Monthly Archives: December 2010
*VIDEO* New York Jets Assistant Coach Sal Alosi Intentionally Trips Miami Dolphins Player Nolan Carroll
After the game, Coach Alosi was forced to apologize to Carroll. He then made the following public statement:
“I made a mistake that showed a total lapse in judgment. My conduct was inexcusable and unsportsmanlike and does not reflect what this organization stands for. I spoke to Coach Sparano and Nolan Carroll to apologize before they took off. I have also apologized to Woody, Mike and Rex. I accept responsibility for my actions as well as any punishment that follows.”
Daily Benefactor News – Navy’s Sci-Fi Railgun Breaks Record For Most Powerful Gun On The Planet
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Navy’s Sci-Fi Railgun Breaks Record For Most Powerful Gun On The Planet – New York Daily News
Say hello to the Navy’s little friend.
Navy scientists set a world record Friday during a test of an electromagnetic railgun, a tractor-trailer sized weapon that sends a 20-pound projectile rocketing through the air at seven times the speed of sound.
The futuristic gun was tested twice at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., and the first shot generated 33 megajoules of force out of the barrel, a world record for muzzle energy, the scientists said.
One megajoule is a unit of energy roughly equal to the energy generated by a 1-ton vehicle moving at 100 MPH. The same rail gun generated about 10 megajoules during a test two years ago.
Roger Ellis, the railgun program manager, told The Washington Post that people “see these things in the video games, but this is real. This is what is very historical.”
What is novel about the gun – aside from its astonishing power – is the way it works.
Instead of relying on explosive propellants like gunpowder to fire, the gun uses a giant surge of electricity to propel the slug out of the barrel at speeds that can approach Mach 8 and can strike targets more than 100 miles away.
Charles Garnett, a project manager on the railgun experiment, told the Post that the gun gets its power the same way a pocket camera builds up energy to operate its flash, but on a much larger scale.
Also, the projectile does not carry a warhead and therefore does not explode on impact, which will allow Navy ships to carry far less explosive material on board and cut down on the possibility of accidental blow ups.
Instead, the slug obliterates whatever it hits by sheer force of impact, hence the Navy’s Latin motto for the project, “velocitas eradico.” Translation: Speed destroys.
The Navy also said that the railgun will allow warships to attack enemies from safe distances and could be used as a defense against enemy cruise missiles.
On Friday, the schoolbus-sized gun took about 5 minutes to power up before an explosion inside the barrel flung the slug about 5,500 feet through the wooded test range.
A bright column of fire trailed the bullet as it left the gun, and it caused a small sonic boom during flight before tumbling into the woods.
“It’s exhilarating,” Elizabeth D’Andrea, the railgun project’s strategic director, told the Post.
Navy officials said the gun isn’t going to be ready for battle any time soon.
Rear Adm. Nevin P. Carr Jr., chief of Naval Research, told the Post he would like to see the railgun demonstrated at sea by 2018 and deployed on ships in the early 2020s.
By 2025, the Navy wants to be able to fire the gun at 64 megajoules, making it capable of sending a bullet 200 miles in six minutes, scientists said.
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The NSFW Dancing With the Stars Topless dance
Well now, I am not surprised Donald Douglas would be all over this story. And in this season of traffic suckage, ho can blame him, Silvana Escudero, a Playboy model, really steams up Dancing With the Stars, or is it Porning With the Stars in Argentina?
And yes, I agree with donald, this WAS too much, far too much, it went beyond sexy, and well into trashy territory. And THIS, goes, well, into freakiness! you figure it out.
The two best pieces on Liberalism, and Leftism I have yet read.
These two pieces are a must read for anyone who struggles to comprehend the ideology of the Left.
First read this outstanding piece by Col. Bunny at The Reb, then head over to Sultan Knish, where Daniel Greenfield defines the Left to a tee!
Gun-Packing Santa Draws Fire – Sacramento News Story – KCRA Sacramento
Gun-Packing Santa Draws Fire – Sacramento News Story – KCRA Sacramento.
Good grief! One mentally unstable idiot whines and obsesses over a cardboard cutout of Santa, and the owner of the business caves in? The only “controversy” was a hypersensitive nutcase who could not get over herself. Sadly, her tantrum was rewarded. I hope the owner realizes that they have encouraged future miscreants like the woman in this story.
If I called Rep. Keith Ellison a Communist would you hold it against me?
Folks, I am aware that there are those “Conservatives” out there, like Michael Medved, for example, who cringe when anyone calls a Democrat a Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Statist, etc. But, read this story from Weasel Zippers and tell me, what would you call Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison?
St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota 5th District Congressman Keith Ellison said Thursday that Democratic lawmakers “need to create a real crisis” to force Republicans to renegotiate the tax cut compromise.
