In other news, hockey mom attacks on postmen are reported as having increased 25% since Sarah Palin’s speech at the RNC.
What About Barry and Sarah’s …
September 6, 2008 (2 days ago) – 12:35 pm
It is long, it is as comprehensive as any such thing can be. It’s documented and cross referenced. When looked at the right way it’s funny as hell.
It’s also a good place to start when you hear somebody blather and bloviate about Sarah Palin.
And as I was typing the above a thought came to me. Namely, that John McCain drops out of the race for health reasons, and the Republican Party agrees to name Sarah as their candidate for the office of President. She then names Hillary Clinton as her Vice Presidential candidate and has the proposal accepted by Hillary and the Republican Party.
Of course I realized it would get picked up and passed around as a news leak of sorts, joining the many other rumors out there. Which gave me additional incentive to publish it since I love causing hate and discontent.
A Thought While Listening to Sarah Palin Tonight
September 3, 2008 (5 days ago) – 8:22 pm
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is reported as relating the following joke,
What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull?
A hockey mom wears lipstick.
Do you know why hockey moms wear lipstick?
It hides the blood.
That little lady was mean tonight. The last time I heard a Vice President or Vice Presidential candidate talk that mean, it was Dick Nixon’s pit bull, Spiro Agnew. Same aggression, same aim for the jugular. Same send them to Satan glad to get there sensibility. She’s cool. Hell, I’d vote for a Palin/McCain ticket. I’d even vote for a Palin/Obama ticket. Barry would learn a lot about being President from Little Miss Crush the Nads.
I could be wrong, but I have a strong suspicion the Democratic Party won’t be putting a man (or woman) in the White House until the ultra orthodox branch of the faith gets booted out on their ass and run off the reservation. When the Democrats learn that they are a political party and not a religion is when they will start winning again.
Why I’m Not Voting For Barack Obama for President of the United States
September 3, 2008 (5 days ago) – 12:33 pm
I will put this simply, I don’t trust him. Barack Hussein Obama simply does not inspire trust in me. It isn’t any one thing, and it’s not entirely him, but he has given me no reason to trust him. His philosophy and ideology don’t sit well with me. The people he assosciates with and many of those who support him give me pause. His choice of running mate makes matters even worse.
Let me put it this way. If the general election was Barack Obama vs. Joe Biden for the office of President of the United States of America then I’d vote for Obama. I see nothing in Biden that appeals to me. Obama talks a good game, and as Mayor Nagin of New Orleans has shown, people can learn when they make the effort. I haven’t seen Biden make any effort to learn from his mistakes. That said, the Democratic Party ticket is Obama/Biden, and that is a combonation I’d rather not see in the White House.
So I’m voting McCain/Palin in November. I disagree with him on a number of issues, but I give him points for being willing to piss people off. If a fellow must be pro-life, let him be openly pro-life. I’m pro-choice, I will not force a woman to continue a pregnancy she wants to end. You’re honest with me, we’ve got common ground for discussion.
And I like her. She lives her faith. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, that he is the son of God, that he rose literally from the dead, or even that he was the product of a virgin birth. I believe you can follow Jesus’ teachings without making him into God. But, it doesn’t hurt me if other people are more comfortable with Jesus as God. It really doesn’t matter how you interact with that tangled up heap of squamous Italian pasta from Reality’s delivery entrance, what really matters is how we treat each other.
I’ve encountered people who act like the Left’s nightmare of fanatical ultraconservative Christians. I’ve met Christians like Sarah Palin. It’s like comparing festering poop with Lake Tahoe water. Yes, there are people who will speak out against adolescent sex, and then accept their son or daughter and their child into the family. Speaking as an ultra-unorthodox Christian I can say that permanent condemnation of anyone because of what they did is not part of the deal. And some of us extend this to post-mortem punishment.
So I explained more than just why I’m not voting for Barack Obama for President of the United States of America. I was speaking casually, I reserve the right to change my mind. I will now end this by reminding those of my readers dreading Barack’s upcoming loss to John in November. Once all the vote counting is done, you still have Christmas shopping.
With Oil at $80 a Barrel?
