Rumsfeld Down!! Hastert Down!!

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/2774

CNN Breaking...
Karl Rove will do ANYTHING to get the Democratic victory out of the headlines.
Who do you think will replace him...Lieberman? Not likely, they need him in the Senate.
UPDATE: Robert Gates is Bush's pick for SECDEF to succeed Rumsfeld.
2nd UPDATE: And the hits keep coming. Dennis Hastert will not be running for Minority Leader in the House.
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This is How They Really Feel

I think the thinly veiled bigotry in the comment below from Tony Perkins, head of the conservative Family Research Council (FRC), goes a long way in describing how these people think.  He was being interviewed on CNN regarding the Mark Foley congressional page scandal.

 

The key phrase - "But it shouldn't be totally surprising when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public life, this is what you end up getting". 

 

So, tolerance and diversity is bad.  I see.  Shall we start the segregation and discrimination again?  Back of the bus!

 

PERKINS: Oh, I -- there's no defense of this behavior. It's outrageous; it's shocking. But it shouldn't be totally surprising when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public life, this is what you end up getting. A congressman chasing 16-year- old boys down the halls of Congress; it's a shame. It's a tragedy and it does need to be addressed but not just the symptoms here.

 

 

 

 

Some rules to live by

 

• Pay attention to every detail of the business.
• Think of the whole, not just your part.
• Be prompt – meet deadlines.
• Set priorities – plan ahead, stay ahead.
• Take time to think – then decide quickly. Decisiveness inspires confidence.
• The size of your budget is far less important than the size of your idea.
• How fast you do something is almost never as important as how well you do something.
• Bear your troubles patiently and privately.
• Maintain your integrity as a sacred thing.
• Be polite to everyone. You learn more about a person by how they treat the receptionist than by how they treat the boss.
• Master your moods. Bas attitudes spread like wildfire.
• You won’t earn the opportunity to manage others until you learn to manage yourself.
• Anticipate problems – don’t wait until they bite you in the butt!
• There’s nothing wrong with being wrong unless you won’t admit it.
• Don’t procrastinate – little things can fall through the cracks.
• Be flexible – alter yourself or alter the situation.
• Have an open mind. The “can’t be dones” are the cynics that detour progress.
• Accept responsibility not only for what you do but also for what you don’t do.
• Enthusiasm is contagious – spread it around.
• People who do more than they are asked make the difference.
• TEAMwork produces more than ME-work.
• It’s not how many hours you work each day, it’s how hard your hours work.
• Remember to say THANK YOU!
• Never get too big to do small things.
• Average work keeps the average down.
• Earn the respect of your co-workers by your actions, not your title.
• When people trust you, don’t disappoint them.
• Have more patience than anyone you know.
• Check your ego at the door each morning.
• Share your ideas – they often come to bloom in another brain.
• Be a good listener. And remember that you don’t know what you don’t know.
• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
• Common sense ain’t so common. Place a high value on it.
• Quality is no accident – high standards should be self-imposed.
• Don’t assume – the only stupid questions are the same ones asked twice.
• Stick-to-it-iveness is a skill.
• Noisy people are like noisy engines – something needs fixin’.
• Work hard and you will succeed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Astronauts lose bolt during spacewalk (AP)

Just do what I always do.  Dig around in the toolbox for a bolt that "almost" fits.  That should hold it.  It's only the space station. 

Astronauts lose bolt during spacewalk (AP)

AP - Spacewalking astronauts worried they have may have gummed up a successful job connecting an addition to the international space station Tuesday when a bolt, spring and washer floated free.

[via Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

Colorado - Wild Basin - We'll be there next week

Random Diseases and Disorders I Might Have

In the spirit of the new "road rage" disease that's just been invented, here's a few more that I think I might have...

 

Excessive Labor Disorder

Irritable Eye Syndrome

Jimmy Legs

Sudden Uproar Syndrome

Drill-in-Oral Cavity Phobia

Resentment of Unknown Origin (RUO)

 

 

 

 

CBS Stations: Sex Fines Without Merit

So, let's say, as a conservative estimate, 5 million people watched this show on this particular evening (it's a highly rated show).  And let's say that every single person that found the show objectionable, all 4,211 of them, took the time to complain (how many of them actually watched the show, and how many of them complained more than once? - that's another story).  That translates to roughly 0.08 percent of the viewers complaining.  That's 8 out of every 10,000 people.  So these 8 people can dictate what the other 9,992 get to see on television.  The end is near my friends.  Time to move to another country.

CBS Stations: Sex Fines Without Merit

CBS affiliates filed a motion on Tuesday to have the $3.3 million worth of fines levied against a Dec. 31, 2004, Without a Trace rebroadcast — which, the FCC says, depicted "numerous sexual activities" and "sexual conduct" among teens — tossed out because not one of the 4,211 complaints about the episode came from anyone outside of the websites operated by two conservative advocacy groups: the Parents Television Council and the American Family Association. "Permitting enforcement reliant on a national mass e-mail campaign is akin to permitting the [FCC] to single out programming it dislikes, in the absence of any viewer complaint," argue the affiliates.

[via Entertainment News]

One sentence from the novel I'll never write...

 

Rufus looked disgustingly at Simone and nonchalantly asked, "Can we go get some ice cream after the autopsy?"

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting tidbit...

According to Steven Hill of the Center for Voting and Democracy, the combined populations of Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Alaska equal that of New York and Massachusetts, but the former states have a total of nine more votes in the Electoral College (as well as over five times the votes in the Senate). In America, conservatives literally count for more.

From Tyranny of the Christian Right on Alternet

Give us your tired, your hungry, your seagulls

Give us your tired, your hungry, your seagulls
Originally uploaded by jefrc.

Just another random photo from my collection. Taken from the Ferry on the way to see the Statue of Liberty.

Verizon: NSA Didn't Ask Us for Records (AP)

So let me get this straight. When the story breaks last week, you don't immediately deny giving out the phone records. Nothing but silence. But when all the questions and lawsuits start flying, you suddenly remember that the nice men in black never came to the door asking for the phone records. If they never asked, and you never provided what they said you did, wouldn't you deny it immediately, and not wait a week? Hmmmm...

Verizon: NSA Didn't Ask Us for Records (AP)

AP - Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday joined fellow phone company BellSouth Corp. in denying key points of a USA Today story that said the companies had provided records of millions of phone calls to the government.

[via Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

Cool?

A shot of our building at night

Those funny looking buildings (Marina City) in Chicago

Taken from a moving bus

Maroon Bells, Colorado

Maroon Bells, Colorado
Originally uploaded by jefrc.

Just Testing out the cool features on Flickr. Yes, I took this photo.

'Survivor' Winner Sentenced to 51 Months (AP)

Poor Richard. I think this is payback for subjecting us all to his... you know. Susan Hawk must be smiling right now.


'Survivor' Winner Sentenced to 51 Months (AP)

AP - Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings.

[via Yahoo! News: Top Stories]