Texas hits execution milestone! Already gearing up for next kiriban!

400th execution since 1982 folks.

what’s the justice system’s motto in Texas? Something like “We kill criminals so you don’t have to!” I think. Heck, to top things off by the time i’m writing this the article says that THREE more convicted criminals will be executed as well. Hell, if Texas keeps up with the CPhammer like this they’ll hit that 500 mark by the years end, and with the recent spree of crimes committed by illegal aliens I would say since Texas is right on the border they’ll be getting a good supply of felons pretty darn quick.

Yeah, I said it. Geraldo can kiss my ass.

Hate Texas or love it….at least it’s dishing out the justice the way our fore fathers intended it to be. If you don’t agree with me then just look up the history of executions back during the early days of America. Public hangings and such….normal citizen folk actually just came to watch. People were morbid back then eh?

Anyways, enough of the the rant. Back to other matters.

Daily Comedy Relief – Videoz ya’ll

Hey, it’s been a good day. Korean hostages were released, Murtha’s gettin’ sued and my part of the country is finally getting the rain it has so needed in like…FOREVER.

Ahhh, what a great day so far. Here’s some videos for laughs:

Yeah, more family guy. Seth Macfarlene might be a liberal douche but DANG HE’S FUNNY or something.

News! – All Korean Christian Hostages now free!

Oh glorious day!

Thank God they have all been released and the rest of them seem to be in pretty good health too. Not to say that the Taliban actually “took care of them” but i’m just saying that despite what they’ve gone through they don’t look like they are on the verge of death. However this new, while good, isn’t as great as it could have been. The Taliban had already killed two male hostages back when the whole event started and then dumped their bodies in the countryside.

Savage Taliban criminals all of em’

Also, part of the deal was that S. Korea had to leave:

Under the terms of Tuesday’s deal, South Korea reaffirmed a pledge it made before the hostage crisis began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year. Seoul also said it would prevent South Korean Christian missionaries from working in the staunchly Muslim country, something it had already promised to do.

Basically the Taliban came out as ultimate victor here. Peoples lives were saved but the S. Koreans are now going to remove their military presence and are forbidding people from performing traveling mission trips to embattled countries. These missionaries weren’t even trying to convert people…they were just trying to offer health support. the Taliban said they feel that the hostage situation was a “good strategy”

I disagree. I think “dropping large bombs on their caves until stuff stops moving” is a better strategy. You think we could get our forces to start doing that ASAP? If not then the Taliban will keep on kidnapping people.

Marine to sue John Murtha, Plus bonus history videos of debacle

HotAir has the article and the old video when Murtha was talking to Chris Matthews.

Plus! I have video from a British Channel 4 broadcast where the shmuck anchorman echoes Murtha’s lies about Marines killing 24 people in “cold-blood” Turns out that all but one marine has been exonerated and that last marine’s case is about to fall apart and he’s looking to be let go as well. That makes all those marines involved in the night incident will be “Exonerated”

Here’s the video from Channel 4:

Well, turns out that the marines who were the target of Murtha’s mudslinging are now thinking of sueing the ex-marine for his remarks about the marines in question being cold-blooded killers.

Good. I hope they bankrupt the big fat liar. While their at it they should ask for the amount that Murtha was wanting to spend for his little pork projects.  I can’t wait to see Jack’s face if he even attempts to make a press conference or apology for what he said. They should still sue his pants off anyways.

Bonus Material – Check out the comments in Youtube on the Channel 4 video I posted. The comments for people a year ago are some of the most uninformed, vitriolic, and hate-filled crap I have ever seen people type out. Some were even calling Murtha a “true american patriot”

Patriot my ass. Murtha tried to jump on the bandwagon of blaming Bush and the Military for incidents in Iraq, but this time the bandwagon lost a wheel and Murtha cane crashing down like some new age humpty dumpty.

Blogroll update

I announced my adding of the Daily Jalapeno a few days ago, but I had also added a few others and I just added a new one today. The old ones are Absolute Moral Authority and Is This Thing On?

The new one is Reflections From A Murky Pond. To be honest I don’t really know the blogger who runs the place but he does happen upon my little sanctuary on the net and even comments from time to time. So, hey, least I could do is give the guy some blogroll goodness. Besides! I totally dig his Micheal Vick post with the awesomely photoshopped picture.

Oh, and I promise this is related, I don’t comment on the whole Micheal Vick issue personally. Why? Because to do so would involve a lot of typing and a lot of anger. Stuff I am not prepared to write because it would probably be unfit to publish due to the amount of language that would go in to it.

Japan’s Internets can beat up your internets

Seriously! These guys send data at hyperspeed.