September 3, 2008 (5 days ago) – 9:31 am
The way things are going it looks like we’ll see Oil at $80 a Barrel. I thought I’d look at a few things that would change in such a case.
The first thing is, prices would drop. Not immediately, not all at once, but they would drop. And not just the price of fuel. Lubricants, pharmaceuticals, plastics, clothing and fabrics, and fertilizer. That’s just the stuff that’s made from oil.
Food, natural fabrics, building material, construction and manufacturing stock, finished products, everything and anything made, produced, and transported with oil would come down in price. This recent period of accelerated inflation would be succeeded by a period of accelerated deflation. Oil drops to $80.00 a barrel prices are coming down. Which means …
Which means you are going to see a boost to the economy. More money will be spent on things other than gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubrication. Less money needed for food, fuel, clothing, and utilities means more money for things like dining out, entertainment, durable goods, and travel. Airline travel will pick up; a number of airlines will be getting an infusion of funds for replacing and/or repairing aged and obsolete equipment. Expect new planes coming on line in the years to come.
Same thing with private transportation. SUVS have just been saved. Just about every car manufacturer will be switching to SUV production again, letting small cars slide back in priority. Fuel efficiency will become the bastard red-headed step son again.
There is one thing the drop in oil prices is going to halt in its tracks, expanded oil extraction in the United States. There will be no new off-shore oil fields. You might as well forget it. It might happen ten years from now, but not because of current conditions
The same thing with new nuclear power plants. Lower oil prices means it becomes cheaper to run generators of that sort. It becomes cheaper to build new oil and coal powered generators as well, and since that technology is tested and proven, that will be the technology people use. Wind farms, solar farms are going to be dropped from many a power generation plan.
You can also expect numerous transit plans to be truncated or even canceled. Subways, light rail, heavy rail projects all shelved. Instead money will get spent on roads and highways. Hopefully on repairs and maintenance, but expect pet projects to get green lighted as well.
Though the one change that’ll probably distress certain parties the most is the fate of hybrids. Without high oil prices hybrids would not be the all that they are. When oil falls to $80.00 a barrel you’re going to see hybrids in remaindered bins across the country. You’ll be seeing used hybrids going for pennies on the dollar.
But the immediate impact of the drop in oil prices will be seen in the sales. As the cost of producing and transporting goods falls you’re going to see a lot of stuff getting dumped on the market to make way for new stuff made for a lower cost.
Which will mean an adjustment of debt. You’re going to see a lot of forgiveness of debt, even outright cancelation. Maybe even a drop in loan rates. This because money is going to be worth more, and because companies and people will see a drop in income. If lenders have any smarts at all, they’ll forgive a fair amount of debt in order to improve their chances of getting most of their loans back.
At best the drop in oil prices will mean a more active economy. At worst it could mean runaway deflation and a full blown depression. Not likely, but no sense in denying the possibility.
Eighty dollar a barrel oil means a lot of changes. Are you ready for it?
Observation
September 2, 2008 (6 days ago) – 7:21 pm
The last couple of days ABC Evening News has been running stories about lobbyists and the Republican National Convention. Pushing hard at the subject, pointing the bad things about lobbying on the national level. But, I don’t recall ABC News getting so hot and bothered over lobbyists at the Democratic National Convention. Often the same lobbying firms and even the same lobbyists who are now gaming the Republican Party for advantage.
Why all the outrage over contact between lobbyists and Republicans, when lobbyists and Democrats get a free pass? Why are lobbyists treated as good guys when Democrats are concerned, but villains when Republicans enter the scene?
Well, that’s the impression I’m getting here. Lobbyists wined and dined Democrats during the DNC in Denver, and ABC News said little about it. Certainly not the hostility you’re seeing now over lobbyist-Republican interaction at the RNC. If it’s bad for lobbyists to bribe and hornswoggle Republicans in such a fashion, why isn’t it bad for lobbyists to bribe and hornswoggle Democrats in the same way?
Or is it because lobbyists are bribing and hornswoggling the right people when they bribe and hornswoggle Democrats, instead of those vile and untrustworthy pre-corrupted scum bucket Republicans?
You’re going to go after slime buckets, go after slime buckets no matter who they deal with. Even if you prefer their philosophy, ideology, or taste in potable ethanol.
