THE NYT — GOOD ONLY FOR BIRDCAGE LINING

Having failed to get Senator John McCain with a story that was nothing but innuendo, the times (it only get lower case letters from now on), apparently not having learned that EVERY one is sick of their unmitigated arrogance and bullshit — not to mention lying — has now questioned whether the Senator can legally be president because he was born in the Canal Zone.

Would anybody care to donate to a fund to firebomb this leprous excuse for a "paper?"

I'll be more than happy to rig it.

FIDEL CEDES POWER

BARAAAAAACK OBAMA (to the tune of Oklahoma)

Under "you can't make this shit up."

Barack Obama: "We're not going to go to Iraq unless al Qaeda is there.
John McCain: "Uh, Senator Obama. They are there."


Here's a funny one. It's Hillary singing about BHO to the tune of "OOOOOOOklahoma..."

Go HERE

Thanks to Paul L for passing the clip on.

IN PASSING

Here's to William F. Buckley.

The bane of liberals, quasi- and pseudointellectuals, Buckley passed away at his home in Connecticut. He was found by his son at his desk. Buckley was 82 years old.

If you remember watching Firing Line and listening to Buckley decimate someone who dealt in the ephemeral phraseology of leftism, you couldn't help but smile, even if he sometimes required a dictionary to understand.

He made a generation of thinkers — conservative or otherwise — into students of language and proved that the written (and spoken) word was better than a thousand pictures.

PC ISLAM ... THE FUTURE IS NOW

THIS is six minutes of the most rational explanation of Muslims, terrorists, Islam, Saudi Arabia, et al. Watch it to the very end!

Well spoken, literate, amusing, and ... well, only a Brit could pull it off.

Underlying it all is either a look at the future of America or one very scary lesson for us.

My thanks to Peter Y for the heads up.

18 HOBIE CAT FOR SALE

It's a 1981 model, but the hulls still "breathe" when you open the drain plugs. It has all new running and standing rigging in 2007, all new hardware in 2007, the trailer has new tires in 2007.

It has 5:1 downhaul (new '07); 6:1 Harken boom block (excellent shape; both class legal). Trailex trailer is rock solid and the electrics work. The mast was resealed in 07, rudders are in great shape, twin trapezes (good), Cat Trax (good), roller furling (great) jib. Rainbow sails, blue tramp are okay (no rips), the daggers are serviceable.

The hulls, tramp and trailer are outside (covered); everything else is stored indoors.

A full set of back-up rigging, lots of spares and lots of sailing gear. If you want to move up to an 18, this is a good one to start with.

$2000. Contact me here.

LRRP’S NEWS

Some of the news from around the world that you haven’t heard and probably won’t.

Afghanistan
Daylight Come, And We Wan’ Go Home.
The Taliban have ordered Afghanistan’s four cellular phone companies to shut down for 14 hours a day (at night) “or else.” No, nothing religious involved. We track them via cellphone signals, and do most of our Sigint at night, sooooo … I assume the threat was conveyed in the daytime!

Secaucus, NJ.
Don’t Believe Everything Your GPS Says.
Modern technology is leading some drivers in Secaucus, N.J. straight into a dead end. Truck drivers relying on GPS devices and online map to show them the route to an industrial area are instead running into a road block. Garmin International says the GPS maker has to receive a request or complaint and go through a thorough process before maps can be changed. — Associated Press

Iraq
And You Think AIDs Was Bad?
It’s a bacteria that feeds off of the resistances of other bacteria with which it comes in contact. It’s called acinetobacter baumannii and it started popping up almost immediately after we went into Iraq, and it might not have anything to do with where we’re fighting … but it is virulent. Full story at Military.Com. Meanwhile, scientists in Columbus, Ohio, may have found a way to treat bacteria that is antibiotic resistant. You can find that story HERE .

Princeton, NJ
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrreak This.
Want to break into an encrypted computer? Shoot the DRAM chip (dynamic random access memory) with some freezing air. Here’s the story.

Sweden and London
Shape Shifting.
The ability to change shapes — think Transformers — has always been the basic plot line of scifi and horror movies, right? Well, researchers from Nokia and Cambridge have come up with a way to allow Nokia handsets to change shapes — any shapes. Expect to see the new technology on Nokia high-end products in about seven years. Damn!

WHY WE'LL WIN THE WAR ON TERROR

We'll eventually win this war, although terrorism will go on as long as there are cowards who think they can obtain something from utilizing this tactic. Like the "sociopolitical conscious" gangs of the 60s — Baader Meinhoff, Red Army, SLA, etc — they eventually will degenerate into the thieves and cowards they always have been, using this or another guise of political change as the basis for their murders.

How do I come to this conclusion. Here's a little tale about Afghanistan, no one's ever heard.

"The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) based in Khost [Afghanistan] has been working closely to help the Afghan government fulfill its promise to deliver fresh drinking water to everyone in the province.

Until today, not all of Khost's residents could expect that promise to be kept.

