Muslims; their own worst enemy

Its interesting the blame game that goes on in the Muslim world...somehow the perpetual infighting that goes on, the senseless killing of innocents via soleless misguided suicide bombers, the hatred for tribes and sects they share the area is all somehow the fault of America. While I assume there are a huge number of Muslims who hold all life precious, as any normal caring human being would, the actions of many Muslim groups speaks to one F'd up religion. Ok, maybe I can't blame it on the religion itself. But the Muslim faith seems to have an extremely disproportionate share of truly bad, or to be kinder, seriously confused to the point of evil, members.

Until the majority of citizens in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. clean their own house of this cancer they're not going to end the violence they live with. We see this sad evil play itself out mostly (9/11 aside) on our plasma tv's in our million dollar homes. That way of life and preserving it for our children gives most of us relentless resolve to not allow that evil to invade our daily reality. Maybe that's why it thrives in places where there is so much poverty and so little to loose...a very tough problem.

The Evil Empire

Maybe you have heard of America's most heinous government facility feared by all foreigners for truly barbaric things happen there to completely innocent loving people!!!!!

You may ask what sort of torture, cruelty, maiming, and slow death goes on at this facility...we let me list a few of the most egregious examples:

- mishandling (dropping, bumping, touching) of a book considered by some to relate to a diety
- humiliation of suspected terrorist detainees thru lack of clothing and playing Twister (also practiced at some evil empire satellite facilities)

Can you stand hearing anymore? Even to read about this inhuman behaivor is disturbing. If you're bothered about this like me please contact your congressional representative and demand that these tactics stop immediately and instead this facility should adopt the more globally accepted methods such as:

- suicide bombing or any explosive method to kill and maim innocents
- decapitation, especially by a not so sharp or modern sword
- dragging, hanging and burning a decapitated corpse

This is only a small list.....many other examples of techniques that are not denounced by the Evil Empire hating world or media can be found.

Help initiate this change in a place were America's evil empire thrives.....Guantanamo

MLB's final straw for me

I have been busy with a house remodel and work so haven't posted in a while but seeing today that Major League Baseball's players union rejected the commissioners increased penalties got my blood boiling. This is analogous to a teachers union not wanting to have teacher testing to monitor the competency of teachers or to be judged on a merit system. In general most of us in society have to suffer the consequences of our poor choices and in many cases those consequences can be dire. A different set of rules for a given group along with the general poor moral standing of professional athletes as role models (whether they like it or not) is a sad state of affairs for something that is truly unique to America. I have largely stopped watching professional sports and throw none of my money their direction...I only wish more people would put their desire to live thru their athletic endeavors on hold in order to save their integrity.

AND YET more liberal hypocrisy

My buddy MT got me going with two recent examples of democrat liberal hypocrisy. This is so common place among the liberasl that it is, I'm sure, unrecognizable to them just how blatent their hypocrisy is. Tom DeLay's ethics committee approved trips that are now supposedly of concern is more than likely a pandora's box....if we examine the trips and favors of every senator (both sides of the isle) plenty will appear inappropriately gifted. Pelosi is quick to judge others but not be judged herself. Then there is PBS where the Repulican administration is putting in friendly's as executives as contracts expire....just like the Dems would....and yet "It's almost like a right-wing coup. It appears to be orchestrated." says an FCC official. It's ok when the entire management of a group is clearly liberal but its not ok when some conservatives get inserted. When anything is fully liberal everything is just fine, when you move that needle even a bit and suddenly it's a conspiracy, an orchestrated coup, and so on...what a joke.

A real "die in" invite to Ohio U. Students

No surprise that our naive and easily brainwashed youth of our Universities partake in moronic and often socialistic protests and events which are undoubtedly advocated by some faculty stuck in the academic philosophical time warp. And so it's nice to see examples of young people who even without the experience of life (work, marriage, kids, mortgages, taxes, voting, business ventures, philanthropy, illness, death, pain, joy, etc.) who have a more seasoned perspective. Today's example is Marc Fencil who is a senior at Ohio University that has yet to finish as he is serving in Iraq. Marc wrote a letter to the editor of the Ohio University paper in response to his misguided fellow students "die in" done in protest of Iraq or maybe any old place we send our military...Great job Marc!

