My life kinda dropped through the hangman's trap door since my last posting, but I think I'm at a place now where I will have an opportunity to posting more, FYI.
In case you're interested...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Fuck Spammers
While this is a good start, I would really prefer a street Justice good old fashion beatdown for this worthless piece of shit. I've been in the tech industry since the early 90's. Yep kids, with a mac plus and a 2400 baud modem. And I've dealt with so much spam most of my accounts were unusable until I switched to Gmail. Now I can even use my Frognet account, because Google understands how to implement a spam filter. I never even see most of it anymore...but I'd still love to have about ten minutes alone in a confined space with this human paraquat.
Ode to the Spam King
If you were to take a rotten egg
crack it into a bowl of diarrhea
mix thoroughly with a putrefying fish carcass
distill the liquid off, and dry the solids
reconstitute this with asparagus tinged urine of a musk ox in heat,
you'd have a sniff of how bad this man's soul smells.
If you were to take a rotten egg
crack it into a bowl of diarrhea
mix thoroughly with a putrefying fish carcass
distill the liquid off, and dry the solids
reconstitute this with asparagus tinged urine of a musk ox in heat,
you'd have a sniff of how bad this man's soul smells.
I hope he dies in a car fire.
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US arrests internet 'spam king'.. S BO --> .. S IIMA --> ..>..> .. E IIMA --> .. S SF --> A man nicknamed the "spam king" for allegedly sending out millions of junk e-mails has been arrested in the US.
Mr Soloway allegedly sent millions of e-mails on hijacked computersRobert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, after being indicted on charges of mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering.
Mr Soloway has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Prosecutors say Mr Soloway became one of the world's biggest spammers, using computers secretly infected with orders to send out millions of his e-mails. .. E SF -->
Such computers are known as "zombies" because their owners often have no idea they have been hijacked for another purpose.
Identity theft laws
According to prosecutors, Mr Soloway was responsible for tens of millions of unsolicited e-mails promoting his own company between November 2003 and May 2007.
He is said to have frequently changed the web address of his internet marketing business to avoid being caught.
A US lawyer said Mr Soloway was the first person to be prosecuted for sending out spam e-mails using federal laws against identity theft.
Prosecutors want to seize the sum of $773,000 (£391,000) that Mr Soloway is said to have made from his firm.
If convicted of all the charges, he also faces a fine of $250,000 (£126,500) and a maximum prison term of 65 years.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A lot of emotion that needs to be dumped
So Memorial day weekend has come and gone; and I'm left feeling like I'm going to explode. I had a pretty good weekend, but I think with the memorial thing for Brad this weekend, I've just started thinking about everyone I've lost in the last year, and how those wounds aren't really healing, they're still huge empty spots in my life that haven't been filled, or rather re-filled. I was filling those places up with booze, but had to knock that off. I've been good about that, and have been trying to get through all of this crap. But I just feel adrift.
Pitching to and fro in the savage froth of life's ocean, hoping to see a place to put in for the night, or hell, a fortnight. I guess, and this comes after a couple of days of introspection, like a refugee tied to a door and trying to float across a gulf in search of a better life, or the one I knew. But I know that's not going to happen. My closest friends (my family now) are pretty occupied with their lives, which is good, I wish I was, but I just didn't feel so damn alone right now. Obviously getting back to the losses in my life. I didn't mean for this to sound so pathetic, but it does so I'm going with it.
So here's a little personal Memorial Day roll call for me:
My Uncle Richard, died a little over a year ago now. He was the first to really kind of step in after my dad died and took over some of those duties until I was able to go back to college.
My cousin Dusty, died even though I didn't know him that much at the end of his life, he was my older cousin's son, and the closest thing I ever had, or probably ever will have to a nephew. he got a real raw deal in life, and I wish I could have done more, had I known...I like to think I could have helped.
My good friend Brad Neill, he was the guy in many ways I wished my dad had been. He filled in nicely for him and a more loyal friend you'd never find. He was also my boss at Tony's for years and although we'd argue all the time, the next time we'd see each other, that was gone, it was on to new and better disagreements or to combine forces on someone else. Brad died a year ago last weekend. Brad, I miss you everyday.
Friend, boss, mentor, Bob Pitts. He was good friends with Brad, my boss at COAD and a very good friend and allay of mine. Bob dedicated his life to trying to eliminate as much as possible poverty and it's effects from the area. A job that can never be done, but at least he tried. And accomplished an fuck load. Bob could seperate the wheat from the chaff in a sentence or two. I'd give anything for this man's instincts. Bubba, I miss you terribly, COAD is the worse for your loss, but hopefully we can carry on your work.
My friend and collegue Deby Vincent, Spolrich Sullivan. Deby was one of the first Tony's employees and I'm one of the few old enough, and still around to remember when she was a bartender. She moved on to doing the books soon after I started bartending. One of the folks I'd known longest in Athens. I do miss Deby, although she fought such a long battle with cancer, no one really saw her too much the last couple of years.