While parents and children in other districts are benefiting from recent drilling of more than 300 hand-pump drinking water wells, Dragai Village of Tani District was left out because the depth of water table prevents workable wells.

Khost provincial Director of Rural Reconstruction and Development (RRD) Mohammad Omar refused to give up and worked on a solution. The Tani Water Network opened for use on February 14. RRD's innovative network brings mountain spring water to people in the district.

"A promise is a promise," Omar said. "Water is life and that's what we are giving the people of Tani."

PRT engineer, Lt. Cmdr. Bob Traeder, explained the $100,000 system took just 90 days to complete and contains more than 10 kilometers of water pipes, which deliver fresh spring water from the distant mountains to more than 12,000 people in the region.

Tani tribal elder Mohammad Qadeem Gul said he is grateful for the cooperation between the government and the PRT.

"Without it," he said, "we would not have water or a good life for our children."

That's why.

Nuke Iran Now

WELL, YOU GOTTA GIVE CREDIT WHEN IT’S DUE

With all the bullshit strewn about by The New York Times regarding Senator McCain — all of which turned out to be quite less than factual, to put it mildly — you’d have thought it would have been business as usual amongst the egotists that put word to paper but it wasn’t.

Most of them actually castigated the sloppy so-called-journalism of Times. Some weren’t overjoyed with having to do so, but bitch slap the Gray Lady they did.

So, next time I’m raving and ranting about what sloppily subjective scribes they are, I’ll try and remember that — on occasion, and not only this occasion — some of them remembered what it was like to tell a story without forming an opinion.

After all … that’s why we got into this biz in the first place.

LEST I FORGET

NUKE IRAN NOW

YOUR BOAT HAVE A DIESEL?

Above: A group of students working on engines during the two-day course. Copyright Gary P. Joyce


If your boat — whether power or sail — has a diesel engine, you'd do yourself and your boat a favor by taking a diesel maintenance course at Mack Boring down in Union, New Jersey. You'll learn more in their one-day course (and even more than that in their two-dayer) about diesels than you ever thought you knew. And in the two-dayer, you'll actually get to take engines apart.

Larry Berlin was the instructor when I went, and they've added another instructor, Kurt Haseloff, so if you've tried to get into a class, but haven't been able (they fill up fast), perhaps they'll be offering some more with Haseloff on board.

If you have a diesel in your boat, I consider this a mandatory class.

ENTERTAINMENT LAST NIGHT

If you missed the first live Saturday Night Live since November, you missed a beaut. They took on the media and Obamarama in a way that not even the fairest of media would dare. And, God, they did it extremely well.

If you have access to Joost or the like, try and see it, it was a great opener. HERE'S a piece of it from the NBC site, and not the best part, but still hysterically accurate.

The follow up to Tina Fey (who hosted with a surprise bit by Steve Martin), was another winner. It concerned the new drugs that — what? — cancel out or readjust the timing of a woman's period. Hysterical.

I quit after that, wanting to go to bed a happy camper. Beside, it was waaaay past my bedtime.

Also got a chance to watch Michael Clayton last night. Although I can do without Clooney's politics, he just seems like such a regular guy and I think he's quite underated as an actor. Although nominated for an Oscar (tonight), he laughed when asked and said something to the effect of, "Not as long as Daniel Day Lewis is in the same category."

Lewis, who with Johnny Depp are the screen's best actors (lets throw Rene Zellwegger in there as well) is up for his role as a ... I dunno. The movie looks too intense for a relaxing evening at the theater.

Anyway ... check out Michael Clayton and, if at all possible, check out SNL.

LARRY DAVIS — NOT SO FUNNY

Larry Davis — not writer/actor Larry David — was a life long criminal who got away with murder ... several times.

He also got away with shooting six NYPD guys back in the 80s.

I won't chronicle anymore of his life, but suffice to say, getting stabbed repeatedly by a nine-inch shank while serving time up at the state pen in the Gunks was an appropriate ending for Mr. Davis.

And to those out there having Larry Davis Got Shanked Today parties — and I know who you are — why didn't I get invited?

MAVERICKS' 50 FOOT FRIDAY

Go to the Maverick's link on the left. The shots are from February 15 this year. Click on the image above and look at the wave crest all the way on the left for a size reference.

KILLIN' BAD GUYS

This is one of the best collages of kills (here we go. Is "collage" of "kills" alliteration? I LOVE alliteration). Anyway...

HERE is one of the best collages of kills in IR (infrared, for you civilians) I've ever seen. The music doesn't suck either.

Bad guys should die, and these guys are killing our guys. But I can't help but laugh my ass off when I see the hits.

Thank God for killtech.

Thanks to Scott K from the PNW for the video.

Scott's dad ain't doin' good, so my prayers go out to both of them.

OBI WAN OBAMA

I wish I'd written this, but I didn't. It's written by Kathleen Parker and comes to me via The Patriot Post.

