Shaggy Story

Whence Shaggy Dog Stories

"Shaggy Dog story" is a term I've heard for so long without actually knowing what the hell it meant, that I had to find out.  According to Wikipedia,  it's "an extremely long-winded tale featuring extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents, usually resulting in a pointless or absurd punchline. Oh, like a Joe Biden speech.  Below is what might be the story that spawned the term. “ A boy owned a dog that was uncommonly shaggy. Many people remarked upon its considerable shagginess. When the boy learned that there are contests for shaggy dogs, he entered his dog. The dog won first prize for shagginess in both the local and the regional competitions. The boy entered the dog in ever-larger contests, until finally he entered it in the world championship for shaggy dogs. When the judges had inspected all of the competing dogs, they remarked about the boy's dog: "He's not so shaggy." ”

Christie Has Risen!

New Jersey Governor Defies Political Expectations

Conservative runs as a conservative in  liberal state; wins; then governs as a conservative; wins. Yawn.

right in the ol' boxer

Nice Etchings Fiorina Leads Boxer for First Time in California Senate Race

The same SurveyUSA poll shows Republican Meg Whitman leading Democrat Jerry Brown 46% to 39% in the California gubernatorial race.

McGovern voting .. why go further?

How familiar is the following exchange?

“ McGovern-voting Granduncle: Let the immigrants in! We’re a nation of immigrants! You fucking bigot! You: Actually I’m not concerned about race, I’m concerned about why someone would choose to circumvent our immigration laws. How come I have to follow laws while we’re defining a whole class of people who don’t have to, and we don’t even know who they are? Hostess: Oh, stop fighting you two! Here we are having a lovely dinner and you have to bring politics into it. Just let him call you a reprehensible, cross-burning scum-sucking douchebag asshole xenophobe and then let’s move on! There’s cheesecake! —  House of Eratosthenes (via Ka-Ching!) ”

Lake Somalia

Lake Somalia

“ Somali Islamists carried out two bomb attacks in Kampala, killing at least 64 people as they watched the World Cup final, Ugandan authorities said on Monday. ”

With news of this latest outrage perped by Islamo Somalia comes renewal.  Renewed pleas to non Islamo nations on Earth, to join together and level everything in the geographic area that "nation" infests. Seriously.  If my magic button was working (it's out for repairs) I'd press it NOW, and lo! Lake Somalia; 246,201 sq. miles of hole waiting for enough rain to fill it.  And do you know what?  If Somalia disappeared today, not a soul in the world would notice its absence, save for a severe drop in international crime.  The area produces nothing but the green flies favored by other Muslim countries.  It seems that  I've been forced to use an inordinate amount of ink on this idea, to no avail.   The fact that another rogue government is subsidizing them certainly doesn't help.( US sends 40 tons of arms to terrorist infested Somali government).  Does it?  That gummint needs to be removed as well. Peace be with you.

ACORNERS

Rabid Dog Story

“ There have been numerous investigations into ACORN and each one cleared the organization of wrongdoing - Newwshounds ”

Shooting rabid dogs would seem to be our only protection, but there's those pesky white man laws to contend with.

dey be hatin' white man law too

... and a special thanks to B.Hussein Obama and Eric Shizzle Holder

A Guy Fairy Tale

A GUY FAIRY TALE

“ Once upon a time, a Prince asked a beautiful Princess... “Will you marry me?” The Princess said “NO!”     And the Prince lived happily ever after and rode motorcycles and went fishing and hunting and played golf  and dated women half his age and drank beer and scotch  and had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up. The End ” Merrily

Scott Brown rolled

The difference between Ted Kennedy and Scott Brown?

Brown Announces S upport for Financial Reform Bill July 12, 2010, 12:34 P.M. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) announced Monday that he will back legislation to reform the nation’s financial regulatory system after Democrats agreed to scrap a $19 billion tax on banks that he had opposed.   Full Story Ted didn't spray eyewash before voting

Wages of sin

i asked for it!

My light scribe CD burner broke, FWIW, (cd's are no longer recognized - and it makes grunge sounds - can't even run programs off it anymore.).  I doubt HP will replace it after I admit that I had it on it's side.  I do have a great burner in the old computer, which I was gonna swap, but look it these new connections?  No more ribbon cable?  Is there an easy way to do this?

Limbaugh's Condo

For those ... who've never been invited inside Limbo's NY digs ...

artistic action scene rendering “ A year after railing about the high tax burden on wealthy New Yorkers, Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk-show host, is severing one more tie with New York, selling his lushly decorated Fifth Avenue penthouse to an undisclosed buyer. Mr. Limbaugh's 10-room condominium, which features a 30-foot-wide living room with fireplace and four terraces overlooking Central Park at East 86th Street, went into contract Thursday for a bit under the final $12.95 million asking price, brokers said.  ... (continued with pictures) ” MoSup always  say's "You're just like Rush." I don't think so. Sigh.

Sharia Law

Harry Potter and Sharia law

Muzzammil (spoken) Sharia . . . (sings) The most beautiful sound I ever heard: Sharia, Sharia, Sharia, Sharia . . . All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word . . Sharia, Sharia, Sharia, Sharia . . . Sharia! I've just killed a girl for Sharia Now that apostate bicth Is rotting in a ditch Sharia! (Sung to the tune MARIA) “ The father and brother of a Harry Potter actress will appear in court later this month in Manchester, England, on charges of threatening to kill the young star. The family is Muslim, and the suspected motives are clear - Afshan Azad, who played Harry's classmate Padma Patil in the popular movies - was dating a Hindu.- Harry Potter and Sharia law ” "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Trotsky

Angry Fans

Looking for a rumble “ Imagine the massacre if they had not seized all the weapons. Among the things seized there are also a couple of hedge clippers. ”

Weapons confiscated before: An Ann Coulter Appearance? Sarah Palin Speech ? Nope. A European soccer match. Here's the money line: "People need to have more sportsmanship when they watch a sport."

LeBron jumps ship

Today's other reason to hate Democrats (if you live in Ohio)

“ We come not to praise or bury LeBron James, but only to note that by moving to Miami he's going to save a bundle on taxes. We'll take the King of ESPN's word that he's jumping to the Miami Heat from the Cleveland Cavaliers mainly for basketball reasons, but it is also true that Florida has no income tax. The rate in Akron, Ohio is a little over 7%. ” LeBron's Tax Holiday Another reason to play in Miami.

Those 10,000 new Obamacare IRS agents.

Today's “More Reasons To Hate Democrat Guts” Stealth IRS changes mean millions of new tax forms

“ The new regulations, which kick in at the start of 2012, require any taxpayer with business income to issue 1099 forms to all vendors from whom they purchased more than $600 of goods and services that year. That promises to launch a fusillade of new paperwork: An estimated 40 million taxpayers will be subject to the requirement, including 26 million who run sole proprietorships.  ”

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!

Court Sponsored

Fun With Apple Cultists

Cultist Update

New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

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

Greatest Invention Ever

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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 ...