February 07, 2006

The Ultimate Mission

Today is the day! The Ultimate Mission, a game where people search for clues around the world to promote the Mission:Impossible III movie begins. It starts tonight at 5pm PST -- and those who find a clue in the first 3 hours get big bonus points! So head on over (linked through the image below) and sign up! You might win something neat!

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GM Roper

Do you know GM Roper? He is a great blogger, and is actually the current reigning King of the Blogs (for something like a year now). He's got an outstanding blog and is a great writer.

However, GM Roper is in trouble. He's got Cancer. He just had surgery, and is apparently doing well. He would not admit it, but it was apparently a very serious surgery -- he had to have a lung removed.

Please head on over and leave your good wishes and prayers for him. He needs them.

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Offensiveness is Offensive

Ok, brace yourselves. Be sure you are sitting down before you read this next part. I expect to get A LOT of hate email and mean, nasty comments, so calm down, be sure you're prepared, and be sure your blood pressure is down. I'm about to be offensive:

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Did you miss it? Here, I'll do it again:

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Not enough? You want MORE?

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There! Take that!

If I were at Oaks Primary School in Ipswich, UK, I would apparently be offending the Jehovah Witnesses there. Seriously, the lunacy of being offensive is so far out of this world that these people should be committed to an insane asylum...if the liberals of the world hadn't banned them.

To show the complete idiot at the school isn't alone in their utter insanity, the local Jehovah's Witness minister agreed:

Hot cross buns are a pagan symbol of fertility no different to bunnies, eggs and Easter

Ok, that's it -- no more bunnies, pigs, hams, soup, eggs, Easter, or crosses are permitted in England. SOMEONE might be offended. Hey Tina Jackson (head teacher of the Oaks Primary School in Ipswich, UK), you can't see this right now, but I'm mooning you with my big old hairy butt. Does that offend you?

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Oil and Sanity

I was over reading Sanity's Bluff, and came upon an absolutely great line I'd like to share with you, my good readers. Now web loafer was looking for a "Muslimobile," and was rather disappointed with his Google searches for such vehicles. And he noticed that it was

Funny how God left trillions of dollars worth of oil under the sands of the Muslim Nations, and they didn't have a clue about it, until American engineers, businessmen and scientist's.....clued them in.

Think about that for a minute. That really is something. These people have been fighting in the desert for thousands of years while sitting on piles of black stuff with no idea of what to do with it. Then the capitalists come in and show them how to get it out of the ground and how to make money from it.

And yet they are the ones who hate the rest of the world. Funny, indeed.

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Money NEQ Education

For some reason, the old, WRONG idea that more money means better education just simply will not die. Across North Carolina, all sorts of ideas are being floated with one, single goal: to raise more money for education.

Of course, this is just after $300-$700 MILLION dollars of new money passed the legislature in form of gambling for education, aka North Carolina lottery. But as is always the case with bureaucrats in the education system, it's just not enough.

I actually saw a show on ABC news with John Stossel last week where he asked a SC educrat how much money she needed. She said, "more." He asked if there would ever be enough. She actually replied, "No, there will never be enough." So the actual, stated goal of education is "MORE." And of course, they can ONLY get that money by taking it from me and others who actually work for it.

They are considering property tax fees, "impact taxes," "transfer taxes," and additional sales taxes. Know what's common about all these? They're all hidden. In other words, they won't actually send you a bill, instead they'll hide the extra costs from you.

Most people don't notice property taxes because they're escrowed with their mortgage payments. Don't believe me? Go ahead and ask any homeowner in NC how much they paid in property taxes. I bet less than 1 in 10 can actually answer that question.

Impact taxes and transfer taxes are even more hidden -- you agree to buy a house and in that 10-foot tall stack of legal papers, there's extra fees that just get tossed into your mortgage and settlement papers (and yet they're forming a study group to determine why so many people default on their mortgage payments).

Get government completely OUT of education -- and it will improve drastically by HUGE leaps and bounds -- as it has done everywhere else in the world where government gets out of the way. Government education is BAD and getting worse.

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February 06, 2006

Ooops. I wet 'em.

Now THAT'S a roller coaster. (Be sure to scroll down and check the last picture).

Wow. All I can say is, "Wow."

(Bonus points: can anyone (other than Harvey, because I'm SURE he knows) spot the movie quote I just mentioned?)

(Extra bonus points if you can find TWO of them).

