Wired has an "on this day" entry and today's is a throwback to a few years ago when the last Volkswagen Beetle ran off the production line in 2003.
I remember posting on this, with picture included.
And I thought I was old then. Heh.
July 2007 Archives
Been awhile since I posted. Sorry about that. It has been busy around here lately.
Let's start off with how baseball is both more satirical and more honorable than football. Miscreant Michael Vick is only charging with killing and burying dozens of dogs in his backyard due to his love of dogfights so he remains an Atlanta Falcon. That said, the NFL is still in the uncomfortable position of supporting their evil prick of a quarterback. Even so, that gangsta rap, misogynistic, dog killing crap hasn't infesting baseball like it has other sports.
Yet. But I hope the sports hangs in there and ignores that kind of filth.
Meanwhile minor league Long Beach is having a "Michael Vick Animal Awareness Day" on Sunday. You can bring your dog to the ballpark and get in free if you turn in a Vick jersey. Good job Armada!
In Hungary, they are using their democracy to the fullest. There is currently a referendum to institute siesta time. I have to ask: why not us?
Anna Quindlen asks Hillary to just go ahead and ask Obama to be her running mate. While I'm not completely against the idea, I do think Obama can beat Clinton. And anyways, here's a better idea: Obama-Richardson. Obama is charismatic and Richardson knows his sh*t. Besides, running a black man and a Latino against two tired white guys will show the world we are seriously trying to move forward as a nation and split from the Bush junta.
FEMA knows that the trailers they have been providing our Katrina refugees evacuees have been toxic and have just chosen to sweep that knowledge under the rug. Great job!
When FOX attacks. Basically, FAUXNews has done everything it can to demean and discredit bloggers. Granted, not all blogs are good, but to accuse DailyKos of McCarthyism? From FOX? That's some serious pot-calling-the-kettle-black BS. You want to know where blogs fall on a scale of good and evil? Robert Novak can't wait to die to get away from them.
Republicans must then fear technology. How else to explain how only McCain and Paul have signed up for the CNN/YouTube debate. That said, if they are not Luddites, perhaps it is because, like I suspect, they hate to hear from regular Americans. Instead, like High Poobah Bush, they want everything scripted and hate when reality is thrust in their faces.
One last thing: our big ass embassy in Baghdad was built with slave labor. And to think this party once freed slaves.
Oops.
The Arizona Diamondbacks are having a bobblehead day on July 28th for an up-and-coming player, Carlos Quentin. One problem though. They just sent him down to Triple-A Tucson given his recent lack of production.
Currently, the promotion is still set to happen.
That said, Nike finally came to their senses as I was starting this post. I was *going* to include them on this list as firmly backing "alleged" dog killer Michael Vick as they are/were planning to sell a signature shoe of his. They have, just now, suspended the release of the shoe pending his trial. Which, while not a bold statement, is still probably more than I expect out of corporate America. Took them long enough though.
I mean, I've been to the Alamo and have watched the movie (the one with John Wayne, not the recent Billy Bob Thornton turd). I even get the well-built structural details. That said, what the hell is it with people holing up in churches and mosques and then firing on those trying to arrest/kill them?
Latest case in point is in Pakistan, where the military had to raid and ruin the historic Red Mosque What this means for future violence in the country is unclear, except when you talk to some of the survivors, who are way-too-radical for anyone's good.
This also brings me to recall those militants who took over a Christian church in Bethlehem a few years ago and forced the IDF to shoot them out of it. And, of course, the Israelis got blamed just as much as the Pakistani army is.
This is such BS. You hole up in a church, it's called sanctuary. You hole up in a church and shoot at cops or soldiers from it and you *should* be designated a scumbag. I mean, hell, it is the 21st century, even if all the Muslim fundamentalists want to turn the clock back to the 700s (or the 1850s if you are a Protestant fruit loop).
But holier-than-thou types never work on logical planes. Thus the defenders of law and order get the blame. Such is life.
Republicans, for all their recent talk of being against war without end in Iraq, did their best little Bush-is-our-pal impression by stopping the Senate from moving forward with getting our troops out of Iraq.
I mean, come on, even 60 percent of Military.com readers want our troops out ASAP, so you gotta seriously ask who the GOP really thinks they are speaking for.
As for actually protecting the force, USA Today covered the scandal over the MRAP the other day evan as the Pentagon finally begins to provide our troops the vehicles they've basically been giving the Iraqis for years now.
Speaking of our troops, more and more are getting "moral waivers" to allow them to join despite having criminal records. Moral waivers? Does Bush give himself one every time he lies, cheats, destroys democracy, and sentences another soldier or Marine to death to cover up his deception? If so, he's killing a lot of trees.
The BBC touches on those tasked to inform families that their loved ones have died overseas. It is sad that foreign papers have to confront the fact that our soldiers are dying for Bush. You're damn sure not going to find this on FAUXNews.
Bush even got criticized from high schoolers recently, who asked him to stop torturing people. He, of course, lied to them as well. No respect from the asshat. More here.
Bush compares success in Iraq to modeling it after Israel. That's one way to get the Sunnis and Shi'ites to agree on something, I guess.
Colin Powell is trying to establish some kind of legacy, reminding us that he actually tried to talk Bush out of going to war. That said, all we're going to remember is your evil Gunga-din impression, carrying Bush's water to the UN and lying for your boss (video).
And, strangely enough, he's still backing Bush, as recently as an interview this morning. Yeah, he tries to rehabilitate his image, but all you can really say is that he's loyal to a fault. It isn't enough Colin. Not with all the lives you helped end.
