And you're right. As he was examining me, ol' doc registered a look of surprise (something you never want to see on your doc's face, let me tell you) and said...
"When did you get the hernia?"
I, being as quick as a cat in the thinking department, replied "What?"
Go read the whole story; it's worth it
Saturday, February 06, 2010
I agree with Swampy
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * TIMING: RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN MIXING WITH SNOW EARLY MONDAY AND CHANGE TO ALL SNOW BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE SNOW MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO END BY MONDAY EVENING. * MAIN IMPACT: WIDESPREAD SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE AND ISOLATED HIGHER TOTALS MAY OCCUR NEAR AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE-40. THIS WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON TRAVEL AND COMMERCE. * OTHER IMPACTS: NORTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE ON MONDAY... LEADING TO SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW. THIS MAY RESULT IN WHITE-OUT CONDITIONS FOR A TIME MONDAY AFTERNOON.
Sen. Richard Shelby(Stupid Party & Greedy-AL),
the kind of Republican who helped get Obama elected.
Earmarks and pork and legislative bribes; What We Already Have Far Too Much Of.
Earmarks and pork and legislative bribes; What We Already Have Far Too Much Of.
"I'm not going to take away your guns! I don't have the votes!
(so I'll do it in other ways)
Damn these people. Personal ideology above all, including stopping terrorist threats.
Damn these people. Personal ideology above all, including stopping terrorist threats.
It seems that being a honest, fair and hard-working ATF agent
is like being that kind of cop in New Orleans; dangerous and disgusting.
I'd read about this case before; as I recall most of the serious charges brought due to the agent getting into Hell's Angels were dropped or thrown out because of the prosecutors and agency brass effing up the cases. And now they seem determined to prove that in their eyes the worst thing you can do is trust the agency brass.
I'd read about this case before; as I recall most of the serious charges brought due to the agent getting into Hell's Angels were dropped or thrown out because of the prosecutors and agency brass effing up the cases. And now they seem determined to prove that in their eyes the worst thing you can do is trust the agency brass.
And here's a damn good reason to tell Levi Strauss company
to go to hell.
Reader "Barney B" sent me copies of his email correspondence with the clothing giant. I'll give you the CliffsNotes version, from their corporate "consumer relations" reply:
Oh, yeah--they're the international citizen disarmament zealots who are conjoined with IANSA to stump for a global gun grab.
Levi's really hit the trifecta here: 'social justice', 'corporate citizenship' and 'Let's ban guns!'
Some years back I wrote to them when I heard about their involvement in PAX, their big thing at the time being "For the children, we need to ban guns because of school violence!" I pointed out that fists, feet, clubs and knives were used far more often than guns in crimes in school, so why weren't the primarily worried about those? Reply boiled down to "We're worried about all violence, but especially that caused by those nasty guns." Which caused me to formulate my General Rule of Semi-Non-Violence Idiocy: Some kid getting strangled, beaten or stabbed to death in a school isn't NEARLY as important as something the weenies can use to attack gun ownership, because for a lot of them that's the real goal.
And I haven't bought anything Levi's since.
Reader "Barney B" sent me copies of his email correspondence with the clothing giant. I'll give you the CliffsNotes version, from their corporate "consumer relations" reply:
Levi Strauss & Co. believes deeply in the importance of equality, social justice, community involvement and corporate citizenship.
Here's one of the ways they manifest their deep beliefs:
OXFAM? Where have I heard about them before?In this time of need, we encourage you to give what you can at www.oxfamamerica.org.
Oh, yeah--they're the international citizen disarmament zealots who are conjoined with IANSA to stump for a global gun grab.
Levi's really hit the trifecta here: 'social justice', 'corporate citizenship' and 'Let's ban guns!'
Some years back I wrote to them when I heard about their involvement in PAX, their big thing at the time being "For the children, we need to ban guns because of school violence!" I pointed out that fists, feet, clubs and knives were used far more often than guns in crimes in school, so why weren't the primarily worried about those? Reply boiled down to "We're worried about all violence, but especially that caused by those nasty guns." Which caused me to formulate my General Rule of Semi-Non-Violence Idiocy: Some kid getting strangled, beaten or stabbed to death in a school isn't NEARLY as important as something the weenies can use to attack gun ownership, because for a lot of them that's the real goal.
And I haven't bought anything Levi's since.
Also pointed to by Codrea, why the hell does the Collin County DA
spending a bunch of money on a personal SWAT team? Is this shit now just a prestige item("How can I face the other DAs at the next convention if I'm the only one who doesn't have one?") or has the level of stupid and availability of money just led to this?
And is he going to be personally responsible for any deaths, injuries and property damage they cause?
And is he going to be personally responsible for any deaths, injuries and property damage they cause?
