January 18, 2006
Blond Geometry
We disparage blonds all the time, but the truth is that they are just as any other people in intelligence.
Some use their incisive logic to cut right to the chase in geometric problems. Look below the fold to see if she wasn't correct. H/T to CatfishPosted by: Delftsman3 at 05:47 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
R. I. P. Winchester
March 1, 2006, will be a sad day indeed for all of us "gun nuts". It will be the last day of the REAL Winchester rifle. When the Repeating Arms Co. closes it's doors on that day for the last time, it will truly be the end of an era.
The Winchester was the "rifle that won the West", and although the name may go on, a Belgian,Japanese, or Portugese product isn't the real thing. All the old style models will be discontinued, including the venerable model 94, arguably the finest rifle ever made. For those of you lucky enough to own one of these fine products of the armorers art, HOLD ON TO THEM. They are going to treble in worth in March. I had hoped to own a Model 94 one day, but with the coming price rise, that will never occur.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 04:13 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
January 17, 2006
Road Rage
An honest man was being tailgated by a
stressed out woman on a busy boulevard.
Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just
in front of him.
crosswalk, even though he could have
beaten the red light by accelerating through
the intersection. The tailgating woman hit the roof, and the
horn, screaming in frustration as she missed
her chance to get through the intersection,
dropping her cell phone and makeup. As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a
tap on her window and looked up into the
face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with
her hands up. He took her to the police station where she
was searched, finger printed, photographed,
and placed in a holding cell. After a couple of hours, a policeman
approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk
where the arresting officer was waiting with
her personal effects. He said, "I'm very sorry for this mistake. You
see, I pulled up behind your car while you
were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy
in front of you, and cussing a blue streak at
him. "I noticed the 'Choose Life' license plate holder,
the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker,
the 'Follow Me to Sunday- School' bumper
sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian
Fish emblem on the trunk. Naturally... I assumed you had stolen the car."
. . priceless
H/T to Jack
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Southern Comfort, Las Vegas Style
After the southern tourist had been served in a Las Vegas cocktail lounge, he beckoned the waitress back and said quietly, "Miss, y'all sure are a luvly, luvly lady; can ah persuade y'all to give me uh piece of ass?"
"Lord, that's the most direct proposition I've ever had!" gasped the girl. Then she looked around the room, smiled and added, "Sure, why not? You're nice lookin' too and it's pretty slow here right now, so why don't we just slip away up to my room?" When the pair returned half an hour later, the man sat down at the same table and the waitress asked, "Will there be anything else, sir?" "Why yes," replied the southern gentleman. "Ah sure'preciate what y'all just did for me; it was real sweet and right neighbourly. But where ah come from in Georgia, we lack our bourbon real cold, so ah still need to trouble y'all for a piece uh ass for mah drink." ***************************************************** This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas, but there are more Catholic churches there than casinos. Not surprisingly, some worshippers at Sunday services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed. Since they get chips from so many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the of ferings. The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan Monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in. **
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H/T to Catfish
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Viagra Side Effect?
A guy goes to his doctor and says, "Doc, I have a problem. My girlfriend is sleeping over this Friday, my ex-wife is sleeping over this Saturday and my wife is coming home Sunday."
"I need 3 Viagra pills to satisfy them all." The doctor says, "You know 3 Viagra pills 3 nights in a row is pretty dangerous for any man. I will give them to you on the condition that you return to my office on Monday so that I can check you out." The man says, "You have a deal Doc." Monday morning the man returns with his arm in a sling. The doctor asks, "What happened"? The man answered, "Nobody showed up!"Posted by: Delftsman3 at 06:00 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Frequent Viewer Card?
I was walking downtown the other day near one of those hotels where visiting celebraties stay and I happened to find a wallet. Well, being the good samaritan that I am, I opened it to see if I could see who's it was so I could return it.
Seems it belonged to someone named Dean. A Mr. H. Dean to be exact. From Vermont, according to his driver's license. Someone from the Mayor's office said they'd make sure he got it back, since the Mayor and this Dean guy are acquainted or something. I hope he gets it back soon. I'm sure he'd like to have it back, especially this card.
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January 16, 2006
Stuck on Stupid
John Stossel turns his spotlight on public education...his view? We're "stuck on stupid" and the major blame for it can be layed at the feet of the NEA for stifleing competition.
The time has come for vouchers, and more freedom in homeschooling.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:54 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Nagin; a Closet Fundie?
Seems Roy Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, is channeling Pat Robertson now...
