A daredevil’s daredevil, Evel Knievel, has passed away at age 69.
I’ve always been a fan of daredevils, and man, he was the King.
Footage of the stunt that still makes my stomach clench up:
RIP, Evel.
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[stags]RIP[/stags]
[tags]Evel Knievel[/tags]
Via the Evil Genius Chronicles, a post documenting Ron Paul’s visit to Myrtle Beach. I was sorely tempted to comment on Dave’s observations, and ask for further elucidation of his remarks. Then, a commenter named Matthew made these artless observations:
I beg you to explain to me why you dont agree with Ron Pauls beliefs? You show me one candidate that is honest and supports principle the way Ron does.
Ron Paul is the salvation. You can try to throw all the propaganda towards. Your website sounds ridiculous. Why dont you place a big Russian Red Star next to the title.
Anyone not supporting Ron Paul is an unpatriotic, socialistic Bushite !
Followers of the revolution are the true Patriots. Wake up to reality!
My stars, Matt, if you really support Ron, you should realize that such ham-fisted tactics aren’t going to convince Dave or his readers; most likely, they will alienate people who before were either uninformed about RP, or who were on the fence about him. In non-political situations, I have been in the presence of loutish people who were wearing apparel sporting logos for some university, product, or what have you; while I don’t remember the persons today, I can safely say that my perception of the lout’s school/product/whatever went downhill.
I support Ron Paul; I’ll cajole, exhort, blog, and defend him. If someone disagrees, fine. I think it’s time for a major change in the way America is governed, and I think RP, long shot though he may be, speaks to the changes that need to be made. I’ll not post anything anywhere like you did, Matt. It’s time to write and talk, not to call each other names.
And, as for an unpatriotic, socialistic Bushite, I think my intracranial phrase parser needs a firmware update to handle that one.
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[stags]Politics, Ron Paul[/stags]
[tags]ronpaul,Ron Paul[/tags]
Ga. Man Tries to Deposit Fake $1M Bill
Every so often, a story like the one above surfaces. Every time, the perpetrator winds up arrested. Somehow, in my old-school, baby boomer mind, the phrase “fake million dollar bill” implies that there’s a real one someplace, which of course is false.
If he’d tried to deposit Monopoly money, would that have led to a forgery charge?
In this case, the charges of disorderly conduct for raising a ruckus in the bank, and forgery for buying smokes with a stolen check, were probably OK.
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[stags]Goofy[/stags]
Chicken Fried Bacon
Two observations:
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[stags]Eats[/stags]
Via Neanderpundit…
[tags]snooktx[/tags]
Cyber Monday is today. This is apparently the day we’re supposed to leech bandwidth from our employers to buy Christmas gifts on-line. And I plan to participate wholeheartedly. In the usage of bandwidth part anyhow. I’ll be plumbing the depths of Solaris Live Upgrade and flash archives.
The cash flow from such usage is in precisely the right direction.
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[stags]Work[/stags]
And my Sprint wireless broadband card is functioning OK under Fedora 8, too. Providing this post shows up, that is.
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[stags]Geek, Fedora[/stags]
OK, upgrade done, wi-fi drivers recompiled and reinstalled, and alls good in Geeksville.
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[stags]Geek, Fedora[/stags]
Enough turkey, Shiners and football for a bit. I’m flipping back and forth from QVC to the Washington Redskins game, whilst upgrading the Toshiba laptop to Fedora 8.
I normally do fresh installs; this time I’m doing an upgrade. This all in spite my carefully making backups of valuable files, in preparations for a fresh, “clear the decks” install.
With any cyber luck, all I’ll have to to is recompile the Sierra Wireless drivers and mad wi-fi, and be good to go in time for the KU basketball game tonight.
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[stags]Geek, Fedora,Kansas Jayhawks, Basketball[/stags]
[tags]fedora, fedora8[/tags]
Last night’s Kansas-Missouri football Border War was an outstanding game; unfortunately, the Jayhawks came up on the short end of a 36-28 score.
Taking nothing away from the outstanding play by Missouri, it doesn’t take a huge sports analyst to say that had the ‘Hawks rushed the ball better, had they not turned the ball over three times, and had they not missed two field goals, that the outcome could have been different. If Ifs and buts were candy and nuts, etc..
What struck me about the game was the fact that Kansas never gave up; Mizzou, whose season-long 4th quarter domination was loudly trumpeted by ABC play-by-play men Brent “Why is he still on TV?” Musberger, and Kirk Herbstreit, was outscored 21-8 by KU in the final quarter in a comeback effort that just came up short. Brent and Kirk were so full of their insight that the cameras shifted to the booth with 3 or 4 minutes to go, and showed them discussing how Ohio State, LSU, and West Virginia could still get back into the BCS title game, and how Missouri had narrowly lost to Oklahoma1 in an earlier game, and how they should all but present the crystal football to the Tigers right now. They then turned their attention to the field, where Kansas was methodically driving down for touchdowns, and remarked “Wait, we still have a game here.” Indeed.
So, with an 11-1 season, and excellent prospects of playing in some warmer climes on New Year’s Day, The Jayhawks still have had a season to remember.
And I’ll be rooting for Missouri next Saturday. And watching KU on January 1.
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[stags]Kansas Jayhawks, Football, Missouri Tigers[/stags]
[tags]kansasjayhawks[/tags]
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Unpopulated, 1-House Texas Town ‘Sold’
$3.8 million would be a huge budget annihilator1 for my little bride and me, and if the Italian guy who’s the apparent winning bidder pulls it off, good on him.
Look at the Albert website, though. What great environs and beautiful country.
In the meantime, we’ll be content with our 40 acres of Kansas soybeans.
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[stags]Texas[/stags]
[tags]alberttexas[/tags]
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