Ace of Spades HQ
Gosh who knows? But what if...
UPDATE: Ace-a-lanche! Can someone tell me how to throw together a Tip Jar lickety-split???
Thursday, July 20, 2006
It's Odd at Ace's Place
Is Glenn Greenwald posing and making glamorous comments about himself?
Ace of Spades HQ
Gosh who knows? But what if...
UPDATE: Ace-a-lanche! Can someone tell me how to throw together a Tip Jar lickety-split???
Ace of Spades HQ
Gosh who knows? But what if...
UPDATE: Ace-a-lanche! Can someone tell me how to throw together a Tip Jar lickety-split???
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Linky Love
Incumbants try to shake do-nothing image.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
American's bitching about not being evacuated fast enough.
Gee, let's think. Where can we go for vacation? Hey, I know, let's go to a country where the bottom half of the nation is controlled by a terrorist group! Yeah, that's a great idea!
I swear, what are these people smoking? Did the USA send these people to Lebanon? No, except for the minority who work in the embassy. Did the USA force these people to go to Beirut? Nope. They all went on their own, and now they're whining about not getting evacuated soon enough when the fit hit the shan.
Cry me a river, spanky. And I'll whip out the world smallest violin to play "My Heart Bleeds For You" while you use up a box of Kleenex tissues.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
American's bitching about not being evacuated fast enough.
Gee, let's think. Where can we go for vacation? Hey, I know, let's go to a country where the bottom half of the nation is controlled by a terrorist group! Yeah, that's a great idea!
I swear, what are these people smoking? Did the USA send these people to Lebanon? No, except for the minority who work in the embassy. Did the USA force these people to go to Beirut? Nope. They all went on their own, and now they're whining about not getting evacuated soon enough when the fit hit the shan.
Cry me a river, spanky. And I'll whip out the world smallest violin to play "My Heart Bleeds For You" while you use up a box of Kleenex tissues.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Oh Our Sweet Princess
Hahahahahaa!
This was made clear Friday, when Ahmadinejad, speaking in a provincial tour, called on the "international community" to end the conflict by "restraining Israel." This was strange coming from a man who, before the current fighting, had vowed to destroy Israel on more than a dozen occasions.Heh. What a pansie!
Talkin' tough, then dressing up sweet for Kofi.
A DUBIOUS 'DISTRACTION'
Facing a Bleak Future
Ah well we all knew it would be that way when we voted for the AWOLChimp.
Downsizing the New York Times
Cue Tom Petty!
A profitable company is to shutter a factory it built in 1992 as part of a much-hailed visionary strategy to take advantage of technology. But now it is just a cost to be cut. Eight hundred jobs, many of them well-paying blue collar positions (supposedly an endangered species) will disappear, while managerial and professional jobs are being protected.Rethuglicans strike again.
Downsizing the New York Times
Cue Tom Petty!
Stupid Pet Tricks
Hezbollah kills --> UN snoozes.
Jews get to killin' (disproportionately, natch) --> Annan calls for beefed-up U.N. force in Lebanon.
Good boy!
Jews get to killin' (disproportionately, natch) --> Annan calls for beefed-up U.N. force in Lebanon.
Good boy!
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Because it looks like the Army needs it.
This just chaps my hide. The US Government spends billions upon billions of dollars on all kinds of programs. Most programs have had their budgets increased. And yet the military is still scraping by.
This either needs to be fixed soon, or you're going to see a huge failure of equipment and manpower in the near future.
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — A diversion of dollars to help fight the war in Iraq has helped create a $530 million shortfall for Army posts at home and abroad, leaving some unable to pay utility bills or even cut the grass.
In San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston hasn't been able to pay its $1.4 million monthly utility bill since March, prompting workers in many of the post's administrative buildings to get automated disconnection notices.
This just chaps my hide. The US Government spends billions upon billions of dollars on all kinds of programs. Most programs have had their budgets increased. And yet the military is still scraping by.
This either needs to be fixed soon, or you're going to see a huge failure of equipment and manpower in the near future.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Let's Get Informed !!!
