Its been a bad week for posting. I still need to rebut Curtis, a lot has happened on the national scene, and I have had some personal victories this week. All quite bloggable, but there is a little annoyance called work which keeps getting in the way. I also was able to jump on a real drop in interest rates and refinanced the loan on my house. That was a real coup-with a huge drop in my interest rate.
So good things do happen to me from time to time.
However the other reason I have been lacking on the posting section-is that I have been curiously unmotivated to do so. I'm not sure why. Being mentally tired from work is a big part of it-its been a hectic few weeks and its not slowing down. Being unappreciated at work is also taxing to my spirit as well-especially when coupled with living a whole hemisphere away from where I should be living. That just sucks the life out of me whenever I think about it. I could stand being unappreciated on the right side of the international dateline-being on the wrong side of it is just a double wammy.
And finally-to add insult to injury, I've had to go to the doctor for various exams and had to hear the crisp "crack" of the rubber glove on his hand, prior to my yearly reminder of why I cannot be gay.
Anyway.
I do have a couple of thoughts on various and sundry events of recent days. So listed below are a few short thoughts on various subjects.
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Rush Limbaugh is not getting to own part of the Rams. You will forgive me if I don't cry any salt tears over it. Could not have happened to a nicer guy. The son of a bitch should not be rich enough to even think he could be a part owner of the Rams-much less actually go through with it.
Furthermore, its nice to see someone like him, or Michelle Malkin, or any of the rest of the insulated, ignorant fools, who live in the right wing bubble-get called to account for what they say.
Some people do deserve to suffer for their ideas. Are you listening Glenn Beck?
See, the thing about Rush Limbaugh is that he never gets held to account for the foolish things he says. Same is true of Malkin. She has no concept of how real people live and suffer, because like the fat boy, she lives in a concoon that money and wealth have created for them.
Rush, of course, has gone on the offensive trashing the NFL and how they are biased against conservatives. Sorry fat boy-it just won't wash. Rush was dropped for a very conservative reason-and one that he should applaud-the odds were good the Rams would not make as much money as they could because of the baggage he would bring to the table.
Now prominent dickheads commentators have made a big deal about supposedly false comments on race that were attributed to Limbaugh. Exactly three if memory serves. On the other hand there are over 30 that are undeniable-pointedly racist-and in any case, inflammatory remarks, that he has made on his radio show.
Which is why he was dropped from the partnership. The NFL is to the right of Limbaugh-and no right thinking owner is going to let Limbaugh's mouth get in the way of making money. Which would have been sure to happen.
Justice was done here. For once-these folks get held to the fire for the stupid things they say.
I get held to account for the stupid things I say-why shouldn't a fat boy? ( And before anyone thinks I haven't been held to account for the things I say-trust me, I've got a trail of missed opportunities because of the things I believe- that have stood in my way over the years………).
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I agree with James Fallows, its almost impossible to overfly the airport you are filed to. Unless you are asleep.
Pilots do sleep in the cockpit-especially when they are tired and bored. A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, a pilot in the squadron I was in, was notorious for it. His co-pilot, took it upon himself to teach " the man, the myth, and the legend" ( Stein gets this reference), a lesson. Our intrepid aviator was in the left seat and after the cat shot and the climb out, upon arriving on station, our intrepid hero removes his helmet, pulls a helmet bag over his head, and tells the co-pilot to "mind the store". Off he drifts to dreamland.
Said co-pilot decides to make his move. First, he sets a waypoint and the fly to indicator, to a point out in east bumf*ck. (In the days before GPS, pilots would set waypoint zero to the ship's launch location so they had a reference back to the carrier). Second, he runs the fuel quantity test down to about 2000 pounds and pulls the circuit breaker. This leaves the fuel quantity gages appearing as if there is only a 1000 pounds a side. ( In reality, there is plenty of gas on board, but "the legend " cannot tell with out reseting the fuel quantity circuit breaker) . Finally, he turns the air-conditioning to full cold. The auto-pilot already being engaged, he slumps back, pretending to be asleep. ( All the while keeping an eye on the aircraft and its motions through the sky). As and added bonus-he set the cockpit clocks two hours ahead.