The big one, at least for me, was my Mom, who died Labor day weekend, capping the summer from hell that was 2006. This one I actually never expect to fully recover from, but if I don't I'll feel like I failed her. There has not been one day I haven't missed her since, and only a handful that I haven't cried because of the loss of her from my life.
I can't help it, I still hurt, and the the ache is there too; twice the pain, half the life. There's a really good chance I'll be falling off the wagon tonight.
Yeah, I guess I'm weak. Big news.
Pitching to and fro in the savage froth of life's ocean, hoping to see a place to put in for the night, or hell, a fortnight. I guess, and this comes after a couple of days of introspection, like a refugee tied to a door and trying to float across a gulf in search of a better life, or the one I knew. But I know that's not going to happen. My closest friends (my family now) are pretty occupied with their lives, which is good, I wish I was, but I just didn't feel so damn alone right now. Obviously getting back to the losses in my life. I didn't mean for this to sound so pathetic, but it does so I'm going with it.
So here's a little personal Memorial Day roll call for me:
My Uncle Richard, died a little over a year ago now. He was the first to really kind of step in after my dad died and took over some of those duties until I was able to go back to college.
My cousin Dusty, died even though I didn't know him that much at the end of his life, he was my older cousin's son, and the closest thing I ever had, or probably ever will have to a nephew. he got a real raw deal in life, and I wish I could have done more, had I known...I like to think I could have helped.
My good friend Brad Neill, he was the guy in many ways I wished my dad had been. He filled in nicely for him and a more loyal friend you'd never find. He was also my boss at Tony's for years and although we'd argue all the time, the next time we'd see each other, that was gone, it was on to new and better disagreements or to combine forces on someone else. Brad died a year ago last weekend. Brad, I miss you everyday.
Friend, boss, mentor, Bob Pitts. He was good friends with Brad, my boss at COAD and a very good friend and allay of mine. Bob dedicated his life to trying to eliminate as much as possible poverty and it's effects from the area. A job that can never be done, but at least he tried. And accomplished an fuck load. Bob could seperate the wheat from the chaff in a sentence or two. I'd give anything for this man's instincts. Bubba, I miss you terribly, COAD is the worse for your loss, but hopefully we can carry on your work.
My friend and collegue Deby Vincent, Spolrich Sullivan. Deby was one of the first Tony's employees and I'm one of the few old enough, and still around to remember when she was a bartender. She moved on to doing the books soon after I started bartending. One of the folks I'd known longest in Athens. I do miss Deby, although she fought such a long battle with cancer, no one really saw her too much the last couple of years.
The big one, at least for me, was my Mom, who died Labor day weekend, capping the summer from hell that was 2006. This one I actually never expect to fully recover from, but if I don't I'll feel like I failed her. There has not been one day I haven't missed her since, and only a handful that I haven't cried because of the loss of her from my life.
I can't help it, I still hurt, and the the ache is there too; twice the pain, half the life. There's a really good chance I'll be falling off the wagon tonight.
Yeah, I guess I'm weak. Big news.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Immoral Majority
I'm not one to wish ill on anyone, and particularly not death, if for no other reason than the family members. But I do have to admit, I think the world will be a much better place now that this screaming hairball of moral outrage, the grand inquisitor of the bully pulpit has shuffled off this mortal coil to be reunited with his 72 virgins, or whatever evangelicals believe, perhaps a vast expanse of doors to be knocked on to solicit money for his meg-church and modest Mercedes.
Funny, God tagged Larry Flynt to live longer, tells you something...don't it?
Funny, God tagged Larry Flynt to live longer, tells you something...don't it?
BREAKING NEWS: Rev. Jerry Falwell has Died
Salem-News.comHe was found unconscious in his office after missing a meeting
Reverend Jerry Falwell
Photo: usdat.us
(LYNCHBURG, Virginia) - 73-year old Televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell has died. He was found unconscious Tuesday, rushed to the hospital and was given CPR for about half an hour according to the AP.
The News & Advance of Lynchburg reports that the well known and controversial Falwell missed a meeting about noon. He was found in his office, unconscious and unresponsive. He was rushed to Lynchburg General Hospital around 12:00 PM ET.
Falwell has had heart problems in the past.
Falwell was one of the first people to create the multi-million dollar industry of "mega churches". He founded the Moral Majority and became the most well-known face of the "religious right" in the 1980s. He said he found Jesus in 1952, and politics in 1979. He is known as "the father of the political evangelical movement."
He was outspoken, mostly against women's reproductive rights and against homosexuality. His statement after 9/11 about the event being punishment for abortions and homosexuality brought on perhaps his most public apology.
He later founded the conservative Liberty University in Virginia, where he was today. He served as its president.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
fuck-tard vegans part deux
For all you fuck-tard vegans that defended this couple and shit...read closely, their DEFENSE is that they are vegans:
I agree, they're simply stupid fucking dangerous people. But these idiots deserve jail. Wonder if he can use the "vegan excuse" when it comes to getting boned up the ass in prison?