Juan Cole is wee-weeing his pants because the President said "shit".
On his site he has a link to this book, which took me back to this.
UPDATE: ! Fabulous ! Flashbacks !
QUIZ: Is the image below an original from the book, or altered, to make it look idiotic?
On his site he has a link to this book, which took me back to this.
UPDATE: ! Fabulous ! Flashbacks !
QUIZ: Is the image below an original from the book, or altered, to make it look idiotic?
Because they're better than anyone else
Judges are now allowed to pack pistols while on duty in New York.
So tell me, if judges are in such danger that they're allowed to pack a pistol while on the bench, in a courthouse, with some of the highest security you can find in a city, what about the rest of us poor bastards who have to live our lives without all the security enhancements? Try getting a concealed carry permit in NYC, and see what happens. I have a better chance of growing a third arm than getting a permit to carry concealed in New York.
But I guess those judges are more equal than us, eh?
Look, I'm not pissed because they're allowed to pack some heat, I'm pissed that they're allowed to carry while the plebes are told to fuck off on a daily basis. Yes, judges make some enemies, and in New York some of those enemies have a long reach. But I guarantee that there are parts of the city that are more dangerous than any courtroom could ever be, and the people who live there are not allowed to protect themselves with a handgun. But a judge is allowed to carry a concealed pistol while sitting in one of the most protected environments the city can provide.
To me, that's elitism, plain and simple. Anyone see it a different way?
So tell me, if judges are in such danger that they're allowed to pack a pistol while on the bench, in a courthouse, with some of the highest security you can find in a city, what about the rest of us poor bastards who have to live our lives without all the security enhancements? Try getting a concealed carry permit in NYC, and see what happens. I have a better chance of growing a third arm than getting a permit to carry concealed in New York.
But I guess those judges are more equal than us, eh?
Look, I'm not pissed because they're allowed to pack some heat, I'm pissed that they're allowed to carry while the plebes are told to fuck off on a daily basis. Yes, judges make some enemies, and in New York some of those enemies have a long reach. But I guarantee that there are parts of the city that are more dangerous than any courtroom could ever be, and the people who live there are not allowed to protect themselves with a handgun. But a judge is allowed to carry a concealed pistol while sitting in one of the most protected environments the city can provide.
To me, that's elitism, plain and simple. Anyone see it a different way?
Take off your hats
and bow your heads. A visionary has died today.
Seriously, is there any more manly a place? Beer, sports, hotwings, and hot women in skimpy clothing.
Brooks was a man's man.
Robert Brooks, the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who made his fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead at his home Sunday, officials said. He was 69.
Seriously, is there any more manly a place? Beer, sports, hotwings, and hot women in skimpy clothing.
Brooks was a man's man.
Cache of Linkz
Anti-war in Tel Aviv.
Jacques Chirac's two faces.
Power Line: Dr. Goebbels, call your office
Pajamas Media: The Israel-Hezbollah War Part Ten
Jacques Chirac's two faces.
Power Line: Dr. Goebbels, call your office
Pajamas Media: The Israel-Hezbollah War Part Ten
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Sunday talk shows: The Democrats were relentless today
It's all Bush's fault. The most common "meme" was that "we don't have the respect and partnership of other nations so we are powerless to influence what is happening in Lebanon".
Oy! Like maybe if we were better friends with France, Bush and Chirac could do a joint presser, and Hezbolla would stand down, thinking: "Holy shit! Jacques is pissed! Let's get back to tea!"
Ludicrous.
And then there was Joe Biden with Tim Russert, saying we need to get one on one with North Korea and say: "Hey Jack, this is the way it's gonna be."
No, he really did say "Hey Jack".
Twice.
Biden said we should get with North Korea one on one and tell them if they do the right things we won't mess with them but if they do the wrong things we will. And he was SERIOUS.
The crack squad at NBC didn't have the appropriate graphic ready, naturally.
Ace saw the same kind of thing.
Oy! Like maybe if we were better friends with France, Bush and Chirac could do a joint presser, and Hezbolla would stand down, thinking: "Holy shit! Jacques is pissed! Let's get back to tea!"
