Here's an idea the might have seen it's time come. Make the fruits of a crime unique identifiers of the culprit.

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Sorry for the light posting, but things here have been a little strange....ever since the Big Rat Escape, in fact! I guess having a rat wake you up by crawling across your face just does something to your mind... I guess I could just attribute my writers block to P.T.R.S.* Syndromes of all sorts seem to work for Democrats, might as well join the bandwagon!

The one on the left was just getting off my face when I woke up...and those are just "the girls". Dumpling and Cecelie.

Here are "the boys", Misha and Slagle:

I'm ALMOST used to Misha:

If you EVER go to a pet store and your wife looks at rats and starts cooing "aren't they soooo Cuuuute"? RUN like hell!

*Post Traumatic Rat Syndrome....

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Why Men Are Just Happier People -

What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can be president.
You can never be pregnant.

You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO T-shirt to a water park.

Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental -- $100.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them
The occasional well-rendered belch is practical! ly expec ted.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

One mood-all the time.

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.

You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You almost never have strap problems in public.

You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.

You can play with toys all your life.
Your belly usually hides your big hips.
One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons.

You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can "do" your nails with a pocketknife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier!

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I have only two things to say about THIS.....JUST DAMN!

Hat Tip to Acidman

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I was unable to sleep last night and while listening to the Michael Medved show to pass some time; I found someone else who agrees with me about the situation vis a vis the Arab/Israeli conflict.

Here's some quotes:

“The occupation is in the minds of Children who are taught hatred.”

“The Israeli Arab conflict is not about geography but about Jew hatred; the 1400 year history of Islam proves it.”

“The Arab refugees are being used as pawns' to create a terror breeding ground, as a form of aggression against Israel”

"No one (Arab or Jew) has a "right of return". Jews who fled Arab persecution from 1948 to 1956 should have no right of return to Arab lands, and Arabs who ran away in 1948 and 1967 should have no right of return either. This should end all argument. Yet the Jews accept this judgment, while the Arabs reject EVERYTHING."

And my personal favorite:

“Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?”

Sounds like a Zionist, hate filled, racist Jew doesn't it?

Those statements were made by a "Palistinian" named Walid Shoebat that threw his first rocks at Israeli soldiers at the age of eight...Joined the PLO by twenty and bombed an Israeli bank during which an Israeli policeman was killed.

His great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel.

He came to the United States and worked with the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago to further the Palistinian cause.

Then he studied the Tanash (Jewish bible) in an effort to convert his wife to Islam, and he discovered that everything he had been taught about Jews his entire life was a lie. He then studied the history of all the groups involved in the conflicts and had the revelation that EVERYTHING he had been taught about why there should be conflict between Arabs and Jews and Muslims and everyone else was a lie, in fact, he feels that Islam is the main problem in most of the conflicts in the world today. He converted to Christianity and has worked ever since to try to educate people about Israels right to exist and protect itself.

One who was on the inside of the PLO, and within the higher echalons of same by his heritage puts the lie to every meme that the Palistinian movement has promulgated, most of which I have heard our Pro-Palistinian/Anti-Israeli Moonbats repeat as "facts" in their opposition to Israel

Here's one of those memes, regarding the Arab "right of return to Israel:

"They (arabs) were born there but somehow don't belong there."

And my response, in line with what I learned from Mr. Shoebat:

The people that stayed in Israel in 1948 and 1967 became Israeli citizens,with full rights and privileges thereof. Those that fled, or were living on the land that the Arabs lost in the 1967 war became the "palistinians".

They fled to Jordan, Egypt, and Syria..the problem was that those countries didn't want anything to do with their Islamic brethren. Furthurmore they saw in the refugees a way to continue their fight against the Jews with "plausible deniability", using them as the pawns who would bear the task of doing the dirty work and the dying.

Mr. Shoebat isn't a lone "self-hating" Arab voice in the wilderness.

