for the taps to be untended or the cash drawer to be left open.
So as the fight rages on with the Angry Right, I'm posting this as my small part in breaking it up. I don't think I'll have any large effect, but I'm a bouncer at heart (my mother would call me a gladiato, and in some cases I am), but I can't stand by while I see my party turn into a bar-fight. Bar-fights are stupid, they are counter-productive, and it doesn't matter if you started it or finished it, it doesn't matter if you were attacked or are defending, when there's a bar-fight, everyone involved gets kicked out, and the rest of the patrons go on their merry way, order another round and the bar becomes theirs. The bar-fighters get left in the cold.
So if by chance this ever gets to the eyes of those with the Political Capital of the Blogosphere in their hands, I hope they take a moment and reflect on just how many they've had, how intoxicated they may be and whether or not they want to remain in the bar for the party, or be shuffled out into the cold.
I've said my peace, and I feel better, thanks for reading this rant. All 25 of you.
--Jason
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A quote. . .
By me:
"Communism is just natural selection for the economically stupid."
I'm just putting this here because I want to lay claim to it in the future.
--Jason
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May 10, 2006
Dee Dee Dee. . .
Carlos Rawks!
Stolen from John at Cake or Death, who stole it from Rusty at The Jawa Report. Both of which are far better blogs than this one.
For more great Carlos Mencia clips(aka Ned Mencia, not Ned Holness) goto his website and enter the flash site, a series of mp3's will load and play.
--Jason
NOTE: I finally got the problem with YouTube videos fixed, but you might have to click the play button in the center of player twice.
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Hmmmm. . . .
I'm actually quite surprised Chris got booted from American Idol. I didn't catch the show, but I just Technorati'd it and found out. Boy some people are upset.
Go Taylor Go! Birmingham represent!!!!!
--Jason
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May 9, 2006
Interesting, very interesting. . .
Yet another blow to the rabid global warming whack-o's and their junk science. Global Warming, as it turns out, leads to better health, longer lives and the whopper is in the first paragraph.
History demonstrates that warmer is healthier. Since the end of the last Ice Age, the earth has enjoyed two periods that were warmer than the twentieth century. Archaeological evidence shows that people lived longer, enjoyed better nutrition, and multiplied more rapidly than during epochs of cold.
Read the whole thing, from the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.
--Jason
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May 5, 2006
Since people will be looking. . .
Given this little "event" with Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) hitting a barricade, then shuffled off home by the Capitol Police with little to no investigation of possible impairment, people will be looking for this again, so I'm putting it back up.
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today!
It floats.The way our body is built, we'd be surprised if it didn't. The sheet of flat steel that goes underneath every Volkswagen keeps out water, as well as dirt and salt and other nasty things that can eat away at the underside of a car. So it's watertight at the bottom. And everybody knows it's easier to shut the door on a Volkswagen after you've rolled down the window a little.
That proves it's practically airtight on top. If it was a boat, we could call it the Water Bug. But it's not a boat, it's a car.
And, like Mary Jo Kopechne, it's only 99 and 44/100 percent pure. So it won't stay afloat forever. Just long enough. Poor Teddy. If he'd been smart enough to buy a Volkswagen, he never would have gotten into hot water.
--Volskwagen "National Lampoon Ad Parody" from the 70's.
Maybe we should take yet another hard look at the excesses of the Kennedy family, no?
--Jason
UPDATE: Fixed attribution of picture/ad copy. Added that this was a National Lampoon Magainze joke ad. You can view a scanned copy HERE..
-JC
Posted by JasonColeman at 8:57 AM | Comments (4)
May 1, 2006
Lookee Lookee at the wittle boycott...
Sure seems to be bringing the country to a halt, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, fools, I tell you fools. Whoever sold the illegal immigrant community on the idea that the best way to get their way was to threaten the legal and natural citizens with economic warfare MUST have been a Rovian plant.
I especially like the choice of the traditional Commie day of celebration for their boycott of the evil gringo capitalists.
Main Street doesn't seem very much effected, far from their dreams of putting the economy into a standstill, they've merely galvanized the capitalists to take advantage:
Have a fun march, idiots, the only economic damage you're doing is the loss of a days wages for those of you who walked out of work. LOLOLOLOLOLOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
They'd have had a much more successful rally/protest/march if they'd have waited until Friday, then they could have persuaded most of us to go join them for a raucous Cinco de Mayo party with Coronas and Margaritas in hand. After all if you're going to lump in all the anti-war loons, environmental whack-jobs, and pro-commie moonbats in order to make your march to destroy the gringo economy look bigger, why not also co-opt the ravers, drunks, party-goers and club kids to make it look even bigger.
Fools, they're simply fools.
Meanwhile, the fence goes up. Woo Hooooooo!!!!
--Jason
PS, I'd expect to see some drop in the dow levels during the mid-afternoon, but a strong late afternoon climb as traders and investors pry themselves from their TV's and recover from their fits of laughter.
UPDATE: Well, we didn't see a slowdown through the afternoon, instead we had a healthy day with some late afternoon profit taking, a far cry from the "economic shutdown" predicted by the organizers.
UPDATE 2: My apologies for not grabbing an image of the day's activity and replacing the updating chart above. Let's just say that the Dow was up all day until about 3PM when people took profits out. I thought about taking out the updating chart, but I'm just gonna leave it in, because "well I just like looking at it".
-JC
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