1,800-year-old marble head unearthed in Israel.
Bodies of Evidence in Southeast Asia.
�It is hard to imagine even the most crazed of mad scientists entering such taboo territory�. Oh I'm sure there are plenty who will attempt it.
Answer to Ohio earthworks might be in New Guinea.
DNA tracks ancient Alaskan's descendants.
Fossilised skull suggests cheetahs evolved in Asia not Americas.
An inscribed stele from Zincirli, Turkey, illuminates Iron Age beliefs about the afterlife.
Tuatara eggs found in New Zealand.
The Tuatara can live for 100 years. More information on them can be found here, depending on how much you trust Wikipedia to have accurate information.
Irena Sendler, who smuggled children out of Warsaw Ghetto, passes away.
Blind Dog Sees After Surgery.
MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory. They'd better be careful or they will get thrown out of MIT for not being left enough.
Five-Foot Bat Is Out in Force.
Otto the octopus wreaks havoc.
Earth's core getting colder. Don't tell this to libs.
The Meaning of Einstein's Equation.
Nebraska Forts of the Old West.
China jails Tibetan monks convicted in bomb blast. The problem with China is that you never know if their communist government would blow up their own people with a bomb, then frame some monks for it and toss them in prison for life. That is not beyond a government like that.
Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital.
How much does your cell phone say about who you are and where you are? Last year, the US government wanted the authority to use the information cell phones put out naturally in its own investigations. Yesterday, a judge said no.
International Space Station Imagery: Pyramids of Dashur, Egypt.
A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests.
Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela. Couldn't have happened in a worse country.
Roman Temple Uncovered In Ancient Jewish Capital Of Galilee.
Archeologists find vast ancient city in Afghanistan.
Archaeologists unearth Thracian carriage.
Sakkara - a history hidden in the stones.
'The land, my lord, will be lost forever'.
Chameleon lives fast, dies young.
Rare Mummy Found With Strange Artifacts, Tattoo in Peru.
The Quest for the origins of the ancient Thracians.
Ireland to hunt nightmare fishing nets in north Atlantic.
$1 Billion Later, New York�s Subway Elevators Still Fail.
Salt men of Zanjan find permanent home in Zolfaqari House.
Smuggling of Yemen�s Monuments Continue. I thought only news of American failure to protect Iraq's artifacts in the middle of open warfare made the news. Doubt you will see this on FoxNews or CNN, unless they can find some way to blame America for it.
Martyrs or Imperial Guard? Sometimes you wonder if we are playing with fate, always digging up people who died long ago. Sometimes it just seems a bit grisly, always digging up some skeleton to examine it.
Doubt cast on source of universe's mightiest particles.
NASA Predicts Huge Cosmic Explosions.
Why didn't Earth freeze under faint young Sun?
A young pygmy right whale that stranded itself in New Zealand has given scientists a rare chance to study the little-known species.
Skeletons found near historic Plains of Abraham.
Myanmar Junta Turns International Aid Into Form of Propaganda. Like this is a surprise to anyone.
For sea lovers, a final resting reef.
Tiny bee spotted for first time in 50 years. I wonder if the Bumblebee Conservation Trust was in on this.
Squid Has Largest Animal Eyes on Earth. Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across.
Congress Passes Bill to Bar Bias Based on Genes. Now wait a minute. Why does Bush sign a law like his without hesitation, yet other genetic research such as stem cells he is against? I mean shouldn't it go both ways? I know stem cells are a dead end as far as research goes, and I'm fairly certain nothing of value will ever come of it, but can we just pick and choose what genetic issues we support or don't support? It is not all part of the same boat?
New York bans anal electrocution of animals. That was painful just typing that.
Hundreds of reptiles were rescued from traffickers and released into their natural habitat in Cambodia. (so they can be captured by traffickers again next week).
Researchers find gene defect that boosts glucose.
Bypassing the Insulin Highway.
Pyramids packed with fossil shells.
Human line 'nearly split in two'. DNA tests are coming up with all manner of different things these days.
Physicist John Wheeler, Einstein collaborator, passes away. He coined the term "black hole" for stars that collapse into such dense cores that light cannot escape from them.
The most unique thing ever dug up in Missouri.
Carbon mesh pins down universal constant.
Laptop searches at the border. No reason? No problem. The Ninth Circuit says it is legal. Which means it will be overturned in a couple months. No big deal though. It's amazing how people will store all their personal information on a laptop or desktop computer as if it is a locked vault that no one will ever see.
Wild bee decline 'catastrophic'.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Okay. When you think you've heard it all.
Action urged to keep net neutral.
A frog has been found in a remote part of Indonesia that has no lungs and breathes through its skin, a discovery that researchers said Thursday could provide insight into what drives evolution in certain species.
Ancient Mammals Fill Elephant Family Tree.
Elephants Once Thought Extinct Likely Survived.
8-year-old girl asks for divorce in court.
Clueless Guys Can't Read Women. I wonder how much money the National Institutes of Mental Health and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism wasted on this study. This is modern science for you right here, total garbage.
I always like to know where funding comes from for these stupid studies, just to keep an eye on waste.
The Pyramids of Sudan. I had another really great article on this but the story was removed or taken down on the other news site. I'll try to find more on this topic, as the Sudan pyramids are very interesting to read about, mainly because they have been ignored by history for some reason.
Swedes find Viking-era Arab coins.
Archaeologists working in the Russian Arctic have unearthed a remarkably detailed 3,000-year-old ivory carving that depicts groups of hunters engaged in whaling, which pushes back direct evidence for whaling by about 1,000 years.
Intact Colossus of Egypt's Queen Tiye Found.
Pre-Clovis Breakthrough. I think the Clovis debate is going to rage until we can invent a time machine.
Squid Beaks Could Lead to Better Artificial Limbs.
"I don't know how some people are making it. I have to work more to earn less." That's pretty much the future of America right there. Quote from this article.
Rare Mathura style Buddha sculpture found in Pakistan.
Sacred Geometry. Geometry was one of my favorite classes. It wasn't to last though, as on the university level geometry vanishes as a math to be studied.
Temple Mount Destruction. The Waqf, the Muslim religious trust that controls the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, has begun digging a major trench on the north end of the complex.
The trench is being carved by a backhoe�anathema to archaeologists because of the damage such a powerful machine can cause to ancient remains. Indeed, damaged items can already be seen along the pathway of the trench.
Bush to Science: "Let's be friends". As a gesture of reconciliation, Bush offered a $10 billion boost to the National Institutes of Health.
Well there is a friendly waste of money.
'Killing Fields' journalist dies. A Cambodian-born US journalist whose enslavement and escape from the Khmer Rouge became the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields, has died.
It was twenty years ago today...
Dolphins swim so fast it hurts.
Oldest known human fossil found in Europe.
Is your
grocery bill going up?
Are those women, or zombies?
NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe.
Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur.
Humpback Whale Calves Make Sounds.
Saving the crumbling palaces of Nagaur. A neglected fort in north-west India is being restored to its former glory with help from the Getty and other foundations.
Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe.
How a German wartime flying ace discovered he shot down his hero.
Agents Seize 411 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka in Texas Raid.
Whoa.
Egyptian mummy exhibit is son of Ramesses II.
Ancient seafarers may have been first settlers.
Dolphin rescues stranded two pygmy sperm whales. A bottlenose dolphin, named Moko by locals, appeared and guided the whales to safety after apparently communicating with them, Smith said.
Oldest oil paintings found in Afghanistan. Famous for its 1,500-year-old massive Buddha statues, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, the Bamiyan Valley features several caves painted with Buddhist images.
Neanderthal Life Forced Cannibalism.
White Killer Whale Spotted Off Alaska. Where is the Essex when you need it.
A federal investigation uncovers fraud and antiquities laundering, raising more questions about museums and the illicit trade in artifacts.
The Black Pharaohs. Skip the first page to get into actual facts. You also have to ignore the liberal slant to the story, very common in National Geographic today.
Drained lake holds record of ancient Alaska.
City of David Dig Reveals Information on Ancient Israel Postal System.
Recent finds at Macedonian site of Pella reveal a city beneath the citycommunity.
Stonehenge soon to be plagued by Tesco juggernauts.
NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes. Neat.
Teenage anger linked to brains. Modern science. All you can do is shake your head at how far we've fallen.
The most dramatic trilogies in boxing history.
Methuselah of the Deep. "The new findings break all records previously claimed for marine invertebrates like the cold seep tubeworms (estimated 200 years old), quahog clams (estimated 400 years old), as well as the deep-sea wannabees Primnoa spp. and bamboo corals (45 - 300 years old). Given the new results, deep-sea animals can finally measure up to the longevity of the "Methuselah tree", the Bristlecone Pine, estimated to be near 5000 years old." [This paragraph taken from Deep Sea News Blog]
Rare Glimpse at Exploding Star.
Odd predatory dinos share features with hyena and shark.
Excavations In Iran Unravel Mystery Of 'Red Snake'. I wouldn't make such a sweeping statement that the Persians matched the Romans on anything at all, but the discovery of the massive wall is impressive. The silly Roman comparison is made in articles like these to grab the attention of readers; even science is not immune to marketing. I only mention it because nothing matched the Roman Legions or their accomplishments at the height of their power. Later on as the Empire declined, then yes other nations would have been able to catch up.
Lake Bottom Dig Proves Tricky for Archeologists.
What's the story with... First World War tunnels?
Fossils of New Meat-Eating Dinos Found.
Digging Up Jerusalem's Past Is Tricky.
Spielberg mocked in China over Olympic pullout. It's nice that Hollywood is taking notice of Darfur - years after talk radio was beating the drum on it, but better late than never I suppose - but I think the communist chinese government there is correct when they say that Spielberg is living in a sci-fi dream world. That goes for much of Hollywood.
As for Darfur, you should see mainland Chinese reaction to the number of African "immigrants" into China. I know only white European males are racist, but whew, there is a 'distaste' among the Chinese for the Nigerian and Sudanese that have flooded into China. Funny isn't it, how every country has their own immigration problems. Russia has a huge problem with Chinese illegal immigrant workers now too.
Planet-hunters set for big bounty.
Child campaign brings Freetown slum to Internet. Kind of interesting.
Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuba�s President. These evil dictators never die, do they.
Australia to enforce a "ratings system" on web, track users. I guess people are worried about having their porn surfing tracked. I mean really, what do people use the Internet for anyway besides emailing, reading political news, porn, and video game websites. The good science sites are few and far between.
FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database.
2007 Foot-in-Mouth Awards. Just some dumb entertainment for a change.
Bing and Bowie: An Odd Story of Holiday Harmony.
Hard-plastic bottles raise worries.
Scientists Say Saturn's Dazzling Rings May Be Older Than Previously Thought.
Northern Lights energy source possibly discovered.
Congressman Hollywood: It's time to revisit the DMCA.
Women warriors may have battled in ancient Cambodia.
