The Definition of Average

Highs And Lows Add Up (and Down)


One of the things that I find most interesting about having lived longer than two or three decades is the insight that MEMORY provides in keeping things like Weather (you know, high and low temperatures, blizzards, and rainfall) in perspective.

Case in point, the current heavy rainfall and resulting flooding in the Midwest.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise Thursday from heavy storms that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths.

While the first day of spring brought much needed sunshine Thursday to Ohio and other states, authorities warned that many rivers would crest well above flood stage in the next several days.

Ignoring the current headlines, I seem to recall reading stories like this one from October 2007 about record "global warming" induced drought.

Here's their featured graphic:

Anybody notice that big dark red "blob' there in the middle of the eastern half of the map?

Notice the states of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky sitting there in water related distress?

And how's Ohio doing?

To find out, read along with me today...

Flooding also was reported Wednesday in parts of Arkansas, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Missouri and Kentucky .(emphasis mine--VRR)

On Thursday morning, high water closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70—a major east-west highway—for about 4 miles in central Ohio's Licking County, the State Highway Patrol said. The flooding was receding by midmorning, but there was no estimate of when the lanes would reopen.

Morning commuters trying to reach downtown Columbus from the south were being detoured off heavily traveled U.S. 23, because its northbound lanes were flooded at Interstate 270.

President Bush declared a major disaster in Missouri on Wednesday night and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in areas affected by flooding. Seventy counties and the city of St. Louis also are eligible for federal funding for emergency protective measures.

Several areas in Missouri were bracing for record-level flood surges expected to hit Friday and Saturday. Authorities were straining to keep pace with some of the worst flooding to hit their region in decades.

The National Weather Service was forecasting record flooding along the Meramec River near St. Louis. Some residents had already been evacuated Thursday. The Black, Big and St. Francis rivers in southeastern Missouri also were expected to see significant flooding.

The town of Fenton put out a call asking volunteers to help put down sandbags against the floodwaters Thursday. Gov. Matt Blunt said cities can count on the state for help as he activated the Missouri National Guard.

"Missourians should know that we are doing everything within our power to provide state resources to communities in need," Blunt said.

Much of Ohio was under a flood warning Thursday, with some areas cautioned to watch for flash floods. Most of southwest Ohio had received more than 4 inches of rain, and officials in Butler County declared a state of emergency because of the rising waters.

Again folks, I never mean to make light of the effects and suffering caused by weather and other "natural disasters. It's just that I insist on tempering my own excitement and enthusiasm with balance and understanding of the context of the situation I'm addressing.

I also feel compelled to want to point out how easy it is to get all worked up with the arrival of rain or snow, or the lack there of, then quickly forget the past in favor of lamenting the results of the current events.

Anyone that knows me knows that, when addressing our current rainfall shortages, I've recently been reminiscing about the drought that occurred here between 1987 and 1990, and continued to a lessor extent in the south and Midwest into the early 1990's (I remember because I was buying my first boat during that period) before the record setting Great Flood of 1993 inundated the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, in the end bringing things back to...

Get ready...

A V E R A G E Rainfall.

Get it?

Global Warming Weenies Get Dose Of Own Medicine

Sauce For The Goose...Sauce For The Gander...


I tilted my head back and laughed out loud when I read this story about an electrical blackout out in Utah at the "Sundance film Festival" this weekend.

It's a short blurb, so check the story out here in it's entirety

Lights go out at Sundance Film Fest
BY JO PIAZZA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, January 19th 2008, 4:00 AM

PARK CITY, Utah – The Sundance Film Festival has plenty of star power, but Friday night it ran out of the electric kind.

Park City’s Main St. went dark about 10:30 p.m. because of what officials said was an overuse of electricity. They blamed the blackout on the clubs and lounges that pop up during the movie festival and host parties for the flicks.

Chaos ensued when the lights went out at Harry-O's nightclub, where more than 1,000 guests were hearing Maroon Five play. People ran for the doors.

Main St. became packed with confused festival goers.

But at the Sky 360 Delta Lounge down the street, party planners lit candles and kept the bar open despite the blackout.

Authorities worked feverishly to restore power, and 40 minutes later the lights were back on Main St.


Anybody hazard to make a guess regarding how many of these people are what could be categorized as fervent "eco-weenies" "enviro-fascists" "Global Warming Activists?"

Can you say ALL OF THEM?

And can you also guess how much $3.50 gasoline and $5.00 Jet fuel has been burned in limousines and private jets to move their butts into and around a city in Utah named "Park" which probably doesn't have a single actual public park in the city limits because of real estate values?

I'd say zillions of dollars regarding the liquid fuels, and ZERO regarding the parks in Park City, Utah.

I swear people, if we let the "Global Warming" crowd get control of our national infrastructure, YOU are going to be sitting in the dark and cold/hot wondering what has happened, just like the people out in Utah and California are doing the past few years.

I don't know about you, but I'm happy that mean old polluting places here on the east coast like Southern Company (Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and a few others), Duke Power, and the Tennessee Valley Authority each year burn tons of coal, have dams stopping spawning fish, and own millions of glowing rods of uranium.

And I challenge any bunch of Hollywood freaks and their adoring fans to feel welcome to come here to our little Island any day as long as they stay out of my yard, but unless a thunderstorm or something else weird happens I have every confidence that even they can't make any part of our infrastructure fail...

except possibly the SEWER system.

That will be all for now...


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Equal Opportunity Enviro-Whackism

Spreading the Misery Responsibility...


I'm sorry to report this morning that it looks like Owl Gore's Environmental Derangement Psychosis has spread to the Jewish community now during Chanukah.

In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.

The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.

"The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle," said Liad Ortar, the campaign's cofounder, who runs the Arkada environmental consulting firm and the Ynet Web site's environmental forum. "Global warming is a milestone in human evolution that requires us to rethink how we live our lives, and one of the main paradigms of that is religion and how it fits into the current situation."


