<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085</id><updated>2012-01-09T03:08:30.268-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Assorted Crap</title><subtitle type='html'>This and that.Like the name says,,,ASSORTED CRAP ;)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-5247178978607708018</id><published>2008-06-14T23:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-14T23:53:36.640-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oklahoma Declares Sovereignty</title><content type='html'>HMmmm,this should work out well ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"STATE OF OKLAHOMA&lt;br /&gt;2nd Session of the 51st Legislature (2008)&lt;br /&gt;HOUSE JOINT&lt;br /&gt;RESOLUTION 1089 By: Key&lt;br /&gt;AS INTRODUCED&lt;br /&gt;A Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the&lt;br /&gt;Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United&lt;br /&gt;States over certain powers; serving notice to the&lt;br /&gt;federal government to cease and desist certain&lt;br /&gt;mandates; and directing distribution.&lt;br /&gt;WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United&lt;br /&gt;States reads as follows:&lt;br /&gt;"The powers not delegated to the United States by the&lt;br /&gt;Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to&lt;br /&gt;the States respectively, or to the people."; and&lt;br /&gt;WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal&lt;br /&gt;power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the&lt;br /&gt;United States and no more; and&lt;br /&gt;WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means&lt;br /&gt;that the federal government was created by the states specifically&lt;br /&gt;to be an agent of the states; and...."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okhouse.gov/51LEG/Leg_Votesxx.aspx?include=okh01983.txt"&gt;The Voteing Record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ok-safe.com/files/documents/1/HJR1089_int.pdf"&gt;Full Text Of The Bill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somebody should remind them what happened last time states tried this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-5247178978607708018?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/5247178978607708018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=5247178978607708018' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/5247178978607708018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/5247178978607708018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/06/oklahoma-declares-sovereignty.html' title='Oklahoma Declares Sovereignty'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-8394392955479818170</id><published>2008-06-10T12:45:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T12:55:29.701-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Impeach Bush,,about time!!</title><content type='html'>Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich last night introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush in a dramatic presentation of the floor of the House of Representatives that last nearly five hours.&lt;a href="http://kucinich.us/"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;also a copy of the speach at YouTube &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qy3z7XWtQc"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know the funny thing not a word about this on ABC,NBC,CBS or CNN.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-8394392955479818170?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/8394392955479818170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=8394392955479818170' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/8394392955479818170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/8394392955479818170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/06/impeach-bushabout-time.html' title='Impeach Bush,,about time!!'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-3616172561229497148</id><published>2008-06-08T21:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T21:54:38.146-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This weeks assorted crap ;)</title><content type='html'>It has been a week of news that makes you just want to say "DUH"no sh*t what rock have they been liveing under ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Hillary tops them all,for the about time award ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clinton Urges Backers to Look to November&lt;br /&gt;By Anne E. Kornblut&lt;br /&gt;Washington Post Staff Writer &lt;br /&gt;Sunday, June 8, 2008; Page A01 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..."officially ended her campaign yesterday with a forceful promise to &lt;br /&gt;help elect Sen. Barack Obama..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/07/ST2008060702571.html?sid=ST2008060702571"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drum roll,please.was a hard choice for my own "Darwin Award" this week but this guy just fell into it ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man on Skydiving Trip Dies After Jumping Without Parachute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"DUANESBURG, N.Y. —  A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, who was observing on the flight, followed an instructor, student and videographer out the door, wearing no skydiving gear, officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police said they did not suspect foul play but would not elaborate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Rawlins, pilot and owner of the Duanesburg Skydiving Club, said he was flying the single-engine plane and had begun to close the door when Carafello jumped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His body was found next to a house west of Albany"&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,364361,00.html"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What has to be the weeks best 'DUH" headline comes from "The Wall Street Journal"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recession Fears Reignited&lt;br /&gt;By KELLY EVANS and KRIS MAHER&lt;br /&gt;June 7, 2008; Page A1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..."Unemployment rose sharply and payrolls shrank for the fifth consecutive month. The economy news came on a day that oil surged to record prices, the dollar weakened and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly 400 points. The deteriorating job numbers led markets to scale back the odds that the Federal Reserve will boost short-term interest rates this fall to ward off inflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121279701661353763.html?mod=fpa_mostpop"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gee thanks there brainiac,I'm sure no consumer in the US noticed we have been in a Recession for a while now.DUH...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And from our friends across the pond we have this little bit of understatement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ID cards 'could threaten privacy' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;..."The National Identity Scheme is due to start rolling out later this year, and will eventually hold details on everyone in Britain over the age of 16. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The select committee said in a report: "It should collect only what is essential, to be stored only for as long as is necessary. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We are concerned... about the potential for 'function creep' in terms of the surveillance potential of the national identity scheme. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Any ambiguity about the objectives of the scheme puts in jeopardy the public's trust in the scheme itself and in the government's ability to run it." ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7441693.stm"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-3616172561229497148?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/3616172561229497148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=3616172561229497148' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/3616172561229497148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/3616172561229497148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-weeks-assorted-crap.html' title='This weeks assorted crap ;)'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-157726655613058901</id><published>2008-06-02T16:46:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-02T16:48:05.302-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies</title><content type='html'>DUH!&lt;br /&gt;"NASA's press office "marginalized, or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, a government watchdog says.&lt;br /&gt;In a report issued Monday, the NASA inspector general said the press office's actions were a result of "inappropriate political interference."&lt;br /&gt;The inspector general's report blamed "political appointees," saying neither the agency's top management nor career officials engaged in censorship of the studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more Bush crap&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-157726655613058901?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/157726655613058901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=157726655613058901' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/157726655613058901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/157726655613058901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/06/watchdog-nasa-misled-on-global-warming.html' title='Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-957118065983239369</id><published>2008-05-28T17:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T17:48:52.272-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You Think Nafta, Cafta &amp; the Economy is Bad Now? Wait For it.</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;div id="player"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TShPYA-OuPs&amp;amp;rel=" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK just WTF? The Shrub signs the U.S. up for North American Union without vote or consulting congress and against all recommendations of congress.Way past time for Pelosi to get off her ass and impeach the clown while we still have a country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-957118065983239369?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/957118065983239369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=957118065983239369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/957118065983239369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/957118065983239369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/05/you-think-nafta-cafta-economy-is-bad.html' title='You Think Nafta, Cafta &amp; the Economy is Bad Now? Wait For it.'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-2007182354197350583</id><published>2008-05-28T10:02:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T10:19:19.361-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Detroit Mayor Vetos His Impeachment</title><content type='html'>I swear you could not make up this stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"DETROIT -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has vetoed a resolution calling for his own ouster, hinting to the City Council that he intends a bruising battle over members' double-barreled effort to force him from office. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a 10-page letter sent Tuesday vetoing a resolution asking Gov. Jennifer Granholm to remove him, Kilpatrick warned that ousting an elected official is "irresponsible" and deprives voters of their rights. The city charter doesn't allow him to veto the resolution calling for the start of impeachment-like proceedings next month, but Kilpatrick called the move "legally deficient." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kilpatrick's letter, drafted by the Law Department, claims the council can only remove him if he was convicted of a felony or "lacked qualifications" to serve in office." ."&lt;a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080528/METRO/805280392"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and they still try to say the U.S. is a Democracy,think Bush is watching this one?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-2007182354197350583?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/2007182354197350583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=2007182354197350583' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/2007182354197350583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/2007182354197350583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/05/detroit-mayor-vetos-his-impeachment.html' title='Detroit Mayor Vetos His Impeachment'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-5742768862281670038</id><published>2008-05-24T23:01:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T23:04:37.648-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pa. Soldier Who Jumped on Grenade to Receive Posthumous Medal of Honor</title><content type='html'>"WASHINGTON —  The White House announced Friday that a Pennsylvania soldier who jumped on top of a grenade in Iraq and saved the lives of his comrades will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nation's highest military honor will be given to 19-year-old Army Pfc. Ross McGinnis of Knox, Pa., on June 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McGinnis "distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism," said White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto."&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357671,00.html"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not much to say,just rembember what this weekend is realy about.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-5742768862281670038?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/5742768862281670038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=5742768862281670038' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/5742768862281670038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/5742768862281670038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/05/pa-soldier-who-jumped-on-grenade-to.html' title='Pa. Soldier Who Jumped on Grenade to Receive Posthumous Medal of Honor'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-2987824041024537554</id><published>2008-05-23T01:14:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-23T01:33:02.192-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Amnesty Amendment Added to Iraqi War Funding Bill</title><content type='html'>People here is a clue for you,deport them and lock up people who hire them,sell them anything or gives them a place to live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced that she would oppose a motion to limit debate on the AgJOBS bill, saying that the bill, as it is currently drafted, would be a magnet for illegal immigration.