Just like old times...

So in the Philippines the current president has quashed a coup and declared a state of emergency. Just seems like old times when you had old presidents, marching the streets trying to get their old jobs back. When commanders were holding their troops on camps so they couldn't protest against the current government. Back in the day when you could tell the legislature to stay home today, and oh, perhaps start checking monster.com for new employment opportunities. Ah, it's kind of a breath of fresh air in a stale day.


Current President

Old President

Maybe they should just decide leadership of the Philippines in a knock-down, drag-out, nail-gouging, and hair pulling cat fight.

Ickybod Krane

Making a Stand on......

....What?

That's what I want to know. Exactly why is President Bush deciding to take a stand and even threatening to use the v-word "VETO" on the issue of allowing a nationalized Arabic company to control significant east coast ports? He doesn't take a stand on out of control government spending. He doesn't take a stand on increased federal influence in education. He doesn't take a stand on illegal aliens streaming across our borders. But he decides, according to current media accounts, that he is willing to use his first veto as president to make sure that this deal goes through. Is he standing on principle? If so please tell me which principle. Free Trade? Bah! What, freely trading our security over to foreign countries? That principle?

"Well your just an Islamophobe. You don't care that a British company is currently in control of those ports."

As if all foreign countries are equal. You're damn right I don't care if the Brits control the ports. If there is one country in the whole world I do trust it's Great Britain. Those ties are blood thick. Remember, it wasn't 4 Englishmen, 2 Scots and an Irishman who took out the World Trade Center Towers. A Welshman is not hiding in the hills of Wales threatening the entirety of Western Civilization with his fascist agenda of violence. All of those people were and are Arabic Islamic Fundamentalists. They are a threat to unalienable rights of freedom and liberty and to hand over control of some of our ports to a nation that, at any point, could be sympathic to their cause is suicidal.

And any President who thinks that it's a good idea has, at the very least, has lost his focus. And at worst.... is not worth mentioning.

Ickybod Krane

Marines not good enough for UW!

Students have rejected a monument for one of the greatest Marine pilots ever, stating he didn’t measure up to their high standard. Others say no monument for another "Rich White Guy". I don’t know what in the coffee out on the Left coast, but this is beyond reason.

'Pappy' was a regular guy and a HERO of the first order.

U of W votes NO! to Black Sheep

Maybe UW isn’t good enough for American students and we should seriously look at revoking all of their acredidation!

American Party

A party without color. A party based on ideals. A party based on a written document. A written document which a country was founded upon. A party who holds no allegiance to people, countries or organizations outside our borders. A party who cares about Americans. A party that doesn't care where you are from, or where you came from. A party that doesn't care who your parents were or where they came from. A party that cares about who you are and what you are. An American. Because within our borders we have differences. Differences of geography. Differences of economy. Differences of opinion. Differences of race. Differences of religion. Differences of values.

But THEY don't care about our differences.

Outside of our borders were are but one people. American people. THEY would burn a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant manager from North Carolina and smile with glee. THEY would burn an unemployed black single mother of two from California and smile with glee. THEY would burn a Native tribal leader from a South Dakota reservation and smile with glee. They would burn a Hispanic Catholic priest from Texas and smile with glee. THEY would burn a Jewish teacher from New York and smile with glee.

Only we see the differences.

THEY see one people and those people are one enemy. American people. The American enemy. It is time we see ourselves as THEY see us. As one people. American people. It is time to protect who we are from THEM. It is time to embrace our heritage.

Our American Heritage.

We can be one people. If we want it.

An (old) New Name in News

An (old) New Name in News


So, if I'm watching TV at 6 p.m on a weeknight it will typically be either "Special Report with Brit Hume" on the Fox News Channel or "30-Minutes Meals with Rachel Ray" on the Food Network. Last week I came to learn I was missing a hard hitting American news program due to my habitual bouncing between channel 64 and channel 68.

"Where did you find this program? "

"CNN."

"CNN?"