Do WHAT???

Leave out a candle from the ritual?

Which one would they have honorable religious people to omit?

The first one?

Don't light the eighth night's candle?

These morons are Jews, and they aught to know better.

So what about leaving dark the Shamash light usually presented in the center highest position in the Menorah?

Is any religious ritual sacred and safe from their assault and scrutiny?

While we're at it let's get the Methodists to dump their Acolytes and/or leave at least one of the two candles dark on their altars every Sunday.

Let's make all of the Christians leave a candle dark on this years Advent Wreaths --that will lower CO2 and reduce global warming by something like 0.000000000000000000000123 degrees Celsius.

And let's not leave the Catholics out--they could stop with the incense burning during Mass and possibly prevent a couple of Locust plague induced crop failures in the Sudan and Ethiopia (...oh...OH...OhhhhhhhhHHHHHH....you live in a Desert...)

Seriously, this whole story is ridiculous, and the people behind it are clearly mindless politically motivated morons asking people to jump on the Man-Made Global Warming bandwagon while making strictly ineffective "SYMBOLIC GESTURES."

The next series of wildfires in the foothills of Malibu will undo everything accomplished by leaving little wax candles unlit by ten fold. The next volcanic eruption on Montserrat or in Micronesia will spew more CO2 and volatile organic hydrocarbons than all of the cars in the US in an entire YEAR.

The ritual surrounding the lighting of the Menorah involves eight or nine little bitty candles sized to burn for about thirty minutes each night, and I think that leaving one out for a silly reason like this is beyond pale.

This is a perfect example of ever increasing politically correct crap which we can look forward to in the future if we don't manage to nip this Climate Change insanity in the bud.

Today it's candles, tomorrow it's your fireplace, your lawnmower, your electric razor, and your chain saw.

By the way, I tried to contact Owl Gores' office for comment, but all I could get was this photo:





(Yes...that's the product of me and my Photoshop skills)


So sue me...

I'm Developing My Own Weapons of ASS Mass Destruction

Filibustering My Way To Insanity Infamy


I'm just beside myself. I don't know what to say this morning folks.

I was actually in a bit of a bind figuring out what to write about, then I stumbled onto this story...

I saw some Pinhead on TV on MSNBC interviewing some captive commentators (you know...so called experts like Pat Buchanan and some other talking head media morons) about the revised US Intelligence estimate stating that regardless of what we've heard on the news for the past two thousand years, Iran really stopped developing Nuclear weapons in 2003.

If you don't believe that story, other versions are printed here, here, and even here at the NY Times.

The MSNBC Pinhead moderator was already on the "Bush Lied" mantra, while I'm sitting here wondering why everyone is willing to ignore the bullshit uttered by Iran's own little Capuchin Monkey look-alike dictator:

...statements basically admitting that Iran has Nuclear refinement technology beyond that NEEDED TO SUPPORT A PEACEFUL ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION PROGRAM, and saying that they (the Iranians) have the right to develop nuclear powered handbags and suitcases to lob into your living rooms and stow on airliners for your enjoyment and demise in the future.

As I recall, a stupid dead SOB named Saddam Hussain kept on pounding his hammers and rattling the swords in this same manner back a few years ago before we captured his rat bastard ass and his fellow citizens stretched his neck to the point of breaking.

My point here is this...

I you don't want the US Marine corps to tear your door off the hinges or the US Navy to fly a GPS guided Cruise missile up your butt, stop with the rhetoric, because the partisan liberal idiot professional morons down at the US State Department and the so called "Intelligence Agencies" apparently spend more time watching old "Get Smart" 1960's TV reruns than they do actually gathering any Intelligence.

If I were Bush I'd be walking around poking people with a pointy stick and kicking their butts with my size 13 boots...but instead I'm relegated to delivering commentary here on my measly little website safely sequestered in rural coastal Georgia. (if ever you piss me off enough and I manage to get close enough to grab hold of you and bite you, believe me that I'm taking something important like your nose with me...so keep that in mind in the future.)

And while you're at it, stop blaming the President and the White house for the failings of these Partisan "PROFESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE" shitheads...It's Bush's fault he let them keep their jobs when he took office after Clinton hired them in the 1990's, but it's not his fault that they lied to him and the American public or just plain missed the truth when they wandered into the sandy abyss to do their jobs.

After all, grumpy old Helen Thomas and the balance of the White house press corps would have soiled their undergarments and had public conniption fits should he have kicked them to the curb like sHrillary Rodham-Clinton would have done in the same situation.

Dammit.

The Dumbass Of The Day

Just In Case You Missed The Story...


Some guy from Georgia tried to open a bank account in South Carolina using a $1,000,000.00 bill as his deposit.

The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, Frank said.

And you wonder why many of us here in the south can't keep the rest of the planet from thinking we're STUPID?

And another thing...If you're gonna break the law, at least listen to your mother and be polite while you're doing the crime.

Rosie Screws Up Again

Show's Dead Before The First Taping



I was wandering around Drudge Report this morning and noticed a link to Rosie O'Donnell's Website.

The link was to a posting indicating that she had lost her planned MSNBC evening political show because "she blabbed" publicly about the negotiations and the Network backed out of the deal.

All I can say is...

Good Riddance--very few people care what she has to say about current events and politics anyway.

(Anyone but me notice that she writes in her blog like an eighth grader, using all little letters and words like "2day" and "b4"?)

Owl Gore and The Unwashed Masses Celebrate

But Hopes For New FEMA Disaster Evaporate Within Hours...


I just noticed that I had received an e-mail from NOAA announcing the formation of Tropical Depression 16 at 11:00 PM. I'm sure that there are fingers and toes crossing in the ranks of the Global Warming zealots as the drama unfolds over the next week.

