It's the most muslim-unfriendly beverage EVAR!!!!

Bacon-flavored vodka. I'm jumping out of my skin at the thought of this. Too bad it's only in the PNW, but seeing that I'm in California, we're probably next.

Go see for yourself: http://www.bakonvodka.com/

Another surprise... NOT!

I am a: Glock Model 22 in 40 cal

What kind of handgun are YOU?

Here's another surprise.

You are a Social Liberal (60% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (80% permissive) You are best described as a: Capitalist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

Can I get a parachute?

As the DJIA, S&P 500, and NASDAQ all head for the basement, with their chart curves looking like a BASE jumper's dream, I had to take a look at the markets during the last administration.

Here's what I found:

In the "Worst economy since the Depression", in October 2008, the DJIA was at its highest point EVAR!!!!!!

Between January 2001 and October 2008, the DJIA gained 2000 points.

Between the lowest and highest points during the Bush administration, there was a 6400 point increase. The lowest point was in September 2001 (gee, what happened then?)

As of the close of the markets today, the DJIA is lower than it EVER was during the Bush Administration.

I know I'm not the first to say this: IMPEACH OBAMA!

So are we going digital on 2/17 or not?

So Congress, in its infinite wisdom, is going to push back the digital TV transition for another 4 months, to June 12. So the 18 months worth of ads from the FCC, NAB, NARTE, etc.; and the ads and bumpers from the local stations; and all the ads in newspapers and magazines; and the live tests (at least by my local stations) with big graphics on their analog feeds essentially saying "You're Fucked After Feb. 17"; and the "nightlight provision" that allows TV stations to keep their analog signals running at a lower power if they're not in the 700 MHz section that's going to public safety is all for nothing.

When the FedGov offered the $40 coupons for converter boxes, didn't they expect every single house in the US to take them up on their offer? Did manufacturers and retailers not expect to sell them?

It's time to tell your Congresscritters and Duh Prez to let the DTV transition go on as planned with the Feb. 17 deadline. Call the Capitol and the White House and let them know that Public Safety is counting on the Feb. 17 deadline, and that the American people have known for years about it.

So what?

I don't know about you, but 1-20-09 was probably the most "meh" day I've had in 8 years. Well, yeah, I was running around like a chicken with my parts cut off trying to get a stream set up so that the resident Obamatrons in the building could watch their messiah on the big screen in one of the meeting rooms. I had to go off-site to get one fucking cable to plug the computer into the in-house sound system so that "The Anointed One" could be heard through out the room.

I was busy with actual work, and didn't really care what he had to say, even though what little I did catch of it was a whole lot of symbolism and very little substance. When I was at my desk, I was listening Andrew Wilkow playing Ronald Reagan's Inaugural speeches, which made me feel far better about this country. I heard Limbaugh and Hannity talking about the poet and the gay bishop, and did a Nipper and a WTF when I heard the "poem." The poem made no sense, and the prayer was so racially charged that I was disgusted.

Oh, and to the Left, who never missed a chance to talk shit about GW; payback is a bitch, motherfuckers.

Another "What 'X' are you" survey...

What military aircraft are you? F-15 Eagle You are an F-15. Your record in combat is spotless; you've never been defeated. You possess good looks, but are not flashy about it. You prefer to let your reputation do the talking. You are fast, agile, and loud, but reaching the end of your stardom.

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Liam Neeson opens a can of whupass (Taken Spoiler)

That's Taken in a nutshell.

Liam Neeson plays a father whose daughter is kidnapped by human smugglers in Paris. It's a nearly 2 hour thrill ride, with a little intrigue, a little detective work, and a whole of dead bad guys.

Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former CIA operative that is trying to get to know his estranged daughter, Kim , played by Maggie Grace. Kim goes with her friend, Amanda, to Paris for the first leg of a European tour. They meet what they believe to be a fellow traveler, Peter, at the airport, and share a cab with him. He turns out to be the spotter for the white slavery ring, and soon after a couple of thugs break into the apartment the girls are staying at and kidnap them.

Bryan goes to Paris and begins to look for Kim, using all of the skills that he learned in the CIA. He confronts the kidnappers, and proceeds to kill them, keeping one alive to gain information from in a rather unique way. He finds out that Kim has been sold to a broker of girls that caters to rich Arabs, so he infiltrates the party/auction where the girls are being sold. He sees her on the block, and forces one of the guys to keep bidding to win her.

As he tries to leave, he's attacked by the broker's thugs, who try to kill him. He puts the beatdown on these guys, and kills the broker before going after his daughter, who is in the hands of the Arabs. There's the obligatory chase through the streets of Paris along the Seine, and Bryan jumps from one of the bridges onto the Arab's boat, where he proceeds to kill everyone onboard to get Kim back.