It's Cat Hunting Time!

I'm not an animal lover, in fact I guess I pretty much find all house pets dirty and a pain the ass. I have animal lovers all around me. Family and neighbors who put their pets comfort ahead of their own and mine too! I'll admit I'm a selfish person...I think my comfort should come before the dog, cat or other non-human! So when you add my anti-pet attitude to the fact that my corner lot is a popular toilet for local cats and dogs being walked by their owners and you have one pissed off man with weapons. I'm amazed at the overly liberal silicon valley neighbors I have who walk their dogs without bags to pick up those stinky logs they deposit....and even for those who do take care of the solid waste why the hell do they think its ok for their dog to urinate in my ivy? I have thought about just sitting out front and each time I see either offense against my very nice yard to demand the dog owner give me their address so I can go relieve myself on their lawn. Could you imagine the outrage? Even likely police action if I was to go squat and do my business on someone's front lawn! So why is ok for your animals??????? Don't bother answering, there is no good answer except to start allowing me to shoot your cat or dog should it enter my property let alone secrete waste of any kind in my yard!

Gay Republican?

Another example of how Democrat power brokers don't get it!

Remember What You Have!

Reading a story this morning in the WSJ written by a National Guard staff sergant who has returned from Iraq I got choked up. I don't know if it's because it made me think of my kids and how much they mean to me, or if it's the immense pride and respect I have for our men and women who serve our country....but it's a good reminder to remember and be thankful for what we have.

Illegal Aliens to take drivers ed and buy auto insurance!

Don't hold your breath on that ever happening...of course that's what Cal Sen. Gil Cedillo (dem) wants you to believe as he has re-introduced SB 60 to once again try and get California drivers licenses for Illegal Aliens. Gil, and supporters of illegal immigration, want you to think that if we give an illegal a license they will take the time, and pay for, drivers education and will also pay for auto insurance....crack smoking abounds! What I also understand, but admit I didn't read the entire bill just the summary, is that it would provide for a free get out of jail card (effectively) for an illegal who was in an accident but didn't have insurance.

All of this legislation aimed at giving special treatment to illegals at the state and federal levels (social security) completely undermines enforcement of our immigration laws not to mention being truly insulting to the law abiding legal immigrants and citizens. A young say 18 to 20 year old citizen could have his life turned upside down if they were in an accident and had no insurance, and infinitely worse if someone was injured....but an illegal (if these illegal lovers get their way) would end up wiping their hands of the situation.

We need to support LEGAL immigration and equal treatment for all here legally....if your here illegally you should be held accountable just the same AND then deported.

Why is it that all these illegal friendly politicians and groups don't lobby for ways to make these illegals legal? Instead they like keeping them that way and giving them special privileges and treatment...WHY IS THAT?

Hypocrisy Defined

Come on! Lets say the House Minority Leader is an outspoken Republican who often throws harsh and non-cooperative barbs at the Democrats in the House. No Imagine it comes out that this Republican is apparently horse trading government funding for campaign donations and favors of one type or another for friends! HUGE headlines, every paper and media outlet jumps on the story....tough questions are asked on each news broadcast, the political talking heads at all the networks have on guests to talk about the impropriety of the House Minority Leader's actions. Calls come out from the other side for resignation, investigations by the House ethics committee, blah, blah.

Ok, now say this is in fact all true except that the House Minority Leader is in fact Nancy Pelosi who seems to have had some dubious dealings with a PAC! So where is outrage? Amazing!!!!!

