Dogmatyx was his name, he was half beagle and half Irish Wolfhound. And the strangest-looking puppy you ever saw, who grew into a very handsome adult. Smart as hell, friendly, protective, and could catch any critter silly or suicidal enough to get into the yard. Including a large turtle; he crunched up the shell to get to the chewy center(them Wolfhound jaws were something).
The last year or so he'd gotten creaky, but still got around pretty well, and son spent time with him when home on leave. Then a couple of days ago the ex notified me that he'd taken a real turn for the worse; I went over after work, and yeah, it was bad. So it was time. Preparations were made, and she found a vet who made house calls. That last being important because he was hurting enough I didn't want to have to move him any more than necessary.
So yesterday morning went over. Daughter had taken a couple of hours so she could be there as well, and we spent some time with him until the vet arrived. It went about as smoothly and peacefully as such a thing can. Then we buried him in the blue comforter he liked to snooze on.
Bye, guy.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Well, yeah, I think this wouldreduce the chances
of one of your ships being assailed by someone wanting to play modern-day Jack Sparrow.
Professor Amy Hagopian is enough to give rabid moonbats
a bad name:
A Seattle woman, who fought allowing military recruiters in local high schools, is the lead author of a report that compares the behaviors of recruiters with the behaviors of sexual predators.
...assistant professor with the University of Washington's Department of Global Health concludes military recruiters are a "threat to the health of adolescents."
Hagopian says, "A review of the medical literature suggests military service is associated with disproportionately poor health for young people. The youngest recruits have the greatest number of mental disorders in the U.S. military, including alcohol abuse, anxiety syndromes, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder."
You need a dose of pissed-off, go listen to the linked audio.
A Seattle woman, who fought allowing military recruiters in local high schools, is the lead author of a report that compares the behaviors of recruiters with the behaviors of sexual predators.
...assistant professor with the University of Washington's Department of Global Health concludes military recruiters are a "threat to the health of adolescents."
Hagopian says, "A review of the medical literature suggests military service is associated with disproportionately poor health for young people. The youngest recruits have the greatest number of mental disorders in the U.S. military, including alcohol abuse, anxiety syndromes, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder."
You need a dose of pissed-off, go listen to the linked audio.
Naw, not 'offensive' at all;
just a bit revealing of the truth, which some people don't want to deal with.
She and other family members say the student should not have been sent home.
“His story’s got to come out,” Harris said only moments after putting the teenager on the airplane. “There should have been a better way to handle this.”
The 15-year-old student is accused of writing “Death to Americans” in Arabic on a classroom board during a discussion with classmates.
Harris said the teenager wrote the words on the board when interacting with another foreign exchange student an American student during a class at the school.
The student’s father, Khaled Kasab Mahameed, said the phrase was not written as a threat or with any malicious intent.
Really? Generally, I'd having trouble believing that; then we get down near the end:
Mahameed’s son was studying at Niceville High as part of the Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES) through AYUSA Global Youth Exchange. YES was created in 2003 through a grant to AYUSA from the United Stated Department of State to “build bridges of understanding between the United States and countries with significant Muslim populations,” according to its website.
Mahameed said the message of understanding between cultures is one that his son has advocated, no matter how difficult for himself, since he was about nine years old. The teenager’s family members are Muslim Arab Palestinians forced, Mahameed said, to leave their homeland a generation ago. They now travel and teach other Muslims and Arabs about the Jews as they advocate a message of peace.
And with that the little red flags and warning whistles all went off.
'Forced' to leave their homeland? Teach other M and A 'about the Jews'?
Gee, why do I find it more difficult to believe, after reading this, that 'Death to Americans' didn't actually mean anything? Either there's a lot of the incident we don't know, or the bastards ought to all be thrown out of this country.
She and other family members say the student should not have been sent home.
“His story’s got to come out,” Harris said only moments after putting the teenager on the airplane. “There should have been a better way to handle this.”
The 15-year-old student is accused of writing “Death to Americans” in Arabic on a classroom board during a discussion with classmates.
Harris said the teenager wrote the words on the board when interacting with another foreign exchange student an American student during a class at the school.
The student’s father, Khaled Kasab Mahameed, said the phrase was not written as a threat or with any malicious intent.