Seems he thinks that God is angry at us, and destroyed NO to punish us for being in Iraq. And to top it all off, he actually shows his racism by referring to NO as the "premier chocolate city in the US"...and he wasn't referring to bon-bons or non-pareils folks. He goes on to relate imaginary converstions with MLK. "go with the men in the white coats, Roy, they want to give you a nice vacation..don't mind the extra long sleeved jacket, they are the derigour apparell for the moonbat set right now"Posted by: Delftsman3 at 10:35 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Memories...
His Most Royal Highness, Emperor Darth Misha 1, reminds us to take a little trip down memeory lane as we listen to the Mugwumps of the DNC display their BDS as regards Iraq.
Maybe the LSM will give them a pass, but all the alert bloggers out there won't.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 05:15 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
The DNC Family Facility Shown
Once again, Wild Thing demonstrates her artistry with photoshop to illustrate a salient point...America CAN do better!
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"faked", but true....
Once again the New York Slimes have resorted to the "fake but true" method of reporting. This time it was in the use of a photograph instead of words, but the effect is the same. The photo has been taken off the on-line edition of the paper, and a disclaimer correcting the original assertion that the ordnance in question was the remains of a rocket used by American forces was posted...but the damage was already done.
From the link above:
The picture shows a sad little boy, with a turbaned man next to him, a little bit further from the camera, amid the ruins of a house. Other men and boys peer in from the background. The photo is captioned:“Pakistani men with the remains of a missile fired at a house in the Bajur tribal zone near the Afghan border.”
The story it accompanies is about the apparently failed attempt to take out al Qaeda’s #2 man al Zawahiri, with a missile attack from a Predator drone.
“How sad!” readers are encouraged to think. “These poor people are on the receiving end of awful weapons used by the clumsy minions of Bush. And all to no avail. Isn’t it terrible? Why must America do such horrible misdeeds? Bush must go!”Anyone that had a passing aquaintence with military ordnance would immedietly identify the "remains of a missile fired from a Predator drone" as either a 152 or 155 MM artillery shell....a "dud' artillery shell, from the rifleing grooves on the body of the shell. Seems that those vaunted "layers of fact checkers and editors" fell down on the job...AGAIN. So..a photo is staged to give the impression of inept military action (American, that is) and to cast the opponents in a sorrowful light of the poor innocent victims of same. The action was real; there was a purported gathering of Al Quida operatives in the three houses struck by MISSILES, but the photo was fake, and presented in such a way to denigrate our soldiers. It was another case of "fake, but true" method of trying to shape public opinion..
It might have worked better if just one of those fact checkers knew the difference between their own black holes of ego driven agenda driven "reporting" and a blast hole from a 155MM shell. Just incidentally..it appears that the shell has a fuse still attached, so anyone within ten yards of that shell was playing high explosive Russian roulette...no doubt that Bush would have been blamed for that as well.. Hey Achmed, hit that with a hammer!
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"Sheldon"
A man walks to 5th Ave. & 42nd St. during a downpour and some how manages to get a
taxi immediately.
a rainstorm. It would have happened like that for Sheldon every single time." "Well, no one is perfect. There are always a few clouds over everybody", stated the passenger. "Not Sheldon. He was a terrific athlete. He could have gone on the pro tour in tennis. He
could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced lik! e a Broadway star.
Handsome and sophisticated, more than Cary Grant. He had a better body than Arnold
in his prime. He was something" "Somehow Sheldon just knew exactly how to make women happy. He had a memory like a
computer. Could remember everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which fork to
eat with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole neighborhood
blacks out." "Wow, incredible , no wonder you remember him!" "Well, I never actually met Sheldon." "Then how do you know so much about him?" "After he died, I married his wife." H/T to Catfish
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Quote of the Day
"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves." ~ Arnold Toynbee
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Educated MORONS
Sir George once again demonstrates how BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) can turn otherwise at least semi-competant academics into blithering idiots.
