I have a lot to do today, so no time making a lot of posts. But I did want to cover this:
I think that this law the “Scooter” Libby was indicted under is a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights, where we have the right to be secure in our papers, places and things.
All it takes is one conflicting statement in talking to investigators or the grand jury and you are in deep shit. All it takes is one suddenly remembered thing, added to your story, and you are suddenly “lying to investigators.” And when you are grilled, you are asked the same questions over and over again, and any slip up is again “lying to investigators.” It’s literally a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
This law is vindictive when used this way, because if the prosecutor can’t get you for the crime he thinks you committed, then he will get you for “lying” about it.
I don’t see a problem with this law, when used in conjunction with a crime, i.e. you have to be charged with the crime first, then this law. If there is no underlying law broken, as in Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby, then this law should not apply.
This is what you get when we let government get away with things.

Well, first of all let me say a good time was had by all. When you can have three great games in one day, that is a fun day, win or lose.
My first game was against David and his Chaos Space Marines, which are regular Space Marines that have gone over to the Dark Side. The scenario was Arch Rivals, where your general always had to move toward the enemy general. You got 200 victory points if your general managed to kill the other one and survive the battle. Well, I whittled his general down a bit, and let him get into close combat with my general. Too bad he got to go first and he killed my general before he could even get a hit in. The rest of the game went like that, I was reduced to a Dreadnought, a Land Speeder and half a squad of Marines. I ended up losing big time.
Next was against Jeremy and his own Chapter of Space Marines. You can take a Chapter like I have (Ultramarines) who have everything set for you, or you can “design your own.” You have certain traits that you can take, but the more positive traits you take, the more and worse disadvantages you have also. Up until now, I have been able to beat him pretty regularly when I have played him, but this time he got it right and wiped the battlefield with me. The scenario was Unplanned Assault and at the end of the battle I was reduced to one squad running around in its Rhino transport. I managed to get that squad into his deployment zone for a victory point, but I lost one for losing my general.
My third and final battle was against Gus and his Black Templar Space Marines. Think Crusades and you’ll be on the right track. This time the scenario was The Hunted, where you get double points for destroying a particular unit. He picked my lowest cost (and weakest) unit, while I picked a unit that had a medium cost to it. He had a rather large points sink in the fact that he had two units of Terminators, virtually unstoppable Marines. It took five of the six turns to kill one unit of them off and knock the other unit below 50% of models left, giving me at least some points for banging mercilessly on those two units. Gus hurt me pretty bad, but at the end of the game I had killed the hunted unit I was after, and I still had two and a half tactical squads left. I eked out a win, just a few points less and it would have been a draw.
While I ended up with a 1-2 record, I managed to impress my opponents enough for them to max out their points that we use to rate each other in army composition, painting and stuff like that. I surprisingly ended up tied for 4th place, and then won the Best Sportsman award! Even though we only had 11 people at the event, for me to place as highly as I did with that record was a real shock to me.
For my efforts, I was awarded a Lord of the Rings blister pack with a character in it, and a “Liber Chaotica,” a fluff (backstory) book on one of the kinds of Chaos Space Marines.
I looks like I’ll be tuning my list for another go at one of these tournaments when it comes around again in 3-4 months or so. Hopefully I will also have finished upgrading and repainting my tactical squads. That way I can look a whole lot better than my tactical squads look now. If you want to see an example of what I mean, look at this entry. Then after I finish with the tactical squads, I’ll be repainting all of my vehicles. That will be so much fun I can’t wait to begin[/sarcasm].
But, you know, painting keeps me busy in my spare time and gives me something positive and constructive to do. At least I’m not out blowing my money getting lap dances….

For those of you who hang around my site on Saturdays, I just wanted to tell you that I took the day off and I’m playing in a Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader Tournament. That’s where you play three games at 1850 points worth of forces and you are graded on not only victories, but on how “fluffy” (how well your army conforms to the fiction writing of the 40K universe) your army is, how well it’s painted and things like that.
I’ll give you detailed battle reports and possibly even pictures either tonight or tomorrow.
Wish me luck. My Ultramarines and I are going in.