Here's the path He/She is expected to take according to the weather nerds:

I did a little checking, and here's the surface water temperature chart for the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Western Atlantic:



Anyone but me notice that hard turn to the North, then the northeast, that our newest threat to mankind and the most features of this hemisphere of the planet is expected to take?

You don't have to have a PHD in Meteorology to understand why.

It's because of this stupid stationary front that's been dripping and drizzling on everyone and everywhere from Savannah to Miami for the past half week.



Feel free to go back to sleep now, because the storm will be a total non-issue shortly...

Photoshop Fun

For The Jihadist That Has Everything???


Matt Drudge at Drudge Report had a link to this story about the FBI threatening us with more "shoe bombers" again.


Here's what some recent future Owners of Virgins were working with on their path to Allah...

Pretty crude, huh?

Just out of curiosity, I wandered over to the Dr Scholls website to see if I could come up with something more comfortable to wear...something like this:



I was astounded to find this warning on the same page:

Under new security measures put in place by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), airline passengers are not permitted to board aircraft with gel insoles in their carry-on baggage or on their persons.


TSA regulations do allow passengers to pack their gel insoles in checked baggage.

As an alternative, travelers may wish to use Dr. Scholl's insole products such as Memory Fit® Customizing Insoles.

I had no idea that, after taking off your shoes at the airport security desk, that now you have to have your insoles consficated if they are't "factory."

What's the world coming to?

UPDATE:

I can't leave well enough alone...

Insane Insanity

Dumbasses Speak...The World Listens


I don't know what else to say, except that I'm pretty sure my hair is turning grey and falling out faster and faster because of my mind and body's reaction to the crap that I read on the Internet and see on the TV news each day.

Even FOX News isn't immune to being infected by the rampant stupidity that's bouncing around the planet, although they do usually manage to put some perspective on things over the course of time.

This CNN report by some self proclaimed "Expert" about the world's oil production peaking last year is the latest thing that makes me foam at the mouth when I read it.

Here...take a look:


LONDON, England (CNN) -- The world has reached the point of maximum oil output and production levels will halve by 2030 -- a situation that will eventually lead to war and disaster, a report claims.

The German-based Energy Watch Group released a report Tuesday saying the world's oil production peaked in 2006 and from now on will drop by around 3 percent a year. It says that by as early as 2030, the global availability of oil will be half of what it was at its peak.

"It's a very serious result," said Hans-Josef Fell, a German lawmaker from the environmentalist Green Party who commissioned the report. "I fear the world will come into a big economic crisis in the coming years."

The report warns that coal, uranium, and other key fossil fuels are also in declining supply. It predicts the fall in fossil fuel production will bring with it the threat of war, humanitarian disaster, and general social unrest.

But Leo Drollas, who leads oil and gas market analysis and forecasting at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, said there are plenty of supplies and no looming crisis. He said the report sounds like "scaremongering."

Drollas says production could still slow one day, but only because new reserves will be considered too difficult or expensive to extract.

Anyone want to bet me that Heir Hans has never seen an oil well in person, let alone set foot on an offshore oil drilling platform?

Further, does anyone want to bet me that Comrad Hans is a card carrying member of the Socialist party and drives some kind of silly little Korean manufactured econo-box car to work at the university each day? (actually he probably drives a giant bad assed Mercedes or BMW and parks in a garage bigger than my house each evening when he comes home from his job at the Energy Watch Group)

How the heck can we let these so called "experts" that have virtually no credentials and only giant egos and agendas as motivation tell us what to do as a nation and individuals?

Oil hasn't even been a primary fuel of industry for a hundred years yet. Coal's been around for hundreds of years, and Nuclear hasn't seen it's 60th birthday yet, but this moron is proclaiming doom and destruction and demanding global legislative mandates to force us to change.

WE WILL CHANGE, but market forces should be allowed to cause the change, not government and new laws.

So what if gas is $3.00 a gallon. Pay the price, or DON'T DRIVE.

Walk.

Take a Cab.

Hitchhike.

Here's an idea, buy a horse and carriage. There's a whole bunch of horses and buggy whip makers (or the descendants thereof) that were put out of work by Henry Ford's production lines, and there might still be a few blacksmiths out there looking for work.

If we don't manage to waste all of the corn and oats making ethanol, you can convert your garage into a stable and spend your money on agricultural products instead of sending your cash to Nicaragua and the Sheiks in the middle east.

No...that won't work, because the GOVERNMENT has stepped in and zoned your house out of supporting livestock, so now you'll have to move even further away from town and your job if you want to not pay the market price for gasoline.

Isn't government wonderful?

Fully half of what you pay for gasonline is taxes of one form or the other, yet the people in the very government that's taxing your ass off have the audacity to stand up in Washington and complain about the profits that the oil companies make each year.

The government takes more in taxes, yet the oil companies are supposed to cut their profits and at the same time invest in new exploration and low pollution technologies.

Hans offers no solutions, just dire warnings and usless proclamations

What a total load of CRAP.

I've got to go now...my head hurts.

Mouldy Data?

NASA Squelches Air Safety Survey Report


I've mentioned here in the past that I've spent a little time as a pilot flying airplanes, and I've also got a few hundred thousand miles under my belt sitting in the back seats of commercial airliners since my first flight in 1977.

Aviation, including model airplanes, continues to be something of interest to me so I tend to keep abreast of things happening in the world of "things with wings" more than I do automobiles and soap operas on TV these days.

That said, I've been following this story for a while, and the latest evolution of it makes me think that the title of it should be "Aviation Safety Better In Spite of Government Intervention."

Members of Congress and aviation safety experts yesterday criticized NASA's refusal to release the results from an extensive survey of pilots that may help pinpoint potential safety lapses in the country's aviation network.

The reaction came in response to attempts by the Associated Press to obtain a copy of the database, which contains the results of more than 20,000 telephone interviews with airline and general aviation pilots. It is not known what the surveys uncovered.

