Oh, to be a fly on the wall somewhere in Riyadh (but do flies exist in Saudi Arabia?) back on June 26…

[Phone Rings, picked up by the CROWN PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA] “Hello? Ah! Prince Bandar! Good to hear from you again. What’s that? You wish to step down from your post as Ambassador to the Infidels in Washington?
[Big smile across the CROWN PRINCE’s face] Ah, I see...I understand, living in Dar al-Harb, one can only kiss so much Jew and Christian a** before they go nuts! It is bad for one’s health...yes I understand.
[Pause] Oh! You also want to be out of the area when Osama blows up his suitcase nuke?
[Nods head] Very well...I will send Prince Turk al-Faisal to succeed you. It will be good for him to get out of London right about now. Inshallah!”

What fun!

And now, we know.
And now, the attacks have already begun. The liberals are already going apes**t over President Bush’s nomination of US Court of Appeals Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, to fill the seat opened by Justice O’Connor’s retirement.
This is going to be one hell of a fight. Judge Roberts’ CV is solid, so the Democrats can’t attack him on those, with the exception being the abortion issue. So they will likely try to dig up some dirt on the guy. I hope Judge Roberts fights back when they do! NOW will go apes**t because the President nominated a man to replace Justice O’Connor! The environmentalists will go apes**t as well! So he’s already pissed off a bunch of people.
Bully for him! Here’s what I would like to see.
1) The Senate Democrats attempt to filibuster the nomination...and the Senate Republicans invoking the Constitutional Option!
2) Massive ”Screw Abstinence” rallies across the nation where demonstrators merely do nothing but copulate in public!
This way, the American public can see just how screwed up the Democrats have become, now that they’re owned lock, stock, and barrel by MoveOn.org. (You think I’m gonna link to those bastards? HELL NO!) It’s time to take back our courts...and Judge Roberts is a good place to start!

Mary Texeira, a professor at Cal State San Bernardino, advocates a policy decision by the San Bernardino City Unified School District to try and help black students learn...by teaching them in Ebonics:

“Ebonics iz uh different language, it’snot slang as many believe. Fo’ many o’ deez students Ebonics iz they language, an’ it should be considered uh foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak uh foreign language. Ya’ dig?… There iz blacks who do not agree wiff me. They say dat negroid students iz lazy an’ dat dey need ta learn ta jive. What the f**k sup now?”

BULLS**T! That is pure plain laziness on the part of both the parents and the educators involved! As Vilmar (Thanks for the Hat Tip!) points out, there are black people in other countries who speak the local language correctly with no grammatical errors. The best example I can think of is British boxer Lennox Lewis. They don’t need any of this Ebonics bulls**t. When I was young and lived overseas in Italy, I had to learn some Italian to communicate with the Italian kids...especially if I played soccer with them.
So why the hell can’t black students learn ENGLISH for a change? They’ll be better citizens and get a lot farther ahead in the working world too! It also brings up the “multicultural patchwork” vs. “melting pot” debate, and let me tell those who doubt me where I stand: English should be the Official Language of the United States! Go to USEnglish to find out how!

(English to Ebonics translation courtesy of the Ebonics Translator)

Yesterday’s story was kind of depressing. I definitely need something or someone to cheer me up today...lo and behold! Look who’s come to the rescue! It’s the Ultimate Policy Wonk!
I wonder if Al Gore is a member of this organization. If not, he should be:

“I consider myself a recovering politician. I’m on step nine,” Gore told a meeting Monday of the Television Critics Association.

Looks like he’s back in the business of forming another media conglomerate. I swear he did this before! Didn’t he have a hand in the formation of the Air America radio network?
Well we all know how that turned out!

According to WorldNetDaily, captured documents show Osama bin Laden’s preferred targets for an “American Hiroshima” operation within this country: the nine cities with the largest Jewish populations. He definitely wants to kill both Jews and Christians in one fell swoop. But if Osama thinks he can totally destroy this country with suitcase nukes (which, if they’re lucky, can yield 2 kilotons, or 1/10 the yield of Hiroshima or Nagasaki)...he’s got another thing coming.
Worried? No. Concerned? Absolutely. Let it be known that if even one of these devices go off in this country, it will mean THE END OF ISLAM.
Period.
End Of Story.

UPDATE: And apparently, some in Congress agree....

Who’s Tiger Woo? Just ask Peoples Hernandez from Shaft:

Peoples Hernandez: You play golf?
[Walter Wade Jr. nods]
Peoples Hernandez: Golf is phat...Tiger Woo, Tiger Woo, I like him.

So do I...as do millions of Sports Fans! Yes, we’re talking about Tiger Woods! He wins the British Open at its definitive course at St. Andrews. And he’s well on his way to blow away Jack Nicklaus‘ record of 18 major victories. And Tiger isn’t even 30 yet!
Yes, this is it for the Golden Bear though. He’s handed the torch of Golf to a magnificent man in Tiger Woods...and he’s not even 30 yet!

Here’s a video clip of an attack by a terrorist on a US soldier...and the unexpected result!
HA HA HA! Yippee-Ki-Yay Motherf**kers!

HAT TIP: Little Green Footballs

YAY! I dug through a whole bunch of pictures (as I’ve stated over the last few days), and now I’ve posted some really cool photos in my Gallery, with a couple of new categories. Now the question for some of the photos is this: “Is It Live or Is It Memorex?”
Check ‘em out!