If you have even a question about BHO, you owe it to yourself to read this and pass it on. And if you pass it on from LRRP's World, that's okay too.

By the way ... what follows is called "good writing" by those of us in the trade.


And now, Ms Parker and The Ecstasy of Barack

Much has been made of the religious tenor of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Reports of women weeping and swooning—even of an audience applauding when The One cleared his proboscis (blew his nose for you mortals)—have become frequent events in the heavenly realm of Obi-Wan Obama.

His rhetoric, meanwhile, drips with hints of resurrection, redemption and second comings. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” he said on Super Tuesday night. And his people were glad.

Actually, they were hysterical, the word that best describes what surrounds this young savior and that may be more apt than we imagine. The word is derived from the Greek hystera, or womb. The ancient Greeks considered hysteria a psychoneurosis peculiar to women caused by disturbances of the uterus.

Well, you don’t see any men fainting in Obi’s presence.

Barack Obama has many appealing qualities, not least his own reluctance to be swaddled in purple. Nothing quite says, “I’m only human” like whipping out a hankie and blowing one’s nose in front of 17,000 admirers. The audience’s applause was reportedly awkward, as if the crowd was both approving of anything their savior did, but a little disappointed at this rather ungodly behavior.

So what is the source of this infatuation with Obama? How to explain the hysteria? The religious fervor? The devotion? The weeping and fainting and utter euphoria surrounding a candidate who had the audacity to run for leader of the free world on a platform of mere hope?

If anthropologists made predictions the way meteorologists do, they might have anticipated Obama’s astronomical rise to supernova status in 2008 of the Common Era. Consider the cultural coordinates, and Obama’s intersection with history becomes almost inevitable.

To play weatherman for a moment, he is a perfect storm of the culture of narcissism, the cult of celebrity, and a secular society in which fathers (both the holy and the secular) have been increasingly marginalized from the lives of a generation of young Americans.

All of these trends have been gaining momentum the past few decades. Social critic Christopher Lasch named the culture of narcissism a generation ago and cited addiction to celebrity as one of the disease’s symptoms—all tied to the decline of the family.

That culture has merely become more exaggerated as spiritual alienation and fatherlessness have collided with technology (YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.) that enables the self-absorption of the narcissistic personality.

Grown-ups with decades under their double chins may have a variety of reasons for supporting Obama, but the youth who pack convention halls and stadiums as if for a rock concert constitute a tipping point of another order.

One of Obama’s TV ads, set to rock ‘n’ roll, has a Woodstock feel to it. Text alternating with crowd scenes reads: “We Can Change The World” and “We Can Save The Planet.”

Those are some kind of campaign promises. The kind no mortal could possibly keep, but never mind. Obi-Wan Obama is about hope—and hope, he’ll tell you, knows no limits.

It is thus no surprise that the young are enamored of Obama. He’s a rock star. A telegenic, ultra-bright redeemer fluent in the planetary language of a cosmic generation. The force is with him.

But underpinning that popularity is something that transcends mere policy or politics. It is hunger, and that hunger is clearly spiritual. Human beings seem to have a yearning for the transcendent—hence thousands of years of religion—but we have lately shied away from traditional approaches and old gods.

Thus, in post-Judeo-Christian America, the sports club is the new church. Global warming is the new religion. Vegetarianism is the new sacrament. Hooking up, the new prayer. Talk therapy, the new witnessing. Tattooing and piercing, the new sacred symbols and rituals.

And apparently, Barack Obama is the new messiah.

Here’s how a 20-year-old woman in Seattle described that Obama feeling: “When he was talking about hope, it actually almost made me cry. Like it really made sense, like, for the first, like, whoa...”

This New Age glossolalia may be more sonorous than the guttural emanations from the revival tent, but the emotion is the same. It’s all religion by any other name.

Whatever the Church of Obama promises, we should not mistake this movement for a renaissance of reason. It is more like, well, like whoa.

DARPA AND THE BIONIC MAN

(above images courtesy of the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)


Those of you who read my columns in Sport Fishing Magazine or Dockside Magazine or, for that matter, any of my freelance stuff (see the "verrry interesting" sites on the left, if you'd like a taste), have heard me mention DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

A lot of gear and equipment that comes out of DARPA (and the ONR, Office of Naval Research) is stuff you and I will be using in the future, which could be as far off as 10 years from now or as close as yesterday. For those of you who don't know, DARPA (not Al Gore) helped create — among other things — something we now call the Internet.

Here’s one of the "yesterday" stories about advances in prosthetics, from freelance writer Michael Belfiore’s Dispatches from the Final Frontier blog, a site the rest of you tech geeks out there should bookmark.

Here's a Department of Defense story on prosthetics, and Here's one from Wired.

CHE & OBAMA - ANYBODY WANT ONE?

Anybody want one of these? $1.75. Let me know.

GORDON PENALIZED 100 POINTS

Robby Gordon switched to Dodge this season, gets the best finish of his (recent) career in NASCAR and because he had a "non authorized" bumper or some such — discovered waaaay before the race — he gets fined 100 points, his crew chief gets fined $100,000 and gets suspended for six races.