NASA officials told the AP, which reported that it requested the database more than 14 months ago, that they would not release the information because it might shake the public's confidence in the airlines.

Members of Congress said that was not a valid reason to withhold the information and announced yesterday that they were also seeking a copy of the database and would hold hearings on the matter

[snip]...

David Mould, a NASA spokesman, said the data were still being analyzed and that he expected a final report on the project to be released this year. He conceded that it was behind schedule and said that denying the request on the grounds that it might scare the public "was probably not the best thing to do."

The database cost about $8.5 million to compile.

Here's my take on this situation and what NASA might be hiding in the process. It's bad, but I bet that it's also not what you think.

In my opinion, if aviation safety were left entirely up to the efforts of the GOVERNMENT, everyone would be in real trouble. It's been that way since the government got into the business of regulating aviation back in the 1930's.

It's the people--the professional pilots and mechanics and administrators--that keep us all safe in our daily comings and goings, in SPITE of the GOVERNMENT, not BECAUSE of the Government being there.

It's just that simple, but alot of you out there have been brainwashed to think otherwise.

Just like everything else the government is involved in, they take credit for the successes after imposing infinite artificial barriers and hurtles that have the effect of stifling progress. In this case, the problems lie with the FAA and the National Air Traffic Control system, and I say that is what NASA is covering up by refusing to release the data.

I've know a couple of Controllers in my day, and in addition to being under-paid and over worked, they were all critical of the computer and communication systems they had to work with. The FAA is still screwing around today--twenty years after I first visited the Control Tower at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport--implementing new software and hardware systems. Generally the projects are over budget and under performing,

On my visit back in 1988 I was appalled to see the display on the "Ground Control Radar" system that they used during periods of fog and other low visibility situations. It was like something out of a 1950's TV show using an antenna rather than a cable feed.

Seriously, a layman couldn't any more make out what the display was showing than if you were looking at a MRI or an ultrasound image of the human brain.

Yet these guys managed to successfully keep all of the airliners apart and I don't think that there's been a substantial runway incident in Atlanta IN SPITE of the government and their CRAPPY SYSTEMS.

I hope that Congress or SOMEBODY makes NASA pony up our $8.5 million worth of results, but I wouldn't hold my breath on my next flight on Delta.

Pizza Sauce Now Number Two Industry?

Making You An Offer You Can't Understand Can't Refuse...


In spite of years of progress, tradition apparently still reigns in Italy as Organized Crime is the biggest business in the country:

ROME (AP) - Revenue from organized crime amounts to an estimated $127 billion annually in Italy, making it the largest segment of the economy, a lobby group for small businesses said Monday.

The figure, representing about 7 percent of the country's gross domestic product, is made from illicit activities such as extortion, drug trafficking, loansharking and prostitution rings, the Confesercenti lobby said in a report.

Business lobbies have launched campaigns in recent years to increase awareness of the extent of organized crime in Italy, which they say limits investment in the country. Organized crime is particularly rooted in Sicily, Naples and the southern regions of Calabria and Puglia.

Tano Grasso, head of Italy's anti-rackets commission, said on state TV that for every 100 foreign investors who come to Italy, only one sets up business in the south.

One of the major issues is the "pizzo," as extorted "protection" money is known. Many businessmen in southern Italy have long considered it an unavoidable expense. A business lobby of industrialists in Sicily recently said it would expel any member who pays the "pizzo."

But eliminating the "pizzo" has been met with violent resistance. Some merchants, factory owners and industrialists who have denounced extortion attempts by mobsters have seen their businesses torched or company vehicles damaged in recent years.

A small number of businessmen have also been killed for refusing to pay the protection money.

Can a Redneck say "Mama mia" without being accused of being "insensitive?"

OH MY GOSH...

Harry Reid Is Such A Miserable Lying Bastard.


I was sitting around in my garage building some new copper monstrosities, listening to the radio in anticipation of the closing of the E-Bay auction on the Rush Limbaugh show today at about 1 PM.

Then this happened...

Check out the video of this asshole on the Senate floor at Noon today, just one hour before the auction closed, trying to act like he was involved with Rush's decision to sell the letter, give the proceeds to charity, match the bid--thereby taking at least partial credit for the process.

Rush was selling the letter because he was insulted by Federal government officials (read that Dingy Harry Reid and 40 other Democrats) trying to tell a private citizen what to do, and worse yet, trying to cause a private citizen to lose his lucrative job because of what he said on the radio.

Harry Reid is an idiot.

YOU also are an idiot if you believe any of the upcoming news stories that tell you any different.

Just watch...the media, that has thus far ignored the story until the money climbed into the millions, will now try to spin this thing saying that Reid forced Rush directly or indirectly to capitulate and sell the letter to raise money as a "mea culpa" for a sin he didn't actually commit.

The letter was worthless as even toilet paper to wipe your behind on, but now Reid's trying to say that his name and that of the other 40 fellow Washington jesters is the reason for the final sales price.

Dammit...

UPDATE

I almost forgot...Rush challenged dingy Harry and the other 40 senators, clearly all multi-millionaires, to match the donation or at least give SOMETHING to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation in recognition of their misbehavior and as an olive branch of reconciliation.

To date, to my knowledge, not a single Senator, not Dingy Harry Reid, not sHrillary Rodham Clinton, nor any of the co-conspirators have offered not one single dime to the cause.

What do you think of them apples?

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The (Freak) Show Must Go On

Time To Piss (Virtually) EVERYBODY Off?


As is usual, I've got a couple of things to say here this morning, and I'm not pulling any punches in the process so you might want to put on your safety classes before you continue reading if you are a flaming liberal (or flaming anything else) or just an irrational, uneducated, emotional, barking Moonbat.

Some more rational moderate people may even think that I'm too severe, but I DON'T CARE...this is MY Website...feel free to hit the back button and go somewhere else.

Unfortunately for me, both of the stories I'm addressing surround WOMEN, so I guess that I can check women off of my list of people that will possibly be pissed off by what I have to say.