As Sir George pointed out, for the projections of cost to be accurate, we would have to spend approximately $2 BILLION a year per (current number) wounded veteran for the next 35 years. I know that health care is expensive, (boy, don't I know it after undergoing a sextuple bypass!) but I would think that a $2 million per vet per year figure would be an unreasonably high estimate, much less a $2 billion figure. They also cite a "slowing of the US economy" WHAT slowing? Last month all the leading economic indicators showed a rise in all areas... They say that "the rise in oil prices is directly attributal to the war"....Sir George points out that the difference in production in Iraq was only 180,000 barrels lower than this same time last year; which on the world market isn't even a drop in the bucket. Of course, these are economists, so they don't have to provide evidence of their contentions, all the rest of us should just assume that it's gospel truth, working arcane manipulations of numbers that turn out results of past figures into something 71 times greater. They furthur show that they don't have any conception of what they are talking about when they accuse the US of using depleted uranium bombs in Iraq...seems that they know of a sooper sekrit ordnance™ that the soldiers that use it don't. There is NO SUCH THING as a "depleted uranium bomb". Furthur, the effects that they ascribe to DU have been shown not to exist in study after study. But, as in the case of all those afflicted with BDS, facts have little to do with their rhetoric. It takes roughly 3 tons of DU per acre to raise the normal background radiation on a given area by .002%. it would take roughly 150,000 rounds of DU PER acre to reach that level...even a raging moonbat should see the absurdity of the possibility of that. In fact, DU is THREE times less radioactive in the U-235 ( the dangerous fraction) than occurs in NATURAL Uranium that is present in most soils. DU is used in place of lead as shielding in some Hospital x-ray facilities because it's density per ounce allows for thinner shields and it's ability to STOP radiation from passing through it. See large numbers of techs coming down with radiation poisoning? It's used in the armor plating of some tanks and the ballast weights in some fighter aircraft...see thousands of soldiers and pilots coming down with radiation poisoning? Hundreds? ONE? Radioactivity is the Boogyman of the uninformed...tell someone that something is "radioactive" and they flee the spot shrieking in terror. It's taylor made for the hysterical meme crowd, since so few people are really informed about it.Yes the Iraq war IS a costly endeavor, ALL war is costly; both in terms of lives and treasure, but the cost in not seeing it through to the end would be much higher, and asertions such as those made by the authors of the article only serves to muddy the water to the greater detriment of us all.
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Update
I talked to my father and got an update on my mother's condition.
They have started her on a drug regimen including Cumidin to try to disolve the clot in her lung, which has led to a new, slight bleed in her brain. She has lost the ability to speak coherently and has tremors in all her upper body muscles; she seems to be incoherent most of the time. The doctors told my dad to expect this, they are monitering her closely to ensure that no permanent damage will ensue. They have her hooked into a type of encephlograph to moniter brain activity and are giving her a new CT scan tomorrow to assess the brain in closer detail; depending on the results of that scan, she may require surgury to ensure that there will not be a more serious event...such as an aneurism blowing out. They have no way of telling until after a more complete and detailed scan. So at present, her condition is serious, but stable, and only time wil tell what her prognosis will be. Thank you all for your kind thoughts and prayers. They are a real source of strength.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 12:40 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
January 14, 2006
War Games
Dam Yankee posited what WW2 would have been like if it had been played like an online gamers session.
"If World War Two had been an online Real Time
Strategy game, the chat room
traffic would have gone something like this:"
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Confirmation Hearings
This cartoon pretty much demonstrates Sen. "Splash" Kennedy's expertise at questioning...Too bad Alito didn't respond just this way.
MaryJo Kopechni is still unavailible for comment.
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Hate to ask, but Need your Prayers yet again..
Got bad news this morning. Seems that my mother had to go to the hospital this morning. The doctors have determined that she has a blood clot in her lung and think she has had a small bleed in her brain. They induced heavy sedation to protect her brain from any further damge than may have already occurred.
The doctors believe that she came in to the hospital before any truly serious damage has occurred, but they don't know just what the extent of damage is as yet. My parents live three hours away, and I don't have a vehicle dependable enough to make the trip, so, for now I just have to wait by the phone and glean information as I can. They may be transferring her to a hospital here in Indianapolis for treatment as soon as they determine just what they are dealing with. They are concerned, as she's been dealing with congestive heart failure for several years. It's been controlled with drugs and a pacemaker, but it does make treatment of her current conditions more problematic. It's tough getting old, every body system just seems to fall apart a piece at a time. If you would, please add Josephine Meyer to your prayers tonight. It means a lot to us. I'm an Agnostic, but I do believe that prayers do help. That may be contradictory to you, but... call it a focusing of energy to help heal,or a meditation of the mind..or just a comfort in time of stress.
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Quizz
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January 13, 2006
Terror Strike? Part two
As an update on THIS POST, I found this little tid-bit at Odysseus..lets see, an analyst predicts a major terrorist attempt in the US within the next thirty days...and now we have a story about men of ME extraction attempting to buy disposable cell phones in bulk...in two widely separate locations, one of them, the President's hometown...All of a sudden the urgency of tapping those conversations seems just a little more urgent, doesn't it?
As Odysseus noted, these basicly untraceable phones (roughly 230 of them?!?) were being bought two days after the New York Slimes revealed the wiretapping program of foreign origin based communications.... Around here that's called strong circumstantial evidence.Posted by: Delftsman3 at 11:31 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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