And the Truth Will Ruin Your Case
September 1, 2008 (1 week ago) – 9:49 am
There are three things to take from Beldar’s post, Wooten needs firing, Monegan needed firing, and some people have a real nasty case of PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) already. If Monegan had been fired for his handling of the Wooten case, the firing would have been justified.
You don’t drink on duty, you don’t taser your kid, you don’t threaten the sister of your wife, or your wife’s dad. Make that sort of behavior grounds for firing with cause, no appeal. For the cop to get his job back he has to present his case in civil court before a jury of his peers. Let’s dump jerks no matter where they work.
Somebody Needs a Good Ass Whuppin
August 31, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 11:07 am
Somebody clumsily inserted a link in a post. The first letter disappeared to be replaced by a right caret (>). The link redirects to Web Site Development Company : Milwaukee - Web Design - Web Development - Web Hosting | Welcome to Website Development Co. | Website, Design, Search, Site, Visit. Which is, apparently a web design and hosting company. If you are in the Milwaukee WI area see what you can find about the company.
It might be deliberate on their part, they may be victims of a hack, or they were borged into a botnet. If it’s either of the latter two, I’m thinking Microsoft is open to criminal prosecution for providing an attractive nuisance, and in the doing rendering IBM compatible personal computers in particular, and the Internet as a whole, vulnerable to attack and ipso facto unreliable.
If nothing else, criminal charges appropriate to communication and information security would be a good idea.
Save the Internet, Ban Windows.
Update: I tried to do an IP ban on http://webco.info/, it failed. I will inform my host of this.
A Palin Observation
August 30, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 5:21 am
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska ever became President of the United States she’d be Baberaham Lincoln.
This is a Liberal City Government?
August 28, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 1:53 pm
The Raw Story | Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges
As Glenn Reynolds would put it, they said if George W. Bush were elected protesters would have their civil rights violated, and they were right. But honestly, this is what you get when the authorities are convinced they are working with the angels against Satan’s own minions; that is, citizens. The Denver CO police have become occupiers, oppressors out to stifle any sign of opposition to their rule. They have engaged in a perversion of the rule of law, and by this perversion they have negated any legitimacy they once held.
The city of Denver, the Denver police, and the Denver courts have fostered a culture of corruption. They have knowingly, and with malice aforethought, engaged in illegal behavior aimed at suppressing civil discourse and promoting violent confrontation. All with the aim of rationalizing their behavior and promoting legislation placing a veneer of legality over their behavior.
I would like to urge the citizens of Denver to seek recalls against all elected officials involved in this matter. I further urge Colorado and Federal officials to initiate criminal and civil action against Denver officials for violations of state and Federal law. If necessary, then the city of Denver Colorado needs to be placed under Federal law until such time as municipal elections can be held for a new city government.
Denver is an outlaw city and must be brought to heel.
Via Instapundit
Unfortunate Phrasing
August 27, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 12:23 pm
…and even how we die. Faster, please.
You must admit, the 2008 Presidential campaign has taken a lot out of everybody.
Dissing McCain
August 26, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 12:46 am
A lot of people don’t know this, but there is a type of theater known as American Sign Language Opera. Instead of singing the arias, the performers sign them. Soon after his release from the North Vietnamese prison camp John McCain decided he wanted to try it out, and proved to be talented at it. Unfortunately he had to give it up because he just couldn’t reach the high notes.
Wrong Question
August 24, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 8:49 am
The pundisphere has been going on and on about John McCain’s ignorance regarding how many houses he owns. What they — and John, one must admit — forget is that McCain doesn’t own any houses. He owns mansions and condos, but he doesn’t own any houses.
Yes, It’s Silly
August 24, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 7:36 am
Basil’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Joe Biden interview
Monumentally silly at that. Drinking while reading is contraindicated.
A Quiet Autumn Night
August 23, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 6:52 am
She stood three feet in her bare feet, and weighed forty pounds in her bare skin. A child of dark brown eyes and dark brown skin, and tightly curled dark brown hair. She was clean now, and giggling as her mother finished drying her off. Then on with clean cotton panties — so as not to chafe her skin — and a soft woolen nightgown to keep her warm on this calm October night.