Oh, man, I hope that IRL deals go through, because NASCAR is heading towards F-1 bogus.

PS: If you want to let NASCAR know how you feel, go HERE and sign a petition supporting Robby.

NOW SHE'S PROUD TO BE AMERICAN?

Michelle Obama is "finally" proud to be an American now that her husband is running for the presidency.

Well, then, for what fucking reason have you been living in Illinois all these years?

If you've just become proud now, go find someplace else to live, because you ain't gonna be proud for long. If he gets nominated, he's going to have to back up all the ridiculous platitudes with which he's selling himself and actually come up with an action plan.

And being a Democrat, that means $$ out of our pockets for promises of adult day care for the lazy shits in our society.

CASTRO'S A REGULAR GUY TO THE MSM

How distressingly typical of the wretched scribes of the Fourth Estate.

A headline on Newsday.com reads, "Fidel exits on his own terms," then goes on and on ad nauseam about how the State Department's Cuban Desk are just a regular bunch of incompetents and bad guys.

With a callous and offhanded single mention of Castro "toss[ing] a few dozen more poltical prisoners in jail," writer Ellis Henican never once mentions Castro is a thief and murderer with a regime that brinmgs new meaning to socioeconomic incompetence.

Ah, the good ol' American media: Giving the truth a slant no matter how inappropriate.

BELIZE — MY FAVORITE CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY

I think I've been to Belize at least four times, have always had a great time, enjoyed the people, the scenery and the action whether on land, sea or in the air.

You can dive some very neat reefs (and the Blue Hole), fish the outside of the third largest barrier reef in the world, chase bonefish on the flats, hike into ancient — and undiscovered — Mayan cities, get chased by spider monkeys through the jungle, go 4x4ing off to another dimension, cave, skydive, slide down natural waterfalls, and — not to be missed — drop in for a beer at Club Vietnam in Black Man's Eddy. Absolutely something for everybody!

HERE'S yet another reason.

HOW A POLITICIAN SHOULD ACT

Ever since it became apparent that Hummers were no good against IEDs (and I rode with an Scout unit back in 1994 who fielded Hummers. They had to put a layer of sandbags on the floor for protection — minimal though it was — so the IED/Iraq/Afghanistan problems were not unknown or un-considered), we've seen the speedy push to get MRAP vehicles into the field. Had this been done with anything approaching intelligence and real speed (not what passes for speed in government), a lot of young men and women would be alive and/or have limbs they otherwise don't. Since a push to get these vehicles into the hands of our troops in May 2007, only four soldiers have died from IEDs in vehicles that were so constructed. Now, who is going to explain the previous four, five years to the limb-less and dead?

HERE'S a story about Senators Biden (a Democrat out of Delaware) and Bond (a Republican out of Missouri), who are the kind of people we SHOULD be electing president.

Why the BS American public hasn't been screaming about this is beyond me.

LRRP's World has been covering this for awhile (enter "IED" in the Search bar at the top left). I'll admit I've been remiss about not making more noise about this issue as well, but come on ... hell, one of the MSM's own was on the receiving end, and they couldn't make it a story? Not exactly good reportage.

AP started this round. Let's see what the media does, and watch carefully on who they blame, because NO one in government or the military is blameless in this one, except the people in the field.

This is an indictment of the greed of pork belly politics, and of an ill-functioning, subjective, copycat media.

Hats off to Biden and Bond, for at least doing the right thing now.

OPEN WHEEL RACING ... INDY STYLE ONLY?

Although the deal isn't official as yet, word is that Tony George's Indy Racing League has outlasted Champ Car (nee CART) and will be the only US-based open wheel series. After well over a decade of a battle for control that pretty well killed open wheel racing in the US and turned the premier American open wheel race, the Indy 500, into a pale shadow of itself, the former Champ Car teams will be going to the IRL. The Champ Car series will fold its tents.

The deal isn't done yet, but if it does happen it will hopefully bring some of the luster — and competition — back to open wheeled racing.

I watched last year's 500 and literally had tears in my eyes when I saw how poor it looked in comparison to the 500s of Ward; Foyt; Jones; Clark; MacDonald; Sachs; Gurney; Stewart (no offense, but Jackie, not Tony); Hill; the Mears, Unsers and Andrettis and on and on. The roar of the Offies, and driver's elbows sawing away at the wheel, the first rear engined cars, the Grantelli/STP four wheel drives ... man, that was racing.

Hopefully this move will bring that kind of spirit back.

It would be very cool if it did.

ONE THAT SLIPPED PAST

Sorry to do two sailing entries in a row, but ...

In the quixotic quest for quests to conquer (is it still alliterative if the last "q" is mid-word?) here's one called the Antarctica Cup, a sailboat race around, well, obviously, Antarctica.

