February 28, 2006
Speeding
One of the most moronic statements I have ever heard is that speed limits are set for safety reasons.
What Skywalker? What is this heresy you speak?
Yes, that's right, speed limits are completely unrelated to safety. In fact, they are so unrelated that it is sad.
Speed limits are set by finding the theoretical safest speed based on the geometric features of the most dangerous area of the road using the handling characteristicss for cars from the 1940s, then observing people's speed actual speed across this area of the road, averaging the observed speeds, then taking approximately 85% of the lower of the 2 speeds and then subtracting 5-20 mph.
Why 85%? 2 reasons: #1 they know no one will go this slow. #2 Because of #1, they can write lots and lots of revenue increasing tickets.
Yes, that's right, speed limits are all about revenue. I'm not opposed to revenue. It's needed byt he government. But frankly, the speed limits are moronic. The only place where a speed limit might actually be useful, is in a completely residential area such as a subdivision or something similar. Oh yes, and school zones, since in some areas, kids still walk to school. Outside of kids walking to school, I really can't personally see a reason for school zones though. I won't say there isn't since I may simply be missing one and some school bus driver might pop on and say there is a legitimate reason.
There have been numerous studies that say the safest drivers on the road are the ones whoa re int he left hand lane driving at least 10 mph over the speed limit and the least safe are the ones driving the speed limit or less.
Anyhow, here is the reason for this:
Meditation On The Speed Limit
It was done by some college students at Georgia State University for Campus Movie Fest. No I am not a student there. No I do not know any of these students.
The premise: a student was tired of getting tickets for going with the flow of traffic on I-285 here in Atlanta. So he decided to show just what would happen in everyone had to go the speed limit. Enjoy.
Senate Ethics Committee To Meet In New Ethics Committee Mansion
WASHINGTON, DC—In the wake of several major lobbying scandals, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics announced Tuesday that it will hold a special series of intensive sessions inside its recently completed 200-room Ethics Mansion.
"In this time of rampant corruption, it is essential that we have a sufficiently lavish setting in which to enforce laws that ensure the integrity of public officials," said committee member Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), wearing a gold-lined cashmere robe donated by pharmaceutical lobbyists.
The mansion, a sprawling neo-Gothic manor located on 4,500 acres just off Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, was completed last month. Adorned with gold plumbing fixtures and 16th-century Flemish tapestries, the estate boasts three tennis courts, two Olympic-size swimming pools, nearly a dozen hot tubs, both dry and wet saunas, a massage center and day spa, an 18-hole golf course, a helipad, and the only erotica-themed topiary garden on the East Coast.
Full Story @ The Onion - America's Finest News Source
February 27, 2006
Stop Democracy
Found this site while searching news and it's refreshing to see some Americans get it.
I admit in the past have said "our democracy" and yet knew it's a republic, whoops. This might help me to remember. :-P
"Our legal form of government is a Constitutional Republic. Through media manipulation and the constant chant of “our democracy” from either deceitful or ignorant politicians, the majority of the American people don't even understand that not only is America not a democracy, they don't know the difference."
Full Text @ Help stop the spread of democracy!
You to can profit from terrorism, Just do it the Hamas way
BBC reported today that the European Commission is preparing to pay 120 million Euro to Hamas for what the commission calls "meeting the basic needs of Palestinians". How about letting the terrorists they elected fund the people. After all the people have been funding the terrorists for decades.
The following from fas.org:
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Description
The HAMAS (in Arabic, an acronym for "Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamia" -- Islamic Resistance Movement -- and a word meaning courage and bravery) is a radical Islamic fundamentalist organization which became active in the early stages of the intifada, operating primarily in the Gaza District but also in Judea and Samaria. Formed in late 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Various HAMAS elements have used both political and violent means, including terrorism, to pursue the goal of establishing an Islamic Palestinian state in place of Israel. Loosely structured, with some elements working clandestinely and others working openly through mosques and social service institutions to recruit members, raise money, organize activities, and distribute propaganda. HAMAS’s strength is concentrated in the Gaza Strip and a few areas of the West Bank. Also has engaged in political activity, such as running candidates in West Bank Chamber of Commerce elections.
Activities
HAMAS activists, especially those in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have conducted many attacks—including large-scale suicide bombings—against Israeli civilian and military targets. In the early 1990s, they also targeted suspected Palestinian collaborators and Fatah rivals. HAMAS increased its operational activity during 2002-2003 claiming numerous attacks against Israeli interests. The group has not targeted US interests—although some US citizens have been killed in HAMAS operations—and continues to confine its attacks to Israelis inside Israel and the territories.