House Democrats voted Thursday to reject the tax cut deal between the White House and Congressional Republicans.
The compromise would extend Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthy. It also would renew benefits for the long-term unemployed, a measure President Obama had pushed for to prevent about 2 million Americans from losing benefits in the coming weeks. Republicans had opposed extending unemployment benefits.
Ellison, who was recently elected co-chair of the Progressive caucus in the House, voted against the compromise.
“I think that we need to create a real crisis here so that the Republicans will have to answer for denying Americans unemployment benefits on the eve of the Christmas holiday,” Ellison said. “We let them off the hook, in my opinion.”
Ellison said Democrats should have negotiated more aggressively to protect the interests of middle class and low income Americans, but he defended Obama’s effort to reach a compromise.
“I think (Republican lawmakers) exploited the president’s compassion for people who are facing a very grim holiday with no unemployment insurance extension,” Ellison said, “but I think that we should have bargained harder because what we’re doing is we’re going to fundamentally shift the income spread in this country.”
As disturbing as the “let’s create a crisis” part of his rant is, focus on that last part I highlighted in red, yes, RED as in COMMIE! The redistribution of wealth is the cornerstone of Marxism, and the Democratic Party is increasingly focused on redistributing wealth! Again, let me ask, if Ellison is not a Communist, then what is he?
Women or beer? Hmmmm
Before you get angry at me for posting this, remember, I did not post it,, or even say it, I merely linked it!
A real woman is a man’s best friend. She will never stand him up and never let him down. She will reassure him when he feels insecure and comfort him after a bad day.
She will inspire him to do things he never thought he could do; to live without fear and forget regret. She will enable him to express his deepest emotions and give in to his most intimate desires.
She will make sure he always feels as though he’s the most handsome man in the room and will enable him to be the most confident, sexy, seductive, and invincible. . .
No wait… I’m thinking of beer. Never mind.
Pro-abort heartache: New Jersey approves “choose life” license plates
Chris at Wyblog has the scoop. The good guys did not back down, and they won!
The state spent seven years fighting against the plates because they didn’t want to get into a battle over abortion. But The Children First Foundation persistently refused to back down and contested the refusal in court. State statutes allow groups to use their logos and select a tag-line for their organizational plates. The Teamsters, sports teams, Freemasons, and hundreds of other groups already offer MVC-approved specialty plates.
It has always struck me as, odd in the extreme that the “pro-choice” folks are so quick to be outrageously outraged over someone saying the words choose life. Like I have said for years, abortion supporters use the term pro-choice, but only approve of certain choices. They are not truly for choice unless that choice is abortion. This is why they always go into panic mode when any state offers license plates with the words choose life.
Daily Benefactor News – Vandals Destroy Holy Christian Thorn Tree In Glastonbury England
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Vandals Destroy Holy Christian Thorn Tree In Glastonbury England – Yahoo News
Legend has it that the rare thorn tree on a hill in southern England had ties to the earliest days of Christianity, and pilgrims often left offerings at its base. In more recent times, local children honored its current incarnation each year by cutting sprigs to place on Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas dining table.
Now British police want to know who sawed the limbs off the Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree, reducing it to a stump. And they want to know why.
“I’ve just driven past the site, and people are coming out in tears,” said Glastonbury Mayor John Coles. “I’ve never seen a sadder sight, or a more serious act of vandalism, in my 60 years in Glastonbury.”
Glastonbury, 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of London, is best known for its annual rock music festival, which has drawn artists such as Bruce Springsteen since the 1960s. Its mysterious landscape – including the Glastonbury Tor hill, which is believed by some to have magical qualities – has drawn pagan worshippers for many years.
Katherine Gorbing, the director of Glastonbury Abbey, said the tree originally came from the Middle East and is a type of thorn tree common in Lebanon as well as in Europe. It typically lives about 100 years, but Gorbing said locals have kept Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree going by taking grafts and clippings from it to plant new trees when the existing one neared the end of its natural life.
“It’s a sacred tree,” she said. “Not only for the Christian church, but for many other people.”
The tree itself, located near the summit of Wearyall Hill, is visible from many parts of rural Somerset.
Coles said the nighttime attack came between Wednesday and Thursday shortly after he, the local vicar and schoolchildren participated in the annual sprig cutting for the queen’s Christmas table.
The sprig is sometimes visible during her televised Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth – and the queen always sends a letter of thanks, he said.
Coles believes that someone who saw the sprig ceremony on local television – or who witnessed it in person – decided afterward to chop down the tree, which did not have any security cameras nearby.
“It could be an anti-monarchist, an anti-Christian, or someone who’s an atheist,” Coles said. “We don’t know whether it’s one person responsible or a group.”
Avon and Somerset police would not comment on the motive. No arrests have been made.