Really? Generally, I'd having trouble believing that; then we get down near the end:
Mahameed’s son was studying at Niceville High as part of the Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES) through AYUSA Global Youth Exchange. YES was created in 2003 through a grant to AYUSA from the United Stated Department of State to “build bridges of understanding between the United States and countries with significant Muslim populations,” according to its website.
Mahameed said the message of understanding between cultures is one that his son has advocated, no matter how difficult for himself, since he was about nine years old. The teenager’s family members are Muslim Arab Palestinians forced, Mahameed said, to leave their homeland a generation ago. They now travel and teach other Muslims and Arabs about the Jews as they advocate a message of peace.
And with that the little red flags and warning whistles all went off.
'Forced' to leave their homeland? Teach other M and A 'about the Jews'?
Gee, why do I find it more difficult to believe, after reading this, that 'Death to Americans' didn't actually mean anything? Either there's a lot of the incident we don't know, or the bastards ought to all be thrown out of this country.
It constantly astounds me that people still try to minimize
just what an evil form of government communism has been.
Although the trials of former Soviet leaders were widely publicized, the hundreds of thousands of other arrests and executions were not. These became known in the west only as a few former gulag inmates reached the West with their stories. Not only did foreign correspondents from the West fail to report on the purges, but in many Western nations, especially France, attempts were made to silence or discredit these witnesses; Jean-Paul Sartre took the position that evidence of the camps should be ignored, in order that the French proletariat not be discouraged.
….
Efforts to minimize the extent of the Great Purge continue among revisionist scholars in the West.
….
According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 victims, of whom 681,692 were shot – an average of 1,000 executions a day (in comparison, the Tsarists executed 3,932 persons for political crimes from 1825 to 1910 – an average of less than 1 execution per week).
….
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, numerous mass graves filled with executed victims of the terror were discovered. Some, such as the killing fields at Kurapaty near Minsk and Bykivnia near Kiev, are believed to contain up to 200,000 corpses.
In 2007, one such site, the Butovo firing range near Moscow, was turned into a shrine to the victims of Stalinism. From August 1937 through October 1938, more than 20,000 people were shot and buried there.
Although the trials of former Soviet leaders were widely publicized, the hundreds of thousands of other arrests and executions were not. These became known in the west only as a few former gulag inmates reached the West with their stories. Not only did foreign correspondents from the West fail to report on the purges, but in many Western nations, especially France, attempts were made to silence or discredit these witnesses; Jean-Paul Sartre took the position that evidence of the camps should be ignored, in order that the French proletariat not be discouraged.
….
Efforts to minimize the extent of the Great Purge continue among revisionist scholars in the West.
….
According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 victims, of whom 681,692 were shot – an average of 1,000 executions a day (in comparison, the Tsarists executed 3,932 persons for political crimes from 1825 to 1910 – an average of less than 1 execution per week).
….
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, numerous mass graves filled with executed victims of the terror were discovered. Some, such as the killing fields at Kurapaty near Minsk and Bykivnia near Kiev, are believed to contain up to 200,000 corpses.
In 2007, one such site, the Butovo firing range near Moscow, was turned into a shrine to the victims of Stalinism. From August 1937 through October 1938, more than 20,000 people were shot and buried there.
Friday, December 03, 2010
I can't remember where I first heard the "Jews are the canaries
in the coal mine" analogy; it still seems to hold true. And Venezuela is a very gassy mine right now.
Jewish community leaders told PolCouns the Venezuelan government's (GBRV's) attacks and "double-talk," constant criticism of Israel, growing alliance with Iran, and increasing limitations on freedom of speech contribute to a heightened sense of vulnerability by the Jewish community. ...
...
XXXXXXXXXXXX said "2004 was a turning point in Venezuela," when Chavez began referring to support of certain Jewish leaders for the 2002 post-coup government as justification for verbal and physical attacks against the Jewish community and synagogues.
XXXXXXXXXXXX said anti-Semitic programs and articles have been regular features of government-owned media since 2004, and "international anti-Jewish campaigns have been tailored for use domestically." XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized that the anti-Semitism is "government-sponsored." He noted that Emilio Silva, the author of a January 20 article on the government website aporrea.org which called for violent demonstrations at the Tiferet synagogue just 10 days before the synagogue was attacked, is still teaching at the pro-government Bolivarian University of Venezuela.
