Day: November 8, 2005

An important read

I wish I could recall who pointed me to this Jack Kelly article, but whoever did, thanks, ‘K?

In a score of very short paragraphs, Jack Kelly thoroughly fisks the “Bush lied” mythic meme promoted by Mass Media Podpeople and Loony Left Moonbats.

A sample (but be sure to read the whole thing, wouldya?):

The president went on television to announce: “Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.”

“There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years,” the vice chairman of the Intelligence committee told the Senate.

Of course, the president who was the subject above was William “What Blue Dress?” Jefferson Clinton, and the date was Dec. 16, 1998.

What a difference a few years and a change of parties in the White House makes

Linked at Stop the ACLU’s Middle of the Week Open Trackbacks

Been e-ing back and forth with folks who’re smarter than I am…

OK, so that may be damning some fine folks with faint praise. heh. Finally seem to have open trackbacks configured so that they’ll work, tomorrow and Friday, when I’m one of those who are “up” for open trackbacks with the Open Trackback Alliance. The kludge I have installed is ugly, but functional.

The Open Trackback Alliance (better graphic coming, but look in my header mess for the graphic and link) is a fun group of bloggers with (mostly) similar (semi-twisted, for some of us) views on lots of things, and with wildly divergent views on other matters.

Matters not. Gonna be some fun.

Oh, maybe more fun than I’d planned, cos my broadband ISP is currently *non compos mentis*. I say that because not only is it down, but the techies have no real idea what’s going on.

heh

Back on backup sllllloooooooowwwww dialup.

For now.

So, tomorrow: get ready for my first “auto-open-trackbacks” post. The rules will be simple:

Trackback to any “Open Trackbacks” designated post with ANY post of your own as long as you include a link to my Open Trackback post in the post you’re listing. Do so with as many posts as you wish to have linked on my front page.

All trackbacked posts will automatically appear on my front page, but they will not stay if a link to my post is not there!

Oh, there’s other fine print: spam trackbacks will be banned, material that is substantially offensive* to me may be openly ridiculed (hey! You can ridicule right on back at me if you want, ya know!). But if you’ve read this blog for any time you already know that.

heh

Gonna be some fun, boys and girls!

UPDATE: Yeh, came back six hours later and… have a connection again. For now. Looked at logs and my email client had failed in polling my various email accounts no less than 10 times (about every 30 minutes), so was down a little over 5 hours.

Rabbit trail: Lovely Daughter just moved in to “her” new place—sharing a duplex unit with another young lady. No internet access, yet, and she’s feeling the deprivation. Sure, she heads out for “coffee” (no, for her a chai latte) or to a bookstore or some other place with a hot spot, but she phoned yesterday (lightly) moaning about watching TV and thinking, “Hey, I oughta hit IMDB and look that up!” and—right. No connection. Heh. Heck, she can’t even do a temporary dialup until she can start a cable ISp account. Both young women are cell phone only—no POTS line in the house.

Changing life. Internet withdrawal. I’m kinda glad I had a dialup backup, as slow and ugly as it was. Just think what I’d have been like without that.

Well, now to downstairs again to complete updating the fresh Windows install on the newly assembled machine. (Yeh: that’s what I was doing when my broadband crapped out. heh)

As anyone with two more brain cells than a head of cabbage knows by now…

…Jean Fraud sKerry’s a lying, slandering, traitorous S.O.B. (Just read his 1971 Congressional Testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee for proof of that assertion. Cabbageheads with fewer than two brain cells need not attempt the read.)

What is amazing is that Jean Fraud sKerry has a clone: this lying, slandering, traitorous S.O.B. member of Cindy Sheehan’s Cohort of Mendacious Morons

Read the stories “>here and “>here published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

This kind of slanderous mendacity is just copycatting off Jean Fraud sKerry. After all, he’s gotten away with lies about those who served with him and about his own record (perhaps—he won’t let us see the whole thing) for 34 years. So, why should this lying slanderous S.O.B. sKerry-clone be held accountable? (BTW, where are your records, you lying, slandering, traitorous S.O.B.—meaning Jean Fraud sKerry, this time, of course.)

h.t. >Gateway Pundit, via >My Vast Rightwing Conspiracy.
And now, a note from Cao:************************

Join the blogbursts to help FREE Kerry’s 180 every Tuesday!

We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free Kerry’s 180, click here to email me, include the url for your blog. The blogburst is every Tuesday, so don’t forget to blog about it. All you have to do is encourage Kerry to set his 180 FREE, I’ll send you the code for the blogroll.

The more people we have, the merrier!

Linked at Don Surber’s Election Day Open Post

Well, I’ve got some weird for ya…

Here it is November 8, and the outside temps at about 7:00a.m. in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢ have reached a muggy 66ºF. And did I say, “muggy”? Oh, yeh, I did…  Projected high for this area today? 88ºF! On November 8!

Algore will blow a gasket when he finds out.

But never fear, there’s a good chance that stormy weather indeed is in the works for somewhere in the next coupla years… maybe even leading to a mini- (or maybe even maxi!) ice age. No, really. Go figure. The Gulf Stream shuts down and (worst case scenario) the cascading effect plunges the world into an ice age? Well, if the Gulf Stream does shut down (as some are saying it already is doing), then the very least that’d happen would be much colder weather on the Atlantic coast, Northern Europe and strong effects on the Jet Stream…

Stock up on firewood, mend those woolies, break out Grandma’s comforters. We could be in for a very cold century.

(But, be it noted: the jury’s still out on Gulf Stream shutdown. The current data indicates something very strange is going on, but it’s not yet conclusive. So, don’t go around pulling a Chicken Little routine, ‘K?)