Strength
Unknown number of official members; tens of thousands of supporters and sympathizers.
Location/Area of Operation
HAMAS currently limits its terrorist operations to Israeli military and civilian targets in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Israel. The group’s leadership is dispersed throughout the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with a few senior leaders residing in Syria, Lebanon, and the Gulf States.
External Aid
Receives some funding from Iran but primarily relies on donations from Palestinian expatriates around the world and private benefactors in moderate Arab states. Some fundraising and propaganda activity take place in Western Europe and North America.
Interesting now that Europe wants to join Iran and other Arab states in funding terrorism.
Also for the blind fools thinking that Hamas is now peaceful, think again.
From cfrterrorism.org :
What does Hamas believe and what are its goals?
Hamas combines Palestinian nationalism with Islamic fundamentalism. Its founding charter commits the group to the destruction of Israel, the replacement of the PA with an Islamist state on the West Bank and Gaza, and to raise “the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” Its leaders have called suicide attacks the “F-16” of the Palestinian people. Hamas believes “peace talks will do no good,” Rantisi said in April 2004. “We do not believe we can live with the enemy.”
Only two years ago they plainly stated their primary goal is to kill all Jews and wipe out Israel.
Nice move Europe.
*Note: For the bleeding hearts among you who will undoubtedly claim that Hamas does social work and blah, blah, blah whatever else. It makes zero difference if your goal is to wipe out a people and take their land.
February 26, 2006
Are We Danes? Or Dhimmis?
Hal Lindsey
http://www.hallindseyoracle.com
The global reaction to the uproar over the "12 Satanic Cartoons" demonstrates a growing Western embrace of the mentality of Islamic "dhimmitude" subtly disguised as political correctness. One European newspaper issued a global challenge, asking, "Are We Danes? Or Dhimmis?"
What is a 'Dhimmi?'
Under Islam, a "dhimmi" is a non-Muslim living in conquered Muslim lands. "Dhimmis" are permitted limited freedom of religion, provided there is no conflict with Islamic laws governing such things as religious symbols and images.
However, a dhimmi has virtually no rights in actual practice. The word of one "offended Muslim" can send a dhimmi to his death.
Historically, Jews living as dhimmis in Muslim countries have been subjected to daily humiliations that reduced life to a perilous uncertainty. They are required to pay a very high tax called the "jizra" for the "privilege of living among Muslims."
This latest example of Muslim intolerance and violence over any hint of insult to their religion displays clearly for all to see that their core beliefs inspire hatred and violence.
The behavior of the vast majority of Muslims puts the lie to "the political correct image of Islam as inherently peaceful and tolerant."
Yet, the continuing advance of this patently false idea by Western leaders, despite the total lack of evidence to support it, is a tacit admission that we're all dhimmis, to some degree, already.
cwilli note: This is a must read article the brings up a very good point.
February 24, 2006
United Arab Emirates surpasses America on the world gluttony scale
The Palm Islands, also referred to as The Palm Dubai and The Palms, are the three largest man-made islands in the world, which are being built on the coast of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its concept was announced in May 2002 and the three resort islands are expected to maintain Dubai's position as a premium tourist destination. The Palm Islands is also the self-declared 'Eighth Wonder of the World'.
The Palm Islands [Dubai] - Property Development - TEN Real Estate [UAE]
Holy Cash Overflow Batman! It seems someone has money burning a hole in their pockets. :-P -Ed
New ad released in the Middle East
Note: This is simply something funny I found while reading fark.com, I did not make these nor claim so. I do believe that every human wants freedom, some however have vastly different opinions on what freedom is. -Ed
February 22, 2006
Maybe Saddam was right
Mosque Attack Pushes Iraq Toward Civil War
Insurgents posing as police destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecendented spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds thronged the streets, militiamen attacked Sunni mosques, and at least 19 people were killed.
With the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, some Shiites lashed out at the United States as partly to blame.
Full Story @ BREITBART.COM
I cannot believe that I'm even considering that maybe Saddam was right all along. You need a vicious dictator to keep these people in line. Other wise they would wipe each other out.
I understand all they know is violence, and for decades all they have had is violence, however would that not PUSH You to be peaceful?
Is this just another example that the Muslim religion is not peaceful but full of intolerance and hatred?? Unfortunately, I have no answers at this time. Only questions.
(afterthought)
Perhaps it's mearly the cycle of violence morphing into this. -Ed
February 21, 2006
A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism
During recent decades, new scientific evidence from many scientific disciplines such as cosmology, physics, biology, "artificial intelligence" research, and others have caused scientists to begin questioning Darwinism's central tenet of natural selection and studying the evidence supporting it in greater detail.
