Ogre's Politics & Views

August 05, 2005

Puppy Launch

Everyone who's been around a bit in the Blogosphere knows the definition of "instalanch." Now, however, after Evil Glennn's takeover at NASA, we can now expect numerous puppylaunches:

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e-Postal Shooting Match

Well, I've finally gone and done my shooting for the e-Postal Handgun Match #1. The official results? I stink. Next time I'm using a shotgun.

The first round I fired one of my favorites, and a gun I'm normally really good with - a Makarov 9mm (9x1. It's small and thin, so I usually use it as my primary carry gun - I can take it pretty much anywhere. My results (20 shots at 10 yards):

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Yikes. This was my SECOND try. I knew others said it would be hard, but damn. I thought I'd get 10 for sure. My score? 5. The first time I only got 3 of the damn flies. Bleh. Well, at least all 20 shots are in the paper, I suppose.

Next up I tried my .357 Magnum. Big cannon of a gun with massive recoil. Tons of fun to shoot, of course. I love the "deer stopper" ammo -- .357 magnum overstuffed with powder -- huge flames literally shoot out the sides of the gun about 2 feet on each side. I thought using a larger bullet might up my chances:

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Nope. Same thing: 3 flies on the first round, 5 on the second. Again, all rounds in the paper, so if you're charging me, I think I'm still going to hit you, but man this was hard. Fun! But hard!

So anyway, I'm submitting my massive scores to the match master for official scoring. I can see a last place coming up soon...but if you haven't tried this, go read the rules and give it a shot!

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Hot Cat

Well, it's Friday afternoon and time for some cat blogging!

It's hot here. So hot that I thought the cat had just passed out while I was walking past. He seemed rather annoyed at the flash:

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John Roberts is Not Qualified

I have mentioned before that the role of the Senate in confirming Supreme Court nominees is to simply determine if they are qualified to be judges. The Democrats continue to want to apply litmus tests to judges, specifically, any judge who does not support Roe v. Wade 100% is absolutely NOT qualified.

However, the actual qualifications for a judge are much simpler than even that. To be qualified, a judge must be capable of upholding the Constitution and must understand that the role of a Supreme Court Judge is to simply interpret the Constitution -- nothing more. Judge John Roberts has proven that he cannot do this.

He has said in response to some cases that the Supreme Court's decisions are "settled" and "have become law." This means that he will never, ever vote to overturn any previous supreme court decision -- he thinks that the Supreme Court MAKES laws. He is wrong.

He also ruled that the federal judiciary can go into a state and overturn laws that do not conflict with the Constitution in any way, shape, or form. If the people of a state make laws that he does not agree with, he believes it is within his power as a federal judge to force the people of the state to change their own laws. He is wrong.

Ann Coulter says he's another Souter (ultra-left wing judge hostile to freedom and the Constitution), and I think she's right. He is not qualified to be on the United States Supreme Court and President George W. Bush should withdraw his name and present someone who will do the job properly.

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Congress to Investigate ACLU?

Let's hope so.

According to WorldNet Daily, a group called Christians for America is calling for Congress to investigate the ACLU's abuse of the American legal system and their widespread use of frivolous lawsuits after the ACLU sued the state over subway searches.

Good for them.

Look, the random subway searches are crap. They're pretty much worthless. They'd be a whole lot better if they did risk profiling. But they're not unconstitutional. And the ACLU doesn't care. The ACLU supports terrorists because they ARE terrorists.

The ACLU uses threats to get their way, and their way is to support anything anti-American. Yes, Congress, investigate. Use RICO against them, too.

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Sales Tax Holiday

Today begins the annual "Sales Tax Holiday" in North Carolina. Well, it's not really a holiday. And you can only save a little money, but hey, a penny saved is a penny earned, right?

From August 5th to August 7th, consumers pay no sales tax on allegedly school-related items. Clothing, shoes, some other items less than $100, and personal-use computers are all exempt from sales tax. While I'm not sure why we can't get that exemption expanded to 365 days a year, for some, even having the holiday is a problem.

The people at Wilson Daily complain that the holiday occurs too early before school starts. They whine that when the legislators moved the school start date to the end of August, they didn't move the tax holiday. This is yet another publication that complains whenever government doesn't get more or spend more. Me, I go clothes shopping this weekend every year -- and it's when I normally buy a new computer, too.

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August 04, 2005

ACLU "civil" rights

So what "rights" does the ACLU (Association of Communist Lawyer Urics) actually support while claiming to support civil rights? I read this week that they support the right of people to force other people to slave for them and to provide them with the house they desire. They support individuals being forced at gunpoint to purchase things that other people desire.

In this case, the ACLU wants taxpayers to pay for people who want "to live with friends in a small house or apartment and have my own room," despite that person being unable to purchase or rent the house or apartment on their own.

