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I've apparently been banned from commenting in [livejournal.com profile] nasagrl's LJ. I have no idea why nor was any explanation was given. I'd noticed soon after this several comments to her LJ also were deleted (when she asked about Bats Day attendance) last week. This seems to correspond with my rant about how my kids were misbehaving the week before.

I'm curious and annoyed. I've treated this person with manners and respect since making their acquaintance. I'd even put this young lady in for a position here at the place of employment and even gave her a very strong recommendation (I can't help it if our HR Department is very slow). I even overlooked the photoshoot arrangements/trade that she'd said she wanted to do and then kept side stepping. Apparently I don't merit the same level of respect as other folks.
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Hello, I'm having a blonde moment, er day, ummm week. Hand me my dunce cap.. Lack of sleep and feeling bleah is making me an idiot. Shoot me.
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Narf - Linsey’s following in Paris footsteps

Hopefully this ditzy young actress will learn this time.. Unlikely given her attitude and apathy, but miracles have been known to happen. After taunting the boys at the expensive alcohol rehab center by walking around in the nude, I wonder if she’ll do it in county jail as well.

Naked in Rehab
http://www.showbizspy.com/2007/07/20/lindsay-lohan-paraded-around-rehab-naked/

Lindsay Lohan was arrested for drunken driving and cocaine possession
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6450690?source=most_viewed

Disney should be cancelling her contract right about...
jjmaccrimmon: (Evil Grin)
Other than a mild case of methane poisoning (plumbing related) almost nothing is happening here (work) today. I feel like my brians are going to ooze out from boredom.
jjmaccrimmon: (Me - Stare)
PLEASE, feel free to copy this and repost it anywhere and everywhere.
On July 3rd, our democracy was exposed as a lie, a falsehood and a sham. When the President, whom I frequently refer to as King George commuted (read: effectively pardoned) Lewis "Scooter" Libby, he effectively told the world, the Judicial Branch, the Congress, the American apathetic public that he and his staff were without any doubt, above the laws in which we espouse and the way of life we were once so proud of. Mr Bush, you made me ashamed to be an American.

The statement by Keith Olbermann at the end of the NBC news the night of the 3rd is perhaps the most telling commentary of where and how far down the slippery slope our democracy has gone. He clearly, eloquently and passionately says what so many of us have disquietly whispered on the blogs, journals and chat rooms. Someone has hijacked our government. They twisted everything that we thought it was to be Americans and what the world saw that was good and righteous and honorable into a nightmarish vision of the very countries we've long stood up against for the past 230 years.

The text is below and the link to the actual broadcast piece is here. I doubt that our Congress has the will to say and do the right thing. I'm positive that our President and Vice President absolutely have niether the willingness to do the right thing or even the recognition of what the right thing is any more. 'We the people' hopefully still do. This isn't a liberal thing or a conservative thing, nor is it a Blue vs Red State problem, it is a problem that affects all of us as one nation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/


SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Updated: 8:13 p.m. ET July 3, 2007


"I didn't vote for him," an American once said, "But he's my president, and I hope he does a good job."

That--on this eve of the 4th of July--is the essence of this democracy, in 17 words. And that is what President Bush threw away yesterday in commuting the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

The man who said those 17 words--improbably enough--was the actor John Wayne. And Wayne, an ultra-conservative, said them, when he learned of the hair's-breadth election of John F. Kennedy instead of his personal favorite, Richard Nixon in 1960.

"I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job."

The sentiment was doubtlessly expressed earlier, but there is something especially appropriate about hearing it, now, in Wayne's voice: The crisp matter-of-fact acknowledgement that we have survived, even though for nearly two centuries now, our Commander-in-Chief has also served, simultaneously, as the head of one political party and often the scourge of all others.

We as citizens must, at some point, ignore a president's partisanship. Not that we may prosper as a nation, not that we may achieve, not that we may lead the world--but merely that we may function.

But just as essential to the seventeen words of John Wayne, is an implicit trust--a sacred trust: That the president for whom so many did not vote, can in turn suspend his political self long enough, and for matters imperative enough, to conduct himself solely for the benefit of the entire Republic.

