Paul Newman has died at the age of 83 after a bout with cancer. Although I disagreed with much of his political stance, he did tremendous work for charity and will always be remembered for starring in one of my favorite movies of all time, Cool Hand Luke.
Well, I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus,
sittin’ on the dashboard of my car.
Comes in colors, pink and pleasant, glows in the dark cause it’s irridescent.
Take it with you when you travel far.
Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones
sittin’ on a pedestal of abalone shell.
Goin’ ninety, I ain’t scary, ’cause I’ve got the Virgin Mary,
assurin’ me that I won’t go to Hell.
Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones
sittin’ on a pedestal of abalone shell.
Goin’ ninety, I ain’t scary, ’cause I’ve got the Virgin Mary,
assurin’ me that I won’t go to Hell.
My sympathies and sincerest condolences to his wife, Joanne Woodward, his family and friends.
Moogy is about three years old and housetrained. His former owners foreclosed on their South Florida home and could no longer keep him, reports CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.
Michelle Frier, adoption supervisor at the Wildlife Care Center, said “They were heartbroken - to have to give him up, and I think, he was heartbroken to be back here because he’s back in the barn.”
I think I could sum up a remedy to this situation with one word…
Yes, busyness. Not business. As in, I’ve been busy, but not been busy doing this blogging business. Being busy in the ‘real world’ hasn’t allowed me much time to be busy with this business. However, I’m hoping that that busyness settles down soon and allows more time for this business. Make sense? Cool.
On Thursday, Georgia had sent troops into the area of South Ossetia, a seperatist province within their country. In response, Russia invaded Georgia and has essentially split it in half.
Shouldn’t the UN, being the ever-effective organization that it is, be doing something about the invasion of Georgia by the Russians? Then again, what would they do? Probably the same thing they always do. They’d issue a handful of resolutions, each stating “Stop!…or we’ll say ’stop’ again.”
Georgia is a vital democratic ally to the United States and the West. They’re one of the handful of countries who have provided troops and assistance in Iraq. They helped us, and we should help them as well. Although our military forces are tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, we should still be able to provide equipment, arms, and resources to aid them. It saddens me to watch and listen to the reports of their losses and their territory being overran by attacking Russian troops.
Georgian officials tonight claimed the country had been ‘overrun’ by Russian troops after a full-scale ground invasion.
Amid reports that Moscow forces had taken the town of Gori - and were marching on the capital Tsblisi - Georgian soldiers appeared to be in full retreat.
Troops were apparently in complete chaos as a full-scale rout pushed them back through the countryside.
Meanwhile, the civilian crisis intensified with thousands of refugees fleeing the seemingly unstoppable advance of the Russian army.
After sitting near Russian Prime Minister Putin at the Beijing Olympics, which is supposed to be a symbol of peace and competitive harmony, President Bush issued the following statement today:
“Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century.”
What the international ramifications against Russia will be are anyone’s guess. My sympathies are with the Georgian people.
Just in case you’re wondering, according to Alicia Keys, the creation of ‘gangsta rap’ was apparently a ploy by the government to get black people to kill each other. Wow.
Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other,” she says, putting down the sandwich. “‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”
Come again? A ploy by whom?
She looks at us like it’s the dumbest question in the world. “The government.”
Add another line to her résumé. Alicia Keys: piano stroker, budding actress… and conspiracy theorist? This is the side of her that doesn’t square with the media-trained pro—the side your mom probably doesn’t know about when she hums “No One” on the way to Walgreens. This Alicia pores over Black Panther autobiographies (“I’ve read Huey Newton’s, Assata Shakur’s, David Hilliard’s …”). This Alicia says Tupac and Biggie were essentially assassinated, their beefs stoked “by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.” This Alicia wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck, “to symbolize strength, power and killing ’em dead.”…
…“If Malcolm or Huey had the outlets our musicians have today, it’d be global. I have to figure out a way to do it myself,” she says.
A teacher in Mississippi posed a survey to her 6th grade students to see who was ‘most likely to die before age 19,’ ‘most likely to get AIDS,’ and ‘most likely to get pregnant.’ What kind of idiot would possibly think this is appropriate for 6th grade? Hell, it’s not even appropriate for high school.
Parents are outraged over a controversial assignment at a Jackson middle school.
Curtis Lyons is the concerned parent of a 6th grader at Chastain Middle School. He said his daughter had to answer the following questions about her peers.
“Who do you think will be dead before age 19? Who will have no job? Who will get HIV or AIDS? Who will be pregnant?” Lyons read from a statement.
Lyons says it was part of an assignment in Roshondra Sipp’s 6th grade science class. And several parents told WLBT they’re outraged students were asked to list their peers.
“What kind of questions are those to ask kids? And then to have another kid determine those things? It’s just not fair,” said Lyons.
Lyons was upset when his daughter told him that her class voted her most likely to get pregnant before age 19. That’s right– Lyon’s says the teacher tallied the results and read them aloud to the class.
A boy in his mid-teens learned…that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old…
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The boy said, “Old man, give me your wallet or I’ll cut you,” Bair said. The man told the boy he was a former Marine who fought in three wars and had been threatened with knives and bayonets, Bair said.
The man then put his bags on the ground and told the boy that if he stepped closer he would be sorry. When the boy stepped closer, the man kicked him in the groin, knocking him to the sidewalk, Bair said. The ex-Marine picked up his grocery bags and walked home, leaving the boy doubled over…
John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…
Oil traders: While often blamed for pushing up prices, traders don’t necessarily benefit from the high price of crude or gasoline; they profit from how much the price changes. Traders can get rich - as long as they bet correctly on whether prices will rise or fall…
Gas stations: A surprisingly small amount goes to the guy who runs the station.