Yes hidden amongst the Internationalist politically correct programming of the channel I so fondly liked to call the "Clinton/Communist News Network" is a program discussing real issues facing our country. And they are not being discussed in a "fair and balanced" way either. Illegal immigration, the control of our nations ports, and the suspicious and down right threatening behavior of Iran and China are the stories that Lou Dobbs, on his program "Lou Dobbs Tonight," will not let go. He is hard hitting and telling the truth about how these issues are endangering the country he loves and just as importantly about how our "government" is failing to address them.

The thing I love about his program is that he is not pulling punches and this throwing those punches where they need to hit: at all parts of our government. You get no extra sympathy from him based on the "letter behind your name." On his show the Bush Administration gets no love from Lou for it's cozy relationship with Vicente Fox and the Mexican Government. And he points out the Congress as well for it's priorities. Which in my estimation include: 1) petty party bickering, 2) calling members of the other party names, and 3) finger pointing.

This is the commentary our country needs. Lou Dobbs' concern is for our country and protecting it. He is not about pushing a party's agenda behind the a thin "non-partisan" veil such as people like Jon Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Mahr, and Sean Hannity. You don't have to look hard or far to find their allegiances. So, if you are in front of your TV at 6 p.m on a weeknight give the show a watch, you might find it different from the other news fair. I did and now I skip channels, 66 and 68 to keep the dial on 8.

The returning, Ickybod Kraine

Press shoots itself in the foot:

Its not the cartoon thats so funny, but rather how funny the Press looked on Wednesday morning after so many looked to the New York Post's Tuesday cover for their print leads. The New York Post is known for this kind of slap stick journalism, but the Times, Post, and others lashed out at the White House over this non-story.

I can hear the circulation dwindle.

James City County: Drug Tests for all School Students

Daily Press Editors Opinion on Drug Testing:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-71091sy0feb16,0,1350851.story?coll=dp-opinion-editorials

The above article flies in the face of the Public School problems actually being felt across America and presumes rights that children do not have. With proper discipline the drug tests are probably not needed but the quality of discipline in our public schools has dropped to lowest of our time, and tests are necessary to get things back in hand. The Daily Press lives in a fantasyland where those involved in drugs are casual users who are non-violent and not involved in organized or gang driven crime.

The idea that alcohol is the chief problem is literally a smoke screen. Crystal-Meth usage and distribution in public schools has become an epidemic and the liberal-media wants an ostrich approach. This is just another group of hack journalists trying to prevent public schools from being able to discipline its criminally delinquent students. If you have checked out on drugs, why should the public be obligated to keep you in a class where you will disturb everyone trying to learn?

Oh and don't get me started about people's reputations. If students, their parents, and their extended families had a good fear of ruined reputations they might not start using the drugs in the first place. The idea that this Paper is trying to forward is that the rest of us don't have the right to criticize, impune, or restrict a habitual drug user in any way. Did I mention that using illegal drugs is a crime!

If the Commonwealth concurs with the Daily Mess, then its in the best interest of James City County to tell them to go-fly-a-kite. The state and federal government's educational quality is too low, and its focused on various liberal social experiments. Time to quit letting them use our kids as guinea pigs. The county's public schools could be 100% locally funded and change their status to Private. The people of the county could then demand and get exactly what they want in the way of an education system and keep the constant state, federal, and NEA meddling out of the whole process. Demanding that control of the school belong to the administrators of it and not the local press is a good start.

Feminists fail women when it counts; or follow up to Brom Bones

The Feminists are irrelevant and have been for some time. I don't take them seriously (either for Mike Adams fans), and neither should you. The following shows the how and the why.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9370

How does the Media go on ignoring this one? Maybe they should be ignoring the Feminists instead, and helping the endangered and enslaved in this country.

People Are Electricity

I really don't know what the world is coming to these days. It seems as if people are losing faith in their fellow man. So much so, that it is all about looking out for number #1. While we should keep our selves, we should also not do it at the cost of others. It seems people are becoming like electricity and looking for the path of least resistance.

Guess what?! The world is not a simple place to live in. We all have to contribute and make our own way, without stepping on each other. But by the looks of it, stepping on others has become the accepted norm.

