Friday, October 25, 2002
“She’s so outrageous…”
Does no one at E! feel the least bit guilty about this? If you’ve ever watched this train-wreck of a show, you’d know what I mean. Anna is constantly being manipulated by people far more intelligent than she is, people who aren’t constantly high, into one situation after another that creates friction and drama. Sure it’s all good TV, and she’s getting paid and all that, but the people she trusts in her life are using her, just like Playboy and that rich old bastard did, and when they’re done they’ll toss her aside.
I used to hate Anna Nicole Smith, but now I just feel sorry for her.
Posted by JimK at 06:20 AM on October 25, 2002
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He never gets the point, does he?
Let’s set aside the fact that Al Gore lies constantly, over things that don’t matter. Let’s completely forgive the fact that he volunteers lies over completely inane subjects.
Forgotten? Good. Let’s look at Al’s logic. In this story at CNN, Al is warning us that invading Iraq will increase the likelihood that Saddam will use bioweapons. Of course he couches that belief in a statement of concern for our readiness in case of such an attack.
Does Al read the papers anymore? Maybe he doesn’t get CNN or Fox News Channel, or maybe he’s been without his invention, the Internet…
“We need a national defense public health act to respond to the immediate threat in the wake of an attack against Iraq,” Gore said in a speech at the George Washington University Medical Center.
It’s always more government with Al. Bigger, more, let’s bloat as far as the eye can see. I suppose the Anthrax scare didn’t mobilize us as a nation? The CDC and FEMA, among others, aren’t enough, we need another agency or level of bureaucracy?
I think the bioweapons angle is a red herring, though. What Al is really saying here is, if we attack Iraq and something bad happens to us, it will be our fault. The fundamental flaw in Al’s logic is that Saddam Hussein is going to use every weapon he has eventually, on someone, somewhere. Furthermore, we are going to be a target regardless if we “invade” Iraq or not. Given these two ideas...we might as well take a shot at deposing this lunatic. We *are* responsible for Saddam being in power, and correcting that error in judgement is
long overdue.
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Posted by JimK at 05:55 AM on October 25, 2002
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
A court with some sense. So refreshing.
NEW ORLEANS- A National Rifle Association sticker was not enough justification to warrant a police search of a pickup truck for a gun, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Finally, a common sense ruling related to guns. The Las Vegas Sun provided me with this link.
Imagine how far this kind of precedent could go if allowed to stand. Something as innocuous as a Grateful Dead bumper sticker being allowed as probable cause to search for drugs....is that so improbable when compared to the idea of searching a truck because it had an NRA sticker?
Since when does support for an organization that is 100% legal, above board and the second most powerful lobby in Washington give a cop the right to search your vehicle?
This is the part that I found interesting:
According to the court record, Estep got out of the pickup with his identification and was asked by an officer if he was carrying a weapon. Estep said he wasn’t, although he gave the officer a canister of mace he was carrying on a key chain.
Well...he wasn’t *carrying* a weapon, he was *transporting* a firearm in a case. Big difference.
Kudos to the court.
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Posted by JimK at 07:44 PM on October 23, 2002
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Ballistic fingerprinting: What’s in a name?
I have some strong opinions on most issues surrounding gun control. Right now, however, the hot topic is “ballistic fingerprinting.” What a misnomer. I’ve written about this in the past, as have many others, and no amount of common sense and real-world technical experience seems to sway the anti-gun movement.
National Review has a nice article on the subject, and I recently wrote this, albeit in a much more...umm..."conversational" tone. :)
Posted by JimK at 06:06 PM on October 23, 2002
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Connecticut needs a new Attorney General
Martha Dean will debate Richard Blumenthal at the Yale Law School Auditorium
in New Haven at 7:00 p.m. this Wednesday, October 23rd.
Richard Blumenthal has dominated this state long enough. He’s hell-bent on wasting taxpayer money on one frivolous pursuit after another, and he needs to go. I hope Martha wipes the floor with him.
For more information, parking, directions, and other details,
contact Kenneth Goss at (860) 278-9619 or cell: 860-918-0502 or
203-768-2867, or visit www.marthadean2002.com for more details.
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Posted by JimK at 08:26 PM on October 22, 2002
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It’s like naming your penis, only dumber
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.com has an article on the “Lackawanna 6,” The six Yemenites accused of operating an al-Qaeda cell in Buffalo, NY.
First of all, I should have known from the very name of this paper I was going to have at least one problem with the story. I never learn.
I’m getting really sick of “-Americans,” as I am sure most people with common sense are as well. The first glaring red flag in the story was when they referred to these guys as “Yemeni-Americans.” Ugh.
