Tuesday, November 30, 2004
This Horrible Economy
Damn if it’s still not growing and growing.
And to think the Donkeys wanted to use these numbers against Bush....you guys really crack me up.
I find it hysterical that you guys thought Iraq was your coup de grâce to put Kerry in the White House, since you pounded the drum of the economy being the worst in the past 75 years. Nice try. Didn’t work assclowns.
Do your worst…
you filthy pretentious savages!
Notice the picture there? Bare feet, not arms. I’d say that’s typical for North America’s European outpost.
And I would’ve hoped for a more vocal outburst from these “protestors”.
“Canada is not against America. We’re totally against Bush,” explained Fredric White, a 40-year-old who works for an entertainment company, who stood by the Parliament building as the president’s motorcade arrived.
“He’s arrogant and ignorant. We totally disdain his policies on the war and his treatment of the U.N.,” White said. “The administration has an imperialist attitude where he thinks he can take over countries by bombing them.”
“We’re totally against Bush”...man. And I do agree with Frederic in regards to Bush’s treatment of the U.N. I thought he would have us out of that third rate-dictator-felching-popsicle stand by now.
A refresher course
From Mach1‘s comment in this thread”:
1. An armed person is a citizen. An unarmed person is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Glock: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it is about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you do not know your rights, you do not have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution 1791. All Rights reserved.
11. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand?
12. The second Amendment is in place, in case they ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns have only two enemies: rust and liberals.
15. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.
16. You do not shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911 - government sponsored Dial-a-prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control--it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the “gun control laws” we have, do not make more.
24. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
26. “...A government of the people, by the people, for the people...”
Pass it on…
Yay! A new quiz!
Thanks to AnalogKid over at RNS
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You my friend are a non-denominational Christian. You strive to be a better person and are generally concerned about how your actions affect other people; however, you do struggle with disobedience as it may make life uncomfortable for you. Your greatest battle will be against lukewarmedness. Dude, fight the good fight.
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Damn, it’s cold!
It was 21 degrees in Palmdale last night. It dropped below freezing here in the Inland Empire, too. Isn’t that supposed to be one of the selling points of Southern California?
(Cue cheesy inspirational music) That it hardly ever rains, snow keeps itself confined neatly to the ski slopes, six-foot-tall blonde women do grow on trees, and we get 300 days of sunshine a year? (That last one is - jokingly - said to have been written into the State Constitution. It isn’t, but anything’s possible here in California.)
But last night was full of shattered records for low temperatures, with sub-freezing temperatures all across the southern half of the state. In November.
So I’ll ask again: Hey, Al! Where’s all that Global WarmingTM you keep nattering on about?
UPDATE: For those of you who live in those areas where they measure snow by the foot, this is not a request for any invitations to come and play in your neighborhood. I was born in upstate New York, and remember the days of going to school when it was too cold to snow, and we had windchill factors of -60 F. I lived just outside Buffalo for a while, too.
I’m all grown up now, and I live in SoCal because it isn’t supposed to get like that here. 
Monday, November 29, 2004
Christmas Shopping
I just started mine, picking up a couple of books, but I never know exactly what to get people, and the traditional stand-by of buying gift certificates (gift cards) or just giving cash seems so… drab.
I have also learned to hate the fact that the sun goes down by 4:30 in the afternoon. “We hates it, my preeeccioussss...”
People in Southern California lose their farookin’ minds whenever weather comes over the landscape (and darkness counts as a weather condition). That nifty prose about “...neither rain, nor sleet, not gloom of night...” is sheerest bullshit when it comes to freeway driving. 90%+ do not know the rules of the road. At least half need to be reminded to use turn signals (and about a third of the rest need to be reminded to turn them off).
I really think that people should be forced to take a test before getting behind the wheel of a car…
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Vanity plates
Do any of you have custom (vanity) license plates? You know, the ones that are cutesy little jokes or pithy sayings, all in the space of 6 or 7 letters…
Like ‘YY4U’ (too wise for you), ‘KSSMASS’ (figure it out), or others.
Gimme your best/worst/funniest.
It’s finally in
I finally got my annual copy of the World Almanac (and Book of Facts) - the 2005 edition. I was kinda hoping that they would have delayed a few weeks so that it would have had official results, but it hit me that there are a few states that haven’t yet certified the results (and there are still a few major election that have yet to be decided - the Governor of Washington and the Mayor of San Diego, for example). There are some other statistics that will be helpful, plus I have my ‘Net sources.
So I’ll be patient, and greedily devour the information it has.