Then downstairs to Daddy’s chair where mother and child curled up together in the cushions and the Daddy smell. A smell of protection and security. And there Mommy read again from the adventures of a remarkable little girl who had remarkable adventures among her remarkable friends.
The father watched all this as he went over the specs for a new server to be installed at work. When his daughter was fast asleep he took her in his arms and carried her upstairs to her bedroom, and her bed. Together mother and father tucked her in and kissed her goodnight. Then, as the mother went to their bedroom to get things ready for them, the father sparked first the wards against the night chill. Next the screen that kept the bugs out — for there are mosquitos that thrive in the mid October night.
Then the veils against baneful spirits, ghosts and ghasts and malevolent sprits. Finally he invoked The Guardian, a small light that made a round of the room, then settled in over the child’s head. Secure in the knowledge nobody would harm his daughter, he headed off to chat quietly with the wife and then to sleep.
WordPress Theme Thoughts: Layout
August 18, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 4:54 am
After all those posts about the Biscardi Bloviation and the Russian/Georgian War, I thought it time for something a little lighter. In those post I’ll be setting out a few ideas about theme design, and the use of widget.
My first thought is, whether fixed or fluid width, all layout elements are set as percentages of the base width. Header and footer for instance would be set as 100% of base width. The side bars would be something like 10, 20, or 30% of base width.
My second thought is, let’s use widgets everywhere. We start by adding a new file, layout.php. Layout is where the layout of the theme is specified. If no widgets are used here the only content will be that detailed by the content section of the style.css and index.php files.
The widgets available here may include the following:
Header: One column, two column, three column, and four column.
Footer: One column, two column, three column, and four column.
Left Sidebar: One column, two column, three column.
Right Sidebar: One column, two column, three column
The theme could be anything from one column if no side bar widgets are used. Up to seven columns if three column left sidebar and three column right sidebar widgets are used.
To expand on this one could have main page, archive, single post, and various page layouts.
The layout would have to be limited to four layout widgets at most. One header widget, one footer widget, one left sidebar widget, and one right sidebar widget. In addition, the choice of widgets for the layout would need to be restricted to layout widgets. The content itself would be handled by an embedded call instead of a widget.
That’s my thinking about integrating widgets and layout.
What Do You Do With a Deceased Bigfoot
August 18, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 4:17 am
After the Biscardi Bloviation I’ve decided to pass on some advice regarding the handling of a bigfoot corpse.
Step one is, learn to take good pictures with your camera. Take a class in photography. Get your ass outside and take tons of pictures. You don’t need to worry about the cost of film developing, there’s no film t o be developed. Get to know your camera, what it can do and how to use it to best effect.
Why do you need to learn how to take good photos? Because you’re going to need to document your find.
And speaking of documenting the find, you’ll need something to provide scale. Without scale the subject could be a child’s doll as far as anybody’s concerned. A walking stick should do, so long as you have pictures of you standing next to your walking stick.
The next step is to tell the cops about it. Show them the pictures you’ve taken — that’s why you want to be a good photographer, and make yourself available for an on site investigation. The police will provide resources you can’t, including a photographer who’s much better than you and with better equipment. But, never screw the cops over. The cops will hurt you if you screw them over.
The cops secure the scene and the corpse. At this time local scientists should get involved. They’ll be the ones to study the body, dissecting it, doing genetic tests, perhaps even a genome sequencing (that last I heartedly recommend). Get measurements, an anatomical study, the whole nine yards. Get it established that this is not an abnormal human, but a different species entirely. Also make the work open. Anybody wants to join the investigation, and he can work honestly regardless of how he felt about the subject beforehand, let him join the project.
Finally, make sure that all the work on the specimen and the findings that come of it gets posted to the web.
The keys here are honesty and openness. No games. Whatever you find, whatever you learn, you make that available to everybody. Believe me, you’ll make a lot more off your book about how you discovered bigfoot then you ever could acting all mysterious and secretive.
Box Full of Dumb
August 16, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 5:45 pm
Having given it more thought I have come to the conclusion that Thomas Biscardi and co. have committed one of the most egregious frauds in the history of mankind. They are, in short, liars out to make a dishonest buck, and so deserving of criminal prosecution and the strictest punishment allowed by law in any and all pertinent jurisdictions upon conviction.