Yet public TV programs, educational policy statements, and science textbooks have asserted that Darwin's theory of evolution fully explains the complexity of living things. The public has been assured that all known evidence supports Darwinism and that virtually every scientist in the world believes the theory to be true.
The scientists on this list dispute the first claim and stand as living testimony in contradiction to the second. Since Discovery Institute launched this list in 2001 over 500 scientists have courageously stepped forward to sign their names. The list is growing and includes scientists from the US National Academy of Sciences, Russian, Polish and Czech National Academies, as well as from universities such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and others.
Read More @ CSC - Center for Science and Culture
Interesting, could it be darwinism is not fact but but really is, [gasp] a theory?? -Ed
February 20, 2006
"The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"
Commentary on the News
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor
This past season, NBC aired a short-lived TV series called "The Book of Daniel" as one of its prime-time offerings. The series revolved around an drug-addicted Episcopal priest with an alcoholic wife, a gay son, and a drug-dealing teenaged daughter.
At the office, the priest's lesbian secretary is sleeping with his sister-in-law. The priest, Daniel Webster, (hence the clever title) would have periodic discussions with 'Jesus', who when asked to do something for Daniel in one scene, replied, "Who do you think I am? God?"
NBC defended its offering as a 'serious drama about Christian people and the Christian faith'. It wrapped the series in the 1st Amendment and aired the series over the objections of the many network affiliates who refused to carry it.
After airing only three episodes, NBC unceremoniously dumped the show. The media started screaming 'censorship' by the religious right. The fact is, by the third airing, all the program's sponsors had pulled out. Not because of threats or violence. Because of economics. The show was awful and nobody watched it.
Read the entire commentary here
cwilli note: Another outstanding article from Jack Kinsella. He points out the obvious truth that the media continues to disrepect Christianity while clearing respecting Islam. They are only upstaged by the ACLU who is determined to stamp our Christianity but defends the rights of Muslims....
February 19, 2006
U.S.-Funded Power Plant on Line in Iraq
BASRA, Iraq - Glistening in
Iraq's barren southern salt plains, a natural gas-driven power station has come on line, generating sorely needed electricity for war-weary Iraqis and demonstrating that much-maligned U.S.-led reconstruction efforts are beginning to bear fruit.
U.S. officials said Sunday that increasing Iraq's electricity generating capacity through facilities such as the 250 megawatt electricity plant near the southern city of Basra is crucial to American efforts to encourage Iraqis to turn their backs on the insurgency.
It's nice to hear some GOOD news from the front. I'm proud of them. Not only will this obviously be benificial to the Iraqi people BUT it will also help to create some more jobs. Enough said.
Full Story @ Yahoo!
Cheney Media Blitz to Continue, Iran Elated
AAAHHHHH!! Quick, someone duck tape my head because it's going to explode this week!
How in the world can real news be pushed back into oblivion while a fricking hunting accident gets ALL the time??
Oh crap, yea, that's right. The mainstream media has been given charge by the liberal elite to bash our bumbling president into next year.
So begins yet another week of the mindless drivel we endured last week.
yea
Full Story @ DRUDGE REPORT
February 14, 2006
Democrats Can't Hackett
Feb 14, 2006
Dismembered Republicans in shock!
Full Story @ Rolling Stone
Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When the White House press secretary,...
*YAWN*
In other news I had a massive crap today, you know the kind that hits you right as your hitting the freeway in rush hour traffic. Man your praying all the way home, "Oh please don't let me crap my pants before I get home", yea it was an (as I have trademarked) Assplosion!
Yikes my toilet probably thinks I hate it or something, the way I was abusing it.
February 13, 2006
Al Gore: Embarrasment to himself, Joke to the rest of us
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.
Full Story @ The Union
Hrmm. The 9/11 hijackers were from where again? Annnnnddddd Al Gore is boasting about us rounding up Arabs and torturing them, uh, where?? Does anyone else see Al doing his VERY best to get the muslim terrorists pissed off even more to kill. "Thanks Al!!, Now STFU and sitdown!" -Ed
Hollywood 'resists gay US actors'
Sir Ian McKellen has said openly gay US actors are prevented from having successful Hollywood careers.
"It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality," the gay British actor said.
"And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It's very distressing to me that that should be the case."
The Lord of the Rings star added: "The film industry is very old fashioned in California."
He was speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, where he received a lifetime achievement award.
Wow, I don't normally post B.S. about Hollywood, however this is too bizarre not to. I'm still just starring at the page, no idea how he can possibly call the Capitol of "tolerance" anti-gay. -Ed
Germany denies being lazy, strikes over increasing work week by 1.5 hours
FEB. 13 5:40 A.M. ET German public workers expanded their week-old strike to much of the country on Monday in a deepening dispute over plans to make them work longer hours.
