Saturday, November 06, 2004
CNN.com - China: Don't refer Iran to U.N. - Nov 6, 2004
CNN - China: Don't refer Iran to U.N.
Umm, yeah. And just why does China care? And does anyone remember when another MidEast country was under investigation for weapons by the UN? And how the leader of this country was "cooperating" quite well, while gassing his citizens with his non-existant weapons and moving them in such a manner that put UPS to shame? Its amazing how short some people's memory is.
And just why is China butting in anyway? We have to go all the way to the bottom to find that out...
Hmm...
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(Byline) China will oppose any effort to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over the issue of Tehran's nuclear program, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has said.
Zhaoxing, who arrived in Tehran for a two-day visit Saturday, said China believes the issue should be dealt with by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Zhaoxing said he has discussed the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
"I also told these colleagues that, to my knowledge, Iran is having a pretty good cooperation with the IAEA," he said.
Umm, yeah. And just why does China care? And does anyone remember when another MidEast country was under investigation for weapons by the UN? And how the leader of this country was "cooperating" quite well, while gassing his citizens with his non-existant weapons and moving them in such a manner that put UPS to shame? Its amazing how short some people's memory is.
And just why is China butting in anyway? We have to go all the way to the bottom to find that out...
Iran is eager to step up trade with China. It signed a preliminary agreement for the export of gas to China for 25 years. It also has offered China a concession to develop oil and gas fields in the Persian Gulf.
Hmm...
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Grrr...Goddamned Walmart policies
Well, I was all set today to change my oil, oil filter, and brake pads today, and I was off to Wal-Mart to get some brake cleaning spray, oil, some Sta-Bil fuel stabilizer to winterize my bike with, and some fuel injector cleaner gas additive. I got carded for all but the oil, and the bitch was >< that close to carding me for that. I didn't have my ID on my person, and wouldn't have handed it to her if I did. I am 21 years old, and have never been carded for alcohol, yet I get carded for automotive supplies that I have been buying for 5 years.
Shit, I could walk up to a counter in an Autozone and say "I want a case of Brake CLeaner" and they would say "Ok. $XX dollars please." And being carded for injector cleaner and Sta-Bil? WTF? Have I been away from high school so long that I don't know about the evils of fuel additives? Do 12 year olds sit around and drink shots of Sta-Bil and chase it with injector cleaner? Where is the logic in these policies? Do Wal-Mart execs have so much goddamned money that they are trying to drive customers into the waiting arms of their competitors? Competitors that don't treat their customers like criminals? If I want to be treated like a criminal, I will go to a gun store. At least they have some inane law that says they have to treat everyone like that. Wal-Mart just hates people that want to give them money.
I used to joke that Sam Walton was not only spinning in his grave, but their was a memo circulating Home Office that proposed strapping magnets to his corpse and casket to generate electricity. These days, I doubt it would take them much convincing.
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Shit, I could walk up to a counter in an Autozone and say "I want a case of Brake CLeaner" and they would say "Ok. $XX dollars please." And being carded for injector cleaner and Sta-Bil? WTF? Have I been away from high school so long that I don't know about the evils of fuel additives? Do 12 year olds sit around and drink shots of Sta-Bil and chase it with injector cleaner? Where is the logic in these policies? Do Wal-Mart execs have so much goddamned money that they are trying to drive customers into the waiting arms of their competitors? Competitors that don't treat their customers like criminals? If I want to be treated like a criminal, I will go to a gun store. At least they have some inane law that says they have to treat everyone like that. Wal-Mart just hates people that want to give them money.
I used to joke that Sam Walton was not only spinning in his grave, but their was a memo circulating Home Office that proposed strapping magnets to his corpse and casket to generate electricity. These days, I doubt it would take them much convincing.
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Friday, November 05, 2004
Don't let the door hit you in the ass...
Canadian immigration site's American visitor traffic surges
"Bush's victory sparked speculation that disconsolate Democrats and others might decide to start a new life in Canada, a land that tilts more to the left than the United States. "
You know what? Liberals leaving in droves would make me happier. The party of "tolerance and acceptance" has done nothing but preach hate to anyone that doesn't think like them. I had to clean up a fight after Kerry lost, because some asshole Kerry-supporter was vandalizing a Bush-supporter's truck. He was confronted, and decided that the Bush-ite needed his head bounced off the ground. In other cases, mere stickers and pins cause heated verbal fights with nothing but irrational vitriol coming from the Democrat, against a Republican that was minding his own business, merely exercising his Right to Free Speech. And he has that right, unless he runs accross a Dem who thinks differently. Asshats.
