An update to the Rush Limbaughtomy thing from NZB. Barry Bozeman had all his blogs but one suspended.

I am about to break my own rule and link to one of Barry Bozeman’s sites where he tries to justify his actions with his usual bullshit (go here and scroll, he spends three posts justifying himself). He blames the opposition and then talks about his integrity. I’ve never known him to have any. Barry Bozeman has been caught lying a couple of times.

Preemptive: I don’t use sitemeter because I find it misses about 30% of my hits. I’ll stick with Webalizer, thanks. But if my readers are curious, here are my stats:

Kinda funny. Via John of Argghhh!, it seems that The Politburo Diktat busted some moonbat blogger (it’s just one) doctoring sitemeter and TLB ecosystem stats.

NZ Bear has put on a notice of suspension to the culprit, Barry Bozeman of Rush Limbaughtomy.

But some of us were on to him in August: here, here, and here.

One note though, it is not the league of liberals, it is one guy running multiple blogs.

Got one of the issues fixed that caused the several hundred links to my site from the Carnival to be counted. I had to reconfigure MT settings to point at the proper directory. Apparently, there are still 11 (of 125) links being counted which puts my real inbound total at 114. That still puts me as a large mammal.

Anyone know how fix the remaining inbound links? I’m stumped.

A summary of the moonbat rhetoric over the Bush visit to Iraq. And another, which is far more, uhm, what’s the word? Oh yeah, bat shit crazy.

When representatives from your ideology/political party act this way, it explains things like November 2002. In case you were, ya know, wondering about that.

Brian links to the story of a Representative not playing ball and the threats against his and his son’s career. It is an awful display of politics. Sadly, it’s business as usual. Every member of congress is very likely bought and paid for by someone for something. Democrat and Republican alike.

Michael Graham:

WHAT CAN PRESIDENT BUSH DO IN BAGHDAD THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN CAN’T? Appear in public. If that doesn’t send a message to the Ba’athists and their would-be allies, I don’t know what does.

Oh, Hillary’s in Afghanistan and I’m sure the troops are loving that.

Via Insty.

A gun banner wishes for the founder of Keep and Bear Arms family to be murdered:

You are nothing more than sick fucks who represent everything that is wrong with America (and pretty much the world). You are every bit a fanatic as the Sept 11th terrorists and I believe that people like you are responsible when innocent people get killed by guns.

What possible reason can a normal guy have for owning an AK47? I would love to hear your answer for that although I already can gues it, “Blah blah 2nd ammendmant blah blah.” Well how about not reciting garbage like that and actually answer the dam question.

I can only hope that your mother, wife and children get gunned down and die slowly when they are walking the streets quietly minding their own business. Maybe this will teach you a lesson you sick fuck.

John Bellamy

Oh my. And we gun nuts are supposedly dangerous. Send this sick bastard a note.

Buddy Don has the latest Volunteer Tailgate Party.

Happy Thanksgiving.

You need to read this. It will make you think about a few things.

Thanks B.

I wish my minions a happy and safe holiday. Bet you didn’t even know you were a minion.

PC gone too far:

Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms “master” and “slave” on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive.

The request — which has some suppliers furious and others busy re-labeling components — came after an unidentified worker spotted a videotape machine carrying devices labeled “master” and “slave” and filed a discrimination complaint with the county’s Office of Affirmative Action Compliance.

In related news, computer manufacturers have starting labeling parts as White Devil and Uppity Negro.

While we address this critical and vital issue in race relations, SayUncle estimates that in America today: 21 black people will commit murder; 22 black people will be murdered; 506 black people will be arrested for drug trafficking crimes; 1,000,000 black people are in prison; and 26,500,000 black people live in poverty.

Bubba recently received his 250,000 visitor. This resulted in me checking my site statistics and apparently at some point this month, we here at SayUncle hit the 100,000 mark (currently at 107,314 visitors).

To steal Bubba’s joke, thanks to the few of you who come here and hit reload (Ed Note: most of those are you!).

Note to Ed: Those Ed Note jokes are never really funny.

Ed Note: OK, we’ll knock it off

Update: The Shooters’ Carnival is pushing about 4,000.

Buddy Don sums up the new MedisCare bill in the way that only he can.

Hey, Bubba is now a playful primate.