I've left out some stuff to get you to actually go and see the movie, which you had better do.

Dumbassed Ads

I hate commercials that insult your intelligence.

The one that I currently find particularly annoying is the "Downy Ultra" spot where the hand is pulling clothes out of the bottle cap. The voiceover says something like "Can a little cap soften all this?" Well, if you count the clothes, it's a pair of socks and 3 shirts. I would ferdamsure hope that a cap of softener is going to soften 5 items of clothes.

Indians Fire #4

Morning briefing was the usual blahblah. Wx hotter and drier. RH coming up, but above 2k' still dry. RH in the low teens to single digits low, high teens to mid 20's high; temps mid 90's low, mid 80's high.

Division assignments all say "continue line construction" except for Div. U - "Prep and hold for possible firing"; structure groups - "provide structure protection for firing ops in Coleman Canyon"; and there's a burn group to fire out Coleman Canyon.

New pictures are up.

Air ops:
A/A FW - 166.6875
A/A RW - 130.200
Briefing - 128.475
Helibase Deck - 163.100
Torch Base - 134.875/171.1375


I'm leaving at about 1500 to head home. I'll post everything that I have left when I get back in.

Indians Fire #3

PM Briefing: Burnout tomorrow if the line gets completed. Wx getting cooler with a little better RH/Fuel Moisture recovery at lower elevations, but above 2000', it's still going to be hot and dry. The marine layer will come in, but that's part of an inversion, and we all know that above the inversion, it's warm and dry.

Freqs: NIFC Command 1 and 2; NIFC Tacs 2-7; R5 Tac 5; A/G:167.95

Found out during the day that the repeater on Comm 60 was programmed wrong. The right channels are there, but #1 is still the old (now wrong) channel, and the PL tones weren't programmed right - encode only, which does no good - and only a single PL instead of being selectable.

Vehicle and foot traffic over the phone line between the trailer mall and the SitStat tent broke one of the pairs. One down and 3 to go.

The data feed is working great, which is why I'm lucky enough to post here.

Camera battery went dead, so it's on the charger for now. I'm going to get one that takes AA batteries so I can BBS (beg, borrow, steal) them from Supply/Comm/etc.

Indians Fire #2

Morning Briefing was the usual BS. Apparently the plan is to control the fire long enough to put completed line in on the east side of the fire from Milpitas Road to Arroyo Seco Road along Reliz Canyon and Vaqueros Creek just outside the Wilderness boundary. Minimum Impact Suppression Tactics (MIST) are being required inside the Wilderness, but outside, it's all SRA, and the 12' wide McCleods are having a free-for-all. There's a map showing the last time that there was a fire, and some of the areas in the Wilderness haven't burned for 90-100 years. The IC wants the line put in by tomorrow, and made a comment about a "fire show" which leads me to believe that they're going to draw a line around the wilderness and fire it all out. They'll probably do this at night to make it a low(ish) intensity fire, but it'll burn into the next day.

I've got an album of pictures that I'm uploading as I go along, so check back regularly to see what I've added. Click here for the pictures.

Indians Fire #1

Okay, I arrived here about 2100, after winding my way around on narrow bumpy paved roads, and a dirt track that's barely wide enough to have 2 cars pass, much less 2 trucks.

The official GPS coordinates for where I am right now are 36 03.77'N x 121 18.12W. I'm about 50' from the row of trailers housing the command team.

Found the 3 most important places in camp: Supply, Food, and the T-Shirt vendor.

Took a bunch of pictures of the helibase. FHL is letting the FS use their helipads, which are nice and paved. There's a few ARNG units out here playing, so I wasn't surprised when I saw them firing blanks in a scenario as I was driving in.

I got the quick and dirty from the guy that I'm relieving about what's going on with Comm 60.

Checked in with the OES Comm Support unit that's here, and the Div Chief said that the plan for the fire is basically this: Draw a big line around it with dozers and hand crews, and fire it out. This about the same strategy that they used on the Zaca fire, but this time they're a little more serious.

There's hotshot crews, engines, watertenders, dozers and helitack crews from just about every forest here. There's a load of other agencies here, too: Kern, SBarb, Ventura, and lots of CDF crews and engines. I'll wander around camp tomorrow and get a few pictures. Now, I'm going to see about getting a place to bed down for the night.