One of the women also happens to be GAY or a LESBIAN or whatever they refer to themselves as today (and the other woman could be although I'm too busy to Google the answer and really don't care because sexual orientation isn't my real topic here.)

Regardless, all of the gays and lesbians can jump on the anti Virgil bandwagon as it passes by because no-one is allowed to direct any commentary toward those practicing "alternative lifestyles" unless it is positive and in support of advancing their social and political agenda.

Unfortunately for some people, I refuse to comply with that sort of crap and see everyone as fair game in the direction of my insensitive commentary, regardless of their proclivities in their back seats and bedrooms.

That said, Subject A this morning is singer Annie Lennox. For those of you that are unfamiliar with this gifted vocalist, here's a few photos of dear Annie:

Annie likes to dress up (and down) when she puts on a performance, wouldn't you say?

Well, if you don't attend many concerts these days, you aught to see what the audience looks like at almost any given show. The attire of the ticket holders can swing wildly between what you would expect to find at an Atlanta Symphony Concert and a Grateful Dead Show--at the exact same concert!!

Heck, these days you can't go to the mall, to a High School football game, or attend a NASCAR race without subjecting yourself to a virtual freak show of humanity and public display of disgusting behavior and fetishes that would have landed people in JAIL for life fifty years ago.

Every time I come home from the Mall over in Brunswick I always feel like I've been to a taping of a Jerry Springer show. Who ARE these people? Don't they ever look in the mirror? In addition to looking and dressing strangely, some if not many act like they haven't been to town ever--or at least for a couple of years.

You can probably imagine what the average audience at a Annie Lennox show looks like and is dressed like on any given evening. Not the congregation of the local Baptist Church...

So any way, apparently Miss Annie had what I call a "live by the sword, die by the sword moment" on Tuesday, fleeing a concert in mid-song when a man clad in a black cape and gas mask approached the stage.

BOULDER, Colorado (October 18, 2007) – Popular singer Annie Lennox fled the stage when a man wearing a gas mask and cape appeared in the crowd towards the end of her set at Macky Auditorium on Tuesday.

Lennox spotted the man approaching the stage, tossed her microphone to the ground, and ducked backstage without saying a word to the audience. She describes the incident as “really freakish and disturbing” on her Blog.

Annie returned to the stage after the masked and caped 32-year-old Denver resident was removed, according to University of Colorado Police Sgt. Gary Arai.

“A fellow who was dressed in a black cape, platform boots and a gas mask approached the stage,” Arai told Boulder’s Daily Camera. “Lennox saw him coming and threw down her microphone and went backstage.”

It’s not clear if charges will be filed against the man, as he didn’t climb the stage. The gas-masked cape-wearing man’s name has not been released, because he has not been charged with a crime.

Give me a break here, people. Before 9/11, Bush's Baked Beans would have sponsored concerts and handed out free gas masks to the first 100 people through the gate at a Travis Tritt concert.

Now today the cops will haul you out of the concert seating for wearing a gas mask and cape in a building full of people with giant holes punched in every imaginable body part and colored ink covering the areas of skin not penetrated with gold and silver jewelry?

Pluueeeeesssssseeeee....

Heck, I say that the guy might have just gotten the MEMO from a Democratic official working for the Department of Homeland Security suggested that staffers going to the upcoming NASCAR race at Talladega, Alabama get immunizations before attending the event.

Let me tell you something. I'M from ALABAMA, and my immune system laughs at almost all of the crap that will kill most pasty skinned black sock and sandal wearing Yankees and everyone inside the Washington beltway WITHOUT immunizations. I haven't had but one Tetanus shot in the past 20 years.

Likewise, the professional journalist that wrote the story doesn't tell us what he means by "gas mask". Was it one of these:



A military quality gas mask? Or one of these:

A medical quality filtration mask? (The guy could have been a Homeland security staffer hiding from the audiences' cooties...)

All in all I find this to be the continuation of a disturbing hysterical trend in our society. We have Halloween coming up, and how many more years will it be before all costumes but things that look like Barney the purple dinosaur or the Teletubbies will be outlawed?

Plastic pistols and Machine guns are already taboo, and the Devil's pitchforks and the Grim Reaper's scythe can't be far behind.

I think that Madam Lennox needs to just get a grip on her pompous self, but then again that's just one angry white southern redneck male's opinion...and what do I really know?

My next subject is one of the ladies I refer to as belonging to a group called "The Angry Lesbians."

Rosie O'Donnell is the President of their Association...

and Ellen DeGeneres is the CEO and handles security for the group...




If you've been following the news this week, Miss Ellen has gotten her panties in a wad boxers in a bunch over a private pet adoption agency's refusal to allow her to run roughshod over their rules in violation of a written contract she had entered into earlier last month.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ellen DeGeneres' talk show was put on hold for a day because of her emotionally wrenching dog-adoption drama.

"It's been a long week and a tough week and we decided to take a long weekend and be back on Tuesday," said Laura Mandel, a spokeswoman for Telepictures Productions, which produces "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

DeGeneres was scheduled Thursday to tape shows to air Friday and Monday. Instead, the tapings were canceled and reruns featuring Jessica Alba and Queen Latifah will air on those days. A new show is planned Tuesday.

The battle over Iggy, a Brussels Griffon terrier mix, pitted DeGeneres against an animal rescue agency and, at one point, had her in tears on her show. The agency's owners complained of receiving death threats over the dispute.

DeGeneres adopted the dog, then gave it to her hairstylist's family after the dog, despite training, couldn't get along with the comedian's cats, her publicist has said.

Marina Batkis and Vanessa Chekroun, owners of the nonprofit Mutts and Moms agency, claimed that DeGeneres violated the adoption agreement by not informing them that she was giving the dog away and removed Iggy from the hairstylist's home Sunday.

