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November 22, 2005

Alarm Clock Meme

Ok, VW Bug seems to think that she can just tag me with a meme and it will turn out how she likes. Boy is she wrong! Here's the rules, as she's supplied them to me:

First: (This has been redone for Ogre's sake). Copy and paste questions #1 thru #4 to a post on your site. Answer the questions to the best of your ability. Then copy #5 and include the link.

Second: Link to my site (because it’s polite to link to the site that tagged you).

Third: Go and tag up to five other blogs, or more if ya like.

Fourth: Email the owner of, or post on the blogs that you have tagged, to inform them that you’ve tagged them.


Ok, step 1 is to copy and paste questions #1 through #4 to a post on your site. Here you go:

1. Do you use time for an alarm clock up to in the morning?

2. What do many how wake set it times?

3. Do have a snooze button? If so ever clocked an alarm?

4. you you you hit the bus?

Then I am to answer the questions to the best of my ability. Very well.

1. No, time uses me for various nefarious purposes. One day I may learn to control it so I can take over the world.

2. Banana cake mambo dump truck taxi driver.

3. No, I have arms and legs and teeth, no buttons, at least as long as I stay away from those government-run black helicopters. Since I don't have a button, I am not obligated to provide information about me clocking or not clocking any alarms.

4. I did not.

Second, I already provided a link back to VW, and here's a link back to the evil person who started this.

Third, ooo, look! Something shiny!

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It's a damn animal.

Stuff like this makes me want to reduce my donations to "charities" without knowing exactly what they are doing with my money.

I don't know about you, but when I think of the Humane Society, I think of the people who work to save abandoned animals, those who help pay for neutering pets so more animals don't get abandoned, and helping those who have pets.

Unfortunately, that's wrong. The humane society of the United States instead is interested in a political agenda that values animals more than people. Humane Society, you've gotten the last dollar from me after this stupid lawsuit to treat birds that are being slaughtered "more humanely."

Yes, I know this lawsuit to "protect" birds is a publicity stunt for Thanksgiving, but in my case, it's backfired. I used to give a good bit of money to this organization because they helped abandoned pets. Not one dollar more. I'm going to instead start just sending random piles of cash to the Jacksonville Cat House when I feel the need to donate to help animals.

If you're interested, they use all the donations to help stray cats. The address is

The Stray Cathouse
818 Margaret Street
Jacksonville, FL 32204

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Charlotte Observer on Crime

The Charlotte Observer, a Knight-Ridder newspaper and one of the strongholds of communist and socialist thought in the east, has come up with the solution to crime in North Carolina.

Of course, they never actually admit there's any crime in North Carolina, and they imply that their solution is for elsewhere in North Carolina, because Charlotte, their hometown, has no criminals since they've all been helped with the social problems.

They are responding to news that is getting a lot of headlines in North Carolina in which Former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Burley Mitchell suggested decriminalizing illegal drug use because the drug war has simply been lost. Mr. Mitchell said that resources and prison space would be freed up if drugs were decriminalized.

The Observer, however, doesn't like that idea. They want to continue to lock up drug users. Instead, their solution is to free everyone ELSE in the jails! This is what passes for enlightened opinion in Charlotte, NC.

The Observer actually thinks that people should still be arrested and jailed for drug use, but all other crimes should have reduced sentences and lesser punishments. Why? Because there's not enough prison space.

So seriously, I couldn't make up stuff this stupid, the Charlotte Observer thinks that because there's not enough prison space that murderers should bet set free while people who possess pot should get the prison space.

I think we should just pack them in tighter into the prisons. What's wrong with hot bunking and making the criminals work 3 shifts making big rocks into small rocks?

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November 21, 2005

Middle Earth Race

I really love the story of Middle Earth. I read the books long before they even dreamed of making the movies...and I read them more than once. So I can't resist quizzes related to that story:

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To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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(Hat tip to Blue Goldfish.)
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Tax $ for Hatred

Once again, we see the same claims of free speech being screamed while tax dollars are being used to support the enemy and to encourage sedition. Yet again there's a college "teacher" who is being paid with my tax dollars and he wants all American troops to murder other American troops.

