Day: March 18, 2005

McCain-Feingold grows legs. Big, hairy spider legs

Chris Muir at “Day by Day” does it again. Here he speaks out about the elimination of the First Amendment. It’s a Must See.

It’s not exactly “A Tale of Two Cities”

More like, Daze of Our Lives” *sigh*

Ya know, I sometimes have to “make the rounds” here in town to find out just what I’m “up to” now, It’s soooo good to know that the town gossips have a much better idea of what I do than I do.

Just one of the “advantages” of living in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢.

(No, I’m not going to tell you what the lastest rumor[s] about me is[are]. Put your ear to the ground and it’ll jump right in if you’re anywhere near America’s Third World Countyâ„¢.)

Of course, it’d be an exercise in redundant futility to track down the source(s) of such rumors. They are abviously too senseless to be beaten any more senseless, so there’d be no joy gained.

*heh*

Finding cool things

Checked my stats this a.m. Found a visitor who’d checked out my post “Shooting Aroind a Blind Corner” by googling “shooting around corner.” Just under my post was a listing for this. “Army Technology – CORNER SHOTâ„¢ – ‘Makes Tight Corners an Advantageâ„¢‘” Yep. A frame for a handgun that includes a color camera yielding the ability to… shoot around a corner.

Fun thing about the internet. Can find the coolest things…

My thanks to the visitor from the Netherlands for indirectly steering me to this cool thing.

OK, Stop me if you’ve heard this one…

Passing through the room. Noise on TV. Yeh, it’s the congressional hearing on steroid use in major league baseball. (Aside: this is what Congress has descended to? Hearings on baseball? Trivializing themselves–as if it were possible to make Congress any more of a joke… ) What caught my eye/ear was some guy harranguing baseball players for being bad examples, cos his son died of steroid use.

Come again? The baseball players’ purported steroid use was the cause of his son’s death? Where was dad when the son was using steroids? I’d say a closer cause of his son’s death from steroid use was bad parenting. Misplacing his own guilt now is just a follow-through from misplacing responsibility for raising his own son.

Now, I could be wrong; I stopped listening after a RCOB descended over my eyes… All I heard (and saw captioned below his image as “son died from steroid use”) was this guy blaming someone else for his son’s use of steroids, for his son’s death. What a whiny baby. Dads like this who don’t give a damn about their kids (well, not enough of a “damn” to actually be a dad) while they are alive have no right to point the finger at others for their own failure as a parent.

Of course, if I have it wrong, if this “father” was actively involved and being a proactive parent, and major league baseball players slipped into his home in the dead of night and secretly injected his son with steroids without the “father’s” knowledge, then I’d certainly apologize to him for my remarks.