&lt;br /&gt;But because she supports efforts to help individuals who have worked in U.S. agriculture for many years and who have been upstanding members of society, she also announced plans to offer four amendments to the bill (if it receives 60 votes and debate is limited).&lt;br /&gt;The amendments would:&lt;br /&gt;:Increase the time necessary for eligibility to receive temporary residence status from 100 work days to three years;&lt;br /&gt;:Increase the time necessary for eligibility to receive permanent residence status from 360 work days to five years;&lt;br /&gt;:Prohibit those convicted of crimes from receiving benefits under the bill; and&lt;br /&gt;:Prohibit those outside the United States from applying for benefits under the bill. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feinstein.senate.gov/05releases/r-agjobs418.htm"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello,,people of Sacramento your village idiot is back in D.C. please return her to the nut house ASAP,we have enought moonbats of our own .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-2987824041024537554?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/2987824041024537554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=2987824041024537554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/2987824041024537554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/2987824041024537554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/05/amnesty-amendment-added-to-iraqi-war.html' title='Amnesty Amendment Added to Iraqi War Funding Bill'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-7467406904873330827</id><published>2008-05-21T18:52:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T19:18:43.048-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More Government Math</title><content type='html'>Looks like the farm bill will be passed over the shrub's veto.&lt;br /&gt;Lets see,,Hmm the governmet will buy sugar from the growers for&lt;br /&gt;23 cents a pound turn around and sell it to ethanol producers at 2 cents a pound.&lt;br /&gt;WTF? then the ethanol producers sell it back to us in $4.00 a gallon gas.&lt;br /&gt;Bend over folks we have been screwed again.The thing that is realy spooky about this whole thing is the shrub is doing something right.The first rule for running for office should be,"if they want the office they should not be alowed to run"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-7467406904873330827?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/7467406904873330827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=7467406904873330827' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/7467406904873330827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/7467406904873330827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-government-math.html' title='More Government Math'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-3399017446487188011</id><published>2008-03-28T14:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-28T14:07:48.315-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm Back..........</title><content type='html'>I have been spending most of my time in Second Life &lt;a href="http://secondlife.com/"&gt;http://secondlife.com/&lt;/a&gt; . I will start updateing this blog ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-3399017446487188011?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/3399017446487188011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=3399017446487188011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/3399017446487188011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/3399017446487188011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2008/03/im-back.html' title='I&apos;m Back..........'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112504054799428384</id><published>2005-08-26T03:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-26T03:15:48.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Microsoft beats Apple, files iPod patents</title><content type='html'>CBC News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are likely some red faces at Apple Computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apple took too long to file a patent on part of its blockbuster iPod music players, so Microsoft jumped in and beat Apple to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tech pundits are snickering at the prospect of Apple having to pay Bill Gates big royalties on the hugely popular iPods, which account for more than a third of Apple's revenue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday, technology lawyer John Ferrell said Apple still has a lot of options, and this isn't a knockout blow. He said Apple could file a declaration stating it invented the technology before Microsoft filed its patent request.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company could also alter the patent claims so they don't overlap Microsoft's. Ferrell estimates it could be at least another six months before it's all sorted out. &lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/08/16/iPod_patents20050816.html"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You got to love it,,ms is so worried about their patents,they put spyware in their updates.Then they turn around and steal ipod's shit,,,big biss,,,got to love it ,,,,NOT..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112504054799428384?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112504054799428384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112504054799428384' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112504054799428384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112504054799428384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/08/microsoft-beats-apple-files-ipod.html' title='Microsoft beats Apple, files iPod patents'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112455739512035772</id><published>2005-08-20T13:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-20T13:13:44.650-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well,more Bush bashing (in his own words) ;)</title><content type='html'>The following assertions were collected from public statements made by George W. Bush and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally from Harper's Magazine, May 2004. &lt;br /&gt;SourcesThe President of the United States is not a fact-checker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a statistician.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a numbers-cruncher. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not one of these bean counters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not very analytical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a precision guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President is not a micromanager. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a member of the legislative branch. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President is not a rubber stamp for the Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a censor-guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a lawyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a doctor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President is not an economist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a stockbroker or a stock-picker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a forecaster. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a predictor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a pollster, a poll-reader guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a very good prognosticator of elections. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a committee chairman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not of the Washington scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a lonely person. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a poet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a very good novelist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a textbook player.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not an emailer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a very long-winded person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a very formal guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a revengeful person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not an Iraqi citizen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a divider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a unilateralist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not a tree, I'm a Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOL,at least he has not said"I'm not a crook" ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112455739512035772?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112455739512035772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112455739512035772' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112455739512035772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112455739512035772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/08/wellmore-bush-bashing-in-his-own-words.html' title='Well,more Bush bashing (in his own words) ;)'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112448743839533901</id><published>2005-08-19T17:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-19T17:37:18.396-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bits and Bytes</title><content type='html'>Some Random stuff found surfing ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siberia's Rapid Thaw Causes Alarm -- (BBC -- August 11, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4141348.stm&lt;br /&gt;The huge expanse of western Siberia is thawing for the first time since its formation, 11,000 years ago. The area, which is the size of France and Germany combined, could release billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This could potentially act as a tipping point, causing global warming to snowball, scientists fear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists Sound Alarm on Arctic Ice Cap -- (CBC News -- July 29, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=arctic-ice-29072005&lt;br /&gt;Satellite data for the month of June show Arctic sea ice has shrunk to a record low, raising concerns about climate change, coastal erosion, and changes to wildlife patterns. The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States uses remote sensing imagery to survey ice cover at both poles. The center says 2002 was a record low year for sea ice cover in the Arctic, since satellite observations began in 1979. There's evidence that may have been the lowest coverage in a century. Now scientists fear this year could be worse &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Strange Things' Along Pacific Coast Waters -- (Associated Press -- August 2, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8796487/&lt;br /&gt;Marine biologists are seeing mysterious and disturbing things along the Pacific Coast this year: higher water temperatures, plummeting catches of fish, lots of dead birds on the beaches, and perhaps most worrisome, very little plankton - the tiny organisms that are a vital link in the ocean food chain. "The bottom has fallen out of the coastal food chain, and there's just not enough food out there," said Julia Parrish, a seabird ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you say "Global Warming" ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112448743839533901?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112448743839533901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112448743839533901' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112448743839533901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112448743839533901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/08/bits-and-bytes.html' title='Bits and Bytes'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112381625624796590</id><published>2005-08-11T23:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-11T23:10:56.253-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science-Fiction_Scholar.html"&gt;Take the test ;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mine was&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar?&lt;br /&gt;Feet on the ground, but reaching for the stars.&lt;br /&gt;You talk the talk, but would you know what to do in an alien invasion? You got 10/11 correct.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112381625624796590?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112381625624796590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112381625624796590' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112381625624796590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112381625624796590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/08/are-you-science-fiction-scholar.html' title='Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar?'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112303606911376701</id><published>2005-08-02T22:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-02T22:29:19.503-04:00</updated><title type='text'>YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT</title><content type='html'>In a case argued before the Supreme Court last Wednesday, Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement explained that coercive interrogations in no way violate the rights of detainees. He claimed that the constitutional violation at issue in Miranda v. Arizona occurs only in court, if and when the prosecution tries to introduce a suspect's coerced statements as evidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put bluntly, you have no right to remain silent. What you have, instead, is a right not to be criminally prosecuted on the basis of your coerced statements. If the government is correct, then the language of the Miranda warnings is wrong. &lt;a href="http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20021209.html"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was digging around and found this.Other than that,I'm going to keep silent on it ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112303606911376701?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112303606911376701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112303606911376701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112303606911376701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112303606911376701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/08/you-have-no-right-to-remain-silent.html' title='YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112253920147614521</id><published>2005-07-28T04:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T04:26:41.483-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rove gets a raise.