Ludicrous.
And then there was Joe Biden with Tim Russert, saying we need to get one on one with North Korea and say: "Hey Jack, this is the way it's gonna be."
No, he really did say "Hey Jack".
Twice.
Biden said we should get with North Korea one on one and tell them if they do the right things we won't mess with them but if they do the wrong things we will. And he was SERIOUS.
The crack squad at NBC didn't have the appropriate graphic ready, naturally.
Ace saw the same kind of thing.
Linky Love
Glenn Reynolds says he and others are throwing up their hands regarding the Middle East. I think we all should, at Step Four.
Step One: Drill ANWR.
Step Two: Pay Gulf Coast states to allow drilling off their shores.
Step Three: Sign a mutual defense treat with Israel.
Step Four: Wash hands. Rinse well.
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Misery, with Arab child abuse.
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The New York Times is on the other side. So are the Kos Kidz.
Power Line: "It would have required courage to hang out with the Mahdi Army, if there were any likelihood that a member of the Iraqi 'insurgency' would regard a representative of the New York Times as an enemy."
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Gingrich says it's World War III. Moi aussi.
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Following the reported ultimatum.
Step One: Drill ANWR.
Step Two: Pay Gulf Coast states to allow drilling off their shores.
Step Three: Sign a mutual defense treat with Israel.
Step Four: Wash hands. Rinse well.
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Misery, with Arab child abuse.
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The New York Times is on the other side. So are the Kos Kidz.
Power Line: "It would have required courage to hang out with the Mahdi Army, if there were any likelihood that a member of the Iraqi 'insurgency' would regard a representative of the New York Times as an enemy."
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Gingrich says it's World War III. Moi aussi.
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Following the reported ultimatum.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Re: "Disproportionate"
French, Spanish, Russians, The Vatican, they've all used the word. Putin elaborates:
I suggest you scroll around Power Line while you are there -- great stuff in the past two days regarding a number of topics including Lebanon, the Democratic Gubernatorial Primary in Maryland, and a notably slanted AP poll regarding the 2006 elections.
Putin, whose government has expressed concern about the region sliding into war, said he agreed that Hizbollah's actions were "absolutely unacceptable".Paul at Power Line replies: "Call me naive, but I had always thought that the object in a military action was to employ disproportionate (i.e., more) force than the enemy."
"This is all true, and in this context, we consider Israel's concerns to be justified," the Russian president said. But, he said, "the use of force should be balanced".
I suggest you scroll around Power Line while you are there -- great stuff in the past two days regarding a number of topics including Lebanon, the Democratic Gubernatorial Primary in Maryland, and a notably slanted AP poll regarding the 2006 elections.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Oh, and one more thing
How much more fugged would this situation be if Saddam Hussein were still in power in Iraq?
Only a handful of dominoes remain
Way back in Feburary I blogged about Abqaiq, the massive Saudi petroleum processing facility through which a substantial portion of Saudi Arabia's substantial oil exports flow. See below.
Northeast of Abqaiq is the likewise massive oil terminal at Dammam. Both are roughly 300 miles from Iran's Persian Gulf coast.
Roughly 500 miles to the east is the Strait of Hormuz, "at its narrowest, 21 miles wide, having two 1 mile wide channels for marine traffic separated by a 2 mile wide buffer zone, and is the only sea passage to the open ocean for large areas of the petroleum exporting Persian Gulf States". The Strait is bounded on the north by Iran, and so I think we might all become intimate with it in the next sixty days.
See what I'm getting at?
I figure Syria and Iran have already joined in Lebanon (Hezbollah didn't build no UAV), but if they really join, well then America will join as well and that is when we all find ourselves in jeopardy as Iran could easily topple a domino across the Strait, which doesn't just mean expensive oil, it might mean, for hundreds of millions worldwide, no oil.
If the mullahs are on the losing end then they might take a stab at Abqaiq or Dammam, which would have no strategic value, but it seems clear that Radical Islam is engaged in economic warfare with the West moreso than they have engaged the West with bullets or other weaponry.