Crucifixes allegedly made in Chinese sweatshops. First it was lotion made from human skin, now it is crucifixes made in sweat shops. Love doing business with communists. Did we ever find out what Senator or Congressman was making money off the cream made from human skin imported from China? I know a member of the government was behind that business deal, but it was swept quickly under the rug.
Cosmic rays believed to start in black holes.
Bizarre politics of the Google-DoubleClick deal.
OMG!!! The end of online stupidity?
10 Extremely Useful Websites to Stop Big Brother From Snooping on You.
Heavy drinking linked to high-risk sex. Really. I never knew that. This is another example of modern science for you. How many grant dollars were wasted on this 'study'? I could have accomplished this 'research' for the price of a couple pitchers of beer at the local watering hole.
Sanctuary of Rome's Mythical Founder Revealed.
Speeding Star to Escape from Milky Way.
The Early Kings of Hierakonpolis.
Remains of Bus-Sized Prehistoric Reptile Found.
Tooth growth suggests rapid maturation in a Neanderthal child.
Archaeologists find 2,000 year-old palace in east Jerusalem.
Big Red is golden for those serving red, white and blue.
Elusive biblical Jerusalem wall finally found, Israeli archaeologist says. Archaeologists say a lot of things to make headlines in the news and get their name in print, but take this for what it's worth.
Syrian archeologists discover ancient remains among famous ruins.
Rare Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed: Contains Skin, and Maybe Organs, Muscle.
Online bullying a growing part of US teen Internet life. So maybe now parents will teach their kids how to fight and defend themselves, to stand up and be a man, rather than coddling them like fragile crystals. Take them to a MMA gym or boxing gym.
Historic Whiskey Could Go Down Drain.
Crude oil, gold surge amid dollar 'reserve' worry.
Taxpayer money spent funding breast enhancements. So do men get free penis enhancements in return?
A glowing, comet-like tail has been discovered trailing behind a double star called Mira, a phenomenon never seen before. It may contain clues about the star's activity over the past 30,000 years.
New York Rooftop Water Tanks. Fascinating.
Zinc lozenges an ineffective treatment for colds. It took scientists 20 years to figure that out? Jesus, I could have told them that straight up. I wonder how much grant money was spent over 20 years for those geniuses to come to this conclusion. This is modern science for you, it's all garbage and a money vacuum.
CCNY Reference: Government Views of D-Day 1944.
Lawyers in a how-to video: as in how to avoid hiring an American.
Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis.
A Planetary System That Looks Familiar.
Dead Stars Collide, Explode. Two white dwarf stars slowly spiraled into each other to touch off a supernova explosion called SN 2006gz and discovered last year in a spiral galaxy some 300 million light-years from Earth, said the study's lead author Malcolm Hicken.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is being readied for a January liftoff to the outer reaches of the solar system. It will be humanity's first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt--a vast and distant repository of the solar system's leftover building materials--and is expected to reap rich scientific rewards.
Deny All You Want, They'll Still Believe.
A similar number also assumed that an online privacy policy meant that a company they're doing business with wouldn't collect data on their online activities and combine it with other information to create a behavioral profile.
Oldest Known Jellyfish Fossils Found.
Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple.
Islamic Republic have Wiped out 3000-Years of Iranian History.
Don't tell this to any of the Democrats, it would destroy their belief that only white male Christians of European descent are capable of destruction.
While we're on Iran, here is a story on Salt mummies. Setting aside the people who live in Iran for a second, the country does have a rich Persian archeological history. It's just too bad it is locked away from the world and will most likely be lost forever, if most of it hasn't already been so.
Headless Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Ancient Islanders. a new isotope analysis of teeth left behind has given researchers new clues to the lifestyle and origins of the mysterious Lapita people, ancestors of today's Polynesians and Melanesians. Another story on this topic.
An unrelated story on the navigation methods of the Polynesians.
I stopped reading National Geographic after it published an article spitting on our soldiers in Iraq, but now and then they put aside their lefty agenda and do actual science research, such as finding this 405 year old Quahog clam, for whatever that's worth. Of course, the clam died in the hands of researchers. But at least the animal was able to tough it out for 405 years before a climate change scientist killed it.
Polish archaeologists celebrated 70 years of excavation and restoration in Egypt.
In Thailand, factory output of consumer goods has fallen 20% since the military coup. Thailand underwent a brief experiment with Democracy after a having one dictator after another, and that has since ended with a Muslim military coup. Some countries just can't live without their dictators. In fact the new government will throw citizens in jail for looking at Youtube.
Why was it called The Manhattan Project?
Preservation of prairie lands in question.
Tyrannosaur Footprint Found in Montana. Nebraska, where I am located, does not have many dinosaur fossils. The reason is that during the time of the dinosaurs, Nebraska was almost entirely underwater, covered by a massive inland sea. That is why the Sandhills here are full of aquatic fossils and bony fish.
Ancient, Legless Crab Discovered. Well at least they wouldn't have to worry about being harvested for crab legs in restaurants.
Black Sea Shipwreck Research Project.
New archaeological discovery reveals more about Himyarite Kingdom.
Diggers begin Herculaneum task of finding masterpieces lost to volcano.
Obscure Comet Brightens Suddenly.
Aswan Obelisk Quarry More Than Meets The Eye.
Tablet aids Old Testament's credibility. This is interesting.
Warriors Once Occupied Dead Sea Scrolls Site.
Egypt's Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years Old.
In the meantime, the finding has raised a big question: How were people in Western Europe and southern Egypt producing almost identical artwork at the same time?
Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost.
Chinese Eat Dinosaur Bones As Medicine. Yeah let's import more food from Communist China.
Gold mask from Thracian period found in Bulgaria.
Astronauts To Staple Shuttle Blanket.
Hubble. The problem is that every time the Hubble needs upgraded or fixed, it costs $30 million to do so. Who is going to pay for that? Especially in today's economy, we need to prioritize.
Ancient Frogs Rafted to the Caribbean.
A group of Italian senators want ice cream in their cafeteria to "improve the quality of life" in the Senate, astonishing observers as Italy's political class faces a growing backlash over its handsome pay and perks.
Rare Old Testament manuscript unveiled.
Sex slave victim wins abuse claim.
Idiot. What a minute, he is 56 and has a ten year old son?
New Bacterium Discovered, Related To Cause Of Trench Fever.
Largest Synthetic Gene Ever Built Offers Insights Into Anti-Malarial Drug Resistance.
A new species of sea anemone has been found in the carcass of a whale that sunk to the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey, California, marking the first discovery of one of these filter-feeding marine animals living in a so-called whale fall.
New Limbless Lizard Species Discovered.
Perilous mission for underwater archaeologist.
Great Wall of China Overrun, Damaged, Disneyfied. What, you mean the Red Commie Scum don't take care of their national monuments?
Bosnia archaeologists fight red tape, looters.
Snake Cults Dominated Early Arabia.
Deep-Sea Alien Abode Discovered.
Nice to see Stalinism is alive and well in the USA. The bullet list of points creeps me out.
US to outlaw 'common sense' patent applications.
Wow, the Supreme Court ordering lower courts to do their jobs? That's a news flash.
Team says it's found Herod's tomb.
Ancient Gladiator Mosaic Found in Roman Villa.
How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh�after 2,500 years.
This is actually a very good read.
In Peru, scientists discover the oldest solar observatory in the Americas.
Stone Age site yields evidence of advanced culture.
Shepherd leads experts to ancient Buddha cave paintings.
Teen Breast Implants Triple Nationwide. Now that is weird...I wonder if teen male penis implants are rising as well? Whatever floats their boat I guess.
Lost world warning from North Sea.
Unique Ancient Thracian Chariot Unearthed in Bulgaria.
Ancient Camel Bones Found in Arizona.
Greek archaeologists unearth rich Roman tomb on western island.
How The Spinal Cord Controls The Speed Of Movement. The research may have long-term implications for treating injured human spinal cords and Parkinson�s disease, where movements slow down and become erratic.
Stealth Gonorrhea. Now you know you're going to click on that one.
Cemetery of headless skeletons holds key to origin of Polynesians.
The Religion Of Peace And Love.
Mystery of Moth Flight Uncovered.
In Jerusalem, archaeology is politics.
Ancient Semitic Snake Spells Deciphered in Egyptian Pyramid.
Ancient Temples Face Modern Assault.
Did the Ancient Egyptians possess an ingenious skill for calculation? Assem Deif, professor of Mathematics at Cairo University, works out an ancient problem.
A macabre 1,700-year-old mass grave of people and horses, discovered in Normandy, poses perplexing new questions about the Roman conquest of France.
British scientists are helping uncover the secrets of medicines used by the ancient Egyptians 5,000 years ago.
Nero's Golden Palace to Partly Reopen. Something ironic about this. Our own politicians are playing their fiddles while on their heavy medications while our country slowly burns.
Hell who needs cheaper gasoline anyway.
President signs pretexting bill into law. WHOA - the government does something to protect citizens? I guess the companies that make millions off our personal information were not able to buy off enough Congressmen to get this law off the books. Maybe the hookers and rare wine bottles they sent to our Senator's mansions did not meet up to their usual standards for bribery.
Yeah, because everyone on the internet is a sex crazed maniac. Don't the Attorneys General have things to be concerned about along the lines of terrorists, illegal immigration, drug kingpins, instead of worrying about myspace? Call me weird, but right now I don't want to hear anything from our lawmakers besides securing our borders and killing terrorists. If we don't do those two things, there will not be a nation left to worry about websites. They use these scare tactics of "saving the children" to distract people from the real issues. It's like the congressmen who are obsessed over "violent video games." Yes, those games that let you shoot police officers should be brought under control (I didn't know such games existed until now) but they also want to lump games like DooM and Quake into the mix, and that's wrong. In DooM you are a Marine fighting against evil demons from the Christian Hell in order to save the world. Nothing wrong with that, although I suspect that because the game implies the existence of a Christian Hell is what lawmakers can't abide by. DooM is bloody when you shoot the demons or zombies, but in no way are you attacking humans or anything related to the real world. I think there is a difference between killing Devils from Hell, and killing police officers.
Killer Spiders Prefer Malaria Mosquitoes. Or they could just spray DDT around.
In a Vast Sea, How Fish Find Home.
Russian archaeologists have uncovered the
2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in
the Altai mountains region.
While they are at it, maybe the archeologists can search for the remains
of the 20 million people that Stalin murdered. Their bones have to
be somewhere.
Unearthing the mystery of the priestly city of Nob. The first biblical reference to the city of Nob is in Samuel I. During King Saul's reign, after the destruction of Shiloh, priests from the house of Eli resided in Nob, and the tabernacle was located there.
Ancient
Roman road found in Netherlands.
You have to admire the Roman Empire. They left their mark almost
everywhere and are a case study in success. I know Universities and Hollywood
like to focus on Rome being a big perverted sex orgy back then, but I'm
sticking to real life history here, not what went on in the palaces of the
insane inbred rulers. A good measure of an Empire's power can be
seen on the front lines, the men who are expanding the empire through war,
not the fat generals who sit behind desks far to the rear. The Roman
Legions were the best the world had ever seen.
