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April Fool’s Day open thread

March 31st, 2007 at 6:13 pm . by el nuko

The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the ‘Biblical value’ of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.

Top 100 April Fool’s Hoaxes of all time

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 4/2/2007 9:14:39 AM

Well, nobody wins them all.

I just de-molded one of the tiles that I made yesterday with an embedded cardbord cut out laminated heart that was sprinkled with red pigment. It came out surprisingly well, although some of the pigment did splatter around it in a halo effect which looks reminiscent of a crime scene. That’s okay, the laminated heart will go back into the recess in a couple of weeks and the rest of the tile will be acid-stained a nice aqua blue color (SwampMan got me a present this weekend, a couple of gallons of acid stain.)

I wanted to embed the hearts into a planter, but I need a better fixation method. The fixation method needs to be just sturdy enough to hold while the concrete is being molded, yet not so sturdy that it keeps the concrete mixture from de-molding or adds any bulk. I’ll try some double-sided tape.

I’m actually planning to embed pennies around the outside top of a planter. I’ll glue them to a fiberglass mesh backing first so that they’ll be equidistant.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 4/1/2007 9:13:59 PM

Dang!
LSU’s Lady Tigers got whomped tonight. Still proud of them, though.

Comment posted by nuke
at 4/1/2007 3:12:18 PM

Swamps — take one of your new tiles and superglue some spare change on it. You’ll get the last laugh when you watch the freeloaders try to grab the coins. Heh

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 4/1/2007 2:53:43 PM

Swampie got ~~hosed~~ hoaxed!

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 4/1/2007 2:48:25 PM

I’ve received so many orders for planters and (concrete) tiles for me to do in my “spare time” which is very, very spare indeed that I am completely flummoxed. As they are all from friends and relatives that have seen the ones that I am making for myself, it isn’t even a paying proposition, but they will be paying for the materials at least and give me the chance to indulge a (new) hobby. (Although I have no doubt that I will be wincing at the evidence of the crudeness of my first efforts shortly.)

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“Death to UK”

March 30th, 2007 at 2:56 pm . by el nuko

Our friend, Kamangir, reports that the rhetoric from the mullahs has been raised to a fever pitch……

I am not a fan of football but I know that much that when the two top teams, Esteghlal and Perspolis, play together, it is the big event. This time, the Islamic Republic tried to borrow some of that passion for its political agenda. So, as ISNA reports,

The spectators shouted “Death to UK” before the match. A black banner was attached to the entrance of the stadium showing the text “Death to UK”.

In another news, the Friday Prayers’ Imam of Tabriz, the capital city of East Azerbaijan Province, asked for the British sailors to be tried.

Comment posted by Robert D
at 4/3/2007 12:17:25 AM

And where did the protesters in Tehran find so many rocks to hurl?

I have always wondered just where the cavemen keep coming up with the rocks to chuck. Seems like the should have run out about 20 years ago. But being cavemen, rocks be their business.

Comment posted by Robert D
at 4/3/2007 12:02:20 AM

Sadly, Rosie is becoming the mouthpiece for the braindead leftards that can’t come up with an original thought for themselves. But on the brighter side, Rosie is becoming the mouthpiece….It can only go down hill from there.

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 4/2/2007 11:41:24 PM

Oh, God, not Rosie. When I heard what she spouted off the last time, I was just awed by her breadth of lack of knowledge.

Comment posted by Robert D
at 4/2/2007 11:34:54 PM

Has anybody noticed how the dimbulbs like ayatollah have to keep with the talking points of other dimbulbs, such as Spicoli himself? Next he’ll be quoting Rosie. What a bunch of losers.

Comment posted by nuke
at 4/2/2007 11:19:48 PM

Hey, it’s Spicoli! Grab some tasty waves, dude.

Comment posted by ayatollah
at 4/2/2007 11:08:51 PM

http://podcast.medianext.com/stations/kcbs/media/mpeg/Sean_Penn_s_Letter_to_President_Bush-1174766920.mp3

Comment posted by nuke
at 4/2/2007 9:04:02 AM

Steyn’s take…good read
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/321825,CST-EDT-steyn01.article

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 4/2/2007 4:26:53 AM

The Mad Mullahs need cash.
And where did the protesters in Tehran find so many rocks to hurl?