John Paul II

I have been pleasantly surprised by the coverage and praise for the Pope's life and accomplishments. John Paul was an amazing man and had a Reagan like ability to communicate with anybody or group, even if there was an ideological divide. While I know the Pope is clearly the spiritual figure head of the Catholic church I have wondered if others in the Vatican pull the strings. It's clear the Pope isn't really the chief executive of the church's business affairs so its easy to imagine secrete societies and powerful figures in the church that the public isn't aware of. If speculation and conspiracy theories draws attention to the church and the positive aspects of it's ideology than that's great. It surely makes for great books and entertaining movie material. I think the choice for the next Pope could be pivotal to the churches survival.

So, exactly which is the party of tolerance?

Just an interesting comparison of university hosted speeches by someone on the right (Ann Coulter) and someone on the left (Ward Churchill) that took place the other day. If you're not from the SF Bay Area (and so don't know why we call Berkeley the Peoples Republic Berkeley) you must read this article on Churchill's visit there....amazing! Churchills unchallenged by the left ideas and their being echoed by other academia brethran on the panel are scarey. I love how the title of these articles reflect the bias towards or against the speaker. Also amazing is that I saw no press on the fact that apparently the 20 yr old women who questioned the event being labeled as a "forum" since the panel and crowd was homogenous was herself heckled by the liberal nazi's (to steal a Churchill reference) in attendance. Got a love those free speech loving open minded liberals!

A favor: a friend who lives in the east bay who doesn't want to be lumped in with Berkeley suggested I change Peoples Republic of the East Bay to Peoples Republic of Berkeley, fair enough!

Big Brother Run Amuck

I'm amazed by these cases where government or institutions are willing to spare no expense to protect those afflicted with suicide by jumping from high places. How reasonable people can sit around and think that they in fact are preventing a suicide or helping those with that intent is beyond me. I know, I know...you can find someone who will say that the barrier on that bridge stopped me and they didn't look for another way...ya well good for them. This is more than likely just a way for those who own the high place (bridge, building, etc.) to try and remove any chance of litigation had someone had what we consider COMPLETELY NORMAL access to said high place and jumped. Lets spend all of our money and inconvenience the entire population to protect the infinitesimally small number among us who no longer wants to be among us! So, we have two f'd up problems here...those who don't want to hold individuals personally reasonable for their idiotic or suicidal actions and a tort happy society. If we can just get the right folks to off themselves we could probably solve both!

Anti-Technology Global Warming Crowd Cries Wolf

So once again we have very detailed claims on a measured effect of humans on the environment from alarmist scientists. The thing I hate about this is the general public thinks that if a "scientist" studies something and draws conclusions it must be so. Not only are scientists just like everyone else (often wrong) the group behind this report (and the writer of this article) clearly have a bias. As an engineer I consider myself a man of science....any observer with a modicum of reason and healthy skepticism could challenge the statements made by this report. Firstly, two thirds of our resources are used up? This is ridiculous...that assumes one has a definitive known maximum quantity of our resources. Of course nobody actually knows how much coal, oil, gas and even water is available. This also assumes the types of resources are static, which is idiotic as invention increases at a staggering rate using the last 2 decades as a baseline. Hybrid vehicles are selling well and hydrogen vehicles are in prototype phase.....as an example. I'm not arguing that trees, fish and animals aren't being harvested at too fast a rate.....or displaced into extinction. However the theorized impact of air producing tree loss, or supposed food chain impact of everything from insects to elephants is complete speculation. Same for climate change. In fact global warming is the real joke. The scientists who claim that humans are the cause of what they call "global warming" is a claim that doesn't stand up to the facts. The human cause is based on gases and particulates we put into the air primarily because of industry and transportation (vehicles). The problem is that natural occurring sources of these same elements dwarfs the human generated total in a big way. The natural sources, primarily volcanic, have been doing there thing for millions of years...in fact as we go back in time the geological evidence says volcanic activity was much greater in the past and so we can assume was the amount of these bad elements in the atmosphere....yet there was, is, no catastrophic climate change associated with that theory!

The bottom line is that this type of report (and articles on them) should be full of disclaimers similar to those you see in a company IPO. But instead you see only a few numbers and claims labeled with words like "estimated", most are tossed out as absolutes...that's dishonest and to me completely discredits a scientist who either participated in the report or simply signed their name in support of it.