</title><content type='html'>I'm not makeing this up,I think the folks in D.C. have cooked what little brains they had in the heat ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Top White House staff, including Rove, get annual raises&lt;br /&gt;John Byrne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The top pay for senior White House aides, including Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Legislative Affairs Director Candida Wolff, mushroomed to $161,000 at the beginning of July, according to a list sent to Congress and obtained by National Journal,&lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/"&gt;RAW STORY&lt;/a&gt; can reveal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democrats raised the issue on the Democratic Congressional Campaign website Wednesday morning. "Long live the era of personal responsibility!" they wrote. Rove and Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Scooter Libby both got raises; each has been questioned by a grand jury about their role in the outing of a covert CIA operative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The top salary, paid to 19 aides, is up $4,000 from last year, barely matching the annual inflation rate," penned National Journal reporter Alexis Simendinger. "At the low end of the pecking order, some young staff assistants and correspondence aides earn $30,000 for the honor of sitting on the fringes of history."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112253920147614521?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112253920147614521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112253920147614521' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112253920147614521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112253920147614521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/rove-gets-raise.html' title='Rove gets a raise.'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112245422780703543</id><published>2005-07-27T04:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T04:56:09.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Long May You Fly !!</title><content type='html'>Another bloger was bitching about the money the U.S. is spending on the space program,,,,get a brain!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://imageshack.us"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9323/nasa9pu.jpg" border="0" width="299" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warning,Rant ahead!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We send people into space useing what is early 1970's technology after it was raped by the bureaucrats and politicians.Then the nomral guy on the streets,wonders why the shuttles fail.Duh....,they were made to last about 20 years(before they got cut),,,,anybody out there what do the math?Add to that the shit happens factor,you can do your best but random crap happens.Go ahead and "get the but it should not have happened"and "we should have fixed that before it failed"out of your mind,hind sight is always 20/20,we are human.&lt;br /&gt; It is a frontier,people die,but that has not slowed down the human race up intell now.Think about it people,how many died founding the U.S. or any other country?LOL,do you think if you saw everybody killed in a auto wreck every day,would you stop driveing,or would you keep on doing what you have to do ?&lt;br /&gt; Yes, the folks that strap a small nuke to their asses and then ride it into space are brave (IMO and hero's)are they braver than the folk's that put themselves into the hole of a 1800's sailing ship or walked across a iceage land bridge?Good question,but I'll let somebody else spilt that hair.&lt;br /&gt; Realy,they all come down to one thing,resources.Very,simple realy.&lt;br /&gt;Whithout numbers it is easy to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;x = earth and it's resource's&lt;br /&gt;y = is the number of humans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;x  (earth)is what we started with,,,it's not growing&lt;br /&gt;y keeps getting larger&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So,leaveing out alot of crap and double talk:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; As time goes by,every person(y) gets a smaller peice of the pie(x),,want to guess what thats going to do for the human race?I will pass on the bitching about use of resourses and help for the 3rd world countries(and are the 3rd world countries going to help the problem?....another rant),Yes,the U.S. and other 1st world(is that a word?)use more of the worlds resourses,,,,,,and everybody else wants the tech we have,,,not going to happen inless we can make the (x) bigger.&lt;br /&gt;How can any bureaucrat,politician,or anybody with a thought in their head for the next generation,say that we are wasteing money on space?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could go on for a hell of a long time,,but one last thought.Do you what your kids,and grandkids looking back and calling you a bunch of loses,nuts(or worse),,,Hmmmmm,that is saying if there are people here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think,&lt;br /&gt;DDNC&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112245422780703543?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112245422780703543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112245422780703543' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112245422780703543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112245422780703543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/long-may-you-fly.html' title='Long May You Fly !!'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112191168039490627</id><published>2005-07-20T22:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-20T22:08:00.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'>'Star Trek' Engineer James Doohan Dies</title><content type='html'>Wed Jul 20, 7:24 PM ET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James Doohan, who played engineer Montgomery Scott, the scrappy Scotsman who repeatedly gave the Starship Enterprise "all she's got" in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 85. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 31 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said. &lt;a href="http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/ap/20050720/112191264000.html"&gt;Full Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will miss you Scotty ;(&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112191168039490627?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112191168039490627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112191168039490627' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112191168039490627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112191168039490627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/star-trek-engineer-james-doohan-dies.html' title='&apos;Star Trek&apos; Engineer James Doohan Dies'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112172499998082230</id><published>2005-07-18T18:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-19T00:20:27.373-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More IT jobs going "off Shore"</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Outsourcing overseas? How about &lt;a href="http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,103089,00.html"&gt;only 3 miles from the U.S. coast&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What San Diego-based start-up SeaCode Inc. plans to do is nothing if not novel: anchor a cruise ship three miles off the coast of Los Angeles, fill it with up to 600 programmers from around the world, eliminate visa restrictions and make it easy for customers to visit the site via water taxi. The two men behind the venture -- Roger Green, who describes himself as an IT and outsourcing veteran, and IT consultant David Cook, whose job history includes a stint as a ship captain -- recently discussed their plan in an interview with Computerworld. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the business model? Green: The promise of the benefits of outsourcing in distant lands doesn't come free. Most of the gotchas are related to the geography and to the cultural difference. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are some of those gotchas? Green: Communicating requirements, doing knowledge transfer [and] managing the project are very difficult to do even when you are in the same building, [let alone] when it's across the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the same argument made by nearshore providers in Canada. Cook: But we offer the price of India with the proximity of the United States -- that's the differentiator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see a lawsuit or two comeing ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112172499998082230?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112172499998082230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112172499998082230' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112172499998082230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112172499998082230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-it-jobs-going-off-shore.html' title='More IT jobs going &quot;off Shore&quot;'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112123719274457448</id><published>2005-07-13T02:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-13T02:53:03.253-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pentagon to share data with civilian agencies</title><content type='html'>WTF?&lt;br /&gt;I just got done reading the "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support" &lt;a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2005/d20050630homeland.pdf"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if I should grab a gun or a beer.It is new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland.The paper is  asserting the president's authority to deploy ground combat forces on U.S. territory "to intercept and defeat threats."&lt;br /&gt; Ok,it's the same goverment double speak,but they are talking about useing DOD assets to gather info on "terrorists" and putting boots on the ground in the U.S.,well and good,but who is to say who is a "terrorist".Read between the lines,and it is anybody old George W. says.&lt;br /&gt; There is no over site provided for at all.I think they might have a problem getting around the  "Posse Comitatus Act",but looks like they are going to pack the Supreme Court with who they want.LOL,but then the court has never been able to do much after the military is on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Hail emperor shrub........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Screw it I'm going for a beer ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112123719274457448?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112123719274457448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112123719274457448' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112123719274457448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112123719274457448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/pentagon-to-share-data-with-civilian.html' title='Pentagon to share data with civilian agencies'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112123288694103153</id><published>2005-07-13T01:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-13T01:36:18.890-04:00</updated><title type='text'>PC run amok!!</title><content type='html'>Ok,this realy is getting to be way to PC for me ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BBC edits out the word terrorist&lt;br /&gt;By Tom Leonard&lt;br /&gt;(Filed: 12/07/2005)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday.&lt;a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/12/nbbc12.xml"&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well,what else you going to call them?I could think of a few things,,,but it's mostly a G rated blog ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112123288694103153?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112123288694103153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112123288694103153' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112123288694103153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112123288694103153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/pc-run-amok.html' title='PC run amok!!'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-112119535686270310</id><published>2005-07-12T14:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-12T15:14:46.970-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Man arrested for hopping on to home Wi-Fi network</title><content type='html'>OK,if you have ever doubted that Fla. has taken over the job of nut house for the US from Ca. you should check this one out ;(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service&lt;br /&gt;July 07, 2005 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man who allegedly accessed a home Wi-Fi network in St. Petersburg, Florida, from a parked car got logged off the hard way: He was arrested and charged with a felony. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Smith III, 40, was arrested on April 21 outside the St. Petersburg home of Richard Dinon and charged under a Florida law that prohibits unauthorized access to a computer or network, said George Kajtsa, the police department's public information officer. A pre-trial hearing in the case is scheduled for Monday, according to the state attorney's office for Pasco and Pinellas counties. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dinon saw Smith sitting in a parked sport-utility vehicle in front of his house and wondered what he was doing there, then saw he was using a notebook computer, Kajtsa said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What made him suspicious was, every time he looked toward the car, the guy closed the lid on his laptop," Kajtsa said. Dinon called police. When they came to the scene and approached the vehicle, Smith closed the computer again. The police asked him what he was doing and he finally owned up to it, Kajtsa said. Smith was arrested and the PC seized and sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as potential evidence. &lt;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/07/HNwifiarrest_1.html"&gt;More &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know they have Cox cable down there,,are they going to bust all the users,who pick-up the network from down the street instead of their own?LOL,another dumb law that can not be used for anything useful ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-112119535686270310?