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Can someone please explain to me how these carbon credits do anything to reduce anything.

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our brush with Greatness

SteveH of Hog On Ice fame [is there such a word as infame?] has Hit The Big Time.  His new book, The Good The Spam and The Ugly prompted a FUXNOOZ Video Interview! 

I was caught by his first book, Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man, and I’m still working off those Brownies.  and Biscuits.  and… and…

Bastard.

*clicky*
and buy!

for a taste... Careful—he’ll hurt ya.
and he’ll like it.

In a small but significant trend, Christian employees of corporations and universities are volunteering to work in far-flung countries with strong Muslim majorities. Their goal: To enjoy the comparatively clean moral environment those countries offer.
“We pretty much lost the culture war in America,” says Angelina Hayes, mother of three and recent immigrant to Qatar. Her husband was offered a job here by his company, Honeywell. “There is no culture war in Qatar. It’s morally safe.”
For some evangelical Christians, the recent string of pro-gay court rulings and increasingly permissive pop culture have served as a shot across the bow that has sent them packing to countries whose values more closely match their own.
“You can see where the U.S. is going — toward gay marriage and government-sponsored abortion,” said Bruce Darling of IBM who volunteered to move his family to IBM’s middle east operations base in Kuwait. “I don’t want to be around for that.”

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Gathering in the cul-de-sac one evening as the sun sets red over the nearby desert, the residents say their experience is everything they wanted and more.
“It’s a great family atmosphere,” says one man.
“Except for the sandstorms,” says another man. The others laugh.
“Taxes are low here, so that’s a plus,” offers one mother whose children ride bikes up and down the street. But the morality question is the main reason these and other Americans relocated to the Middle East.
“We feel a kinship with our Muslim neighbors,” says the mother. “There’s an innocence. Yes, we disagree on spiritual things, but there’s no blatant sexuality on TV, no condoning perverse behavior. This is like America in the 1950s, and that’s the environment we want to raise our children in.”
Some say they’ve occasionally been harassed by ardent Muslims, but as one man put it, “I’d rather be razzed by Muslims once a year than forced to share the mainstream culture with godless sickos.”
“Amen,” says another.

A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised “to get out and meet people,” the local court heard last week.
Thomas Aloysius McCarney with an address in south Galway was charged with cruelty to animals, lewd and obscene behaviour, and with being a danger to himself when he appeared before the court on Friday. He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said that it was the donkey who caused that damage.
Solicitor for the accused Ms Sharon Fitzhenry said that her client had been through a difficult time lately and that his wife had left him and that his life had become increasingly lonely.
“Mr McCarney has been attending counselling at which he was told that he would be advised to get out and meet people and do interesting things. It was this advice that saw him book into the city centre hotel with a donkey,” she said. She added that Mr McCarney also suffered from a fixation with the Shrek movies and could constantly be heard at work talking to himself saying things like “Isn’t that right, Donkey?”
Supt John McBrearty told the court that Mr McCarney who had signed in as “ Mr Shrek” had told hotel staff that the donkey was a family pet and that this was believed by the hotel receptionist who the supt said was “young and hadn’t great English.”
Receptionist Irina Legova said that Mr McCarney had told her that the donkey was a breed of “super rabbit” which he was bringing to a pet fair in the city. The court was told that the donkey went berserk in the middle of the night and ran amok in the hotel corridor, forcing hotel staff to call the gardai.
McCarney was found in the room wearing a latex suit and handcuffs, the key to which the donkey is believed to have swallowed. He was removed to Mill St station after which it is said he was the subject of much mirth among the lads next door in The Galway Arms.
He was fined €2,000 for bringing the donkey to the room under the Unlawful Accommodation of Donkeys Act 1837. Other charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

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The end.

...when I said if you could see it you’d laugh too?

Well, here:

I haven’t had television in almost 5 years, go to the movie theater maybe 3 times a year and am very particular about the things I’ll rent on the somewhat rare occasion that I can sit and watch a DVD.