Our generation's willingness to state "we didn't vote for him, but he's our president, and we hope he does a good job," was tested in the crucible of history, and earlier than most.

And in circumstances more tragic and threatening. And we did that with which history tasked us.

We enveloped our President in 2001. And those who did not believe he should have been elected--indeed those who did not believe he had been elected--willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.

And George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point and stabbed this nation in the back with it.

Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.

Did so even before the appeals process was complete; did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice; did so despite what James Madison--at the Constitutional Convention--said about impeaching any president who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes "advised by" that president; did so without the slightest concern that even the most detached of citizens must look at the chain of events and wonder: To what degree was Mr. Libby told: break the law however you wish--the President will keep you out of prison?

In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation’s citizens--the ones who did not cast votes for you. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party. And this is too important a time, Sir, to have a commander-in-chief who puts party over nation.

This has been, of course, the gathering legacy of this Administration. Few of its decisions have escaped the stain of politics. The extraordinary Karl Rove has spoken of "a permanent Republican majority," as if such a thing--or a permanent Democratic majority--is not antithetical to that upon which rests: our country, our history, our revolution, our freedoms.

Yet our Democracy has survived shrewder men than Karl Rove. And it has survived the frequent stain of politics upon the fabric of government. But this administration, with ever-increasing insistence and almost theocratic zealotry, has turned that stain into a massive oil spill.

The protection of the environment is turned over to those of one political party, who will financially benefit from the rape of the environment. The protections of the Constitution are turned over to those of one political party, who believe those protections unnecessary and extravagant and quaint.

The enforcement of the laws is turned over to those of one political party, who will swear beforehand that they will not enforce those laws. The choice between war and peace is turned over to those of one political party, who stand to gain vast wealth by ensuring that there is never peace, but only war.

And now, when just one cooked book gets corrected by an honest auditor, when just one trampling of the inherent and inviolable fairness of government is rejected by an impartial judge, when just one wild-eyed partisan is stopped by the figure of blind justice, this President decides that he, and not the law, must prevail.

I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

I accuse you of firing the generals who told you that the plans for Iraq were disastrously insufficient.

I accuse you of causing in Iraq the needless deaths of 3,586 of our brothers and sons, and sisters and daughters, and friends and neighbors.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but to stifle dissent.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.

I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents.

I accuse you of handing part of this Republic over to a Vice President who is without conscience, and letting him run roughshod over it.

And I accuse you now, Mr. Bush, of giving, through that Vice President, carte blanche to Mr. Libby, to help defame Ambassador Joseph Wilson by any means necessary, to lie to Grand Juries and Special Counsel and before a court, in order to protect the mechanisms and particulars of that defamation, with your guarantee that Libby would never see prison, and, in so doing, as Ambassador Wilson himself phrased it here last night, of becoming an accessory to the obstruction of justice.

When President Nixon ordered the firing of the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" on October 20th, 1973, Cox initially responded tersely, and ominously.

"Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men, is now for Congress, and ultimately, the American people."

President Nixon did not understand how he had crystallized the issue of Watergate for the American people.

It had been about the obscure meaning behind an attempt to break in to a rival party's headquarters; and the labyrinthine effort to cover-up that break-in and the related crimes.

And in one night, Nixon transformed it.

Watergate--instantaneously--became a simpler issue: a President overruling the inexorable march of the law of insisting--in a way that resonated viscerally with millions who had not previously understood--that he was the law.

Not the Constitution. Not the Congress. Not the Courts. Just him.

Just--Mr. Bush--as you did, yesterday.

The twists and turns of Plame-Gate, of your precise and intricate lies that sent us into this bottomless pit of Iraq; your lies upon the lies to discredit Joe Wilson; your lies upon the lies upon the lies to throw the sand at the "referee" of Prosecutor Fitzgerald's analogy. These are complex and often painful to follow, and too much, perhaps, for the average citizen.

But when other citizens render a verdict against your man, Mr. Bush--and then you spit in the faces of those jurors and that judge and the judges who were yet to hear the appeal--the average citizen understands that, Sir.