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/112119535686270310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=112119535686270310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112119535686270310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/112119535686270310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/07/man-arrested-for-hopping-on-to-home-wi.html' title='Man arrested for hopping on to home Wi-Fi network'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111666585023016703</id><published>2005-05-21T04:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-21T04:57:30.230-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Your Out ;)</title><content type='html'>Anybody up for some penguin baseball :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/%7Ehopha/penguin.swf"&gt;Take a swing or 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111666585023016703?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111666585023016703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111666585023016703' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111666585023016703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111666585023016703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-out.html' title='Your Out ;)'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111666546320675967</id><published>2005-05-21T04:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-21T04:53:54.050-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lawyer leads double life as porn star</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Hmmm,I thought it was the same thing,,,just screwing people in another way ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Gina Keating&lt;br /&gt;LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When his mother found out what porn star Ron Miller does for a living, she was heartbroken. She never wanted him to be a criminal defense lawyer.&lt;br /&gt;"My mother cried a lot about that," Miller said recently between appearances defending accused felons at a Los Angeles courthouse. She had hoped he would be a high-rolling civil litigator,&lt;br /&gt;Miller, who appears in adult videos as "Don Hollywood," has carved out a special niche of notoriety on the fringe of Hollywood's dream factory. In a town where many long to quit their day jobs for the glamour of a career in entertainment, he has managed a unique dual track: litigator and porn star.&lt;br /&gt;Miller makes his rounds at the Van Nuys courthouse three days a week with a certain extravagance of manner and a diamond ear stud that set him apart from the rumpled lawyers with whom he has shared a counsel table for the past 30 years.&lt;br /&gt;At a recent court appearance, he sported a black pinstriped suit and crocodile-skin cowboy boots, with case files under his arm and a defender's zeal in his heavy-lidded blue eyes.&lt;br /&gt;Most of Miller's legal colleagues know about his other job. The one that sometimes sees the 56-year-old sharing a massage table with a porn starlet and cooing: "You're working on a 'get out of jail free' card," as the cameras roll.&lt;br /&gt;But aside from knowing looks or good-natured jokes, Miller said his eight-year adult film career has drawn no objection from clients, colleagues or the California bar association.&lt;br /&gt;"There are just some places I don't want to go," Deputy District Attorney Ann Marie Wise said when asked about her opponent's avocation at a recent court hearing.  &lt;a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2005-05-20T171618Z_01_N22384832_RTRIDST_0_ODD-PORN-DC.XML"&gt;Full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111666546320675967?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111666546320675967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111666546320675967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111666546320675967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111666546320675967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/lawyer-leads-double-life-as-porn-star.html' title='Lawyer leads double life as porn star'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111657082324103385</id><published>2005-05-20T02:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-20T02:33:43.246-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Starwars in earthly polltics  ;(</title><content type='html'>I like starwars has much as the next guy,but this is getting out of hand.The folks over at &lt;a href="http://www.moveonpac.org/"&gt;Move on .org&lt;/a&gt;,have made a starwars ad about the filibuster fight going on.&lt;a href="http://www.moveonpac.org/savetherepublic/?id=5543-5460587-.smXU7V00dw94dQMzWo2uQ&amp;t=6"&gt;Check it out here&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt; But then again maybe we should give every member of the House and Senate a lightsaber,when they are elected then lock them all in a room,intell nobody is left standing.Repeat every 4 or 6 years and sooner or later we will run out of politicians(I can dream). ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111657082324103385?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111657082324103385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111657082324103385' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111657082324103385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111657082324103385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/starwars-in-earthly-polltics.html' title='Starwars in earthly polltics  ;('/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111655660025091964</id><published>2005-05-19T22:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-19T22:38:43.386-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Who pulled the drain plug ?</title><content type='html'>How do you lose a lake? ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.&lt;br /&gt;NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.&lt;br /&gt;"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.&lt;br /&gt;Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.&lt;br /&gt;"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house. &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050519/od_nm/odd_russia_lake_dc"&gt;Full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111655660025091964?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111655660025091964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111655660025091964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111655660025091964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111655660025091964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/who-pulled-drain-plug.html' title='Who pulled the drain plug ?'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111654813283228606</id><published>2005-05-19T20:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-19T22:39:24.476-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mystery of German exploding toads</title><content type='html'>I was digging around at the BBC,when I came on this. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding.&lt;br /&gt;Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The toads' entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists are baffled. Possible explanations include a unknown virus or a fungus in the pond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," German conservationist Werner Smolnik told AFP news agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bodies of the toads expanded to three and a half times their normal size, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I have never seen such a thing," AFP quotes veterinarian Otto Horst as saying. The site - which has been dubbed "the pond of death" - has been closed to the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exploding toads have also crossed the border north into Denmark, according to Danish Radio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It reported that a large number of toads that live in a pond near Laasby in central Jutland have started to suffer the same fate as the German amphibians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The toads crawl onto the land, swell up and explode in the middle of the night, the radio said. &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4486247.stm/"&gt;Full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmmmm,Toad suicide bombers?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111654813283228606?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111654813283228606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111654813283228606' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111654813283228606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111654813283228606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/mystery-of-german-exploding-toads.html' title='Mystery of German exploding toads'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111647244623602622</id><published>2005-05-18T23:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T23:14:06.240-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don't think I saw this on CNN</title><content type='html'>Bogus mariachi bands rob music-lovers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Catherine Bremer &lt;br /&gt;MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In the latest crime ruse to hit Mexico City, thieves are dressing up as mariachi musicians in embroidered suits with wide-brimmed somberros to rob unsuspecting music-lovers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mingling among the roughly 1,700 licensed mariachi who serenade people with raucous folk songs in a central city square are hundreds of "pirate" mariachi more adept at picking pockets than strumming guitars, city officials say&lt;a href="http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=8487203"&gt;More &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I thought just haveing to listen to it was a crime&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111647244623602622?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111647244623602622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111647244623602622' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111647244623602622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111647244623602622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-dont-think-i-saw-this-on-cnn.html' title='I don&apos;t think I saw this on CNN'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111646994212634227</id><published>2005-05-18T22:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T22:32:22.130-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Garden Gnome</title><content type='html'>Think I should put one in my front yard,,,just for the hell of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imageshack.us"&gt;&lt;img alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" src="http://img287.echo.cx/img287/6182/tnmooning23kd.jpg" width="282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prankplace.com/"&gt;Get one over here and alot of other with great useless junk &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111646994212634227?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111646994212634227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111646994212634227' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111646994212634227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111646994212634227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/garden-gnome.html' title='The Garden Gnome'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111646822030661105</id><published>2005-05-18T21:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T22:03:40.310-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)</title><content type='html'>OK,so now we all know the english language is going down hill. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merriam-Webster asked visitors to their site to submit words which were not in the dictionary. &lt;blockquote&gt;1. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;ginormous &lt;/span&gt;(adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;confuzzled &lt;/span&gt;(adj): confused and puzzled at the same time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;woot &lt;/span&gt;(interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;chillax &lt;/span&gt;(v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;cognitive displaysia&lt;/span&gt; (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;gription &lt;/span&gt;(n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;phonecrastinate &lt;/span&gt;(v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;slickery &lt;/span&gt;(adj): having a surface that is wet and icy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;snirt &lt;/span&gt;(n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;lingweenie &lt;/span&gt;(n): a person incapable of producing neologisms&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.m-w.com/info/favorite.htm"&gt;Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111646822030661105?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111646822030661105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111646822030661105' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111646822030661105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111646822030661105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/top-ten-favorite-words-not-in.html' title='Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12951085.post-111628897028714455</id><published>2005-05-16T20:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-19T02:15:54.133-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And Off We Go ......</title><content type='html'>Here you will find the output of my demented mind.&lt;br /&gt;The wife starts bloging and I get hooked on that little button at the top (Next Blog),,Damn,,,it's like eating peanuts,,,can't eat just one.&lt;br /&gt;I have no idea where this blog is going or what it will end up being about,so I guess you will have to keep checking in.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12951085-111628897028714455?l=mixedcrap.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/feeds/111628897028714455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12951085&amp;postID=111628897028714455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111628897028714455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12951085/posts/default/111628897028714455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mixedcrap.blogspot.com/2005/05/and-off-we-go.html' title='And Off We Go ......'/><author><name>Oran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17666407510397443937</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6tzz_uuKaxA/R-1B7ua6obI/AAAAAAAAAAM/m0xx9daCV6Q/S220/bluedrg.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
