Judge Crabb Stinks

Disrobe this woman!

All I wanted to know was who appointed Judge Barbara B. Crabb to the federal court; Carter or Clinton?  (it was Carter).   By the by I wound up with a  Robing Room link, which site I've used for several years.  When I clicked  the link, up pops Google's "you can't go here because it's an attack site" message.  There seems to be no getting around it either.  Who the hell starts this process?     One of the Judges in the "bad" column? Bottom 10 Judges on. Sam Haddon (D.Mont.) Hon. George W. Lindberg (N.D.Ill.) Hon. Manuel L. Real (C.D.Cal.) Hon. Percy Anderson (C.D.Cal.) Hon. Phyllis J. Hamilton (N.D.Cal.) Hon. Rebecca Beach Smith (E.D.Va.) Hon. Edward J. McManus (N.D.Iowa) Hon. Stephen V. Wilson (C.D.Cal.) Hon. Linda R. Reade (N.D.Iowa) Hon. Donald G. Wilkerson (S.D.Ill.) Calculated on a minimum of five ratings The Robing Room gives attorneys an opportunity to fill in the equivalent of a "how was our service" rating slip after lawyering before a judge.  It's of interest to me only  for schadenfreudal reasons.  If a judge I want off the bench (like Crabb) happens to make the bad list, I'll use it to smear.  I think I've only used it once however. Oh, right.  Why do I want  Barbara B. Crabb  removed from the bench?   Simple. She ruled that the  National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional after granting the plaintiff  "standing"  based oh "hurt feelings."  A first.  Hurt Feelings.  Egad.

Cue election

Scripting

Video transfer

Today's Grabber

This may be of interest to the regular people out there (who aren't  EE's),  I think there are some in the same boat as I.  Moving up to the next generation computer  presented me with a few problems to solve, chief of  which is importing video from the VCR, and video camera --  that only has RCA outputs?   There ain't no RCA inputs on this computer.   Alongside Woot, my favorite vendor is Monoprice.  They seem to sell everything by way of cables, connectors, converters, and adapters - at insanely inexpensive prices --  for very high quality merchandise!  Whew. I ordered this Tuesday, it arrived today.  I installed it in 5 minutes; had it recording in 10.  So, if you're wondering how to get your old tapes (or even capture movies from the TV) onto your new computer, this'll work,   You're welcome.

Building some immunity here Boss

What's that again Bwana?

NO, Reilly Mate!

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Fun With Apple Cultists

Cultist Update

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Anya Chapman

Russian Spies Then there was Anya's mysterious father, Vasily Kushchenko ... .

Oh, the groinals and the glavins “ "Anya was great in bed and she knew exactly what to do. She was awesome. For the first few months we met for sex about five days a week. We loved it. "She also liked posing for pictures," he says, producing the evidence. "I took one of her topless first thing in the morning. "I said to Anya 'go on get them out!' and I took the picture of her with only a bit of the duvet over her. She laughed about it. "We were having so much fun. We also experimented with sex toys." Alex then produced a picture of Anna wielding a whip and another toy and wearing nipple clamps. "It was great fun although Anya was covering her face with a hat when I took the pictures!" During the first few months of their whirlwind romance, smitten Alex saw Anna in both London and Moscow. Alex told how he joined the MILE HIGH CLUB with her during a BA flight back to Moscow in January 2002. He says: "When we were on the plane we came up with a plan to join the mile high club. I went to the toilet first and told her to follow later and knock. "Anya was wearing a denim dress so I hitched it up and we just went for it. It was fantastic because of the thrill of doing it on a plane. We were in the toilet for about 15 minutes and then one of the cabin crew knocked on the door. I said Anya had been sick and I was helping her." [Full Monty] ” Groin-Grabbingly Sacrilicious.  Shame to have to hang her. Sigh. Ka-Ching!

Wanna fight?

Opportunity Knocks If you're mean enough

I last quit smoking eleven years ago, and have yet to regress.  At 3 packs-day I spent a hell of a lot of time looking for matches, looking for cigarettes, going out to buy cigarettes, etc.  The hardest part for me,  then, was ending the ritual; finding things to do with my hands and the extra time.  So, even though I still occasionally yearn for a smoke, this would prolly lead me back to the real thing.  No thanks.  However, the thought of provoking asshat anti-smoker Nazis with this deal is compelling.  If I wanted to provoke. I don't.  But, if I did. DO NOT GO TO THIS SITE.  I had this site linked,  then discovered you can't get out of it.  Selecting "Close all Tabs:still  leaves this one standing.  I had to shut down Firefox with Task Manager.