I like to do a lot of surfing around, and reading other people's blogs, especially when there's nothing better to do, which is why you see my Blogroll. On one of the blogs, there was a linky, which took me to this:

You Will Be a Cool Parent

You seem to naturally know a lot about parenting, and you know what kids need. You can tell when it's time to let kids off the hook, and when it's time to lay down the law. While your parenting is modern and hip, it's not over the top. You know that there's nothing cool about a parent who acts like a teenager... or a drill sergeant!

Would You Be a Cool Parent?

So there you are. I don't have to wonder if I'll be a cool parent, since I've already been there, done that, have the scars and worn out the t-shirt.

The moonbats are flying again in Hollywierd.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,350916,00.html

NEW YORK — There's another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist.

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: "'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. 'Gangsta rap' didn't exist."

Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead," according to an interview in the magazine's May issue, on newsstands Tuesday.

Another of her theories: The bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing."

WTF? Alicia Keys is black? You could have fooled the living shit outta me. She's about as white as I am when I've got a good tan going. She's whiter than "High Yellow" So who put these nutty conspiracy theories into her head? Has she been listening to the Poverty Pimp Chorus of the Reverends Al, Jesse, and Jeremiah?

Bring me a real black soul singer, like Sade or Anita Baker. Not the fake ones like Alicia, or Amy W(h)inehouse.

Sorry that I haven't been posting much, even though I said that I would. Here's something to tide you over from Day by Day:

Overdue update...

Well, for the last 6 months, I've had my dream job. I'm now an official computer geek.

I was hired by the Fresno County Library as an IT Support Tech. That means I get to field the help desk calls, go out to branches and work on their computers and fix the broken ones, among other things. The library is implementing a self-checkout system, which includes RFID tagging of as many books as possible in the system, and I'm the lead person on installing the branch hardware and software.

The best thing is that I get lots of time to sit in front of the computer, surf the net and keep up on everything going on. I work Tuesday through Saturday, and Saturdays are usually dead enough that I can get a lot of stuff done in the office. This morning, I'm building an image as a skills test, so that they know that I know what I'm doing. The problem comes in that it takes so long for each thing to install, even on these screamingly fast computers. Sometimes I have to grab something off one of the network servers, copy it to the local machine or the external drive, and then run it, and that can take forever, depending on the rest of the network traffic.

Maybe now I can post some of the things that happen to me with all the in-duh-viduals running around.

Truthers, 1945 style

Once in a while, I find something interesting laying about on someone's desk as I'm working on their computer. This time I found a treatise called "The Myth of Hiroshima". From what was on the top page, it looks like the typical anti-American crap that comes from the Red Diaper Doper Babies. Delving deeper into it, though, it takes a sharp turn to the left and starts an anti-Bush, pro-Osama binLaden tack that started my head spinning. I saw so many lies and logic flaws that I didn't know where to begin refuting the garbage. When I get a chance to actually sit down and read it and perform the due diligence, then I might take it point by point and tear it to shreds...

http://www.unique-design.net/library/nature/consequence/hiroshima.html is the URL if you want to set your own head spinning.

Someone else gets it right

From Prescott, Arizona.

Gun control proponents turning us into cowards

By BOB SHIMIZU

The "rabbit people" are launching another torrent of invective against the
private gun ownership in the United States.

"Some nations bloodied by massacres turn to gun control" by William J. Kole
of the Associated Press fails to state how many times a firearm, or the
threat of one, has deterred violent attacks.

Seung Hui Cho, the shooter at Virginia Tech, acted illegally, so why didn't
the law stop him? Mr. Cho illegally falsified the statements on his Federal
Form 4473 to buy a firearm. He knowingly and illegally carried a gun onto
school property. Cho murdered 32 innocent victims. Finally, Mr. Cho took a
coward's refuge in suicide, his only benevolent act.

Now, college campuses across the country know how unprotected they are. The
police cannot protect the citizenry. At best they can collect forensic
evidence and try to catch the perpetrators, if they're still available.

But blood still stains the walls, and lives remain ruined.

Every U.S. citizen has the right to safety and self-defense. When did we
start thinking that anyone else can "protect" us? When did we come to think
that giving up the tools to protect ourselves means that society must kill our
own snakes for us? Why are we turning into cowards?

Nowhere is this misbegotten ethic more in force than on our liberal college
campuses, where it used to be perfectly fine for students to have
marksmanship classes and clubs. Colleges used to give young citizens a proper
grounding in the principles of government. Colleges made sure students understood
that they are the government and the state serves the people.

The dysfunctional leftist ethos has eroded that teaching along with the
malignant disease of "political correctness." Any confrontation somehow is
"bad." Any heartfelt discussion between opposite points of view is "violence."
Today, in the face of real violence, college kids are unable to do anything
about it.