Our intrepid hero finally wakes up because he is cold, clears his eyes, pulls on his helmet, and looks at the guages. At which point he goes berserk when he thinks he is 480 miles from the ship, with only 2000 pounds of gas, and a co-pilot who is "asleep". The back end of the aircraft ( where I was mission commander) was deselected on the ICS, but I'm told I missed a full fledged nervous breakdown.
And to add insult to injury, he got a "No Grade" coming aboard.
I still smile when I think about it. I doubt the NWA pilots are smiling though. They are probably figuring out how they can get jobs flying drugs from Panama.
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Someone has to tell me how KBR is allowed to get away with things like this:
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I realize, KBR recruits a certain type of person for the lousy jobs they have to do-but really, how can anyone support this type of behavior? And if its a false accusation, why don't they deliver the proof?
A satirical website called “Republicans for Rape” is encouraging people to call the thirty Republicans who voted against Franken’s amendment, and tell them what they think about that.
Sometime later, I need to comment on the Pentagon's overuse of contractors, but that's a more complicated subject than most people think. And I'm hardly an objective observer since, if the location is right, I would sign on the dotted line. But to allow this to go on is over the line, if you ask me.
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The Atlantic has an interesting article on where the E-Reader revolution is taking us.
Today it seems to me that there are at least three major classes of popular personal technology that have yet to be fully consolidated into a modern Swiss Army Knife: cell phones and computers and I think e-readers will soon fill that trio. The arc of personal tech history dictates that functions don't remain separate for very long. Someday the idea of an e-reader designed merely to read will seem as limiting as the cell phone that doesn't receive emails or the desktop that won't fit in your satchel. It will still have an consumer audience, but it will be seen as behind the wave.
I just want to know how I can get the new stuff back fitted into my Kindle.
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Did you ever come across a movie running while channel surfing, that you just had to keep coming back to? The other night after the baseball game, I did. After telling the S.O., that I did not feel like going to bed, I happened upon a movie on the Indie Channel: The Civilization of Maxwell Bright . At first it seemed a movie right up my alley.
Fed up with American women and determined to procure a docile Asian wife, an angry L.A. misogynist gets a mail order bride from China. Who just happens to be the ever delectable Marie Matiko:
Patrick Warburton plays the male lead-and suffice it to say, he makes me look like caring sensitive feminist advocate by comparison. At least at the beginning of the movie. There is a scene where he is arrested by a bunch of female cops that is just a classic. You have to watch that far in the movie to see it-but his quip about the female cops showing up at the crime scene is pretty funny. However-and this may be a plot spoiler- this is the Indie Channel. Our hero Max is going down at the end the movie. Still, it was a pretty interesting movie. Probably would not have paid to see it in the theater-but its worth seeing on DVD.
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And finally, like Maxwell, it would be nice if the Yankees just rolled over and accepted fate gracefully. However, especially since they are going back to New York-that's not going to happen. The "A's" better bring their A game-and even then, I'm not sure its going to be enough. However, you have to admit, last night's game was what a baseball playoff game should be-suspenseful all the way. ja ne!
Hey Skippy,
I did offer you an out on the long boring trollish reply and seriously, if you have software that can ban me from posting here we’d probably all be better served if you just used it. I just can’t help myself! You’re the only bunch of liberals I know of that know how to write, read and communicate outside my immediate die hard liberal family who happen to be spending the year in Del Mar…
One simply cannot talk politics with family these days without getting into angst, particularly if one branch has completely sold their souls to the socialist ideal. Seriously. I had the northern CA branch down a couple of weekends ago for Labor Day and I gave up. As I pointed out to two of them before calling an end, every single solitary time I opened my mouth to talk BOTH of them would instantly start talking. I don’t need that.