Bob Inglis gets bitchy

GOP leaders let demagogues set tone, lawmaker says ...

That would be soon-to-be ex-lawmaker Rep. Bob Inglis (R SC), showing contempt for the  sheep who had the temerity to end his 12 year sinecure in the House of Princes.

“ WASHINGTON — Too many Republican leaders are acquiescing to a poisonous "demagoguery" that threatens the party's long-term credibility, says a veteran GOP House member who was defeated in South Carolina's primary last month. While not naming names, 12-year incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis suggested in interviews with The Associated Press that tea party favorites such as former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and right-wing talk show hosts like Glenn Beck are the culprits.-  Blah-Blah-Whine ” Does anyone know how to make a graceful exit anymore?  via Cheryl Jones Tweet

Trending Obama

Family Newsletter

“ http://www.Obama loses support of asshat elite add: http://dailyradar.com/Carville attacks Obama and this: http://www.nypost.com/Business meltdown and you see a very real trend developing.... I was in Denver last week, and the news was: http://www.cbsnews.comArkansas inbred bucks O You really have to read well into the article (written by CBS) to learn the significance of Bill Clinton backing his pick for a Colorado senator;  the  opponent is the sitting Senator AND the Democratic party's "pick".  Obama has campaigned for him! Cuzzin Ricky ”

Panini Forever

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For waterin' that tree

“Carrying” in Oklahoma

Indictment pool anyone?

The Acorn and the Tree Feds: Jesse Jackson Jr. Offered to Raise $1 Million for Blago in Exchange for Obama Senate Seat

A bad year for wackos

*snort*

The Break-up

Trust this gummint? Right.

Traffic Cams Now Persuasive Authority ~ "Perfect Citizen" Surveillance Program to Monitor Private Networks for Cyber Attacks

“ A U.S. military official called the program long overdue and said any intrusion into privacy is no greater than what the public already endures from traffic cameras. ”

Here's my difficulty with this. "Perfect Citizen?" Who's naming these new government programs, George Orwell? I've reached point of being more afraid of this goverment than external enemies. NSA "sensors" placed in the network?  Hello? 95% of internal threats to our infrastructure could be caught with wire taps on Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, George Soros and Goldman Sachs.   Look it up.

Palin Video

Campaign Video?

Bad Judges

The Cultures Wars .. we lost

JMcD sent me this article titled Woman’s land will go to Akron mission. “ A preacher’s wife who died last year at age 95, Petry gifted her house and 21 acres of prime real estate to Haven of Rest, a rescue mission for the homeless in Akron. Not only did she want Haven of Rest to get it, she added a few stipulations to the gift in her will: Family friend Jim Kirby could live in the house, if he chose, until he died, and the mission could only sell the property to someone who would use it for a religious purpose. The clauses created a dilemma for those trying to administer her nearly $1 million estate, and for many organizations named as benefactors, who also stood to inherit some money. So earlier this year, Valentine, the executrix of the estate, filed a complaint in court. In doing so, she basically asked Stark County Probate Judge Dixie Park for direction. ” I'm reading this, wondering if there was a point to this story?  Yup.  There was. “ According to court filings, retired Judge Dennis R. Clunk mediated this settlement: Haven of Rest will pay Kirby $30,000 to give up claim to the house; Haven of Rest will take possession of the house and property — and Petry’s caveat that the land be used for a religious purpose will be void. Park said the religious purpose clause contained in the will didn’t have legal teeth. She said courts have consistently found such hand-tying language on future use to be discriminatory. ” Let's say that Mrs. Petry had instead directed that the property could only be resold to the Communist Party, or Obama reelection campaign, or Muslims?  Is there one chance in a thousand that Judge Dixie Park would have voided it?  I think not, but that's beside the point.  Judge Park had no right to dissolve Mrs. Petry's covenant.  Period.

More rules from the Bay Area

San Francisco's Health Department has now published rules and regulations  for making pot brownies.

I am not making this up

Anonymoose suggests this recipe: “ 1/2 cup organic free range goat butter 1 cup raw brown Cuban people's sugar 2 vegetarian equivalent egg substitute 1 teaspoon non exploitative vanilla extract 1/3 cup unsweetened organic carob powder 1/2 cup whole grain rice and buckwheat flour 1/4 teaspoon sea salt 1/4 teaspoon Zimbabwean baking powder 1 tablespoon bitterweed honey 1 cup Marijuana or 1/2 cup Hashish ”

Bouncy Needles

Trade You for an iPod: 1979

OMG!  A cassette player with two of those bouncy needle things, that no single soul in the world needed, plus a back-up set of bouncy needles,  just in case you felt the integrated ones were malfunctioning.  No this isn't me, but it damn well could have been.  I miss those bouncy analog needles.