At issue is the state of IL who is providing healthcare, a place to live, food, clothing, and a myriad of other things for some people who are physically incapable of doing so themselves. Keep in mind, this is the state that is providing these things at NO cost to the patient. And the taxpayers of the state and the rest of the United States ARE PAYING FOR THESE THINGS.

But that's not good enough for the ACLU. The ACLU thinks that these people are entitled to whatever they want. If they want a house, YOU should buy them a house. And if YOU don't pay for that house, you go to jail (taxes).

I was always taught to not look a gift horse in the mouth. If you're getting something for free, you have ZERO right to complain. If you don't like the thing you're getting for FREE, get up off your lazy ass and get something else. Or, if you cannot get up and get something more, TOUGH. I'm sorry that people are physically disabled -- that doesn't grant them ANY right to my labor.

The ACLU is not based on freedom or civil rights. Instead they support communism. That's what this request is -- a redistribution of wealth from those who work to those who do not work. The ACLU reveals their intentions in this lawsuit when they specifically complain that IL is the 10th richest state, but "ranks near the bottom in it's efforts." In other words, in the mind of the ACLU, the more you have, the more that should be taken away from you to make everyone equal -- that IS the purpose of the ACLU, no matter what you might hear from their lying lawyers.

This has been a part of the Stop the ACLU Blogburst.

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Harvey Blows

In case you weren't watching, current news outlets are reporting that Harvey is getting ready to blow the entire island of Bermuda.

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Detectives Needed

I was speaking with a friend of mine yesterday afternoon, and he had a good idea -- we need some detectives. He suggested we should start the investigation, and he's quite sure that Bud Selig, President George W. Bush, and the U.S. Congress would be very happy (and likely to pay a lot) for us to solve this mystery.

We have GOT to find out who it is that's running around the country injecting people with steroids! I think if we track Rafael Palmeiro's steps, we can find out where he's been. Is he being injected in public, when someone brushes up against him in a crowd? Perhaps someone is sneaking into his house at night and shooting him up while he sleeps.

We now have Jason Giambi who has said he didn't take them, but then told a federal grand jury he did take them. Jason says what's happened to Palmeiro is "an unfortunate thing." Add Ryan Franklin, the 8th violator of Major League Baseball's steroid policy, and now we're sure there's a conspiracy.

Someone, or some group, possibly connected to the medical field, with access to steroids, is obviously going around, in secret, and injecting these baseball players with steroids. Why? That is the big unknown. We're not sure yet if it's a conspiracy to bring down MLB, or if it's targeted at certain players. Advance copies of NYTimes articles seem to indicate that they blame Bush.

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NC Alcohol Content in Beer

The NC Senate may have (completely accidentally) done something right. Believe me when I say that these events are few and far between -- and the horrible, irresponsible, reckless, idiotic, freedom-hating, bureaucratic, draconic things they do FAR outweigh the few occasional things they do right. But heck, when they do something right, I want to mention it.

In this case, they have actually passed a proposed law that would at least increase the "cap" on alcohol content on beer in North Carolina. It's still not great, as they should just completely remove the damn "cap," but an increase to 15% from the current 6% is at least a slight improvement.

Of course, there's still those that are opposed to it, and it has to pass one more reading in the Senate (and get past the govn'r) before it will be law. Senator John Kerr (D) thinks that this measure will "expose young people to alcohol that would make them legally drunk with just a small amount." I guess Sen. Kerr would rather you drink a lot to get drunk. Hey Senator, change that moronic law that makes you "legally drunk" after one sip!

Sen Don East (D) thinks it will cause more accidents. He doesn't say how. I'm thinking it will cause more traffic jams at the stores as people enjoy a slight bit of expanded freedom and choice in their beers. In addition, there will quite likely be more breweries that will open up and employ people. Heck, I'm seriously considering a career move there.

To show you how long it's taken and how horrible the current law is, take a peek at Pop The Cap -- a website that's been running for almost 3 years trying to get the 70-year old 5% law removed. Oh and the reason for that 5% law 70 years ago? Because businesses complained that there were afraid their employees might come in drunk Monday.

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August 03, 2005

The UNternet

So earlier tonight I tried to get on the internet. I turned on my computer and tried to connect. My web browser, instead of being my normal home page (this blog), was a large black space with a green flashing line in the upper left corner. I wondered what in the world it could be. Then there was a clicking noise and I saw the following appear on the screen:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

I typed the only logical answer, "YES." The screen then typed out:

HOW ABOUT GLOBALTHERMONUCLEAR WAR?

I thought about it moment and then typed, "NO, THANK YOU."

The computer responded:

HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHECKERS?