Nowadays, cowardice is so prevalent that no Virginia Tech students had the
courage to rush Mr. Cho. That concerted action might have stopped things then
and there. Instead, the moral outrage that we might have felt even 40 years
ago has turned into retreat that lets a mad dog strike at will.

We make much of kids jumping out of windows to escape Mr. Cho's predations.
Had I run from this fight, I'd feel like a coward.

It's not the kids' fault. It's ours. We failed to insist that they learn
correctly - that they and they alone are responsible for their safety. We
made them into "rabbit people." We made them into rabbit people because we are
rabbit people.

Every time such a horror occurs, we demand that politicians "do something."
So, they try to ban the object involved rather than state things as they
are: No one can protect you from a mad dog. You have to deal with him
yourself. But after the crushing defeat the left suffered in 1994 after attacking
the Second Amendment, you can be sure they'll tread cautiously. A few
functioning Americans still exist out there.

That's why of the four flights terrorists hijacked on 9/11, one plane failed
to reach its target. That's why a teacher who retrieved his weapon from his
vehicle stopped the Oct. 1, 1997 school shooting in Pearl Miss., and
arrested the criminal. In some cases, Americans still are willing to stand up and
stop the outrage themselves.

The Jan. 31, 2006 Roanoke Times reported that the House Committee on
Militia, Police and Public Safety voted down HB1572 which would have allowed college
students and employees to carry handguns on campus.

Delegate Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, proposed the bill on behalf of
the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker
was happy with the defeat.

"I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's
actions," he said, "because this will help parents, students, faculty and
visitors feel safe on our campus."

A popular bumper sticker reads, "Think globally, act locally." If the
citizens of Prescott want to keep their kids safe at Prescott College, Yavapai
Community College and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the governing boards
of those respective organizations can thumb their noses at federal and state
laws about firearms on college campuses and let concealed carry permit
holders keep and bear arms on school property.

Such people have no criminal record, and have demonstrated both an
understanding of the use of deadly force and the proper manipulation of their weapons.
That would deter any mad dogs among us.

Do they have the courage to act in the face of this outrage? It's a
solution that would work.

(Bob Shimizu is a local businessman, an avid shooter, and a concealed carry
permit holder.)

Arizona is another state that gets it right, allowing open carry, and has a Shall Issue policy on CCW permits.

Who do you trust?

Who would you trust for your own safety? You, or someone else minutes away? If you trust the police, no wonder why there's so many muggings, assaults, rapes and murders every year. If you don't believe me, here's a case of someone who was forcibly disarmed by the inane policies at Virginia Tech:

Unarmed and vulnerable

Bradford B. Wiles - Thursday, August 31, 2006
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/80510

Wiles, of New Castle, is a graduate student at Virginia Tech.

On Aug. 21 at about 9:20 a.m., my graduate-level class was evacuated
from the Squires Student Center. We were interrupted in class and not
informed of anything other than the following words: "You need to get
out of the building."

Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside
by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their
side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either
fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down
the street, pistols drawn.

It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting
myself.

Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun in the
commonwealth of Virginia, and do so on a regular basis. However,
because I am a Virginia Tech student, I am prohibited from carrying at
school because of Virginia Tech's student policy, which makes posses-
sion of a handgun an expellable offense, but not a prosecutable crime.

I had entrusted my safety, and the safety of others to the police. In light
of this, there are a few things I wish to point out.

First, I never want to have my safety fully in the hands of anyone else,
including the police.

Second, I considered bringing my gun with me to campus, but did not
due to the obvious risk of losing my graduate career, which is ridiculous
because had I been shot and killed, there would have been no graduate
career for me anyway.

Third, and most important, I am trained and able to carry a concealed
handgun almost anywhere in Virginia and other states that have recip-
rocity with Virginia, but cannot carry where I spend more time than
anywhere else because, somehow, I become a threat to others when I
cross from the town of Blacksburg onto Virginia Tech's campus.

Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head
that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness. That
feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I knew I
would have been safer with a proper means to defend myself.

I would also like to point out that when I mentioned to a professor that I
would feel safer with my gun, this is what she said to me, "I would feel
safer if you had your gun."

The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in
Virginia
needs to be changed.

I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge
you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and
eliminate my entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to
the government.

This incident makes it clear that it is time that Virginia Tech and the
commonwealth of Virginia let me take responsibility for my safety.

This came out after the first on-campus incident at the beginning of this school year, when an escaped prisoner threatened the students at this and another nearby campus.

So, who do you trust? For more information on concealed weapons permits for your state, go to packing.org