It is really a shame.

Everyone is up in arms over the Hot Coffiee code in GTA:SA and L.A. is looking to jump that train. Complete crap! They see it as a simply way to gain public favor and possiblty a little profit as well. Complete crap!

Read this link.

Words to live by...

I think this quote says a lot!

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

- Bill Cosby

Virginia gets the right man...

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/48157

Here’s a story being buried by the main stream media across America; DNA tests have proven the guilt of a criminal executed in the state of Virginia in 1992. Governor Mark Warner, ordered the tests, to set the record straight, although he and others were likely seeking very different results.

Democrats, Socialists, and anti-death penalty crews had geared up to blast Virginia for putting innocents to death, and make a new challenge that all death row inmates in America are guilty of nothing more than being victim of an unfair and bigoted system. Once proven convincingly, the challenge would have gone on state to state of every conviction conceivable in a full on effort to remove capital punishment from the United States. This might have been a key plank in a Warner presidential run, “the death penalty is unfair, and we cannot live with one single innocent person being wrongly put to death,” or some such nonsense. As the first Governor to check DNA posthumously, this would play big with the Democratic base. I can hear those tens and twenties rolling in. Those in California were positively salivating.

Hold that thought. Virginia’s Criminal Justice system was right, this guy was a devil, and he was so evil he denied his crimes and continued to mislead a nation with total crap published in Time magazine right up till his death. The system has been vindicated and the death penalty proven to be the right way to go. So, of course this was all over the evening news last night, and the Virginia Attorney General was interview on NBCs Today this morning, right? Er no. The silence on this Topic has been deafening. The media is most biased in what it chooses to ignore. Most people don’t even know what they’ve missed.

GM comes to Jesus...

The 5 step plan may work, but will the unions buy in or take this oppertunity to put the screws to GM management. Expect this to get bloody and sooner not later.

Upfront casualties are SAAB and HUMMER, both are targeted for sell off. Makes will also have to be reduced. Look for Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick as Brands that could possibly be elimnated before the end of the year.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060111/BUSINESS03/601110463/1014/BUSINESS01

Don't Flame Me k3wl dOodZ

First read this article.

Now, I just want to say that no one had better send me spam e-mail or flame me without giving me their full and complete name. Otherwise, I will be forced to talk with my lawyers and bring the pain! Jack Ass. I mean that in the most unannoying way possible. :)

New JEEP Wrangler to be unveilled...

Ford on the Ropes!
New Chrysler Imperial!

Dont ya just love Car Show Season!
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060109/BUSINESS01/601090398/1014

and of course...

Patents vs. Making a Quality Product

Being in the software development industry professionally, I find the current state of patents in the U.S. simply awful. In software development it seems that everyone is out to make a quick buck by strong arming other businesses with laws that were not designed to be a commodity. While this is America and we are all about the mighty dollar, I think that this is simply an out of date system that needs to be revamped based on today's material and intellectual state.

Creating a company that simply takes patents out on everything under the sun, only to stick it to companies that actually try to product progressive and innovative technology, is criminal. I understand the need for patents for some things but there is a line.

Companies would argue that the only way to stay competitive is to prevent their competitors from being able to build the same products as them. To the consumer this causes us to not look at the quality of products but rather the features of products. This was not the intent of patents. I would suggest that companies start making quality products rather than elbowing out specific features from competitors.

There is an article at businesses Online that covers this issue that is a good read. Their quote of TJ puts the whole article in perspective.

A man "has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject?" -- Thomas Jefferson

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02/b3966086.htm

Watch Out Mustang, Part II

Dodge Challenger Concept. As the gear up for the winter car shows starts more and more info on the Challenger slips out. The latest, price! Rumors are flying the get in price will be 28 large.

If so, this car is no Mustang slayer, unfortunately its too high at that price. Entry must be 20-22, or buy the Ford. An 05' entry V6 convertable Mustang is right around 25 sticker. Sorry MoPar, the Charger is too much now, and it looks like a crate, I'm really looking forward to a reasonably priced and well styled Pony car. Lets hope the Rumors are false.