No wonder those guys over there are way in to the digital and gaming age. They can play online and do all sorts of stuff with no lag whatsoever. If I ever move to another country…thats the one I’m gonna pick. In case you were wondering just how fast their internet is compared to the U.S. internet:

Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper.

And if that statement wasn’t a kick in the nuts here’s how the article takes a shot at American internet while it’s been crippled and down on it’s side groaning.

The speed advantage allows the Japanese to watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the Internet, an experience that mocks the grainy, wallet-size images Americans endure.

It’s like the interwebs of America just cried out in pain. Owwwwww.

News – New Orleans, The Murder Board, and how the Storm blew the lid off of it all.

That’s pretty much the story here.

What is the murder board you may ask? Well, if you haven’t clicked the link I’ll go ahead and shed the light on that little tidbit. A local church in New Orleans began keeping track of the murders committed within the city has been keeping tabs on the ascending crime rate. The Pastor had been typing the list out on the computer but apparently the number of murders committed had risen so quickly he was forced to fill in the rest of the board by hand with permanent marker.

How bad is it there?

In the first 28 days of this month alone, the city witnessed 26 killings, according to the New Orleans Police Department. So far in 2007, police say 136 people have been killed. That puts the city on pace for roughly 200 slayings this year

Holy crap. 26 killings in the first 28 days of August? That’s pretty close to almost a single murder committed per day and I think thats probably the highest rate for any city in the US right now. Also, as of last year the city managed to gain the reputation of having almost 70 people murdered per 100,000 people. Big gap, but when you look at how many people live in New Orleans still…it’s kinda staggering.

Here’s the keypoint to the story though:

Scharf said the widespread notion that Hurricane Katrina somehow caused the murder rate to spike in New Orleans is not the full story. “Before the hurricane, the murder rate was ascending. The wheels were coming off at that point,” he said.

Ah, so the storm didn’t cause the rise in crime it merely uncovered the shroud that the local governments had placed over the whole thing. If you had listened to the news outlets for the past two years you would have thought that New Orleans was the most wonderful city in the country and that we should spend every dollar we have to save that place. I’ll admit the place has it’s pretty parts, but I’ve walked the streets of that place and I can honestly say that it isn’t anywhere close to heaven.

Speaking from personal experience I can say that the city has always suffered from a massive crime problem. I went on a school trip to play at the Superdome during my high school years around New Years (This all happened many years ago, back in the 90’s) and there was a party where our school groups were supposed to hang out for New Years. How did that night end? Well, two girls were mugged and we had to evacuate the building because people across the street got in to a gunfight and someone had gotten shot.

And this was years before anyone would utter the words “Hurricane Katrina”. The city was already spiraling the drain long before FEMA ever set foot in to that place. The city was already in disarray long before President Bush was ever in office, and it was surely near collapse long before the levees began to break. The storm revealed the corruption, crime, and decadence in which New Orleans had fallen too, but don’t tell the democrats that.

They practically ran the place, so who do you think let it get that way?

News – Mother Teresa and her Faith

There is a debate going on about it.

Now, I don’t really care for Bill Donahue because he has an affinity of shooting himself in the foot when it comes to debating things but I have to say that he handled this one rather well. On this episode of Hardball he is arguing with Christopher Hitchens who has repeatedly written books that take great pride in attacking Christianity. Hitchens is a conceited Atheist with a poor attitude that takes great pleasure in watching people of faith go through doubtful times.

Hitchens, in the video, seems almost gleeful that Mother Teresa had experienced a peiod in her life where she questioned her faith. Could you blame her? She had to see people suffering day in and day out and I imagine that the stress of the horrors she witnessed was a lot to bear. However, despite her memoirs shedding light upon her own personal thoughts does anyone really think it should be a “joyous” experience for Hitchens to find out that a woman of faith had trouble believing at times?

I have had doubts before, and I have had times when my faith has been bolstered. As a normal human being I can’t comprehend the way in which God works so there are moments when it’s hard to believe. However, thats what faith is all about….trying to believe in that which we cannot see but know must be there.

Hitchens thinks that the church should apologize for “holding the woman hostage” and that her memoirs show that she was ready to give up on her faith.

I think Hitchens (who actually wrote a book attacking Mother Teresa) just wants to find reasons not to believe. It’s kinda like how the devil works really. The Devil can’t go back to heaven and because of his jealousy and rage he wants to drag as many people down to hell with him. The same can be said for Christopher Hitchens, and because he feels anger and rage towards the Christian faith he wants to hinder and sabotage as many peoples faiths as he can. Kinda like being chained to the train to hell and reaching out and grabbing people and pulling them as you helplessly soar towards your eternal torment.

Misery loves company and all that.

Here’s the video if you want to watch:

Lazy no news day – Here’s a bunch of videos from Family Guy

Awww. Well, at least she’s pretty right?