It's the fixed ballgame and the rigged casino and the pre-arranged lottery all rolled into one--and it stinks. And they know it.

Nixon's mistake, the last and most fatal of them, the firing of Archibald Cox, was enough to cost him the presidency. And in the end, even Richard Nixon could say he could not put this nation through an impeachment.

It was far too late for it to matter then, but as the decades unfold, that single final gesture of non-partisanship, of acknowledged responsibility not to self, not to party, not to "base," but to country, echoes loudly into history. Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign.

Would that you could say that, Mr. Bush. And that you could say it for Mr. Cheney. You both crossed the Rubicon yesterday. Which one of you chose the route, no longer matters. Which is the ventriloquist, and which the dummy, is irrelevant.

But that you have twisted the machinery of government into nothing more than a tawdry machine of politics, is the only fact that remains relevant.

It is nearly July 4th, Mr. Bush, the commemoration of the moment we Americans decided that rather than live under a King who made up the laws, or erased them, or ignored them--or commuted the sentences of those rightly convicted under them--we would force our independence, and regain our sacred freedoms.

We of this time--and our leaders in Congress, of both parties--must now live up to those standards which echo through our history: Pressure, negotiate, impeach--get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our Democracy, away from its helm.

For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9th, 1974.

Resign.

And give us someone--anyone--about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, "I didn't vote for him, but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job."



© 2007 MSNBC Interactive
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/
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A recent article on MSNBC and C/Net details how sometimes even listening music on share-site and such can be horrendously dangerous.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19027799/
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Yah know I thought about this and after making this reply to a friend I thought that perhaps I should post the info here too.

Recently the US Dept of Defenfense announced they were blocking YouTube and MySpace (among others) from military personnel. Their reasoning is that these site could contribute to security breaches and endanger personnel. Although the possibility exists, the main reasoning is that it restricts access to information in and out bound to Iraq and Afganistan.

Personally I think this is a crock of poo, so allow me to offer a few helpful hints on how to get around this problem.

Solutions: Brought to you by your friends at Brute Force Cybernetics

There are ways around it even for the military. Yah see, I'm a sneaky individual and I think it's only appropriate to use the Federal Government's information against them in such situations as these. How you might ask?..

The Voice of America and Radio Free Asia (both arms of the US Government) put out simple and easy to use descriptions of how to get around IP and address blocking. Here's the link to RFA:

http://www.rfa.org/english/support/web_access/
From their website (in case it’s pulled)

Web Access - Getting Around Internet Blockage
As the governments of more countries use technology to block their citizens' access to certain Web sites on the Internet, you might encounter difficulty visiting the RFA sites.
However, there are many ways to bypass the Internet blockage.
One of the most popular ways is to use proxy servers. You can get updated proxy information sent to you automatically by sending an e-mail to proxies@rfanews.org. Note: Send an email regularly to get currently working proxies.
If you don’t know how to use a proxy server, please, read the instructions below on how to set up your own computer to use proxy or use a proxy on another Web site.
Increasingly in China, people can access censored Web sites via special portal pages called “Client side software.” These are services provided by companies that specialize in offering free access to information. We recommend Freegate, from Dynaweb, and several others (see below.)
You can also get the news via e-mail. Several of our news services distribute their stories via e-mail newsletter and we've provided links to make it easy for you to sign up.
• Subscribe to an RFA e-mail newsletter in your language

• Learn about client's side software (http://www.rfa.org/english/support/anticensorship_software)

• Install a software on your flash drive (http://www.rfa.org/english/support/webaccess_flashdrive/index.html)

• Set up your computer to use an open proxy (http://www.rfa.org/english/support/webaccess_openproxy)

• Use a Web site's CGI proxy (http://www.rfa.org/english/support/webaccess_cgiproxy)

• Use a peer-to-peer network (http://www.rfa.org/english/support/anticensorship_networks)

If you wish to share information about ways to overcome Internet censorship, write to us at contact@rfa.org; or post it on our English-language message board, in a special section


The following companies offer anon access portals to the net through their software:

FreeGate
http://www.download.com/Freegate/3000-2085_4-10415392.html

Dynaweb
http://www.dit-inc.us/dynaweb.php


heh heh heh... censors - meh.. :P

Brute Force Cybernetics - Creating a need, then filling it.
jjmaccrimmon: (Master Gracey)
Apparently his maker recalled him, like a poorly built car and sent him to the big scrap yard.