Well, here's something that has the possibility of biting someone in the ass
Oklahoma has a new law that makes it a crime to “fortify” a citizen’s home against possible entry by law enforcement.
State Rep. Sue Tibbs was one of the sponsors of a bill that makes it unlawful for “any person to willfully fortify an access point into any dwelling, structure, building or other place where a felony offense prohibited by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed, or attempted, and the fortification is for the purpose of preventing or delaying entry or access by a law enforcement officer, or to harm or injure a law enforcement officer in the performance of official duties.”
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The law states that to “fortify an access point” means to willfully construct, install, position, use or hold any material or device designed to injure a person upon entry or to strengthen, defend, restrict or obstruct any door, window or other opening into a dwelling, structure, building or other place to any extent beyond the security provided by a commercial alarm system, lock or deadbolt, or a combination of alarm, lock or deadbolt.
I understand the idea, though I think it's unnecessary; it's not like this is going to bother someone who's cooking meth or whatever. My concern is that some prosecutor is going to decide to use this against someone charged with something else because they had done something to make their home more secure.
State Rep. Sue Tibbs was one of the sponsors of a bill that makes it unlawful for “any person to willfully fortify an access point into any dwelling, structure, building or other place where a felony offense prohibited by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed, or attempted, and the fortification is for the purpose of preventing or delaying entry or access by a law enforcement officer, or to harm or injure a law enforcement officer in the performance of official duties.”
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The law states that to “fortify an access point” means to willfully construct, install, position, use or hold any material or device designed to injure a person upon entry or to strengthen, defend, restrict or obstruct any door, window or other opening into a dwelling, structure, building or other place to any extent beyond the security provided by a commercial alarm system, lock or deadbolt, or a combination of alarm, lock or deadbolt.
I understand the idea, though I think it's unnecessary; it's not like this is going to bother someone who's cooking meth or whatever. My concern is that some prosecutor is going to decide to use this against someone charged with something else because they had done something to make their home more secure.
Looks like Iran could get downright messy
It looks like February 11th will be the most violent confrontation to date. The regime is taking unusual measures to put down the promised demonstrations. In many ways it resembles the “Chinese solution.” First, an unprecedented mobilization: 120 trains and something like a thousand buses have been deployed from as far away as 250 kilometers from the capital. They will be used by the Revolutionary Guards and Basij to bring tens of thousands of paid “volunteers” to Tehran. These will consist of entire families (dependent on the regime) to counter the Green Wave. Each family gets $80 for the day, plus free food. The regime is aiming at 300,000 thugs in the streets. The Greens don’t think the numbers will be that high, and in any event they expect ten times that number of protesters, upwards of three million increasingly angry people, demanding freedom and justice.
I shall now borrow, among others, from Denny
on the subject of Canadian health care:
Here's the deal. Ronald Reagan once pointed out that people voted with their feet. They went to where the best jobs are and where the living is better. That's why people are leaving Mexifornia and migrating to places like Texas. Texas is due to pick up four congresssional seats after the 2010 census. Georgia is gonna pick up at least one. People are leaving high tax and dying states like Michigan. Way to go unions!
Either it couldn't, or the rules they follow would've delayed it so long he'd have died, probably; and deity knows they don't want to admit either one.
So the Chinese have figured out the IPCC is not worth trusting; maybe someday our media will start reporting this stuff fully.
Speaking of which, Insty pointed to this: two feet of globular warming expected. And here in Oklahoma they're predicting ANOTHER round on snow on Monday; this has been the worst winter, snow and ice-wise, I can remember in a LONG time. Somebody find Algore, we need to either lock him up somewhere or he can join the defenestration queue with the tax weenies.
When Sen. Gillibrand(Evil Party Backstabber-NY) decided to stab the people in her home district in the back, she really went to a big knife, didn't she?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will make a joint appearance at a forum next month with controversial lawyer Van Jones, who left the Obama administration last year amid outrage over his past remarks about 9/11.
Question becomes, did this slip past her puppetmaster Schumer, or did he think it was a good idea?
Keith Olbermann: devoid of fact, and nearly of viewers.
Well, well, Starbucks refused to roll over for the Brady Coalition to Ban Guns; good for Starbucks. And Peets Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen? If I lived there, you would've lost my business for this PC idiocy of yours.
To the EffingBI: screw you, you little statist thugs. It's none of your damned business what websites I look at, unless you have gotten a legal warrant to dig into it. One thing we do NOT need is another massive invasion of privacy by you people with the standard excuse "It's for the CHILDREN!" You wanting to force this record keeping so you can go on fishing expeditions? Screw you.
Well, here's a good reason to stay out of Omaha. Let's see, a "We'll do it no matter what state law says" prosecutor, a "I want to know what you own" police chief... Not a place I'd want to spend money.
Charles Johnson: wonderful little bastard, isn't he?
