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Post Deleted Due To Excess Grumpiness

Posted by bmac on January 18, 2008

I decided to delete my last post, because as Enas Yorl pointed out to me, it was quite Grumpy. An excess of Grump. It was Grumptastic. Just too damn Grumpy.

And negative. I tend to be a bit negative, and sometimes it comes out a little too harsh, and it just bugged me, so I took it down. Apologies to anyone who really enjoys a certain amount of vitriol, but I’d like to at least try and present a more positive vibe here, and that one was a little over the top.

Also, apologies to everyone that took the time to leave a comment, I wish I could have left them up.

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On Nifong…

Posted by bmac on January 16, 2008

Steve H. has a really interesting take on the Nifong thing at Hog On Ice:

People are surprised when I say I no longer support the death penalty. Here is my explanation: Mike Nifong.

Look at what he did, and then tell me you’re positive every inmate on death row is guilty. How many Nifongs have succeeded where this one failed? Now that we have the ability to replicate and analyze DNA, we have disturbing evidence that the number may be very high.

He’s got a point there. Made me think about the death penalty differently. Prosecutors also seem to be on the verge of incompetent most of the time, probably because the big bucks are in defense. It seems like whenever someone has the money for a good defense, prosecutors get eaten alive in court. Had this case gone to trial, I think Nifong would have had his ass handed to him by the lawyers the Duke boys could afford, (unless the jury was prejudicial) but what if they weren’t rich?

The O.J. case comes to mind. Granted, with the jury they had, a conviction was impossible even if they had a video of O.J. cutting his wife’s head off, but those prosecutors were like children compared with O.J.’s lawyers. And this was L.A., The Big Leagues, the very best the city of Los Angeles had to offer prosecute that case, and they were bumbling morons, regardless of the verdict. Or the equally incompetent Judge Ito. 

So think how competent the prosecutors and judges are in most smaller cities. Doesn’t give you much confidence if you think about it. I don’t think there’s a lot of Vincent Bugliosi’s out there.

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

Posted by bmac on December 22, 2007

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Hope you all have a great one!!

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Test Your Global Knowladge

Posted by bmac on November 19, 2007

A really cool game.

My WordPress-Fu is weak, but apparently you can embed this game. I couldn’t make it work.

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A Pig Is A Pig

Posted by bmac on October 24, 2007

When Tom Burnett Sr. was helping to pick a memorial to Flight 93, he objected vehemently to the planting of a huge Islamic shaped crescent on the crash site. The Project asked if he would be okay with the Crescent of Embrace design if they didn’t call it a crescent. He said no way:

What the hell? You change words. A pig is a pig!

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“How about if we don’t CALL it a crescent?” (Click pic for larger image)

See that Memorial Plaza that is situated roughly in the position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag? It marks the crash site. It doesn’t have to be CALLED an Islamic star for this placement as the star on an Islamic flag to be inappropriate.

Mountain Goat and the 44 blocks
From PJ Country comes news of the Memorial Project’s latest effort to help architect Paul Murdoch adjust the disguise on his terrorist memorializing design, just enough for him to slip through gate security.

Mountain Goat” called the Memorial Project a few weeks ago to ask about the 44 inscribed translucent blocks that are to be emplaced along the flight path. (There were 40 heroes and 4 terrorists on the flight.)

The person he spoke to said that the three translucent marble blocks that were to be inscribed with the 9/11 date are going to be replaced with a single block, “roughly the length three of the other blocks would have been.”

That would reduce the block count from 44 to 42, but would it actually fix anything?

Whether the 9/11 date is inscribed on three blocks or one, these blocks are to be built into a separate section of Memorial Wall that is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent. That is the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag. Thus the date goes to the Islamic flag–the date goes to the terrorists–no matter how many blocks are used.

plazabisectorsmall.jpgSee that trail that enters the Memorial Plaza (the star on the flag) from the left? It divides the Memorial Wall into separate upper and lower sections. The upper section has the 9/11 date inscribed. You can see that this upper section of wall is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent (the exact position of an Islamic star). Click for larger image.

End it, don’t mend it
No amount of tweaking the design can alter its terrorist memorializing intent. “Fix” every one of the half dozen large scale terrorist memorializing features in the design by making them all a little bit “off,” and it only establishes the long term Islamo-fascist goal of one day restoring the Crescent mosque to its intended configuration, the same way the jihadists now use re-possession of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem (the Dome of the Rock) as a motivation driving the Jews out of Israel.

Most ridiculous of all is the Bowl of Embrace redesign, which leaves every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design completely intact, only adding some surrounding trees. http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z36/AlecRawls/CrescentandBowlstacked65.jpg “Here, put on this burka, then you can sneak your bomb on board the airplane.”

The proper answer, when someone is caught trying to sneak an Islamo-fascist plot through gate security, is not to tell him to go back outside and try again. It is to cart him away.

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Ben Stein Backs Franken (Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?)

Posted by bmac on October 20, 2007

Story here.

I thought Stein was a Republican. And I thought he was smart. Apparently he has entered senility. Republican or Democrat, what on earth would make someone with an I.Q. over 40 vote for that troll?

What the fuck has Al Franken ever NOT failed at? He was on the payroll at SNL for twenty years while stellar talent like Rob Scheider, Tim Meadows, and Joe Piscopo sailed past him. His Stuart Smalley movie was the least succesful of any SNL movie ever, and that includes “A Night At The Roxbury,” and “It’s Pat!” 

You can tell Franken is one of those comedians that is really hateful and angry, and that comes through because he’s not remotely funny, and it really shows in his politics.

His tenure at Air America was (is?) a joke. They used to play 1 or 2 hours of his show on the Sundance Channel, and I checked it out a couple times out of curiosity. Politics aside, it was so bad, I don’t even have the words to describe it. The NPR crop report is more entertaining.  I’m baffled why anyone would pay that career loser, let alone back his run foe Senate.

Stein, you’re a dolt.

H/T Nice Deb

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PC Friday At Ed Gruberman’s

Posted by bmac on October 19, 2007

Put on your Tie-Dye, crank up some String Cheese Incident while loading a fat bowl, and enjoy an organically grown veggie breakfast, then head over to Ed Gruberman’s for a respite from the ugly world of the Neo-cons!

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Ed really put a lot of work into this, Kudo’s Ed!

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Sad Day

Posted by bmac on October 19, 2007

Friend of the bmac’s, Cranky, has lost his beloved dog Nala, after a bout with cancer. 

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Say a prayer for him.

We’ve gotten to know Cranky since we’re treating our dog, Kramer, for the exact same type of cancer, and we constantly update each other on our respective dog’s progress. We truly feel like we knew Nala, and this breaks our hearts.

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Good Morning!

Posted by bmac on October 15, 2007

I shop occasionally at a local WalMart, a super WalMart. It’s gargantuan. They have 23 check out counters. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than 4 open at any given time, regardless of how busy it is in there. Instead, they have a whole bunch of “Self Check Outs” that seem to be all the rage these days.

To WalMart, and every other store that employs these “Self Check Outs,” Fuck You. If I have to do your job for you, than I want an automatic 20% off my total purchase.

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We Made It!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by bmac on October 5, 2007

Look at that face! Don’t you just want to give him $850.00  $700.00?   $600.00? $500.00?  $480.00?   0?!!!!!!!!!!

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Story in his words if you click the “Donate” button on the left.

My home computer is freaking out, but I’ll be posting a lengthy thank you to everyone as soon as I can. In the meantime,  to everyone, a sincere THANK YOU from my family and me!

                         

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