As I wrote to several folks, I've been stunned by the very consistenet well-spring of dislike for this man. On my friends list I'm not surprised, but this seems to be common on multiple communities and forums. Few if any seem to be the least upset by his passing.

His misguided influence and preversion of the US political scene and society was profound. Remember this was the man who made it acceptible for churches to take a very active role in political activities. Many historians and new agencies credit his "Moral Majority" and tele-evangalism with creating the foundations of the current right wing, Christian conservative movement. This has brought us abortion clinic bombings, increased attacks on homosexuals, delays in effectively treating AIDS, reduced funding for sexual education, and various religious challenges to arts related funding.

I could easily rile about his personal excesses and corruption. I could certainly post various damning quotes he made regarding everything from how to treat one's fellow man to how to live a (professed) honorable lifestyle. I could equally list various items of personal wealth amassed through his church realted activities. What's the point though...?

Hopefully this is the end of an era that will best be learned from and not repeated in my lifetime or that of my children.
jjmaccrimmon: (Frustrated)
Last weekend the Run for the Roses was held in my hometown of Louisville, KY. It tends to attract a substantial number of the famous and infamous who enjoy the weeklong celebrations that precede the Kentucky Derby. Among this year’s visitors was none other than former Los Angeles resident OJ Simpson. OJ and his friends went into “Jeff Ruby’s Louisville Steakhouse” a very upscale restaurant to celebrate on the Friday prior to the race. Jeff Ruby, the owner of the establishment, is not a stranger in dealing with celebrities. In this case, he knew just what to do. He walked up to the quiet, well mannered group, and told OJ that he and his staff would not serve them.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770508029

Ladies and gentleman, give Mr. Ruby a prize for sticking to his principles and asking OJ and company to leave. There is a simple sign that hangs in front of many restaurants that clearly applies: “We Have the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone.” Clearly Jeff Ruby was more interested in sticking to his concept of right and wrong then the concept of obvious profit.

Mr. (I use the term loosely here) Simpson and his party departed without incident. Today, OJ’s attorney announced that they would seek to have the restaurant’s liquor license revoked for refusing to service the former football player. They stated they would sue because race played a factor in the decision. Sorry, but what a load of crap! Mr Ruby has stated very clearly and publicly that this was due to OJ’s (past) behavior. I for one support Ruby’s decision.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070509/NEWS01/70509013
jjmaccrimmon: (Pissed Off)
Copied with permission from [livejournal.com profile] scottishdm

Because I have to label such things now, this is not satire.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/26/clinic.bomb/index.html

We don't have any conclusive evidence yet, but let's be perfectly frank: the bomb was an IED, and the person, persons or organization who planted it are home-grown terrorists, part of the network of militant anti-choice terrorists across the United States. There have been active anti-choice terrorist cells in the US since Roe vs. Wade. When the War on Terror was first declared by this administration, it was these people that first came to my mind. I knew full well that Bush would never allow such organizations to be publicly investigated; they're his base, after all.

Your war on terror begins at home, Mr. Bush. The "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here" rhetoric doesn't work when they're already here. If your focus for this larger war is terrorism, deal with the anti-choice terrorists here in the States. If your focus is fundamentalist extremism, deal with the fundamentalists of your own religion.

Of course, it seems like your focus is neither of these things, but instead on keeping the American people in a nonstop delirium of fear.

My reply was:

...It never ceases to amaze me that the idiots perpetrating this frequently make multiple attacks or attempts. The first one usually is a failure, but sadly they learn from their mistakes. The authorities won't label it terrorism even if it is, till someone gets hurt or dies.