Most service stations are independently owned and operated and take in between 7 and 10 cents for every gallon they sell…
Taxes: The government takes about 40 cents right off the top, with about 18 cents going to the feds. State taxes vary widely, but the national average is about 22 cents a gallon…
Transportation: Getting the gas from refineries to service stations via trucks or pipelines - and the cost of storing it in large tanks - eats up another 23 to 26 cents per gallon…
Refining: About 24 cents a gallon goes to refining companies like Valero (VLO, Fortune 500), Sunoco (SUN, Fortune 500) or Frontier (FTO, Fortune 500) that specialize in turning crude oil into gas. Some companies like ExxonMobil (XOM, Fortune 500), Chevron (CVX, Fortune 500) and ConocoPhillips (COP, Fortune 500) also have refining operations….
Crude oil: This is the most expensive part of a gallon of gas. Of every gallon of gas $2.07 from every gallon of gas goes to producers of crude like Chevron (CVX, Fortune 500), BP (BP), and smaller outfits like Anadarko (APC, Fortune 500) and Marathon (MRO, Fortune 500), or national oil companies controlled by countries like Saudi Arabia, Mexico or Venezuela.
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EIA estimates it costs U.S. oil companies an average of about $24 a barrel to find, develop and produce oil worldwide, but that doesn’t include costs like transportation, administration, or income taxes - which can be substantial. While Exxon made $40 billion in 2007, a 60% increase from 2004, it paid $100 billion in taxes and royalties.
Following up to this report, the Berkeley anti-military loons are stepping up their treasonous idiocy. And, naturally, the San Francisco newspaper reports emphasize the right-wing blogosphere ‘going ballistic,’ not the asshat anti-military traitors. Yeah, if those evil right-wingers would just shut up, then the leftist loons could do as they darn well please, eh? To the left, it’s ‘free speech’ if they want to spew their anti-military crap, physically block access, and try to drive out the recruiters. But, if the right comments on it, they’re ‘going ballistic.’ Ah yes, but the anti-military folks ’support the troops,’ right? Boolshat.
As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office.
The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support. Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them.
Two of the three were cited for blocking a business and released, and the third was booked into jail on an unrelated traffic warrant, police said.
The demonstrators promptly said they will keep protesting outside the recruiting station at 64 Shattuck Square until the Marines leave Berkeley - which is what the City Council advised the service to do in a vote Tuesday night that called the Marines “unwelcome intruders.”
§ 2388. Activities affecting armed forces during war
(a) Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies; or
Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or the United States, or attempts to do so— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(b) If two or more persons conspire to violate subsection (a) of this section and one or more such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be punished as provided in said subsection (a).
(c) Whoever harbors or conceals any person who he knows, or has reasonable grounds to believe or suspect, has committed, or is about to commit, an offense under this section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(d) This section shall apply within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and on the high seas, as well as within the United States.
Or, since I’m sure someone will say we’re not technically at war…
§ 2387. Activities affecting armed forces generally
(a) Whoever, with intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States:
(1) advises, counsels, urges, or in any manner causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States; or
(2) distributes or attempts to distribute any written or printed matter which advises, counsels, or urges insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
(b) For the purposes of this section, the term “military or naval forces of the United States” includes the Army of the United States, the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve of the United States; and, when any merchant vessel is commissioned in the Navy or is in the service of the Army or the Navy, includes the master, officers, and crew of such vessel.
I understand and appreciate the freedom of speech, and I’ll defend anyone’s right to speak, no matter how repulsive. But, to physically block access, vandalize, and attempt to drive out the military is completely wrong. And the Berkeley city council approves it! In my not-so-humble opinion, and that of many others, if Berkeley will not allow military recruiters, then they shouldn’t receive one dime in federal funding. To hell with em.
A man who spent long hours each day playing video games was convicted Tuesday of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console.
Prosecutors believe Tyrone Spellman pummeled Alayiah Turman, cracking her skull several times, while her pregnant mother napped in another room in September 2006.
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An autopsy showed that Alayiah had suffered a broken arm about two weeks before she died — an injury that city social workers did not see on two visits to the house in late August, when they found the baby well.
An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency’s deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling on PETA to either end its hypocritical angel-of-death program, or stop its senseless condemnation of Americans who believe it’s perfectly ethical to use animals for food, clothing, and critical medical research.
Not counting animals PETA held only temporarily in its spay-neuter program, the organization took in 3,061 “companion animals” in 2006, of which it killed 2,981. According to Virginia’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA killed 97.4 percent of the animals it took in.
This is just low and pathetic. To flat out lie is bad enough, but to flat out lie and claim that a child’s father died in Iraq just to win Hannah Montana tickets is utterly contemptable. But, sadly, in today’s world of fraud, “win at all costs,” and the culture of ’reality’ shows, it really doesn’t surprise me.
An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
While gripping, it was not true — and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.
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The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq…
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We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”
She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. Caulfield said the mother has admitted to the deception.
Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis… Bin Laden is Saudi… most radical mosques are reportedly funded by the Saudis…a recent report states that the biggest source of foreign jihadis in Iraq are Saudi… and now we sell them a major supplier to the US military? Does no one else see a problem with this? Call me crazy, but this just seems like a really really bad idea. In my not-so-humble opinion, many of our business leaders and politicians are selling out our national security.
Saudi Arabia has acquired a Massachusetts firm that is a leading supplier to the U.S. military.
The state-owned Saudi Basic Industries Corp. has purchased GE Plastics from General Electric for $11.6 billion. Based in Pittsfield, Mass., GE Plastics, with 11,000 employees, develops and manufactures plastic polymers, composites and polycarbonates used in U.S. military platforms, including fighter-jets, submarines and engines.
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