See, this is yet ANOTHER reason that government shouldn't be involved in education. This is MY tax dollars at work. Yes, you have the right to freedom of speech, but you do NOT have the right to have me PAY YOU for a platform for your freedom of speech.

And if government got out of the education business altogether, this would NOT be an issue at all.

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The Wild West, 2005.

Our porous borders are not as benign as many people think. I'm originally from Wisconsin, and if anyone had told me stories about the southern border today, I would've assumed they were talking about the Old Wild West - until Kalishnakovs and AK-47s entered the story, that is. Today's American/Mexican border is a wasteland of trash, human waste, and ruined land criss-crossed with heavily traveled dirt highways. It doesn't matter that the land is privately owned, or that Americans living on the border live in a constant state of armed alertness, 24/7 - it's the Wild, Wild West, 21st century-style.

As he careered along the rock-strewn gully towards his silver mine deep in the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona, Roger McCaslin first checked his bowie knife, then his pistol, and finally his Kalashnikov. From the road, he had already noticed that something was wrong.

"The gate's broken and the door on the trailer's open. They've been here, I know it," he said ominously. "I just hope they've moved on - for their sake."

Under the harsh sun, Mr McCaslin's black cowboy hat cast a shadow over his droopy mustache and a face so deeply creased that it resembled cracked saddle leather.

Welcome to the Wild West 2005, where modern-day cowboys still guard their land from interlopers - but using AK47s and four-wheel drives instead of Winchester rifles and horses.

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Illegal Alien Murderer

Once again we have yet ANOTHER illegal alien who decided to drive drunk and kill someone.

When I first read this story, all details about the driver were hidden. Finally, after the radio news stories released the details, the newspaper reluctantly revealed that the murderer was an illegal alien.

The collision happened when the drunk was going OVER 100MPH the wrong way on an INTERSTATE highway. He struck a college student head-on. The student was killed, the drunk got a broken leg.

I don't think any of my good readers can imagine that type of collision. Imagine going the fastest you've ever gone in a car -- for most readers, that MIGHT be 80MPH. Now imagine hitting a solid brick wall without slowing down. That's less than HALF the impact of the collision: this collision was made at at least 170MPH.

Folks, this is acceptable in many cultures. It shows you are "macho" if you can drink and drive. In many non-American cultures, this man would be admired, not condemned.

We have a MAJOR problem with immigrants in America, and CERTAINLY in North Carolina, whether you or any politician wants to admit it. Dammit, We need a fence NOW. I don't care what the fence costs, we're spending tens of billions of dollars now on non-citizens, and they are costing us lives.

Build the damn fence now and start deportations and fines against anyone who hires a non-citizen NOW. I don't care how difficult it might be. I don't care who's offended. Get the damn criminals out of my country NOW.

TMH has more on illegals committing crimes.

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National Motto

Did you know that "In God We Trust" is the national motto of the United States? Well, it is, no matter how much anyone else hates it. If you despise it so much, feel free to head for another country. And yes, that's completely fair -- that's what freedom is -- if you don't like it, get your butt up and go somewhere else.

Recently the Davidson County Government building in Lexington, NC added that motto to their building. Some scum-sucking bottom-feeding lawyers sued because they were "offended." Maybe that's because they know everything they're doing is offensive to God and they didn't want to be reminded of it.

In all the court cases, the judges ruled against them. The federal 4th circuit court unanimously told them to get lost. Finally, this case is over, as the US Supreme court, in a rare moment of lucidity, agreed with the 4th circuit and also told the lawyers to get lost.

Now and then the good guys get a win.

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More free money in NC

This year the General Assembly in North Carolina absolutely insisted, over and over again, that they had cut the budget to the bone. There were "deep cuts," and not enough money. This is even after they raised taxes OVER 1 BILLION dollars, and before the windfall lottery income.