Cause she is totally lacking in the brain department.

What the hell do you say to that? I’ve heard of people choking under pressure and saying some really off the wall stuff but i’m actually surprised that Mario Lopez didn’t just ask her to leave the stage right then.

Oh, she’s also the product of a public (read:Government) school. Yay for the education system!

News – Obamamessiah invokes wrong parable. Now with bonus prophetic video!

Bryan commented on it first but I got something to say too.

It’s obvious to anyone familiar to the parable that Obama really stepped in it here. He tried to omit the part where the parable talks about the “house built on sand” but Bryan does a good job of filling in the gap for Obama. He also does a darn good job of pointing out that New Orleans (the biggest ****hole in America) was literally built on a shifting base that would eventually swallow it anyways. The Levee problems began long before the BOOOSH! administration took office and the infrastructure of Louisiana was already in poor shape before Katrina hit.

The storm uncovered the problems with that state and city, but the left tried to spin it to be Bush’s fault. The left claims that Bush didn’t act quick enough with the National Guard. Well, funny thing is that there is a law that forbids the president from making an action like “sending in the National Guard”. It’s the states responsibility and the Governer/Mayer/state officials all dropped the ball on trying to save those people.

Not to mention the Governer blocked Red Cross from giving supplies to the people in the Super Dome.

Who’s to blame here? Obviously the state and those people still trying to rebuild that fallen castle built of sand.

Here’s the bonus video that uses Zeppelin’s song “When the Levee Breaks” over a montage of picture. The people in the comments try to spin the video as an American Hating Forum (and the creator might have meant to do so as well) BUT! the pictures illustrate the corruption and decadence that came after the storm had hit.

Not to mention they have a picture that shows about a hundred school buses that could have been used to flee the city. Guess what! They were all underwater.

I guess Zeppelin was warning about things such as this back in the 70’s. Did no one from the infrastructure or core of engineers in Louisiana hear this song?

Military Analyst uses “absolute moral authority” to try and smear Bush

Not surprising considering it IS MSNBC that he works for.

He goes on a completely biased, one page rant about how Bush, using the example of Vietnam, fabricated history by claiming that the deaths in Cambodia were a result of the pullout in Vietnam.

Among other things, he suggested that the proximate cause of the genocide in Cambodia was our withdrawal from Vietnam. Absolute nonsense. The Khmer Rouge’s murderous regime established itself long before the American combat presence in Vietnam ended.

Sure did bud, but without us there who was going to stop them? Yeah, nobody. So back up and punt there army boy.

So, Bush’s speech is infuriating: his argument that we should not abandon Iraq precipitously is fundamentally a good one, but he undermines a militarily sound course of action with specious nonsense that is demonstrably false, easily refuted by any sentient being with a passing knowledge or understanding of recent history.

Actually you both are kinda false. The Vietnamese government fell two years later but historians have constantly asserted that the reason for this was because they had NO SUPPORT in trying to stabilize what had become a very unstable region. Americans pulled out of Vietnam, not because we couldn’t win it, but because Congress and the politicians couldn’t run the war. They have tried to run the Iraqi War, and like Vietnam, their interference has caused a huge problem on the battlefield.

Do you think that if the USA left Iraq that the government would crumble in a day? Highly doubtful…it would probably take about a year or more before it finally lost control of all of it’s regions. Probably following the same timeline that the Vietnamese government took when they eventually fell out of power.

Oh, check out the italicized text below the story. They drag out the analysts war record just so you know that “he knows what hes talking about”. Another example of the Sheehan/Cleland absolute moral authority BS that the MSM likes to throw around.

Politics – Clinton says new attack would help GOP?

The hell?

She says she is the Democrat best equipped to fight terrorists, but White House hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton told New Hampshire voters Thursday that another attack on the United States would likely help Republican candidates at the polls

“It’s a horrible prospect to ask yourself, ‘What if? What if?’ ” Clinton, a New York Democrat, told a house party in Concord, according to the New York Post and The Associated Press and confirmed by her campaign.

Chris Dodd says that was a tasteless remark. I would have to agree, and I should also point out that this is the first time I’ve ever agreed with anything Dodd has said. Good going Chris.

Even Bill Richardson got in on the act of telling Clinton that her asinine remark was totally uncalled for and completely out of line:

“We shouldn’t be thinking about terrorism in terms of its domestic political consequences, we should be protecting the country from terrorists,” said Gov Richardson in a written statement

Your right Bill, but your talking about “The Clintons” there isn’t anything that those two people “won’t” do to achieve political power. They will say anything about anyone at any time if they believe that it will benefit them in receiving the political clout that they think they deserve. Dangerous people these Clinton’s be.