So, seriously man, I actually enjoy your forum but as I said, I’m not blind to the more or less uni-hemispherical aspects associated with it and while I’ve never been accused of trollish behavior elsewhere, ever…. most liberals have very thin skins and the very first instant of criticism causes pain and leaves them in tears. Sheesh, can you imagine what would happen if I called Charles and Paul whores? They’d probably be crying in their soup before breakfast.
Now for the fun bit!
I can’t talk about work but let us just say that it is dire. I’m OK as are the handful that work for me on my project. Everybody else…..layoff time, furlough, Leave without Pay, just waiting for the tide to come back in. It’s been 7 months without rain.
I’m with you! Happy that Rush was denied a shot at partial ownership of the worst team in the NFL! Loser! Who the hell gave him the right to shoot off his mouth! Who the hell does he think he is? First amendment rights my butt.
You know, I write a paragraph like that and I can read it and accept it as total and complete satire. How do liberals interpret such a paragraph? Maybe he should buy a piece of the Detroit Lions?
I’d just like to take this opportunity to point out that perhaps you don’t really understand Rush and Malkin. You wonder why it is that they are never held to account for what they say. Skippy, they are! Serious businessmen (hundreds and hundreds of them) hold them to account every single day and pay them big $. I know you know why that is so, it is because 20 million people in America listen to Rush everyday and he sells advertising on a vast scale, ditto Malkin and PJ Media. They get away with saying what they say because hordes of Americans buy the products that are advertised by them. That’s the American Way! Liberal radio failed dismally and did none of any of you note that it was forced to PAY for airtime? Rush doesn’t PAY for airtime. They pay him.
Contracts and KBR. Binding arbitration sounds so much like a ploy invented by a socialist lawyer doesn’t it? Remember the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape and the witchhunt? I do. I also remember cases I was roped into as both an XO and CO which proved to be totally false allegations. I read that girl’s story when it first came out and thought it was bogus then. I still do but we don’t like to think that anybody could get away with doing something as awful as that to an unwilling girl, do we. I’ve got a little girl. I’ll bet a number of those associated with the investigation also have wives, mothers and daughters. Are you people really so insane that you think that 100% of them would cover up such a crime simply because the company might be out some $? Really? All of them? When you want to address abuse of contracts, let’s discuss what the won did to the shareholders and bondholders of GM and Chrysler. Those people had a contract that guaranteed them certain considerations if those firms went bankrupt which were swept away by the US government when it took over both automakers. That was an entirely provable crime.
I got a kick out of both clips. Heard of the Feres Doctrine? Now that’s a real crime.
e-books. Man I love those. I took two volumes by Will and Arial Durant to Kuwait with me for a 6 month deployment. They were stuffed into my seabag and kept me company when I was off duty. I’ve taken my laptop to Korea a few dozen times for those pointless exercises in frustration over the last 7 years and that laptop had over 500 books on it! The laptop is about the same size and weight as just one of the Durant’s books…. My SONY e-book reader is great. I can load just about any type of file into it and display it. I was sitting at the Robertos patio in Sorrento valley a few weeks ago, postponing as long as possible my visit to the NOCAL and SOCAL branches of the family and reading another book when some guys asked me about it. 30 minute conversation. They had never heard of the Gutenberg press…sad.
You have Max going down at the end of the movie. Is that anything like teabagging?
Seriously Skippy, you should just banish me. I did all this while watching (not) Stargate Universe. I’d gun down every single one of those losers in a heartbeat. When Aliens comes on in a few minutes, I’ll give that a shot.
Max dies.
Simple, succinct.
Ripley just got to the point in Aliens where she talked about going into orbit and nuking the site since it was the only way to be sure. As an ex-staff weenie, I have to admit that we all loved that phrase. DC and Norfolk would be the deepest craters on earth.
Spud…..”I trusted him and he F%&*ed me.”
The “Crossing the Line of Death” story is a good one too, I was there for both, 100% true!