ThinkProgress has put up a timeline on how many times and in how many facets Bush has changed our military's mission in Iraq. No wonder they can't gain traction; the doofus keeps changing the rules.
A story on how the MidWest is dropping its support for the war, and another on an Army reservist trying to stop his fifth deployment. Maybe he wants his life back or something.
Benedict is quickly becoming a Psycho Pope, recently stating that Jesus founded only one true church (hint: it ain't the Baptists) and trying to strip away the Vatican II reforms and force priests to give the Latin mass just to appease the Catholic rapture bunnies.
More signs of the Apocalypse...or at least a contrast. British judges can stop wearing those horsehair wigs in anything but a criminal trial. And in Texas, a kid decided to take roadside poaching to a new level by shooting a zebra from a moving vehicle.
So, the first Hindu prayer in Congress happened yesterday...if you could hear it. Fundamentalists screamed over the prayer citing it as an "abomination." Look, you can apparently inbreed, teach your children hate, and train your young to be Abortion Bombers for Jesus, but you won't let a guy pray to God without molesting him and overriding his call to a higher power with your despicable behavior? In America? Get bent you pieces of crap.
Meanwhile, the Padres are having a free hat giveaway the same night they are allowing a gay pride night. Bill O'Reilly is still confused and thinks that gay people are pedophiles. Of course he's worried about the kids. Misguidedly, but there you go. Or maybe he just hates gay people that much.
Look, I take the time not to lump all conservatives with redneck snake handlers that screw their own children in the name of Hate Jesus. I'd like the same done by the other side. Pedophiles are sick pieces of shit that need wiped from the earth. Gay people are just...well, people.
Bush thinks that hitting none of 18 goals, but kinda doing okay on 8 (if you count us helping out a LOT) is what you call progress in Iraq. And by that link, even those eight "achievements" are false. Then he goes and blames anyone who doesn't want the war to go on forever as having "war fatigue." To be honest though, it is a step up from him calling us all traitors. Now we're just brain damaged. Like him.
Our last example of human excrement if Rudy Guiliani. NYC firefighters have apparently bitten their tongue these past few years. Now, with his star ascendant in the GOP, they are now saying that he called off the search for body recovery from the Twin Towers once the gold under the rubble was found. Seriously, *this* is what Republicans consider a class act.
After a nice Firehouse Sub, seriously find out if one is around you, the guys at work and I headed up to our local Kwik-E-Mart for some Buzz Cola, Squishees, and pink doughnuts.
Seriously, if you can find one near you, you must go. I know all 7-11s carry most of the Simpson's related food items, but the whole thing is part of the realm of the bizarre.
And damn was this one busy. Real busy.
One bad note. No Duff beer. Stupid PG-13 rating. D'oh!
I didn't catch much news while on vacation but I did catch CNN interviewing (video) the cockiest little bastich who helped detain the Glasgow chichken-sh!ts who couldn't even carry out a suicide bombing.
John Smeaton is my new hero and he might as well be your's as well.
There's a love-in site for him that has promised to buy him many, many beers at the airport Holiday Inn just down the road from the airport.
Here is probably the first interview with him since the incident. He's rough, coarse, and did what we all should do to bullies and fiends.
Hope they lay a stack of medals on the guy. He and the rest of those folks earned it.
I'm at work, tackling cases as they come and trying not to fit in a long day like I did yesterday. I have conjured up a few links of interest.
To start off, here's one that blames our snotty youth on Mr. Rogers and the parents that keep telling their punk idiot spawn that they are "special".
Another article on our culture dressing little girls as whores and why that is a bad thing. And what pisses me off is that people actually are cool with this for the most part.
I mean, I'm not a total prude, but since when was being a child a *bad* thing?
On the other side of free expression, an article on tattoos and the challenge of professional work.
FAUXNews has jumped on the British terrorist doctor incidents with all four feet. Their claim? Universal healthcare is a haven for creating terrorists.
Paul Krugman on how the Bushites ask much of their citizens and nothing of themselves.
Incidentally, our income gap is ever increasing.
Lost the main page of the site and got a pile of unknown files. Looks like the 4images photo gallery needed updated. Lovely.
I will probably move those photos over to Picasa and ditch that method in the near future.
Anyway, more secure passwords in place and hopefully I stay under the radar.
'Tis the internet. Damnit.
We're back home and will provide details and pics down the road.
Turns out not much happened while we were gone. Everyone is well and Las Vegas is still under construction, but that will never end.
On the political front, Bush is having sleepovers with KGB Colonel-Dictators and London is facing a threat of educated fundamentalist terrorists.
Howard Dean comments on Bush freeing Libby from any jail time, as does Bill Maher. The New York Times looks at the irony of Bush trumping the law to give his pal a break while trying to be tough on crime and Tony Snow tries to make outing a CIA agent a minor detail.
Keith Olbermann would rather just have Bush and Cheney resign. Which would likely be best for everyone. Even them.
That said, the most disturbing headline I saw today is this: U.S. heightens security for 4th of July. If that doesn't say more about the power of conservatives to scare us out of our freedom using psuedo-Muslim boogeymen, I don't know what does. Get out there and enjoy your freedom.
In our case, freedom has a high of 116 degrees and sunny.
For those staying inside on that news, NPR has a plethora of July 4th stories, including ones on the flag, a reading of the Declaration, and notes on the War for Independence.