If they're counting on the Obama administration for help, they're in worse trouble than they may believe; Obama & Co. have spent too much time sucking up to Thug Chavez and Iran and crapping on Israel for Jews to have any real confidence in him.
Take a look at all that Chavez has done, and run it through Huffman's Jews in the Attic test; you won't like the result.
Jewish community leaders told PolCouns the Venezuelan government's (GBRV's) attacks and "double-talk," constant criticism of Israel, growing alliance with Iran, and increasing limitations on freedom of speech contribute to a heightened sense of vulnerability by the Jewish community. ...
...
XXXXXXXXXXXX said "2004 was a turning point in Venezuela," when Chavez began referring to support of certain Jewish leaders for the 2002 post-coup government as justification for verbal and physical attacks against the Jewish community and synagogues.
XXXXXXXXXXXX said anti-Semitic programs and articles have been regular features of government-owned media since 2004, and "international anti-Jewish campaigns have been tailored for use domestically." XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized that the anti-Semitism is "government-sponsored." He noted that Emilio Silva, the author of a January 20 article on the government website aporrea.org which called for violent demonstrations at the Tiferet synagogue just 10 days before the synagogue was attacked, is still teaching at the pro-government Bolivarian University of Venezuela.
If they're counting on the Obama administration for help, they're in worse trouble than they may believe; Obama & Co. have spent too much time sucking up to Thug Chavez and Iran and crapping on Israel for Jews to have any real confidence in him.
Take a look at all that Chavez has done, and run it through Huffman's Jews in the Attic test; you won't like the result.
Work all night, then a very necessary and unpleasant duty this morning:
son's dog had to be put down.
Just doesn't seem to get any easier.
Just doesn't seem to get any easier.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
For your morning collection,(which was the evening collection
that somehow didn't get published last night)
Breakables and RCOB warning in effect: the TSA dirtbags involved should all be fired. Period. And I can only wish there were some way to prosecute the bastards. There is absolutely no excuse- none- for this kind of 'pulling rules out of your ass', let alone what they did to this woman.
Corrupt, vile, highly partisan Sen. Chris Friend of Angelo Dodd says the Senate is too partisan. Screw you, you disgusting piece of crap; you cheated, you lied, you attacked people and now you want to make teary-eyed speeches when you've been thrown out. Just leave, and improve the moral tone of the place.
Your gasoline, heating oil and natural gas costs go up? Thank Obama, the lying little shit.
Wednesday, the Interior Department said it would not propose oil exploration off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines or the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years.
But unlike the late March announcement when President Barack Obama took to the podium to embrace domestic energy production and call for bipartisan support in Congress, Wednesday’s declaration came with little fanfare - a press release and a phone call with reporters by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Because he doesn't have the balls to come out and say it himself.
Hey, Carville, you helped get him in office and now he's screwing Louisiana; hope you like the result of your work.
So, after all the "We have to save our economy!" crap, it turns out FOREIGN banks got billions at 'favourable terms' in the bank bailout. Hard to make a list of all the people who need hanging over this crap.
Rep. Charles Rangel(Corrupt Dirtbag-NY), seems it wasn't that 'he couldn't afford a lawyer':
Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel bailed out on his House ethics trial just as committee lawyers were preparing to call a parade of corporate bigwigs who would testify about his fund-raising tactics, new committee documents reveal.
Lawyers were planning to challenge Rangel with a conga line of corporate officials who would testify about his pitches for multimillion-dollar contributions to the Rangel Center for public affairs at CCNY -- among them Donald Trump, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Hank Greenberg, CEO of C.V. Starr & Co.
Ethics lawyers also planned to call top lobbyists for AIG, NY Life, and Verizon, according to an Oct. 22 letter from the committee to Rangel.
So add chickenshit to corrupt.
Warren Buffet, you are cordially invited to kiss my ass, you hypocritical son of a bitch.
The report highlights the contrast between the public perception of estate tax proponents as fighting to break up wealthy, almost oligarchic families and the reality that a key force behind the tax is an industry for which ten percent of its revenues depend on maintaining the status quo.
One of the most outspoken voices urging a higher estate tax, Warren Buffet, owns six life insurance companies, the report says.