Law.com has a good summary of the pending Silviera v. Lockyer case:

Now, some advocates of gun rights are hoping the Supreme Court will finally bite the bullet and grant review in Silveira v. Lockyer, No. 03-51, a challenge to California’s strict 1999 assault weapon ban. The case is one of dozens the justices are set to discuss at their private conference Wednesday. A decision by the Court whether to grant review could be announced as soon as Dec. 1. The Court also meets in conference Dec. 5.

The Silveira case, brought by a group of “California gentlemen,” according to their brief, asks the Court to reverse a December 2002 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld the state law, first enacted in 1989 and broadened in 1999. In an extensive section of the ruling on the Second Amendment, Judge Stephen Reinhardt found the amendment “does not establish an individual right to own or possess firearms for personal or other use.” Reinhardt’s liberal rulings are often scrutinized and reversed by the Court.

When the 9th Circuit was asked to review the ruling en banc, the majority said no — and four judges wrote dissents to that decision.

“The panel’s labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it — and is just as likely to succeed,” Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in a dissent, referring to Reinhardt’s lengthy discussion of the Second Amendment.

The last time the Supreme Court expressed a formal view on the meaning of the Second Amendment was in the 1939 case United States v. Miller. Although the meaning of the ruling in Miller is still debated, it framed the discussion of the Second Amendment right in terms of the needs of organized militias, not individuals. Ever since, the Court has denied review in cases that would force it to re-examine its stance.

Via Bubba (who is 3 links a way from being a Playful Primate in the TLB ecosystem, i.e., on page one - link to him damn it) come some new members to the Rocky Top Brigade:

The Golden Calf: Another UTK blogger who appears to be a bit to the right.

In a Mays: Another right wing guy, who I encourage to go on that cruise because they’re awesome. However, plan on spending double what you budget for drinks. Trust me.

The Conservative Zone: Surprisingly, he’s a lefty. No, I kid.

Goobage: Who apparently created that name so I can no longer hit F6 in Internet Explorer and type Goo to get Google. And I, being the resident Uncle, am pleased to announce that the RTB has an Aunt. A conspiracy, I say.

Welcome all!

Then take this test. Tell me how you do!

So, the senate has passed this sweeping MedisCare bill. I have no opinion really on the bill because 1) I oppose the government’s involvement in healthcare, except as a regulatory agency (do you really want the guys that spend $900 on a hammer managing your healthcare?); and 2) MedisCare is a sacred cow that no one can ever touch. But I digress. What is funny is this:

Seniors “will finally have the prescription drug coverage they need and the choices they deserve,” Senate Majority Bill Frist of Tennessee said. “At the same time, it preserves traditional Medicare.”

Republicans continue to be more like Democrats. Heck, I’m starting to miss the two party system.

It seems the IRS is auditing the NEA:

The IRS is auditing the nation’s largest teachers union, scrutinizing an organization that works energetically to elect candidates but files tax returns reporting zero political expenditures from member dues.

The National Education Association promised Monday to cooperate, but its president, Reg Weaver, said the union “will not be silenced” by the audit or the conservative law firm that requested it.

NEA spokeswoman Kathleen Lyons said the audit began last week. “It will be a complete, thorough audit,” she said. “The IRS has not singled out any particular aspect of our activities.”

Weaver and Lyons predicted the association would be exonerated, contending the IRS found no problems when it audited the NEA’s 1993 tax return. The IRS is prohibited by law from publicly discussing audits of specific taxpayers.

While they’re at it, they should audit Rainbow/Push, the ACLU, and the NRA. The fallout would be interesting.

Chicago SunTimes:

The City Council champion of the slave reparations movement demanded Monday that Carole Brown apologize to African Americans or step down as CTA board chairwoman for “allowing herself to be used” to defend a financial services firm with past ties to slavery.

Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) said it’s insensitive and insulting for Brown, senior vice president of Lehman Brothers, to suggest that “the Lehman Brothers in the 1850s is not the company that it is today.”

Brown made the statement after the company she works for became the first city contractor to admit past ties to slavery.

“She should have kept her mouth shut and said, ‘I’m not going to speak against my people.’ Why is this young lady trying to speak on behalf of slave owners? [They’re saying], ‘Let’s parade this black woman out there,’ ” Tillman said.

“Who is she to say that things have changed? Things have not changed. The economy for blacks in this country is just as bad as it was under Jim Crow. We still have only 1 percent of the wealth. She’s not there because of her merits or because someone loves her. She’s there because of the fight we waged for parity in this country.”

Tillman demanded that Brown make a choice: Apologize for allowing herself to be used to sanitize the reputation of a company built on the backs of her own people or step aside as CTA chairwoman.