Invading Romans' greatest obstacle uncovered in Jerusalem.
Two Central Mysteries In Genome
Inheritance Solved At UCSD.
Huh? You mean research still goes on at Universities today?
Could have fooled me.
Phoenix Rising: Scientists Resuscitate A 5 Million-Year-Old Retrovirus.
Let's just hope they don't unleash a long ago previously eradicated horror upon the human race.
Barbados Faces Invasion by Giant Snails.
Isai Tamil inscription in ruins.
Dolphin May Have 'Remains' of Legs.
Spain digs for its once-hidden Jewish heritage.
Restoration of structures in Hampi in full swing.
UConn students work to preserve watery archaeological site.
They lack jaws, eyes and bones, but lampreys and their "primitive" anatomy have survived 360 million years and four major extinctions relatively unaltered.
Ecosystem Of Vanishing Lake Yields Valuable Bacterium.
In the salt flats near a slowly vanishing lake, a team of researchers have found never-before-seen bacterium.
Receptor That Enables Clear Corneas Is Identified.
Bus driver gets OK to avoid gay-themed ads.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. If a muslim cab driver refuses to take fare from a woman because she is not in a burka and refuses to keep her eyes on the ground (as good women do, you know), will he be fired from his job then?
Judge drops indecent exposure charge against woman.
Can't be surprised about anything coming out of California.
Haha. Well I don't even have to go to France to get physically ill thinking of the people who live there.
Tainted liquor likely killed man. What is the country coming to.
Ancient warriors cemetery discovered in China.
While I am on the topic, the Islamic armies did enter western China. As coincidence would have it, at the time China had a very cowardly and weak Emperor, and the Islamic armies defeated the Chinese army. But for reasons still unknown, the Islamic armies halted and did not advanced into China. Eventually they turned and went home. This may have been due to outpacing their supply lines, but the actual reason is unknown.
Today, hundreds of years later, the results of that battle are still felt today, as China has problems with domestic Islamic terrorists in western China, although they hush it up as best they can.
It would be fascinating to explore the battlefield archeology of that conflict long ago. But as it is, the stinking communists in China seldom allow anyone into Western China, because they do not want the world to become aware of the massive slave rice farms there and the slaves that work in the vast coal mines there, not to mention the huge mass graves of the cultural revolution.
Well, that's assuming China does not take over the world, which they have a very good chance of doing right now. I guess we just have to take our pick: A thousand years of darkness under Communist China, or a thousand years of darkness under Islam. That will be our choice unless America gets rid of the cowards and spineless worms in our government.
Celebrating Genghis Khan's Big Year.
The Mongols found the Persian (today we call them "Shiites") so distasteful that they slaughtered many of them, including entire cities.
Think about that: The Persians were too bloodthirsty and barbaric for even the Mongols to stand. These are the people we set free in Iraq. Think about that too.
Interestingly, at their peak the Mongol horde was composed of about 200,000 warriors. As a result, they left small groups in each Persian city, and eventually those Mongols simply were absorbed into the local culture and many converted over to Islam. This was after the main Mongol armies left to attack Europe or returned home. The process was very similar to what happened when the Islamic armies swept west, if you follow the geographic pattern, Pakistan was converted by the sword, Malaysia was, Indonesia, and then the advance was halted. Yet India was skipped over. That was for the same reason that happened with the Mongols: the local population of India was too big, and the Islamic invaders were absorbed into the local culture. This is a very simplified overview of what happened during that time period in history, but it will have to do as this isn't the place to write a history book.
Early humans explored via the sea.
Wow, who would have thunk such a thing. Glad we have professors around to tell us these brilliant things.
Barbarians or a Civilized Dynasty?
Scientists Nudge Fish Closer to Extinction.
NOAA reports decreased levels of toxins in mollusks.
1,600-year-old dog found in Roman well at Liss.
600-year-old dog puzzles experts.
Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings?
An Oasis of Art in the Egyptian Desert.
9,500-year-old decorated skulls found in Syria.
Archaeologists find 11-millennium-old building in Syria.
Archaeologist gagged by power firm.
Ancient pagodas in Myanmar are being restored by bogus archaeology. So what's the big deal? I am shocked the academic community is coming out against this. I mean, most of the professors worship the type of hardline commie government Myanmar has, so why are they surprised when the government starts destroying ancient monuments or re-writes history? You reap what you sow. Speaking of which, Myanmar has massive slave farms where people are forced to work all day long to bring in a harvest, similar to what Stalin did in eastern Russia. I heard something about each family in certain villages having to give up 1 son to go work the slave farms. Of course, that is total fantasy as communist nations are lovely and utopian.
Experts are examining the ruins of a pre-Columbian culture in an area of Honduras where there had been no previous evidence of major indigenous civilization.
Mouse Mimics Chronic Leukemia.
Hawaiian Temples Much Older Than Thought.
Archaeologists Hot on the Trail of Columbus' Sunken Ships.
Ancient Persian drawing found in Afghan Buddhist cave.
What, you mean the Taliban didn't destroy it? Guess they overlooked it.
Ancient Christian inscriptions found in Uzbekistan.
Villa mosaic's secrets revealed.
Pyramids -- Tuesday, February 24, 2009
In the past, every now and then I would hear in the news about a local pyramid scheme being broken up by police, typically involving around ten people and limited to a few thousand dollars. Those people would have the book thrown at them and the sequel too, of course. I'm curious then why Madoff was able to run a pyramid scheme for so long and running into the billions, but was never busted?
Perhaps I'm having a difficult time believing that a pyramid scheme running into the billions and continuing for over a decade was not caught by law enforcement. More than a few people knew what was going on yet no one did anything about it.
Pinkos Unite -- Tuesday, January 27, 2009
We now have a Marxist regime running the United States. I guess it was bound to happen. Think of the old phrase "You don't know what you have until it's gone." Four or eight years of Hussein Obama will make people realize what they did to this country.
I think what is very sad are immigrants who fled tyranny and oppressive governments for a better life in the United States, then turn around and elect a man who represents everything they fled from in the first place.
Boys Will Be Boys -- Saturday, January 10, 2009
Raid On The Reactor. The Israel that Americans respect.
Macedonia --Wednesday, January 7, 2009
2009 -- Saturday, January 3, 2009
I haven't posted on here in a long time, simply because there was not much to say. The past couple months are always busy times of the year. 2008 seemed to fly by so fast. I was working so many long hours everyday that it feels like a lost year. I hope 2009 will be a great year. You just have to keep your chin up and take it one step forward at a time. Hopefully things will calm down now that the holiday season is over and done with.
Is This The Way To Amarillo? -- Saturday, October 25, 2008
And....
The Dutch (according to the video) do their own version.
When Men Were Men -- August 31, 2008
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
DNC -- August 26, 2008
I don't know how Ted Kennedy could have brain surgery since he never had a brain to begin with.
Life Goes On -- Tuesday, August 12, 2008
This was a photo I took when I was in Alaska. It was a really beautiful view from my window. It feels a lifetime ago that I was there. That got me to thinking about the different times in your life and the events that take place that alter your future. I think that is just how life progresses. The life that we once knew vanishes, and a new one takes its place. I assume eventually it will end in a happy one, when the transition phases are over with. I guess there is no going back, and have to make the best of what is.
Meteor -- Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I guess there was a meteor shower tonight that I wouldn't have saw even if I was outside. Perseid Meteor Shower. I think that is the one me and my stepfather saw one time when we were out in a canoe in the middle of a massive lake here in northern Nebraska, called Merritt Dam. It was at sunset and a bunch of meteors flashed down on the horizon. Funny, I'd forgotten all about that memory until I had read about the meteor shower in the news today. We never caught any fish out at Merritt anyway, I think a meteor coming down into the canoe was the closest thing. That lake was so overfished though, there were no fish left in there.
Naps -- Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I just woke up from an hour long nap. Man I was out of it, just konked out. Real deep r.e.m. sleep for the full entire hour. Funny how we sleep so well during naps like that during the day, but not for an entire night through. I used to sleep like that all night. But then that was way back before we had to get up and pee every two hours. Haha no it's not that bad, but I do find myself waking up more often during the nights. Maybe that is just the way it gets. I think the notion that we have to get a full eight hours of sleep straight through, that is simply not how it is supposed to be as get older.
Buzz -- Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Why is it when you have an absolutely beautiful summer day, just gorgeous, nice breeze, partly cloudy, bird chirping, that people have the insatiable urge to get out the loudest piece of power equipment they have and grind and saw away at everything in sight?
Prices -- Sunday, July 20, 2008
Is is just me, or does no one want to admit we are in a very bad economic recession right now? The New Hundred Year's War that we are involved in was going to take a toll eventually.
Where I will live forever -- Sunday, July 13, 2008
Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother, my sisters and my
brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the
beginning.
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of
Valhalla,
Where the brave may live forever.
Fourth -- July 4, 2008
Happy Birthday, United States Of America.
Israel -- Tuesday, May 6, 2008
I read a disturbing article about Israel nearing 60 years as a country and getting nostalgic for the old days. This is not good, and it is a sign of eminent collapse.
A country should look
back and reflect on how great it was - and how much
greater it is today.
When a country looks back and reflects on how great it
was, and how much less it is today, then you have a very
big problem.
We are headed in that same direction here although much more slowly.
Freedom For Iraqis -- Monday, May 5, 2008
So these are the people we are trying to bring freedom to? I just hope it is worth it.
Tears -- Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Desert Rats -- Tuesday, April 29, 2008
I watched a movie today called "The Desert Rats", with Richard Burton. The movie was from 1953 and I thought it was very good. There are not many films about the North African battles during WWII. In fact this is the only one that I have seen. The combat scenes are fantastic and I liked how the sounds of war mostly composed the soundtrack of the movie. No bombastic or typical watered-down Hollywood orchestral score here. We tend not to associate WWII with covert-ops missions, but this was the function of some of the Desert Rats various engagements against the Germans. The only part that was overly Hollywood was a stretch of a scene that put Rommel and Burton's character in the same tent together.
"The Desert Rats" was a film that was made before Hollywood decided to only put out war movies that degrade soldiers or blame America for every war that has ever happened. A classic example is the movie "Platoon". Charlie Sheen's character was painted as the hero, when in fact Tom Berringer's character, Sgt. Barnes, was the hero of the movie. Sgt. Barnes was the kind of man you wanted leading you into battle. We saw the same thing in Saving Private Ryan, where Spielberg painted the coward who at the end of the movie got his entire platoon killed because he did not get them the ammo they needed during a battle as the hero. That is typical Hollywood though. And yes I know Sgt. Barnes shot one of his own men, but if you had to pick 1 character from the movie Platoon that you would want to go into battle with, Barnes would be it. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I could go on for a very long time about the changing of Hollywood war movies through the years, but you get the idea. "The Desert Rats" is worth a look, it highlighted a little-known group of desert fighters during the North African campaign in World War II, and the battle scenes are very well done.