And I can’t believe how saturated I am with Hollywood and celebrities despite all that.

The only explanation is my voracious appetite for politics and world events that Hollywood and celebrities are so deeply imbedded.

....Israeli arsenal to be put to use....

...by the US Marines.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the world community and media spoke out against ACKmadinnerjacket screaming from the mountain tops that he aspires to eliminate the US and Israel as much as they’re hammering Bush for saying he ISN’T going to attack Iran?????

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Scorpius

Muslim cabbies refuse to bend in alcohol dispute

Ha. Or something.

House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn’t cut off money for U.S. troops inIraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.

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The tactic is more likely to embarrass Bush politically than force his hand on the war. He would have to sign repeated waivers for units and report to Congress those units with equipment shortfalls and other problems.

What am I missing here? Congress authorized (Bush “hasn’t to date done anything we’ve asked him to do...”) the war and they also fund it (see threats to defund it).
Are we to expect Congress to have us vote on all of their decisions now too?

My best friend is gone.  Huck passed peacefully on his couch this afternoon after a very brief and unexpected illness.

He was loved by all.  Yeah, that kind of dog.  Sweet, friendly, funny, and loyal.  He was a great dog and will be sorely missed.

At least now Jesus has someone to chase the squirrels in his backyard…

Close the book.

... and to the Republic for which it stands, ONE nation........

On October 10, 1995, the 1/15 Battalion of the 3rd infantry Division of the U.S. Army came to attention at 0900 in Schweinfurt, Germany. All but one of the 550 soldiers were wearing a sky-blue baseball-style cap with a United Nations insignia on the front. One was wearing the olive-drab flat cap that is authorized to be worn with the Battle Dress Uniform. With this simple act of disobeying a direct order, Spc. 4 Michael New set the stage for a legal battle that has profound implications for the future of American soldiers into service of the United Nations without the constitutional permission of Congress. 

Perhaps if the folks defending LT. Watada had offered Michael New their blinding support I might have heard about this sooner.....

MarcM

A university study shows the population of a tiny endangered owl in northern Mexico has declined by an estimated 26 percent over the last seven years, a finding that environmentalists said bolsters their arguments for greater protection for the bird in Arizona.

Just the other day I saw a few pygmy owls loitering outside a Home Depot and pestering people to do some yard work.

Norwegian anti-immigration politicians in Bergen have promised to chase off Muslims with pigs feet and squealing noises if Bergen’s central square is used for prayers.

The leader of the Demokratene, an extreme populist party formed by outcasts of the populist Progress Party, Vidar Kleppe, said Wednesday that he backed the remarks of city council representative Kenneth Rasmussen.

Rasmussen reacted with threats of porcine tactics after Labour Party politician Jerad Abdelmajid said that the city’s Muslims could take their Friday prayers in Torgallmenningen, Bergen’s central square, when they will be without a mosque from March 31. Building of a new mosque is behind schedule.

Abdelmajid’s announcement provoked heated public debate.

“I completely agree with Kenneth Rasmussen that Muslims having their Friday prayers with their butts in the air in the city center is no solution. They can find other places,” Kleppe told news agency NTB.

Kenneth Rasmussen told newspaper Dagbladet’s web site that Bergen residents should hang up pig’s feet and play pig squeals over loudspeakers to scare off Muslims, and claimed these tactics worked when he was a soldier for the United Nations in Somalia and Lebanon in the 1990s.

FreeRepublic

A gym owner in the Netherlands is surprised by the number of offers he is getting after he made the announcement to open the world’s first fitness program for nudists.

Mayor Richard M. Daley was easily elected to a sixth term on Tuesday and now stands poised to eclipse his legendary father has the longest serving mayor ever in Chicago.

At 11:30 p.m., with 93.9 percent of the precincts reporting, Mayor Daley had 71.07 percent of the vote.