Well, that didn’t go so well.
I was being sold (not that is a bad thing) a job in the insurance industry. I was getting the (hopefully) straight skinny on what reasonable numbers were as far as production, and it sounded accomplishable. Even though I had a red flag (one of the subsidiary companies is despised by Dave Ramsey) it sounded like a good deal.
Then came the sticking part. In order to become an insurance salesman, you have to attend a week long class. I can handle that. And they wanted $350 up front for the class. Sorry, can’t do that. No deduction in pay once you’re in or anything like that. And you know me, barely making it on what I do have. I have the $350, but I’m not spending it on a class like that.
The good news is I have a similar offer from another well known company, and it sounds like they would pay for the class. I don’t know that at this point, but I’m hopeful. I’ll know more Tuesday, that’s when the appointment takes place. I’ll keep you guys up to date. Breaking news as it happens and all that.

Well, I have to prepare to go to a job interview in less than an hour. It’s not in tech, but there’s a promise of good money and that’s what I need.
Wish me luck. Update later, maybe.

From Boortz:
Neal wrote a blurb about the aftermath of Wilma and how Jeb Bush is apologizing for state and federal help isn’t there quick enough. But this is what I wanted you to read:

All of this asks the question: what is the proper role of government following a natural disaster? Is it simply to restore law and order and essential services? Or is the government supposed to hold people’s hand, paying for their every need and waiting on them hand and foot? This is a lesson from Katrina. More and more with each passing day Americans are being taught, and they’re learning quite well we must say, to depend on government for just about everything. People who stocked up on necessities such as water, non-perishable food, batteries and other basics weren’t the ones complaining. The more we depend on government the more politicians love it, and the less freedom we have. Self-sufficiency is no longer the goal for far too many Americans. Now the goal is to see how much responsibility they can turn over to the government while continuing to live the easy life.
America cannot survive this new attitude of government dependency.

It doesn’t take much to prepare for any kind of emergency, and with a few hours warning I can pack up my family and pets and be out of the area, self-sufficient for at least a couple of days. That’s all you need to avoid the worst part of the disaster. And that is how we should all be.
Have an emergency fund of 3-6 months of expenses. Have several days food and water stored, and rotate it on a regular basis. Keep prescription medications at hand. And so on.
Self-sufficiency built this nation. Government dependency will destroy it. Beware.

I found this and I am not surprised. Hillary Clinton Proposes Massive Energy Tax.
She wants to tax the oil companies $20 Billion to fund “clean energy” programs. Of course, the oil companies will pass this tax along to you and my via higher energy prices.
Most of these “clean energy” programs are merely shell games, or losing propositions. Biodiesel, for example, costs more diesel fuel than it creates. Electric and hydrogen powered cars get their power directly or indirectly from coal and oil fired plants.
So this is nothing more than a tax on you and I. Remember who proposed it.

I wanted to contribute my little part to the tribute of Rosa Parks.
I want you to think about how the greatest of things come from insignificant beginnings. When you boil the whole thing down, the entire civil rights movement came down to a pair of sore feet. It was those two feet that made Rosa refuse to get up for a White man. Her arrest for that act spurred a national movement that took 10 years to change the face of this nation. A revolution that is still happening to this day, albeit mostly complete and kept alive only by race warlords like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, et. al.. Race warlords who are perpetuating 1964 to this day.
Racism still exists today, I have experienced it first hand living here in Memphis. But it is nothing like what it was back then.

Well, in a rather lame attempt to promote his latest piece of trash, Al Frankin produced this. It’s a video of him promoting his book, then beating up a “conservative” who thinks his book is what it really is, trash.
How do I know it’s trash? Because it’s nothing more than what he spews forth on his radio show, and I occasionally listen to his screechy diatribes. Frankin is hateful, vindictive and a bad radio host. He ignores facts that don’t coincide with his view of reality, and will shout down any view that doesn’t agree with his. In other words, he’s a typical radical Liberal.
I want you to listen to this guy. If you don’t have a radio station carrying this garbage, listen to it on-line so you can make the decision for yourself, after you pull your head out of the trash can from vomiting.
Which brings me to my second story about him, Al Franken’s Rerun Rove and Libby Execution Remark Draws Laughter From Lauer.
Here you have someone predicting that Rove and Libby will be executed for treason in the Plamegate case and these Liberals are laughing about it. As brought up in the story, they were outraged when Pat Robertson advocated assassinating Hugo Chavez.
Liberals. Can’t live with them, can’t shoot them.