Soon-to-be-former governor Ted Strickland(NSD-OH)joins the "We just don't explain in the right way how wonderful we are" group.
But his frustration was evident as the discussion progressed. Talking, unprompted, about the debate over the expiring Bush tax cuts, Strickland said he was dumbfounded at the party's inability to sell the idea that the rates for the wealthy should be allowed to expire.
"I mean, if we can't win that argument we might as well just fold up," he said. "These people are saying we are going to insist on tax cuts for the richest people in the country and we don't care if they are paid for, and we don't think it is a problem if it contributes to the deficit, but we are not going to vote to extend unemployment benefits to working people if they aren't paid for because they contribute to the deficit. I mean, what is wrong with that? How can it be more clear?"
Please note, he says that continuing the CURRENT TAX RATES is a cut 'that has to be paid for', miserable little bastard that he is. And, soon-to-be-former Governor Strickland, despite your wishes we CANNOT AFFORD TO MAY UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS PERMANENT; I notice you don't seem to have any problem with THAT not being paid for.
Damn. Are there ANY actual professional law-enforcement officers in Nevada who'll do their damned job right?
Kilgore College President Bill Holda isn't just a liar; he's a user of biased information. And a liar again.
Well, Nanny of the Month is OKC Mayor Mick Cornett
Apparently his paymasters didn't like the idea. And no, I don't mean the taxpayers.
Thanks to Theo for finding this
And now it's been a LOOONG night and I have an unpleasant duty to perform before I can rest, so I'll leave you with this:
"You give me the memory card, you get the tripod back"
Breakables and RCOB warning in effect: the TSA dirtbags involved should all be fired. Period. And I can only wish there were some way to prosecute the bastards. There is absolutely no excuse- none- for this kind of 'pulling rules out of your ass', let alone what they did to this woman.
Corrupt, vile, highly partisan Sen. Chris Friend of Angelo Dodd says the Senate is too partisan. Screw you, you disgusting piece of crap; you cheated, you lied, you attacked people and now you want to make teary-eyed speeches when you've been thrown out. Just leave, and improve the moral tone of the place.
Your gasoline, heating oil and natural gas costs go up? Thank Obama, the lying little shit.
Wednesday, the Interior Department said it would not propose oil exploration off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines or the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years.
But unlike the late March announcement when President Barack Obama took to the podium to embrace domestic energy production and call for bipartisan support in Congress, Wednesday’s declaration came with little fanfare - a press release and a phone call with reporters by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
Because he doesn't have the balls to come out and say it himself.
Hey, Carville, you helped get him in office and now he's screwing Louisiana; hope you like the result of your work.
So, after all the "We have to save our economy!" crap, it turns out FOREIGN banks got billions at 'favourable terms' in the bank bailout. Hard to make a list of all the people who need hanging over this crap.
Rep. Charles Rangel(Corrupt Dirtbag-NY), seems it wasn't that 'he couldn't afford a lawyer':
Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel bailed out on his House ethics trial just as committee lawyers were preparing to call a parade of corporate bigwigs who would testify about his fund-raising tactics, new committee documents reveal.
Lawyers were planning to challenge Rangel with a conga line of corporate officials who would testify about his pitches for multimillion-dollar contributions to the Rangel Center for public affairs at CCNY -- among them Donald Trump, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Hank Greenberg, CEO of C.V. Starr & Co.
Ethics lawyers also planned to call top lobbyists for AIG, NY Life, and Verizon, according to an Oct. 22 letter from the committee to Rangel.
So add chickenshit to corrupt.
Warren Buffet, you are cordially invited to kiss my ass, you hypocritical son of a bitch.
The report highlights the contrast between the public perception of estate tax proponents as fighting to break up wealthy, almost oligarchic families and the reality that a key force behind the tax is an industry for which ten percent of its revenues depend on maintaining the status quo.
One of the most outspoken voices urging a higher estate tax, Warren Buffet, owns six life insurance companies, the report says.
Soon-to-be-former governor Ted Strickland(NSD-OH)joins the "We just don't explain in the right way how wonderful we are" group.
But his frustration was evident as the discussion progressed. Talking, unprompted, about the debate over the expiring Bush tax cuts, Strickland said he was dumbfounded at the party's inability to sell the idea that the rates for the wealthy should be allowed to expire.