Jeez. And in most of Europe, owning arms for self-defense is highly discouraged... an awful lot of Jews must be getting pretty nervous over this crap.
McChrystal says things have improved; hope so, and hope it continues.
Wow, MSNBC slants the news and The Obama is full of crap; whoda thunk it?
Well, lots of whores don't like being called what they are, Landrieu, deal with it.
Now if you'll excuse me, got some running around to do
Here's the deal. Ronald Reagan once pointed out that people voted with their feet. They went to where the best jobs are and where the living is better. That's why people are leaving Mexifornia and migrating to places like Texas. Texas is due to pick up four congresssional seats after the 2010 census. Georgia is gonna pick up at least one. People are leaving high tax and dying states like Michigan. Way to go unions!
But I digress. That's a rant for another day.
Mr. Williams' decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada's health-care system.
He knows that the Canadian system is not as good as ours.
"It was never an option offered to him to have this procedure done in this province," said Ms. Dunderdale, refusing to answer whether the procedure could be done elsewhere in Canada.Either it couldn't, or the rules they follow would've delayed it so long he'd have died, probably; and deity knows they don't want to admit either one.
So the Chinese have figured out the IPCC is not worth trusting; maybe someday our media will start reporting this stuff fully.
Speaking of which, Insty pointed to this: two feet of globular warming expected. And here in Oklahoma they're predicting ANOTHER round on snow on Monday; this has been the worst winter, snow and ice-wise, I can remember in a LONG time. Somebody find Algore, we need to either lock him up somewhere or he can join the defenestration queue with the tax weenies.
When Sen. Gillibrand(Evil Party Backstabber-NY) decided to stab the people in her home district in the back, she really went to a big knife, didn't she?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will make a joint appearance at a forum next month with controversial lawyer Van Jones, who left the Obama administration last year amid outrage over his past remarks about 9/11.
Question becomes, did this slip past her puppetmaster Schumer, or did he think it was a good idea?
Keith Olbermann: devoid of fact, and nearly of viewers.
Well, well, Starbucks refused to roll over for the Brady Coalition to Ban Guns; good for Starbucks. And Peets Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen? If I lived there, you would've lost my business for this PC idiocy of yours.
To the EffingBI: screw you, you little statist thugs. It's none of your damned business what websites I look at, unless you have gotten a legal warrant to dig into it. One thing we do NOT need is another massive invasion of privacy by you people with the standard excuse "It's for the CHILDREN!" You wanting to force this record keeping so you can go on fishing expeditions? Screw you.
Well, here's a good reason to stay out of Omaha. Let's see, a "We'll do it no matter what state law says" prosecutor, a "I want to know what you own" police chief... Not a place I'd want to spend money.
Charles Johnson: wonderful little bastard, isn't he?
Jeez. And in most of Europe, owning arms for self-defense is highly discouraged... an awful lot of Jews must be getting pretty nervous over this crap.
McChrystal says things have improved; hope so, and hope it continues.
Wow, MSNBC slants the news and The Obama is full of crap; whoda thunk it?
Well, lots of whores don't like being called what they are, Landrieu, deal with it.
Now if you'll excuse me, got some running around to do
Apparently the Diplomatic Security Service follows the standard rule:
'Protect the agency, no matter what."
Friday, February 05, 2010
Well damn, guy, what was your first clue?
These conclusions of his, in a finely argued and brilliantly written book, carry the worrisome implication that the propaganda of the regime may actually mean exactly what it says, which in turn would mean that peace and disarmament negotiations with it are a waste of time—and perhaps a dangerous waste at that.
I don't know why I'm surprised by this, except that I'd thought Hitchens would have already realized this a long time ago.
'Course, we've still got a lot of people who refuse to believe that Ahmadogcrap and the mullahs in Iran actually mean what they're saying, too.
I don't know why I'm surprised by this, except that I'd thought Hitchens would have already realized this a long time ago.
'Course, we've still got a lot of people who refuse to believe that Ahmadogcrap and the mullahs in Iran actually mean what they're saying, too.
This is one of the times I'd like to line up all the people responsible
for our tax system and shoot every third one, horsewhip every second and defenestrate the others. Anybody who's had a hand in producing a set of laws and regulations this idiotic and complex, who then holds YOU responsible for any errors even if you followed advice given you by the IRS, deserves such. At best.
I hate that you can go over everything multiple times, rechecking by the instructions each time, and you still have to worry about it.
I hate that you can go over everything multiple times, rechecking by the instructions each time, and you still have to worry about it.
Well, that IS a good question: What is the Austin Police Department
trying to hide?
Forgive me if I can't help but focus on these words:
Sorry, and with all due respect and gratitude to Ms. Tripp for following up and fleshing out so many details for us, when the government dodges being forthcoming, and thus held accountable to the law for information their agents are willing to personally attest to on an official record (with all the attendant liabilities that implies), my antennae go up.