…we don’t want Iran to have nukes. Iranian Leader: Israel Will Be Destroyed.
Of course, this could be all buster and saber-rattling, but with a nuclear card on the table you can never really know.
These nuts will try to nuke Israel as soon as they can put a device on top of a missile accurate enough to hit an Israeli city for maximum damage. Then we will know for sure if Israel has nukes, as they will obliterate every hostile government that surrounds it.
Bet on it.

This story points out where the Press is with it’s motives. Media Celebrate 2,000 U.S. Dead in Iraq.
Yes, they celebrate those nice round numbers, because all of those zeros add up in their minds to be something noteworthy.
The Press was against the US after WWII and they are against the US now. Go back and look at Time and Life, the New York Times, et. al., and see how they screamed “Bring home the troops,” “We’ve lost the peace,” and so on. It took years to rebuild German cities under the Marshall Plan, it took years to stop the Werewolves, and it took years for Germany to set up a new government. Compared to the speed of things that happened in Japan and Germany, we are moving at lightspeed in Iraq. We are also doing it with less casualties than in Germany.
And here’s another thing that the Press won’t report. We lose almost as many people through accidents and training exercises in peacetime than we have lost in Iraq. That’s right. The military loses several hundred servicemembers a year through on and off duty incidents. The Navy loses at least one sailor per ship during a 6 month deployment simply because ships are such dangerous places. The most dangerous place on the planet outside of wartime is the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.
Think about that.

Here you go. Young Singers Spread Racist Hate:Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement.
I saw this on Drudge and the accompanying picture had the two little bitches with a “Hitler happy face,” where you have a happy face with Hitlers hair swoop and his mustache.
My parents were racist and it didn’t even occur to them that they were. I am extremely happy that it didn’t take with me. All of these idiots arguing for “racial purity” wants the White race to be “on top.” I am glad that most Americans are against this kind of nutcase thinking.

Like many children across the country, Lamb and Lynx decided to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina — the white ones.
The girls’ donations were handed out by a White Nationalist organization who also left a pamphlet promoting their group and beliefs — some of the intended recipients were more than a little displeased.
After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia.

And the parents are the cause of it all:

Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April. “They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening,” said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins’ father. “I’m going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would.”
April home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April’s father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs — specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he’s even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification.
“Because it’s provocative,” explains April of the cattle brand, “to him he thinks it’s important as a symbol of freedom of speech that he can use it as his cattle brand.”

These people are worthless, because they hate. They hate and hate and hate. It just makes me sick.

…Which are the last words of a redneck, but I digress.
I found this article and wanted to share it with you: ‘Michael & Me’.
This is a documentary that really is a documentary, rather than a pack of lies like the “documentaries” that Michael Moore spews forth.

It’s called “Michael & Me,” and, as you might imagine, it emulates the style of Michael Moore’s documentaries and turns the tables on the filmmaker responsible for “Bowling for Columbine.”
This time it’s Moore who is hunted down for an ambush interview the way he famously stalked Roger Smith, the chief executive officer of General Motors, in “Roger & Me,” and an ailing Charlton Heston in “Columbine.”
This time it’s Elder scoring all the propaganda points – with the truth and facts, rather than distortions and cinematic gimmicks.

I plan on getting this when I have some money. If I ever get some spare money.
Just remember this:

None of that matters to the gun-control crowd.
In their view, only important people like politicians, celebrities and the rich deserve armed protection. But as Robert Heinlein put it, “When only cops have guns, it’s called a ‘police state.’”

Amen.

Well, the meeting Wednesday with the headhunter went okay, until he gave me a couple of tests to determine my qualifications. I failed the first test miserably. I doubt I got a score high enough to qualify for picking answers at random. I think I did better on the second test, although I’m still not happy with the score.
I’m waiting for him to call back, and I’m not holding my breath about it. I guess this is what I get for being out of the business for 6 years.
I also have to retool my resume, I thought I had it one way, then on a bounce from Monster I got an old resume, one with a lot of extraneous stuff which makes the resume too long. That will take a while to fix.
But the good news is, I’m not giving up. Someone out there is foolish enough to hire me.

As the Jerry Reed song goes, “I’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.”
I have an appointment with the headhunter today, and I have a lot to do before that. I’m as nervous as a virgin on her wedding night.
Got to go. Wish me luck.