"I mean, if we can't win that argument we might as well just fold up," he said. "These people are saying we are going to insist on tax cuts for the richest people in the country and we don't care if they are paid for, and we don't think it is a problem if it contributes to the deficit, but we are not going to vote to extend unemployment benefits to working people if they aren't paid for because they contribute to the deficit. I mean, what is wrong with that? How can it be more clear?"
Please note, he says that continuing the CURRENT TAX RATES is a cut 'that has to be paid for', miserable little bastard that he is. And, soon-to-be-former Governor Strickland, despite your wishes we CANNOT AFFORD TO MAY UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS PERMANENT; I notice you don't seem to have any problem with THAT not being paid for.
Damn. Are there ANY actual professional law-enforcement officers in Nevada who'll do their damned job right?
Kilgore College President Bill Holda isn't just a liar; he's a user of biased information. And a liar again.
Well, Nanny of the Month is OKC Mayor Mick Cornett
Apparently his paymasters didn't like the idea. And no, I don't mean the taxpayers.
Thanks to Theo for finding this
And now it's been a LOOONG night and I have an unpleasant duty to perform before I can rest, so I'll leave you with this:
"You give me the memory card, you get the tripod back"
Hey, Amazon, why are you doing this? Updated
”ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- An Issaquah grandmother of two American soldiers said she's outraged at Amazon for providing web hosting to WikiLeaks, the organization that has leaked thousands of classified government documents. Nadine Gulit had two grandsons deploy to Iraq and founded Operation Support Our Troops. She isn't very diplomatic about Amazon helping out WikiLeaks. "That shocked me and it surprises me that Amazon went that route," she said.”
For the first time, I've noticed that there doesn't appear to be a simple 'contact us for questions' link at Amazon, so I can't figure out how to contact them to ask "What's up with this?"
Update: Ace says Amazon kicked Wiki to the curb. And effing Joe Lieberman is taking credit for it. Yeah. All those paying customers and other interested people had NOTHING to do with it...
For the first time, I've noticed that there doesn't appear to be a simple 'contact us for questions' link at Amazon, so I can't figure out how to contact them to ask "What's up with this?"
Update: Ace says Amazon kicked Wiki to the curb. And effing Joe Lieberman is taking credit for it. Yeah. All those paying customers and other interested people had NOTHING to do with it...
I haven't mentioned a preacher named Jim Wallis before
for some reason, probably because he's such a disgusting bastard. If you haven't heard of him, this is a clown who had this to say:
In a January 13, 2006 radio interview with Interfaith Voices, Wallis was asked, "Are you then calling for the redistribution of wealth in society?" He replied, "Absolutely, without any hesitation. That's what the gospel is all about."
and then, when Glenn Beck played the quote and talked about him, he accused Beck of lying about him, etc. As in "Don't believe the actual recordings of me, Beck is a liar!" Usually in a calm, "Look into my eyes and believe me" voice. Not a very pleasant guy, and a hard-line communist:
Following the 1979 refugee crisis in Vietnam, Wallis lashed out at the desperate masses fleeing North Vietnam's communist forces by boat. These refugees, as Wallis saw it, had been "inoculated" by capitalist influences during the war and were absconding "to support their consumer habit in other lands." Wallis then admonished critics against pointing to the boat people to "discredit" the righteousness of Vietnam's newly victorious Communist regime.
In 1979, Time magazine hailed Wallis as one of the "50 Faces for America's Future." That same year, the journal Mission Tracks published an interview with Wallis, in which the activist evangelical expressed his hope that "more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes."
What brought this up today is I just read this:
“There wouldn't be a tea party if there wasn't a black man in the White House.:
Yep. If you're a tea part member, you're a racist because that's the ONLY reason you'd oppose Obama and the NSDemocrats. Sure. Right.
I think this 'preacher' needs to revisit that 'don't bear false witness' part of things. Along with explaining how Jesus supposedly said it's a good thing to rob somebody and give his work away.