The other thing that burned my ass was the cute name they’ve been given. The “Lackawanna 6,” as if it softens the accusations against them. The media tends to give these Location/number names to groups that, for one reason or another, they believe are being persecuted or are simply outright innocent. I’d like to refer to the “Lackawanna 6” as the “Lackawanna al-Qaeda terrorist cell who wants to kill you and your family because you were born in the United States” from now on.
Can we make that happen?
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Posted by JimK at 06:00 PM on October 22, 2002
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CORE has a core
Fox News has a good article on the subject of Mr. Belafonte today. I was struck by much in the piece, but especially this:
Jesse Jackson says [Powell] is ‘not on our team.’ Well, what is our team? We have to use football and baseball analogies instead of serious dialogue” to argue legitimate political differences, Hutchinson said.
Isn’t it just like Jessie to find the wrong side of any given issue? And furthermore to glom onto a situation that has nothing to do with him in the first place? I’m still waiting for Jessie to answer Chris Rock. When Jackson guested on Rock’s HBO show, Chris looked at him pointedly and said “I gotta ask, Jessie...I asked Al Sharpton, I gotta ask you, what exactly is it that you do, and what are you a reverend of? I mean, how do you make money?” I know the answer already...through opportunism. But I digress.
Here we have two men born to poverty, both approximately the same age, both of Jamaican decent, both accomplished in their field. Belafonte came up and made a successful life and an entertainer. Powell once held the highest rank a military officer can ever hope to hold in this country, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
If Belafonte was so interested in advancing the cause of black people, one would think he would, regardless of political partisanship, see a fellow Jamaican made good and say “Yes...yes, you have done well for yourself, and you do us proud, even though I disagree with your politics.” Or maybe that’s too white for Belafonte...maybe he’d prefer “Yah, mon, you be doin’ well, evahn doh yer politics be all bumbaclot,mon.”
And then along comes Jackson...bandwagonboy, Mr. March, The Great Capitalizer. He got more rhymes than there’s cops that are dunkin’. He doesn’t have any real solutions, or any actual rainbows in his coalition, but hey...he’s a great sound-byte.
All I know is, my first exposure to the Congress Of Racial Equality was watching Roy Innis brawl on Geraldo the day Rivera got his nose broken. He didn’t start it, but nobody got the better of him that day. Since then, I have seen him challenge David Dinkins in NYC, speak many times in favor of the Second Amendment and help expose the Tawana Brawley lie. If Roy is any indication, his son Niger will call ‘em as he sees ‘em, regardless of party affiliation, and I commend CORE for stepping up.
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Posted by JimK at 02:14 PM on October 22, 2002
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And in other news…
It seems the Son of Sam is making a plea to the D.C. sniper to stop. He says he is “feeling this person’s anger and rage toward law enforcement.” I’m feeling like I don’t care what Berkowitz has to say, even if he is saying the right things.
After reading the Newsday.com story, I’m struck with quite a few thoughts. The first and foremost is that although David Berkowitz is in fact saying all the right things, I am sick and tired of criminals being given a spotlight, a forum, and that’s what this feels like. I assume there is some plan here, a plan to help put forth someone the sniper can identify with.
I just don’t care. I know I should, but I don’t. Berkowitz should never be given a public forum again. Using him to draw the sniper out is abhorrent, especially so to publish his letter in Newsday.
People should remember that this is the mechanism David used to terrorize New York. Call me an old softy, but I find it disrespectful to the victims and their families.
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Posted by JimK at 08:09 AM on October 22, 2002
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I have but one word to say
Woman shot when gun falls in commode (Read the rest of story)
And my one word?
Irony.
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Posted by JimK at 06:50 AM on October 22, 2002
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Those wacky Japanese
A man who was handed a 14-year prison sentence for holding a girl captive for more than 9 years asked an appeal court Tuesday to turn down the sentence because he said the ruling was “unreasonable.”
And I’d like to break my foot off in his ass.
The Niigata District Court sentenced Nobuyuki Sato to 14 years’ imprisonment in January this year after finding him guilty of confining the girl for 9 years and 2 months at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. (Read the rest of the story here)
Where oh where is that famous and oft-romanticized Japanese justice we hear about? Hwat ever happened to the whole “I have dishonored my family and now I must kill myself.” thing?
Is my idea about Japanese justice far too influenced by karate movies and Kurasowa?
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Posted by JimK at 06:23 AM on October 22, 2002
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Categories: The Stupidity Of Man
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