In the world of racing sailboats over extreme distances against the clock, rather than competitors, this has to be one of the most unusual. I'll bet it the only race where the words "It is difficult to breath on deck when standing against the wind," was ever transmitted by the competitor.

Go HERE for the latest.

Thanks to the Scuttlebutt daily report for the heads up.

UH OH

See that beautiful boat above? Now picture it upside down.

While racing for the Jules Verne round-the-world trophy it cracked, flipped and is currently floating some 80 miles to the east of the port of Dunedin in New Zealand.

Here's some video. It's in French, but you'll get the idea.

ME 2

See, I told you I look the same only different when I'm clamming.

That's Dave, me and Ted with Ed behind the lens.

Air temp 35, water temp about the same. Bit of breeze out of the north.

It's colder than it looks, but those clams taste good.

NASCAR SEASON STARTS WITH A ROUSER

Photo by Getty Images

If you missed the end of the Daytona 500, you missed one of the better finishes the sport has had to offer of late. With pundits predicting another romp by the Hendricks boys, only Junior made it into the top 10 (ninth).

The Toyotas came reeeeeal close to winning the first race ever won by a "foreign" marque, but despite leading most of the day Kyle "the Shurb" Busch and Tony "Smoke" Stewart ended up behind "ain't-won-since-95" Ryan "Rocket" Newman and perrenial "other" bad boy (usually playing opposite Smoke) Kurt Busch in good ol' American Dodges. It marked the first Daytona win for owner Roger Penske, as well.

The pre-race show looked kinda' stupid — nearly as bad as the Super Bowl half-time shows — but it is the season opener, so I'll cut NASCAR some slack.

Next Sunday, Fontana in California, the only track on the circuit that doesn't sell out.

Gah-damn Californians.

WHO'S NEXT? CHAVEZ?

This has been making its rounds the past couple of days or so. Naturally it gets zippo play in the MSM. Of course, had it been in a McCain HQ, it would have been another story.

Anyway ... BHO's campaign office in Houston has (I'm sure "had" by now) this big picture of Che on the wall.

Lot's of irony here. The Lilywhite Liberals have been comparing BHO with increasing frequency to JFK. JFK was killed in Dallas, which ain't Houston but is Texas, Che — aside from a brief Viet Nam-era stint as a pop cultural icon — was responsible for the murders of most of the intelligentsia in Cuba when Castro took over, and the guy who shot Kennedy (spare me the grassy knoll theories) was a Castro — and by default a Che — admirer. Plus there's the rip off of the American flag colors.

Yeah, irony can be a pisser.

ME

I'll be out clamming tomorrow. My phone will be in a waterproof box. I won't answer if you call.

Here's what I look like on the way to go scalloping.

I look pretty much like that on the way to go clamming ... only different. (see other picture ... and it's colder than it looks)

OKAY... NOW FOR SOMETHING LIGHTER

I get so pissed off at things that I get worn out — as must be obvious to anyone who reads this stuff.

So here're some things that are cool and have nothing to do with war or politics or assholes.

The Iditarod race starts March 1. Go HERE and click on the “2008 Iditarod Preview” for a neat 18 minute film.

The YUKON QUEST is underway as you read this. Check that one out.

Want to listen to a really neat outdoors show? Check out my buddy Tom Pagliaroli’s Saturday radio show, Rack n Fin Radio tomorrow morning between 9 and 10. You can hear it on the Web HERE.

OBAMA? OKAY, CALL ME A RACIST

I've been — unfortunately — watching the news this evening and their "coverage" of BHO.

Aside from the fact that what seems like every black person that has ever appeared on a screen big or small has decided that a guy with four years experience should be the next president — thereby absolutely proving the fact that they're as dumb as any Cracker KKKer (yes, that goes for Oprah, Stevie Wonder, and all the other black idiots) — nobody, and I mean nobody — white or black — asks this guy or his wife a question that goes beyond the level of "how's the weather?"

I've seen a lot of sucking-up in my life, and I've had to kiss an ass or two myself, but I have never — NEVER — seen such a complete, utter, surrender to a media-made empty suit with credentials that wouldn't qualify him to lead Uganda, never mind the U.S. of A.

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., is slightly more fit to be a president of the United States than my brother. And he has Down Syndrome. What the fuck is so hard to see here?

Let me try this.

HE HAS NOTHING TO OFFER THE COUNTRY OTHER THAN HE'S A BLACK AND WANTS CHANGE !!!!!!!!

NOTHING!!!!!

Jee-zus! If he wants change so bad, I've got a cup of quarters I keep in the car. He can have them.

Until Barack Hussein Obama utters SOMEthing that smacks of an actual intellectual consideration of a problem facing America (terrorism, the economy, immigration, to name a few) and comes up with SOME kind of plan/answer, he remains an empty suit playing an Al Sharpton-guilt-game that ought to make any black person in the U.S. sick to their stomach to be affiliated with.

Barack Hussein Obama is a pandering racist, relying on guilt and PR to get elected. What a fucking joke.