But will it sell anyway? I think it could be a major hit, even with a tougher entry price. The styling for the Challenger is dead on, and every MoPar fan in my generation already wants one. When I was at the POMOC dealers recently the sales guy told me he already had customers trying to place orders. “If the Ride is Fly you must buy”, I have to agree with Snoop on this one. And folks in his econmic bracket like buisness owners, the independantly wealthy, and even lower level celebs will be able to get in one. The reputation is that Chrysler is a better car than a Ford and can command the bucks.

Those 300's are selling at an increadible rate even at their price! Sales for cars on the platform that the Challener is to have for the first 11 months of 2005 are:

131,866 300s

49,586 Magnums

37,667 Chargers

50 thou of that hideous Magnum is pretty increadible!

Blogs Say:

Leftlane News - http://www.leftlanenews.com

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2005/12/21/new-images-of-the-2006-dodge-challenger-concept/#more-1037

Forbes- http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/20/dodge-challenger-musclecar-cx_dl_1221vow_ls.html?partner=alerts

More Disney History, cira 1972

It appears that Spielberg has joined the Hollywood mainstream, and is now using his film to try to portray some future utopian ideal of Humanity while trashing the Historic events as they actually occurred. This ongoing Disneyfying of History doesn't have a measured effect, yet, but likely will have. In Past generations it was the printed word that over time became fact, by mere virtue of having been published, today that medium is film. And once pressed into DVD format will likely be with us forever, and overtime, that former drama will become reality. I am concerned about this, because more and more, there are inaccurate or flat out wrong interpretations of actual events being pawned off as fact and reality in major films. A filmmaker like Spielberg owes it to History to make an effort to be as accurate as possible when representing real events. Otherwise, he should stick to fantasy and make a movie about that ideal society he would like to see.

Here's what the Spectator has to say: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9178

ET TU, Redskins?

Yes, Even the Redskins Fight song has been cleaned up to be more Politically Correct. Cleaned up to wash away Southern ties and heritage to be more palatable to the metropolitan denizens. Read about it here: http://espn.go.com/page2/wash/s/closer/020315.html

The original words were:

Hail to the Redskins!
Hail Victory!
Braves on the Warpath!
Fight for old Dixie!
Run or pass and score -- we want a lot more!
Scalp 'em, swamp 'em -- We will take 'em big score
Read 'em, weep 'em, touchdown - we want heap more
Fight on, Fight on -- 'Till you have won
Sons of Wash-ing-ton. Rah!, Rah!, Rah!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Go Redskins! Beat The Giants!

Whoo Hooooooo!

Misleading America? and to what end?

Representative John Murtha's poor assessment of our Army as made on the House floor is debunked here:

In Search of Murtha's Army
by Jed Babbin
http://americanprowler.com/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9137

The idea has gotten lots of TV time in the last two weeks. Murtha and his group seem to have employed negative reinforcement to get the American public to abandon their resolve to stay in Iraq, and further confuse the American military presence there.

If anyone has evidence of an inadequately prepared force with "boots-on-the-ground" in Iraq right now, then they must bring case and point forward to the Army for correction. Broad accusations aired out on the House floor and on TV, only damages our Country's credibility in Iraq and abroad. Elected officials who seek to undermine the credibility of the U.S. military do so at their own peril as well.

NASCAR; No Commercials

As NASCAR returns to ESPN for coverage next season, it’s a good time to revisit advertising and discuss improvements. I recommend that all coverage be commercial free from Pole to Checker like in F1 racing and European Soccer. F1 and Soccer Hooligans won’t have interruption in their sport. And good on them! Racing under Green flag, doesn’t lend itself to all the commercials that get rammed into the coverage, it really diminishes the viewing of a Race. Television shouldn’t treat all sports like Football with all of its glorious built-in breaks. Place your Ads for Budweiser and Doritos into the turf like F1, and let’s view the NASCAR Racing uninterrupted!