The once-proud tree provides Glastonbury believers with what legend says is a significant link to the early days of Christianity in England.
Religious tradition holds that the original tree was planted by St. Joseph of Arimathea – the wealthy merchant who volunteered his prepared tomb to Jesus – after he first made landfall in England some 2,000 years ago. The chopped-down tree is thought to be descended from the original. It blooms twice a year – during the Christmas season and again around Easter.
“The story goes that Joseph of Arimathea pushed his staff into the ground and pronounced it to be weary – that’s why it’s known as Wearyall Hill,” said Coles. “The tree is said to have grown from the staff. It’s something you can’t prove or disprove.”
Some people believe the growth of the wooden staff into the tree was a full-fledged miracle, while others believe it was left standing in a boggy area for months and eventually sprouted, said Susan Strong, an education officer at Glastonbury Abbey.
“You can take the miraculous approach or the pragmatic approach,” she said.
Local historians said the tree – or one of its ancestors – has been chopped down at least once before, by a soldier using an ax during the 1642-51 English Civil Wars.
Experts say the tree could recover in about 10 years if it was in good health at the time of the attack.
“It will obviously be deformed, but it will put grafts out next spring,” said Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. “But it will take a long time to make a good tree.”
Even with that hope, Gorbing called the loss of the tree devastating.
“The tree unites everybody in the town,” she said. “It’s a symbol worldwide. Local people do see this as an attack on Glastonbury.”
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Daily Benefactor News – Student Socialists Riot In London
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Student Socialists Riot In London – Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Radical students rioted and became violent in London on Thursday after the British House of Commons voted to raise the yearly college and university student tuition to a maximum of 9,000 British Pounds Sterling. This is about $14,000, which is low by current United States tuition standards.
The reports on BBC News indicated that the new plan is actually quite considerate and generous to the students. The payment of the student tuition will apparently be deferred until the students graduate and are making at least 21,000 Pounds (about $33,000) per year.
It appears that the students who protested included violent groups of Socialists, Communists, and possibly even Terrorists. Many of these protestors may not have even been students. Some apparently were people looking for an excuse to be violent and destructive.
The police had expected the protests would be by students and would be peaceful. It quickly became evident that this was not going to be the situation.
The protesting students who were interviewed on BBC were apparently heavily influenced by their Nanny State upbringing. All expressed indignation that the British government did not want to provide them with a higher education at little or no cost to them. Many of the apparent students suggested that financial cuts should be made in British national defense so more money could be directed toward the indignant students.
The British police showed remarkable restraint, even thought several police were injured by the violent acts of the protestors. The police and other authorities showed continued restraint as masked rioters broke windows and doors in both the Treasury and Supreme Court buildings.
Some of the rioters even attacked a car in which Prince Charles and his wife were riding. The back passenger window next to where Prince Charles was seated was broken, and both paint and ice cream were apparently thrown onto their car.
Britain, like the United States, has had rapidly escalating education costs due to Liberal mismanagement and the ever-increasing demands from the Left. Providing Socialist indoctrination for students does not come without high cost. Highly paid administrators proliferate in ever increasing layers of bureaucratic complexity. Instructors and professors demand increased salaries, decreased workloads, and smaller classes
The violent protests in London provided the citizens with a perspective of what their tax dollars are producing in government-funded education systems. The citizens and their representatives in government in Britain and elsewhere are coming to their senses.
If students need to put more of their own effort and money into their own education, the students will hopefully demand an education that will provide them with a means of earning a living and peacefully dealing with their fellow humans. The students and their parents will soon demand that money not be wasted on administrators, lazy professors, and incompetent instructors. Honest hard work and diligent study defeats Socialism every time.
The riots of Socialists are never pretty. It seems Socialists have a very difficult time with the concept of peaceful protests.
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The Trash Police? This one will make you VERY ANGRY!
Chris points out yet another Statist idea from Nanny Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, and all-around control freak!
One old lady’s trash is a treasure trove of fines for Mike Bloomberg’s Recycling Police. On Sunday eighty year old Delia Gluckin threw her newspaper in the trash. In swooped a Department of Sanitation inspector to search the garbage can, and write her a $100 ticket for “improper disposal”.
Yes folks, New York City pays someone to harass little old ladies for not properly recycling their newspaper. And there’s no mercy.
I said “I’m terribly sorry. I did it inadvertently. I’m a senior citizen. I never did anything. I’m going to take it out.” And she said “No you’re not” and she wrote up the ticket.
Officious busybody bureaucrat! Why don’t they pick on someone their own size? Mike Bloomberg’s Sanitation Stormtroopers can’t cut an old lady a break? Nope! It’s a revenue stream.
A spokesperson for the Department of Sanitation says agents have issued more than 2,300 tickets for similar violations this year.
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