Zachariah Anani was a troop leader in a Islamofacist group on Lebanon, with over 223 confirmed kills of "enemies" of the sect he belonged to. The perfect example of a Fanatical Muslim. Untill the day a Christian missionary said to him: "Jesus Christ will give you hope and a new life." He was somehow struck by these words. He had further discussions with the missionary, and and after opening the Bible for the first time, he read, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." That afternoon he submitted his life to Christ. His conversion made him fair game for any of his old comrads to kill, in fact, his own father hired assassins to kill him. He fled to Canada as a refugee to escape the danger both to himself and the Christian church he belonged to. When he debated a Muslim scholar in the U.S., his family left in Lebanon were attacked.

Here's a quote:

"A lot of people think that Islam is okay," says Anani, and "that those who are making these terrorist attacks are not from Islam. It's actually the other way around. The people who are nice are not really true Muslims—all you have to do is read the doctrine. Chapter (9) of the Qur'an is nothing but a declaration of war."

He also tells Christians that most Muslims are secular and don't know the Qur'an. "They believe anything the sheikh tells them," says Anani, referring to Middle Eastern Muslims. "If you show genuine friendship to them, they will listen to you and God will open the door."

Two ex-Muslims with similar backgrounds..opening an insight into the minds of the world of fanatic Islam.

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Now, HERE'S an example of someone that just isn't very good in his chosen profession.

Too bad the homeowner didn't use a .357 and cap his ass instead of just a rolling pin. Hopefully the jackass will learn a new way of making a living while he's a guest of the graybar hotel.

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ANOTHER example of Idiotarianism in the Netherlands, via the Dutch Report.

Oh WHEN will the Dutch regain their native common sense and take back their society? I grieve for the country of my birth. And hold my adopted country in ever greater esteem.

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Want to know why Johnny can't read? The so called "experts in education" are why.

The NEA has been the single greatest folly foisted on the American people.
Here is yet another example of the "smart" thinking of the Educratic mind...take the most successful reading program in the state, and phase it out, because after all, the Educrats know that reading is a complex activity, and only their methods can be trusted to convey that talent.

Irregardless of the fact that everywhere the educrats hold sway has experienced furthur and furthur declines in the literacy of their children.

The educrats claim it was a lack of funding for schools, but the higher the funding goes, the lower the test scores seem to go. The number of educrats in the $100,000 a year salary range seems to go up at a concurrent pace....Note I don't say teachers are the problem, I say educrats.

These educrats are really nothing more than leeches on the educational system, imposing whatever flavor of new educational theory happens to be availible to get the most money out of the system they can, the children be damned.

The teachers in the trenches are as much victoms as the children, funds that could go to raising their pay to an equitable level are drained off in administration costs and study funding. And items that would really help the kids...you know, like textbooks, pencils, paper; yeah, the mundane stuff, gets the shortest shrift of all. Why be concerned that the students don't have proper supplies?, the educrats need a multi-billion office complex, after all.

How else will they be able to efficiently hand down their edicts from on high?

And they wonder why home schooled children tend to outscore their public schooled bretheran by over a two to one margin.

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Looks like ALF is up to it again, I hope that if and when the vandals are arrested that they are prosecuted as domestic terrorists, for that is what they really are.

We need to send a message that these type of actions will not be tolerated in our society. This incident was mild, but if left unchecked, the participants of this action will only escalate the severity of their future actions. As was seen in the arson attack that destroyed half of a new subdivision being built, by other teams belonging under the umbrella of this fanatical group, the incidents may start small, but end up in a society destroying maelstrom.

The reasons given for these acts of terrorism might be a noble (misguided and misinformed, IMO) impulse, but the results of misguded idealistic zealotry are not only counterproductive to their goal; they are destructive of the society that engendered those impulses.

