Shaken not stirred...

The Recipe For Jered

3 parts Shrewdness 2 parts Enchantment 1 part Flirtation Splash of Courage Finish off with an olive

What's the Recipe for Your Personality?

There's good money making lame speeches

True believers gathered to listen to the Goracle at 50,000 pounds a head. The Goracle made 100,000 pounds for giving his lame global warming speech.

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Well, my first reaction after I watched it was that it was too short. If felt like the directors were trying to cram several episodes worth of script onto one two hour showing. The whole thing felt rushed.

That being said, it was excellent. The show flowed well between the flashbacks and the events ahead. It had a good plot with more foreshadowing, but not much resolution, of course. They have to string the fans along.

My biggest gripe is with how they handled the attack on the Pegasus. The person shows up, and then, boom, we've just wiped out humanity. Ok. You suck.

I guess they geared Razor toward fans, not people who were just tuning in.

Check this moron out.

This guy needs to read about someone called Archimedes.

Here's why:

I was told by scientists that the entire Western Antarctica is now floating. That is a fifth of the continent. If it broke up, sea levels may rise as much as six metres,” Mr Ban said after being briefed at the Chilean, Uruguayan and South Korean bases during a day trip to King George Island, at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Yeah. Global warming "scientists" now think that floating ice that melts will increase the level of the ocean.

For some reason I have a little trouble believing that...

AL GORE was on the history channel bemoaning the fact that people aren't doing enough to fight crime. errr...global warming. Because climate change deniers are evil like holocaust deniers.

I was too busy laughing about his movie he got a Nobel prize for to take him seriously.

So, Watada got off.

The court is letting Watada (The blue falcon cowardly scum who wouldn't go fight with his unit) off on what amounts to a technicality.

This is the guy who joined the military, knowing full well that he could receive and order that he didn't like.

He receives an order that he doesn't like. So, he doesn't follow it.

My opinion is that he needs to be smacked down hard. Why?

Well, because he's politicizing the military to an extreme degree. What if every soldier who joins up decides that he or she doesn't want to follow an order to go to something that they call an "illegal" war? Congress has decided that the war is legal, and continues to condone it, so it is not his place to decide whether or not it is a "legal" war, and whether or not he wants to go to Iraq.

The job of the military is to follow the orders of the duly elected civilian leadership regardless of who that leadership is. The military is supposed to be in strict suborbination to the civil power, and by his actions, Watada (he doesn't deserve to be called Lieutenant) is undermining that principle because he is refusing to follow and order for a troop movement to fight in a war that he believes is illegal.

There's a difference between and illegal order and an illegal war. An illegal order would if an officer or an NCO ordered a soldier to commit some manner of conduct that is unethical or illegal, such as torturing inmates in a prison or tossing cyanide pellets into a gas chamber. An order is a directive that is delivered by military leadership (including the president or commander in chief) to military personnel for military personnel to follow. A war is a political decision that is entered into by civilian leadership in the Congress, and has nothing to do with giving military orders, and is a general and unspecific policy of hostility, and not a function of the military, but is a function of the Congress in their function of declaring war under the constitution.

What Watada has done is to politicize the military's following of a policy decision, not a directive that he disagrees with. He has refused to follow a lawful order that was delivered to him because he disagreed with the policy behind the order, not because the order was illegal.

This is a BAD THING because the job of the military is not to determine or to influence policy, but to serve as an instrument of policy of the civilian leadership (Congress and the President) regardless of who is in charge of setting that policy. The civilian leadership should not have to take polls of the military to ensure they approve of the policy(See, Praetorian Guard, Roman, for what happens when politicians aren't sure of the support of the military). By stating that he refuses to carry out a certain policy, he is undermining the civilian government, and by letting him off, the judge is aiding his influence of policy, because it serves to muddy the chain of command(Will the military really follow that order if I give it?)

This is not a good thing.

Phelps, funerals, and fighting words.

Ok. By now, we've all heard about how the Phelps clan losing a lawsuit for protesting at a funeral.

Ok. So, now, they've got a verdict that they're gonna tie up in court, for years and years. Eventually, it will probably work its way up to the Supreme Court, where I'm not gonna bet on anything, but will have turned out to be a colossal waste of everyone's time.

What the Phelps clan needs is a lesson in "How not to be a Wanker." If you protest distastefully at someone's funeral, you are a wanker. Period.

Phelps needs a lesson in how not to be a wanker.

Tying them up in a court case for years, and years, is not a good way to do that.

They need a more immediate and painful lesson. If you act like a wanker at a funeral, you get that lesson.

It's time to bring back the fighting words defense.

Ok. That's not gonna solve anything

One day, there was this little red hen, who decided to go out, and harvest some wheat to make bread. So, she grew the wheat, and then ground the wheat, and then made some bread. None of the other barnyard animals were willing to help make the bread, and expected the little red hen to provide them with food at no cost to them. When the little red hen refused, the pitched a fit, had a revolution, and threw the little red hen off of her land.

When they started to starve because they couldn't grow enough food, they offered the little red hen (who had moved on) her land back, if she would farm it and grow food. The little red hen, who had found a comfortable gig farming in a far more business friendly country, declined.

So, the critters who couldn't feed themselves called the UN and demanded aid to fight their hunger. The UN being the UN, sent in aid, and the animals rejoiced because they had food, but their fields still lie fallow.

One of the rabbits, being an enterprising rabbit, decided to grow so food in the little red hen's fields that lie fallow, before the food that the UN had sent began to run out, so they they could feed themselves.

After a few months, the food began to run out, but no one wanted to buy food from the rabbit that was growing it, because they remembered that when they were suffering from hunger before, the UN had given them food to bail them out. So, they started to get hungry, and the UN sent more food. The rabbit saw this, and glanced at the fields that he had spent months tending, and wondered why he worked and worked to farm his food, when no one would buy it, because the UN would give it away.

The next year, the rabbit didn't even bother to farm his fields. Instead, he waited for the UN to deliver the food shipment that they had come to expect.

I finger printed a spiffy new gun...

I got to fingerprint the Beretta PX-4. For those of you who don't know, it's the preferred sidearm of the Colonial Forces on the re-imagined batterstar galactica. It's a polymer framed double action pistol that is available in either .40 S&W, or 9mm, and hopefully soon, .45 ACP.

It has funky ergonomics and is pretty muzzle heavy, so I imagine with a full magazine that it would balance very well.

Still. It's a sciffy gun.

That makes it worth drooling over.

I also looked at a Bersa Thunder .45. I'm in love.

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You can't fix that kind of stupid...

So the other day at work, this woman was parked in the no-parking zone, right near one of the no parking signs.

I asked her to move, and she asked me for a cell phone she could use. She got all bent out of shape about that, and the fact I needed her to move. (Yeah. There's a no parking sign there. Moron.) Yeah, she was waiting to pick someone up and forgot her cell phone.

Dumb.

Anyway, she went on to park in the employee slot, right next to the employee parking sign. Of course she backed in, when every single other car in the lot was pulled in forward.

And there is a pick up and drop off zone right across the street.

I saw that, and left it alone because I didn't want anything to do with that kind of stupid.