Hat tip to And Rightly So.

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Hot Blog Sauce: The Review

Wow. That was some good stuff. I previously posted about this sauce, developed just for bloggers. I ordered it and received it rather quickly. It was well-packaged and padded for excellent transport. The sauce itself was rather greenish-brown looking.

Ingredients: Habanero & Serrano Peppers, Garlic, Vinegar, Limes, & Salt.

Now I know it's hard to judge how something tastes based on someone else's opinion, mainly because you don't have the same tastes as anyone else. So, I'll try and set the stage: I like hot, spicy things. Now, I'm not talking flaming, burning, just hot and with flavor. I don't mind the burning in my mouth, but there IS such a thing as too hot for me.

This hot sauce was just awesome. I picked up some BBQ on the way home and poured on the hot sauce. It was of medium consistency, not just watery, like Texas Pete. It appeared to have small chunks of peppers in it as well.

It was just great. It added quite a bit of heat, but not without a pile of flavor. The flavor was really good and the heat was just right. I had to take the sweatshirt off while eating, and the person I was eating with face completely flushed red -- but it wasn't overly hot. The garlic and lime flavor REALLY did a good job.

I highly recommend this sauce for anyone who like hot sauce with flavor. It's not weak in the heat department, so keep away from the children and pregnant women.

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Anchor Babies

February 6, 2006 Guard the Borders Blogburst

Anchor babies. We all know about this: illegal immigrants, sneaking across the border just in time to rush to the hospital and give birth for free at any hospital (thanks to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985). Right now, those babies born on our land are given automatic citizenship, which allows the illegal parents to not only stay in our country, but reap the benefits of a government-paid lifestyle: food stamps, free health care, free schools, free everything.

What's the problem, besides the fact that none of them should be here to begin with? The Constitution doesn't even give them this right - unlike what open border lobbyists will have you believe. The entire "anchor baby" problem is due to a complete and utter bastardization of the American Constitution. The phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is in that amendment. It means those who subscribe to the laws of the land; those who come under American jurisdiction; those who choose to be American.

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Mohammed Cartoon

Well, since the terrorists of Islam already hate the world and the U.S., they can't hate us any more, right? So I figure I'll add my own cartoon to the mix. Go ahead, you can be offended, too. Feel free to demand I remove the image if you like, too.

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Oh, and if that's not enough, head over to this site, where you can see hundreds more! (Hat tip to Euphoric Reality.)

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UN Funding?

How about HCR 25 in New Hampshire:

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 25

A RESOLUTION urging the United States to withdraw funding for the United Nations if the United Nations adopts a resolution in violation of the United States Constitution.


Can we get a federal resolution to that effect, please? It's not that we're foisting our views on others, instead we're saying that if others attempt to foist THEIR views on us, then we simply won't pay for them.

Why is common sense SO absent from politics?

"Democracy is Two Wolves and a Lamb Voting on What to Have for Lunch. Liberty is a Well-Armed Lamb Contesting the Vote" - Benjamin Franklin

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M:i:III Superbowl Spot

If you'd like to see the SuperBowl ad for M:i:III because you missed it, or just because you want to see it again, that's online now:

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Government Begets Government

Government today is really bad. It is not representative government as the founders intended it. Government was supposed to do VERY LITTLE. People shouldn't even really know about government on a day-to-day basis, much less be affected by their decisions.

But today's government is about power. Most of the people in government have politics as a career. They exist to spend money and to control people. That's completely wrong. And larger government just makes even more government. As an example of how insane government has become, read this story about the town of Wrightsville Beach.

In that example, the town board of aldermen created a new board. They then appointed themselves to the board. How can that make any sense at all to any sane person? Well, no one claims that the people in government are sane. To show how utterly insane this is (beyond the obvious), take a gander at a quote from one of the councilmen:

I want to separate the politics from the judicial.

So creating a board and appointing the politicians takes the politics out of their decisions.

Oh how I yearn for freedom.

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February 05, 2006

Need Music?

I was directed to this web site by Kender. Now, usually when Kender directs you to a web site, be careful. It's often completely and utterly insane liberals, total idiots, or guaranteed to make your drink come out your nose. Not this one.

This site is Pandora -- a site that's part of a Music Genome project. I'm not sure all the details behind it, but it's neat. You put in a song or artist that you like and the site plays music that's similar to it. As it selects music, you can tell it that it's selections are good or bad and it adjusts the music for you.