NUFF SAID

NEW ILLNESS

A woman calls her boss one morning and tells him that she is staying home because she is not feeling well.

"What's the matter?" he asks.

"I have a case of anal glaucoma," she says in a weak voice.

"What the hell is anal glaucoma?"

"I can't see my ass coming into work today."

THE ENEMY WITHIN - UPDATE

A high-level Muslim Pentagon aide, blamed for costing intelligence contractor Maj. Stephen Coughlin his job, will be stepping down from his own Pentagon post because, as one Pentagon official noted, “His resume didn’t add up, and he knows it.“

Egyptian-born Hesham H. Islam is voluntarily leaving his job in March.

Ah, another mole out the door.

The Washington Times has stayed on top of this story since its inception. Naturally, that means you sure as shit didn't read it or hear about it in any of the usual finger-pointing sources called the "news" media. I mean, why start reporting the news about islamic terrorism at this late juncture?

Coughlin is thought to be transferring to a similar position but in the State Department, although sources say a "former US ambassador to Turkey" is trying to kayo that appointment. (My guess is Abramowitz.)

For the entire tale go World Net Daily

(For a closer look at the logic Coughlin is trying to offer military startegists, go HERE . It's a relatively brief interpretation of Coughlin's 300-page Master's thesis. Read it and pay attention, because it's concludes that a crucial element regarding understanding Islamic law is missed by those who construe al Qaeda and their ilk as hijackers of Islam.)

ROYAL MARINES

These Royal Marines are smiling because their Land Rover is carrying a Heckler & Koch 40mm grenade machine gun while patrolling in Afghanistan. The weapon is exactly what its name implies, firing up to 340 grenades per minute to burst around enemies up to approximately a mile away.

Can you say "blimey, mate"?

CAIR

CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial held last September. Over a dozen individuals who have been in various leadership capacities with CAIR have been linked to terrorist activities. And now the federal government, in court papers filed in December, has stated that "From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists."

Those named above have, apparently, been to afraid of the political correctness police to stop supporting these mutts.

PS. REMEMBER THE MAINE

Speaking of warfare. February 15, 1898. The USS Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor starting the Spanish American War, aka, the war that Hearst and Pullitzer started. It's also when the words "yellow journalism" first appeared.

AND THEN ... THERE IS A GOD

Just when you get so incredibly pissed off at islamic terrorists and their sycophants, supporters and apologists you get some good news.

You may have heard about a wanted terrorist succumbing — to put it mildly — to a car bomb in Syria a couple of days ago. Turns out he was the scumbag responsible for the TWA hijacking back in 1985, when Navy diver Robert Stethem (23) was nearly beaten to death, then shot in the head and his body dumped on the tarmac at Beirut Airport.

Mohammed Ali Hamadi, was the "brave" Lebanese mutt who did the shooting, but Imad Mughniyeh was the "mastermind" behind the plot.

Well, they got the Mughniyeh — whose plastic surgery would put a trophy wife to shame — Tuesday night in Damascus. He's been on the run for years, as has Hamadi who was paroled from a German jail a while ago.

Might want to get the wife or kids to start the car from now on, Hamadi.

Hope there was just enough left of Mughniyeh to sop up with a sponge and squeeze out into the pig trough. Welcome to heaven asshole.

You go, Israel!

BACK AT AMERICAN IDIOTS

(Forgive the title. I just was turned on to Green Day's album of the same name. Very cool. And, yes, I know it's old news).

But this isn't.

It seems that with all our liberal pols so vehemently against doing anything to save ourselves, the Iranian dwarf and crew has had time to get their nuclear program started.

Turns out they've had IR-2 gas centrifuges which can process the material for the fissile cores of nuclear warheads. What's that mean?

That means there are about to be some more medieval religious lunatics we have to worry about. It also means "Boom" in most languages.

How long have I been saying this?

Nuke Iran.

VOTE McCAIN

Why?

How about this by William Murchison?

"While conservatives tilt their noses expressively in the air at the idea of John McCain’s representing a movement he votes with 85 percent of the time, Democrats offer the electorate two strong believers in the power of big government, two babes in the woods when it comes to foreign policy, two fast friends of every liberal interest from pro-choice to gay rights to let’s-kill-the-Bush-tax-cuts.”

And that's why. Even if you're hard core Right, don't sit this one out.

If you do this country is screwed.

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR ASSHOLES

The Democratic-led Congress defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.

Idiotic, cretinous, anti-American, effete, self-serving, rich people playing with OUR lives. Disgusting.

I simply can't waituntil the next terrorist attack ... and if you think Congress is correct, I hope you get to experience it first hand.

NOTE TO CIA:
Ignore Congress. We really don't care WHAT you do to those assholes (the terrorist ones, not the elected kind ... although we don't really care what you do to them, either).

Remember 9/11
Waterboard a Terrorist
So It Won't Happen Again

OBAMA MANIA

I know I'm not a big fan of the MSM, but have these people gone completely insane?

