Give Him Enough Rope…
Dec 29, 2006 Uncategorized
I remember this old phrase from my youth when things would happen and my parents would say if we give you enough rope you will hang yourself. Of course they meant that if I were given too much leeway I would eventually get my self in trouble. I have heard this throughout my life and though it is cliche, it is quite appropriate.
Saddam Hussein had 14 years to get his act together. Instead of straightening up and becoming part of the international community he decided that he wanted to go around executing people with whom he disagreed. He has fed babies to tigers, gouged out the eyes of adults and his men have gang raped women. Pleas from one woman that her husband, a member of Hussein’s cabinet who said the wrong thing, be sent home to her were answered by Hussein. The mans dismembered body was placed in front of the door to her home, in separate bags. Hussein’s sons also tortured people. A lot of people were fed into meat grinders and while they were screaming in agony the Husseins laughed. Now the time has come for Hussein to pay for his crimes.
Word is that Saddam Hussein will be hanged by 2200 Eastern time. The gallows have been erected and witnesses to the execution are in place. Soon, Hussein will do the perp walk to the platform where he will be made to pay for his crimes against humanity. Hussein had many years to get his act together but he chose to ignore UN Resolutions and work against the world rather than with it. He was continually given rope and now he will hang with it.
Interestingly, Saddam continues to say he is proud to die and will be a martyr but he keeps asking for a stay. He has even asked a US Court to stay his execution. I would not want to be a US Judge who said yes to that. He might end up in Gitmo. In any event, tonight is the night that Hussein will go to hell and meet his brother Satan, Mohammad the Satanic Prophet, and the rest of the Islamic terrorists who are still searching for virgins.
A reporter asked Hussein what he was doing for New Year’s and he said “Just hanging around.”
Right Voices has a great picture (I am going to see if I can get it but visit there to see it).
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How do You Pay for Cloned Food? Cloned Money
Dec 29, 2006 Uncategorized
The Food and Drug Administration has decided that food from cloned animals is safe to consume. This means that they can begin cloning cows on a large scale and send them to market to be butchered for food. This should help increase the amount of food available and thereby decrease hunger. If they put more beef on the market the cost will be less. Only problem I see is that they will not be required to label cloned food so consumers will not know.
I think I am going to copy a couple of hundred dollars on my fancy computer equipment and then print them out. When I buy meat or dairy products I am going to pay for my cloned food with my cloned money. I wonder how far that will go?
Source:
NYT
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Hussein Will Be Hanging Around for New Year’s
Dec 28, 2006 Uncategorized
Looks like Saddam Hussein will be swinging by the weekend when his execution is expected to be carried out. Hussein was sentenced to death after being found guilty of killing 148 people 14 years ago. Hussein has killed many more and is on trial for some of those but it looks like he will be put to death before the other crimes can be resolved.
You have to admire the Iraqi judicial system for this aspect; they do not take forever with appeals for those sentenced to death. Hussein would have been better off if he had been sentenced in America because he would have died of old age before the appeal process was over. We need to adopt this fast track to the gallows here in the US. Perhaps it would curb the murder rate. One thing is certain, it would clear out death row.
Hang down your head ole Saddam
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head ole Saddam
For boy you’re bout to die
By this time tomorrow
Reckon where you’ll be
Down near your biggest palace
Hanging from a big Palm tree
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President Ford Dead at Age 93
Dec 27, 2006 Uncategorized
Former President Gerald Ford, the only man not elected to the offices of Vice President and President, died of an unspecified illness at the age of 93. Ford Ascended to the Presidency when Richard Nixon resigned in the midst of the Watergate Scandal. Ford inherited a tough situation but was the stabilizing factor in a government on the verge of collapse. Gerald Ford had high approval numbers until he pardoned Nixon, an act many viewed as improper. The pardon though, was the right thing to do because it put the ugliness of Watergate behind us and allowed the country to move on without the distraction of a Nixon trial which certainly would have brought this country to its knees.
Ford has often been maligned as a bumbling man as portrayed by Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live but the truth is Ford was probably the most athletic of the Presidents and could have played professional football. Ford was considered by those who knew him to be an honest and fair man and his self effacing manner allowed him to enjoy the bits Chase did about him. He met with Chase and expressed how much he actually enjoyed the bits and how funny he thought they were.
Gerald Ford ran for reelection after serving the last two years of Nixon’s term and he was beaten, in large part because of the Nixon pardon, by Jimmy Carter. This country would have been much better off had Ford been reelected. Certainly he was much more competent than Carter and the country would probably have been much better off, at least economically, under a second Ford term.
Funeral arrangements are not complete but word is he will be lain out in California before being moved to DC where he will lay in state at the Rotunda. From there word is he will be buried in Michigan.
God bless Gerald Ford and his family. This country owes him a debt of gratitude for being the lynchpin during a tumultuous time.
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Here is a Clue, Pray in a Mosque
Dec 5, 2006 Uncategorized
A Muslim woman in Michigan has filed a complaint because a patron of a gym interrupted her prayers and when she complained she was told “you have to respect her [patron] but she does not have to respect your God.” I don’t know if those were really the words used because I was not there but it does not matter. The whole point is, she was praying in a gym and it bothered her that another patron was in the gym, now get this, to work out.
If this Muslim or any other wants to pray that is their business but the world does not stop functioning because it is prayer time. If they pray in a gym they might just get interrupted by people using the gym. There is no rule that says the rest of us have to be quiet while they pray. Some Muslim named Imad Hamad from the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said that it is OK if a Jew or a Christian wants to pray but the Muslims are picked on. I beg to differ Hadji, if a Jew or Christian is praying then they pray and they do not expect the world to be quiet for them. In addition, they pray in houses of worship where one is supposed to pray.
I have an idea for these folks. Don’t pray in the gym and people will not lift weights in their mosques.
Source:
DetNews
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