The transformers movie teaser trailer

this is intresting

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sing it George

(H/T Dean's world)

Bee Cool

Tired of being underappreciated and manipulated by powerful "others," you fight back. Though possesssing a cold, violent outside, you have a soft, scentimental inside. You love your partner, you cherish family heirlooms, and you want nothing more than to be geniunely happy -- but you don't mind having to kill a couple of nimrods who happen to clutter your path. Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.

Congressman Bernard speaks out

Many Democrats are today trying to play “gotcha” saying “we were right” on the news that out generals are working on the prospects of a partial pull out this year, growing down the line.

Our generals have been talking about this seriously for some time, the conditions on the ground tactically in Iraq have been getting better and better each day. While the almost daily update on the daily news of the grim body count seems to dwarf the debate the truth in Iraq has been leaking out slowly but surely.

The Iraqi government is stepping up right now, and they have a real shot at bringing the nation together and marginalizing the terrorists and normalizing those people who felt they were doing the right thing for their nation.

That is why I have opposed dictating the management of this war from my congressional desk. I had some faith that our boys on the ground would make it work. If things continue as they are today by the 2008 Presidential elections we could reasonably see most of the American forces come home. Thats not playing politics, thats the reality dictated on the ground.

So who played politics with the management of the war, and who was willing to finish the job and do what was right.

That is who we should trust to move this country forward.

UPDATE

Remember the sleepy comcast guy? Well seems Comcast wasn't happy with the publicity he got them on You Tube and he is now fired.

Telemarketing gone wrong

On USAtoday we see that Government is just as powerless as we are when it comes to Telemarketers

You're not the only one. The federal government has decided to put its own secret Homeland Security hotline to the nation's 50 governors on the federal Do Not Call Registry, according to Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner.

The move came after a complaint Thursday by Minner, who said that when her line rings, chances are it's not an emergency but an unwanted intrusion. "Every time that phone rings, it's telemarketers," she said in Washington.

Minner keeps the secret homeland defense hotline in her office. Governors have them for instant communication with Washington in case of a major emergency. Minner says that when her line rings, it's someone offering a time-share condominium or the latest deal on long-distance phone service.

"I wonder about the security of that line," Minner said.

She said other governors have reported similar interruptions, such as the caller who chirps, "Hello! Are you satisfied with your long-distance service provider?"

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle reported getting a similar call in 2003. The caller jangled nerves and the phone just as U.S. troops were launching ground combat in Iraq.

Lets remember Dave (May not be SFW)

Bender smacks down Algore

And then Al Gore goes Wild....



(H/T Don Surber)

I watched this show a lot back in the day

E3 Defeats Wonderwoman

And no Laso tying either

bad times

(H/T Kotaku [Hope I spelled that right]

Congressman Bernard Comments on the Miami 7

[ For those of you in the RINO sightings family of Bloggers who might not know I took a bit of a pause from the fernetic pace of my blogging is because of political burn out. “The congressman” is a device I am experimenting with to try and post my thoughts without losing my mind. So with this clarrification ahead... lets go.]

A speech back in his Home District Congressman Bernard comments on the arrest of 7 men in an alleged terror plot in Miami.

It is regrettable that we hear the words “Wannabe” used when speaking of the Miami 7. These words fail us because they fail to address the nature of the threat they present.

If the FBI has indeed gotten the right men here the Miami 7 along with the D.C Sniper presents us with some troubling questions we must ask as a nation and find the answers to.

If the reports are accurate all 8 of these men embraced “Black Islam” of a variety or another. The groups of Black Muslims such as the Nation of Islam and others teach their followers of a world where people face an oppression that is born out of an almost supernatural evil born in the majority population of this nation. Is it any wonder that these 7 men in Miami and John Allen Muhammed saw acts of violence and murder against their fellow man as the only right course of action? Men who have had their hearts filled with hatred and a sense of a conspiracy against them violence will be born in those dark dread spaces.