According to most media outlets Barrack Obama, a senator who has done — apparently — nothing in his brief career, is The Chosen One, The Messiah and The Second Coming all rolled into one.

This is simple: I know what Senator McCain stands for. I may not agree with all of it, but he actually has an idea and what has to be done based on experience.

I even understand a few things Senator Clinton wants to do, although I can't say I know what she stands for unless it's wind direction. (I must admit, I'm thinking about helping her campaign out in order that we not end up with this be-all-end-all-BO.)

Aside from voting to give illegal aliens social security cards, will somebody please tell me what Senator Obama stands for?

He'll bring "the boys" home. How? We all need health care. How? We need to tax the rich more. How (not to mention why, or if it's even legal)? He's going to jump start the economy. How? He's for change. Of what ... and how?

The usual electoral circus is turning into a real laugher this time, because this guy is selling everyone a big package of goods that is going to come up empty when it's opened. And then he's the leader of the free world.

The man hasn't said a damn thing of how he intends to do ANY thing, and everybody is running around giddy as school girls trying to not find anything of any great depth or intelligence to say about him. (I actually had a woman tell me he is a "combination JFK and MLK." She wouldn't give me any of what she was smoking, but she really believed it. She was white and in her 80s. It is getting seriously scary out there in sheep-to-slaughter land)

C'mon, wretched scribes. Just a LITTLE professionalism. A follow-up question. Maybe, "well that's a great idea, but..." Or what about, "Senator, that's been tried and it, uh, doesn't work, ask Senator Clinton."

Is that asking too much for helping us to determine who will be the next leader of the Free World?

I'm gonna go check and see if my Australian visa is still valid.

ALL RIGHT DENMARK!!

Thank God somebody has some balls.

Danish newspapers are reprinting the cartoons that got all the "faithful" Muslims in an uproar back in September, to show some solidarity with the cartoonist on whom some lowlife pig-eaters put a reward for his murder.

Anybody know how to say, "Go get 'em Denmark!"?

(The one at the bottom is from the original set. The other two are new ones from elsewhere on the Net. Take a look HEREfor the original set, as well as some links to a bunch of others.

YOU CAN'T FOOL AL JAZEERA

Interesting. I wrote a comment to an article in today's Al Jazeera that belittled (in the nicest language possible) those asshole pork-eaters who used the Down Syndrome women as walking bombs in Iraq earlier.

The message was rejected because I used Oliver North's quote (without mentioning the ex-Lt. Col.); i.e., the bombing brought new meaning to the words "women and children first."

Gotta love how THEY exercise their First Amendment rights. Can we get a seat on their editorial board for those assholes in Berkeley, please?

CONGRATS TO (Future Congressman) LEE ZELDIN

This is of import to those of you in the Long Island area only. Lee Zeldin who's decided to take on the Democrat Tim Bishop for the 1st Congressional District seat, just received endorsements from all the town Republican Committees as well as the County Republican Committee.

For those of you who don't know, Lee's a young guy from the Mastic area and is an Iraq vet to boot.

FIRST SHOWER OF SHITES AWARD

(Pronounced SHYTES.)

The title is a saying an old Belfast (Ireland, not Maine) buddy of mine used to use when he was describing any group of idiots, assholes, reprobates or other unneeded oxygen suckers. (He was also fond of describing anyone with bad luck thusly: “If he had a duck it’d drown.” God bless the Irish!)

Anyway … it’s time for LRRP’s World’s first presentation of it’s Shower of Shites Award.

Drum roll, please.

And this week’s winners are the students and faculty of the University of California, Berkley — that den of over-privleged pseudo-intellectual societal leeches who are attempting to ban military recruitment in the hallowed halls of academe they call a campus.

What we need is another Kent State picnic… and this time use regulars. They shoot straighter.

PLEASE NOTE:
If anyone has an idea what the Shower of Shites Award should look like, feel free to submit it. The winning entry will get the undying love and support of LRRP's World's readers.

CATCHING UP

Okay, let’s see if I’m getting all this straight.

Hillary will forcibly take money from me if I won’t sign up for her health plan.

Obama will prohibit me from making as much money as I want or can, in order to pay for people who are too lazy to work for their healthcare.

Huckabee says that he’s always been working for God. (I assume he's suggesting the Lord will provide.)

McCain is looking like default winner, simply because he might be saner than the rest of them, and — at least — doesn't say he wants to take my money.

Meanwhile On The War Front (the thing that none of the above even admit exists)

Islamist terrorists use two Down syndrome Muslim women (in 2005 it was a Down syndrome child) to blow up civilians. This doesn’t make them animals and doesn’t allow us the right to hunt them down like the pig eating dogs they are … or waterboard them … or try them in military courts … or execute them. Allah, my ass.

(As Oliver North has so adroitly pointed out, “In radical Islam, the slogan ‘women and children first’ has taken on a whole new meaning.”)