Comment posted by ayatollah
at 4/2/2007 12:02:56 AM

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&threadID=5882&start=15&tstart=0&edition=2&ttl=20070402050854&#paginator

I am so sorry for my brit friends. I never imagined they could be so soft and emotional

Come on, this is simply a psychologic war. stop crying, show some manliness!

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 4/1/2007 9:16:17 AM

#31-
Thanks for that link, I always liked Jones’ work, but have now put him on my shi’ite list. Didn’t know he was a total moonbat wearing an ass-hat, til now.
As for the EU’s response, it’s another one of those knock me over with a feather moments. Another sign that the fifty year old EU doesn’t work.
I did notice yesterday, that the Italian government(surprise-surprise), froze the assets of the Sebah bank, which is used by the IRI’s military.

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The Big Lie

March 30th, 2007 at 2:16 pm . by el nuko

The remembrances of the Cambodian killing fields are, to many people, reduced to photos of neatly stacked bones and skulls for the records of posterity. For the survivors, it is much more. But, being yellow-skinned, and half-way around the world, it is too simple for the demagogues of the Party of Defeat to dismiss them outright, or even blame the deaths on the government of the US, as I noted several weeks ago:

What do you think about what happened to the three million Vietnamese and Cambodians who died after the U.S. troops left Vietnam?

Jane Fonda: It’s too bad that we caused it to happen by going in there in the first place.

source

Nor was this the first time the leftist elite managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Algeria in the late ’50s was embroiled in an insurgency (FLN) that was being soundly defeated by the French and loyalist Algerian military.

Led by Jean-Paul Sartre, a campaign of denunciation got under way in which French forces were accused of being the equivalent of Nazis–an especially freighted charge coming only a decade and a half after World War II and the German occupation of France. Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre’s companion, went so far as to say that the sight of a French army uniform had “the same effect on me that swastikas once did.” Although many of the antiwar agitators were communists or leftist fellow travelers, their petitions and demonstrations included enough authentic heroes of the Resistance and eminent liberals like Francois Mauriac to bestow upon the movement a credible public image. The constant message it conveyed was that the true authors of violence in Algeria were not the FLN at all but the French, and that only when the latter departed would Algerians be able to sort out their destiny for themselves.

The French military and political leadership was completely blindsided by the attack. No amount of justification of the selective use of torture, not even the cancellation of the original authorization, could halt the criticism or stem the loss of public support for the war. Even as the FLN took to setting off bombs in France itself, leftist Catholic priests continued to raise funds for it, while those like Albert Camus who harbored doubts about the wisdom of handing victory to the terrorists were derided and silenced. The consensus that had informed French politics as late as 1956–namely, that abandoning Algeria was “unthinkable and unmentionable”–fell apart.

Divisions over Algeria doomed France’s Fourth Republic. For its successor, the price of political survival was handing over Algeria to a totalitarian band that had lost the war on the battlefield but managed to win a stunning victory in France itself. The result was the massive flight of Algerian whites and, at home, a bloodbath as FLN terrorists put to death tens of thousands of Muslim Algerians who had been loyal to the French regime. Soldiers who had fought alongside the French were forced to swallow their medals before they were shot. source

As the democrats plot to not only betray the American military in Iraq, but also the hundreds of thousands of loyal Iraqis who have labored and fought along side the coalition, these all-too familiar consequences seem lost. And, just when you think they can’t get any lower, they hit bottom and keep digging.

Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, Zibigniew Brezinski, is rewriting the history of the fall of Viet Nam in his most recent attempt to prop up the Iranian dictatorship. Speaking at Duke University this week, Brezinski unveiled the THE BIG LIE:

Brzezinski said there’s no reason to think a bloodbath would necessarily follow a U.S. withdrawal (from Iraq).

“We expected that the U.S. leaving Vietnam would result in massive killings and genocide and so forth, and collapse of the dominoes in Southeast Asia,” he said. “It didn’t happen. How certain are we of the horror scenarios that have been mentioned in what will take place in Iraq?” source

I’ve thought for some time that the fellow travelers at moveon.org, and the marxists within the clintonistas, have made complete chumps out of the democrat party. Mainstream democrats are no more. They’ve been replaced by the opportunists and useful idiots who aid and abet the enemy, with the full knowledge and support of the MSM. At least the useful idiots like Fonda, have the emotional honesty to blame America. The complete and utter dishonesty of asshats like Brezinski threatens to balkanize the Republic.