And their complete morons of the law too:
"Defence lawyers for Lamont Thomas and Jade Sanders said they had starved their child unintentionally by adhering to a strictly vegan diet."
I agree, they're simply stupid fucking dangerous people. But these idiots deserve jail. Wonder if he can use the "vegan excuse" when it comes to getting boned up the ass in prison?
And their complete morons of the law too:
""We had no idea involuntary manslaughter was a felony. We were told for three years this was a misdemeanour," he reportedly said."
Holy shit, this is sickening, not from a vegan point of view but from a human point of view.
Vegans jailed over death of baby
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A vegan couple have been sentenced to life in prison by a US court over the death of their malnourished baby.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6642543.stmThe baby died six weeks after birth after being fed a diet largely made up of soy milk and organic apple juice.
Defence lawyers for Lamont Thomas and Jade Sanders said they had starved their child unintentionally by adhering to a strictly vegan diet.
But prosecutors in the US city of Atlanta said the couple had deliberately neglected their child.
"No matter how many times they want to say, 'We're vegans, we're vegetarians,' that's not the issue in this case," Prosecutor Chuck Boring is quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.
"The child died because he was not fed. Period," he said.
Strict vegans adhere to a diet that avoids all animal products.
'I loved my son'
Crown Shakur weighed 3.5lb (1.6kg) at the time of his death in April 2004.
The baby was born in a bathtub in the couple's house.
Defence lawyer Brandon Lewis is quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper as saying the couple did not take their child to a doctor because they feared hospitals were full of germs.
Defence lawyers said the couple did not realise the baby's life was in danger until it was too late.
A jury deliberated for seven hours before delivering its verdict on 2 May.
Sentencing the couple, the judge said the murder verdict made the life sentence mandatory.
Jade Sanders told the judge: "I loved my son - and I did not starve him."
According to the AP news agency, Lamont Thomas complained that he had not known he was being tried for a felony - rather than the lesser offence of a misdemeanour.
"We had no idea involuntary manslaughter was a felony. We were told for three years this was a misdemeanour," he reportedly said.
"It takes money to prove this wasn't a felony - money we don't have."
Damnit! Just Damnit
So this is about the worst news I've heard in a really long time. A few minutes please to ask the great one above to make this not true. I can't believe I have like a 18% greater chance of throat cancer. What no grandfather clause?
That sounds extra dirty!
That sounds extra dirty!
Oral sex linked to throat cancer: study
Updated Thu. May. 10 2007 1:53 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Oral sex has been linked to throat cancer in a new study by the New England Journal of Medicine.
Human papillomavirus (HPV), which can be transmitted during oral sex, is the main cause of oropharyngeal (throat) cancer, researchers found. The study is the first to prove the link.
Researchers compared 100 men and women who were recently diagnosed with oral cancer with 200 similar people without the disease.
They found that participants who reported having oral sex -- fellatio or cunnilingus -- with six or more partners were at the highest risk (8.6 times more) of contacting throat cancer.
"It's the human papillomavirus that drives the cancer," Dr. Maura Gillison, the lead author of the study, told The Globe and Mail.
Gillison, an assistant professor of oncology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., said the more oral-sex partners an individual has, the greater the risk is of getting oral cancer.
Researchers found that those with HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer -- regardless of the previously established risk factors of tobacco and alcohol use.
While there is no screening test for the cancer, Gillison said the risk is relatively low.
"People should be reassured that oropharyngeal cancer is relatively uncommon, and the overwhelming majority of people with an oral HPV infection probably will not get throat cancer," said Gillison.
There is also a new vaccine -- Gardasil -- that protects against several strains of HPV, including the one linked to oral cancer. However, it has not been specifically tested in relation to oral cancer.
The Tories have set aside $300-million for an HPV vaccination program for girls aged nine to 11 but debate remains about the long-term effectiveness and morality of the plan.
According to the Canadian Cancer Society, 3,200 Canadians will get oral cancer in 2007 and 1,100 will die from the disease.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Then one time at whore camp...
Holy fucking crap....this bitch should be locked up for years.
The heat-seeking mattress missile herself, has taken it upon itself to save America from their mundane lives. My god, I can't even make this crap up, read about it below.
But here's her myspace page, let's work an electronic jihad up on this how-to ho!
Here's her petition too Maybe you'd like to have her save your mundane life, or maybe you can live 45 days without this entitled, spoiled bitch-child.
The heat-seeking mattress missile herself, has taken it upon itself to save America from their mundane lives. My god, I can't even make this crap up, read about it below.
But here's her myspace page, let's work an electronic jihad up on this how-to ho!
Here's her petition too Maybe you'd like to have her save your mundane life, or maybe you can live 45 days without this entitled, spoiled bitch-child.
Hilton backs online pardon appealCelebrity heiress Paris Hilton is backing an online petition seeking a pardon of her 45-day prison sentence because she enlivens "mundane" lives.