Since the computer seemed to be responding to me, I tried something a little more advanced and typed:

NO. TAKE ME TO HTTP://WWW.OGRESVIEW.MU.NU

It was then I noticed all the keys appeared in capital letters. I checked the caps lock and noticed it was NOT on. The computer continued:

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT COMMAND. PLEASE ENTER A VALID INSTRUCTION.

The flashing green cursor flashed at me. I tried again:

OPEN A WEB BROWSER
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT COMMAND. PLEASE ENTER A VALID INSTRUCTION.
IEXPLORE.EXE
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT COMMAND. PLEASE ENTER A VALID INSTRUCTION.

I was starting to get annoyed. I went another route:

HELP.

WHAT DO YOU WANT HELP WITH?
THE INTERNET.

PLEASE TYPE YOUR COUNTRY NAME.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

I'M SORRY, THE COUNTRY YOU ENTERED, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IS NOT RECOGNIZED. PLEASE TRY AGAIN.
AMERICA.

SORRY, CURRENTLY AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET TO MAKE UP FOR THEIR WARMONGERING AND WHILE THEY ARE PENALIZED FOR USING THE INTERNET TOO MUCH. INSTEAD, KENYA HAS BEEN GIVEN 1 CREDIT FOR YOUR ATTEMPT TO USE THE INTERNET. ONLY AFTER KENYA HAS RECEIVED 1,000,000,000 CREDITS WILL SERVICE BE RESTORED TO AMERICA.

LOGOFF.

Naturally, I did what any internet user would do -- I called my ISP. The phone call went something like this:

ISP: Hello, Stupid Phone Services, How are you being doing today? How may I be directing your call?
ME: I'm having some trouble connecting to the internet...
ISP: (interrupting) You mean the unternet?
ME: No, the internet.
ISP: I'm sorry, we are no longer permitted to allow connections to the internet, via governmental order. All our internet requests are now directed to the UNternet.
ME: Unternet? What's that?
ISP: Well, it's sort of like the internet...except they don't allow Americans to be using it.
ME: What?!?
ISP: I am being saying, it is being the internet, but no Americans are allowed.
ME: So where's the internet?
ISP: I do not know, I am in India.
ME: -----
ISP: Is there anything else that I can be doing for you today?
ME: How do I get access to the Unternet, then?
ISP: You must move from America.
ME: Thank you, come again.

* click *

Then I simply started up my OWN damn Linux machine and connected to the shadow internet that's in place for just such emergencies. So, how was your day?

(This has been an Alliance Precision Guided Humor Assignment.)

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More Carnivals

In case you haven't had enough of the carnivals for this week, here's two more that I like that you should go have a read.

First up is the Carnival of Liberty #5 over at Owlish Mutterings. A good compilation of articles outlining what freedom REALLY is and where it's going.

Next is the Carnival of the Clueless, a collection of articles that really point out total absurdity and people who really, really, really don't know what planet they're on. And yes, most of them are politicians.

Oh, and in case you forgot, head on over and read Humor for Dreaded Wednesday.

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RFID Implant: Want one?

This week's Christian View Symposium asks about this news story about medical RFID chips.

Each week over at Cross Blogging, you can find a new question in the Christian Views Symposium category. Once again, you do not have to be a professing Christian or anything else to answer the question! The questions are often thought-provoking and interesting -- feel free to join in each week with your own answers on your own blog or in the comments at Cross Blogging.

The questions, based on the news article linked above:

Would you want this chip implanted in you?
Do the benefits outweigh the privacy concerns?

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Blogger Assassinated

Steven Vincent of In The Red Zone blog was just assassinated in Iraq.

Mr. Vincent had reported in the corruption of the Iraqi police force, and now he's paid the ultimate price for exposing the truth. He was killed by radical Shiite mulsim terrorists. Kat has more details. How's that "religion of peace" working out for you folks who STILL believe that lie?

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Higher NC Taxes?

My regular readers already know about the huge tax increases already coming from Raleigh. They're still working out the details, but we are clearly going to see massive tax increases on everything from 25-cent candy to cable television to movies to cigarettes. At the same time, they're forcing other taxes that will show up likely next year.

The current budget proposal removes $15 million of spending from the state level for Medicaid, but still requires the counties to pay that money. In other words, the state is telling the county that they MUST spend this $15 million on Medicaid, but the state is not giving them the money to spend. Therefore the counties are going to have to raise their own taxes to meet the state's requirements.

And to let you know how confused the Democrats in Raleigh are, they actually think they're giving the counties a GIFT in doing this! Senator David Hoyle (D):

We are good to local governments. We give them sales tax. We give them franchise tax. They need to thank us instead of condemn us.

