Aloha Daze

A very, very long way.

I’ve been busy lately with a new job. This new job is working out fine. It’s the drive that’s killing me.

As the song goes, “Give me forty acres, and I’ll turn this rig around.”

Actually, my round trip from Makaha (the Leeward side of the island) to Waimanalo (the Windward side of the island) is about 100 miles. If you think of an acre as a perfect square, that means that each side of the square is about 208 feet long.

So I guess I need 2,538 acres to turn MY rig around.

I think it’s time to move. I’d say, around 2,500 acres or so closer to work would be nice.

RLR

Gotta love those libs.

Bush Lied! There are no WMDs in Iraq! Lied Lied Lied! Oil! Oil! Oil! Haliburton! Haliburton! Haliburton!

Oh yeah? In your face, turkeys:

WASHINGTON — The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.

Now, in response to this piece of news, libs are going nuts.

Their argument now is that, oh, wait, that’s not the WMDs… that’s from 1991 or before. Those don’t count! They’ve degraded! They don’t work! THIS CHANGES NOTHING!

Sean Hannity (Hannity and Colmes) makes a suggestion I like best: If these WMDs are so harmless, let’s just bury them in the liberal’s backyard.

Want to bet that maybe – just maybe – the libs would say “Now, wait a minute…”

Harmless? Place those chemical weapons in the hands of terrorists. It won’t matter if the shells can’t be fired. It won’t matter if the mustard or sarin nerve gas has degraded.

Who among sane people would want to test a “degraded” nerve gas, to see if it’s still deadly?

Nobody.

Who among the insane people of the world would love to test that “degraded” nerve gas, and see how many people they could kill?

Al-Qaeda comes to mind. Terrorists. One of the things that the liberals keep forgetting is that there are madmen in this world. Carl Sagan, in his book Pale Blue Dot, called this the “only a madman theory.”

Only A Madman would want to kill on a massive scale. Only A Madman would want to kill millions, even if it means killing themselves to do it.

Madmen DO exist.

There are madmen out there who seek methods that massively kill other people. And if these crazy people can find a way to kill on a massive scale… you can bet your life that they’d want those chemicals.

These chemical agents don’t matter? Finding these WMDs mean nothing?

Please. Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

RLR

So I took a test for fun and… (more…)

According to a live interview with a General in Iraq (I’m not sure if it was Caldwell or Casey?) — Zarqawi was alive when forces arrived on scene, and even tried to roll off of the stretcher when he realized that it was the United States Forces that had dropped a couple of 500 pound bombs on his terrorist butt from an F-16. (See the video over at HotAir.com!)

RLR

Update: In addition to Michelle Malkin’s blog, I suggest checking out her “Vent” episode about Deserter Watada over at HotAir.com.

Lt. Ehren Watada is refusing to be shipped to Iraq. He says that the war is illegal and immoral. The MSM is calling him a dissenter.

No. He’s defying his orders.

Newsflash: soldiers don’t make policy. They do what their commanders tell them to do.

This guy can make any whiney-butt arguments he wants: he chose to be in the military. The Iraq war was already in motion when he joined.

His father, Bob Watada, was a Vietnam anti-war protester. Like father, like son.

Now it’s my turn to borrow a line from the Dixie Chick’s Natalie Maines:

I’m embarrased that Ehren Watada is from Hawaii.

However, it does display to the nation the liberal mentality of the state of Hawaii.

Another thing I’m embarrased about.

Ah, to be a conservative in a flood of libs.

RLR

See Michelle Malkin’s much more complete analysis of this so-called soldier.

Just getting this live on FOX News Channel as I type… the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq… has been killed in a bombing attack.

I celebrate the death of no man or woman. But in this case, I’ll certainly shed no tears.

Now. Having said this, I figure it’ll be just minutes [perhaps hours] before the left wing moonbats say that we knew where the guy was all the time, and we just now found and killed him because Republicans needed a boost in the polls.

Don’t laugh. You know I’m right.

RLR

Original Posting by Robert Rhodes on June 7 2006 @ 9:53 pm

Ok. I’m not a superstitious man. I’ll walk under a ladder if it’ll drive a friend nuts to watch me do it. Having said that….

Those that know me well know that I have this number that follows me throughout life. I see it in places all the time. I mention this to people, and they look at me like I’ve grown a third arm. When I point out the number, backed by photos and evidence, people are stunned. (Mostly me.)

My magic number is “214.” I grew up in Dallas, Texas, where the area code is 214, so I get a lot of grief from family. (”Yeah! I see that number all the time when I look in the phone book! Yuk yuk yuk.”)

Only I see it in other places all the time. It’s gotten to the point where I just ignore it and laugh. (I still remember watching President Bush give a speech on aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in May 2003. In the background was, I believe, an F-14. Printed in big numbers on the side of it was “214.”)

But today the numbers are all out to get me.

Yeah, it’s 06/06/06. Feh. Just another day. I don’t care. So I went about my business today. Paid a bill. Took the car to the shop (needed a tire.)