The articles and reports put out by this anti-technology global warming crowd are nearly always accompanied by a not so stealth statement making their disdain for progress clear...in this case it is: "A growing proportion of the world lives in cities, exploiting advanced technology. But nature, the scientists warn, is not something to be enjoyed at the weekend. Conservation of natural spaces is not just a luxury". And what is the motivation by talking about a team of scientists who in 1997 tried to put a value resources or benefits we get from nature for free (as they put it)? So what? What if that number was $33 million-trillion? Ya, we know we need more that just the human organism on this planet to survive. Or are you suggesting we can either take care of nature or replace it by spending that amount? It serves no scientific purpose, it's all about an agenda, an opinion, a political viewpoint since we cannot just replace one with the other. IDIOTS!

Rice Alarms Status Quo Arabs

That's my headline as compared to Reuters who of course went searching for supposed "reformist" Arabs to speculate, guess and invent US and Israeli conspiracy theories based on an interview Rice did with the Washington Post last week. Reuters' headline was Rice Alarms Reformist Arabs with Stability Remarks....after reading the Reuters story then read the actual transcript of the interview....I think those who don't want change in this f'd up region of the world look to discredit Rice at every turn. Note the words of these yokels use that make their interpretive leap to suit their needs obvious; "suggesting a new US approach", "They seem to be supporting chaos and instability", "the great risks that Dr Rice suggests", "We see an emphasis on destruction and we see that Israel is willing to push Arab societies to the abyss without caring for stability. We suspect these ideas came from Israel,"

I think what Rice said makes sense....and much of it is not even in our control, she talked about what may happen all on its own just because people witness change elsewhere...and technology accelerates the ability to witness that change. These are comments from people who like the status quo. It's much like most US state public school systems.....gradual change towards how a private school or company is run will never happen...you need to completely blow up a "system" in some cases in order to catalyze measurable positive change.

Jesse battles against his insignifcance!

It's pretty strange that Jesse Jackson seems to be inserting himself into two hot issues, Terry Schiavo and Michael Jackson (not that both should be hot!). Suddenly he is Michael Jackson's spiritual leader? And he shows up with Terry's parents with all the press quoting Terry's mother, Mary Schindler, as saying "I wanted the Reverend Jackson here for moral support"! What a crock...I don't believe for a second they invited him, I'll wager he lobbied (offered) his support (in the way of a visit and press conference). Can you point me to even one high profile case/issue involving a white person that Jackson was inserted into and did a press conference with those involved? This smells of publicity hounding after Jackson became nearly insignificant with the younger guard of the black community gaining ground (eg. Barack Obama). Jackson is a fraud as a reverend and is a racist who extorts money from corporations with his race bating threats. He, of course, has already socialized the race issue in the Michael (hide your grade school boys) Jackson's case. I suppose the Schindler's figure any publicity is good publicity but I wish they had turned him down.

DUH!!!!!!

Did anybody think we needed a study to know that college faculties are overwhelmingly liberal? Of course not, why don't we do a study to see if the Carl's Jr double $6 burger is high in calories and fat (1360 cals, 96g fat in case you were wondering). Ok, but since we have the study published we can only hope that its gets some publicity and can be a catalyst for change. It's amazing to me that the intellectual college academics think they, and their schools, are part of an intellectually and culturally diverse environment that enrich the students! This couldn't be farther from the truth....those on the left side of the liberal pendulum are the most closed minded group in this country. One interesting stat, that was news to me, in this study was that there is a SERIOUS gender bias for full time faculty....72% men, 28% women...where is the uproar???????? Hahaha....don't practice what you preach you book worm jackasses!

