Posted by: Jack at January 26, 2006 04:36 AM (Qp0dR)

Posted by: Ebulus at March 02, 2006 10:57 PM (FbL4i)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

Hide Comments | Add Comment

Hide Comments | Add Comment

I checked my Blog worth and found the following....All I have to say is, any buyers interested?

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 06:39 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Osama Offers Truce?

ALa of Blond Sagacity has a guest post by Free0352 wherein he holds a dicussion with Osama on future options in the GWOT, in the light of his recent offer of a truce.

Free pretty much says it all.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 05:24 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Three Arkansas Surgeons

I saw this joke over at Liz's site and I JUST had to steal borrow it.

Three Arkansas surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed. The first one says, “I’m the best surgeon in Arkansas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England.” The second one says, “That’s nothing. A young man lost an arm and both legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in field events in the Olympics.”

The third surgeon says, “You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a lady was high on cocaine and marijuana and she rode a horse head on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse’s blond mane and a big ass. Now, she’s the Junior Senator from New York.

You know...that explains a lot....

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 01:08 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Quiz Time..

I saw this quiz at Acidmans site. He was bemoaning the fact that he was a Honda, and not an American made car. So I thought I'd take the quiz and see what I was.

I'm a Chevrolet Corvette!

You're a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Well I guess I can handle that....at least I'm a domestic brand!

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 12:02 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 24, 2006

Brought a tear to my eye...

Catfish sent me this link to a page by Jeff Edwards that expounds on the fact that we're playing a losing game with all the naysayers that will never agreee with what the Armed Services are doing, that no matter what army we have, it's the WRONG one....

It's well worth the time to read, and PLEASE follow Jeff's advice at the end; when you see a man or woman that wears the uniform, THANK him or her for their service. You don't have to agree with this or that policy. You don't have to think we're doing the right thing in Iraq.

Just acknowledge that these men and women have the courage to sacrifice themselves for an ideal, even if you don't have the same idea of that ideal.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 10:17 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Pity the Fool

Mamamontezz sent me this link with the admonition that "it would get my blood going".

I have to admit that my first reaction was one of anger; I thought I was going to be reading another hate-filled anti-soldier diatribe such as the owner of HateThe Tooops.com regularly spews out. But in really reading the piece, I found myself more in a mood of pity and envy. Pity that Mr. Stein can be so divorced from the cruel realities of the world we live in, and envy that he has had such an easy life that he can maintain that position.

He doesn't even have the passion of the HBS kool-aid drinkers, when he regurgitates the lies they promulgate. Must be awful dull to be so smug in your rightousness. I find I can't get angry at Mr. Stein because I get the feeling that he doesn't feel any real passion in what he espouses. He does have the right idea in that we have to "give our returning soldiers what they need: hospitals, pensions, mental health".... And blows even that sentiment with "and a safe, immediate return." He tries to bring a cloak of bravery in the face of danger around himself in saying that "he doesn't suport the troops", but his argument is so lackluster that not even the most battle hardened vet can feel anything but pity towards him.

I may be fiery on occasion, but I feel passionately in my beliefs, and I can acknowledge that sometimes I may be mistaken in one or two things in following my passion. Mr. Stein has the complacent smugness of one that never had to really exert an effort; he has determined that the war is immoral in his own mind, even though he has no real reason for that reasoning other than an old tired meme's of "false intelligence" and "American Imperialism". He seems to be experiencing survivors guilt without ever haveing to had to be at risk of any danger, and then pontificates on the morality of an individual soldier engaged in combat?!

PU-LEEZE! Mr Stein seems to be the perennial Sophmore that talks on things he's not qualified to judge, but he doesn't even have the ardor of the radical Idiotarian to even make it interesting except as an example of sophistry.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 07:58 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 23, 2006

A Bad day at the Office

Courtesy of BlackFive, here's a view of a REALLY BAD DAY in paratroop training:

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:26 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

SA-LAMMMM!