DeGeneres pleaded for Iggy's return to the hairstylist on Tuesday's show. She said her hairdresser's daughters, ages 11 and 12, were heartbroken when the dog was taken away.

But Mutts and Moms' owners were adamant about their decision, and a spokesman for Batkis said she wouldn't be "bullied around by the Ellen DeGenereses of the world."

At a taping of the show Wednesday, DeGeneres told the audience she wouldn't talk about the matter again unless Iggy was returned to her hairdresser.

This article gives even more background on the story:

The dispute erupted last month when DeGeneres and her partner adopted Iggy, a black Brussels Griffon mix terrier. When Iggy wasn't able to get along with DeGeneres' cats, the couple gave the dog to DeGeneres' hairdresser.

Mutts and Moms, the nonprofit dog-rescue organization that originally gave DeGeneres the dog, later took it back, saying the talk show host had violated the adoption agreement by not informing them that she was giving the dog away. That set off a firestorm of nasty e-mails and threats directed at the agency after DeGeneres shared the blow by blow with viewers on her show this week.

"Let me just say this, it's gotten out of hand," DeGeneres said on the segment to air Thursday. "I want nothing, nothing more than that dog returned to that family. But you don't resort to violence. So anybody out there, please stop that. Please don't threaten or do whatever."

The angry calls got so bad that Marina Batkis, co-owner of the dog rescue organization, said she had to close her business and stay home Wednesday, a day after DeGeneres broadcast a tearful, televised plea for the dog to be returned to her hairdresser and the woman's daughters.

"My life is being threatened. This is horrible," a tearful Batkis said outside her home.

DeGeneres has acknowledged she erred but said her hairdresser and her family shouldn't be punished. Batkis has refused to back down.

"If Ellen wants to place dogs and decide what's a good home, then she should start her own rescue group," she told "Inside Edition." "But I'm the one doing this and I know what I'm doing."
DeGeneres said several agencies had offered to provide the family another dog, even one that looked like Iggy.

"And unfortunately, Ruby, the little girl, doesn't want another dog, she wants Iggy," said DeGeneres on the show to air Thursday. "It's not a toy that's broken that you can replace. It's a dog."


Ok, anybody but me see anything wrong here with the real story(ies) behind the puppy story?

First of all, from the outset I believe that Ellen CHOSE to take what was a PRIVATE MATTER and bring it into the public eye with the expressed intention of employing public opinion as leverage...

The exact same kind of leverage she has used in her public/professional life since she "came out of the closet" and starting ramming her sexuality and lifestyle down the throats of the American public when they turned on their televisions or opened the pages of their newspapers and People magazine.

What the activists call the old "we're queer and we're here method", taken to the next level in the mainstream media.

Rosie O'Donnell and others pioneered the method, and Ellen is simply fine tuning it to her own specifications.

Everyone is supposed to act like everything is copacetic and just smile and nod at the goings-on (ignoring the 500 pound gorilla in the room), but as soon as something disagreeable or something that can be branded as insensitive happens, all bets are off. It's all about the sexual orientation of the victims and their fragile sensibilities...

If Ellen hadn't said anything about this, it probably could have already been resolved amicably, in private. It's not like the paparazzi are following her cats and dogs or Bush/Cheney are wiretapping her phones and leaking the story to the NY Times.

In fact, Ellen admits that she already had her answer before she went on TV with the story.

SHE WAS WRONG!

She violated her contract, didn't want to or otherwise couldn't keep the dog, and the contract she signed said that the adoption agency had the right to get the pup back in order to screen the next family and place it in a home that matched THEIR STANDARDS, not Ellen's.

Just look at the Moonbats that are Ellen's fans. Yes, I know that she has no control over the fans' and viewers' behavior, but DEATH THREATS?

Over a PET ADOPTION?

Ellen's hair stylist might be Mother Teresa in waiting, but she could also be a hideous, psychotic she-devil that roasts dogs in her microwave oven if the pee in the foyer floor.

Instead of Ellen making the decision, why not let the hairstylist go down to the pet adoption agency, make an application, and submit to their interview process.

That makes sense to me.

If they discover 22 cats, a hamster, a couple of ferrets, a box turtle and a small herd of Vietnamese pot bellied Pigs living in the hair clipper's home in feces strewn squalor with the two children, let due process take it's course.

But no, Ellen's pissed off.

Her giant Ego's been wounded, because in reality she knows that she was wrong to give the doggie away, but instead of correcting her mistake quietly, she's taken it to the world and, in my opinion, wants to use her protected status as a Lesbian and Celebrity to get her way.

Ellen can't stand the fact that her actions caused a couple of little girls to be unhappy.

Tough...kid's face disappointments every day, and everyone can't play Michael Jackson and run out and build houses with amusement parks in their back yards so that their pre-teen playmates will think they're "the best Aunt ever..."

If you or I did this exact same thing, the dog would be gone and no one except our immediate friends and family would know or care.

It's not like the pooch is going to be tossed out a car window into interstate traffic or euthanized if it doesn't end up back at where Miss Degeneres wants it to live, so a public campaign serves no other purpose than to promote her own private agenda.

It's also not about discrimination and prejudice, it's about RIGHT and WRONG.

So now Ellen has reverted to the childish tactic of picking up her marbles and quitting, again (just like Rosie does), all be it for only one day this time.

That's a professional, adult-like attitude, don't you think?

I don't care who and what you do in bed--a stupid arrogant bitch is still a stupid arrogant bitch in my book, every day.

Any Questions?

I Want One

Eliminating The Double Flush...

If you like the idea, you can buy one here at Sportsmans Guide.

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Audacity

Followed By A Good Dose Of Insanity


Check out this story titled "Dentist claims breast rubs appropriate".


WOODLAND, Calif. - A dentist accused of fondling the breasts of 27 female patients is trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an appropriate procedure in certain cases. Mark Anderson's lawyer says dental journals discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem.