Ms Hilton 'provides hope for young people', the petition says
Hilton arrives at courtThe petition to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also claims she was being used as a scapegoat to highlight the dangers of drink-driving.
Hilton was sentenced after being found guilty of violating her probation for a drink-driving conviction.
She must start her jail term by 5 June or risk a doubling of her sentence.
'Role model'
In a message on a MySpace website, Ms Hilton apparently endorsed the online appeal, saying: "My friend Joshua started his petition, please help and sihn it (sic). I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!"
If the late Former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late Former President Richard Nixon ... we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned
Online petition seeking a
pardon for Paris HiltonStory from BBC NEWS:The petition paints Ms Hilton as a role model who "provides hope for young people all over the US and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives".
It also draws parallels between other high-profile US figures who were forgiven for their misdeeds.
"If the late former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late former President Richard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake," it says.
Mr Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, said the governor would not become involved in any case "until the individual has exhausted their judicial remedies".
Ms Hilton's representative, Elliot Mintz, could not verify whether the MySpace message attributed to his celebrity client was genuine, but he did say the petition "appeared to be authentic".
Separately, her lawyers have said they will appeal against the sentence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6637855.stm
Published: 2007/05/09 09:32:54 GMT
© BBC MMVII
OU Slum Lords Need New Lap Dog!
yes you read that right, Ric Abel, 3 term mayor of Athens. The answer to a question nobody asked, Sarah Hendricker's replacement has been defeated in the Democratic Primary, by first ward councilman Paul Wiehl. Although I don't actually know that Paul will be any better than, Ping/Glidden/McDavis/Wharton/Phillips/{insert slum lord name here}'s lapdog. The fact is that if Wiehl cares about anything other than the the slum lords flaunting code, and OU running rough-shod over the concerns of citizens, then he'll be 200% better than Ric "Un" Able.
Also that pompous, self involved broad Carol Patterson got booted from council in favor of new comer firebrand Elahu Grosney. Patterson basically wrote her own ticket out of office, by using the code and street departments to do her personal bidding in changing road signs around her home and thinking she was an entitled member of Athens' aristocracy. Good riddance as well. Other winners here were the incumbents Jim Sands, and Amy Flowers.
Kent Butler won the primary to run for Paul's seat in the November election. Pat Lang won the primary for Law Director. Which should be a nice change from Garry Hunter, Larry's brother, have a hard time trusting an attorney that can't spell Gary.
This is the first time in any election, I've been voting since the primary in 1984, that I've ever voted for all winners, in any election.
I wonder if people are catching up to the way I think or I'm catching up to them. I think it's the former. But that's not important right now, what's important is change is coming, maybe, there won't be 8 frat boys in every house and 47 cars per rental. And maybe, just maybe some trash will make it into the trash cans.
As far as I'm concearned Ric "un" Able wrote his own political execution order when they put up that god-fucking-awful applebee's sign.
FUCK MUTHER FUCKING APPLE-FUCKING-BEE'S, that's right alumni people, we've now got tons of chain restaurants like TGI-Mcapple-benigan-damon-tuesdays and their mostly half empty because these places eat their own. Brought jobs to town long enough for the businesses to go south. Congratulations Ric, you can probably stop by OU and still get some quality suckling time with McDavis, but it's looking more and more like he's about to be run out of town on a rail, so don't get too comfortable. Maybe if he hadn't hired Glidden to raise money at a million a year, to date he's brought in no money, then you wouldn't have to cut sports and layoff so many people.
But you're trying to protect your phony-baloney job ain't ya?
Also that pompous, self involved broad Carol Patterson got booted from council in favor of new comer firebrand Elahu Grosney. Patterson basically wrote her own ticket out of office, by using the code and street departments to do her personal bidding in changing road signs around her home and thinking she was an entitled member of Athens' aristocracy. Good riddance as well. Other winners here were the incumbents Jim Sands, and Amy Flowers.
Kent Butler won the primary to run for Paul's seat in the November election. Pat Lang won the primary for Law Director. Which should be a nice change from Garry Hunter, Larry's brother, have a hard time trusting an attorney that can't spell Gary.
This is the first time in any election, I've been voting since the primary in 1984, that I've ever voted for all winners, in any election.
I wonder if people are catching up to the way I think or I'm catching up to them. I think it's the former. But that's not important right now, what's important is change is coming, maybe, there won't be 8 frat boys in every house and 47 cars per rental. And maybe, just maybe some trash will make it into the trash cans.
As far as I'm concearned Ric "un" Able wrote his own political execution order when they put up that god-fucking-awful applebee's sign.
FUCK MUTHER FUCKING APPLE-FUCKING-BEE'S, that's right alumni people, we've now got tons of chain restaurants like TGI-Mcapple-benigan-damon-tuesdays and their mostly half empty because these places eat their own. Brought jobs to town long enough for the businesses to go south. Congratulations Ric, you can probably stop by OU and still get some quality suckling time with McDavis, but it's looking more and more like he's about to be run out of town on a rail, so don't get too comfortable. Maybe if he hadn't hired Glidden to raise money at a million a year, to date he's brought in no money, then you wouldn't have to cut sports and layoff so many people.