Professor Mike S. Adams has a great treatise up on why he doesn't take feminists serously. As always, he cuts right to the chase and takes no prisoners.

Here's just a taste:

The question “Why don’t you take feminists seriously” is an important one. It deserves a more complete response. So here are my primary reasons:

1. I do not consider 21st century feminism to be a political ideology or philosophy.

American feminists generally do not become feminists because of some well-defined political goal. For example, in your email you enumerate several important political objectives. You want to vote. You want to be free to hold elective office. You want rape to be illegal. You want to be able to work. You don’t want to be forced to get and stay pregnant at all times. You want genital mutilation (of females) to be illegal.

I have an important newsflash, Daisy: You have already achieved all six of these political objectives. But, nonetheless, you continue to rant. And you continue to live in the past. That makes it difficult to take you seriously.....

Go read the rest and see if you don't agree with Professor Adams. It's really good to see an academic with the courage to forgo Political Correctness and really tell it like he feels it is.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 10:26 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fair Tax

You all know how I feel about the Fair Tax, and I'm not alone. Two enterprising people have established a really good resource page about everthing to do with the Fair Tax.

Thanks to the fine page that Jessica Crane and Jonathan Schrader have put together, I found a group that calls themselves The Boston Tea Party that has written a song about it.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 09:36 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Those Wacky Dems!

With all the litigation concerning firearms, where the manufacturers are being sued because the owners are misusing their weapons, I thought this comparison might warrent revisiting:

There has been a mini-furor over some recent remarks by the Shrill Beast of New York. I don'ty worry too much about it, because I know that it was just kicking off an advertising campaign for a new product of hers....well, actually, it's a product long utilyzed by the DNC, but now they have a new spokesfigure:

H/T to Catfish

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 07:28 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 22, 2006

I think I'm semi-well traveled

Found this via Acidman, and tyhought it might be interesting to see how well traveled I am in comparison with some of my readers...

Here's the States I've traveled:

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Here's the countries:


create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

How about you?

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 04:10 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 21, 2006

Quiz

Sorry about the lightweight postings; I've just been too busy with our new boarders and my Mother being in the hospital.

Hope to have some good political stuff soon..With Pelosi, Dean, Gore, and Shillery doing their best to get face time, I'm sure there will be some good blog fodder.

You Are a Boston Creme Donut

You have a tough exterior. No one wants to mess with you. But on the inside, you're a total pushover and completely soft. You're a traditionalist, and you don't change easily. You're likely to eat the same doughnut every morning, and pout if it's sold out.

Sounds like me...And If Kennedy can be a jelly donut, I guess a Boston Creme isn't all that bad.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 12:06 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 20, 2006

Southern Grandma

Lawyers should never ask a Southern grandma a question if they aren't
prepared for the answer.

In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grand motherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"

She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you
since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big
disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you
manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think
you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will
amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you."

The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed
across the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense
attorney?"

She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was
a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem.
He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is
one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife
with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him."

The defense attorney almost died.

The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench, and in a very
quiet voice, said, "If either of you bastards asks her if she knows me,
I'll throw your sorry asses in jail for contempt."

Need I say Who sent me this?!

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:39 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

THE SKUNK

A man and his wife were driving home one very cold night when
the wife asks her husband to stop the car.

There was a baby skunk lying at the side of the road, and she got out to see if it was still alive.

It was, and she said to her husband, "It's nearly frozen to
death. Can we take it with us, get it warm, and let it go in the morning?"

He says, "O.K., get in the car with it."

"Where shall I put it to get it warm?" she asked.

"Put it in between your legs. It's nice and warm there," he suggested.

"But what about the smell?" she asked.

"Just hold its nose."

...the man is expected to recover, but the skunk she used to beat him
with died at the scene.

Yep!, Catfish again....

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:34 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

SNIFFER

I get on the plane and I'm sitting there by the window with two vacant seats when another man sat down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador Retriever in the middle seat next to me.