I put in Buddy Holly and am very impressed with the related music. I also tried The Who and was very impressed. I know it's similar to Napster's Radio, but this seems better to me. And yes, it's free. You can pay a fee to get no ads, but if you're a bum, you can get it all free. Go try it, it's just neat.

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New Neighbor #40

Wow! I have been remiss in my introductions! I had been running a new neighbor feature each Sunday, to give my readers a glimpse into another blog. However, I just realized I've missed this wonderful feature the past two weeks! No more! It shall continue, well, now.

The New Neighbor Feature is based on an idea from Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost -- The Church Directory. It's a monstrous blogroll (you can see it over there on the right of this site) of people associated with Christianity.

One of it's purposes is get people to meet one another. With that in mind, I started doing this New Neighbor feature. Each week I pick a blog from that list at random, go read about the blog and the person running it, and then post about it here. So, without further ado, here is this week's new neighbor:

SteelerDirtFreak


Huh?

I can't find anything on the site explaining the name...but I guess I can attribute it to the tag line:

A reformational renaissance redneck who likes football, dirt car racing, and photography tries to figure out what it means to follow after the path of Jesus in this post-Christian world we find ourselves in.

Well, that sure is a mouthful! It's not often you'll find "renaissance" and "redneck" even in the same paragraph, must less right next to one another. I think I'd get along well with Mr Oyler -- I can't find his first name, but his last name does show up on the blog -- because we appear to have a number of similar interested.

He likes Nascar, but appears to not be completely consumed by it; he likes Pittsburgh in tonight's game (and has a great picture up for it); and Powerlifting -- well, his brother is a champion, so I presume he likes it!

He also appears to do professional photography (perhaps on the side?), and web design. Except for the passion for dirt racing, he could be my twin (I prefer making mud pies).

He's also got a quiz up (go for it, Smokey) that shows his theological worldview. He comes up Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan -- the quiz shows me as a fundamentalist, which I'm sure comes as little surprise to regular readers here...

So hey, head on over and say hello! What else did you have to do while waiting for the game tonight? And don't you DARE say "What game?"

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Tarheel Tavern #50

Wow! It really is #50! Neat. Just two weeks from the one-year anniversary (at Science and Politics). This one sure is fun, isn't it? Well, I really like it because it really does bring together a quite diverse group of bloggers based on geographic location.

I know it's not the only geographically-centered carnival, but it's the first I got to play with. And I know I forget to give my submissions WAY too often, but I still feel like part of the mob group. So here it is, (now that Blogspot is working), the 50th edition of the Tarheel Tavern:

This week I didn't suggest a theme, as I sometimes do, so who knows what will show up. Please note that all additional commentary is mine alone. It's not meant to offend, only provide a little humor in these serious and dangerous times. If there's a silly comment about your post that annoys you, drop me a line, and I'll remove it. Otherwise, just enjoy the silliness and laugh with me.

As you enter the lovely tavern in the Turpentine State, first you would notice someone dressed in flannel just inside the door. Who is it? It's The Flannel Avenger! You might not notice his cape, as it's also flannel-colored (is flannel a color?), so it blends in well with his clothes and the darkness.

So, what is he avenging this week? Well, he points out the church burnings in Alabama this past week -- and very quickly compares the reactions of those to what would have happened if they were a different kind of church burning...I have to agree with his premise there.

Stepping past the avenger, the next site to greet you in the Tavern is a lovely woman, quite buried in a huge stack of printed emails. It's Zha K, who is serving up A Fine Dish (that's the blog name) in the way of communicating with an educrat.

Now, if you had sent 96 emails to someone, and you knew they received and read them (because they replied), and then you were told that you were "not communicating" with that person, how do you think your day would go after that? Welcome to the largest, most powerful, most inefficient bureaucracy in the world, government education.

Sitting over at the end of the bar, typing on his laptop, writing the world's next great screenplay, you'll notice Anonymoses. This past week, he apparently took a break from his excellent writing to do some graphical works -- and you can see his results with How to make Alec Baldwin out of Claude Akins and Roy Blunt.

Well, you see, there's a reason he's sitting over there in the corner by himself...but he claims that the women keep asking him how to make Alec Baldwin, but when he throws up on his hands, well...there's that back in the corner thing again...