But you're trying to protect your phony-baloney job ain't ya?
Screwing your family in the ass!
One of the mental dwarves from yesterday's posting about the six wannabe jihadis plotting the attack on Fort Dix, used his job as a pizza delivery boy to scout Fort Dix. Seems he worked for his father's pizza place.
Although I don't blame the father, I have to assume this will impact negatively his business. I really don't think the good people at Fort Dix will be ordering pie from Super Mario's Pizza in Philadelphia anytime soon. There also could be fall-out from the locals, who knows. But I really have to imagine, the Fort Dix customers have sailed.
Guess big Mo' never told this guy to, "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee," Exodus 20:12
Still you'd think he'd have a little consideration for his family. Funny thing is this whole thing sounds like a plot hatched by drunks at a bar, but Allah puts the kibosh on the ole hooch. So maybe they had the hookah fired up...still, eat some Twinkies before you plan on raiding an Army base, they won't help you, but it may slow you down enough for one of you to realize you're MORONS.
Here's more about the whole thing from Philly.com
PS:
Here's more about the fallout for the pizza place.
Although I don't blame the father, I have to assume this will impact negatively his business. I really don't think the good people at Fort Dix will be ordering pie from Super Mario's Pizza in Philadelphia anytime soon. There also could be fall-out from the locals, who knows. But I really have to imagine, the Fort Dix customers have sailed.
Guess big Mo' never told this guy to, "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee," Exodus 20:12
Still you'd think he'd have a little consideration for his family. Funny thing is this whole thing sounds like a plot hatched by drunks at a bar, but Allah puts the kibosh on the ole hooch. So maybe they had the hookah fired up...still, eat some Twinkies before you plan on raiding an Army base, they won't help you, but it may slow you down enough for one of you to realize you're MORONS.
Here's more about the whole thing from Philly.com
PS:
Here's more about the fallout for the pizza place.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Big Drug Republicans
Here's an open letter I sent to my honorable senator, George Voinovich, which I think is Slavic for taker of bribes, but my Slavic ain't so good:
Seems he was one of the boys sticking up for his billionaire buddies at pfizer....
http://www.concordmonitor.com/
Tell this privileged schmuck how you feel
Seems he was one of the boys sticking up for his billionaire buddies at pfizer....
http://www.concordmonitor.com/
Tell this privileged schmuck how you feel
Thanks for being a complete surprise, a republican with the drug companies in your pocket.
I'd hope someone you care about gets sick and can't afford your pharmaceutical buddies product(s) but there's little chance of that since we pay for your health plan.
Do me one favor before you're voted out, do something for the people of Ohio, instead of the people who fund your campaign and your "vacations".
Thank you for your time,
Nothing else.
Idiots rule
Dubya's screwing every one's pooch.
So it would seem that, going to war with the "Army you have", isn't the only problem going on. When fighting a war on foreign soil with National Guard troops (read that again) it isn't only that they were trained to protect the U.S., in particular, the state they're from, but also to assist in natural disasters, or any State related, state-of-emergency. Well, the Criminal-in-chief, who's closed the loop-hole of getting out of going to war by joining the Guard (guess how he knew you could do that) he just up and sent the guard to war, otherwise, with his foreign policy (also known as do as I say right now, not as I do, or may say in the future), he'd have to institute a draft. Which of course would mean, he would have never gotten a second term, and the midterms, would have been even worse. He's insuring that whoever inherits his broken excuse for a Presidential office, will either have to put a draft in or, pull out.
The thing that's most heartbreaking, is that the Democrats are missing a golden opportunity to shove the whole debacle straight up his ass. They should give him what he wants, and more, that way, they appear patriotic, no one can say they didn't "support the troops" and if he fails, like he has at EVERYTHING in his adult life (he wasn't elected), they can point to him and his administration as the reason, now, if we fail in Iraq, the democrats are a convenient scapegoat. And if the Surge works, then they look even stupider.
But in the mean time, if there was some kind of organized group of people who could help out state-wide in case of emergencies, keep order when it's beyond the scope of conventional law enforcement, or even travail terrain, that's impassable for most civilians, that would be keen. Maybe one the National Guard can come home...and do what they joined up to do.
From: The Kansas City Star
So it would seem that, going to war with the "Army you have", isn't the only problem going on. When fighting a war on foreign soil with National Guard troops (read that again) it isn't only that they were trained to protect the U.S., in particular, the state they're from, but also to assist in natural disasters, or any State related, state-of-emergency. Well, the Criminal-in-chief, who's closed the loop-hole of getting out of going to war by joining the Guard (guess how he knew you could do that) he just up and sent the guard to war, otherwise, with his foreign policy (also known as do as I say right now, not as I do, or may say in the future), he'd have to institute a draft. Which of course would mean, he would have never gotten a second term, and the midterms, would have been even worse. He's insuring that whoever inherits his broken excuse for a Presidential office, will either have to put a draft in or, pull out.