In a January 13, 2006 radio interview with Interfaith Voices, Wallis was asked, "Are you then calling for the redistribution of wealth in society?" He replied, "Absolutely, without any hesitation. That's what the gospel is all about."
and then, when Glenn Beck played the quote and talked about him, he accused Beck of lying about him, etc. As in "Don't believe the actual recordings of me, Beck is a liar!" Usually in a calm, "Look into my eyes and believe me" voice. Not a very pleasant guy, and a hard-line communist:
Following the 1979 refugee crisis in Vietnam, Wallis lashed out at the desperate masses fleeing North Vietnam's communist forces by boat. These refugees, as Wallis saw it, had been "inoculated" by capitalist influences during the war and were absconding "to support their consumer habit in other lands." Wallis then admonished critics against pointing to the boat people to "discredit" the righteousness of Vietnam's newly victorious Communist regime.
In 1979, Time magazine hailed Wallis as one of the "50 Faces for America's Future." That same year, the journal Mission Tracks published an interview with Wallis, in which the activist evangelical expressed his hope that "more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes."
What brought this up today is I just read this:
“There wouldn't be a tea party if there wasn't a black man in the White House.:
Yep. If you're a tea part member, you're a racist because that's the ONLY reason you'd oppose Obama and the NSDemocrats. Sure. Right.
I think this 'preacher' needs to revisit that 'don't bear false witness' part of things. Along with explaining how Jesus supposedly said it's a good thing to rob somebody and give his work away.
Back to Amtrack, you can now ship a firearm BUT
To transport a gun, passengers must notify Amtrak at least 24 hours before their departure. The gun must be stored unloaded in a locked, hard-sided container, the guidelines say.
So Joe Biden's pet money pit is still more restrictive about transporting firearms than airlines are. Just like Biden wants it, I have no doubt
So Joe Biden's pet money pit is still more restrictive about transporting firearms than airlines are. Just like Biden wants it, I have no doubt
Well, this explains some of the garbage that's come out about Rep. Kris Steele
First off, this Steele fellow is a RINO. The liberal Republican legislator has a cumulative score of 62 (out of a possible 100) on the Oklahoma Constitution’s legislative scorecard for 2010. Steele is also the associate minister of that Wesley United Methodist church. He’s the homeboy at the home church.
Second, Pastor Hewett is quite the devotee of trendy leftist causes. In his oration, Rev. Hewett used his opportunity to offer God a mea culpa for the Trail of Tears: “ … we know some came by forced relocations, against their will. To those we say, ‘We’re sorry for what our foreparents did to your forebears’ … ”
Regarding immigration: “Lord, God, we know that in this our land, some dwell and work, but it has yet to become their land. They’re aliens in our midst; give wisdom and sensitivity to circumstances and compassion to our legislators for these who labor and live among us without appropriate authorization. Lord, God, may Oklahoma become a model for our nation of just, fair, and functional policies of immigration.”
Let's see, apologizing for other people for things they didn't do, check... 'be nice to illegal aliens(like calling them 'undocumented'), check...
Fourth, KTOK newsradio reported that several legislators were “upset” by the invocation but didn’t want to go on the record to the media outlet, just yet, “for fear of retaliation by Speaker Steele in making his House committee assignments …” Hmm. If true, that a) is kinda spineless of these lawmakers, and b) doesn’t make Associate Minister Steele sound like a turn-the-other-cheek sort of Christian. But, if true, it’s also pretty good reporting on KTOK’s part.
Vindictive toward people who don't fall into line, check(spineless politicians, check but on a different list). Just bleepin' wonderful, isn't it?
Speaking of dirtbag politicians,
The Oklahoman reports today that Senator Harry Coates, Tecumseh Republican, and a now-pregnant lobbyist who are having a romantic affair worked together to steer a lucrative state contract toward a private company that had hired the lobbyist.
"The wife of Sen. Harry Coates said Monday her husband has told her he is having an affair with lobbyist Haley Atwood," the newspaper's John Estus and Ann Kelley reported. "Atwood, 29, who didn't deny the affair with Coates, 60, also is married. State officials last week announced plans to award a $10 million-a-year state contract for a new juvenile center to the Ada Youth Academy Authority, which has selected a private operator, Rite of Passage, to run the new center. Rite of Passage earlier this year hired Atwood for consulting work."
These crooks need to be investigated for possible criminal actions. Coates, you're a disgrace.