Comment posted by jlfintx
at 4/3/2007 3:15:40 AM

Hi Swampie. Are me and you okay?

Comment posted by jlfintx
at 4/3/2007 3:15:14 AM

Want to apologize to N2L for being a idiot in the past and for what it’s worth to RD as well, although I wouldn’t think Robert D has any grievances against me. N2L please write me so I can send you something I want you to read.

jlf

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 3/31/2007 10:20:42 PM

Hmmmm, room seems to be empty tonight.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/31/2007 12:30:16 PM

A Saturday afternoon linkage dump, for your edification and amusement.
Under the Gun, Liberals give Ground on Second Amendment.
News Blackout on Dianne Feinstein Scandal.
Fatty Hicks betrays supporters.
(This one is too effing funny!)
Ranking of most dangerous-to least dangerous states.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/31/2007 12:26:18 PM

Hey armybrat!
Sorry I missed you last night.
Yeah, two straight nights of big ol’booming thunderstorms, fo’sho.
I don’t mind, very much, cause they sure are pretty, and we needed the rain badly.
The Orvis in Dallas or Arlington? Hadn’t heard of their sale.

Comment posted by armybrat
at 3/30/2007 11:48:24 PM

Zibignew- yet another notch on jimmah’s record as the worst president ever. they can try to re-write history all they want- my daddy and countless other vets from that era know what happened…….and they taught the children well.

and hey N2L- I stayed dry but enjoyed the lightening and blowing rain show from the apt. Gonna go to the Orvis warehouse sale tomorrow. Life is good!

Comment posted by nuke
at 3/30/2007 11:46:31 PM

nite y’all

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/30/2007 11:42:40 PM

Okay, then Swamps.
I’m a little wore out myownself.
Got home close to 2a.m. last night, and a busy day today, followed with a blinding deluge when I was coming home. My big ol’golf umbrella kept me dry, from the knees up.
See ya’.

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 3/30/2007 11:38:10 PM

Reading the book would be interesting. As for now, though, I have a full day ahead with a lil’ boy that has been anticipating pancakes all week, so I better go get rested up.

G’night!

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/30/2007 11:32:07 PM

What would be interesting?

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To our Americans serving in Iraq

March 30th, 2007 at 10:39 am . by el nuko

Kudos to Black and Right

(thanks, Bob. You said it, amigo.)

h/t Yankeedame

Bryan asks, “Where do we find such men?” a must see video at HotAir

Comment posted by Rick Ward
at 4/4/2007 10:58:07 PM

Never heard of you before, but received a link to your comments about winning the war. I don’t think anybody could have done a better job. It should be aired on all major networks several times a day. I am a retired Naval Officer and have e-mailed the link to all my friends. They feel the same way I do and the same way you do. I am very pleased to have been allowed to register on your site and to continue to follow your work. Keep it up! Rick

Comment posted by Mr. Greenjeans
at 4/1/2007 2:32:37 PM

What you say makes me proud to be an American. Thank YOU with all my soul Bob. You are truly a hero in my mind and my prayers go out to all the brave soldiers throughout the world. I wish that everyone could hear your voice. I believe that you speak the truth and what America is truly about.

Comment posted by nuke
at 3/30/2007 9:46:36 PM

Yeah, it’s a great video. Saw it over at FreeRepublic

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/30/2007 9:31:23 PM

Great find nuke, however you found it.
The presenter makes me proud to be a conservative.

Comment posted by nuke
at 3/30/2007 8:18:29 PM

Give her a big hug for me BGG.

Comment posted by bugsngasgal
at 3/30/2007 6:42:56 PM

Great stuff, thanks for posting. Never heard of this guy but he laid out pretty much all the arguments that have been rolling around in my head.

An aside, my youngest (18) has decided she will become a Marine this year. While I have a rather close relationship with the USMC myself, I am not looking forward to the prospects of this. Someone at work advised me to take her up to Walter Reed to meet some 21-22 yr old girls who have lost their limbs. I’m not saying I wouldn’t be proud of her, but I entered the military during peacetime knowing war was possible and I’d deal with whatever came. It’s a different thing to enter during wartime knowing war is an absolute certainty. I don’t want to be the mom waiting at home for letters and phone calls. And not THAT phone call. But it’s not up to me.