The thing that's most heartbreaking, is that the Democrats are missing a golden opportunity to shove the whole debacle straight up his ass. They should give him what he wants, and more, that way, they appear patriotic, no one can say they didn't "support the troops" and if he fails, like he has at EVERYTHING in his adult life (he wasn't elected), they can point to him and his administration as the reason, now, if we fail in Iraq, the democrats are a convenient scapegoat. And if the Surge works, then they look even stupider.
But in the mean time, if there was some kind of organized group of people who could help out state-wide in case of emergencies, keep order when it's beyond the scope of conventional law enforcement, or even travail terrain, that's impassable for most civilians, that would be keen. Maybe one the National Guard can come home...and do what they joined up to do.
From: The Kansas City Star
Guard shortages slow response to tornado
By JIM SULLINGER and DAVID GOLDSTEIN
The Kansas City Star
A shortage of Kansas National Guard equipment will slow recovery efforts in tornado-ravaged Greensburg, state officials say.
Because of the war on terror, Kansas has only 40 percent of its allocated equipment, said Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the adjutant general’s office.
As a result, she said, the state is rushing to hire contractors to help clear debris.
The situation was no surprise to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who has warned for months that the National Guard was ill-prepared for a catastrophe because so much equipment and personnel were in Iraq.
And national experts say the problem is not confined to Kansas.
A congressionally sponsored commission looking into military readiness reported last month that close to 90 percent of Guard units in this country were “not ready,” primarily because of equipment shortages.
In response, the Army has pledged to boost Guard spending by $23 billion though 2011, with further increases in subsequent years.
That spending won’t come soon enough for Greensburg.
“As you travel around Greensburg, you’ll see that city and county trucks have been destroyed,” Sebelius told CNN on Monday.
“The National Guard is one of our first responders. They don’t have the equipment they need to come in, and it just makes it that much slower.”
Col. Eric Peck of the Kansas National Guard said the most pressing shortage was in tractor-trailers for transporting heavy equipment used to clear debris.
Most of the heavy equipment is based in southeast Kansas, and some is in Wichita and Topeka. Ordinarily, the Guard would have more than 30 big trucks to transport that equipment. It now has fewer than 15, Peck said.
The Guard should have about 600 Humvees, but it has fewer than 400. It would usually have 170 medium tactical vehicles that are used to transport people and supplies, but it has fewer than 30. Because the tactical vehicles are some of the most advanced the Kansas Guard has, “they’re in very high demand overseas,” he said.
Nearly 70 Kansas National Guard troops arrived in Greensburg on Monday to supplement about 40 already there, Watson said, and some Humvees were available to start clearing wreckage.
The Guard is also responding to flooding elsewhere in the state, but Peck said the truck shortage wouldn’t stop the Guard from completing its missions.
But it will take longer, he said, because fewer trucks mean more trips.
The governor’s concerns date to at least December 2005, when she wrote to the then secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, pleading for the replacement of equipment that would be needed in a state emergency.
The following month, while riding with President Bush to Kansas State University, she again mentioned equipment that never returns from Iraq.
According to a 2005 Government Accountability Office investigation, the Guard has only about one-third of the supplies it needs because it shipped more than 100,000 pieces of equipment overseas.
“The equipment shortage across the Guard hampers the Guard’s ability to respond to a range of natural disasters,” said John Goheen, a spokesman for the National Guard Association of the U.S., a nonpartisan group that represents Guard officers and lobbies for better equipment and training.
As the Army boosts spending, the goal is to ensure that the Guard has 65 percent to 70 percent of its needed equipment by 2013, said Lt. Col. Mike Milord of the National Guard Bureau in the Department of Defense.
Milord cited the Guard’s response to Hurricane Katrina as an example of its ability to meet an overwhelming need, even amid equipment shortages.
A Pentagon spokesman said other states were supposed to provide resources in emergencies. White House spokesman Tony Snow said equipment would arrive if it was needed.
But Sebelius has her doubts. “We can’t borrow … from other states, because their equipment is gone,” she said.
Dion Lefler of The Wichita Eagle contributed to this report. To reach Jim Sullinger, call (816) 234-7701 or send e-mail to jsullinger@kcstar.com. To reach David Goldstein, call (202) 383-6105 or e-mail
Jesus fucking Christ that pisses me off
That idiot Islamic Lawyer from my last blog....FUCK!
Sohail Mohammed, let me post his quote....
What the fucking kind of religion is it that can turn people into killing machines and you're not supposed to judge the fucking religion by actions? What the fuck kind of capricious reasoning is that? A religion by definition, is supposed to make the followers more like the icon (for want of a more generic term) that is worshiped, i.e. make them a better people. If that religion, is so weak it can not be judged because it has no effect on it's followers, and can not be criticized (according to the koran, because that is heresy) then it's not really a religion at all is it? It's a imprudent little child throwing a fit.