Police say Anderson said during recorded phone calls that he routinely massaged patients' chests to treat temporo-mandibular joint disorder, or TMJ, which causes neck and head pain.

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Lew suspended Anderson's dental license last month. He was charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery and sexual battery. Yolo County prosecutors are investigating complaints from more than two dozen women who say they also were groped in the examining chair in the last five years.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Phillips gave Lew three new complaints, including one from a 31-year-old woman who said Anderson fondled her at least six times over two years.

She took to wearing tight shirts with high necklines, "and Anderson would still get in under her shirt and bra," according to a police report.

I want you to think about this for a second or two, then answer a question for me...

(cue the sounds of my crickets chirping...)



















THE LADY CAME BACK TO THE IDIOT PERVERT DENTIST NOT ONCE BUT FIVE ADDITIONAL TIMES AFTER HE REACHED UNDER HER BRA AND GRABBED HER TITS THE FIRST TIME?

What happened...she found out that she wasn't the only one he was groping so she went to the police out of jealousy?

I just don't know where we're all going to these days, but I'm not going with most of you regardless of how good looking you are or how much you pay me...

Huge Nude Photoshoot In Miami

Is This What They'll Be Seeing?

I was just cruising around the Internet to see what was going on in the world, and I noticed that The Drudge Report had a headline matching my title of "Huge Nude Photoshoot In Miami" referencing this story, and I'm afraid that this is what came to mind:

See how something as simple as a Headline can change the whole meaning of a news story?

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Media Smedia

I'm Not Gonna Tell You What To Think..Read It For Yourself


I guess that by now you have heard about the current media flap surrounding Rush Limbaugh and his so called "Phoney Soldier" comment last week?

I'm aready tired of the whole thing, but for those of you that don't have the time and energy to go out and Google for the facts, I'm putting them all together here, including the original links.

In summary, most everyone from the left, including many Democratic Congressmen and Senators, are demanding that Rush apologize for comments he made recently about convicted "Phoney Soldier" Jesse Macbeth.

In case you missed it, here's the link to the United States Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Website and here's the opening text of the announcement of Sullivan's conviction:

U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan today announced some of the results of “Operation Stolen Valor,” a year long effort to investigate and prosecute those who lie about their military service for financial gain or other reasons. Sullivan and Doug Carver, Special Agent in Charge of the Veteran’s Affairs Office of Inspector General detailed eight prosecutions in the Veteran’s Affairs Northwest Region in 2007.

“As a Vietnam Veteran, and the father of a decorated Army officer currently serving, I feel very keenly the damage done by Jesse Macbeth and these other fakes,” said Jeff Sullivan, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington. “Macbeth’s lies fueled hostility to our servicemen in Iraq and here at home. Those who falsely claim medals for heroism, cheapen the recognition of our true war heroes.”

“The ‘phony war hero phenomenon’ plagues the American landscape and tarnishes the service of thousands of veterans who have served honorably. It strangles VA resources from providing critical care and benefits to deserving veterans returning from war,” said Douglas J. Carver, Special Agent in Charge of the VA Office of Inspector General, Western Field Office. “It all boils downs to this: these phonies submit claims to the VA for compensation and medical benefits they are not entitled to, and it takes away valuable resources from those who are entitled.”

In a dozen cases under investigation in the northwest, the fraud totals more than $1.4 million. Eight of the cases have been publicly filed and are in various stages of being adjudicated:

*Jesse Macbeth, 23, Tacoma, Washington, sentenced today in connection with his fraudulent claims of military service. Macbeth sought medical benefits claiming to suffer from PTSD related to service in Iraq and Afghanistan, in fact, Macbeth was discharged from the Army about a month after he joined. Macbeth never traveled outside the U.S. with the Army. Macbeth duped reporters, claiming to be a decorated Army Ranger who had witnessed war crimes.

Now here's the entire transcript of Rush's 9/26 on air conversation as shown on the Media Matters Website, including a 1:13 minute segment of unrelated discussion that Rush edited out when he replayed the exchange on Monday of this week.

From the September 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, including (in bold) the portion of the original segment cut from Limbaugh's "entire" audio clip:
LIMBAUGH: I was not talking, as Contessa Brewer said here, about the anti-war movement generally. I was talking about one soldier with that "phony soldier" comment, Jesse MacBeth. They had exactly what I'm going to play for you. This is Michael J. Fox all over again. Media Matters had the transcript, but they selectively choose what they want to make their point. Here is -- it runs about 3 minutes and 13 seconds -- the entire transcript, in context, that led to this so-called controversy.

[begin audio clip]

LIMBAUGH: I -- it's not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.

CALLER 2: No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.

LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.

CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to sacrifice for their country.

LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined --

CALLER 2: A lot of them -- the new kids, yeah.

LIMBAUGH: Well, you --

[begin Limbaugh edit]

LIMBAUGH: -- know where you're going these days, the last four years, if you signed up. The odds are you're going there or Afghanistan or somewhere.

CALLER 2: Exactly, sir. And, and my other comment was -- and the reason I was calling for -- was to report to Jill about the fact that we didn't, didn't find any weapons of mass destruction. Actually, we have found weapons of mass destruction in chemical agents that [inaudible] been using against us for awhile now.

I've done two tours in Iraq. I just got back in June and there were many instances of -- since [inaudible] not know what they're using in their IEDs [improvised explosive devices]. They're using mustard artillery rounds. The VX artillery rounds in their IEDs.

Because they didn't know what they were using, they didn't do it right, and so it just kind of -- it, it didn't really hurt anybody but there are -- those munitions are over there, it's just -- it's a huge desert. If they've buried it somewhere, we're never gonna find it.

