Thursday, June 24, 2004

He Got Exactly What He Deserved, The Bastard

I don’t much cotton to so called men manhandling women.  This attitude got me into a bit of trouble, once, in small bar tucked away in the back alleyways of Waikiki, when I confronted a so called man manhandling a young woman.  Not being a very adept pugilist, when he came at me, instead of the young woman, with his fists aflailing, I cracked him upside the head with a large, glass ashtray.  He bled pretty good lying there on the floor til the paramedics came.

Here’s a story, about a so called man, who shot his wife, kidnapped, and possibly sexually assaulted, his teenage daughters, getting his just desserts.

“Kidnapped girl kills dad, cops say."

Bless those young girls hearts, and may they shake off this incident from their lives and walk unfettered.

Via David Gross.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 04:35 PM
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Adding Fuel to the Fire

The raucous, and mostly hyperbolic, debate over homosexual marriage has been shoved far back on the stove, on a setting below simmer, since the events of Abu Gharib came to light, and other sundry items of temporary national importance flared up.  Articles you read on this issue, now, mostly deal with the brush fires left burning after the initial match was thrown into the gas in San Francisco and other cities.  Reading a few blogs this evening, I stumbled into John Ray’s blog, and was pointed to an opinion piece in the News Weekly, an Aussie publication, written by one Dr. David van Gend, whose credentials you can read at the end of the piece I will soon link to.  van Gend, has been reading some of Dr. Robert Spitzer’s research conclusions regarding homosexuality, and what he has read, may cause a flame up in the homosexual community, and could be used as a flame thrower by those who oppose recognizing homosexual unions styled as marriages.  Two very short excerpts.

"The Titanic of Gay Rights, leaving all in its wake, is about to founder on a large and immovable fact."

...

"The iceberg of clinical fact looming up in the dark is this: that homosexuals who want to become heterosexual can and do change, as authoritative medical research has now demonstrated."

van Gend’s piece is titled “Shuffling deck chairs on the gay ‘Titanic’."

Via Dissecting Leftism.

Spitzer’s paper is not available online, but it can be ordered here for $25.00.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 04:03 PM
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"What a Maroon," Speaking About Artful Dodging

Do you recall that line, used above as a portion of the title to this post, from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon?  I’ve always liked Bugs Bunny cartoons.  But the point I really want to make, is, why didn’t Al Gore say something like this about his old pal, “I didn’t have sex with that woman,” “It depends on what the definition of “is” is,” Clinton?  It certainly fits Clinton to a T.

"As a result, President Bush (Clinton ed.) is now intentionally misleading the American people,” Gore said. “Indeed, Bush’s (Clinton’s ed.) consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie—visibly circumnavigating the truth over and over again as if he had practiced how to avoid encountering the truth."

“Gore Says Bush Lied About Iraq to Push for War."

What a maroon.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 12:08 PM
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Warts, And All

A recently released study has determined that a compound in breast milk can effectively destroy warts, which may give the makers of Compound W cause for lament.  Interesting.  An uncle of mine, who has since left this world, swore that spitting on a wart, first thing in the morning, upon waking up, would accomplish the same thing.  I never tried the spitting thing, but my younger brother did, and it worked for him.

“Study: Breast milk kills skin warts."

Via Google News.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 05:18 AM
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He Said What?

Listening to our small local radio station this morning, while chasing one of my sons from here to there, the following quote was offered up as the quote of the day.  It was spoken by Dan Rather.

"Mostly, overwhelmingly, I want to be known as a reporter, an honest broker of information."

Keep trying, Dan.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 04:44 AM
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Big Bang Soungs Like a Whisper

Most of us have heard the conundrum; “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around, does it make any noise?” Various answers have been offered on the question.  What about when the universe came into existence?  Did it make any noise?  Well, according to Mark Whittle, of the University of Virginia, the big bang did make some noise, but more of a whisper than a bang.

"These cosmic sound waves are 30,000 light-years wide and are 55 octaves below what humans can hear.

But when they are shifted to regions of the audible spectrum, the cry from the birth of the cosmos can be heard."

When I listened to the two clips, it reminded me of a day at the airport watching jets takeoff and land, with cotton in my ears.

“‘Birth cry’ of the cosmos heard."

Via Fred Lapides.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 02:29 AM
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Monkey See, Monkey Do

"Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.

A video located today on Sheik Abu Hamza’s website, ..., features four children, doing what as children the world over do: pretending.

But what is completely unnerving about this video is what they are pretending.

One young boy kneels in front of three other children, in the same manner of the condemned man; Three other children stand behind him in the same way that the terrorists stood over the men prior to their beheading. The three standing children are armed with pretend weapons. One of the three children is a girl.

The tallest of the three standing children pretends he is Zarqawi, and reads a list of demands.

The film clip ends with the pretend beheading of the kneeling child.

Chilling."

“Muslim children play at beheading." The link leads to the photos taken from the video of the kids.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/24 at 02:21 AM
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