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Hamas Speaks
I had said in an earlier post that the cease fire declared between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was a sign of hope that maybe the time had come when men of good will from both sides may be able to hammer out a fair compromise leading to an independent Palestinian state living in peace next to Israel. I had but one caveat: that all it would take would be one fanatic to derail the whole process....

Well it seems that the leading group of fanatics, Hamas , are hell bent on not allowing any sort of peace to be brokered, unless it is the peace engendered by the total destruction of the state of Israel, which is, after all, the basic premise of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's charter document.

The Left in this country are always saying that one of the major problems is that the US will not deal fairly with the Palestinian side of Mid-East hostilities, always favoring Israel in any negotiation. I think the story above points out the problem, namely that there is no ONE group that speaks for the Palestinian Misplaced Arab people. The Palestinian Authority was SUPPOSED to be, in effect, an interim government for the Palestinian side, empowered to deal with the Israelis AS a government to try to broker peace.

The FACT is that the P's M-A's HAVE no governing authority that can speak in the interests of their people. They have a loose coalition of gangs of thugs using the PA as a front to mislead the rest of the world into thinking that the people have a legitimate governing body to conduct negotiations. These negotiations are used as "rest periods" in the ongoing war; used to rearm and conduct planning for future (terrorist) operations in relative calm.

If the Misplaced Arabs truly want to become the "Palestinian People", with a self ruled state of their own , they have to make the decision: to have ONE ruling authority that has the power of a government. To allow any group of wannabe armies of the people that can scrape enough money,weapons and fanatics together to have an equal say in the process is only self defeating. Until that happens Israel has every right to take the actions it must do to protect itself. That is after, after all, one of the primary functions of a real government, to protect it's people from military attack. Israel has demonstrated on a number of occasions to be willing to negotiate a just peace. There just hasn't been a corresponding entity on the other side to negotiate with.

Until there is, I'm afraid that there can never be a true peace, at best, there will be an uneasy truce with sporadic acts of violence.

And until the Left in this country realize the true situation in the area, the violence will extend into the political arena in this country too.

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Unabashedly stolenborrowed from Romeocat of Cathouse Chat.

Another member to be added to the Empire LC blogroll...

Now if only Mamamontezz displayed such pulchratudnity...she more than makes up for it with her patriotic ardor however!

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It's just a tiny step, but with a truce put into place, the Arab-Israeli peace process just might have a hope of becoming successful...

How long will Hamas honor the truce? The real pity is that, no matter how many honest men of good will on both sides try to hammer out an equitable peace settlement; all it takes is one rabid jackass to derail the entire process.

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When Columbia University sponsers blatent Anti-Israeli forum, is it any wonder that many of us despair about the state of higher education?

I can see presenting both sides of every issue, free debate is what learning is all about, but WHY is that ONLY the terrorist type side is freely espoused, with any dissenters being shouted down as "racists","imperialists", or just plain "ig'nrent rednecks" ?

Update:Yet ANOTHER example if institutional anti-semitism at Columbia U.

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If your in the mood for a great laugh, clickHere

Or, If your more into Eurotrash rather than Queen, go HERE.

Just another service of the Citadel. First we hit you with the Cluebat™, but then then we ease the pain with a laugh.
(
Hat tip to Darth for the second link)

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once again, Davids Mediankritik has a spot-on post. WE may have individual political cartoonists villifying foreign leaders....But the good people of Deutchland have a parade to do it.

The old adage holds true, when your going down the toilet (unemployment rate of 12.6%, oppresive Police actions, mandatory National ID etc, etc), blame some other leaders than the ones responsible for it.

It's time to withdraw all U.S. troops from the Fatherland. Think the jobless rate is high now? Just wait!