In the event they actually catch the self righteous nut-job that plants one of these, they'll scream that they just defending life despite the ones they maim or kill. They merely want to inforce their thoughts and beliefs on the masses. Sounds a lot like the Taliban or the Iranians now.
jjmaccrimmon: (Republican Rant)
The currency of the realm is deceit
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348452/

More information continues to trickle out about the nature of the decision process (or lack of) that went into the Iraq War. Former CIA Director, George Tenet has written in his biography that Darth er, Dick Cheney was the primary force pushing the administration to go to war at all costs. The Dark Lord of the Sith ®, er the Vice President, both limited debate and pushed hard to invade.

More and more of former Administration executives and staff are coming forward to say that decisions and consultation was not taken on major decisions such as the Iraq War. Like we have already learned with the Hurricane Katrina response and the Justice Dept deceptive practices involving Patriot Act usage, the level of deceit and self delusion in the upper most levels of this Government are simply astonishing.

Of course the spokesman for the Administration is deigning the Former Director’s story noting that he was confused of unaware of all the discussions. I find it amusing that a Cabinet level director, who at the time, reported DIRECTLY to the President and who was the head of the Central INTELLIGENCE Agency, would not have been privy to or aware of the debate. This ladies and gents is a game of denial, and another facet of the bunker mentality. They continue to ignore reality and advice much to our detriment. They would rather spin stories than to actually fact facts.
jjmaccrimmon: (SCA Shield)
Greeting all,


Folks I thought I would share this little tidbit of info that has been under discussion in the Caid youth combat community. I believe it applies here, because many kingdoms have fencers that are allowed to practice and authorize as young as 14 and heavy combat as young as 16 in some kingdoms. Although the discussions started in youth combat, this will be applied to ALL combat forms dealing with youth (not my words). Read and debate. Below is what I've posted in Caid's YC and Rapier lists.

First off, I have children and maintain extensive security / background checks due my work, but this is sounding more like an exercise in liability protection versus actual youth protection. I wish that the BoD and our Society officers would stop assuming that we are idiots in couching it this way.

the real costs – my personal view )
Master Aaron Swiftrunner’s original message )
jjmaccrimmon: (SCA Shield)
I'm hearing some very unpleasant rumors about me recently. Funny how it seems to be coordinated in advance of my potential return to playing in the SCA locally. Same old nasty fiction... Hopefully this is merely a misunderstanding rather than intentional mischief or deceit.

No drama allowed...
jjmaccrimmon: (Republican Rant)
The Bush Adminisitration...


Not content with merely lying, defrauding and cheating; the admininistration has finally cut ties to the Evangelical / Christian community. What better way to show the dark side in which King George serves than do so than on the newest dollar coin?

Treasury Department has released (accidently?) a new one dollar coin. A large batch of these beauties have a unique birthmark. "In God We Trust" isn't there.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Godless_Dollars.html

Funny, but the Treasury is making no effort to recover the "at least 50,000 error coins were put in circulation" and some of which are selling openly on eBay. Funny how demand in dollar coins suddenly skyrocketed?.. I wonder, if they'd shown Sacagawea in a loin-cloth*, or Susan B in her younger, wilder, mini-dress years*, whether their coins might have been a bit more popular. It's a shame the Eisenhower "thumbs-up" (Steve Colbert style) coin was rejected in the stodgely 1970's.





* This is humor, refer to wikipedia under the subject of wild, silly sarcasm before commenting that JJ is being insensitive
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After years of snubbing their noses and biting their thumbs toward the Syrians and Iranians, the US is actually willing to talk to them. Mind you the announcement was carefully worded to say the "State Dept" versus the "Bush Administration." The purpose was to support the Iraqi Government's relations with their neighbors. Funny that these offers to talk come at the point when the Sec's of State and Defense are testifying before Congress about war funding. Funny how that happens...