But yet the government has enough money to give $700,000 away to certain select subjects of the crown. Called the North Carolina Home Protection Pilot Program, it is designed to give cash to people to make their mortgage payments. All you have to do to qualify is lose your job.

Yes, that's right, the Democrats can no longer run on their scare platform that people will lose their houses if Republicans get elected, because with this program, anyone who loses their job gets free cash to pay their mortgage.

So, in North Carolina, I can get 100% free medical care if I'm an illegal immigrant; 100% education to grade 12, including teaching in my native language; almost free college education if I'm illegal; free heat if I don't want to pay my heating bill; and now free mortgage payments if I lose my job.

Tell me again why I follow the rules and work hard? Oh yeah, so I can pay for all the others who don't want to.

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November 20, 2005

Gator Coaches

gator.jpgNo, that's not the Florida Gators I'm talking about. I'm talking about the legendary Ronald Ames Guidry, The Gator, Louisiana Lightning. In case you missed the news, he will be the pitching coach for the New York Yankees next year.

Ron Guidry was an absolutely awesome pitcher. He was 25-1 in 1978 for the Yankees -- and had an ERA of 1.74, with NINE shutouts. Yes, he won the Cy Young that year and was an all-star 4 different years. He threw a complete game in the 1978 World Series against the Dodgers, allowing only 2 runs in the game 3 win.

Now he's coaching for the Yankees, and it should be interesting. Instead of being an analyzer of mechanics, films, and other scientific stuff, Guidry will be old school -- and it remains to be see if the old ways will work. I hope they do, as Guidry always was a true gentleman. Good luck, Mr. Guidry!

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New Neighbor #34

I've been a little slack in my weekly New Neighbor posts. For those people who enjoyed these Sunday posts, I'm sorry. The Carolina Renaissance Festival occupied most of my Sunday afternoons for the past 6 weeks or so, and I just never got ahead with much of anything.

Hopefully, with this week's neighbor, I'll get back in the swing of the Neighbor posts. For those who haven't seen them before, I'll explain the New Neighbor posts -- they're based on an idea by Joe of The Evangelical Outpost.

He put together a blogroll called the Evangelical Blogroll, which has since be renamed the Church Directory. It's a giant list of evangelical blogs. You can find it over there on the left side of this blog.

As part of setting up that blogroll, Joe suggested that members of that blogroll get to know one another. That's what started my New Neighbor series. Each Sunday I pick one blog from that list and introduce them here. Interested readers can head on over and read that blog, sometimes finding someone new.

This week's new neighbor is...

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You're Not a Marine (It's a Joke)

A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a U.S. Marine Corps base. He goes to the front gate, and says to the sentry, "My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?"

To his surprise, the Marines accept him enthusiastically. They feed him at the officer's club, they fix his car at the motor pool, and they even allow him to sleep in the VIP quarters.

But, as the man tries to fall asleep that night, he hears a strange sound. All through the night, he hears this sound.

The next morning, he asks the Marines what the sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a Marine."

The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way.

Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same Marine Corps base.

Again the Marines accept him enthusiastically, fix his car, and allows him to stay in the VIP quarters. That night, he hears the exact same strange noise that he had heard years earlier.

The next morning, he asks what it is, but the Marines reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a Marine."

The man says, "All right, all right. I'm *dying* to know. If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a Marine, how do I become one?"

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November 19, 2005

Beer Wanted

It's getting to be colder as winter approaches. During the summer, I have no problem finding good summertime beers. However, in the winter, I have a lot of trouble finding a good winter drinking beer, so I'm taking suggestions.

In the summer, I turn the beer fridge's temperature down to get ice cold beer. It's not like I like wimpy beer (I can't stand light beer), I just like lighter type beers in the summer. Corona, Bud Ice, Anheuser World Select, and Guinness are some of my summertime favorites.