National Security -- Thursday, April 24, 2008
Christ the local 7-11 has better surveillance security than the National Archives. The National Archives were robbed. How a Civil War buff's chance discovery led to a sting, a raid and a victory against traffickers in stolen historical documents. "During a six-year spree that ended in 2002, a Virginia amateur historian named Howard Harner repeatedly tucked Civil War papers into his clothes and strode out of the Archives." Wow, sounds like he took lessons from Sandy Burglar. I am happy that the security at our National Archives is so tight that people can just shove down priceless historical documents in their pants and walk out.
It is almost comical. All you have to do is shove papers down your underwear and walk out. Great. Good to know. We'll all sleep better at night.
The New Hundred Year's War -- Saturday, April 19, 2008
When the war on terror began I was 100% behind it, even the invasion of Iraq. That was when I assumed we were going in for the kill, for the win. But now I am beginning to wonder if we are in it to win? A place like Iraq should have taken our U.S. military no more than a year at maximum to get in and get out. The sand barbarians there are no match for our power, so why are we still there struggling? Someone in our government does not want us to be victorious in Iraq, for whatever reason.
You can't ask more of our soldiers, many of whom volunteered to go back for two or three tours in Iraq. That is almost unheard of. They are there to win, but Bush or the federal government is not. There is a special place in hell for everyone behind this war.
It's not good when a patriot like me is starting to question why we are still there. I am sure it has something to do with the amount of money people are making on the backend.
I am not surprised that our economy is starting to shudder under the cost of the war, especially as we have not benefited from a wartime economy.
Childhood's End -- April 8, 2008
Arthur C. Clarke died at age 90. The "golden era" of science fiction had a lot of writers who were very highly educated. Many had degrees in physics and worked for the government on military projects. When I was younger I read a lot of Asimov, Clarke, Vogt, de Damp, Philip Dick, Burrows, Wells. There was a purity in their writing, it was clean science fiction. These stories filled my mind as a child, the wonders of what could be.
I remember a book of Arthur Clarke's called "Childhood's End" that I saw when I was in high school. It was in the school library, but it was in a back room on a cart where they put all the 'banned books' at, or books they had pulled from the shelves. For some reason, that one book stuck in my mind out of all the others, and I always remembered it through the years. Later I read Childhood's End in college, and the book was a pretty standard science fiction novel, so I don't know why it was in the banned area of my old high school. Perhaps it was due to the religious portions of the book. That is probably it, as the small town I grew up in was very traditional. For example, while big city schools give lessons in cucumbers and King And King, my high school had none of that. It was very old school, no pun intended - math, chemistry, english, business, biology, geography. The foundations. Which is the way it should be.
I did read some Robert Heinlein, although he was more of a period piece author who changed with the times. His novels were a bit different as science fiction during that time started to reflect the 1960's perversions of society. That is why I referred to the other authors as more "pure" science fiction, good clean stories of the fantastic and the astounding.
I still have an old copy of Edgar Rice Burrows stories that belonged to my grandmother. She didn't have much to leave behind when she passed away, but she did leave the book to me. It is a treasure, a first addition printing in the 1920's. I will have to check the date on it again and the title. That book and a small collection of arrowheads that she found through the years I still keep.
Cosmos -- Saturday, April 5, 2008
There hasn't been much to write about the past couple weeks. I was re-reading a book called "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan. The book was great when it was released because it brought science to "the ordinary person" who may not have had much interest in it by putting it in straightforward language. Most people today are too young to remember the buzz around Cosmos, but it was very similar to Stephen Ambrose, who helped to bring military history to mass consumption. "Cosmos" helped to bring general science to millions of people who previously did not have an interest in it. In both cases academics frowned upon the authors for making money off history or science. That should be no surprise though, the stinking Leninists.
The old film series of Cosmos, hosted by Sagan, was also very good and worth a look if you can find it. It is rare to find a teacher in high school or the university level who can make science interesting. I remember one of those was my high school chemistry teacher, who had that unique ability to explain complicated things so you understood them. Sagan was kind of like that in the book and film series, making general science concepts interesting to listen to or read about.
All of the university science teachers I had were overly concerned with their own research projects and viewed teaching class as an annoying hassle they had to do in order to get grant money.
Fascinating -- Tuesday, March 18, 2008
This is Niagara Falls in 1911, the water is all frozen. I don't have a source for the picture, I found it online and don't recall where. I thought it was a great look back in time. You can see how the people were dressed so differently.
No News Is....No News -- Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Life has been pretty routine lately. Wake up, work 10 or 11 hours, eat some supper, sleep. Repeat. Some days I just crash out on my couch in the living room. Whatever works. I've been thinking about getting cable tv hooked back up. I got rid of it before because it seems after three or four weeks, you feel like you've seen everything there is to see and you get into re-runs all the time. So maybe it's not worth it in the end anyway.
Yeah there is the news, but I'm fed up with politics. McCain or Obama. That is all we are offered as leaders. That's it. What garbage. I tend to gravitate towards a strong powerful leader with a good speaking voice. Not a wimp with a girlie voice who doesn't even try to hide his corruption.
Too Good To Pass Up -- Friday, March 14, 2008
Alaska -- March 8, 2008
The story of the drained lake in Alaska on the left here made me think back when I spent some time in Alaska. I haven't been back there in 17 years or so, and perhaps the state has changed since then. But when I was there in Fairbanks it was a special place. There is something about Alaska that makes you want to return there in the future. Like most places, you have to get out of the city and see the land there, whether it is on a pre-arranged tour or by yourself.
Maybe it is just the beautiful mountains and countryside. It is what I remember the most. Funny how time can fade details yet you retain images and glimpses. I remember the sun coming up and seeing Mount Denali (Mount McKinley, whatever) from Fairbanks. Incredible.
Fortunate Son -- March 5, 2008
March moves on. I paid rent today. Getting boring living paycheck to paycheck. Need to figure something out, ways to cut things out and save money more. The day went by fast for some reason. Funny how some days are like that. Time is so relative.
I picked up the PrideFC 2000 Heavyweight Grand Prix dvd, and have been watching that tonight. It happened during a sort of "golden age" of mma and one of many fantastic tournaments that PrideFC held. While mma in the United States was trying to make do with a dirty cage and blood gushing elbows, PrideFC was held in a brightly lit ring with very good rules. And no elbows, thankfully.
Saturday -- March 1, 2008
Is it March already? Seems just yesterday I posed on here. The time flies by like a rocket. I guess this was a leap year, but it was lost on me as I was working late into the night and didn't really have time to think about it.
Museum -- Tuesday, February 19, 2008
I had the day off today so I decided to visit the museum here. Maybe I am one of the few people who still finds museums fascinating. It is almost as if I am walking through a time machine when I step through the door. I live in Nebraska, and during the famous "age of the dinosaurs" 65 million years ago, Nebraska was underwater. There was a vast inland sea that covered the entire central part of the United States. Strange as it may seem, the Sandhills are covered with fish and aquatic fossils. The museum had a giant fish species that had not even been identified or given a name yet.
It is a little hard to imagine Nebraska having sharks and plesiosaurs preying on nautilus and bony fish. In fact, the largest plesiosaur fossil discovered was in Nebraska, 38 feet long with a 20 foot neck. The very southeastern most tip of Nebraska was a shoreline beach of the ancient sea, and there are a few dinosaur reptile fossils found there. The rest of the state was covered by the shallow inland sea. Fossils of giant tortoises have even been found.
Fast forward in time, and after the inland sea vanished, Nebraska was home to camels, small horses, and rhinoceros. Yes, camels, and yes you read that right, rhinoceros. As for the horse, if you want to know the ancient history of the North American horse, it is all right here in the Nebraska fossil record.
Nebraska is most famous for its mammoths and mastodons. The mammoth history of Nebraska is well known. There were also lions and giant bears. These came along during the last Ice Age, when animals experienced a time of gigantism. It is really an amazing part of life, why the Ice Age gave rise to gigantism in animals.
The museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is small by metropolitan standards, but it is filled with wonders. I never cease to be caught up in the varied history of a state, in this case Nebraska, which was part of an inland sea and on the border of the great glaciers of the last Ice Age.
I can spend hours walking back through time in museums. Sometimes I think they are a lost building in today's world, and few are interested in them except me and a few others.
Homeworld -- Tuesday, February 19, 2008
I started a new job in December, and that is why I have not posted much. It involves a lot of overtime and massive amounts of physical labor, so when I get home I never feel like typing much. It's all good though. The money is nice. It's not what I want to be doing, but we do what we have to do until something opens up in the field we would like to be in. I'm not complaining, not in this economy. It's good to have a steady secure job. This place also will give me flexibility to take a class at the University again, which I will do. Most companies couldn't give a rat's ass about you trying to improve yourself, so it's nice to be with a company that will be flexible in that sense. I just really need to finish up my degree, I've been putting it off for a long time, although there were reasons for that.
Winter is in full swing and we have had snow finally. It's not as much as we normally get but the biting winds are still there. That is something unique to the midwest (the real midwest, not that "Ohio, Michigan" belt that people claim to be midwest), the harsh bitter winds. Chills you to the bone. When people come to this area (the Nebraska-Oklahoma-North Dakota belt and all inbetween), they always comment on the winds. It's not found in other parts of the U.S. in quite the same way. It is a very strong bitterly cold wind that will freeze you. It is hard to describe, almost something that has to be experienced. If you look at a map, there is nothing in that geographic range to break up weather patterns very much. It's all open terrain and winds can really work up speed. There are the beautiful Rocky Mountains to the west but that is it.
I'll try to be better about posting on here, although I don't think anyone even reads this. But it's nice to have a place to "dump thoughts".
Snow and Cars -- Saturday, December 8, 2007
The first real snow of winter fell on Thursday. It caught me by surprise. Apparently Valentine up north is going to get eight inches over the weekend. The police found my parents car finally, after it was stolen. Some Native American indian stole it and drove it up to South Dakota onto a reservation until it ran out of gas, then it was abandoned. The car is ruined though, indians steal cars frequently around Valentine and they drink and puke in them, shoot up drugs in them, piss in them, and as many native Americans carry the TB virus, you have no idea what is lingering in the car that you might catch. If you think I am joking I am not...this is a common occurrence in cars stolen by native americans in Nebraska and South Dakota. You will never hear about it on the news though, for obvious reasons. If a person's car is stolen, it is ruined. You can never set foot in it again from the defecation and vomit that is always in the car. I know this is a shock to liberals, but non-white people do commit crimes.
My parents are looking at a new car though to replace the one that is heading to the junkyard. That the car is ruined despite having no physical damage is bad enough, but that they will never find out who stole it pisses me off. We work hard for the few good things we have and when someone steals our property you want them found and given a maximum sentence. What do I give a shit about some thief for, I'm working hard all damn day long to get a few possessions and some drunken unemployed shitbag steals it. No sympathy from me. Especially when someone steals from your elderly parents. Five minutes alone with the thief, is that too much to ask.
