And now a moment for one of my favorite things on the Internet

I am addicted to Anime Music Videos, where you take clips from Anime with Music

and I looooooooooove You Tube

so here is something to share

John McCain -thank you-

For Reminding me why I never wish to vote for you...ever (H/T Tapscott)

I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government."

Thanks John

Tastes Like....Chicken

Cap'n Ed came up with an idea to take the anti-war left's worst Pejorative against them.

Many on the left disagree, however, and often they provide challenging arguments and valuable perspectives on policy and the manner in which it gets implemented. However, many more do little but make ad hominem attacks on those with whom they disagree. They spend a great deal of effort labeling people rather than providing rational arguments on policy, and even the labels they select don't provide much more than amusement.

That's why Frank J of IMAO, Derek Brigham of Freedom Dogs, and I have decided to create -- for real -- the 101st Fighting Keyboardists and adopt the chicken hawk as our mascot. First of all, the term "fighting keyboardist" describes our efforts pretty well, and we think the pseudo-military terminology is pretty danged amusing. Derek himself designed the logo.

hawk01.jpgAnd why the chicken hawk? When we looked into it, it turns out that the chicken hawk is a pretty impressive predator. It's the largest of its family. This species vigorously defends its territory, getting even more aggressive when the conditions get harshest. It adapts to all climates. Most impressively, it feeds on chickens, mice, and rats.

So I for one had to sign up ;-)

I really want to not do this

But the urge to do it is to good

"Get your stinking paws off me you D@mned Dirty Ape"

The socialist PSOE party is apparently intent on introducing a bill aimed at giving apes the same rights as man, "and the immediate inclusion of these animals as people." As a result, the bill adds that apes "should have the same moral and legal protection that humans currently enjoy."

Fernando Sebastian, the bishop of Tudela has termed the measure as "making oneself looking ridiculous in the name of progress, and then what about the rights of the fighting bulls?" Meanwhile, other political commentators have stated that as a result of these measures, it will not be long before apes names will start appearing on the electoral rolls.

I feel dirty now I really do

A question to other poli-bloggers and mostly poli-bloggers out there

Am I the only one whose gotten tired of the current US political scene?

Potty Time

The following blog post will be discussing me in the bathroom

you have been warned

So after class (my second) Yesterday I got into the post clash rush to the bathroom and I had to pee pretty bad. Their were 3 urinals but only two of them were being used. None of us guys seemed willing to cross the invisible "barrier" Urinal....

I just found that antecdote silly and funny

Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President, I have woken up today to what appears to be your lack of desire for the republican party to maintain a majority in 2006.

"We're going to have a tough summer because people are beginning to drive now during tight supply," Bush said as he toured a California facility developing hydrogen-powered vehicles.

"The American people have got to understand what happens elsewhere in the world affects the price of gasoline you pay here."

With all due respect Mr. President yes their was. As you know oil issues are largely seasonal issues. You could have as the oil purchases were coming in for what would be the late spring early summer drive time opened up the strategic oil reserve some. You could have explained to the gas companies that for doing this they have to work on keeping their prices at the pump down.

Doing that would have pushed down pressure on the oil supply then lowering the prices then thus making any later raises smaller.

You then also could "threaten" to do the same again and offer US assistance to mediate the dispute in Nigeria and bam lower oil prices

You could have fixed it Mr. President, and I think either you had an utter lack of vision or you simply don't care.

Bush also blamed the higher prices on a shortage of refinery capacity in the United States, and also on an ongoing shift in fuel additives and mixes that has caused supply hiccups in certain areas.

I'm not going to even engage your idiotic blame of China and India because thats not the point. We are getting our oil resources in different Markets from India and China, so that isn't the problem.

The problem is how the enviromental regulations have hamstrung the United States. Had you come out and said we are going to create a single national fuel grade, and had you fought for it back in 04 and 05 it would probably be a reality now and prices would be lower ( while you could say your out there improving the enviroment)

You could have fought to get your energy bill through, which had the first major scale for more refinery building included. Why because we simply do not have the refining capacity in this country to meet the demand. That Mr. President is why we have a problem, not India and China. Our supply chain is rickety and old and you -should- have done something about it.

If we lose control of the house and senate in 06, I'm going to write the political tombstone for the Bush Administration with what I think will be histories judgement of George W Bush

to quote your father its all about a "Vision thing"

More Sanity in the middle east

Borat has a defender

Dariga, one of the three daughters of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, said Kazakhstan's furious reaction to Cohen's alter-ego Borat character hurt the nation's image a lot more than the jokes themselves.

"This Web site (www.borat.kz) damaged our image much less than its closure which was covered by all global news agencies," Dariga said in an interview published Friday in Kazakh newspaper Karavan.

"We should not be afraid of humor and we shouldn't try to control everything, I think," added Dariga, an influential politician who once headed the country's main TV channel Khabar.

people like this are part of why I tell people in 20-30 years the region is going to be all right....because people there do get it

From the "Things that are not news file"

We have another case of research proving things everyone already knew

An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear and aggression hooks up to contrasting brain functions in men and women at rest, the new research shows.