Hope & Change

badanov

Those Kennedys

OUCH! “The Only Democrat Who's Really For the Afghanistan War is Robert Kennedy Jr” Ann Coulter's introduction to - Heroin Addiction Skyrockets in Afghanistan

Sex Change Operation

'Splain this Lucy ...

Tom Mann

Barney Frank- Too Sexy

“My goal, clearly, is to drive each and every last one of you away from this site.” Big Fur Hat

Racism in America

Meet Eric Holder's friend King Samir Shabazz

A close friend, then an Atlanta cop, and his partner responded to a reported burglary.  It was a high profile call because the victim was the girlfriend of new Atlanta mayor, Maynard Jackson.  One of the items stolen was a tape recorder (back when they cost real money).  She had no serial number, so they asked mayhaps she had a tape made on the machine, in the off chance it  contained some electronic signature in the event they found the perp.  She dutifully produced one from a dresser, on top of which was a large bag of dope, and paraphnailia.   They read her rights and  arrested her.  All hell broke loose!   The charges were eventually dropped after the evidence, somehow, went missing from the property room just before her trial. Here's the good part, however.  The tape she gave them was made at a soiree attended by Mayor Jackson and his friend, and later mayor himself,  Andrew Young.  Both were high on the "great dope," and joking about how sweet it was that " the crackers" would now be dancing to tunes played by the Black man.  All very racist stuff.  My friend's partner was so incensed over the obvious manipulation of the dope case,  that he made copies of the tape which, somehow, began showing up for sale in convenience stores across South Georgia.  Meet Eric Holder and Barry Obama's  good friend, King Samir Shabazz.  "You want freedom? You gonna have to kill some crackers!"

Mishief Month

“ Wednesday, July 7, 2010   Leadership Be Wary of E-Mail Spoofs: Hoax Statements Expand to Include Reid ROLOL CALL ALERT July 7, 2010, 6:24 P.M. The e-mails started flowing into media outlets’ inboxes over the weekend: First one Senator had died, then another, then another. It seemed outlandish. Sen. Robert Byrd had just died June 28. Could it be that the West Virginia Democrat’s colleagues followed him so quickly?   Full Story ”

Democrats Squelched

Too,too yummy

EAT ME! I ran across this story (via Free Republic) that is decadently delicious.  I seems that after Sarah Palin accepted the VP slot on the McCain ticket, the campaign, knowing how democrats operate, established a completely transparent legal defense fund to pay legal fees resulting from anticipated allegations related to her service as governor. “ On cue, within minutes of the announcement of Governor Patin's trust, a complaint was filed. And, the first "independent counsel" selected to investigate the trust was the Alaska office of Perkins Coie (President Barack Obama's law firm). . ” Here's the fun part.  Since everybody knows how Democrats operate,  ---> "the language of the proposed trust fund was drafted to directly mirror the language and provisions used by the John Kerry Trust fund." . “ Indeed, former Democratic Presidential nominee Senator Kerry's trust was drafted by the same Perkins Coie, President Barack Obama's law firm. Apparently before realizing that Governor Palin's trust was nearly identical to the trust Perkins Coie prepared for John Kerry, the Perkins Coie "independent counsel" found in a detailed nine page “CONFIDENTIAL” letter -- that was promptly leaked to the media — that Gov. Palin's trust was illegal. Ridicule ensued. In addition, once the conflict of interest between representing President Obama and investigating Gov. Sarah Palin became public, the Perkins Coie "independent counsel" resigned. And so, a new second "independent counsel" (with no background or expertise in the area of legal expense funds) began the investigation anew. ” Read the outcome here. Had you heard this before?  Not me.

Tech Question

Flat Out

Is there a prollen with laying a desktop on it's side?   It will solve a lot of prollems for me.

So did the maid, and the ... .

The Butler Did It

Apple cores

30 years of Apple

I still have my Apple II with Duo Disk.

BIG SIS, call your office

Netanyahu’s bodyguard guns disappear. Welcome to the USA!