Malaise -- Wednesday, December 5, 2007
China hosts nearly half of all malware sites. What I would want to know is the percentage of sites that carry malicious code amongst all sites in a given country. That would be a more meaningful statistic. Even if U.S. makes up 20% of malicious sites globally, you have to also factor in that a majority of all sites on the Internet are probably hosted in America, meaning that we could have the smallest percentage of malicious sites to safe sites of any country. Who knows though, and who really cares.
On a side note, an example in nature about why uncontrolled immigration with no borders is healthy and good.
Foreign Service -- Wednesday, December 5, 2007
This was sent to me by someone I know in the Foreign Service right now, who will remain anonymous. Thought it was a good read:
Op-ed on Foreign Service assignments
This AFSANET contains the text of an op-ed drafted by AFSA State VP Steve Kashkett. It appeared in the Washington Times on November 20.
Begin text:
CHEAP SHOTS
The U.S. Foreign Service has come in for a lot of gratuitous - and unfair - criticism in the aftermath of a State Department announcement a few weeks ago that it might need to identify certain diplomats for "directed" assignments to Iraq next summer. This story has been grossly misunderstood, particularly after footage leaked of a closed-door, in-house meeting in which a handful of State employees spoke candidly to our director general about their concerns regarding the prospect of forcing civilian employees to serve in a war zone.
What the press has failed to report is that more than 2,000 members of the Foreign Service at State have willingly volunteered to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003, despite the fact that they are unarmed civilians, untrained for combat, offering to serve in the middle of a combat zone. These 2,000 Foreign Service volunteers have staffed the U.S. embassies and provincial reconstruction teams throughout Iraq and Afghanistan - our two largest diplomatic missions - for the past four years without requiring the Department to order a single person to serve there.
It is unfortunate that the media coverage in recent has drawn attention away from the fact that the people of the Foreign Service had already filled four-fifths of the positions in Iraq that will be coming open next summer, eight months in advance. It was finally announced on Nov. 16, just two weeks later, that all of next year's State positions in Iraq now have qualified volunteers. We also already have volunteers for virtually all of our positions in Afghanistan. It will come as a surprise to State-bashers that the Foreign Service has a higher "fill rate" at our embassies in Baghdad and Kabul than we do at almost any other U.S. embassy anywhere.
This is a time when our diplomatic posts all over the world are suffering staffing gaps because we simply do not have enough people. State, unlike the Pentagon, has seen its annual budgets stagnate in recent years and has been unable to get congressional authorization to create new positions. We are a very small service compared to the military. The total U.S. Foreign Service is less than one-half of 1 percent of the size of the U.S. military, and our members are already stretched thin staffing all the other 260 embassies and consulates worldwide, a majority of which are hardship posts.
In today's Foreign Service, most of our members spend the majority of their careers going from one extreme hardship post to another, often for years at a time. In the course of their long years of service in some of the most difficult and dangerous places on Earth, our members live daily with civil wars, political violence, unhealthy conditions and the constant realization that they are the No. 1 targets for terrorists.
It is understandable that some of our members may have personal or professional hesitations about serving in a combat zone, as a few expressed aloud at the recent in-house meeting. Foreign Service officers are not soldiers, they do not receive any kind of combat training and they are strictly prohibited from carrying weapons when they serve overseas, including in Iraq. But the fact is that, despite these concerns, the U.S. Foreign Service as a whole has most certainly stepped up to the plate in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our members continue to volunteer for service there in large numbers. Numerous State Department Civil Service employees have joined them.
The courageous people of the Foreign Service do not deserve the unjustified and unwarranted finger-pointing by those who seem eager to call U.S. diplomats "cowards" and to blame us for any problem or lack of progress in Iraq. Foreign Service employees are undertaking heroic efforts across Iraq, working hand-in-hand with their military counterparts, to try to make a difference there.
Our country is fortunate to have a tough, dedicated, patriotic corps of skilled foreign-affairs professionals, accustomed to serving in challenging overseas assignments. They deserve respect and recognition, not an uninformed smear campaign.
The Hellspawned Teddy Bear Of Satan -- Monday, December 3, 2007
So the famous teddy bear teacher heads home to England. "The show of outrage in Sudan puzzled many in the West." No it didn't. People in the west were laughing their asses off at the Sudan. I don't think they have any idea how ridiculous they made themselves look to the world....and how dangerous they made themselves look to the West.
Edwards -- Friday, November 16, 2007
Edwards is the first truly, unapologetic welfare state liberal running as a major candidate in my memory. All the others have tried to hide it - Edwards isn't. No wonder he's doing so well. I'll bet that if Obama weren't in the race and splitting the liberal vote that Edwards and Hillary would be neck-and-neck.
Rabies, and Porn -- Wednesday, November 7, 2007
I see that Sony is working with Japan's pornography industry to help them better utilize blu-ray technology (warning: adult link, contains nudity, but read the news story as it is alarming). I wonder why as consumers we never hold Sony and AT&T responsible for being the enormous smut peddlers that they are. Vivid Video is one thing, but when AT&T is the largest distributer of pornography in America, and Sony is helping Japan's porn industry to use its technology...where is the public outcry?
Where is the public outcry when our own government throws our soldiers in prison? Stalin was big on putting his own soldiers in prison to get them out of the way. When you invade and occupy a country for an extended amount of time, civilian deaths are going to happen as the stress of war reaches the soldiers...that is not an excuse, it is simple fact. Either our government steps up and protects our soldiers or we get the hell out.
I guess some better news is that the United States is free of dog rabies. Fine by me.
The Loation Rock Rat -- Saturday, November 3, 2007
Discovered 2 years ago in 2005, the Laotian Rock Rat, which isn't really a rat at all, was thought to have been extinct for 11 million years.
The remarkable video and photos shot by David Redfield, a professor emeritus of FSU�s science education faculty, and Thai wildlife biologist Uthai Treesucon are being hailed as historic images documenting a true �living fossil,� the Laotian rock rat.
Disease -- Monday, October 29, 2007
Kutschkau said there has been a shortage of medicine for an influx of refugees who needed to be treated for tuberculosis.
One problem landlords faced when African refugees first began flowing into Lexington: burning wood on top of indoor stovetops to cook food.
Africans bring new face to changing Nebraska towns.
The future of all of America at the rate we are going.
Beginnings and Endings -- Monday, October 22, 2007
Galaxy I Zwicky 18 has been unmasked as being much older than previously thought, despite possessing a youthful appearance resembling galaxies typically found only in the early universe.
Hubble Space Telescope has detected faint, older stars within this galaxy, suggesting that the galaxy may have formed at the same time as most other galaxies.
Not only is I Zwicky 18 older than thought, it is also farther away than previously estimated.
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_071016.html
The Return Of The King -- Friday, October 19, 2007
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Food Labels -- Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Here is some news on the food labeling. Look at this sentence:
The law's leading opponents are grocery stores and large meatpacking companies, many of whom mix U.S. and Mexican beef...
That is the problem. You have no idea what they feed cattle in Mexico. Are you going to trust that the cow slaughtered in Mexico was disease free? I'd bet a lot of money that there is no quality control in Mexico. I've been there before, and one quick trip to Mexico will let you see with your own eyes all you need to know. I am not talking about the fancy tourist places, I mean actually go to Mexico, and you will see what a filthy third world hell hole that place is. If people actually saw Mexico with their own eyes, they would not be calling for a fence on the border, they'd be calling for a five foot thick steel wall to make the Great Wall of China look small.
I'll say again, are you going to trust that the cow in Mexico was disease-free and fed quality grain and grasses? Do you want Mexican beef ground together with American beef in your hamburger?
This is how diseases like mad cow disease come about. No quality control in third world countries invading the United States. We are importing chickens from the country that gave us the famously overhyped Avian Bird Flu? I'm not trying to be panicky, but I'd like to know what I am feeding my children. Are you going to trust that beef or chicken imported from Communist China is not mixed with dog meat or rat meat?
I see Senator Ted Stevens in Alaska was all for seafood labels, as it would increase his own states seafood business. I guess that is what it will take in the end to get country of origin labeling - assure lawmakers that they will personally make money through the labeling process and look like heroes to their constituents. You can't count on our elected officials to do anything themselves; they need reassurance from the people they represent.
I saw how our entire elected government folded in an instant when the illegal aliens were protesting in our streets, waving their Mexican and Guatemalan flags. The government sat there paralyzed and caved in right away. So did the Bush Administration. That showed me that our government is incapable of handling domestic matters on its own as mostly they are cowards. Which is a shame as this is the first time in decades that America has needed leadership with balls.
I know President Reagan was not perfect, but he did restore the Victory Culture back to America, and we could sure use a tough commanding presence as he had. Simply having a strong speaking voice and the right words to say goes a long way. Let's make America that shining city again.
If you don't know what the Victory Culture was in America that followed World War II, then you'll have to find it in a history book. Some liberal ass published a book with the same title to try and smear the Victory Culture and rewrite history, as liberals always do. But the Victory Culture was a feeling that America was the greatest country on Earth, economically and militarily the greatest, and when fully committed to a cause we could never be defeated. Which is true. The only times America has suffered setbacks in war is when we were not fully committed or when liberals were running the war (which includes President Bush, who is a far left global socialist pretending to be a conservative).
Film -- Tuesday, July 17, 2007
I saw a few Barbara Stanwyk movies on TCM. The Two Mrs. Carols, Jeopardy, and Baby Face. They were all pretty good.
The Two Mrs. Carols had Humphrey Bogart in it and at the end he was just great! He came bursting thru this plate glass window like Dracula! He was trying to kill her. He was real good.
Sigh -- Saturday, July 14, 2007
Sometimes I wake up feeling like a dog eared page in a history book.
Thoughts -- Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Energy is being expended like it was free and endless, and the price of gas has gone up like smoke. The cost of shipping and shipping materials has increased. Drought is killing the farmer and his crops, cattle and cows. There�s a war against a godless enemy who believes good is evil and evil is good. Great sums of money are spent building bridges to nowhere and Congress just voted itself a $4,500 pay raise.
231 years after establishing and demanding freedom and independence, we forget we were once oppressed, and in doing so lead ourselves into personal imprisonment. Woe to the apathetic and lawless and uncompassionate.
I�d like to believe we�re all trying, but too many are sitting back assuming someone else will secure our freedom for us. After all, that is freedom, is it not? Not even close; freedom is not free. Freedom requires awareness and vigilance, contribution and appreciation, and self-evident commonsense. Politicians, activists, gangsters and mobs have known this and taken advantage of it for a long time. Of course, I won�t get into that hornet�s nest. It�s too sunny and breezy for such prickly activity.
Instead, feel free to take five minutes. They�re yours. Stray from the norm and be lifted up. Review what the fourth of July celebrates, how we got here, America, and why.
These were the early strongmen hoisting the inestimable weight we must continue to carry. No gyms, none. Just iron will.
- From Dave Draper's column.
4 -- Monday, July 9, 2007
The Fourth of July was good. It is always my favorite holiday, probably due to the significance of it. Well I drove for the six hours to get home to visit my parents. They live in a small town, so it takes forever to get there from civilization.