Come wintertime, I turn the temperature up a bit on the fridge. I still like the beer cold, but perhaps more just chilled and not ice cold. But finding a good beer for winter drinking is tough.

Yes, Guinness works well. I also like Ruination IPA and Ruddles County, but those are REAL hard to find. I don't really like the chocolate ales all that much and bitter's not my style, but "hoppy" is.

So, does anyone have any suggestions about any good wintertime beers that are best served cool, not ice cold? Heck, if you were near me, I'd offer to buy you one of anything you suggest, but best I can do through here is to offer a virtual beer...

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Jack Idema

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November 18, 2005

Marines in Heaven

Father Murphy walked into a pub and said to the first Marine he met, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The Marine said, "I do Father." The priest said, "Leave this pub right now!"

He then approached a second Marine. "Do you want to got to heaven?" "Certainly, Father," was the Marine's reply. "Then leave this den of Satan!" said the priest.

Father Murphy then walked up to an old SgtMaj and asked, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The SgtMaj replied: "No, I don't Father."

The priest looked him right in the eye and said, "You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?"

The SgtMaj smiled, "Oh, when I die! Why...yes Father. S**t, I thought you were getting a working party together to go right now!"

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Marine Joke

One of my all-time favorites:

A Sailor is relieving himself in the head when a Marine walks in and steps up to the urinal beside him.

After a few seconds the Sailor finishes, shakes, zips and walks over to the sink to wash his hands. The Marine also finishes, zips-up, and walks to the door.

Just then the Sailor says, "Hey Marine! When I was in boot camp, they taught us to wash our hands when we finished!"

The Marine looks at the Sailor and says, "When I was in boot camp, they told me not to piss on my hands."

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Friday Fun

Well, it's been a long week for a lot of people. I know some people are really glad it's Friday, while other people are just happy that it's another day. So I'm just going to be silly today. A joke:

Little Melissa and the Marines:
Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," she asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?"
Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," she says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?" her father asks in shock.
"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore."
Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with newfound pride.
"Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines could blow the s**t out of him."

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Quit Damn Whining

Again the non-stop complaining and whining from champions of taking your money away from you. Once again, it's the University of NC system that's complaining that despite budget increases and tuition increases,

UNC finds itself having to trim what is less fat and more muscle and bone.

Want to know what they have NOT cut yet?

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November 17, 2005

New Advertiser

Once again this week, Ogre's Politics and Views is proud to introduce a new sponsor to the site. Up in the left corner of the left column, you'll see a screen shot and a link to Scooter McGavin's 9th Green.

Scooter blogs from Ohio, and he blogs about "music, TV, sports, politics and anything else [he] deem[s] worthy." That ad will be up there for a week, so if you don't visit today, be sure and check that blog out later on in the week -- but it's only there for a week!

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The ACLU and searches

This week, Jay, over at Stop the ACLU has a nice long post about the ACLU. It's a good read, so I'll just summarize some points and let you, the good reader, head over to the ACLU for more details and supporting documents.

First -- despite all the known terrorists in America being of arabic descent and male, the ACLU strongly opposes that any searches be done that will actually single out and search the people that are most likely to commit a crime (see: airlines).

Next, when governments try to comply with the assanine demands of the ACLU, they try random searches. Sorry, the ACLU files more lawsuits to stop them (see: New York City subway).

Ok, again trying to comply with the anti-Americans at the ACLU, they tried searching EVERYONE. Nope, the ACLU filed suit yet again (see: Raymond James Stadium).

Well then, maybe the ACLU is just opposed to searches in general. Nope, sorry, the New York City ACLU Headquarters has a sign posted that says all visitors are subject to search.

So no, the ACLU doesn't oppose searches, they don't oppose warrantless searches, they don't even oppose searches that will help people. The ACLU opposes ANY search that might actually catch a terrorist.

You may have heard the old saying that you're either with us or you're against us. The ACLU is against us. They really, honestly are anti-American and actively work to destroy anything that has to do with America.

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