“     Not even officers from Israeli security service Shin Bet can escape the scourge of lost [and stolen] luggage it seems.     A bag belonging to agents travelling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was mistakenly put on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, not to Washington. Alarmingly the bag contained four 9mm Glock handguns, which are now missing…     The Israeli officers were accompanying Mr Netanyahu to Washington for White House talks with President Barack Obama.     NBC News reported that the handguns had, in accordance with security procedures at New York’s John F Kennedy airport, been placed inside checked luggage. The luggage was then supposed to be put on a connecting flight to Washington however, American Airlines workers at the airport instead sent it right across the country to LAX in Los Angeles.     By the time the luggage was located and recovered, the guns had disappeared, and are presumed to have been stolen. [Dvorak] ” I don't know where to begin ...

Stuff

We have here a 3 in 1 post.  interesting premise; an ad homonym "birther" dis, circular password idiocy.

YOU GET IT ALL! I read John Podhoretz's  Patriotic opposition Loving a nation that elected O  last week.  “   How are those of us who stand in opposition to the domestic agenda and foreign-policy views of President Obama and his administration to think about this country in 2010 as we approach the nation's birthday on Sunday? Or, to put it another way: How should a self-described patriot think, act and talk about the United States if that self-described patriot believes the elected leadership of the United States has led the country into a ditch that threatens to expand into a bottomless chasm? Does the fault lie with the president and his party, or does it reside in the electorate that installed them? If it resides in the electorate, what does that say about the condition of the United States? In the case of Barack Obama, the root questions are: Who is he and why is he doing this? ” Here's where I got sidetracked. “ Opponents answer the question in many ways, from the clear-cut (he's a Chicago Democrat) to the more suggestive (he's a 1970s-era campus leftist) to the silly (he wasn't born in America) to the sinister (he's a secret Muslim or Communist). ” In the comments, I wanted to ask Mr.  Podhoretz (whom I hold in high regard);  "John, which documents proffered  by Obama did you find most convincing inre his Hawaiian birth?"   Of course I had to sign in, which I did using my New York Post password - that did not work.  Okay, lets try "I forgot my password."   Nope.  "We have no record of anyone using that e-mail address." Okay, I'll  register for a new password.  "That e-mail address is already in use." Sigh.  Maybe Podhoretz reads this blog and will answer?

Foundations

Patrick Henry's Other Speech

“ Sir, this pudding is the the dog's bollocks!  Reminds me of a .. No these here ones. It is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest,    that all the good qualities of this government are founded; but its defective ... ”

Aw, knots!

Knots to You Lost knowledge: ropes and knots

I'm sorry; I see you're already tied up. I took a piece of plywood and painted it black. Then, using my Boy Scout handbook as a guide, tied clothesline (remember that?) into several examples, which were then nailed to the board.  My mom said it was just wonderful.  Alas, that Boy Scout project didn't win squat in the contest; so much for stupid knots.  It wasn't until I took up sailing in the '80's that actually knowing how to tie knots, and quickly, became a necessary art form; I become a practitioner, and then expert knotster.  There is something deeply satisfying in knowing how to tie the right knot, at the right time.  It also seems to summon forth from women some ancient  racial memory of being in in the company of a manly man.  Makes them shudder amidships.  Here's everything you'll ever need to know about knots. I have no more use for them.  Sigh. Well, maybe  this one .

Markets

In Passing

Aside from all this, Obama's been great

Cover Story - Markets Repeating Head and Shoulders Pattern of Great Depression (ACE) Wall Street Apocalypse: The World of the Doomsday Investors In the last few years, however, something strange has happened. While there is no lack of survivalists stockpiling cat food and rifles, some of the direst thinkers are now working on Wall Street, where a combination of fear and foresight has many of the country's money men contemplating their escape routes. Retail Stores Closing Doors Announcements continue to roll in from retailers that have decided to close stores, slow expansion plans or cease operations altogether. Social Security on the chopping block Quietly in June, the third rail of politics had the juice knocked out of it. Both the majority and the minority leaders of the House of Representatives either said aloud or hinted strongly that the retirement age under Social Security should be raised. Are Overdue Reports Concealing ObamaCare Impact On Medicare? Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May.  Now it's July, and there's no sign of this year's report.  What is the Obama administration hiding?

Who needs Evin Rude?