While black leaders fight this epic battle, SayUncle estimates that in America today: 21 black people will commit murder; 22 black people will be murdered; 506 black people will be arrested for drug trafficking crimes; 1,000,000 black people are in prison; and 26,500,000 black people live in poverty

Les Jones quotes:

A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.

Brian’s on to me.

One of my favorite lefty bloggers has been back a while now and he’s on a roll. William Burton:

Note to People Who Opposed the Invasion of Iraq:

Until you can agree to stop accusing anyone who holds different views than you of being a racist who kills babies for oil, don’t expect to win any converts and don’t expect those of us still on the fence to treat you like anything other than a fucking idiot.

God Bless the USA

I’m happy to see the day where the average guy on the street is far more tolerant than the average politician.

If you’re not reading William Burton, you should be.

WaPo:

Way back before Republicans took over the House in 1995, GOP lawmakers pilloried Democrats for stuffing legislation with local projects that get little or no oversight but boost the popularity of the lawmakers who take credit for them.

In 1992, Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the future House speaker, told colleagues: “Democrats . . . see no contradiction between adding a billion and a half dollars in pork-barrel [spending] for the politicians in their big-city machines and voting for a balanced budget amendment.”

But a rising tide of GOP spending on home-district projects is making those Democrats of yesteryear look like mere pikers of pork, according to a 15-page study just released by the minority staff of the House Appropriations Committee.

The study finds that the number of home-state projects earmarked in various bills has skyrocketed under the GOP, despite the party’s rhetorical commitment to reining in a profligate federal government.

Moreover, it contends, Republicans “have opened up broad new areas of government to the practice of earmarking that were previously not subject to earmarks.”

Rich’s post about how Dean can win got me to thinking. In 2004, I can rule out a third party winning the presidency completely. The winner will be Bush or some Democrat. That Democrat could very well be Dean. I’ve said in the past that I don’t think Bush can lose but we’re still a year out and a lot can change.

If Dean wins, I think the message will be sent to the Republicans that they screwed up with their big government, pro-gun control, pork spending, PATRIOT act loving ways. Maybe then the Republicans can get back to being the party of small government. If we vote Dean, at least the PATRIOT act takes a hit.

If Bush wins and the GOP sweep of congress continues, the Democrats maybe will figure some stuff out too, such as catering to the fringes is a bad idea. After 2004, one of the parties will be taught a lesson and that’s a good thing.

Jeff finally has the weekly thing up.

Seems someone doesn’t like my take on the RNC ads. Go here and you can read about other articles regarding the ads.

They link to this and this which do paint the pending RNC campaign as a bit nefarious. I would agree.

I am rather amused at matt & jason’s attempt to discredit me based on my position on the second amendment. I think it’s leftist speak for he’s an extremist. Funny how when you know your rights, you’re an extremist. Funny, these antigun folks still fall on the old lies for gun control and can’t prove it because no serious scholarship affirms their views. People do that when they’re on the wrong side.

There is an old saying:

“If the facts are on your side, bang on the facts. If the law is on your side, bang on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, bang on the table.”

Good advice.

Update: Rich agrees with my orginal assessment:

[Democrats are] all for fighting terrorism, as long as we don’t actually, you know, fight terrorists.

I got a comment in this post from the KKK, asserting their right to be bigots. I agree, they have a right to be bigots. But I have a right to tell them how stupid they are for being bigots.

It seems that two rounds makes a weapon an assault weapon. Seriously, here’s a pic of one. Man, Hell err New Jersey is a terrible place.

Lots of new stuff over at the Shooters’ Carnival. Go read.

I noticed that Opus by Berkley Breathed was in the Sunday comics this weekend. Breathed as apparently used his time off to brush up on Japanimation.

Ouch!

Mike’s back! For how long, we won’t know.

A small Kansas town passed an ordinance requiring all household to own guns and ammunition. While I think the law is kind of stupid and infringes on people’s rights to not own guns, I still find it amusing.

It does remind me of this, which offers a what would a states’ rights view of the second amendment really mean?

CJ stated in comments here that the outrage over the Republican’s ad by some Democrats was likely from MoveOn (which wouldn’t surprise me):

They sent an e-mail today crying about this ad and asking people to fight back by giving money to them. They also give some talking points that seem to be repeated in the blogs you link to.

Now, prominent Democrats are in fact using the same fictitous talking points:

“We all want to defeat terrorism,” the South Dakota senator said. But “to chastise and to question the patriotism of those who are in opposition to some of the president’s plans I think is wrong.”

Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy called it an “attempt to stifle dissent.”

Running down the talking points, it seems. Say, isn’t that what Dems accuse those who disagree with of doing?

Update: Can’t confirm if MoveOn is issuing talking points, but they are raising money to counter the ad. Where there’s smoke . . .

The Mrs. picked up one of those real fancy digital scales that rounds off your weight to 1/10th of pounds. I discovered the following:

A fully clothed SayUncle with a full bladder weighs exactly 171.2 pounds.

A naked SayUncle with a full bladder weighs 166.0 pounds.

A naked SayUncle with an empty bladder weighs 164.5 pounds.

I discovered two things: 1) who knew bladders held that much; and 2) with a pregnant wife going to bed at 8:30 every night, I have a lot of time to do dumb shit.

Via Kevin, came this article from the NYT which details a pending ad for Bush. The ad is not done by Bush’s campaign team, by the way.

The sum total of the description of the ad in the NYT are these:

. . . portraying Mr. Bush as fighting terrorism while his potential challengers try to undermine him with their sniping.

Ok, fair statement and politics as usual. And another description of the ad:

Some are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists.

Ok, fair statement and politics as usual. And another description of the ad:

“Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others”, then urges viewers to tell Congress “to support the president’s policy of pre-emptive self defense.”

Ok, fair statement and politics as usual. Some do call for these things but I don’t know of any Dem presidential candidates that have called for retreat, but some non candidates have. I could be wrong though.

Kevin writes:

This is an obvious smear of the worse kind. Anyone with an I.Q. over five knows that questions regarding tactics are not desires to see terrorists go unchallenged. Claiming otherwise is simply an attempt to poison the public discourse by making criticism of the president equivalent to disloyalty. It is one of the most dangerous things a party in power can do - and the Republicans have been doing it constantly. Now, it is their official strategy.

My IQ is about 4.9, so I see no description of the ad that calls them disloyal. Nor does any portion of the ad say Democrats love terrorists (the title of Kevin’s entry).

Kevin’s link was trackbacked pretty quickly here:

Kevin at Lean Left points out that the Republicans are preparing to equate Democrats with terrorists in the upcoming election

Oh my! Kevin said no such thing. Nor does the NYT article.

It gets better: I do a little technorati on the NYT story and get these beauties:

Medley:

The RNC has started running an ad trying to defend this Administration’s policies. Check out the NYT article about it and see how many lies and misleading statements in the ad you can find, just in what’s reported in the article! (Hint, here’s one: “Some are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists.”) They obviously can’t run on the truth, but it’s quite appalling how much they’ll lie to the American public.

How many lies and misleading statements can you find in Medley’s entry? (Hint, here’s three: there are only two quotes from the ad in the article; what lies is this person referring to; and what is the truth this person is referring to?).

Then there’s this, which is much more accurate despite the scaremongering start:

Waaaay back on November 13, I wrote a post about the Republican strategy of pushing the President’s “Doctrine of Preemption” and painting the Democrats as weak-willed, indecisive and perhaps unpatriotic.

Well, it looks like we won’t have to wait too long to see the first examples of this campaign.

Well, this ad (based on the NYT article) doesn’t portray Dem’s as weak-willed, indecisive and perhaps unpatriotic. It says they snipe at Bush, attack Bush, and don’t support preemptive self defense.

The caveat is that none of us have actually seen the ad and the images and audio could, I suppose, leave that impression.

The authors are intimating that the GOP is questioning patriotism of Dems (which wasn’t done); that the GOP is accusing the Dems of supporting terrorism (not done), and the GOP is intimating that opposition to the war is disloyalty (not done). Somehow, they see this in that sparsely quoted NYT article.

Does the ad imply these things? Without seeing it, I can’t say for sure. But from the NYT article, those conclusions can’t be reached but the bandwagon is already getting jumped on.

We go from sniping, attacking the president, and telling congress to support preemptive self defense to calling Democrats disloyal, unpatriotic, stating that Dems love terrorists, and Dems will do nothing about it.

Oh my! Why do the Republicans even need to campaign? It seems the Democrat party faithful are doing it for the Republicans. Maybe they’re so afraid of being called soft on terror and unpatriotic that they deny the accusations before the accusations even come to fruition. Why is that?