As the title states, I think only a handful of dominoes remain between where we are today and real worldwide economic strife, and maybe even catastrophe.
Melodramatic? Perhaps, but my guess is that just about every American combat aviator, in the next two weeks, will study the arena until he knows it like the back of his hand, right down to the turds of camels in the desert west of Bandar Abbas. Any move Iran makes on the Strait or the Saudis must result in an American response that is just plain wicked.
Northeast of Abqaiq is the likewise massive oil terminal at Dammam. Both are roughly 300 miles from Iran's Persian Gulf coast.
Roughly 500 miles to the east is the Strait of Hormuz, "at its narrowest, 21 miles wide, having two 1 mile wide channels for marine traffic separated by a 2 mile wide buffer zone, and is the only sea passage to the open ocean for large areas of the petroleum exporting Persian Gulf States". The Strait is bounded on the north by Iran, and so I think we might all become intimate with it in the next sixty days.
See what I'm getting at?
I figure Syria and Iran have already joined in Lebanon (Hezbollah didn't build no UAV), but if they really join, well then America will join as well and that is when we all find ourselves in jeopardy as Iran could easily topple a domino across the Strait, which doesn't just mean expensive oil, it might mean, for hundreds of millions worldwide, no oil.
If the mullahs are on the losing end then they might take a stab at Abqaiq or Dammam, which would have no strategic value, but it seems clear that Radical Islam is engaged in economic warfare with the West moreso than they have engaged the West with bullets or other weaponry.
As the title states, I think only a handful of dominoes remain between where we are today and real worldwide economic strife, and maybe even catastrophe.
Melodramatic? Perhaps, but my guess is that just about every American combat aviator, in the next two weeks, will study the arena until he knows it like the back of his hand, right down to the turds of camels in the desert west of Bandar Abbas. Any move Iran makes on the Strait or the Saudis must result in an American response that is just plain wicked.
Musings on a gym workout, Part 2
OK guys, this one is for you.
If I had my way, I would remove every last floor to ceiling mirror in existance. You want to work out? Fine, get on those weights and pump some iron. But if you want to slooooooooooooooooowly pull that weight up so that you can admire your flexed biceps in the mirror, get out of the way so that some of us can finish our workout.
I know you like to socialize. I know you like to look at yourself. You show it every day. You probably have a mirror above your bed so that when your tiny little steriod-shriveled dick is being ridden by whatever floozy you convinced to come home with you, you can look up in that mirror and pretend that you're having sex with yourself, because you're just that damn SEXY!
Yeah. Right.
Listen up, meathead: Some of us people have lives. Real lives, with real people involved in them. And we'd like to go about our lives, including our workouts, but we can't, because you're monopolizing the damned curl bench with your narcissism. And while you're trying to impress Little Miss Bubblehead with your hormone-enhanced deltoids, the rest of us are waiting to use the bench you've parked out on!
Find somewhere else for your self-glorification. Let the rest of us work out so that we can get on with our day.
If I had my way, I would remove every last floor to ceiling mirror in existance. You want to work out? Fine, get on those weights and pump some iron. But if you want to slooooooooooooooooowly pull that weight up so that you can admire your flexed biceps in the mirror, get out of the way so that some of us can finish our workout.
I know you like to socialize. I know you like to look at yourself. You show it every day. You probably have a mirror above your bed so that when your tiny little steriod-shriveled dick is being ridden by whatever floozy you convinced to come home with you, you can look up in that mirror and pretend that you're having sex with yourself, because you're just that damn SEXY!
Yeah. Right.
Listen up, meathead: Some of us people have lives. Real lives, with real people involved in them. And we'd like to go about our lives, including our workouts, but we can't, because you're monopolizing the damned curl bench with your narcissism. And while you're trying to impress Little Miss Bubblehead with your hormone-enhanced deltoids, the rest of us are waiting to use the bench you've parked out on!
Find somewhere else for your self-glorification. Let the rest of us work out so that we can get on with our day.
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