Chokin' on my Johnson

Tom Mann

Holding down health care costs

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch

2012 and the GOP's Palin trap

Reagan-Obama, same thing? Thank goodness for Lib rags like Salon, which have been advising the GOP about who not to run since, what? 1980?  News editor Steve Kornack here warns about  2012 and the GOP's Palin trap, just in case foolish Republican primary voters are feeling suicidal.  “ [A] ticket headed by Palin would be hard-pressed to break 40%. Palin as the nominee would probably make 2012 the most lopsided election victory for the incumbent President since 1984. ” That would be Mondale v. Reagan.  “ The relevance to Palin is obvious: Like Mondale in '84, she would represent to the general election audience of 2012 just about everything they'd rejected in 2008 (and 2006). In nominating her, Republicans would be saying to the country, "We have learned nothing these last four years. We have changed nothing." ” * Smacks head* Oh, that relevance! 1984  Having endured four years of Carter malaise,  the nation is filled with new vigor and renewed national pride after Ronald Reagan's first term.  Nobody is sorry they voted for him, and are certainly not about to bring in a Carter-clone replacement (which is why Mondale is thrown to the dogs by the DNC to begin with) . 2012  The parallels are -- huh?   It would be a fatal mistake? ...  to remind voters -- of the bullet they dodged by  rejecting Palin-McCain for this heaping pile of Obama stink?  Nice try Steve.

Muslim Stripper

Why Muslim Strippers Are So Rare

Caution: very fuzzy boobage depicted Tim W

Rubber Necking

Steeling Defeat

Today's Michael Steele Brainstorm “... severe cut in money originally budgeted to help state  parties identify and get voters to the polls on Nov. 2”

“ We have a great opportunity to take the House and Senate, but now with this kind of financial kick in the pants we may not have the resources to pull it off," a senior member of the Republican Party's national governing body told The Times, speaking on the condition of anonymity. ”

The solution to this long-standing problem of GOP incompetence is easy.  My preference would be to turn the party over to Sarah Palin to remake entirely, with fresh people with fresh (read "tea party") ideas.  Absent that, and likely more palatable to weak sisters, is to turn the party over to Karl Rove, with the caveat that nobody who served in the Bush Administration (either one), or was a Speaker of the House, is allowed in the building. Victory follows.

The Chicago Way

Sharron Angle Campaign Gets a Warning

“ What follows is a non-verbatim account of an interview with Mr. X. His exact language is in quotes. Mr. X was deeply involved in Chicago Machine politics for many years. He has intimate knowledge of those responsible for manipulating the Cook County electoral process toward the outcome intended by the Machine. He eventually went undercover for the FBI and testified in trials that resulted in multiple convictions. He now lives outside Illinois. Mr. X has reason to believe that Nevada GOP Senatorial Candidate Sharron Angle, who is running against Sen. Harry Reid, will face a level of corrupt electioneering practices equal to what he witnessed for many years in Chicago. This is his warning to the Angle Campaign. - ”

“ I posted this Bartle Bull video in the midst of our Fourth of July reverie, so I fear it didn't reach a wide audience. It's part Amy Proctor's comprehensive look at voter fraud and intimidation.  I'm embedding it again because it is so apropos to the Big Story.  Below, some snippets from the American Prospect story.   The first thing the Angle Campaign has to do is scrub the voter registration list and get the dead people, the people who have moved away from Nevada, and the other fictitious voters off the list. "There are thousands of them there." In the 2008 election, ACORN's Las Vegas office got raided by the police in early October.  Its people were charged with 26 counts of voter fraud and 13 counts for compensating those who were registering voters; they're felony charges.  In August 2009, a Nevada director for ACORN pled guilty to conspiracy to compensate workers for registering of voters.   Just because ACORN was busted in Las Vegas doesn't mean that voter fraud is over there.  In fact it's the opposite. To think otherwise is "crazy." "And I'm sure there are plenty of groups out there who will take money to register phony voters." Angle's supporters have to find the phony names on the voter registration list. There'll be thousands of them, many of whom will be voting by absentee ballot. "In Chicago in every election there are many absentee ballots and a lot of them are sent in by Precinct Captains, or by someone associated with the campaign." (continued) ”

Looks likeObama has some Hillary DNA

Is the Gulf spill connected to Algae Fuel?
Obama to make money from the disaster

Bolden

Charlie, we hardly know ye

"Any ex-military officer who affiliates with the Democrat Party, in any capacity, may be viewed as being without conscience or virtue." - Le vrai roi de la France

“ Exploring space didn't even make the top three things Obama wants Bolden to accomplish. The other two are "re-inspire children to want to get into science and math" and "expand our international relationships," Obama tasks NASA with building Muslim self-esteem  ” Like Marine fighter pilot/Astronaut John Glenn before him, it appears Charles Bolden has brokered his soul in service to a self serving, anything but patriotic, scumbag president.  What, not harsh enough?  Temperance is a virtue.