"The idea of increased immigration by unhappy Americans is triggering some amusement in Canada. Commentator Thane Burnett of the Ottawa Sun newspaper wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide to would-be new citizens on Friday.
"As Canadians, you'll have to learn to embrace and use all the products and culture of Americans, while bad-mouthing their way of life," he said."
Why should their life in Canada be any different than it is here? Are you sure you aren't mistaking Canada for the Left Coast?
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"Bush's victory sparked speculation that disconsolate Democrats and others might decide to start a new life in Canada, a land that tilts more to the left than the United States. "
You know what? Liberals leaving in droves would make me happier. The party of "tolerance and acceptance" has done nothing but preach hate to anyone that doesn't think like them. I had to clean up a fight after Kerry lost, because some asshole Kerry-supporter was vandalizing a Bush-supporter's truck. He was confronted, and decided that the Bush-ite needed his head bounced off the ground. In other cases, mere stickers and pins cause heated verbal fights with nothing but irrational vitriol coming from the Democrat, against a Republican that was minding his own business, merely exercising his Right to Free Speech. And he has that right, unless he runs accross a Dem who thinks differently. Asshats.
"The idea of increased immigration by unhappy Americans is triggering some amusement in Canada. Commentator Thane Burnett of the Ottawa Sun newspaper wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide to would-be new citizens on Friday.
"As Canadians, you'll have to learn to embrace and use all the products and culture of Americans, while bad-mouthing their way of life," he said."
Why should their life in Canada be any different than it is here? Are you sure you aren't mistaking Canada for the Left Coast?
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Elizabeth Edwards has breast cancer
Article
Well, now that I have had my election rant, we can all get back to other things.
And Mrs. Edwards has more important things to worry about than politics. Her health takes top priorty, and no matter her beliefs, I wish her the best and a speedy recovery.
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Well, now that I have had my election rant, we can all get back to other things.
And Mrs. Edwards has more important things to worry about than politics. Her health takes top priorty, and no matter her beliefs, I wish her the best and a speedy recovery.
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Thursday, November 04, 2004
We can all be thankful that Kerry lost
Well, I am back after the election-season hiatus. I rather enjoyed not looking at it, because I just know that my stomach would look like I swallowed a shotgun blast from ulcers. I voted for Bush, but wished I would have known just how much Arkansas was going to go to Bush by so that I could have notched up Badnarik's total by 1. Oh well. Update on Betsey: She is not pregnant. Probably for the better, as she is too old for her first litter.
Ok, so on to the election wrap-up:
Once again, the DNC got another chance at a wake-up call (after Dukakis, Mondale, etc) with running yet another Yankee Liberal who was so Goddamned out of touch with normal Americans that it was sickening. Where the hell do they get these people? More importantly, what dumbfucks keep telling the DNC leadership that these people could win? Kerry, to paraphrase him, was the wrong candidate at the wrong time with the wrong strategy to win. His supporters were the duped and the blinded by hate. Even Kerry's coattails let about a dozen ride to failure. Daschole was kicked out. Senate and House seats were lost.
What will the Left Wing NOT learn from this experience?
Simple. What the left-wing loony liberals will not take from this election is that THEY DO NOT REPRESENT MAINSTREAM AMERICA. The elitist scum that panders to the "gimmies" and brainwashes people through the media with twisted half-truths and deliberate lies have been revealed for what they are. Running the most leftist Senator the US has ever seen, a man that would have been lynched in the McCarthy days, a man that makes TED FREAKING KENNEDY look conservative, is NOT the way to win. The DNC handed the GOP its greatest victory in over 40 years by running John Kerry, a man without principles, a spine, or an ounce of consistency. A man who has voted against the military time and time again. The DNC forced the hands of the US electorate and produced the LARGEST amount of voters in history because they ran a candidate so repugnant to mainstream views.
The voters of South Dakota also put Daschle out on his ass. They saw through the bull he spewed, saw that he DID NOT represent South Dakota, but instead the mainstream of the DNC, like the views of Kerry and Clinton. John Edwards's seat was handed to a republican, to make a point about how they feel about the DNC and Edwards.