Just wanted to make sure about all this. The Giants have had me incredibly happy and distracted for the past 10 days or so ... now it's back to beating on America's intellectual prima donnas.

LIKE ZOMBIES

From the movie THE GHOST BREAKERS (1940)

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY QUESTION

I have a bunch of slides (65) ... full frame and 1/2-frame, 35mm. They were taken between 1968 and 1970. I'd like to get these digitized so I can put a PowerPoint presentation together.

Does anyone have any recommendations on where to get them digitized?

I've heard about an outfit called DigMypics out of Arizona ... anyone have anything to say about them?

BIOFUELS AND BHUTTO — THE CONSPIRACIES CONTINUE

Ahem. Can I say, "I told you so," now?

From the UK's Guardian, which I'm sure the global warmers out there believe is aligned with the evil right wing plot to kill the world.

Apparently, growing enough biofuel base to power everything would cause a massive rise in emissions throughout the world. Whereupon cats will start mating with dogs, all cities will immediately be underwater and all the people will change into a race of Gillmen (of course the Feds have already perfected that!).

Of course, the scientists who came up with this "ridiculous" theory are from Great Britain, which we know is merely another puppet regime of the Bush Administration. I mean Scotland Yard even declared that the former PM of Pakistan was killed by a massive concussion resultant from a homicide bomber, not bullets, so we know they just toe the party line. (See the VOA.)

Wait a minute. It's those damn black helicopters coming ... probably with an SAS hit squad on board. Time to get out of here. Don't forget the aluminum foil head gear.

STUPID VOTERS

LORAN ... IT'S OFFICIALLY BACK

For those of you with an interest in things having to do with navigation, the 2009 budget submitted to Congress on February 4, contains language and money to keep Loran active as a means of backing up GPS, and switch Loran-C to eLoran as well as switch control out of the US Coast Guard's hands and into the parent Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD).

This means nothing to those of you who don't go down to the sea in ships (though if you use an ATM, play the stock market, bank or use a cellphone, it should mean a lot), but it does mean a lot to those of us who do.

So Loran is here to stay.

My April column in Sport Fishing Magazine is on the topic, and hopefully my editors will give me the time to update it before it goes to press.

ICE SAILING

Neat event, for those of you who windsurf or kiteboard and who want to do it on the ice. It's the 28th WISSA Ice and Snow Sailing World Championships. This is the oldest and best known event of its kind offering three classes or methods of propulsion by wind Sled Class( any sled powered by a windsurfing rig); Hand held Class (any wing held directly by hand); and Kite Class (all wings connected by lines). This sport consist to slide on skis and to be trackted by a kite.

It will be held on Lake Matapedia in Canada and starts this weekend (February 10) on the Quebec/New Brunswick border. Go HERE for complete info.

ROUGH TIME IN THE UK

The boat on the rocks is the fishing vessel Spinningdale that was harboring from a storm when she went aground in the northeast area of Village Bay, St. Kilda, Scotland. Go HERE for some more pics.

Another ship, the RORO (roll on/roll off) ferry Riverdancer, was coming from Northern Ireland headed for Lancashire when she starting listing and ended up on a beach near Blackpool (UK). Go HERE for some pics of that one.

Oh. And did I mention the New York Giants are the Super Bowl CHAMP-EENS?

18-1. NEED WE SAY ANYMORE?

David Tyree and THE catch. Photo property of Associated Press.

Congrats to Big Blue and everyone of the Giants who contributed to the biggest damn upset since Joe Willy in Superbowl III, and the best damn Superbowl I can recall since the last time we were there 18 years ago.

Hot .... DAMNNNNN

As for the Pats. There's nothing wrong with going 18 .... AND ONE !!!! (ah-hah-hah-hah!)

Awwwww. Don't feel bad. it was "only" the Superbowl !

New York Giants — 17
N.E. Patriots — 14

Awright Blue!

GOOOOOOOOOO BIG BLUE

Well, I see Gisele Bundchen got your attention. Hopefully, she is as much of an albatross for Brady as Simpson was for Romo. And maybe she'll go home with Eli tonight.

Look, there's a lot of ludicrous stuff going on, but today is the Super Bowl, the NY Giants are in it to win it, and all is right with my little corner of the world.

Sooooo ....

Gooooooooooooooo Giants!!!!

BAD GUYS ON THE INSIDE

Federal authorities say a high-level Muslim Pentagon aide, who led a campaign to silence a Pentagon intelligence analyst for taking a hard line against Islam, is running an "influence operation" on behalf of U.S. Muslim groups fronting for the radical Muslim

Hesham H. Islam, a special assistant to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, recently criticized Maj. Stephen Coughlin, one of the military's leading authorities on Islamic war doctrine, for making the connection between the religion of Islam and terrorism.

Islam, who was born and raised in Egypt, is heavily involved with one of the groups – the Islamic Society of North America, which U.S. prosecutors last year named as a member of the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and an unindicted co-conspirator in a major terror-funding case.

Complete story HERE