gp_archives / 2006 / April

Gun control means using both hands

Posted 28 Apr 2006 in gun control, illegal immigration

Dallas Mayor Laura Miller joined the mayors of more than a dozen U.S. cities for a “summit” on gun violence. Personally, I don’t see why they don’t simply tackle the issue of violence. But then, that ignores the way politicians tend to act. Ignore the real problem, and just make it look like you’re doing something so you can get re-elected. These politicians won’t take a stand on illegal immigrants, but wanna go after supposedly illegal firearms: a convenient target that doesn’t have the same touchy nature as the whole illegal immigration issue. Ok, fine. They did manage to do something right: they all agreed to do their jobs. The resolution signed by the mayors promises to punish criminals...

Iran targets Europe

Posted 28 Apr 2006 in Iran

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Iran has received a first shipment of missiles from North Korea that are capable of reaching Europe, Israel’s military intelligence chief was quoted on Thursday as saying. Known in the West as BM-25s, the Russian-designed missiles have a range of around 1,500 miles, giving them a longer reach than the Iranian-made Shihab-4 missiles which are capable of hitting Israel. The intelligence chief, Major-General Amos Yadlin, was quoted by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper as saying in a lecture on Wednesday that some BM-25s had arrived in Iran. The BM-25 was originally manufactured in the Soviet Union, where it was known as the SSN6, a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, Haaretz reported. After the Russians decommissioned the...

59 Things Men Should Never Do Past 30

Posted 27 Apr 2006 in memes

According to Esquire Magazine, I’m in trouble. Of this list, I’ve found 5 of which I run afoul. But I won’t tell you which 5, that would take the fun out of it. Guess away.(h/t: Rightwingsparkle) 1. Coin his own nickname.2. Use a wallet that is fastened with Velcro.3. Rank his friends in order of best, second best, and so on.4. Hacky sack.5. Name his penis his name plus junior.6. Hang art with tape.7. Hang The Scream, unless he stole it from the Munch museum in Oslo.8. Ask a policeman, “You ever shoot anybody with that thing?”9. Ask a woman, “Hey, you got a license for that ass?” 10. Skip. 11. Take a camera to a nude beach.12. Let...

Tony Snow is new Press Secretary!

Posted 26 Apr 2006 in politics

It’s official, va Fox News (of course): (h/t: Mike’s America, Michelle Malkin) Tony Snow will be named new White House press secretary on Wednesday morning, FOX News has learned. Snow is expected to be at the White House for the announcement. He has been mulling the offer for the last several days. Long before the announcement, oddsmakers were banking on Snow, host of FOX News Talk’s “The Tony Snow Show,” to be tapped for the highly visible White House post. “I expect to see him at the podium in just a few days, in the press room at the White House,” Fred Barnes, editor of The Weekly Standard and a FOX News contributor, said Tuesday. And here I thought...

Still spying?

Posted 25 Apr 2006 in personal

(No, I’m not talking about the Bush/NSA program, nor about my regular readers. This is in reference to a specific member of my family who recently took it upon themselves to root out my blog) Dear family member, Hopefully you’ve already read the “disclaimer” in the link on my navbar over there to the right. But if not, I’d like to recap it here and update it for this particular situation. Now that you’ve Googled your way onto my blog, I’d appreciate it if you’d move along. This blog is for my personal use. It’s my outlet. Sometimes it’s my journal. Besides, you never know what is true or what may be embellished on here for entertainment purposes. And...

Lego my Bible

Posted 24 Apr 2006 in humor

First, the Danes got all up in Islam’s Kool-Aid with the Mohammed cartoons. Now they’re taking a crack at Christianity. Well, sort of. Check out The Brick Testament. It’s basically the Holy Bible, done in Legos. Pretty extensive and well-done if you ask me. And a bit irreverent, of course. But fairly accurate from what I’ve seen so far – and I’m definitely no Bible scholar. (h/t: Medium At Large) Some parts are pretty explicit. Because, um, the Bible tends to get pretty explicit in some areas, too. Like the Old Testament. Plenty of stories about (and instructions regarding) stuff like rape, incest, homosexuality, bestiality, and when to stone your children to death. Especially in the Law section, which...

So THAT’S what progressive means!

Posted 21 Apr 2006 in 9/11, personal

I blogged about this subject last year. Because I got a 9/11 tattoo on my wrist as my own personal way of saying “never forget what happened to us on September 11, 2001.” Well, apparently there are many on the Left who have “progressed” past 9/11. They seem to actively WANT to forget (or have already). On that note, read some brilliance from The Sundries Shack: (h/t: Ace of Spades HQ) Daily Kos: 9/11 Is, Like, Soooo 2001 He thinks, as Dave might say, “it’s old.” And his readers agree that they, too, are “over” 9/11. Although I kind of think they were “over” it before they started pulling bodies out of the wreckage. You know, the first thought...

Religion of Peace Tolerance update

This one’s real nice. No big surprises, of course, but it’s just so nice and tolerant. (h/t: Blogmeister USA) Muslim students ‘being taught to despise unbelievers as filth’ Muslim students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained that they are being taught fundamentalist doctrines which describe nonMuslims as “filth”. The Times has obtained extracts from medieval texts taught to the students in which unbelievers are likened to pigs and dogs. The texts are taught at the Hawza Ilmiyya of London, a religious school, which has a sister institution, the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS), which offers a degree validated by Middlesex University. …The text that has upset some students is the...

Word of the day

Posted 20 Apr 2006 in humor

Today’s word is “shart.” Yes, it’s fart combined with something you’d rather not have it combined with. Useage: “Oops, I just sharted.” Enjoy!

Religion of Peace update: Hamas shell game

Yesterday, a 21-year-old Muslim lunatic blew himself up in a Tel Aviv restaurant, wounding more than 40 people and murdering 9 more, including a woman who died in front of her husband and children. During Passover. All in the name of Islam. Again. The mother was one of nine people killed by the baby-faced suicide bomber, who carried a dark bag stuffed with 10 pounds of explosives, walked up to a falafel restaurant during the lunch hour crush Monday and triggered the detonator when a security guard checked the bag. Six of the victims died on the spot. One of them was the guard, whose body was ripped in half by the explosion. Three died later in hospitals. The...

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