Mr. Mohammed, fuck you, you're a fucking hypocrite.
Religion, is something you're supposed to believe, and live. Christianity teaches to be peaceful and turn the other cheek, The Tao, tells us to follow nature, to let the river take us to where we need to be, and to be balanced in all things. If the Koran is not teaching these people how to and that they are supposed to kill, then they are lousy Muslims, correct? Why not call them that, instead of making excuses for Islam, is it possible, that Islam is not the religion of peace, but the religion of pieces? Pick and choose which is best to justify your means. And, yes, I can be even more vitriolic about hypocrisy in Christianity, or any religion.
This in not a slam on Muslims, but a slam on idiot lawyers...in this case one who claims to be a Muslim, but I know people who can smoke five cigarettes a day and consider themselves non-smokers. I suppose if you just kneel down five times a day and bow you may just be tired and have a bending problem...
Sohail Mohammed, let me post his quote....
"If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. "But when the government says 'Islamic militants,' it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous.Think about this one quote, "Don't equate actions with religion".
"Don't equate actions with religion," he said.
What the fucking kind of religion is it that can turn people into killing machines and you're not supposed to judge the fucking religion by actions? What the fuck kind of capricious reasoning is that? A religion by definition, is supposed to make the followers more like the icon (for want of a more generic term) that is worshiped, i.e. make them a better people. If that religion, is so weak it can not be judged because it has no effect on it's followers, and can not be criticized (according to the koran, because that is heresy) then it's not really a religion at all is it? It's a imprudent little child throwing a fit.
Mr. Mohammed, fuck you, you're a fucking hypocrite.
Religion, is something you're supposed to believe, and live. Christianity teaches to be peaceful and turn the other cheek, The Tao, tells us to follow nature, to let the river take us to where we need to be, and to be balanced in all things. If the Koran is not teaching these people how to and that they are supposed to kill, then they are lousy Muslims, correct? Why not call them that, instead of making excuses for Islam, is it possible, that Islam is not the religion of peace, but the religion of pieces? Pick and choose which is best to justify your means. And, yes, I can be even more vitriolic about hypocrisy in Christianity, or any religion.
This in not a slam on Muslims, but a slam on idiot lawyers...in this case one who claims to be a Muslim, but I know people who can smoke five cigarettes a day and consider themselves non-smokers. I suppose if you just kneel down five times a day and bow you may just be tired and have a bending problem...
I don't care if their Islamic or Druids these idiots are morons
OK, so these six bozos walk into the Poconos and decide their going to raid Fort Dix...stop me if you've heard this before.
These Islamic Militants decide that they can raid Fort Dix in New Jersey and do some real damage. Don't these stupid assholes realize this is a United States Army installation? We're not talking about 5 soldiers at a fucking roadside check-point in the Anbar province. This is a fucking Army base, fully auto everything, Abrams Tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, real Humvees, not the stupid gas wasting rich ass frat-boy kind.
Sweet merciful Christ! That's kind like walking into a mosque and trying to wipe the sole of your Jerusalem Joggers with Moqtada al-Sadr's stupid looking turban. (read: you're just asking to die). Hell, you may as well, use a two-ply koran to search for dingle berries, it's the same level of stupid.
This has to be the stupidest fucking plan I've ever heard of, it's not like Marines in Beirut under that idiot cock-sucker Reagan's regime. These guards are actually armed.
It's a lot like the Amish raiding an electrical sub-station, or a dog chasing a car, even if they succeed, what the fuck do they do then?
I think the main problem with the Islamic millitants, is the idiotic belief, that if you kill people and die you get rewarded. 72 virgins, Christ, that's more like hell, who wants to teach that many broads how to fuck properly?
I also love the shyster Islamic lawyer (pun intended) "Don't equate actions with religion" Well, I got news for this moon calf, when stupid ass evangelicals blow up abortion clinics and kill doctors, their actions speak of their religion, and so do these morons'. If they're worried about their religion why the fuck don't they police it, and root out these muderous cock-suckers? Fuck, do you even see a statement condeming it? No, because it's tacitly approved, by the muslim community. Just as the fruit-nut holy rollers, mackeral snappers and snake handlers are by the idiot preachers begging the poor for money to buy one more Mercedes to drive God's buisness man around.
Police your own shit, law-boy, or take the consequences.
And although I DO NOT agree with it, I can see muslims and/or people of middle eastern descent being interned before long, much like Japanese Americans in WWII. As I said I don't agree with it, but I'd be willing to bet a larger and larger number of Americans will be for it. And what then, cries of, "oh we should have done more to police our own loose cannons". Well, it's not too late, yet. Maybe y'all ought to give it a try.