In other news, we returned Cocoa this morning. The wife’s allergic reactions were growing steadily worse, and I’d rather have a wife that can breathe than a dog that I’ve known less than 48 hours.
She’s going to make an appointment with her doctor, maybe try to see an allergist, and see if there are somethings that she can do. Maybe it was the schnauzer hair/dander, and a shorter-haired dog would be okay. *shrug*
It’s up to her now…
I’ll be back later with some interesting stuff from the Almanac. 
Saturday, November 27, 2004
A little behind the curve
But I just discovered this post by Jeff that shows pretty conclusively that Thanksgiving was a religious Holiday from the very beginning.
How about our first President’s own words? From the 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation:
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
I guess we should declare Thanksgiving unconstitutional, huh?
(And don’t even get me started on Christmas!!!)
Multiple Birds, One Stone
In honor of giving the people of Adbusters the big middle finger on their ridiculous “Buy Nothing Day” and sticking it to others as well, I present my day after work.
Met someone at The Cheesecake Factory for a nice dinner, spent over $75, ate a nice “Jumbo Chicken Chop”...From their Menu: Crispy Parmesan Crusted Chicken Breast in the Shape of a “Chop."Served with Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans and a Spicy Tasso Cream Sauce, had a nice Newcastle beer, my date had two glasses of wine, and afterwards we both had two slices of cheesecake: The Dutch Apple Caramel Streusel and the Chocolate Oreo Mudslide cheesecake. Good times.
So in summary, we both a gave a middle finger, a wag of the chin or whatever you’d do to throw back into the faces of the nattering nanny’s of the world…
-MADD
-Adbusters
-PETA
-Atkins
-France (the wine was from California, so what the hell).
What a GREAT DAY!!...Now the task of Christmas shopping begins...woo...hoo.
Friday, November 26, 2004
Hey, everybody!
Remember when I got a kitten a while back? Well, it turns out that my wife is allergic, so we had to get rid of the kitten less than a week later.
However, my wife is NOT allergic to dogs, so I’d like to introduce you all to the newest member of our family.
UPDATE: It turns out that my wife’s lack of allergies to canines is no longer valid. She has broken out in a light rash and sneezes. Maybe it’s the fact that Cocoa is a longer-haired breed than the last dog we had. *shrug*
We are going to have to return her to the rescue shelter. :-(
Update 2: The dog, not my wife.
A list of good causes
Can be found at the Professor’s.
During this time of laughter and merriment and the celebration of families, remember that there are some of our fellow citizens who willingly gave all that up for the chance to be standing in harm’s way for the sake of a nation and its people that will probably end up hating the US for doing nothing more than giving them the right to hate the US. (Some historical examples include France, Germany, South Korea, et al.)
Go and do what your heart commands. And spread the word, won’tcha?
Found via 4RWWs.
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Some Holiday Quizzes
Here are a few quizzes I found thanks to a link over at Right Thinking.
(I got bored watching my wife making deviled eggs and griping that all she has to work with is “Kosher Dill” pickles, rather than just plain dill pickles. Like anyone who isn’t Jewish would be able to tell the difference… *shrug*)
Happy Thanksgiving
We - and by “we”, I mean all four of us here at Drumwaster’s Rants - would like to wish you all the very happiest of Thanksgiving Days.
For those of you who are here at home, please remember to include a prayer for those who are serving overseas, whether they are in the Danger Zone or not.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
File this one…
under “Reasons that the Geneva Conventions don’t apply in Fallujah”.
Look at this map.
There are 100 mosques in Fallujah. 60 of them - that’s three out of five - were used by the “insurgents” to either stage, mount, re-supply, or conduct attacks and the occasional sniper operations. (Why are we treating their “holy” sites with more reverence than they are?)
The insurgents were using three hospitals for resupply and assembly points, in direct defiance of the Geneva Conventions. If our troops returned fire, our own embedded reporters would have reported - entirely truthfully - that we were shooting at wounded civilians, and made our Marines look like barbarians by not explaining the context. (Don’t think that our reporters would try to make our soldiers look bad by telling the literal truth but neglecting the context? Think again.)
And at least two verifiable sources of evidence that proves that “foreign insurgents” (an oxymoron, just like “Holy War") were assisting in the resistance.
And all those wonderful torture/slaughter rooms, complete with blood-stained knives and black hoods (because these twerps are fighting for such a noble cause they have to hide their identities, like all Muslim women).
Wrong war? Name any war that was “right”.
Wrong place? Name any place more in need.
Wrong time? I guess we should have waited for another 12 years.