Then I left the auto shop.

At 2:14pm.

Of course.

Ignoring that, I went to Waikiki, where there was practically nowhere to park. I finally spotted the only open metered parking stall, and parked. The meters are numbered.

I parked at meter 214.

Laughing, I just got out of the car, paid the city it’s share of quarters for the day, and went about my business.

Afterwards, I wanted to stop at Sam’s Club to buy a couple of things. As is usually the case, I got everything I needed, and grabbed something I didn’t – an impulse buy – on the way out.

My total? 3456. That’s $34.56. Sheesh. I stare the receipt in disbelief. Then I note the time I checked out printed on the receipt: 8:41 PM. Only it’s printed in military time.

20:41.

I drove straight home, walked into my apartment, and locked the door.

I’m not superstitious. But I’ve had enough. I’m going to bed.

I’m looking forward to 06/07/06.

With my luck, I’ll wake up at 2:14 AM.

RLR

Welcome to the day that superstitious people throughout the land will be hiding in their homes, under their beds, one hand over their eyes and the other on a rabbit’s foot.

Welcome to the sixth month, the sixth day, in the sixth year of the 2000s. Welcome to 06/06/06.

There are any number of things you could do today to make it memorable. To counterbalance the evil of the day, I offer you three:

1. Go to Hell.
   Hell, Michigan, that is. Can’t make the drive? Visit their online site: Hell2U.com.
2. See a movie.
   A new version of an old classic, The Omen comes out in theaters today.
3. Buy a book.
   Ann Coulter’s Godless: The Church of Liberalism comes out in bookstores today. All about how the liberals on the left are working mighty hard to remove God from everyday life in the United States.

There you go. Three things to make your little slice of.. Michigan.. a fun and memorable day.

RLR

Over the last couple of days, the Canadians have managed to foil a terrorist plot to blow stuff up.

In Canada.

You know Canada, right? That place north of the United States’ border that typically welcomes Muslims with open arms despite lack of any paperwork. They’ll drive an “undocumented” Muslim to the nearest Mosque and give them somewhere to live. (According to Bill O’Reilly.)

Apparently these terrorists, who were home grown, felt that was not sufficient.

This proves a vital point that a lot of moonbats seem to miss: the bad guys out there want to kill us. United States. Canada. Doesn’t matter to them: same continent. Kill ‘em all.

I would hope… [although I don't think I'll hold my breath]… that this would be a wakeup call to the Dems that keep insisting that we don’t need things like monitoring international phone calls, and keeping statistics of who called where, when, and how. They don’t understand the world we live in. In fact, when I see a report in the paper, the MSM typically refers to it as the “War On Terror.” Almost always with quotes around it. As if the War On Terror is more of a metaphor, or perhaps a fairytale, instead of a reality.

Nothing would make me happier than to live in a world where we never went to Iraq, and 9/11 never happened. But that world simply doesn’t exist. It’s fictional.

In this world, also known as reality, we have terrorists that want to kill people from the west for no other reason that you don’t think like them, pray like them, dress like them, or look like them.

Why is it that we’re trying so hard to repeat history? This same argument, placed in the middle of World War II, would get us arguments like “Why are we attacking Germany when it was Japan that bombed Pearl Harbor?”

That reminds me of a cartoon I spotted that says it all:

Kudos: Sacred Cow Burgers

For more about the foiled attack in Canada, I suggest you read Cox & Forkum’s posting and editorial cartoon.

RLR

Another topic suggested by Ken.

From the AP in New York:

Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet. DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year.

The 5-foot-10 superhero comes with flowing red hair, knee-high red boots with spiked heels, and a form-fitting black outfit.

“We decided to give her a different point of view,” explained Dan DiDio, vice president and executive editor at DC. “We wanted to make her a more unique personality than others in the Bat-family. That’s one of the reasons we went in this direction.”

…

“It’s kind of weird,” [DiDio] said. “We had a feeling it would attract some attention, but we’re a little surprised it did this much.”

You can’t change a comic icon, and not expect attention for doing so.

I’m not sure if I necessarily agree with their logic. Gay. Straight. Whatever: to each their own. But I was under the impression that sexual orientation isn’t supposed to matter in regards to being a productive member of society. Obviously it would matter to a significant other… but isn’t that supposed to be personal?

Having said that, isn’t it California that is changing [or trying to change] their school’s history books to reflect who was gay in history, because gay students need heroes too?

Huh? Aren’t heroes from the pages of history heroes already? Do they need to be listed as gay or straight before they’re allowed to be heroes in future publications of history books? Should anyone that’s a hero in today’s society be pulled aside, and asked if they’re gay, before their story hits the pages of the news, or is recorded in history books?

I wish DC Comics the best… but I still question their motives. I think it’s less about “being with the times,” and more about simple shock value. (”What? She’s a lesbian?! I have to see this.”)

Read the entire article.

RLR