She’s trying to position herself in a place where she seems tough on terrorism while trying to coincide the term “terrorism” with the term “Republican”. Her words weren’t meant to really show her own strengths but instead try to put the notion in to the publics mind that the republicans would benefit from a terrorist attack. She’s labeling her opponents and then lumping them in the the American enemy. Some of that notorious Saul Alinski training she received in her college years I assume.

Hillary is a dangerous person and this comment illustrates the depth in which she will travel to achieve what she wants.

Weird – Murderous wife claims cheating husband walked in to knife.

I guess that makes sense….doesn’t it?

Kinda like having sex “on accident” or something like that. Could be true you know! A friend of mine said that accidental sex was like falling in to a hole: “Trip, fall, all your clothes fly off, BAM!” your done. So, I imagine that the husband did something similar but instead of running from his crazed wife with a knife he walked towards her and got stabbed.

Bwuh?

The whole thing was a big mess. The wife says a bunch of things to the officers like “He hurt my heart and I wanted to make him feel the same pain.” or “I stabbed him”

I figured that last statement would have sealed the deal, but nooooo she then claims that she was acting in self-defense and that she held out the knife in front of her and he lunged at her and it just so happened to get him in the heart. Almost believable except at the crime scene she never once said anything about her feeling threatened by her husband. In fact, the police said she showed no emotion whatsoever. Hmmmm….

Think thats messed up? The defense tried to spin it so that they made it seem that the cheatin’ husband stabbed himself. Needless to say that the defense’s part didn’t work well at first, but it did manage to sway a few of the jurors. After the whole bru-hah-hah was over with the wife was left to deal with one of two possible charges. Second degree murder, or voluntary manslaughter.

She got manslaughter and only three months in jail. Set free and released after the whole ordeal was over with. Yet another example of murder being let off the hook. I can’t say much more of that because the woman was convicted of -a crime- and she did so -some time- However, as dateline had shown, she got the lesser of two judgements and the one she didn’t get was the one that actually fit the crime.

Our illustrious justice system. It works….sometimes. just not this time.

A new website! – The Daily Jalapeno

The Daily Jalapeno

It’s new and I would like to help RightWingDuck promote it. He says it’s “Not funnier than The Onion, but it’s definitely HOTTER!” and so far it’s looking that way. I like spices and junk so “teh funnieh” mixed with some hotness is right up my alley.

Humor with a “kick” I should say.

He’s from IMAO so click and give RightWingDuck some new hits for me.

News – Gonzales Resigns : Update – Chertoff replaces him?

I’m back from a vacation weekend and s**t is already hitting the fan.

I honestly can’t blame the guy for quitting. You have every media outlet hounding you at every turn about what you may or may not have done and your boss (Mr. President) won’t stand up against the critics in the way that you would have liked. I would have quit long before Gonzales did, but then again I would have also given every one of those interrogators at the conferences and meetings the finger for drudging up fake crimes like they’ve done.

The embattled chief law enforcement officer in the U.S. had been besieged by attacks on his credibility and capability over his handling of the firing of at least eight U.S. prosecutors last year and for statements he made to Congress about the debate over the legality of National Security Agency surveillance programs.

Gonzales gave President Bush his resignation on Friday, who grudgingly accepted it. The president is currently at his ranch in Texas but is traveling to New Mexico, Washington and Nevada on Monday. Gonzales is one of the last members of the administration still around who had been with the president since before Bush was elected governor of Texas in 1994

Whatever Gonzales does from here is his own business and perhaps he can finally get some rest from the constant stream of attacks that the left has thrown at him. Regardless of what he does or what happens to him lets just go ahead and remember one single detail: “Those attorneys who were fired were fired legally. They serve at the pleasure of the President and can be fired for any reason at any time. No crime was committed“.

I don’t know why the President or some other member of his staff didn’t just come out and say that exact sentence but they didn’t and now they’ve been given the run around by the MSM and the liberal left.

Sad to see the guy go. He fought it out as long as he could, but with all of the pressure that the left puts on people these days it must just come down to the decision of whether you try and fight or you crumble under pressure. Sadly, the Bush administration has done nothing but crumble under the constant pressure of fake allegations made by the leftist crowd.

Hopefully his replacement will know how to stick it to the press when they start running that mouth again.

UPDATE: HotAir says they think that Chertoff will replace him.

I don’t know if thats a good or a bad thing, but i’m pretty much leaning in the direction of it being a “bad” idea. I never really did care for Chertoff especially and this news is kinda crappy. I was hoping they would pick someone that would be better suited to fill the role but I question this decision. I think that I won’t be getting my wish of having a tough personality in the Bush Administration any time soon.

News!! – Iraqi hero dies saving people from Suicide bomber.