It’s real swell Dhimmi Dean, that your experience with Islam has been so positive but mine unfortunately hasn’t even remotely come close.

But what really has me scratching my head is a line in the sand such as this over it.

You can be an Islamophobe, or you can contribute to Dean’s World. You cannot do both.

This is meant for front-page contributors, submitters, or even commenters. It is time for you to make a choice, and to live by that choice. Because I certainly intend to.

Simply put, you must agree with all of the following assertions:

1) Islam does not represent the forces of Satan or the Anti-Christ bent on destruction of the Christian world.

2) There is no 1,400 year old “war with the West/Christianity” being waged by Muslims or anyone else.

3) Islam as a religion is no more inherently incompatible with modernity, minority rights, women’s rights, or democratic pluralism than most religions.

4) Medieval, anachronistic, obscure terms like “dhimmitude” or “taqiyya” are suitable for polite intellectual discussion. They are not and never will be appropriate to slap in the face of everyday Muslims or their friends.

5) Muslims have no more need to prove that they can be good Americans, loyal citizens, decent people, or enemies of terrorism than anyone else does.

Is this a test of ”ideological purity?”

Why yes. Yes it is.

If you cannot accept, wholeheartedly, all of the above 5 assertions--without exception or weasel-wording--then if you are a front page Dean’s World contributor you should turn in your keys and say goodbye. You can do it gracefully or ingracefully. You can do it by email or by posting whatever you want on the front page before you go. Your choice. But you need to do it: you need to leave.

Furthermore, I will accept no more debate upon this matter by commenters bent upon snarky, snotty, Islamophobic irrationality. You should either stop using your comment account, or you should be prepared to simply be thrown out without further ado.

W.H.O.A.H.

And fwiw I stopped commenting over there a looooong time ago when it became an ordeal.

How could someone rub their naked arse all over a fountain in a monument that was built to recognize the spirit, sacrifice, and commitment of the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces of the United States.?

Gee, it’s done all the time by the left.

FreeRepublic

menopausal women are HAWT!

A group calling itself the Olympia Port Militarization Resistance has launched a campaign of public information and lobbying of elected leaders that it hopes will prevent another confrontation by dissuading the Army from using the port when another Fort Lewis brigade prepares to deploy to Iraq.

“They could make a different choice if they wanted,” said Drew Hendricks, a member of the organization. “Basically, we’re giving them the chance to make that choice.”

Failing that, the group intends to form blockades to prevent the military cargo from reaching the port, and to enter port property for “non-violent civil disobedience to prevent military equipment that has reached the Port of Olympia from being loaded,” according to a campaign plan approved this month.

thank Linda SoG

USA!USA!USA!

Olympia native Bruce Crandall received the nation’s highest award for valor Monday more than four decades after he braved relentless enemy fire and repeatedly flew his helicopter into a hot landing zone in Vietnam to resupply and rescue the wounded of a surrounded U.S. infantry battalion.

In the East Room of the White House, President Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Crandall. As the president placed the medal around his neck, Crandall, 74, broke into a smile and kissed Arlene, his wife of 50 years.

In men like Bruce Crandall, we really see the best of America, Bush said. He and his fellow soldiers were brave, brave folks. They were as noble and selfless as any who have worn our nation’s uniform.

Crandall was born in Olympia and graduated from Olympia High School in 1951. Olympia High School named its baseball field after him.

~SNIP~
Before 1996, the Medal of Honor could be awarded only in the two years after a soldier demonstrated bravery beyond the call of duty. Congress dropped the time limit, and Crandall and Freeman were nominated. Crandall withdrew his application because he didn’t think a single battle could provide three Medal of Honor winners, and he wanted Freeman to receive the honor. Bush presented the medal to Freeman in 2001 during a ceremony that Crandall attended.

puff… puff… puff… squeek… squeek… ...

Want fries with that?