Just venting a little. Thanks for the video.

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Resignation Friday: Should Alberto go?

March 30th, 2007 at 7:20 am . by el nuko

If you listen to the hue and cry of the Party of Defeat, and their allies in Big News, it’s only a matter of hours before Alberto Gonzales becomes the latest political casualty in the war against the culture of corruption in the Bush Administration. Fortunately for me, I haven’t listened to them since 1988, which coincidentally was the first time I voted Republican.

Should Gonzales resign?

Sandy Berger is not in prison, illegal immigrants continue to flood across the southern border, and Johnny Sutton was not among the eight US Attorneys who Gonzales fired. Gonzales serves at the pleasure of the President, so if the aforementioned problems aren’t enough to get him fired, then obviously they aren’t important problems to the President. I guess I’ll just have to chalk them up to areas with which I have a disagreement with the Administration.

But, there is no way in God’s green earth that Gonzales should resign over the US Attorneys kerfluffle. The following rogues gallery of corrupt democrats should resign before anybody else on the republican side. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for Big News to demand accountability and honesty from the democrats. And, since they won’t, and because political attention spans are notoriously short, it is my pleasure to bring you this quick look at the top ten current crop of corrupt democrats who should absolutely resign.

By the way, I’ve included a news link with each photo. Just click on the photo to take you to the background story. Enjoy, and have a great weekend, y’all.

UPDATE:

How could I forget about Abscam Jack? Sheesh.

Comment posted by Angel
at 3/30/2007 4:43:40 PM

I agree wif ya all the way bro….The following rogues gallery of corrupt democrats should resign before anybody else on the republican side. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for Big News to demand accountability and honesty from the democrats…amen!…kettle callin what black?..lol..ty for the linky love!

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 3/30/2007 4:26:55 PM

I dunno, he might resign if he gets tired enough of the bullsh**. (I have a very low tolerance for it myself.)

Comment posted by Kathy
at 3/30/2007 2:17:13 PM

I think it’s hare hare! HarHar! I’m down South don’t ya know.

Thanks for the link, nuke!

Gonzales won’t be fired and he won’t resign. But his name will permanently be on the spinning dial that rotates which person in the Bush administration that the dems and their executive arm, the press, attack with misinformation and accusations. The Libby trial is over, Rummy has resigned, so they need fresh meat.

Something tells me the firing of 8 republican prosecutors will not resonate with the voters.

It used to be Rove/Rummy/Cheney and now it will be Rove/Gonzales/Cheney. I hear that next week it will be Cheney’s turn again.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/30/2007 2:11:50 PM

It is neither, it is here and there…ya’hear?
/henh

Comment posted by nuke
at 3/30/2007 1:53:35 PM

Hear, hear. Or is it here, here?

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 3/30/2007 1:38:13 PM

Absolutely not!
The leftards have been trying to chip away at Bush and his administration since 2000. Rumsfeld resigned, Libby got ~~prosecuted~~ persecuted, because they thought he would give up someone higher up on the Totem pole. That’s all the leftards want, is to continue to attack the integrity of the Bush administration in anyway they can.
What is disappointing is the lack of cohesion and the willingness to fight back, the GOP has shown. Hagel should be cut-off from any party support, verbal, moral, or financial.
As for the leftards, they didn’t criticize Janet ~~Reno~~ Doubtfire for torching nearly one hundred people at Mt. Carmel, they didn’t criticize her for forcibly removing Elian Gonzales from his relatives home in Florida and handing him over to Castro’s corrupt government; they didn’t criticize Doubtfire for undermining the investigation of an Independent Prosecutor, Ken Starr, and we could go on and on about the abuses of power and illegal acts carried out by the leftards in the Dhimmicrat party, such as William “Ice Cube” Jefferson from La., and of course Sen. DiFi’s corruption and subsequent resignation from the Chair of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, for the conflict of interest with her husbands two defense contractor companies.
No, this is a make believe scandal, as the U.S. Attorneys can be hired and fired for any reason, including bad taste in ties. Not only should Gonzales not resign, but everyone in the GOP needs to close ranks and fight back against the leftards attempts to control the make-up and members of the Bush administration.
A line needs to be drawn, and if the leftards are unapolegetic for the illegal and unethical conduct of their party members, there is no reason to give them anything they want…GIVE THE LEFTARDS NOTHING, save the back of our hands.

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