In other words: TAKE A HINT. Look at the county by county map of America. 85% of it is red. Either start representing America, or go the way of the Whigs. In fact, please do. We desperately need the LP to become a 2nd party.
And to the EU/UN: Piss off. You dont control us, and we dont give a flying fuck what you think. Your opinion of our country matters not. You can write all the whiney opinion pieces you want, but you don't fucking matter. GET IT? Would you listen to Fox or NBC if they thought that Chirac was a Saddam-loving, snobbish, global socialism weiner? And don't get me wrong, he is. But would you care? Of course not. Because we don't have any say in French Government affairs, and don't live there. But, because you are Europeans, you automatically have a say in whatever, whenever. That sort of arrogance is a trademark of a European, and the French in general. Oh, and if you are going to say Bush is "arrogant," you had best look in a mirror beforehand. Kettle, I would like you to meet Pot.
This, to me is one of the better parts of the whole election: flipping the bird to the more "educated and relevant" Europe. Newsflash: Your opinions hold no water in our internal affairs, and we really dont care about your opinion, which you are never the less entitled to. Do us a favor, and remember that we cleaned up your mess twice. We don't need your help, especially after the socialist mess that is most of Europe that was voluntarily instituted. Sorry, but we have plenty of ignorance over here that we don't listen to, why would we listen to you?
Damn it feels good to vent that.
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Ok, so on to the election wrap-up:
Once again, the DNC got another chance at a wake-up call (after Dukakis, Mondale, etc) with running yet another Yankee Liberal who was so Goddamned out of touch with normal Americans that it was sickening. Where the hell do they get these people? More importantly, what dumbfucks keep telling the DNC leadership that these people could win? Kerry, to paraphrase him, was the wrong candidate at the wrong time with the wrong strategy to win. His supporters were the duped and the blinded by hate. Even Kerry's coattails let about a dozen ride to failure. Daschole was kicked out. Senate and House seats were lost.
What will the Left Wing NOT learn from this experience?
Simple. What the left-wing loony liberals will not take from this election is that THEY DO NOT REPRESENT MAINSTREAM AMERICA. The elitist scum that panders to the "gimmies" and brainwashes people through the media with twisted half-truths and deliberate lies have been revealed for what they are. Running the most leftist Senator the US has ever seen, a man that would have been lynched in the McCarthy days, a man that makes TED FREAKING KENNEDY look conservative, is NOT the way to win. The DNC handed the GOP its greatest victory in over 40 years by running John Kerry, a man without principles, a spine, or an ounce of consistency. A man who has voted against the military time and time again. The DNC forced the hands of the US electorate and produced the LARGEST amount of voters in history because they ran a candidate so repugnant to mainstream views.
The voters of South Dakota also put Daschle out on his ass. They saw through the bull he spewed, saw that he DID NOT represent South Dakota, but instead the mainstream of the DNC, like the views of Kerry and Clinton. John Edwards's seat was handed to a republican, to make a point about how they feel about the DNC and Edwards.
In other words: TAKE A HINT. Look at the county by county map of America. 85% of it is red. Either start representing America, or go the way of the Whigs. In fact, please do. We desperately need the LP to become a 2nd party.
And to the EU/UN: Piss off. You dont control us, and we dont give a flying fuck what you think. Your opinion of our country matters not. You can write all the whiney opinion pieces you want, but you don't fucking matter. GET IT? Would you listen to Fox or NBC if they thought that Chirac was a Saddam-loving, snobbish, global socialism weiner? And don't get me wrong, he is. But would you care? Of course not. Because we don't have any say in French Government affairs, and don't live there. But, because you are Europeans, you automatically have a say in whatever, whenever. That sort of arrogance is a trademark of a European, and the French in general. Oh, and if you are going to say Bush is "arrogant," you had best look in a mirror beforehand. Kettle, I would like you to meet Pot.
This, to me is one of the better parts of the whole election: flipping the bird to the more "educated and relevant" Europe. Newsflash: Your opinions hold no water in our internal affairs, and we really dont care about your opinion, which you are never the less entitled to. Do us a favor, and remember that we cleaned up your mess twice. We don't need your help, especially after the socialist mess that is most of Europe that was voluntarily instituted. Sorry, but we have plenty of ignorance over here that we don't listen to, why would we listen to you?
Damn it feels good to vent that.
people had something to say.