But are the words so different from the polity we see today? When members of the leadership of the NAACP say republicans are out to put black people back on the plantation do we not provide a environment where such hateful and awful ideas can be born?

And while such hateful finger pointing is born, where are these noble men when the schools in the urban core which educate much of the youth, the youths they claim to support fail? They are here with blame, blame of others without the drive to work.

Where are they when many of the families they claim to advocate for collapse and fail? They are again silent and no where to be found.


When we blame others, before we seek to find solutions we breed an environment where hatred can be born. We breed an environment where men cannot disagree in good will, which breeds hatred and factionalism.

As people breed this balkanization in a world where Sana is as close as Alabama we will find people who feel that they cannot be part of this society willing to tear it a part.

Being part of that society means we should say “It is good” while not denying that it like all things made by men in this creation is not perfect. We must have a society where ever man woman and child no matter what his race or faith feels at home in the larger community of this country.

We should speak out when those in our communities who speak words that are poisonous come forth. We must speak out because allowing people to nurse a hatred for their nation will build within us a nation of wolves who will feed until they eat their fill.

We must champion what is good in our nation and in ourselves, and we must fight the worse elements of our nature. We must labor and struggle to make this country the place we want it to be, for if we fail it will become the nation we fear it can become.

A bit of a wandering ramble about my day today

I ended up going to a funeral today and I made a bit of a struggle in my internal angels of my better nature about going to it.

The funeral was for the Wife of a DeMolay advisor who.... as best I can say it advisably was a nemesis. One of two people I almost struggled reflexively with as a young man.

Years down the road as a young man I watched this woman come into his life and watched the change in his character and personality. I watched much of what I struggled with mellow in him as a person.

In the end it came down that a brother was in need, and I felt I should go to comfort him and honor the better angels in my nature and in his own.

One thing about being a younger Mason and looking at some of my more “Seasoned” brothers I tend to see far to many funerals of brothers in my future then I see weddings and positive things... not good for the craft.

I also got a bit of a vicarious thrill to. My religious beliefs cast me as a outsider. I do not find a comfort of a hearth on my road to the eternal, but it is places and moments like this I find myself enjoying community of faith.... something I am normally without.

Worse my friend Mark whose car I went in was forced to use “Florida Air Conditioning” for the trip. Knowing what I know I wish I had driven my own car.

Good News Everybody

On my way to a Funeral today I stopped off at a 7-11 and learned that we will soon be having a 7-11 brand of gasoline which SEEMS to not be the citgo brand of gas.

Well I can now buy from 7-11 and not feel guilty and helping Hugo Chavez out

Scared Straight

Magen David Adom Comprimise

While I didn't like this comprimise when put forward it seems that the folks in Israel are willing to go with it (H/T Dean via NYTs)

Magen David Adom will continue to use the Star of David in Israel, but abroad it will carry a red crystal, shaped like a thick square standing on its point, along with a smaller Star of David. The Israeli army will use the crystal on its ambulances and other rescue facilities.

Humanitarian workers say they hope the crystal will prove a model for use in other countries that are split along religious lines. For instance, workers in Eritrea could use a crystal with a cross in Christian areas and a crystal with a crescent in Muslim areas.

I think this is a mischaracterization and doesn't address the strong Anti-Judaism expressed by members of the executive of the International Red Cross.....

But, lets see how this works

We've seen the internet parody.... now see the original

Having had bad customer service from comcast....

This makes me smile



(H/T betapundit)

those are some big eggs man

I have to tip my hat at the size of the grapefruits on this dude

The man was caught watching the film during afternoon prayers on Thursday. Worshippers and policemen who were praying at the mosque heard bizarre sounds of men and women moaning and groaning. After prayers police searched the area and found an expatriate worker in a room watching a porn movie. Police arrested the man and found 160 CDs in his possession. After conducting investigations the man will be deported.