LIMBAUGH: Well, you know, that's a moot point for me right now --

MIKE: Rush --

LIMBAUGH: -- the weapons of mass destruction. We gotta get beyond that. We're, we're there. What -- who cares if, if -- we all know they were there and, and Mahmoud [Ahmadinejad, Iranian president] even admitted it in one of his speeches here about -- talkin' about Saddam using the poison mustard gas or whatever it is on his own people -- but that, that's moot, right? What, what's more important is all this is taking place now in the midst of the surge working.

And all of these anti-war Democrats are getting even more hell-bent on pulling out of there, which means that success on the part of you and, and your colleagues over there is, is a great threat to them.

[end Limbaugh edit]

LIMBAUGH: It's just, it's frustrating and maddening, and it is why they must be kept in the minority.

Look, I want to thank you, Mike, for calling. I appreciate it very much. I gotta -- let me see -- got something -- here is a "Morning Update" that we did recently talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. And they have their celebrities.

One of them was Jesse MacBeth. Now, he was a "corporal," I say in quotes -- 23 years old.

[reading from "Morning Update" (subscription required)]

What made Jesse MacBeth a hero to the anti-war crowd wasn't his Purple Heart. It wasn't his being affiliated with post traumatic stress disorder from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, though. What made Jesse MacBeth, Army Ranger, a hero to the left was his courage in their view off the battlefield.

Without regard to consequences, he told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq: American soldiers killing unarmed civilians, hundreds of men, women, even children. In one gruesome account translated into Arabic and spread widely across the internet, Army Ranger Jesse MacBeth describes the horrors this way:

'We would burn their bodies. We would hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque.'

Now, recently, Jesse MacBeth, a poster boy for the anti-war left, had his day in court, and you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs' claim and his Army discharge record.

He was in the Army. Jesse MacBeth was in the Army, folks, briefly -- 44-days before he washed out of boot camp. Jesse MacBeth isn't an Army Ranger. Never was. He isn't a corporal. Never was. He never won the Purple Heart and he was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen."

You probably haven't even heard about this, and if you have, you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template of the drive-by media and the Democrat [sic] Party as to who a genuine war hero is.

Don't look for any retractions, by the way, not from the anti-war left, the anti-military drive-by media or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse MacBeth's lies about our troops, because the truth of the left is fiction, is what serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities 'cause they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the U.S. military.

In other words, for the American anti-war left, the greatest inconvenience they face is the truth.

Why in the world Media Matters thinks that it's somehow important that Rush chose to edit out 1:13 of unrelated material out of the audio clip for brevity I'll never understand.

It's not like he could be further impuned by comments about WMD's, so I don't believe that deception was his intent.

The other thing that explaines his tone is the fact that his "Morning Update" notes from his website had already included commentary on Jesse Macbeth's demise, and Rush likes to promote the website whenever it meshes with the caller's commentary.

Once again this is a total non-issue that has blown up way beyond reality, and what amazes me is how few people--important people like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his staff--can't actually check the facts before opening their mouths in public.

Again, being on the verge of commentary, read through what I've shown you here and see if you can in any way believe that Rush said anything negative about soldiers that didn't support the war in Iraq.

It just isn't true, in my opinion, but that never stops the Lamestream Media once they get up a good head of steam.

UPDATE (5:20 PM)

This Jesse Macbeth character was a complete dumbass. Take a look at the link to the video they shot of him back in 2006, and see if you don't agree with me.

The anti war crowd apparently will believe anybody and anything that fits their template.

That's Global Warming?

"Mother Earth" Apparently Has A Strange Sense Of Humor...


Don't tell perennial Global Warming Guru Al Gore, but yesterday it snowed down in Buenos Aires for the first time since 1918.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Thousands of Argentines cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday as the capital's first major snowfall since 1918 spread a thin white mantle across the region...

The snow followed a bitter cold snap in late May that saw subfreezing temperatures, the coldest in 40 years in Buenos Aires. That cold wave contributed to an energy crisis and 23 deaths from exposure.

I guess that being in the weather business could be considered to be a dangerous profession these days, because the folks down at the National Hurricane Center had an uprising and tossed out their leader over some kind of internal disagreement.

Like everything else in our society, I wish that the technicians would be allowed to do their respective jobs and the politicians and bureaucrats would just shut up and get the heck out of the way.

Know what I mean???

All Southerners Aren't Really Stupid

We Just Can't Keep The Mentally Weakest Among Us Off Of The TV News...


I have to admit that my Title and Sub-Title are shamelessly stolen from my fellow Georgia Tech Alumni and internationally famous comedian Mr. Jeff Foxworthy, but I couldn't think of a better line to use in introducing this AP News story about a 5 year old boy wrestling with a rabid fox to save his siblings.

KINGSTOWN, N.C. - A 5-year-old boy grabbed a rabid fox by the neck and pinned it to the ground during a family cookout, protecting six other children before his stepfather could step in.

I wanted to protect my little brother," said Rayshun McDowell, who battled the animal in the front yard of his home Sunday in Kingstown, a town about 50 miles west of Charlotte.

The fox bit Rayshun in the leg, but the 61-pound-boy held the animal down. Health officials later identified the fox as rabid.

"I looked out the window and Rayshun had the fox by the neck and was pushing it into the ground," said his mother, Shinda Linder. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

Rayshun's stepfather, Ryan Thompson, pulled the boy off the animal and kicked it. A neighbor fired a handgun three times but the fox continued to advance.

Thompson, wearing a cast because of a broken leg, said he used a stick and his crutch to beat the fox to death.

Rayshun, meanwhile, asked only for a Band-Aid and didn't complain of any pain.

That must have been one tough little Fox to have survived three gunshots only to be beaten to death by a crippled man wielding a stick and a crutch.

If I was the guy holding the gun I would be totally embarrassed--he must have missed three times--because the other thing you can generally say about Americans that reside in the south is that we love our guns and most of the time we know how to shoot them quite accurately.

I have to get some sleep now because I feel the urge to make sawdust coming on me again later this morning.

Y'all have a nice post 4th of July day now, if you will...