The people are starting to fight back against the Jihadi’s

The man sacrificed himself to save numerous people by intercepting a suicide bomber in the middle of trying to pull off an attack. How many did he save?

An Iraqi man saved the lives of four U.S. Soldiers and eight civilians when he intercepted a suicide bomber during a Concerned Citizens meeting in the town of al-Arafia Aug. 18.

The incident occurred while Soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, were talking with members of the al-Arafia Concerned Citizens, a volunteer community group, at a member’s house.

The man is a Hero and people are recognizing him as such. Many of the American soldiers commented on the mans actions and said that when the bomber ran towards the soldiers meeting this Iraqi ran out in front of them and grab the bomber and tossed him to the ground as the bomb went off.

“He was high-spirited and really believed what the group (Concerned Citizens) was doing,” Kane said. “I have no doubt the bomber was trying to kill American Soldiers. It was very calculated the way the bomber tried to do it. If he hadn’t intercepted him, there is no telling how bad it could have been.”

Kane believes the citizen is a hero.

“He could have run behind us or away from us, but he made the decision to sacrifice himself to protect everyone. Having talked with his father, I was told that even if he would have known the outcome before hand, he wouldn’t have acted differently.”

Tragic, but it shows that the people are finally getting tired of these terrorists blowing up everyone and everything in their communities. The mans a Hero and his memory should live on forever.

News – The NAACP doesn’t like truth mixed with comedy.

Especially when the truth lies in a spoof about the “gangsta” mentality that plagues most of the black population.

Here’s the comic that started the NAACP outrage:

The comic was made to portray the current mindset amongst the gangsta crowd that favors popular credibility above the actual rule of law. There were plenty of stories a while back where numerous people where asked about how snitching was perceived within the street crowd. Turns out that most people who buy in to this type of lawless lifestyle will protect their friends/family from law enforcement instead of doing the right thing and turn them in.

Each racial ethnic group has examples of this. However, it is most prevalent in the Hip/hop, Gangsta rap, Black youth communities. So, what does the NAACP think about the comic?

The president of the local chapter of the NAACP said he found both the picture and the words offensive.

“I was stunned about it,” said Isaiah Rumlin, president of the local NAACP chapter. “I was outraged.”Rumlin said he took calls from at least 20 angry people who also found this cartoon offensive. He said he called the newspaper and expressed his concern to publisher Carl Cannon.”We’re going to see how we can work together and alleviate this type of language in the paper,” Rumlin told Channel 4.

Of course. We’re going to “alleviate” this type of language from the paper he says. That actually translates to “If you print anything like this again then theres going to be a rally or a vigil somewhere. So, how about you clamp off your first amendment rights so you dont offend someone.”

Because heaven forbid somebody gets offended. So, how did the paper react?

“Using the word ‘ho’ was bad judgment, and I regret that I did not edit it out,” Clark told the newspapers reader advocate. “The object of the cartoon was to comment on the rise of a no-snitching culture, something that is widely in the news today. There was certainly no intent to offend the many law-abiding Jacksonville citizens.”

Gamble told the reader advocate that the term “ho” is demeaning to women, but said, “I was making a point that rappers are demeaning to women.” In the background of the cartoon is a billboard displaying: “Rap your life away.”

Well, at least he didn’t back down completely and he explained why he approved the cartoon. I’m sure the NAACP won’t stop bugging these guys until they print some front page article that apologizes to everyone for the last century of whatever, and it’s sad that a group of people think that they have the authority to clamp down on someones right to express an opinion.

Guess the truth hurts maybe?

News – State having to pay $350,000 to family of drunk woman?

That’s whats going to happen.

Turns out the lady was completely and utterly hammered and got in trouble with the law by driving erratically. After a alcohol test it turns out she was at .23 percent and that is three times the state limit. In other words “This chick was druuuuuunnnnnk“.

Well, she got pulled over by the police and was arrested. She got handcuffed and put in the back of the police car but the police officer forgot to engage the safety lock. So, what happened after that?

Turner lost sight of Pugh for up to 10 minutes while he searched her car and talked with a tow truck operator. She escaped and was hit by several cars not far from where she was stopped for erratic driving. Her body was severed and her skull crushed.

By the time he realized his prisoner was gone, Turner was at his patrol post in Hiram. He drove right by her walking along the turnpike but believed she was secured in the back.

Pugh’s family sued and the case had been set for trial Tuesday in the Ohio Court of Claims when the state settled and acknowledged that the trooper violated several policies, said the family’s attorney, Thomas Robenalt.