After all day driving I went to the fireworks show the town put on. Actually it was out at the "fair grounds" which is kind of like a mini-stadium with big bleachers to sit in and stuff, and then they have this Demolition Derby in the early afternoon. A "Demolition Derby", for people who grew up in cities, is an event where people get in old junk cars they no longer want, and then smash them into each other, to try and disable the other cars, and the last car left still able to run at the end is the winner. It's pretty fun stuff and I usually know some people that are in it. Each person has a red flag on their car and they can lower the flag down and that takes them out of the race so they can duck out at any time. It's all really safe, well most of the time. Just a rocking time. The demolition derby is a bit of a custom in the midwest, maybe you had to grow up out here to understand it. Then after that is over, they do a fireworks display and for a small town (only about 2,000 people live in it) it is quite a big show that lasts a long time. Pretty impressive and it's always amazing they can put on a show that big here. Yeah I know if you never heard of a Demolition Derby before it sounds insane, driving a car into another, but it's hard to describe...it's not as dangerous as it sounds.
The fireworks celebration took on a special significance this year, as 2 soldiers from Valentine were killed in Iraq this year. A small town of 2,000 people, yet 2 men in the Army from that town were killed in Iraq this year. This war is reaching everywhere, to all corners of the nation. I think it is only the selfish pricks in the big cities that are not impacted by this New Hundred Years War our President got us into.
Words of Wisdom -- Thursday, June 21, 2007
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was
thinking, I was hitting him."
- Jack Dempsey
90 -- Saturday, June 16, 2007
90 degrees here today, hottest day of the summer so far. I had to turn the air conditioner on. Thank god for civilization. Wonder how people in those dusty countries deal with the heat with no electricity.
I cooked up a turkey burger today, in olive oil. I ate the meat over rice. Had a baked potato on the side too. A little overboard perhaps but a typical Midwestern meal. Raised on potatoes and tomatoes and meat. That's the Midwest. We may die young, but it's damn good eating. *pats stomach* That's a joke by the way. I do control my meat intake.
At least the price of beef and to some degree turkey has stayed steady, unlike chicken which has skyrocketed in price. I can't figure that out, is there a shortage of chickens? Why is it $8 for three small chicken breasts? Eight dollars can get you a week's worth of beef. Why is turkey still reasonable but chicken super expensive? Where is this chicken meat coming from that it costs so much? It has to be transportation costs driving up the price.
What happened to that Country Of Origin labeling on foods? I know what happened, it was killed early in the process as the government doesn't want people to know where there food is coming from as there might be wide scale riots. Also, people will buy American food, organic if possible, and not buy food from Guatemala that has been pissed and shit on by the harvesters. Plus, you have no clue, no idea at all what kind of pesticides are used on foreign plant products. At least foods coming from America, you have a small amount of quality control, compared to none at all for foreign foods.
A death -- Saturday, June 16, 2007
Associated Press
An Army sniper from Valentine, Neb., was killed during an ambush by Iraqi insurgents, the Pentagon said.
Spc. Josiah W. Hollopeter, 27, died Thursday in Balad after his four-man sniper team was attacked in Al Muqdidiyah. He was part of the 8th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division, which is based in Fort Hood, Texas.
He was the third soldier with Nebraska ties to be killed in Iraq in less than a week.
Family members said 21-year-old Val John Borm died in Iraq's Kirkuk province this week after an explosion near his Humvee. And Army Spc. Adam Herold of Omaha died Sunday in an explosion.
Hollopeter is the 50th service member with Nebraska connections killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001.
Hollopeter's father, Ken, said Saturday that Josiah's younger brother, 1st Lt. Tyler Hollopeter, will be escorting Josiah's body once Tyler returns stateside.
The lieutenant is a helicopter pilot in Iraq, his dad said, and was based about a hundred miles from Josiah.
Because Tyler's routine assignment of a year in Iraq was due to end next month, he won't be returning, Ken Hollopeter said.
113 -- Saturday, June 16, 2007
[Valentine is the small town I was born in.]
VALENTINE, Neb. -- Helen Stetter, believed to be the second-oldest living American and the world's fourth-oldest person, died Friday in a nursing home. She was 113.
Stetter is listed in Guinness World Records 2007 as being among the world's 15 oldest living people.
Helen Stetter had lived to become the second-oldest living American, the second-oldest person in the history of Nebraska and the 91st oldest person in recorded world history, said E.A. Kral, a Wilber, Neb., resident who does research on people who live to be 100.
She was born Nov. 18, 1893, in Chadron.
Stetter lived in the same Valentine house all her life until moving to the nursing home 18 years ago. She never married, never had a driver's license and was in good health other than losing her sight and some of her hearing, said her second cousin, Bob Stetter.
A representative of the nursing home said the exact cause of death was not yet known.
Energy -- Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Steven Seagal Energy Drink.
Fight Night -- Monday, June 11, 2007
Tomorrow night is a UFC Fight Night, I suppose I'll record that and watch it later on when I get home. I enjoy combat sports, boxing and mixed martial arts.
I bought a new fan today for my apartment. Help save on air conditioning at night. One of those fans that you can put in the window to suck the cool night air in when there is no wind. It's not the kind with the small dual-fans in it but just a big square fan made for window or in a room on a table.
Weekend -- Saturday, June 9, 2007
Well it's Saturday. The new job at Kawasaki is going okay. I am still figuring out what to do with this old Trans Am a friend abandoned at my place (what are friends for after all). I guess I'll just have it towed to a junk yard and tell them they can part it out for free.
Going to be about 80 degrees today finally. This summer has been freezing so far! Maybe it will warm up for a few days in a row finally.
Cognitive Dissident -- Sunday, May 27, 2007
It's a little weird being a year older. I guess time stops for no one. I didn't make it back home for my birthday but life does not always allow for time off to do what we'd like.
This weekend has been cold, strangely enough. Big temperature drop into the 60's.
33 -- Friday, May 18, 2007
Well, I'm a year older.
On The Mend -- Friday, May 11, 2007
The past two days or so were real rough. I injured some muscles in my lower back while weight lifting. I've done the before but never on this level. I couldn't even sleep from the constant pain (go figure). I could only sit in certain positions that didn't put pressure on the back. Good lord, I never had that kind of injury before.
Just shows when it comes to training, one mental distraction can hurt you bad.
Today I feel better though. Got a thumper of a headache which I assume is connected to having to sleep in an upright position.
There is nothing like that day when you start to feel better from a small injury or sickness.
Zinc -- Wednesday, May 9, 2007
I finally got smart and remembered zinc.
Nothing like 15mg of Zinc before you sleep to plunge you into a solid sleep state. Five or six hours of sleep feels like nine, so deep your sleep is. And the dreams you have from zinc, well, you just have to experience it...hard to put into words.
15mg is high for a lot of people, but it is the right dose for me, as I am not the standard 150 pound weakling. I only mention this in case someone wanders by here on the net; too much zinc will make you vomit. 5mg or less is a good place to start if you're not used to it, I guess, but I'm no expert.
But if you want to have the most detailed and 'real' dreams you will ever have, zinc is the way to go.
Fight -- Wednesday, May 9, 2007
I watched the De La Hoya fight. The fight itself was a technical bore and did not live up to the hype, and that fault rests with Mayweather. He is a "hit and run" fighter, that is, he will throw one punch then run away until he can throw another.
Mayweather is a big part of why boxing is in a downward slide. People expect boxers to fight in the ring, not run around like it's a track meet. James Toney is a defensive genius even greater than Floyd, but Toney always backed it up with his fists, he always came to fight.
Mexicans are the bright spot in boxing right now. A Mexican fighter shows up to fight and expects to be fought against. There is none of that darting in and out and running around that Mayweather does.
I can see why Mayweather got the decision, although I felt Oscar did enough to win the fight. The problem with Oscar has always been that if he feels he is ahead by the 7th round, he will try to coast the rest of the way. That came back to bite him more than once in his career. Abandoning his jab, which could have won him the fight, was very strange behavior.
Apparently it did 2.5 million ppv buys. That is crazy. Mayweather couldn't sell 3,000 tickets on his own, yet paired with Oscar De La Hoya, the fight was a success.
Awake -- Sunday, May 6, 2007
I haven't been sleeping very well these days. It's about 5am. I took an over the counter sleeping aide even though I shouldn't bother with those things, and it put me out for three hours. Good enough. A short nap will give me five hours and that is enough to see through the day.
I guess I will sleep when I am tired. I always laugh at those commercials for the prescription sleep aids that say "Do you suffer from an overactive mind and can't sleep?" Isn't the mind supposed to be active? We're not supposed to be zombies staring at a wall.
There is nothing wrong with being awake or not sleeping well, as long as the time is used productively. Flipping television channels is just a waste. Better to put the time awake to good use.
Getting Strong Now -- Monday, April 30, 2007
I watched the movie 'Rocky Balboa' this weekend. It was a fitting end to the popular movie series. I look at it as a homage to the great Irish and Italian boxers that existed long before we were born. That culture no longer exists, for many reasons. Almost wonder if we have lost something with the vanishing of that part of our national background.
There was a magical moment in movie history of the scene of Rocky running up the famous steps and raising his arms in triumph.
Accounting -- Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Looks like I have been slacking here again. I'll see if I can do better, for the three people that look at this page each year. One of which is me. Here is something cool, I discovered that thanks to me being an egghead, I actually have $700 more in a bank account than I thought I did. I typically keep 2 accounts at different banks, one a small one and the other the main one. Just as a "backup" in case of emergency, I'll have some funds stashed away.
Anyway, in my main account I had way more than I thought I did. That means by late summer I may be able to take a vacation someplace. Get the hell out of here for once. The only problem is getting time off. This is the United States. This is not Canada or France where people get 2 months paid vacation each year in addition to a 30 hour workweek. In America it is very hard to get days off. Typically you have to find people to cover your work for you while you are gone, and frankly we are becoming paranoid that by not being at our desk 10 hours a day we will be laid off. But hell, with corporate America, even if we are at our desk 100 hours a week we would still get laid off if some CEO comes in and decides he want to falsely inflate company profits by firing a thousand workers and stealing their 401K's, so what the heck, who cares anymore. Still, getting 5 days off is hard to do, and if you include the weekend days you already had off, you have 7 days, two of which will be spent on the road or flying if you are going far. Five solid days. In the end, that is okay...if you travel someplace, by day 5 you're about up and sick of it and ready to go home. Actually that happens about day 2, but if you traveled far you are compelled to stick it out.
Still, that is my goal, to take a small vacation at the end of the summer. It is important to have things to look forward to in the future, instead of just slogging through without direction. Even if it is just a small goal, it is still something.
V -- Saturday, March 10, 2007
Well then. Let's see what we have. All this was shown or talked about in the movie "V for Vendetta":
America caused all the wars and evil in the world.
If people are caught with a copy of the Koran, they are killed on sight by
the conservative soldiers.
Conservatives are Nazis.
The movie had a Conservative Party that seized power with a religious (christian)
madman leading it.
The Jews were behind 9/11.
The American government wanted 9/11 to happen to gain control over the
population.
The Conservative Party soldiers seek out and kill lesbians or gays on
sight.