(H/T to Sugiero and Fark)

Sharon Stone continues her Parade of good motherhood

By leaving her child in a car alone

Yes the kid was being cared for by the Chaufer but
#1) She was doing it while she was having dinner with some dude
and #2 from the article

One photographer says, "I was stunned when I saw she had left her son

sleeping in the car. Why on earth would she do that when she has a house a couple of miles away.

"It was a hot night and he could have been traumatized by the camera flashes

going off."

Sharon maybe you should spend less time telling other people's kids about sex unasked and focus more on your own spawn M'kay?

A cool to much time on their hands moment

First the embraced terrorists

Now this

Presbyterians Think Of Changing 'Father, Son, Holy Spirit'

POSTED: 5:09 pm EDT June 19, 2006
UPDATED: 7:11 pm EDT June 19, 2006

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The divine Trinity -- "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" -- could also be known as "Mother, Child and Womb" or "Rock, Redeemer, Friend" at some Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) services under an action Monday by the church's national assembly.

Delegates to the meeting voted to "receive" a policy paper on gender-inclusive language for the Trinity, a step short of approving it. That means church officials can propose experimental liturgies with alternative phrasings for the Trinity, but congregations won't be required to use them.

what is happening to old school protestant churches

Craig's List update.....

Seems Craig of Craig's list fame saw this week's RINO Sightings.

Here is the initial post which brought Craig here

But in the fair and balanced issue here is the other side from Craig

However, after news started appearing on this, I was contacted by them again, last week. They restated that it was their problem, and they'd be shipping a fix to Cox in August; no assurance that it would actually be sent to customers in a proactive manner.

I asked:

* why did it take so long?

* why were my calls and emails unanswered?

* how will this be fixed in the field?

That was five days ago. The details are here


First, I want to thank members of the Cox abuse team, I've worked with some myself to go after bad guys. I honestly have no idea as to the role of Cox management in this.

I guess I'm real disappointed in Authentium, it's taking an extraordinary amount of time to fix this. As you see, it'll take at least six months to just start to deploy the fix.

Craig

So there is Craig's side. You can read the original article and sort it out on your own

New Schisms to come

The US Episcopal Church which has now started annointing Gay Bishops and has talked about a gay marriage Cerimony now opens more lines in a fault war of the faith.

"I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.

"Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender."

I think the problem is here that the church isn't trying to bring its people along as it changes so their is going to be a big fight soon... and I don't think it will just be US churches defecting to African Bishops

Break in case of end of the world

The Scandinavian nations have built a Seed Ark in case of the end of the world.

Prime ministers of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland were to attend the cornerstone ceremony on Monday morning near the town of Longyearbyen in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, roughly 620 miles from the North Pole.

Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen has called the vault a "Noah's Ark on Svalbard."

Its purpose is to ensure the survival of crop diversity in the event of plant epidemics, nuclear war, natural disasters or climate change, and to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out.

The seeds, packaged in foil, would be stored at such cold temperatures that they could last hundreds, even thousands, of years, according to the independent Global Crop Diversity Trust. The trust, founded in 2004, has also worked on the project and will help run the vault, which is scheduled to open and start accepting seeds from around the world in September 2007.

I for one am glad that Norway is on the ball with this project

An intresting bit of Masonic blogging popped up on NPR

Some Romantic Masonic History on NPR

All Things Considered, May 25, 2006 · The society of Masons is a fraternity that evokes images of mysterious symbols, grand legends of King Solomon's Temple, hidden treasure and the founding fathers. It also fits right in with America's current Da Vinci Code fascination. Recently, commentator Holly Rossi got an assignment to write a newspaper story about the Masons. And she rediscovered her personal connection to Masons. Holly Rossi lives in Arlington, Mass.

Though I do have to say that when I listen to people with Masonic history in some one's family tree I find a lot of common familial ties as the lodge lessons pass into family lessons.

Ms. Holly Rossi I think would be very surprised at how those things carried over.