These Islamic Militants decide that they can raid Fort Dix in New Jersey and do some real damage. Don't these stupid assholes realize this is a United States Army installation? We're not talking about 5 soldiers at a fucking roadside check-point in the Anbar province. This is a fucking Army base, fully auto everything, Abrams Tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, real Humvees, not the stupid gas wasting rich ass frat-boy kind.
Sweet merciful Christ! That's kind like walking into a mosque and trying to wipe the sole of your Jerusalem Joggers with Moqtada al-Sadr's stupid looking turban. (read: you're just asking to die). Hell, you may as well, use a two-ply koran to search for dingle berries, it's the same level of stupid.
This has to be the stupidest fucking plan I've ever heard of, it's not like Marines in Beirut under that idiot cock-sucker Reagan's regime. These guards are actually armed.
It's a lot like the Amish raiding an electrical sub-station, or a dog chasing a car, even if they succeed, what the fuck do they do then?
I think the main problem with the Islamic millitants, is the idiotic belief, that if you kill people and die you get rewarded. 72 virgins, Christ, that's more like hell, who wants to teach that many broads how to fuck properly?
I also love the shyster Islamic lawyer (pun intended) "Don't equate actions with religion" Well, I got news for this moon calf, when stupid ass evangelicals blow up abortion clinics and kill doctors, their actions speak of their religion, and so do these morons'. If they're worried about their religion why the fuck don't they police it, and root out these muderous cock-suckers? Fuck, do you even see a statement condeming it? No, because it's tacitly approved, by the muslim community. Just as the fruit-nut holy rollers, mackeral snappers and snake handlers are by the idiot preachers begging the poor for money to buy one more Mercedes to drive God's buisness man around.
Police your own shit, law-boy, or take the consequences.
And although I DO NOT agree with it, I can see muslims and/or people of middle eastern descent being interned before long, much like Japanese Americans in WWII. As I said I don't agree with it, but I'd be willing to bet a larger and larger number of Americans will be for it. And what then, cries of, "oh we should have done more to police our own loose cannons". Well, it's not too late, yet. Maybe y'all ought to give it a try.
May 8, 2007, 9:06AM
6 charged with plot on Army base in N.J.
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
FORT DIX, N.J. — Six men described by federal prosecutors as "Islamic militants" were arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible," authorities said Tuesday.
The six were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later Tuesday to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen, said Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey.
Officials said four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one in Jordan and one in Turkey. Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, 10 miles east of Philadelphia and 20 miles southwest of Fort Dix, Drewniak said.
"They were planning an attack on Fort Dix in which they would kill as many soldiers as possible," Drewniak said.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because documents in the case remain sealed, said the attack was stopped in the planning stages.
Authorities believe the men trained in the Poconos for the attack and also conducted surveillance at other area military institutions, including Fort Monmouth, the official said. The official said that the men had lived in the United States for some time.
The six were arrested trying to buy automatic weapons in a sale set-up by law enforcement authorities, the official said.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said there is "no direct evidence" that the men arrested in the Fort Dix plot have ties to international terrorism.
"They are not charged with being members of an international terrorism organization," Snow said. "At least at this point, there is no evidence that they received direction from international terror organizations. However, their involvement in weapons training, operational surveillance and discussions about killing American military personnel warranted a strong law enforcement response."
Asked if those arrested had any ties to al-Qaida, Snow referred questions to the FBI and the U.S. attorney, but said those officials "seem to indicate that there is no direct evidence of a foreign terrorist tie."
Jerri Williams, spokeswoman for the FBI in Philadelphia, said U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie and J.P. Weis, special agent in charge of the FBI in Philadelphia, would release more information at a news conference later Tuesday.
Fort Dix is used to train soldiers, particularly reservists. In 1999, it sheltered more than 4,000 ethnic Albanian refugees during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.
After that war, refugees were allowed to return to the U.N.-run province of Kosovo in Serbia or to seek permanent residency in the United States. The U.N. Security Council is considering whether to approve a plan to grant Kosovo independence from Serbia under the supervision of the European Union and the United States.
Jeff Sagnip, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. James Saxton, who represents Fort Dix, said the base, along with adjacent McGuire Air Force Base, has been put on its highest security alert level.
He said Fort Dix typically has 15,000 people, including 3,000 soldiers; McGuire, which is adjacent to Fort Dix, has about 11,500 people.
Soldiers at Fort Dix have been training for warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sagnip said.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the once-open Fort Dix has been closed to the public. There are heavily armed guards at entrances, along with X-ray machines and concrete barriers to make it impossible for vehicles to rush the entrances.
But the main road through neighboring Cookstown cuts through the base and is accessible to the public. A half-dozen locations on the base, including at least two where soldiers were conducting maneuvers Tuesday morning, were only a few hundred yards off the main road and accessible to anyone.
The description of the suspects as "Islamic militants" was causing renewed worry among New Jersey's Muslim community. Hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey were rounded up and detained by authorities in the months following the Sept. 11 attacks, but none was connected to that plot.
"If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. "But when the government says 'Islamic militants,' it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous.
"Don't equate actions with religion," he said.
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