Over there in the middle of the bar, yes, the one surrounded by all the empty beer bottles, is Scrutiny Hooligans. And yes, that is Samuel Adams he is quoting while drinking Sam Adams beer. That's just his way.

You might overhear him talking there, he's talking about Britney Spears (not a pickle...spears? get it?) and her prime-time special appearance on the struggling NBC network. I'm wondering if they had to pay her, or if she paid them.

Seated right next to Mr. Hooligans, you'll notice the fellow with the goatee, shaking his head at every word, while trying to read his book (The Lord of the Rings). Sticking out his back pocket you'll see a paper with the heading, "Mecklenburg Libertarians Meeting Notes."

Of course, in the other pocket you might see a few tickets from the gestapo NC Board of elections for attempting to participate in an election as a member of a banned political party...

And sitting at a table over to the left, amongst a pile of books, notes, maps, and other such things, you'll observe the ever-quiet Moomin Light, reading from her notes and writing, longhand (remember when you used to do that?). She's transcribing her notes from the latest Harry Potter movie.

Now, if the internet is good for anything, it's good for finding movie reviews, isn't it? I'm not sure what movies are these days, as I personally haven't been to a moving picture show in a number of years, but hey, those people selling popcorn need to make a living, too, right?

Standing over to the side, there with the small crowd gathered around to hear his orations, you will notice Marcus. This week his philosophical meanderings are about Lifestyles. He is talking about all sorts of lifestyles and from whence they come.

And yes, that is a secret informer in the brown shirt over there in the shadows, watching Marcus closely -- Marcus said something about "exposure to toxins and infections," and they've been following him ever since.

So, that's our week around the Tavern here in the Old North State. I hope you enjoyed your stay and will come back and visit often.

As usual, if I've missed you (because you were well-hidden in the shadows), or any of the links are incorrect, please do drop me a line. And next week, be sure to head over to Captivated by Mandie, who will be your gracious host.

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Mission:Impossible III

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And yet again the people promoting M:i:III have new stuff posted. The global "Ultimate Mission" hunt is posted. It starts Monday, but you can get set up and register to win free crap stuff. Watch the Superbowl tonight for their ad!

Oh, and there's a "featurette" video posted there now, too. It's a short clip with some behind-the-scenes filming. Looks pretty good to me -- are they trying to compete with Bond? Maybe. Only 3 months to go.

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A calm break

...Before the storm? I don't know.

But Stop the ACLU has a nice, calming picture up. He's avoiding the coming WW III over damn cartoons. Take a peek and be calm.

Tomorrow I'll have my post up about the cartoon battle.

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Tarheel Tavern #??

I'm trying to post this week's Tarheel Tavern, but it seems Blogspot is down. Therefore, this Tavern will be delayed...in the meantime, feel free to browse the list of blogs over there on the right.

Or, feel free to visit some of my fine sponsors, appearing in the left sidebar for BlogAds & Blogexplosion, or the right sidebar for altmedia ads. Or, even better, why don't you BUY an ad on one of those strips? It's really cheap:

Blog Ads - Altmedia ads.

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February 04, 2006

A Blog to Visit

If you haven't ever read Woman Honor Thyself, perhaps you should stop by. The site is really pink, so if you're easily upset by girly colors, you might want to stay away -- but if you're interested in good writing and information, you might be able to get past the pinkness.

There's a post about the ACLU and NFL -- where the ACLU is fighting for a perceived right to bring explosives, cameras, firearms, and anything else one wants to bring into San Francisco 49ers games. And no, they're not clear why people are supposed to be allowed to do that, just that someone's offended.

Another recent post talks about the situation in the Middle East. I haven't mentioned it much, yet, here, but she's right on with this post. It's an absolutely horrible situation, but with the recent elections in "Palestine," I think the doors are open for carpet bombing.

I know a bunch of people have been highlighting that blog, but it's for a good reason -- go over and see.

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Tarheel Tavern So Far

Hello?

McFly? McFly?

Is anyone out there? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

Here is the Tarheel Tavern for this week so far:

*crickets chirping*


What's going on with you people? Don't you want some great exposure? Don't you want to have your entry highlighted by the Ogre with witty, exciting, humorous commentary? Err...well, highlighted, anyway?

Time is running out for this week! I'm not going to be around this afternoon, so send your submissions now so I can post the Tavern this evening. If you don't send them, I'm going to search in the corners and under the rugs of the Tavern to find some posts!

Email link is over there on the left.

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