Now, to be able to drive all the way back to the station without realizing that your drunken arrestee was NOT in the back of your car just shows that your not paying attention to whats going on. However! regardless of this rather large brain fart on the part of the officer it should, by no means, hold him or the state responsible for a drunk woman wandering out in front of traffic. I can’t believe that the taxpayers (because you pay for the law enforcement) are being held responsible for this.

Unbelievable.

Gaming – Some thoughts on Bioshock

Bioshock came out on tuesday and if your a PC or Xbox gamer your probably already playing it and fwapping at the same time. I must admit that when I first laid eyes on the first pictures all those many moons ago I thought that the game looked very spooky and interesting. Then the PS3 version got canned and I said that 2k games could suck a rotten egg.

Then I remembered that I had a PC and that FPS games pretty much belong on the PC and I was happy again. That is until I played the actual game itself. Now now now…..don’t get angry at me I’m not saying that Bioshock is a bad game. In fact, it’s probably the best FPS game that I’ve played since Doom 3 was released, but I just felt (to me anyways) that the game wasn’t as good as it’s hype made it out to be. Is it the graphics? Hell no….the games beautiful. Is it the story? Nope, the setting and backstory make this game. So, where is the problem? the gameplay itself.

It’s not the difficulty nor is it the controls. It’s the fact that it’s just like every other FPS game that came before it. It just has a few RPG quirks added in for some extra flair. The game will play like it’s predecessors….which means that if your familiar with Condemned, Doom, FEAR, The Darkness, etc etc etc. Then the game will become second nature to you in a matter of seconds. It’s not groundbreaking in this department even though it promised it would be.

“But but but! It has PLASMIDS!”

So? It’s basically underwater scary story with guns and MAGIC! It’s been done. You can hack stuff, use magical powers thanks to Plasmids, and use enemies against themselves. System Shock 2 did all that and the whole “turn enemies in to foes” thing has been done in recent games so it wasn’t so surprising to me. And besides….those Plasmids things aren’t all they are cracked up to be. You find yourself scrambling for ammo to use them than anything else so if you go all plasmid crazy then you can get screwed in a hurry. So, use dem guns peoples!

Not to mention Penny Arcade warned of the frequent overuse of them and what can happen:

Again, I’m not saying that the game is awful or bad in any sense. It’s probably one of the most fine tuned FPS games I’ve ever played. However, it isn’t the messiah of FPS that people made it out to be. It just does what most other FPS games already do, but better.

Overall? 8.5/10.0

Not the innovative game it claimed to be, but it’s still a hell of a lot of fun. So, why aren’t you playing it yet?

News – My view on “The Meltdown”

Rummaging amongst the links to find a topic to comment on I find this.

Well, Leahy is right about the fact that conservatives (including myself) are trying to bring light to the fact that NASA’s calculation of the hottest year on record (they said 1998, it’s really 1934) were incorrect and that there has been little to no coverage on this issue except for a few conservative outlets.

I can’t answer for my other conservative bloggers but I know why I have mentioned the data error numerous times. It’s not to say that Global Warming is a hoax. No, the Earth is warming and has been since the end of the last ice age. However, like most environmental journalists Leahy uses Greenland as the barometer that foretells the impending doom of the world.

Now the warning: The complete collapse of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet — which has a mean height of about two kilometres — now appears inevitable, and could raise sea levels seven metres.

How high is that exactly? 7 metres = 22.965879 feet

Wanna hear the rest of it? click the link below.

News – GA dismisses Global Warming activists, calls them “alarmists”

I so love Georgia right now.

And the leftist libs in the comments are on full attack too. Right off the bat they start claiming that the power industry stacked the panel in the favor of the “deniers” so that the “elitist” oil, coal, etc etc groups could steer public opinion. Well, to bad for them that none of that is true. Also, Georgia Power has begun a green program itself by converting over to clean coal power (there is such a thing and if you don’t believe me just look it up.) so saying that the Coal plants are just trying to pay off critics.

The one major thing that people need to realize is that despite what scientists shove out in front of you they aren’t really giving you conclusive evidence. They are passing along a “consensus” which is a smart way of saying “the majority of us agree on a few things but we all disagree on something”. What was the consensus agreement by those 2000 scientists? That the earth is warming.

That’s it. They all agreed that the earth is hotter now than it was back after the ice age. That’s as far as the agreement went.

Do they know what causes the increase? Well, I’m assuming, and this just might be my conventional wisdom here, that the Sun (our lone source for light and heat) might be the reason. It is experiencing a period of it’s activity where sunspots are more frequent and are throwing heat towards the planets more often. Solar scientists have been screaming this since the IPCC announced its report but nobody has paid attention.