For once, a story from the Saddam New York Times that doesn’t have to deal with their f**ked-up view on the War on Terror!
No, this deals with a planet discovered by astronomers in a trinary system 149 light years from Earth. It’s Jovian (Jupiter) sized, and its distance from the primary is only 0.045 astronomical units, or only 4.185 million miles from its primary (a Sun-like) star, and completes its orbit in only 3.35 solar days! The other two stars, a larger orange and smaller red star, orbit the primary at a distance of 12.3 AU (1.14 billion miles) at 25.7 years!
Man! Doesn’t this blow your mind! So many planets we’ve found over the last ten years or so since the Hubble Space Telescope went up. I think within the next ten years, we’ll find a terrestrial-sized planet circling a distant star. And when we do, it will be at at point that the real drive to the stars commence. Whether we can actually survive to that point is another matter entirely. I sure hope and pray that we can!

At 05:29:45 hours Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945...60 years ago...the world’s first nuclear test was conducted at the Trinity Site, in the Jornada del Muerto region of central New Mexico, near the town of Alamagordo. The site is located on the Army’s White Sands Missile Range, and is normally open to the public twice a year, on the first Saturday in April and also on the first Saturday in October. It will also be open TODAY on this special anniversary date, just like it was 10 years ago.
Since I’ve been in Arizona, I’ve resolved to go, but certain other factors have precluded me from completing this trip. But one day, I will go and walk these grounds for myself, and then write about the experience. I plan to do the same one day, at the Nevada Test Site. “There but for the Grace of God go I.”

Now, the Muslim Sunni Waqf Board has set their sights on the Taj Mahal...and India has told them NO:

“There is no need for any other body to look after the monument as the Archaeological Survey of India is taking care of it quite well.”

It was pretty easy for the Indian government to see through the bulls**t claim. The Waqf Board only thought they could put that 4 million bucks (which is no chump change in that part of the world) to better use than maintaining India’s national treasure...no, that money would have gone to kill the Jews, Christians, and infidels around the world!
Better put the Indian Army on alert, because the Muslims will eventually go after it with their hordes.

HAT TIP: The Steel Deal

FINALLY!
The Dallas Morning News takes a stand and calls the bastards for what they are...what we knew them all along as! Not Insurgents. TERRORISTS!
It had to start somewhere and if other editorial boards can get it through their heads, then one day the MSM as a whole can figure out what’s really going on and support the United States in our efforts to change the Middle East from a festering cesspool of Islamofascist despotism to another locale for freedom to take hold.

Read it all. The Macker Commands It!

Back when I had a point & shoot 35mm camera, I took some B&W photos at a comic book convention in Chicago in 1996 for a couple of reasons: one, I had the roll with me, and two, I figured why not. One picture in particular took me aback. So Hud, since you’re at Comic Con in San Diego, do you know what the hell this is?

When I was living back east, every so often I’d do some shopping across the border over in Windsor, Ontario for various things: groceries, clothing, that kind of stuff. The exchange rate between the US and Canadian dollars was excellent; back then, it was usually around US$1 = CDN$1.65 or thereabouts. One day I was at the Devonshire Mall and at the mall was this bookstore called Chapters, which is a lot like Borders here in the United States.
I perused through the inventory when all of a sudden my eyes went to this book, ”Canadian History for Dummies.” I scooped it up and bought it! This book is a very eye-opening read about just how much we Americans really do have in common with our Canadian friends...and yet at the same time, the differences as well which makes Canadians who they are. For instance, I found out what a “Trudeau Salute” is...and so can you!
Anyway, I finally found this book this morning as I was searching through some old photos (yes, the same “repository” where I found the Cleveland photo). Believe me, I was happy to see it again! I know some people at work who have definitely expressed an interest in seeing this book, so now I can take it to them.
Before someone brings up the “multiculturalism” meme again, let me point out that it is always important to know how people think and do things on an everyday basis, and that is a good starting point to building bridges of trust and friendship. It worked for the Soviets, and it also works with our friends. This book is a great place to see that in practice.
I do have a number of Canadian friends. They are all good people. I just don’t agree with their government, which has been in power since 1993, and how Ottawa see things vis-à-vis the War on Terror. But I’d much rather have the Canadians stand beside us than have them stand on the other side. Even the Québecers. After all, they’re Canadians too!
Then I checked Dummies.com and found out that, sadly, they don’t have a “Mexican History for Dummies” book. That sucks. They should.

For anyone who cares, today is Bastille Day, the French National Holiday. I love what Margaret Thatcher said about this occasion:

“Who can trust a people who celebrate, as their national event, a jailbreak?”

Even The Macker can learn something new every day. It wasn’t the storming of the Bastille (which held only seven prisoners that fateful day), but it was an act of rebellion by the constituent assembly, the Third Estate, called the Tennis Court Oath, which precipitated the French Revolution. This was later immortalized in parody by comedian Allan Sherman in 1963:

“You went the wrong way, Old King Louie.
You made the population cry.
‘Cause all you did was sit and pet
With Marie Antoinette
In your place at Versailles.”

But of course, my favorite slam-the-French ditty comes from the 18th Century (and possibly earlier), hinted at in the movie ”The Last of the Mohicans”:

“The French, they are a funny race.
They fight with their feet and they f**k with their face!”

To see even more French jokes (and historical quotations), go to Blogs for Bush. Then take a moment and greet a French national, and show ‘em you care. NOT!