Hump Day Roundup

This Terri Schiavo thing is a total circus....I frankly don't know what to believe....the save a life at all costs side has you believing Michael Schiavo has tried to choke and drug Terri, that he tried to make money of this situation, that his seeking companionship with a women while still married to Terri in her vegetative state is evil and so on. On the other side Michael Schiavo claims Terri stated she wouldn't want to live this way. Then the other side says it was only said in conversation while watching a movie. Terri's side also claims Terri is more aware than Michael or any doctor for that matter believe her to be. The whole thing is a sad mess.

Barry Bonds is the biggest baby on the planet....adding to his woes as the steroid in pro sports scandal continues the IRS is investigating him....his knee is messed up and his playing future is in question....it comes out (because of the steroid thing) that he has had a mistress for years and he bought her a house.....he has always been an uncharismatic ass to the press....and he has a press conference to tell the press he is tired, has "jumped from the bridge", and it's all the press' fault. I'm sure the sympathy for him is universal...what an ass!

This countries pathetic political correctness enabled Brian Nichols to kill 4 when he easily took the gun from the court deputy during his rape trial. The fact that a 230 lbs menacing figure like Nichols wasn't cuffed and shackled and was guarded by a lone 5ft tall 51 year old grandmother says it all. Gee, such restraints on the prisoner might send the wrong message to the jury! And of course women can perform any job as well as a man. Wrong and wrong. If my house is on fire and my kids are upstairs I want burly men fire fighters....if my family is in danger from a some criminal element I want strong male police responding....when we executing special military ops, or have front line combat troops in harms way, or have para-rescue operations I want strong young men doing it....and not women because we all have to pretend we are equal and all able to perform any task at the same level...bullshit and it just cost more lives! Also interesting that nearly all media stories on this Brian Nichols mess fail to inform you that the overpowered officer was female or that the women who finally alerted police that Nichols was in her apartment had read the bible to him for hours which seem to have a calming effect on him.

There may yet be hope for Academia

Note that I say "may", but the meaningless "no confidence" vote put on by a collection of Harvard profs directed at the University President Lawrence H. Summers surely makes the duplicity of the socialist liberal faculty obvious. They can dish it out but can't take it! I can see why Summers' comments a while back would raise some ire but so do most of the passionate causes of hard core liberals with conservatives...so what? What a bunch of fake free speech loving traitors.....and the sooner we destroy the notion of tenure the better...it completely destroys the effectiveness, commitment and passion for dispensing knowledge. Taranto of the WSJ blog has a great round-up on this Harvard folly. Even Harvard's own paper (Crimson) ripped these idiots with "The two non-binding motions, unique in Harvard's history, are largely symbolic gestures--only the Harvard Corporation, the University's top governing body, can force Summers to step down." In short, it was a show trial, both in procedure and in effect (that is, in the lack thereof). Fittingly, the venue for this vain display was the Loeb Drama Center.

I only hope exposure of the continued idiocy we see by our universities academics will start a wave of change. The college years are a pivotal time for most and its sad how many in a position to influence these young minds do so with hypocritical single mindedness.

Evil Revisionist History

While I'm not a bible thumper (just ask my friends, some of them can post a comment to confirm this fact) the outrage I feel at the release of a watered down and modernized bible is enormous! This is disturbing and sad. These idiots (The International Bible Society) think you and everyone else is too dumb to understand a more literate translation of several thousand year old text. Why don't people realize that when you lower the bar, particularly for kids and young adults, they're more than happy to just make it over....however they're just as willing to embrace great challenge and the end result is life long (teach a man to fish!). What a joke that these pseudo intellectuals believe that the number of readers who would be confused by the true meaning of such words as "stoned" and "aliens" outweighs truth, original intent and a higher bar! After all wouldn't the poor sap not so bright as I think that a women "with child" means a women and a child already born to this world and not one who is pregnant? Oh, and least you think that the context of these words would make there actual meaning clear you must also assume the context is lost on these not so fortunate small yellow bus riding bible readers!

Another sad and pathetic attempt at revision is to replace some (or all, who knows) occurrences of the word "man" with something akin to "people", "human", "us", "the chosen", "them" and so on....we wouldn't anybody to think God actually made an distinction between men and women would we?