The Conservative Party used a Cross as it's symbol...red cross same as the
Nazi sign except a cross.
Government parliament building blown up using a fertilizer nitrate bomb,
lol.
The movie says all this flat out. No hidden messages, I mean it literally says that stuff or shows it visually in the movie. I can see why the movie was made in England, shot over there...no one would have tolerated that being filmed over here. I mean the movie actually shows lesbians being rounded up and hauled off in trucks by the Conservative Party (that is actually what it is called in the movie, with a thinly disguised Christian Cross as its symbol, just with 2 crosslines instead of 1). It actually shows a guy keeping his copy of the Koran hidden because he'd be killed if the soldiers saw him with it. In better times, the makers of that movie would have been arrested for treason or some shit. Or thrown out of this country.
PrideFC -- Wednesday, February 28, 2007
What an amazing show! I watched it on ppv and it was money well spent. Every fight had me on the edge of my seat. Made for a great weekend. Events like these make me proud to be a man.
So much aggression in the U.S. is tied up in NFL football or NBA, that we tend to forget what real toughness is. Men in the NFL wear full body armor yet sit out a game if they break a nail. True toughness is what we saw at the PrideFC show, men fighting with every ounce of strength and coming out on top. This is what we need as a nation, to divert the aggression bottled up in the NFL and get back to our roots as a people. PrideFC does that.
Pride Fighting Championships is recognizing who we are as a species and the great accomplishments we make through incredible odds. The Diaz/Gomi fight highlights that very well.
21 Days -- Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Has it really been three weeks since I last posted on here? I should do better. Maintaining a website, even a simple diary-type one, can be quite a chore. It's not always easy finding things to talk about.
TP -- Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Last night I was out of toilet paper, and found out the hard way. At least I had paper towels on hand.
Fights -- Friday, February 9, 2007
A good weekend of fights, with ESPN's Friday Night Fights and tomorrow night a high profile boxing match with Shane Mosely, plus an EliteXC MMA event. I have neither HBO or Showtime, but I am thinking of picking up one or the other again.
The Challenge -- Friday, February 9, 2007
If you never try, you will never know success. More often than not
you will fail, but the times when you accomplish your goal make the hard
times all worthwhile.
Neglect -- Friday, February 2, 2007
I've been neglecting this site I know, but sometimes there is nothing to talk about. I see these bloggers who write pages every day. I guess it's nice they have so much going on in their lives that they can fill up all that space. For most people though, our lives are pretty quiet. I could go on about politics on here like I used to, but I've pretty much said all that I can say about it. Politics is an endless loop and is good for filling up pages of material, but right now I'm exhausted about politics. Both sides are corrupt, what can a normal man do? What am I supposed to do about corrupt politicians selling our country down the river? Write a letter to a representative? They will just scan my name through a database of campaign contributors and when a big fat Zero is next to my name, my letter will go right in the trash. Corruption and greed has hit a level never before imagined in this country, what are the normal people to do? Nothing, is the answer. The concentration of wealth at the top is unbelievable right now. If that sounds communist it is not meant to be...what is not meant to be is that enormous concentration at the top, it was never supposed to be that way. Corruption in our government has caused it. What is passed off as "middle class" today is what we would have called "lower middle class or lower class" back in the 1980's, that is how bad our economy is right now. All we can do is work hard and do the right thing and hope we come out alright in the end. Maybe work hard enough to get that promotion or raise and move up the ladder a rung. Hey all a man really wants is to be able to take care of his family, his kids, have a nice little house of his own, get his wife a few nice things, have everything paid off. That sounds so simple, but why is it so hard to accomplish?
Sonar -- Monday, January 15, 2007
State coastal regulators voted
Wednesday to impose restrictions on the U.S. Navy's use of sonar,
which has been linked to harmful effects on whales and other marine
mammals.
The only reason I bring this us is because this sonar business is nothing but an attack by liberals against the military. Whales beach. That's what they do, in all parts of the world. The beach in mass much like herd animals follow the leader on land. Their "evidence" is trash. Whales beach everywhere in the world where there is a beach.
I have to tell you, our military has to be the most tolerant and respectful and kind hearted military the world has ever seen. If I was in command, I would round up every one of these stinking socialist sonar freaks and throw them out of the country.
I don't give a damn about whales when it comes to safety of my kids, my family, my country. Secure ourselves first, then worry about the whales.
Return -- Monday, January 15, 2007
The holiday grind has come and gone, and it's nice to be back into the normal routine. Today there was a lot of snow outside finally, it was a dry winter up until this point. Only when I went to find my winter coat did I notice it was missing, perhaps I left it up at my parents house. No matter, I had a reserve stashed away just in case someday I was a forgetful dumbass. Always be prepared. I even have a snow shovel to shovel my car out with later on. All good.
I enjoy the winter snows. They aren't for everyone though.
2007, amazing.
Christmas -- December 20, 2006
It's Christmas time. I guess that means it's time to be nice to people we otherwise can't stand the rest of the year.
Tornado -- November 9, 2006
I remember when I was very young my grandmother told me a story about when she lived on the family farm in Iowa. Somehow the topic of tornadoes came up and she told me a story about how a tornado hit her farm when she herself was really young. Keep in mind that back then there was no tv weather channel to turn to, no radio weather reports, nothing. Since she was a young girl at the time it must have been around, oh 1925 or so.
People used to have what are called "tornado shelters" on farms. They were shelters dug out of the earth and reinforced underground with wood and stone. Heavy wooden doors latched on the front. They were different than the modern storm shelters they have today. These were the 1920's versions. They also doubled as a place to store canned vegetables and food. A makeshift root cellar if you will.
A tornado came down and caught my grandmother's family by surprise, and she told me how her family was running from the farm house to the tornado shelter and she could see the tornado moving in. I never gave much thought to that story because I was a stupid young kid at the time and cared about nothing. They were worried about their crops being destroyed and their house being torn to pieces. There was no insurance then, no charity funds to rebuild your house. Apparently they all came out okay in the end. But it just makes me think of my grandmother as a young woman running with her family to reach the tornado shelter. And if they had to be in there for an extended time, say overnight, then they had the canned food in there as well. She must have told me that story in the mid-1980's.
Do people still can food at all? Maybe just some older people is all. My grandparents had a small garden in their backyard when they were retired, and they would still can vegetables and put them in their basement even in the late 1980's. It was a habit they had from childhood and stayed with it their entire lives. My grandparents married just out of high school at 18 or 19 and stayed married their entire lives until their late 70's, god bless them. I would love to ask them how they did it. You know they had to have times when they felt they were going under financially or emotionally but somehow they made it through it all.
Another memory I have is after they harvested their green beans from their garden, they would have a large bucket full of them and I would sit on the back steps and help to take the stems off the ends of the beans to prepare them for cooking or canning. Thinking back on it, it was a pleasant way to spend a warm summer evening.
Elections -- November 8, 2006
The Republicans had grown corrupt and lost track of why they were elected in 1994. They deserved to lose. If I�m going to live in a big government country, I�d rather have it run by Democrats. At least there will be a safety net.
I know Democrats are even worse than Republicans. But how else can we send a message besides throwing people out of office? The entire country rose up to put a stop to the Dubai Ports Scandal, and the Republicans just gave us the middle finger and sold our ports and military factories to the arabs anyway. It showed that public voice means nothing, the government does what it wants and to hell with the people.
Why do I say something that sounds silly such as the Republicans deserve to lose? Because I was sick and tired of Republicans giving the middle finger to conservatives. You reap what you sow. You Reap What You Sow. That is another way of saying what goes around comes around - Republicans gave conservatives the middle finger, so we gave them the middle finger back. Enjoy that commie hag Nancy Pelosi as new House speaker.
I wouldn't get too greased up over these elections though. To put it in perspective, here is a great quote . . ."Hillary has a lot of money and fund raising power that could carry her through the primaries. Primaries appear to me to be all about having enough juice to stay in the game � it�s more of a marathon than a sprint. That�s why we often see someone do well in New Hampshire or Iowa, and then fall apart. They spend all of their limited resources in those states but don�t have the organization or fund raising apparatus in place for the second round. That, along with being the political playground for psychos, is why I hate primaries."
In other news, the abortion measure in South Dakota failed. I know why too. It was too hardcore. You look a woman in the eye and tell her that if she is raped by a lice-ridden diseased bum that she cannot get an abortion if she gets pregnant from it. Women voters looked at that measure and imagined themselves being raped or a victim of incest and not being allowed an abortion. This measure would have passed if it did not have the rape and incest restrictions. Conservatives never learn how to balance things properly. You see the ACLU is smart, they will chip away one small piece at a time. Conservatives tried to smash the entire rock all at once. Too much, too soon.
Missouri approved some stem cell measure, beats me what it is about since most voters there probably have no clue what a stem cell is. It's a money sink is what it is. The Human Genome Project, also a money sink, is something that could possibly yield results ten years down the line. Stem cells on the other hand are a dead end. There has been extremely limited success working with adult stem cells and no success at all with fetal stem cells.
Gay marriage was shot down as we knew it would in many states. Arizona could only hold out for so long under repeated hammerings by George Soros and his billions of dollars. I am curious how many Mexicans they bussed up from Mexico to vote in Arizona.
I do have a question. Why are the real woman of the United States not represented in the government? All we have are Barbara Boxer, Nacy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, all hags that have nothing in common with women in America.
Deaths -- November 8, 2006
Too bad they didn't kill 36. That article is a good example of the anti-Jew slant of Saudi-owned FoxNews. Notice how it wasn't until almost the end of the article that they mention that the artillery attack was in response to rocket attacks that occurred the day before.
The article starts out with 18 killed in Israeli barrage. It does not say "18 killed in Israeli artillery barrage in response to daily rocket attacks by Hamas."
In fact most people were led to believe by the media that Hamas was no longer launching rockets into Israel when in fact it is happening almost every day.
Breathing -- November 7, 2006
I went to get some Sudafed today at the local Osco Drug and I had to hand over my driver's license and fill out a form and sign my name and it took about 10 minutes just to get a box of Sudafed so I could breath.
Let me get this straight. Drug addicts start to use Sudafed to make meth. So politicians go and make it an inconvenience for law abiding citizens to buy Sudafed. Hey I have a great idea - why not inconvenience the fucking people making meth from Sudafed instead of us people who follow the law? How about doubling the prison time for meth dealers instead of taking it out on us innocent people? I know why. Money. They get to create this giant registry that records what otc medicines people are buying and of course that needs massive funding. And later on they can sell the database to marketing companies. I know their game.
Votational Action -- November 7, 2006
I ended up voting today. I was indifferent to these elections up until a week ago, as both parties have sold us down the river. I had a change of heart the past week though when Kerry called our military soldiers morons and idiots. That prompted me to go vote against Democrats. I voted Republican straight down the line even though I know they are no better or worse than Democrats, but I didn't hear any Republican call our troops stupid and uneducated.