Also, the eco-groups continuously silence critics by claiming they are junkies of the power industry which has been proven time and time again to be false. Each model that the IPCC and NASA put forwards was found to be debunked and false. The hockey stick? falsified. Proven to be a sham. The NASA temperatures that said that 1998 was the hottest year on record? falsified. A programming error offset the formula that calculates the charts for temperature change. It was found that 1934 was the hottest year on record. I think that’s correct…it was in the thirties and four other scorching years in the top ten all happened before WW2.

Only three were in the recent ten years. 98, 99, 05. 2006 didn’t make the top ten.

Also, that theory that the major atlantic jetstream was slowing down or stopping? Debunked as well. Turns out that another group of scientists found normal variations within the current and it shows no sign of stopping.

Apparently the panel of the GA legislature knows all this and made a decision that is better for the people. Putting the hysteria of Global Warming aside they can focus on better things for the country. Enviromentalism isn’t one of them.

Video – Dallacroce Vs. Geraldo.

She takes him to task about his pandering to the illegal immigration crowd.

Good for her. I especially like the part where she asked him why he changed his name. Geraldo makes so many factual errors in this little video that it’s not even funny to watch when he screw up anymore. He goes off and says that NY is the safest large city in the world now (BS) and then says that Arizona is not a sanctuary city (double BS)

The guy can’t take being schooled by everyone on this issue and so he lashes out against the conservative and right-wing blogosphere and supporters. He probably won’t ever learn, but it’s good to see him getting owned by a mother who has just had enough.

News – Birds to blame for 35w bridge collapse?

In a weird kinda way they are.

Stupid birds. Always crapping all over the place and ruining a good car wash on a sunny afternoon. Now it seems that pigeon crap is one of the causes of the bridge collapse. How could that be possible?

Experts say the corrosive guano deposited all over the span’s framework helped the steel beams rust faster.

Although investigators have yet to identify the cause of the bridge’s Aug. 1 collapse, which killed at least 13 people and injured about 100, the pigeon problem is one of many factors that dogged the structure.

“There is a coating of pigeon dung on steel with nest and heavy buildup on the inside hollow box sections,” inspectors wrote in a 1987-1989 report.

Kinda makes you wonder why they didn’t just wash the darn bridge off. I know we have city workers who can go out and perform maintenance and cleaning on some of our aging structures. I know for a FACT that we do because I see at least thirty DOT worker in my state just standing around in a construction zone while about three actual guys do the work.

Still, all these investigations in to the bridge collapse have shown that the infrastructure on Minneapolis has really dropped the ball on this one. They’ve known the bridge has had problems for now as early as 2 decades ago and still the bridge hadn’t been repaired or had some sort of preventative maintenance on it. Kinda makes you wonder what the heck they’ve been spending the money on all these years.

I have an idea though. You know what would get rid of pigeons crapping on bridges? DDT I hear that stuff pretty much does the trick and the best thing is you don’t have mosquito’s either. I’m kidding of course but I’m in the mood to take a swipe at the eco-freaks today. Unrelated, but thats just my way today.

ATS – The New Black

Your damn right.

Thursday morning and it’s already 100 degrees outside. The news is coming in and I’m in the mood to just start ripping on some topics today. So lets get this hot, humid, and overall crappy day started off with a bang. As for who the band is? It’s Every Time I Die and they pretty much kick so much ass that hearing their music will make your back hurt.

They rock that hard.

Afternoon funnies

Man I love Icanhascheezburger? And! Since I have a kitty that looks just like the one in the picture it makes me chuckle with happiness. I shall name this one “Hallelujah Cat”

Hallelujah cat is “hallelujahin”. Hilarious.

Funny – Frank lays down some fun facts on childhood obesity.

Clickity click click.

I’m a fan of Frank and a fan of comedy. I also despise obesity and the excuses and blameshifting that comes along with the political aspects of it. I especially hate the use of childhood obesity in the political spectrum because they use the “think of the children” argument to try and get rid of the good parts of food.

Like trans-fats. Disagree all you want but that stuff MADE kentucky fried chicken. Made them lords of the deep fry.

Still, click for Franks facts. Here’s my personal favorite.

* The best way to fight childhood obesity is by promoting healthy eating and exercise. You can also use ridicule.

HAH!

News – The Kremlin begins to stir. Russia on the military rise. Update!: Russian bomber intercepted in N. Atlantic.

This reminds me alot of my youth.

Mainly because when I was born there was still a Cold War and the USSR was still around. I remember the Wall and I remember the day when the Iron Curtain fell. I remember the days when the Kremlin would boast about how mighty and powerful they were and they would do all sorts of things to flex their muscles to everyone. Well, as I had always feared, Putin is reviving the Cold War status of the nation.

Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia’s military power and restore its role as the world’s leading producer of military aircraft yesterday.

Speaking at the opening of the largest airshow in Russia’s post-Soviet history, the president said he was determined to make aircraft manufacture a national priority after decades of lagging behind the west.