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A woman asks her husband, "Would you like some bacon and eggs? A
slice of toast and maybe some grapefruit and coffee?" she asks.
He declines. "Thanks for asking, but I'm not
hungry right now.
It's this Viagra," he says. "It's really taken the edge off my
appetite."
At lunchtime she asked if he would like
something. "A bowl of
soup, homemade muffins, or a cheese sandwich?" she asks? He declines.
"The
Viagra," he says, "really trashes my desire for food."
Come dinnertime, she asks if he wants
anything to eat. "Would you
like a juicy porterhouse steak and scrumptious apple pie? Or maybe a
rotisserie chicken or tasty stir fry?"
He declines again. "Naw, I'm still not
hungry."
"Well," she says, "would you mind letting me
up? I'm starving."

Hat tip to Catfish

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Abnormal at the Injustice Department has a link to a chilling prospect....UN control of the Internet.

He, like me, is NOT into big conspiracy theories, but if you read what is being put out by members the UN committee, it's obvious that if we don't keep careful watch on our freedom on the 'Net, we may lose it, and soon.

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I just added another new blog on the roll. DRINK THIS. I had read her a number of times before, but I thought I had already added her. I have remedied that oversight.

Who wouldn't love a woman that puts This in her gutter?:

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I see THIS in a link over at the Rott, and needless to say, I am ashamed that the Dutch have fallen to that low a level. seems there must have been an exchange of policies between our NEA and their equivilent...

One good thing about this though...at least I found a great new blog to add to the roll!

UPDATE: As much as the story above enraged me, at least I was able to find proof that the Idiotarians aren't in total control of the Dutch helm of state yet. Here's a speech by Geert Wilders that demonstrates that Sanity still has at least a chance of regaining the upper hand.

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I think that THIS STORY demonstrates some of what is wrong with Union protected work today. I do think that workers shouldn't be capriciously used, but there comes a point where protection starts hurting business and ultimately the workers themselves. To pay a worker at full pay and benifits for work not done may make sense as a short term proposition; it's wise to keep skilled workers on tap during a small downturn situation, but to keep them on for years on end just doesn't make for a good company policy.

Worse, it engenders within the Union mindset that they are inviolate, and that mindset only leads to greater conflict. Don't think that it does so? From the article:

"That 10,000 number is not trivial, it's a pretty good percentage of their union work force," said Dan Luria, research director for the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center and long-time auto-labor researcher.

"It's one of those differences between the Big Three and the foreign automakers. The UAW put it into place so the companies would think of labor as a fixed cost and keep workers busy."

Now I find two things wrong in the thinking embodied by the Union in that statement.

1) Labor costs are never "fixed" in the long term. There is always new innovation that can and should lower production costs, and labor costs are tied in with that; to artificially set those costs in stone eventually leads to a state of the company as a whole being uncompetative and going out of business alltogether.

2) Companies WANT to keep workers busy, to suggest otherwise is just idiocy, a busy worker is (hopefully) a productive worker, adding to the bottom line. To have to pay for a large idle workforce is the last thing a company wants to do.

The idea of companies as a social provider for the worker is what is the basic flaw of the Union mindset. The company is in the business of profit, plain and simple. The workers should have the same mindset in selling their product (their labor) to the company. The Union should be the negotiater between the two in what the company is willing to provide for the service and what the worker is willing to do for the profit. That is what unions were set up to do, as prior to their inception, the Company had all the power in the negotiation and set out unfair conditions to the worker in the interest of higher profit. Unions evened out the power to provide a better equity of power to BOTH sides of the equation.

But the Union mindset has changed to not "what is best for EVERYONE" overall to "just how much can we squeeze out of the company" without regard for the economic facts of life. In the end such a mindset kills the cash cow(company).

The Union officials aren't hurt by this (at least short term), they have influence in a broad range of companies, they just try to get more out of the remaining sources. But the workers who overextended the demands in the first instance are left out in the cold.

Unions have made (Company) profit a dirty word, as if that was money that deservedly only goes to the union worker, without considering that the worker isn't the only part of the equation. In some respects, the Union has taken the place of the Company in the "bad old days".

What are your thoughts?

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