For men, the cluster "talks with" brain regions that help them respond to sensors for what's going on outside the body, such as the visual cortex and an area that coordinates motor actions.

For women, the cluster communicates with brain regions that help them respond to sensors inside the body, such as the insular cortex and hypothalamus. These areas tune in to and regulate women's hormones, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and respiration.

I need to be a research scientist

When Campaign Finance goes wrong.....

From my old Stomping Grounds in Sarasota my prefered canidate for the District 13 seat has some problems.

And when some one has problems the federal government finds a way to make them worse.....

Randy Maddox, who was Detert's campaign treasurer, took $97,000 from the congressional campaign early this month and flew to South America.

He was in Argentina for nine days before his parents talked him into returning to the United States, according to Detert.

When he returned, Maddox, 42, said he lost $27,000 while in Buenos Aires, so he couldn't restore the full amount he had taken.

His parents agreed to pay the rest of it back, according to Detert and an attorney representing Maddox.

But FEC officials say returning the $27,000 to the candidate could violate campaign donation limits that prevent individuals from giving more than $4,200 to a candidate per election cycle.

FEC spokesman George Smaragdis said that since the parents are paying the money back, it's a complicated legal question.

It shouldn't be a complicated question. But we have reforms which -frankly- don't have any sense about them

20 years ago today.....

Geraldo Opened up the vault

Al Capone's Vault - 1986 was the year Geraldo Rivera lured the American public into watching his April 21, 1986 special "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault" with the potential promise of finding some historic artifacts, cache of treasure or maybe the bones of some gangsters inside the walls of the Lexington Hotel, the former headquarters and residence of notorious Chicago mobster, Al Capone. In the end, the whole show was a bust. After watching for an hour, the American public was given Bupkiss, Zilch, Nada, Nothing but some dirt and debris found behind the excavated stone walls in the hotel's basement.

wow I feel old now

C is for Cookie

Coming soon to a theater near you

and brought to you by the letter P

Mumbly McMushmouth is history

With the Current events of today I nominate Mr. Stick Figure for Press Secretary

OK, let's just stipulate that any question beginning with the phrase "As you know" is a waste of my freaking time, because if I already know, I don't need you to remind me. Sound like a plan?

Howard Dean tops himself

In stupidity.... (and thats saying something)

Walter Shapiro: Governor, from where you sit, is the fact that there will be two caucuses between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary a done deal, or is this still open for negotiation, as to whether there will be caucuses and/or whether New Hampshire will have its traditional unmolested Iowa/New Hampshire role in American history?

Howard Dean: We don’t molest anybody. We leave that to the deputy press secretary of the Homeland Security agency.

An Important moment for History nerds

especially WWII and War history nerds (H/T Powerline)

Germany announced Tuesday it has agreed to open the Nazi archive of 50 million records that have been stored since the end of World War II.

The Bad Arolsen archive covers 17 million people who were executed or sent to concentration camps or prisons. German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries announced the government's change of heart in a news conference at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, The New York Times reported.

Our understanding of one of the worst parts of the 20th century is going to improve by a lot.

An email I got from my dad

NBA OR NFL?





36
have been accused of spousal abuse






7
have been arrested for fraud







19
have been accused of writing bad checks







117
have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses







3
have done time for assault






71,
repeat
71 cannot
get a credit card due to bad credit






14
have been arrested on drug-related charges





8
have been arrested for shoplifting






21
currently
are defendants in lawsuits, and




84
have been arrested for drunk driving
in
the last year






Can
you guess which organization this is?






Give
up yet? . . . Scroll down,






















Neither,
it's the 535 members of the United
States Congress.



The
same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line.




You
gotta pass this one on!

Images from a University campus

I found these pictures as part of a display on campus. I added a little title to show you my thoughts on the thing.

This appears (though on the board its hard to tell) to be from a gay group. So lets demonize all white boys... good times

This is who came to speak to my Class today

The US Ambassador to Portugal

Alfred Hoffman, Jr. was sworn in as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Portugal on November 4, 2005. He presented his credentials to President Jorge Sampaio on November 30, 2005.

Prior to his nomination, Ambassador Hoffman was founder and Chairman of the Board of WCI Communities, Inc., a Florida-based company serving primary, retirement, and second-home buyers in Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Under his guidance, WCI became a leading community developer, homebuilder, and real estate services company with revenue exceeding $2.2 billion. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ambassador Hoffman served as a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force during his military career and later earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Ambassador Hoffman was National Co-Chair and the Florida State Finance Chairman for the George W. Bush for President Campaign. He also served as Co-Chairman of Finance for the Presidential Inaugural Committee and National Finance Chairman of the Republican National Committee for 2001 and 2003-2004. At the state level, Ambassador Hoffman successfully chaired Florida Victory 2002 and served as Finance Chairman of Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s campaign in 1998 and 2002. He also served as Chairman of the 2003 Florida Inaugural Committee.

I could tell he in some respects wasn't very dug into the day to day politics of europe and portugal yet *(he's been a US ambassador for slightly less then 6 months)* But he definately has a gift to work crowds.