MSNBC

San Francisco Chronicle

Reuters
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A friend of mine on Boston commented that she tried to buy tickets to The Police concert. [livejournal.com profile] heatherizcool noted that even with several of them trying, no-one could get tickets. What I pointed out deserves to be noted to the public -

Ticketmaster is a scam


I posted this response in her journal and offer it up as a general post here.

snip
The problem with Ticketmaster is their process. First off, they have agreements with in advance with radio stations and other broadcasters. In a large city, this can account for more than 30% of the total tickets.

Then there's the institutional buyers. Don't let TM fool you. They opened presale to large businesses in a venue area as much as 3 days before the actual public sale. Large businesses pay a premium each each year to get perks for their employees and management. Knock off another 30% of available tickets there.

Lastly is the power buyers - read the scalpers. They line up power banks to purchase blocks of tickets. In some cases these have commercial quality speed dialers that can hit a number 3 times a second. The true pro's at this have computer programs do the calling or web flufff for them. Don't let the verification 'letter/number' recognition thing fool you. It's easily bypassed. Knock off another 10 to 20% of potential ticket availability there.

That leaves about 10 to 20% available for the regular public. Figure in a normal arena venue with 16,000 seats, that leaves 1600 to 3200 seats for the general public to fight for. Sucks eh?
jjmaccrimmon: (Republican Rant)
Bush poised to send more troops into Iraq - THIS MONTH!!!

This man just doesn't get it. His party lost control of the Congress because of the War he started. The polls in the US show support for his handling of the conflict at all time record lows (mid 20%). Instead, very quietly, he prepositioned part of the 82nd Airborne Division in Kuwait.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16546093/
jjmaccrimmon: (Potter Puppet Pals - Bother (Gacked from)
Gakked from [livejournal.com profile] patgund. This is so accurate, relative and dead on considering the current "State" of affairs. Words of wisdom.

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10102006.shtml
jjmaccrimmon: (Republican Rant)
King George actually uttered those words to scare the voters (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/03/bush.ap/index.html). The campaign of lies and deceit continues with little grasp of reality or truth.

This comment from the man who lied about practically every major political issue in the last 6 years.

This from the party that brought us the likes of Jack Abramoff, Ted Foley, George Allen and Bob Ney, just to name a few recent examples.

This from the Administration that featured a Deputy Sec of State who out of one side of his mouth, threatens to bomb an ally “back into the stone-age” (Pakistan) and from the other side of his mouth gives away the identity of a CIA undercover operative.

This from the Administration that has screwed up the response and reconstruction efforts in :
Afghanistan (no funding & no infrastructure),
Iraq (no funding, no infrastructure, no security and no technical know how) and
The State of Louisiana (no funding, no planning, no infrastructure, no technical know how, no leadership, and no grasp of urgency).

This from the Administration that refused to listen to experts in on Global Warming, Stem Cell Research, Environmental Concerns and World Trade.

This from the Administration that has presided over the steady decline of the US Middle class due to loss of income and quality of jobs. Part time, temporary positions that offer not benefits, limited pay and no future are not economic growth.

This from the Administration that has done more to restrict, constrain and destroy the liberties and freedoms of the US Public more than ANY terrorist or enemy of our nation since we broke away from England in 1776.

Get a freaking clue King George!!!

I sure as Hell hope the Democratic leadership is listening to this carefully. You have your battle cry now - use it!
jjmaccrimmon: (Pissed Off)
Now there's a match made in the depths of Hell, but another blogger has elected to make the association. While roaming the SCA LJ Community, I found a reference to an article noting that Grand Moff Rumsfeld (er, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld) was a member of the SCA. If it had only gone that far, I'd have glossed over it and ignored it. The article however listed him as Master Wilhelm von Steuben, OL, from the MidRealm, and a member of the SCA Board of Directors since 1992. Fhut the Wuck!?!?

In the last few years, I haven't been the biggest supporter of the SCA, but my hackles raise when by association, we get lumped in with articles such as this. Yes, its a spoof... No, he is not involved in our organization - thankfully.

Here's a link to the article and the response I posted back to the author. Do I realistically think he'll make amends to the SCA's 'good' name?... nope.. Should he be called out on it?

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/08/lives_of_the_ca.html#comment-21844123

Hell yeah!

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