I can't believe he can say that with a straight face. I think Operation Cleansweep in PA has the right idea:
Operation Clean Sweep is aimed at one simple goal: cleaning house in the Pennsylvania General Assembly by defeating every single incumbent officeholder up for re-election in 2006.

The North Carolina Legislature clearly needs the same thing.

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August 02, 2005

Marijuana Overdose?

Weird stuff. One of these days I'm going to have to get a job at Google, just to see how their search engines work from the inside. I somehow think there must be some serious random number generators at work in there.

It seems I'm now the number ONE hit when you search for "ODing on marijuana."

I'm really not sure how I can add to that.

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Democrat Good Idea

It's not often that I can post a headline like that. As far as I've seen, this is the first elected politician that has finally said, "Enough!" Dov Hikind, from Brooklyn, finally agrees that it doesn't make any sense to search 95-year old grandmothers for bombs!

Mr. Hikind has proposed a law to allow profiling! Good job! He actually said what everyone knows, but no one will publicly say:

There is a terrorist profile for a potential suicide bomber, and it's not the 75-year-old grandmother.
Every case of recent terrorism has been committed by individuals [from a] Middle Eastern country.

This is a Democrat that I might actually be able to vote for! Not surprisingly, four other Democrats who are challenging him for his seat all oppose searching potential criminals and instead want to continue searching great-grandma. In other non-earth shattering news, the NY communist party, aka ACLU, also supports allowing terrorists free rein while searching grandma.

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CAFTA - Homespun Symposium

This week is the 30th question from the Homespun Bloggers! This week they're asking about the CAFTA:

Today, President Bush is expected to sign the Central American Free Trade Agreement. How do you feel about it and why?

Today on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Dr. Walter Williams entertained a number of callers that were dead set against it...how about you?


The post was posted last Friday, so that's where the "today" references come from.

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Health Care Choice Act

Folks, the Health Care industry needs help. We need to find a way to lower health care costs. As usual, the primary reason health care is so expensive is government. Government regulation forces insurers to cover things that people do not want or need, and therefore everyone pays more. For example, depending upon which state you live in, you might be forced to get insurance coverage for AIDS, mental health, and aromatherapy, even if you don't want it. That's wrong.

HR 2355 can change all that! This bill, which is strong opposed by special interests in the health care industry (who only want your money), would simply allow you to choose any health care you wanted, instead of what your state required. It absolutely doesn't interfere with state's rights, because it actually has to do with interstate commerce.

This bill would allow you to buy insurance coverage from an insurer in any state. Currently you can only buy insurance from companies that your state approves -- and your state may have literally hundreds of mandates, or requirements, that insurers must meet to sell insurance in your state.

For example, I don't want full health care coverage. I don't want every possible coverage for anything that could ever happen to me. Instead, I just want catastrophic coverage -- if I'm in a serious accident and hospitalized, I want that covered, but that's all. I don't want AIDS, aromatherapy, alcoholism, mental health, Viagra, and smoking cessation coverage -- but I cannot do that because the state will not let me. That's wrong.

Contact your legislators on this one. The bill has 68 cosponsors and it recently passed out of committee, but on a party-line vote. The special interests are really opposed to this one because it WILL make things cheaper for everyone and WILL take money out of their pockets -- please get out there and support this bill, we all need it.

Update: The above link isn't working. To see the bill text, go to Thomas.loc.gov and enter HR2355 in the search box -- it will take you to the bill.

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Holy Quran and Lies

Some people either just won't get it, or they refuse to get it. The ACLU is suing the state of North Carolina to get the Bible removed from the courtroom. They are doing it in the name of the religion of terrorists, Islam. And they've got their supporters, like The Wilmington Star.

The editors at the Wilmington Star actually believe that if they force every courtroom in the state to have a Quaran in it that terrorists will tell the truth in court, as long as they're allowed to swear on their own book. The editors at the Wilmington Star either don't like reality, like most on the left, or they absolutely refuse to see it.

Islamic terrorists will never tell the truth. They do not believe our form of government. They only want us dead. The editors also refuse to admit that Islam includes "Al-Takeyya":

The Islamic principle of lying for the sake of Allah. Falsehoods told to prevent denigration of Islam, to protect oneself, or to promote the cause of Islam are sanctioned by the Qur'an, including lying under penalty of perjury in testimony before the United States Congress, lying or making distorted statements to the media such as claiming that Islam is a religion of peace, and deceiving fellow Muslims when the one lying has deemed them to be apostates.*

Wilmington Star Editors: ISLAMIC TERRORISTS DON'T CARE! They are directed to lie to you, and they are supported by CAIR and the ACLU. Putting the Quaran in a courtroom will only hurt this country. It's wrong, and you are wrong.

* From The Islam Commentaries, H/T to Cao's Blog.

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