Monthly Archive for June, 2005

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Loser On Parade

I blogged about Michael Crook, the loser who had forsakethetroops.info up. Well, someone found his MSN Messenger ID and had a little chat with him.


Click here to read the conversation.


What a loser.


Hat Tip: SondraK


UPDATE: Guess I should mention it’s NSFW. Unless viewing pictures of erect penises is somehow in your job description.

Ride Alongs

Many police departments have programs where average citizens can ride along with a cop for a shift to see what they do. I’ve done this several times myself. It’s a rather eye-opening experience, depending upon what part of town the cop you are paired with works in. I’ve seen some messed up stuff. And some funny stuff that you’d never know about unless you were there.


Once on a ride along, some cop who decided to cross a median with a ditch in it got himself stuck, and we got called to help him out. We ended up going to the nearest fire station and borrowing a hose to tie to his car so we could pull him out.


Yep, interesting times. But I never stole the police car after the shift was over.

Seen On A Bumper Sticker This Morning

Knowlege is power
  Power corrupts
    Study hard
       Be evil

Reminds Me Of College

Ramen

WHAT!?!

Um…


BOSTON – On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.

Come on, WTF is that? I mean, look at the guy:


Despres


At least they took the bloody chainsaw away from him. But that didn’t matter. Here’s what happened next:

The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres’ hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton’s kitchen floor. His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.

This is how we’re guarding our borders?

Kerry Not So Smart After All

All during the last election cycle, libs were continually trying to fool Americans into believing that George Bush was a dimwit in comparison to John Kerry. Well, it turns out they got nearly identical grades at Yale. And…


The Boston Globe reports Kerry had a cumulative average of 76 and got four D’s his freshman year.

That doesn’t exactly sound like the makings of a genius to me. I got better grades than that.


UPDATE: NewsMax runs the story like so:


‘Moron’ Bush Beat Kerry at Yale

President Bush, who is routinely derided as a “moron” by embittered Democrats, earned slightly better grades at Yale University than Sen. John Kerry, the supposed Massachusetts intellectual.


And, it turns out one of those “D” grades was in political science. How about that?


UPDATE II: Even better is this photo of Kerry from the 60′s:


Ugly Mug

Jerks

There is a local theater chain here that has become the only one I will go to. There are a few reasons for this:


1. They serve beer and food during the movie.
2. They do not allow any children under the age of six.


Good enough in my book. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve gone to national chain theaters (Cinemark, Regal, etc.) and had to sit near a couple (or family, if they’ve brought their two year old also) who decided it would be a good idea to bring their six week old baby to the 10:30 showing of the latest 80 decibel action flick. And then wonder why the baby was crying when the movie started. And then didn’t take it out of the theater. Assholes. Who obviously wouldn’t pass the parenthood test I’ve been proposing to my Senators and Representative. Oddly enough, they haven’t gotten back to me on that. But I digress.


I have a stack of free movie passes for said local theater chain. I have yet to see the new Star Wars movie, and decided that tonight would be an opportune time. However, it’s not playing at the theater nearest me, but the one about five minutes further away in the other direction. So, I go there, with my pass.


Now, I have used these passes at this theater before, but tonight, I was told that my free pass would not be accepted, it was only good at the theater nearest me. Both theaters are owned by the same guy, who I’ll call “Tim”. Ok, that’s his actual name, so that’s what I call him. But they won’t take the passes I have at the ticket window. The ticket guy suggests I go inside and ask for a manager if I wish to further argue my case. Which I do.


The manager shows up. He reminds me of Michael Stipe. But after he started looking like heroin was the only item on the menu. Short, skinny, and tattoos everywhere. And the sixties glasses. He was probably a vegan. Those people really need to experience a steak. Get some protein in your system, folks. Anyway, he tells me that he has been instructed (by whom he does not divulge) not to accept the pass that I am carrying.


So, there I am, with a pass in my hand that is only accepted at ONE of the theaters in the chain (of which there are four in this city, all owned by the same guy, you know, Tim). Now, if they had just said Ok and given me a ticket, I would have spent $21.84 during the course of the movie, which is what four Heinekens and a large popcorn will run you there. But, they chose not to let me in, so they lost out on that revenue. Just because the pass is only good at one of the four theaters Tim owns.


Just out of principle, I decide not to pay for the movie. I’ll see it elsewhere. But since that is the only movie older than two weeks showing there, I had no other option to see a free movie. So I drive to the theater that is slightly closer to me (where they will take my pass) and look over the movie menu. The movies that I can see with a pass do not interest me.


I decided to go drinking instead, and ended up at a karaoke bar. Where I sing a rather stunning rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon”. And the bartender was so drunk, she only charged me for half the beers I drank. So all in all, things seemed to have worked out.


Sometime later this week, I’ll go to a late show of Star Wars at a national chain. Hopefully, the people with the babies have already seen it, and will be watching something else instead.

KFC Running A Promotion

 KFC Promo

Even Alan Colmes Is Right Some Of The Time

Just saw this video clip from Hannity and Colmes.


To paraphrase Chris Rock, I’m not saying the military should take this guy out, but if they did, I’d understand.


I would categorize that guy as human debris.


Hat Tip: Dog Snot

40 Reasons For Gun Control

1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns.


2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.


3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just statistics.”


4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.


5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.


6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.


7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.


8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.


9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense — give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don’t Die – People Do, 1981, p.125).


10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.


11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a computer programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise.


12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917.


13. The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land, using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings and uniforms, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a “state” militia.


14. These phrases: “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” “right of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumerations herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,” and “The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people” all refer to individuals, but “the right of the people to keep and bear arm” refers to the state.


15. “The Constitution is strong and will never change.” But we should ban and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments to that Constitution.


16. Rifles and handguns aren’t necessary to national defense! Of course, the army has hundreds of thousands of them.


17. Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns, because they aren’t “military weapons”, but private citizens shouldn’t have “assault rifles”, because they are military weapons.


18. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, finger printing, government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available, which is responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940′s, 1950′s and1960′s, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no background check, no fingerprints, no government forms and there were no school shootings.


19. The NRA’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign about kids handling guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun lobby’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign is responsible social activity.


20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.


21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.


22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a gun is “an accident waiting to happen” and gun makers’ advertisements aimed at women are “preying on their fears.”


23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.


24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.


25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population supported owning slaves.


26. Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a “weapon of mass destruction” or an “assault weapon.”


27. Most people can’t be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.


28. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.


29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and typewriters, but self-defense only justifies bare hands.


30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the Constitution.


31. Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is a cheap lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas, a movie actor as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.


32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger capacity pistol magazines than do “civilians” who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.


33. We should ban “Saturday Night Specials” and other inexpensive guns because it’s not fair that poor people have access to guns too.


34. Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over hand guns that private citizens can never hope to obtain.


35. Private citizens don’t need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.


36. Citizens don’t need to carry a gun for personal protection but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with cops, need a gun.


37. “Assault weapons” have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.


38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential promotion, that’s bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that’s good.


39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their duty weapon.


40. Handgun Control, Inc. says they want to “keep guns out of the wrong hands.” Guess what? You have the wrong hands.


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