The remarks follow his decision last week to resume long-range missions by strategic bomber aircraft capable of hitting the US with nuclear weapons. Patrols over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic began last week for the first time since 1992.

Ya know, Putin goes out and says this but it seems to me that nobody is really listening to him. Russia has been building itself up slowly and it’s just now starting to show itself again thanks to the worlds attention always drawn towards China and the Middle East. What is Putin’s excuse for pulling bold and ballsy moves like this?

“Russia wants balance. It wants a strategic balance with the US,” Ivan Safranchuk, a Moscow-based expert on defence, told the Guardian.

Yeah right. More like “Russia is kinda tired of being a bitch of a nation so they’re gonna start acting like big shots.” Still, the fact that we, the USA, haven’t really taken notice of this on a national scale is troubling to me. A large nation like Russia is actually starting to re-arm themselves with top notch aircraft and then equipping them with Nuclear Missiles? Why aren’t people paying attention to this?

They claim they are going to use the nuclear bombers as a means of “strategical deterrence” but who exactly are they trying to deter? China? Iran? The USA?

Why would they want to deter us? Did we do something to Russia that nobody but Putin knows about? What it looks like to me is that Putin is wanting to recreate the super power. Except this time he wants to take us out of the picture. They’ve already started claiming properties that clearly don’t belong to them (the arctic shelf) and they have begun flying bombers over british and american airspace. Sounds like the Kremilin is stirring and the bear is about to wake up.

UPDATE!: Holy crap it’s already hittin’ the fan and it’s not even dinner time.

Wanna know the really weird and creepy detail? The fact that I used the description in my last paragraph almost prophetically.

The MoD said in a statement: “RAF Typhoons from Numbers 3(F) and XI Squadrons launched to shadow a Russian Bear-H aircraft over the North Atlantic Ocean on Friday 17 August 2007.”

The type of jet isn’t just the creepy thing it’s the fact that it’s also labeled as a “bear” recon mission as well. There was speculation earlier but now the MoD has confirmed what people were fearing. Russia is gearing up for something and the world is just waiting patiently to find out what the sneaky russians have in store for everyone.

Must be some of the “deterrence” that Putin kept screaming about. Sounds to me that the man’s getting a bit big for his britches. Might need someone to give ole’ Vlad a time out.

News – Black Hawk Down, Helicopter Crash

System Malfunction it seems.

Just awful news. Always keep the families of these brave soldiers in your prayers. All 14 were confirmed dead in the crash, but it doesn’t appear to be the result of enemy fire.

“Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were on a night operation when one of the aircraft crashed,” the military said.

“Initial indications are that the aircraft experienced a mechanical malfunction. There were no indications of hostile fire.”

Terrible and Tragic.

Science – Scientist attacked because of transgender theory

Ahh, the leftist science section has not taken to attacking another critic.

Ever notice that every time someone offers some other type of reasonable explanation for something the left automatically goes in to offensive “destroy your life, job, family, reputation, etc, etc” mode? Well, it’s happened again and this time the attack has come from the transgender community of the left. The political correct machine that functions to designate how people speak, think, and live their lives just about ran a man out of a job because he criticized the PC explanation of the transgender lifestyle.

The liberal Politically correct “consensus” is that Transgenders are affected by a biological mistake and that Men were supposed to be Women and vice versa.

Bailey, the man who was harrassed, used his experience to describe the transgender lifestyle as a psychological function where the women/men have an erotic fascination of being the opposite sex. This actually makes more sense than the notion that there is a race of people that are born with some biological anomaly.

Why does the left and transgender crowd attack this? Because it labels them as what they are, which is psych-influenced perverts, and they don’t like facing the facts in that matter.

People may disagree with my own view of the matter (as expressed with the “pervert” comment above) however I have the God-Given right to express it, and Bailey also has the right to evaluate the evidence which he has studied which pretty much shows that transgender lifestyles are created from psychological backgrounds instead of biological ones. At least someone came to Bailey’s defense.

“What happened to Bailey is important, because the harassment was so extraordinarily bad and because it could happen to any researcher in the field,” said Alice Dreger, an ethics scholar and patients’ rights advocate at Northwestern who, after conducting a lengthy investigation of Dr. Bailey’s actions, has concluded that he is essentially blameless. “If we’re going to have research at all, then we’re going to have people saying unpopular things, and if this is what happens to them, then we’ve got problems not only for science but free expression itself.”

Wow, kinda sounds familiar doesn’t it? I believe this same type of attacks on critics are being performed against the scientists who are debunking the false science behind Global Warming. I wonder why the left and PC crowd is always so quick to attack critics of their beliefs….

The Truth hurts maybe?