I’ve addressed dogs and insurance before (click here to peruse my Pet archives), but here’s the latest (via Unknown News):

Virginia homeowner Steve Wells received a nasty shock in the mail recently. His insurance company, Augusta Mutual Insurance Company, has informed him that they are going to cancel his homeowners insurance because they don’t like his dog.

Like many insurance companies, Augusta Mutual refuses to cover homes in which certain breeds of dog are present. This practice, based on the misperception that certain large dogs are inherently dangerous, is illegal in two states and is being examined in others.

Wells had to file a claim recently because of damage caused by the recent hurricane Isabelle. When the claims adjuster from T. M. Everette Claim Service showed up to inspect the damage, Wells was at work and his dog was in the backyard. On the forms he filled out while inspecting the damage to the house, the inspector wrote the words “CAUTION-PIT BULL IN BACK YARD”.

Of course, there is no way to scientifically prove what breed a particular dog is, the only criteria is appearance. Certain breeds are also not more or less likely to bite. The problem is that certain breeds are popular (more dogs means more bites) and certain breeds are popular among irresponsible owners (dog fighters like pit bulls, as do drug dealers who use them to guard stashes).

Continuuing:

Wells’ insurance company stated that they will cancel his insurance for owning a Pit Bull and for “misrepresenting this fact” when he purchased his insurance. However, there is a very big problem with this. You see, Steve Wells doesn’t own a Pit Bull and he never has.

Meet Buster (picture). Buster is a Terrier mix, the offspring of a female Terrier mix of unknown heritage and an unknown male parent. Wells adopted Buster after rescuing him from a negligent neighbor.

According to the American Kennel Club, there is no such breed as “Pit Bull”. Pit Bull is a term used to describe a particular mix of Terriers and other breeds. Combine an American Staffordshire Terrier, a Bull Terrier, a Boxer and a few other breeds and you end up with what people call a Pit Bull (picture).

Buster clearly is not a Pit Bull. The claims adjuster made a statement that obviously is false. Either the adjuster knew the dog was not a Pit Bull or he didn’t know what sort of dog it was. In either situation, to say that the dog was a Pit Bull was a lie and that lie is costing Steve Wells big time.

Mr. Wells sent both companies a fax disputing the statement and threatening legal action. The claims adjuster answered with more false statements, claiming that Wells said in a telephone conversation that he owned a Pit Bull mix that might bite him when he showed up. Mr. Wells never said that the dog might bite anyone, just that he wanted to know when the adjuster would be on his property.

Now, Mr. Wells is unable to find an insurer to cover his home. The companies that don’t refuse him based on his dog are refusing him based on his recent large damage claim. If his house were to burn down on Christmas morning, the false statements of the claims adjuster will have cost Steve Wells and his family their home with no way to replace it.

Mr. Wells is being refused based on a useless criteria that is actually not even true. He doesn’t have a pit bull and breed is not a factor. The site encourages people to send nasty letters to the insurance company:

T. M. Everette Claim Service
www.everetteclaims.com
P. O. Box 15057
Richmond, VA 23227
Phone (804) 746-2656
Fax (804) 746-8255

Augusta Mutual Insurance Company
13 Idlewood Blvd
Staunton Va, 24401-9355
Customer Service 1-800-533-1673
Customer Service 1-540-885-5127
Fax 1-540-886-1683

Last night, I go to Weigel’s to get a couple of gallons of milk. Here’s how it works:

Weigel’s has been processing Milk in it’s own country dairy since 1936. In 1958 the famous gallon in the returnable jug (shown here) was introduced. It has been saving area consumers money ever since. It is available in whole Milk, 2% reduced fat Milk and no-fat Skim D’ Lite®. Customers buy the jug on their first purchase. After that, they trade the empty jug for a full one and pay only for the Milk. They can sell the jug back to Weigel’s for the full purchase price anytime.

Me and the wife have been trading milk jugs at Weigel’s for years. Last night, the milk was in yellow jugs that resembled Mayfields. Weigel’s no longer issues the re-usable milk jugs but will still give you a dollar credit for your jug. The manager of this particular Weigel’s told me that they can’t find anyone to make the lids. I think that is likely not true. I got two gallons last night for $1.19 each.

I think they realized that they could just bypass the jug program and save some cash. In fact, a gallon of milk went from $1.99 to $2.19. My guess is they figured out that the increase in price would pay for the cheaper jugs and they’d save money.

And they’ve implemented a milk buyer’s program. You get a card and each time you purchase a gallon, they stamp your card. After you buy 16 gallons, you get a gallon free.

I’ll miss those jugs. But the landfills won’t.