Second, Pastor Hewett is quite the devotee of trendy leftist causes. In his oration, Rev. Hewett used his opportunity to offer God a mea culpa for the Trail of Tears: “ … we know some came by forced relocations, against their will. To those we say, ‘We’re sorry for what our foreparents did to your forebears’ … ”
Regarding immigration: “Lord, God, we know that in this our land, some dwell and work, but it has yet to become their land. They’re aliens in our midst; give wisdom and sensitivity to circumstances and compassion to our legislators for these who labor and live among us without appropriate authorization. Lord, God, may Oklahoma become a model for our nation of just, fair, and functional policies of immigration.”
Let's see, apologizing for other people for things they didn't do, check... 'be nice to illegal aliens(like calling them 'undocumented'), check...
Fourth, KTOK newsradio reported that several legislators were “upset” by the invocation but didn’t want to go on the record to the media outlet, just yet, “for fear of retaliation by Speaker Steele in making his House committee assignments …” Hmm. If true, that a) is kinda spineless of these lawmakers, and b) doesn’t make Associate Minister Steele sound like a turn-the-other-cheek sort of Christian. But, if true, it’s also pretty good reporting on KTOK’s part.
Vindictive toward people who don't fall into line, check(spineless politicians, check but on a different list). Just bleepin' wonderful, isn't it?
Speaking of dirtbag politicians,
The Oklahoman reports today that Senator Harry Coates, Tecumseh Republican, and a now-pregnant lobbyist who are having a romantic affair worked together to steer a lucrative state contract toward a private company that had hired the lobbyist.
"The wife of Sen. Harry Coates said Monday her husband has told her he is having an affair with lobbyist Haley Atwood," the newspaper's John Estus and Ann Kelley reported. "Atwood, 29, who didn't deny the affair with Coates, 60, also is married. State officials last week announced plans to award a $10 million-a-year state contract for a new juvenile center to the Ada Youth Academy Authority, which has selected a private operator, Rite of Passage, to run the new center. Rite of Passage earlier this year hired Atwood for consulting work."
These crooks need to be investigated for possible criminal actions. Coates, you're a disgrace.
I have to wonder if the title of this piece describes why Obama
may actually want to do something about Wikileaks now: Why Wikileaks Is Bad For Progressive Foreign Policy. Wonderful, huh? In case you have any doubts of the direction,
Undermining Progressive Policies and Frameworks
In my day job this week, I’m thinking tactically about the leaks’ effects on the issues of immediate concern to me: ratifying the START Treaty and promoting effective diplomacy to deal with Iran, while inching our way toward lasting peace in the Middle East and away from an endless military quagmire(had to throw that in, right?)in Afghanistan.
But underlying all those discrete policy positions is a common set of assumptions and values: that we live in a complex world where posturing, rigid ideology, and indiscriminate use of force will not get us, as a society or a global commons, to where we need to go; that quiet talk is much more effective than loud threats; that, in the long run, America’s national interests will be best served if we see and act on them as inextricably linked with the interests of others.
Etc.
Author says he used to work at the State Department; no wonder things are so screwed up over there.
Undermining Progressive Policies and Frameworks
In my day job this week, I’m thinking tactically about the leaks’ effects on the issues of immediate concern to me: ratifying the START Treaty and promoting effective diplomacy to deal with Iran, while inching our way toward lasting peace in the Middle East and away from an endless military quagmire(had to throw that in, right?)in Afghanistan.
But underlying all those discrete policy positions is a common set of assumptions and values: that we live in a complex world where posturing, rigid ideology, and indiscriminate use of force will not get us, as a society or a global commons, to where we need to go; that quiet talk is much more effective than loud threats; that, in the long run, America’s national interests will be best served if we see and act on them as inextricably linked with the interests of others.
Etc.
Author says he used to work at the State Department; no wonder things are so screwed up over there.
There was a comment that showed up in my 'Hobbit' post
that for some reason never published. Short version, I'm a fool who should read 'The Hobbit' before speaking, apologize, etc.
Guy, it's been a long time but I have read it; I'm aware of different-shaded hobbits(matter of fact, there's a bit on it in the article, remember?), and it makes no difference. When someone doesn't fit what the job is looking for, to start bitching about Discrimination! and RACISM!! is bullcrap. A Facebook page to gripe about it, yet!
So no, I'm not apologizing. I'm sick of this kind of nonsense. I also found this over at SondraK; maybe I'm getting too cynical, but I tend to think the last two paragraphs in the linked article may well cover the real reason behind this crap.