Thanks!
stein
Curtis, I realize you’re being sarcastic, but the 1st amendment begins with “Congress shall make no law” and I don’t recall that Congress was involved in the NFL/Limbaugh flap. There seems to be a general impression on both sides of the spectrum that the 1st amendment gives you a license to say whatever you want, without consequences. As long as the consequences are not government-inflicted, that’s not the case.
But the real question for Skippy is, what’s the story on the new Astro-Boy movie?
I did not get to go see it last night. Long story and the S.O. was not on list of people I liked last night. But I’m going………..
Rush Limbaugh: Transcript of radio broadcast from Oct. 14, 2008
By Keith Vance
TRANSCRIPT OF RUSH LIMBAUGH ON HIS RADIO SHOW FROM OCT. 14, 2008
Editor’s note: This is a verbatim transcript of Limbaugh explaining how ACORN, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright are all involved in a radical leftwing conspiracy to teach black kids to hate America.
From the time of my birth 57 years ago to today, this country has grown and expanded, prosperity has opened its doors for more and more people around the world, not just people born in this country.
We know the stories of asians immigrating and running rings around people born in this country academically in California. We know all about the immigration, legal and illegal, to get into the country. We know that the standard of living has risen. We know that technological advancement is going along at light speed.
And yet, during this period of time, whether it be the last 57 years, or the last 20 years, it seems that the majority of the black population has remained angry, frustrated and behind – they’ve been left behind. They’re acting like they’ve been left behind, and of course we’ve heard that this is because of racism, natural systemic institutional racism in America. We’re unfair. That this country is just horrible and rotten.
Do you ever ask yourself how it is that people not even born here can come here and in a few short years begin prospering in school, they’re own business, and yet people who are born in this country somehow have been raised to hate it – to still think they’re back in the days of slavery.
I actually think, after studying all this ACORN stuff, and reading what Stanley Kurtz has written about this, I actually believe that what has taken place here, in addition to liberal Democrat legislation – such as the great society and the war on poverty, which a lot of people would now acknowledge really busted up the black family by the government taking the place of a husband and father – he’s free to roam around and bear no responsibility. The mother remained the mother, she got the financial assistance from this legislation from the federal government. The federal government became the father. The father didn’t have to hang around in order for the kids to be OK – depending on how you define OK.
And as you study more and more of this ACORN stuff you find that it has been part of an entire movement that has been going for two maybe three decades right under our noses. We thought that it was just liberal welfare policies and all that that kept blacks from progressing while other minorities grew and prospered but no. It is these wackos from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright to other anti-american afro-centric black liberation theologists, working with ACORN, and Barack Obama is smack dab in the middle of it. They have been training young black kids to hate hate hate this country. And they trained their parents before that to hate hate hate this country. It was a movement. It was a Bill Ayers anti-capitalist anti-american educational movement. ACORN is how it was implemented right under our noses.
They’re doing far more folks than just cheating when it comes to elections and registration. They’re in deep in this mortgage crisis. ACORN and Obama, and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the Democrat Party have their fingerprints the sub-prime mortgage crisis. The whole concept of affordable housing was people who can’t afford a mortgage are going to get one, because America is unfair.
It has been a movement. It has been a religion. And Obama and Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers were all up to their big ears in it.
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This is only one example, he real sounds like America’s Uniter, not a Divider, when it comes to race relations. Rush will not sue because he knows they will file a counter compliant and he will be deposed and like Nixon he knows that the tapes will sink him. For so many years he has spent his time on the radio mis-labeling and/ or mis-characterizing others. Poor little “self-centered” Rush, no out except creating the myth that everyone is out to get him. Sorry sucka you can only yourself to blame for your idiot comments. He finally had his judgment day where the NFL (Not For Limbaugh) wins and tubby loses. Tee, hee…
But doesn’t he have a point about immigrants. At the National Spelling Bee the winner again, was of Indian heritage and the only African was, well, an African, first generation.
James Fallows wrote this in the Atlantic Magazine a few years ago. He had visited a school in Miami, all black. And on the wall of fame on one side were all the star athletes, all native born. On the academic achievement side were all HAITIANS!!!!!
Why?