They have disappointed me. Even more importantly, they have pissed me off. Their shenanigans have damaged bigfoot research for a long time to come, for that they deserve the worst society can allot to them.
It is time to start bringing the weight of the law against hoaxsters such as these. No foisting it off as being an ado about nothing. Faking evidence for anything is fraudulent and needs to be treated as fraud. Therefor I urge the states of California and Georgia to bring charges against the three men, and anyone else involved in perpetrating the hoax. I further urge the Federal government to bring charges as appropriate for fraudulent use of the Internet, as well as for interstate wire fraud.
I have more to say on the handling of bigfoot remains, should any show up, but that will be for a different post.
Bigfoot Take Down
August 15, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 11:45 pm
Georgia Bigfoot body in freezer - Tom Biscardi Ric Dyer Matt Whitton
Now this is what I’m looking for when I’m looking for arguments supporting the proposition a claim has no validity. Now before I make up my mind on the matter I’m going to need evidence regarding the remains themselves, but the report does provide information on the three men involved.
The way it looks now, at best the two discoverers, Rick Dyer and Matthew (Matt) Whitton, shot and killed a sasquatch, secured the body, and stuffed it in a freezer. But in the doing severely damaged the remains. They then played games about the corpse and used it to make money.
At the worst it was all a hoax to begin with. They concocted the story and tried to use their wild tale to draw in customers for bigfoot expeditions. When Tom Biscardi got involved he came up with the idea to announce that the body would be examined by experts and the findings released to the world. Hopefully the body too.
As it stands, it looks more and more like a hoax. A shame, really. Even if the body is real, the three men have so badly mishandled it it has virtually lost any value as evidence. As I’ve been saying before, the only way the situation can be redeemed is for Biscardi and crew to turn over the remains to someone like Dr. Jeff Meldrum or a university for examination.
Keep your eyes open for further details and further evidence regarding the veracity and the falsehood of Biscardi’s claims. And when investigating Tom Biscardi’s claims, follow the money.
Anticipatory Disappointment
August 15, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 12:02 am
This is the picture of disappointment. Loren Coleman has been part of the search for Bigfoot for decades, and has seen frauds, hoaxes, and disappointment. He used to be optimistic about this matter, but then he got to thinking about it, and thinking about the reputation and past behavior of Tom Biscardi, the person handling the discovery, it’s publicity and research.
Loren has been hurt by this. He has been accused of being part of a reputed hoax, or of being a gullible fool. His web sites have been hacked and his reputation sullied. Two of his sites were hacked, and he now must recreate them and find a new host. Years of work down the drain because some small fool had to have fun.
This because Tom Biscardi has been an ass in the past, and is now so grossly mishandling the affair one has to wonder about his status as a mature adult. George (the reputed sasquatch corpse) could be the real thing for all we know, but Biscardi has so poisoned the atmosphere the possible validity of George may well take a generation or more to establish.
So here are my demands for Tom Biscardi (I was going to call them recommendations; but dammit, the man’s pissed me off).
First: You will turn the remains over to the nearest campus of the University of California system. You will relinquish all claims to the body without compensation or expectation of compensation.
Second: You will provide all evidence concerning the body, including location found and circumstances.
Third: If it is a hoax you will reveal how the hoax was done, provide all materials used to produce the hoax, and identify all persons involved in the production and promotion of the hoax.
Fourth: In addition, should this matter be fraudulent you will surrender yourself to the appropriate authorities for prosecution, and if convicted you will serve the mandated time asking for no plea agreements or for any special treatment.
Fifth: You will compensate Loren Coleman for his time, emotional suffering, and loss of reputation as determined by a court of law.
Sixth: You will cancel the press conference scheduled for noon Pacific Daylight Time later today. If the body is real it will be the University of California who will make that announcement, when they have done a thorough examination.
These demands are not negotiable. If the reputed sasquatch corpse proves fraudulent then I shall do what I can to see that you and your cohorts are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
If, on the other hand, George proves to be the real thing, then I shall be among the first to congratulate you.
Folks, it’s time the frauds in sasquatch research got their butts kicked. Let’s make hoaxing in this field more trouble than it’s worth.