Forgive me if I can't help but focus on these words:
Why?[T]he department wishes to withhold some of the requested information and has asked for a decision from the Attorney General about whether the information is within an exception to public disclosure.
Sorry, and with all due respect and gratitude to Ms. Tripp for following up and fleshing out so many details for us, when the government dodges being forthcoming, and thus held accountable to the law for information their agents are willing to personally attest to on an official record (with all the attendant liabilities that implies), my antennae go up.
Speaking of savages, they exist in various places
some of them are socialist bastards(their apologists are in the useful fucking moron category), and some, well, some would just look better dead.
Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.
The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
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A postmortem examination revealed large amounts of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she had been alive and conscious while being buried. Her body showed no signs of bruising.
Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.
The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
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A postmortem examination revealed large amounts of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she had been alive and conscious while being buried. Her body showed no signs of bruising.
Let's start the day with Government Control of the Internet:
After finding himself on the receiving end of widespread criticism and unfriendly hashtags on Twitter, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has announced that he now considers Twitter messages and social networking as terrorist threats. He is quoted in this Spanish-language news report as calling for more state control over the internet. The Great Firewall of... Venezuela?
Every jerk in every government who wants more government control of the 'net(all for the public good, of course) is traveling down the same path; Chavez the Communist is just more open about it.
Can you say 'Coverup by the State Department and DC Police'? I knew you could:
An agent in the vehicle, Mike McGuinn, did not identify himself to Medlock at the scene, or apologize for running him down. Indeed, Washington, D.C., police drove to a local emergency room to serve Medlock with a jaywalking citation as he lay prostrate in a hospital bed, while a man who identified himself as “special agent” stood by watching and taking notes.
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Curiously, the ticket says that Medlock was struck at an intersection four blocks from where the accident actually took place. And it claims that Medlock was walking diagonally across the intersection at the time. In one of his strikingly short conversations with the Daily Caller, agent Mike McGuinn acknowledged that Medlock was not jaywalking at all, but walking “outside the crosswalk when the incident occurred.”
The question is: Did the federal agent driving the SUV, faced with potential liabilities from the accident, encourage local police to issue some sort – any sort – of citation to Medlock, to establish his culpability?
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MPD provided several answers about the level of detail they would be able to provide. MPD public affairs said a police report would not be available until early next week at the soonest. A Daily Caller reporter who visited the Second District station, where Officer Muniz posts, was told there will be no incident report at all filed for a traffic incident.
Well, isn't this just a wonderful little runaround they've got going?
Hmmm, another possible link between AG Holder and terrorist groups; isn't THAT a wonderful thing?
Max Blumenthal, Professional Journalist, is full of crap. Big surprise, right? But hey, he's got someone of conservative bent to slime, so...
Andrew Sullivan really is a shit, isn't he?
Gee, another Obama appointee who lies to the Senate. This one's name is Craig Becker
Actually, that's about all I can take this morning. The sun's shining and most of the snow is gone, so I've got some things to do.
Every jerk in every government who wants more government control of the 'net(all for the public good, of course) is traveling down the same path; Chavez the Communist is just more open about it.
Can you say 'Coverup by the State Department and DC Police'? I knew you could:
An agent in the vehicle, Mike McGuinn, did not identify himself to Medlock at the scene, or apologize for running him down. Indeed, Washington, D.C., police drove to a local emergency room to serve Medlock with a jaywalking citation as he lay prostrate in a hospital bed, while a man who identified himself as “special agent” stood by watching and taking notes.
...
Curiously, the ticket says that Medlock was struck at an intersection four blocks from where the accident actually took place. And it claims that Medlock was walking diagonally across the intersection at the time. In one of his strikingly short conversations with the Daily Caller, agent Mike McGuinn acknowledged that Medlock was not jaywalking at all, but walking “outside the crosswalk when the incident occurred.”
The question is: Did the federal agent driving the SUV, faced with potential liabilities from the accident, encourage local police to issue some sort – any sort – of citation to Medlock, to establish his culpability?
...
MPD provided several answers about the level of detail they would be able to provide. MPD public affairs said a police report would not be available until early next week at the soonest. A Daily Caller reporter who visited the Second District station, where Officer Muniz posts, was told there will be no incident report at all filed for a traffic incident.
Well, isn't this just a wonderful little runaround they've got going?
Hmmm, another possible link between AG Holder and terrorist groups; isn't THAT a wonderful thing?
Max Blumenthal, Professional Journalist, is full of crap. Big surprise, right? But hey, he's got someone of conservative bent to slime, so...
Andrew Sullivan really is a shit, isn't he?
Gee, another Obama appointee who lies to the Senate. This one's name is Craig Becker
Actually, that's about all I can take this morning. The sun's shining and most of the snow is gone, so I've got some things to do.
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