I'm wondering about the dog and I ask why the dog is allowed on the plane. The man explained that he is a DEA agent and that the dog is a "sniffing dog." His name is Sniffer and he's the best there is. I'll show you once we get airborne and I put him to work.

The plane takes off, and once it has leveled out, the agent says: "Watch this." He tells Sniffer to "search."

Sniffer jumps down, walks along the aisle, and finally sits very purposefully next to a woman for a several seconds. Sniffer then returns to its seat and puts one paw on the agent's arm.

The agent says, "Good boy," and he turns to the man and says "that woman is in possession of marijuana, so I'm making a note of her seat number and the authorities will apprehend her when we land."

I say "that's pretty neat."

Once again, the agent sends Sniffer to search the aisles The Lab sniffs about, sits down beside a man for a few seconds, returns to its seat, and this time, he places TWO paws on the agent's arm. The agent says, "That man is carrying cocaine, so, again, I'm making a note of his seat number for the police."

"I like it!" I tell him.

The agent then told Sniffer to "search" again. Sniffer walked up and down the aisles for a little while, sat down for a moment, and then came racing back to the agent, jumped into the middle seat and pooped.

I was really grossed out by this behavior and can't figure out how or why a well-trained dog would act like that, so I ask the agent "what's going on?"

The agent nervously replied, "He just found a bomb!"

H/T to Catfish

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:29 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 19, 2006

Mom Update #2

Mom's not doing well, although the good news is that they don't believe she has any anuerisms in the brain. They now think that she has a one somewhere in her colon, however. They also determioned that she had a form of pneumonia, which is complicating treating the blood clot there. They have been giving her about two units of blood fraction every two days, but the hemacrit level keeps falling

The drugs they had given her initially had put her into a coma, which she has been coming out of for the last three days, with mixed results, there have been some short periods of violent physical and verbal reactions, followed by a period of lucidity, then calm semi-catatonia.

The violent ranting episodes have really unnerved my dad; to see the woman he's been married to for 53 years, who wouldn't say the word "damn" if she were roasting over hot coals, suddenly become a shreiking flailing harpy with language that would embarrass a stevedore will do that, I guess. The doctors ordered restraints, which upset him even more. So he's been experiencing a stomach bleed himself; old news for him, and just caused by the stress, but still, another complication for him to deal with.

We'll just have to trust that the doctors are able to keep the fine balance in the treatments for the ailments afflicting her without causeing more damage. It's tricky, since every treatment for one aspect is contraindicated for the other three, and the compounding of all effedcts from the four different treatments is greater than the sum of the parts.

But they think that now they have enough information to start to make some real headway. We can only trust that they are correct. There is a reason that they call it the "ART" of medicine. Although science is involved, the instincts and "touch" of the pratitioner seems to be the factor that makes the real difference.

Please keep those good thoughts and prayers coming.

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 10:29 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I WANT It!!!!

Myfriend Catfish sent me this WVM of a car designed to convert a biker into a car buff...it succeeded with me..I would ALMOST be willing to forgo a brand new Goldwing in favor of one of these.

It's a street legal, two seater race car, powered by a honda Vtek supercharged engine..the engine can develop 300bph at 8600 rpm, and with a body wgt of only 578KG; the effective power availible is almost 600bph. It can do 0 to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds. Best of all, prices start at around $42,000 new. Lot of money, yes, but when you consider that the weakest motor option gives you a better weight to power ratio than a Porsche 911, that's dirt cheap. In the most powerful motor option, the only thing that will beat it is a Ferarri Testarosa, which STARTS at the $250,000 range.

And yes, they DO have a dealership in the U.S.
Damn you Catfish, for giving me a new jones that I can't requite!

Posted by: Delftsman3 at 04:39 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Processing 0.01, elapsed 0.0613 seconds.
37 queries taking 0.0544 seconds, 45 records returned.
Page size 41 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.