I did vote for Ben Nelson, who is a Democrat in the Senate. Ben Nelson was the only Nebraska politician I heard get up on a television ad several times and speak out against illegal immigration, shutting down the border and denying in-state tuition to illegal aliens in Nebraska. Yes, he was blowing hot air. The difference was I never heard one word out of Ricketts about illegal immigration. Not a one word. Nothing from the Republicans. If they did talk about it, it was not directly on television and bluntly stated as Senator Nelson did.
I voted to throw out all of the judges. It's not good to vote to retain any judge, I don't care what party they belong to. I just like the idea of judicial turnover. I don't believe in lifetime appointments to any governmental position, even the Supreme Court.
A Whale Of A Fish -- November 7, 2006
The whale shark is the largest fish in the ocean. Although enormous in size, little is known about this animal.
Desk -- Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Yesterday my computer desk started to fall apart when I decided to move it. So I ended up making a rigged contraption consisting of the top wood part of the desk and a card table and hammered the legs of the desk on the sides of the top. Anyway it works. At least until I get a new desk. Guess that'll teach me for trying to move something. I just felt like re-arranging my room. A new look. Sometimes a person can get bored with the way a room is and has to change furniture around. Hey can't spice up your life in any other way, may as well do it by rearranging your furniture.
Last Saturday it snowed for the first time of the season. Winter is coming I guess. I used to love the winter but I am no longer a fan of it, as it seems everything that goes wrong in life happens in the winter. The string of overbearing holidays doesn't help either.
Nervous Breakdown -- Friday, October 13, 2006
I support our President but I think some people are right, that at some point President Bush had a massive nervous breakdown. He does not sound right.
What happened to the Bush who said "Osama? Dead or alive, I don't care...I want him."
Can you picture Bush saying those words today? I can't. Something changed in the man over the years, and not for the better. I am curious what happened to the ball busting ass kicking President we had back in '01-02. The one we all liked.
Pot -- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
I watched a show on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge reign today. I was wondering why I felt little to no sympathy for what happened to the Cambodians. I am not saying they deserved what happened to them, no one deserves that when you're a good person who was just misled. But it got me to thinking.
I saw the pictures, the pictures of the citizens lining the streets of the cities with huge signs saying "Welcome Khmer" and "Welcome our savior Pol Pot" and "Death To America" and so on. I think the problem I have is that it was American B-52 raids, American shells, American land mines that kept the Khmer Rogue in the jungles and protected the people of Cambodia. Yet the Cambodian people just said "Go home white devils!" "Whitie go home!" "Down with USA!" So eventually the white devils of America did go home, the Khmer rolled in and the rest was history.
When you have a group of people that you are protecting, and they spit on you and curse your names, so when you finally leave and unbelievable horror is visited upon the population, it is hard not to just smirk and say "I told you so."
If it sounds cold blooded, remember it was the Cambodian people in the cities who were telling the USA to go home, we were white evil devils, they spit on us. Then once we leave and the Khmer took over, the people have the balls to suddenly cry for our return to come back and protect them?
I like how the United Nations really brought the Khmer Rouge up on genocide.
I'm sure in Iraq when we finally pull out and the Shiites and Sunni's engage in a bloodbath, I assure you one side or the other will be whining and crying for our return.
Lost -- Sunday, October 8, 2006
This is why we are losing the war on terror.
Liberals can take their sensitivity and shove it up their asses.
Rent -- Sunday, October 8, 2006
I'm out of town for a couple weeks, so I dropped off my rent around September 20 before I left. Of course, the rental office either misplaced or lost it, so they want to slap me with some $50 late rent fee penalty. Needless to say I'm not thrilled. They can go fuck themselves because they aren't getting another dime out of me. Leeching parasites. I need to get into a position to buy my own house soon, somehow. I'll find a way. Money, money money money god I'm so sick of the endless quest for more money in life. That's what life becomes when you get into your 30's, a huge massive effort to make money and all a guy wants to do is have a nice little home and take care of his family and it's a lifelong struggle just to do that. Sigh. I just need a beer.
The Island -- Sunday, October 8, 2006
I watched a movie tonight called "The Island". I didn't really understand it. That rarely happens with me. If a movie sucks, that's one thing, but to be confused watching a movie seldom happens with me. With "The Island," I spent too much time thinking "Why did that happen" and "What did they do that for" and "What's going on here."
The ending, it looked like they weren't even on an island at all, and then it showed 2 people in a boat sailing to somewhere, when there were thousands of people trying to get off the island. The movie had no ending.
It was also filmed in that annoying extremely bright white light that Hollywood is obsessed with lately. Does anyone even like that? I can't stand it. The whites are extremely bright and the blacks are pitch black. It makes a movie suck even if it's good.
The Island was a big waste of money, special effects and acting talent.
Foley -- Thursday, October 5, 2006
Well not much can be said that hasn't already been said on that
issue. Seems Foley and Hastert said they were sorry. The only
thing they are sorry about is that they got caught. Think about
it...if this had not come to the public's attention, it would have
continued to go on forever, no one would have done anything about it.
As slimy as the Democratic strategy was releasing this before an
election, and holding the messages for years thus endangering a child when
they should have come forward with it long ago, the fact is if the
messages had not been released, no one would have ever done anything about
this issue. Hastert would have continued to do nothing.
The politicians are only sorry that they were caught. That's it.
We have madman in several countries who have sworn that they will never sleep another minute of their lives until they set off a nuclear bomb in America, and all our politicians are concerned with is playing footsie under the table with underage interns.
Nice.
Oil -- Thursday, October 5, 2006
I was gone for a couple weeks, and when I got back discovered I had forgot to throw out my fish oil and it was completely rotten upon my return. The horrid smell took three days to get rid of fully. On top of it some flaxseed oil I had went and spoiled too. It was a nice welcome home present.
Religion of Tolerance -- Thursday, October 5, 2006
As 50 workers stood amid the remains of two giant Buddhas in Afghanistan carved into the cliffs of this serene valley, a munitions expert examined the rubble for unexploded bombs. This mess is what the Taliban left behind when they blew up the monuments in March 2001.
Make no mistake...radical muslims would blow up Mount Rushmore the same way.
Thailand II - September 20, 2006
Well well well. Can I call 'em or can I call 'em.
Thailand -- September 12, 2006
I've talked about this before, the Muslim invasion into southern Thailand funded and supplied by Muslim Malaysia. Apparently there has been a string of car bombings there (unreported by the media) and that it is getting close to 2,000 people dead. They are bombing banks to attack the economy there. The 'economy' such as it is, Thailand's economy is whore-driven with a few shoe and turkey factories. I pointed out how the Netherlands in Europe is the first that will go. Then you have a place like Thailand, and combined with the Netherlands, you have two of the most open-minded accepting and tolerant countries on earth, and Muslims can't even get along with them. If they can't get along with the two most tolerant and accepting countries on earth, how can they fit into the modern world at all? Thailand has centauric man-she-thing combos walking around holding office jobs, that's how tolerate it is. Yet somehow Muslims can't fit in. The pigs are even chopping the heads off rural Thai farmers and leaving them to be found. Fucking barbarians from a past age that need to be wiped off the earth is what mooslims are. Of course, because Muslims are peaceful and always the victims, you don't hear in the media about the Muslim invasions of Thailand and the Philippines (funded by Malaysia and Indonesia, respectively, via the Middle East).
Malaysia is on the verge of becoming a new Iran in a few years. Just in case you didn't know.
Infantry -- September 12, 2006
Interesting how Army infantry seems to be a mostly white (followed by Mexican) occupation. It's even more pronounced in special forces - they're something like 90% white, with most of the rest being Mexicans. It's very rare that you see a black special forces operative.
9/11 -- September 11, 2006
What's all that weepy lovely dovey candlelight shit. The only celebration I want are the heads of our enemies piked at ground zero.
Yeah that's right. I want the heads of every Al-Qadea piked on a spear and mounted at ground zero, for everyone to walk past and spit on.
Croc -- September 10, 2006
They said they buried the Croc Hunter on the grounds of his Australia Zoo. That was a good idea, people will still come just to see his grave, like Elvis.
Steve Irwin -- September 5, 2006
The Fox channel had a nice tribute to the Crocodile Hunter. They say the filming he did shows him pulling the stingray's barb out of his chest. Dr. Michael Baden said he might have been better off leaving it alone, but your first instinct is to get rid of it. Yeah, easy for doctors to say to leave a spear in your chest after it pierces your heart.
Jim Fowler was on there too, and he looked more normal, not so darn thin like he did a few months ago when I saw him. He had gained some weight and looked more like he used to. He was spending too much time in the Amazon rain forest and his bodyfat was way too low previously. For those too young to remember, he was the host of the Wild Kingdom shows back in the day.
The show said the Croc Hunter had 400 employees. His parents started up the Australia Zoo, but it was Steve who really turned it into the huge attraction that it is today. An example of a man who became more than what his parents were, or expanded on their accomplishments. That is rare in western societies, it seems.
I had watched about every episode of his Crocodile Hunter shows, as animal documentaries are in short supply these days and you can learn a lot of basic knowledge on animals you will never see.
I didn't like how the media made a big fuss about him having his baby daughter in the crocodile pen with him. How is that so different than what I see everyday in how parents treat their kids in public, especially in third world countries? Leaving them in cars to bake alive, smacking them around, selling them into prostitution, even something innocent like grabbing their arms and whirling them around in a circle is dangerous if the parent loses their grip. Yet a man wants his daughter to grow up comfortable around animals and to learn from an early age how to handle herself around deadly animals, and that's a bad thing. It just shows you how sick the media is.
Rays -- September 4, 2006
Now we get a full feature news story on the life cycle of stingrays and what we can do to prevent being stung by one on the way to work.
Has the entire media gone insane?
It was a terrible tragedy that a man died that way. But leave it at that.
Friday -- September 1, 2006
My word what a long week. It was one of those weeks when on Tuesday I was thinking, is it Friday yet. I hate weeks like that, not because they are long but because having that sort of mood means the week will be wasted as you wait around for the weekend. The weekdays were not productive at all.
It's the first of the month eh, guess rent is due today. There goes my beer money for the weekend.
Lebanon -- August 31, 2006
Lebanon is the future for European countries. Originally it had a small minority of muslims, but then in the 70s they started breeding like flies and became the plurality of the country. As their numbers increased, so did the violence. Attempts to appease them to stop the violence simply led to more violence and more demands. Now, you have a situation in which Hezbollah is becoming the government.
You'll see this first in the Netherlands. By the time this lesson becomes very apparent, the other Euro countries will be so far gone that they won't be able to defend themselves.
Pat Buchanan's new book looks pretty damn good and is selling like hotcakes. I was in B&N this weekend and they didn't have any copies left. Pat was 12 years ahead of the curve on immigration and on the real threats to Western Civilization not being online porn, rap music, and abortion but rather the territorial invasion one immigrant and one birth at a time. Savage wasn't too far behind, but Pat has always been the man. He'll never be president, but his credentials are being revalidated.
Medicine -- August 31, 2006
Is it just me, or are most medical doctors today nothing but pharmaceutical drug company sales representatives?
