The Barbarians Among Us

Dr. Jerry Pournelle puts my opinion out there far better than I can. See it all HERE (You'll have to scroll down a bit)

I expect black and white citizens to act civilized, and finding excuses for barbarism does not seem like a worthwhile activity.

Tasers and Student and Stoopit, Oh My!

OK, here's the local news coverage on Andrew Meyer, the Florida Taser Kid.

Two points:

1. Meyer was being a PITA - a loud-mouthed low-rent jerque (spelling intentional).

2. Meyer was vioating Niven's Law.

What is "Niven's Law"?

This comes from the Democratic National Convention of 1968, when there were riots in the fair city of Chicago, and Hubert Humphrey was chosen to be the Democrat candidate for the Presidency.

Niven's Law: "Don't throw baggies of dog squeeze at armed police officers."
Corrollary: "Don't stand next to people who throw baggies of dog squeeze at armed police officers."

You think I'm being harsh? View the entire video, keeping in mind that Meyer jumped the line, and is/was an obnoxious big jerque, in the finest French tradition.

Note: Niven's Law belongs to SF author Larry Niven, may be copyrighted by him, and it's essential truth is self-evident.

Trash or Treasure?

As part of the GHIP (Great Home Improvement Project), we discovered a big box just chock full of old photographs - some of them over 20 years old. That's "treasure"

To see some of the trash, follow the link above.

Mrs. OWW is going to fire up the Smoking Scanner - and some of the evidence will be posted for all to see.

Incriminating evidence, of course, will be properly disposed of, even assuming that it ever existed in the first place, which it didn't, 'cause I wasn't in Vegas at the time, nor do I have any interest (fiscal or otherwise) in sports memorabilia.

Where's Old Weird Ward and What's He Doing?

Sweatin' my butt off in 90/90 weather, that's what!

The 90/90 refers to 90 F and 90% humidity.

See the whole ugly affair HERE.

The whole thing reminds me, yet again, why I like working in a nice air-conditioned office.

September 11th

Today has been One Of Those Days.

Firstly, at 8:46AM I took a minute.

Went outside, and reflected on the happenings of September 11th, 2001.

Over the past five years, I have done this every September 11th.

My conclusions remain the same: The Islamfascisti have made War upon us. We shall continue to make War right back at 'em. Even if some future adminisitration should choose to "forget" that the Jihadis hate us, I, an individual American, shall not choose to "forget". And I'm gonna hate 'em right back.

I shall remember our dead civilians. I shall remember our dead military men and women. I shall remember, every day, to say a little prayer for our people who are in harm's way.

I shall also remember those who say "this is too hard", who say "we must give up", who say "we must 'redeploy' our forces".

I say to them: "I remember you. You called me 'baby killer'. You called me a 'tool of American aggression'. You said that I am like 'Jengis Khan'.

Oh yes. I shall remember. I shall remember all that you have said and done.

On this day, I remember our dead. I most especially raise my hat to the firefighters of September 11th. When the Twin Towers came crashing down, FDNY Fire Fighters were still going up.

I remember the heroes of Flight 93 - those heroes succeeded in their mission: The ordinary Americans of Flight 93 prevented the Islamofascisti from completing their plan, at a most terrible cost. Indeed, "Let's Roll".

Today has been One of Those Days.

From Out of the Past

'Way back there, when I was young, immortal, and fairly good looking, I was in the US Navy, stationed aboard ships that were home-ported in San Diego, California. For the whole time I was there, the San Diego Union had a box, on the front page, counting the number of days that the USS Pueblo had been in the hands of North Korea.

Today I saw, buried on the inside of the Florida Times-Union (Georgia edition)a little blurb about the Pueblo. I can't find it in the on-line edition, so I did a little google, and found THIS. Then I looked at an on-line chart. Guess what? To get from Wonsan to Pyongyang requires a little trip in international waters, which was done in 1999, during the administration of Mr. Clinton.

Now, I'm not gonna snivel too much at Mr. Clinton's in-action - after all, many previous presidents completely ignored the status of the USS Pueblo.

But it looks like the Navy hasn't forgotten - the USS Pueblo is still carried as an active ship of the US Navy.

Of course, now that that's been drawn to the attention of the wusses in the State Department, there will be much hand-wringing as to how "provocative" we're now being...

Sunday, Lazy Sunday

Me? Lazy? Just because I let Chickie (the 12-yr-old) run the riding mower to cut the grass in the back yard?

Nahhhh.... she asked if she could.

I'm crazy, not stupid - I said "yes" in a heart-beat. I check on her about every 10 minutes or so, and I just gave her a bottle of water to drink while she runs the Mighty, Thundering, Craftsman LTX-1000! She's pretty pleased with herself...

In other news, HERE, the Democrat's funding scandal looks to be getting bigger - like that's a big surprise. What's also not a surprise is that the MSM is not getting in Hillary's face about it. Or Obama's, for that matter. Can you just imagine the feeding frenzy if any of the 'Publicans was linked to Hsu?

Things Automobilish

So, I'm on my way into work this AM, and the little red light indicating low coolant comes on. This is my 100K-miles-plus-a-bit Saturn SL2 that I've bragged on in the past, OK?

OK.

Get to work, and there's drippins' under thet-thar SaturnMobile.

"Oh, crap!"

$200 later (including new anti-freeze and a new radiator), Sally the Saturn is ready to go. Until the next time.

So far, the big expenses on Sally have been a temperature sensor ($15), a thermostat ($25), a radiator ($185) and anti-freeze ($25 for all the above).

Yes, I'm sniveling - even if she does have 100K+ and those are the big expenses.

I like sniveling, if I'm the one that gets to do it.... Ò¿Ö

Still Alive, Just Not Kicking Much

There's a ton of stuff out there to comment on, in politics especially - politicians and what is described as "political thought" is a laughable combination.

One of the better ones is our local Sheriff, who's having a major kerfluffle with our County Commisioners.

Sheriff Bill Smith has been having difficulties with:

- County prisoners walking away from work details
- County prisoners working on private projects (a big no-no under Georgia law)
- A county prisoner that got access to a Sheriff's Office "personal
water-craft" (read "JetSki") and promptly ran it into a dock, breaking
various and sundry bones
- Arguments with the County Commission about the Sheriff's budget
- A purchasing agent misusing a Sheriff's Office credit card
- Sheriff Smith's use of a county car for personal business

On the gripping hand, the County Commissioners aren't having a real good time either. It has taken them two years to find a County Executive. The last one quit, for no reason that's ever been put before the public. Plus, of course, the fact that one of the Commissioners is an employee of the Sheriff's Office, (I know, sounds fishy, but she did get elected, and she does not vote on issues relating to the Sheriff's Office, which makes it OK, I guess.)

And the above is just the lowest of the low spots.

Use Google for "Sheriff Bill Smith", then select "News".

Jeez, I was going to write "I ain't died, yet", and look what happens! Damned addictive blog anyway....