Guy, it's been a long time but I have read it; I'm aware of different-shaded hobbits(matter of fact, there's a bit on it in the article, remember?), and it makes no difference. When someone doesn't fit what the job is looking for, to start bitching about Discrimination! and RACISM!! is bullcrap. A Facebook page to gripe about it, yet!
So no, I'm not apologizing. I'm sick of this kind of nonsense. I also found this over at SondraK; maybe I'm getting too cynical, but I tend to think the last two paragraphs in the linked article may well cover the real reason behind this crap.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
You know, there really should be a "I don't care what your job is, (link fixed)
your ass is fired as of NOW" action that can be taken.
4-year-old Ryan Thomas is developmentally disabled as a result of being 16 weeks premature and has to wear corrective braces. His ankles are malformed and his legs have little or no muscle tone. He only just learned how to walk, briefly, on his own, according to thePhiladelphia Inquirer.
But that didn't seem to matter to the Transportation Security Administration screeners at Philadelphia International airport.
...
The screener replied that the boy would have to take the braces off and walk through the detector again. When Leona Thomas attempted to walk with Ryan she was told he would have to do it alone.
She tried, calmly, to explain that Ryan could barely walk with the braces, let alone without them, but the compassionless screener was deaf to her pleas, according to the newspaper.
Read it. Breakables warning in effect. Especially with this:
The Thomases eventually complied and Ryan made it through on his own, but Bob immediately asked for a supervisor. The supervisor was less than sympathetic and stood by the screener's actions. A fellow police officer even told Bob Thomas to drop it and go enjoy his vacation.
Yeah, because abusing a disabled kid is no big deal for the vigilant 0rder-following bastards of the Totally Shithead Assholes brigade. And the clowns with badges who support them.
This is at the end:
But Bob Thomas didn't forget and after his trip he called the airport manager. Eventually, with help from Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Daniel Rubin, the TSA finally responded to the incident saying that the boy never should have had to remove his braces and they would be looking into what went wrong that day in March.
Note the 'with help from the Inquirer columnist' part; why the HELL would it take getting a newspaper involved to get the jackasses in charge of that office to 'respond' to this?
'They'll be looking into it'. Yeah. I'm sure they will. Right.
4-year-old Ryan Thomas is developmentally disabled as a result of being 16 weeks premature and has to wear corrective braces. His ankles are malformed and his legs have little or no muscle tone. He only just learned how to walk, briefly, on his own, according to thePhiladelphia Inquirer.
But that didn't seem to matter to the Transportation Security Administration screeners at Philadelphia International airport.
...
The screener replied that the boy would have to take the braces off and walk through the detector again. When Leona Thomas attempted to walk with Ryan she was told he would have to do it alone.
She tried, calmly, to explain that Ryan could barely walk with the braces, let alone without them, but the compassionless screener was deaf to her pleas, according to the newspaper.
Read it. Breakables warning in effect. Especially with this:
The Thomases eventually complied and Ryan made it through on his own, but Bob immediately asked for a supervisor. The supervisor was less than sympathetic and stood by the screener's actions. A fellow police officer even told Bob Thomas to drop it and go enjoy his vacation.
Yeah, because abusing a disabled kid is no big deal for the vigilant 0rder-following bastards of the Totally Shithead Assholes brigade. And the clowns with badges who support them.
This is at the end:
But Bob Thomas didn't forget and after his trip he called the airport manager. Eventually, with help from Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Daniel Rubin, the TSA finally responded to the incident saying that the boy never should have had to remove his braces and they would be looking into what went wrong that day in March.
Note the 'with help from the Inquirer columnist' part; why the HELL would it take getting a newspaper involved to get the jackasses in charge of that office to 'respond' to this?
'They'll be looking into it'. Yeah. I'm sure they will. Right.
One of the reasons you could not pay me to go to New Jersey
It's filled with idiots and gun bigots like Joel Bewley and Judge Morley. And some serious idiots wearing badges.
And Bryan Miller, who is a dirtbag of the first order.
And Bryan Miller, who is a dirtbag of the first order.
One reason J.M. Browning still inspires reverence
You don't need any tools to detail-strip the 1911 except itself.
Thanks to Uncle for pointing to this
Thanks to Uncle for pointing to this
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