Public workers in nine of Germany's 16 states were stopped work on Monday, compared to only two last week, making it the biggest stoppage in public services for 14 years.
The ver.di labor union, the country's biggest, is protesting plans to make some public employees work 40 hours a week compared to the current 38.5 hours.
Now to be fair it does not say if they are being paid hourly or salary. If it's hourly, then who cares if you work an extra hour or so. Your being paid. However if your salary, then you should be paid for the extra 1.5 hours of work. That's just common sense. (Still, tis a silly headline) -Ed.
February 12, 2006
New Photo Album Added
Finally got around to adding a few pics from our trip to the U.S.A.F. Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Had to go twice because I forgot to charge the batteries for the camera. Also took the tripod the second trip which helped with getting cleaner pics.
Enjoy.
If your in Ohio check out the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
February 10, 2006
Video surveillance outfit chips workers
A Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use Verichip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre. Until now, the employees entered the data centre with a VeriChip housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from their keychain.
The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated RFID tag that is injected into the triceps area of the arm to uniquely identify individuals. The tag can be read by radio waves from a few inches away.
That is simple to solve, everyone quits and they can't hire people, thus they stop the practice. (yea I know it's not irl that simple) -Ed
February 09, 2006
37-Pound California Woman Gives Birth
TULARE, Calif. -- A San Joaquin Valley woman who weighs 37 pounds, stands 3 feet tall and uses a wheelchair has given birth to her first child, overcoming serious odds and doubters who advised her to abandon their dream of becoming parents.
Eloysa Vasquez, 38, suffers from Type 3 osteogenesis imperfecta, a disorder that makes bones soft and easily broken. Her tiny, distorted body left little room for a fetus to grow and Vasquez suffered two miscarriages before doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital delivered her son, Timothy, by Cesarean section on Jan. 24.
Full Story @ NBCSandiego.com
Miracles Do Happen :-) -Ed
February 06, 2006
One For the Thumb!
Fast Willie Parker set a new Super Bowl record for the longest touchdown run during the Steelers ugly victory over the hapless Seachickens.
Steelers 21 vs. Seahawks 10
February 05, 2006
The Super Bowl Commeth
Everyone get your terrible towels out and wave them like never before..
HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!!
HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!!
February 04, 2006
I wish I could make this stuff up
Seriously, I wish I could make up stuff this funny. How in the hell do you hold out ANY hope of living peacefully with brilliant folks like this???
They have no morality, no sensibility, no brain functionality but kill the white man. It's almost like they are being brain washed in the Mosques... *shock* NOOO! That would Never happen.(rolls eyes) -Ed
Sane Muslims stand up and be heard
All the sane, competent and intelligent Muslims stand up for your faith and give us hope that the Muslim religion is not a bunch of nut jobs.
ONE freakin' cartoon and (it seems) the entire Muslim community is going to pop off and start bombing everyone they can find.
How many times over just the past few years have Christians endured flagrant attacks on God, Jesus and ourselves. Yet I don't remember anyone starting WW3 over it. Just because some asshat God hating liberal wants to put a crucifix in a jar of urine does not mean I'm going to kill him. (just clarifies he is nuts) You are free to voice your opinion and hatred no matter how wrong you are.
So enough of this stupid rage, outrage and fury over one cartoon (which given your reaction might not of been far off). Grow up, grab yourself a chill pill and enjoy life man.
You know, this whole over reaction thing reminds me of what a very insecure man would do if he thought some guy was checking out his girl. Get all shitty and try to pick a fight with him.
Insecurity and easy access to weapons makes for a BAD combination.
February 03, 2006
Birthday Girl!
Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
I'm no longer 33....
But I'm still crazy as can be.:-D
Yes, I've decided to sing my own birthday wishes this year. So, pick your poison and raise your glass (just don't stick me with the tab.:-P ) in celebration of my 34th year....or whatever other reason you can conjure up.
BTW...in case *anyone* would like to buy me a present, our garrage would look MUCH better with a dirt bike in it.:-)
February 02, 2006
Racism OK if it's against Whitey
NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis
Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens."
"The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side," he charged.
Calling President Bush a liar, Bond told the audience at the historically black institution that this White House's lies are more serious than the lies of his predecessor's because Clinton's lies didn't kill people.
Full Story @ WorldNetDaily.com
Nobody (except us) will stand up and call this fool a racist, it's sickening. People do far, far less and get politically, emotionally and socially hung, this guy will walk away with an "attaboy". -Ed