Book Meme
Book Meme
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
"Some muffled sounds came through the door. Then silence, and he was about to knock again wgen the man said, 'What the hell is this?"
'Parcel for you,' he said."
--Hit Man by Lawrence Block
The Southwest Is Doomed
I was watching Sunday Morning today and it had a story on global climate change. I have also been reading about it in other places too. I am not talking about "Global Warming". I believe that the Earth is in a natural warming phase right now.
Changes in the jet stream have created an extreme change in the weather of the southwest USA.
The Colorado river is drying up. It was once fed by snow melting in the Rockies. It's not snowing like it use to because of changes in the Jet Stream. The river no longer runs all the way to the ocean. Lake Meade is drying up. At present rate it will be dry in 2021. The hydro electric dams along the way will have no water to power them, including the Hoover dam. 21million people will have no water. The ground water is going fast. What is down there is often brine and not drinkable without desalination. Impossible without power too.
Dust bowl days are ahead. Nevada, Arizonia, Texas, New Mexico, Oaklahoma, even parts of Kansas are at high risk.
--Mad Max Days Ahead!
WTF
I saw TIME magazine this week and it actually pissed me off.
The soldiers that died at Iwo Jima deserve more respect than this. This Pulitzer prize winning photo deserves more respect than this.
I have actually stood at this monument and gotten misty eyed thinking about the sacrifices of my fathers generation.
I bet half the pussies that created this cover drive Hummers.
--Bite me, Time magazine
RIP - Charlton Heston
Film Legend Charlton Heston Dead at 84
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing ''Ben-Hur'' and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.
Chuck loved movies and guns. He was a "Gentlemen Shooter". My kinda of guy.
--The damn dirty apes are prying the guns from his cold dead hands as we speak. RIP
Portraits Before and After Death
I believe that 95% of the internet is Shit. I have seen to much of it and have been disappointed so often that when I find part of that elusive 5% it can make me sigh.My wonderful wife sent me this link:
Portraits Before and After Death
Not many things are so haunting and beautiful that they can make her cry.
"My good friend is a hospice nurse. She often says there is no difference between her work and the work of a labor and delivery nurse; one helps to birth babies and the other helps to birth souls - both of which require great courage. She likes to imagine that those souls are a messy, squirming, crying blob which are handed to their creator who knows and loves them.
There is great and haunting beauty in these images, and death..."
--I miss my parents... still.
Craigslist.org
I am an addict to Craigslist, dammit.
I check it for campers, taxidermy, toolboxes and other free stuff almost every day.
Every major city has a craigslist page. Got to www.craigslist.org and find your closest page!
--I just got a cool fox trophy!
Battlestar Galatica Season 3
I just got season 3 of BSG!
By the Gods I love this show.
The production quality, the acting, the plots, the action, the special effects are excellent.
Watching this on the 120 inch screen is Glory and Goodness with a hint of Love!
I was lucky enough to meet Ron Moore and talk with him a little.
--Excellent
DC vs. Heller
Dick Anthony Heller is a 66-year-old security guard who carries a handgun to protect the employees and property at the federal building where he works in Washington, D.C.
Because Heller also is a resident of the District of Columbia, he is prohibited from having a handgun in his home for self-protection.
Heller sued to overturn Washington's 1976 gun-control law that also requires all rifles or shotguns in D.C. homes to be disassembled or kept under trigger lock.
Heller sued claiming that the D.C. law violated his Second Amendment rights.
That amendment states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
To the surprise of many observers, Heller won his lawsuit before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit when that court struck down the district's gun law.
Now it is up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Heller has a constitutional right to keep a handgun in his home, located only a mile away from the court.
In essence, the D.C. law prevents citizens from using guns for self-defense. This is fine with many gun-control advocates.
--Personally, I think Heller should be able to keep a handgun in his home for his protection.
I LoveThis Robot
Boston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow to be the future AT-AT of the Pentagon. Its evolution since the last time we saw it is nothing sort of mindblowing, and a bit spooky.
Movie Night!!
Don't gasp and fall over! Marty is having a Movie Night!!
When: Friday, March 14th, 6pm
What: No Country for Old Men
Where: Marty's Movie McMansion Theater!
Who: You and people like you!
Why: Because the new home theater ROCKS!
I just picked this movie up today. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture and I have NOT seen it yet!
The bar opens at 5pm! Dinner at 6:30 or so! RSVP, Dammit so we can figure out what to cook or order! We might grill or order pizza!
RSVP! Do it now!
McCain is a Lock
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ralph Nader is entering the presidential race as an independent, he announced Sunday, saying it is time for a "Jeffersonian revolution."
Ralph Nader is running for president as an independent.
Sen. Hillary Clinton told reporters, "I remember when he ran before. It didn't turn out very well for anybody -- especially our country."
In other news:2008 Election Results Leaked
-- I still think everyone qualified to actually run this country is too smart to go into politics...
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