The students didn't pester him with a lot of politics and asked some serious questions. He also told the class what may be the best defense of Ambassadors appointed just based on political credentials

I got to meet the US ambassador to portugal today in class

Going to talk more about that later

Happy Easter all

Between School and holiday fun Blogging is light this weekend

but have a good time of it

The 9th Circus rides again

L.A began to go about arresting various homeless people for all manner of vagrancy related crimes. Giving these people a place to stay, medical care, food, and shelter. Providing taxpayer food, shelter and care for the homeless however is a wrong that the 9th circus rode in to "correct"

"Because there is substantial and undisputed evidence that the number of homeless persons in Los Angeles far exceeds the number of available shelter beds at all times, including on the night" the plaintiffs were arrested or cited, "Los Angeles has encroached upon" the plaintiffs' 8th Amendment protections "by criminalizing the unavoidable act of sitting, lying or sleeping at night while being involuntarily homeless," Wardlaw wrote.
...
However, in this instance, Judge Wardlaw analogized to earlier rulings, which said the mere act of being a drug addict or an alcoholic is not a crime.

In 1962, the Supreme Court, in Robinson v. California, reversed the conviction of a California man who had been convicted of violating a state law which made it a criminal offense to "be addicted to the use of narcotics."

At the time, the high court, said, "it is unlikely that any state at this moment in history would attempt to make it a criminal offense for a person to be mentally ill, or a leper, or to be afflicted with a venereal disease…In the light of contemporary human knowledge, a law which made a criminal offense of such a disease would doubtless be universally thought to be an affliction of cruel and unusual punishment."

So let us take a look at the 8th Amendment

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

While the legal argument is semi-reasonable....the philisophical argument is truely bizare

We'll see how this one turns out

OMG Republikkkans are the bigots

Thats how this article from the Washington post leads off.

Bad news for Michael S. Steele, the leading Maryland Republican candidate for Senate in November: The scuttling noise he hears on Election Day could be the sound of tens of thousands of white Republicans crossing over to vote for the Democrat.

In fact, white Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black, says economist Ebonya Washington of Yale University in a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

now the 25% is similar for independents (which is a bogus term) so your thinking OMG the bigoted evil white men.....

Not so fast, Richard Morin closes the article with what should lead the article....

But racially motivated crossover voting is not just a Republican phenomenon. Democrats also desert their party when its candidate is black, Washington found. In House races, white Democrats are 38 percentage points less likely to vote Democratic if their candidate is black.

Yep Democrats are less likely to vote for a black canidate then republicans

the real story

people do stupid things, for stupid reasons

The Cartoon Jihad is still on like Donkey Kong

I ignored some of the stories about it but it is clear now what happened. Michelle Malkin is trumpeting that case to.

but with this I see it as worthy to weigh in on

In an interview Thursday evening, South Park Executive Producer Anne Garefino revealed to me that the show was faced with two options: deliver the episode as written and animated with Mohammed shown and then allow Comedy Central to censor it, or edit out the disputed scene and write their own language explaining why Mohammed was not being shown and whose decision it was. “We wanted everyone to understand how strongly we felt about this,” said Garefino. Although the decision to omit Mohammed was not theirs, they wanted the language of the censorship disclosure to be their own.

Here's the problem... Thankfully Matt and Trey identified this as an issue of fear. Because the end of the episode and some other content out of Viacom has shown their is no real concern about religous geelings.

The ad promotes MTV's plan to broadcast a cartoon lampooning the pope and Vatican hierarchy. The series, Popetown, was considered too controversial to be aired in Britain, and it caused an uproar in the one country where it has appeared, New Zealand.

I think they did give us more honesty in the debate (which is good) But I think both comedy central and even matt and trey should have gone and done this better. I think South Park should have had censor bars over everything progressively increasing it until a series of black screens showed up.

but if anything Matt and Trey and their team won't let it lay down with this.

First lets laugh at the EURO

The Brussel's Journey continues their very low workload job of kicking the EU while it's down.

oaquin Almunia, the EU’s monetary affairs commissioner, who “told a group of City bankers and fund managers that the markets were ‘not properly pricing the risk’ of Italian sovereign debt. He also raised concerns about Greek debt. […] The spread between German and Italian 10-year bonds has already jumped from 20 to 31 basis points in recent days as rising global interest rates make investors more sensitive to risk. […] Mr Almunia said the spreads may widen further to reflect the default risk in Italy, which has the world’s third biggest stock of public debt after Japan and the United States.”

So whenever you hear moonbats talking about Iran or other states selling their oil in Euro's...

just snicker a lot

Dear Peta

Clearly you did not listen to the old lesson that you can catch more flies with honey then a punch in the face

The militant pro-animal group PETA said the activists would be suspended from crosses with crowns of thorns on their heads.

The slogan of the protest action would be "We suffer and die for your sins of nourishment."

On Good Friday, in the Square of a big cathedral in Vienna

I really wonder if PETA is more about p!$$!ng people off so we always eat meat.