This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Zero Ponsdorf

  • Finally, An Arab Spring Thing I Can Support

    Add your own commentary, I’m laughing too hard.
    Saudi religious police HQ targeted by sex maniacs

    Three Saudi men parked their car close to the headquarters of the Gulf Kingdom’s feared religious police late night, got out and started having sex with a woman accompanying them just in front of the massive police signboard.

    They were filming themselves with the aim publicising the shot to defame the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcement authority in the Muslim nation.

    The three were half way through their operation when one of them noticed the security camera next to the signboard in the capital Riyadh. They stopped filming, headed for the camera and smashed it before fleeing the scene.

    The article doesn’t say if they were all wearing traditional garb or not.

  • NSFW – Not Safe For Anyone Over 12 Either, But I Liked It.

    View at your own risk! TAH is not responsible for your nightmares or any ideas this video might give you!

    The Hipster Hunters:

  • We’re ALL Wrong About OWS

    And I feel MUCH better now.

    Over 150 Economists Sign Letter Of Support For OWS

    Recently Newt Gingrich publicly dismissed the Occupy Wall Street movement as being nothing but unemployed, uneducated rabble in need of a bath.

    Of course, this flippant label makes no sense to anyone that has visited an OWS encampment, talked with its supporters, or even lightly researched the movement.

    To further disprove the idea that only idiot socialists would identify with OWS, a group of top economists from around the world recently released a statement supporting the movement (see below).

    “We are economists who oppose ideological cleansing in the economics profession. Equally we oppose political cleansing in the vital debate over the causes and consequences of our current economic crisis.

    We support the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street movement across the country and across the globe to liberate the economy from the short-term greed of the rich and powerful “one percent”.

    We oppose cynical and perverse attempts to misuse our police officers and public servants to expel advocates of the public good from our public spaces.

    We extend our support to the vision of building an economy that works for the people, for the planet, and for the future, and we declare our solidarity with the Occupiers who are exercising our democratic right to demand economic and social justice.”

    See… Don’t you feel bad now?

  • Okay Gun Nuts – What Is It?

    The long black thing, that is.

    Oh well, two comments is all it took. Thanks for playing along.

    Yep, it is an AR-7. The are many like it, but this one is mine! Designed by some guy named Stoner who apparently had a thing for black plastic guns? And it floats!

  • A Soldier’s Angel

    Some of us us here have had the pleasure of meeting her, others have worked with her.

    LANDSTUHL, Germany — Mary Ann Phillips does not think of herself as extraordinary, yet she is.

    Every week in Landstuhl, Germany she collects gifts given with love. They include everything from cards to clothing, blankets to books.

    Phillips volunteers for the not-for-profit Soldiers’ Angels, which is based in Central Texas.

    “We feel very strongly about trying to make a strong connection between the civilian world and the military world,” she said.

    Started in 2003, Soldiers’ Angels sends packages to service men and women, including those in Landstuhl.

    Definitely an Angel! Full article with video is here.

  • When the Obvious Isn’t? Nothing Here – Just a Rant.

    Thanksgiving is probably the most American of holidays and I shouldn’t really post a rant, but…

    Those non-Americans didn’t have documentation when they sat down for the first Thanksgiving, and they didn’t really try to assimilate with those already living here.

    Whatever good intentions they might have had devolved into a simple invasion.

    Then we became a country and:

    • Naturalization Act of 1790: Stipulated that “any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States”
    • 1875: Supreme Court declared that regulation of US immigration is the responsibility of the Federal Government.
    • 1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act: Prohibited certain laborers from immigrating to the United States.
    • 1885 and 1887: Alien Contract Labor laws which prohibited certain laborers from immigrating to the United States.
    • 1891: The Federal Government assumed the task of inspecting, admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the U.S.
    • 1892: On January 2, a new Federal US immigration station opened on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
    • 1903: This Act restated the 1891 provisions concerning land borders and called for rules covering entry as well as inspection of aliens crossing the Mexican border.

    So in 1891 the Feds took responsibility and it seems they’ve been trying to wriggle out of the job since.

    That is history.

    Today there is this: Opponents of Alabama’s immigration law say it causes fear, anxiety

    If the goal of state immigration laws was to make life so uncomfortable for illegal immigrantsthat they leave on their own, it may be working under HB 56 in Alabama.

    “HB 56 has caused a chain reaction that prevents Hispanics from living with dignity,” said Trini Garcia, who came to Alabama on a tourist visa 15 years ago and stayed after it expired.

    “I never thought Arizona’s law was going to come to Alabama,” she said. “Now it’s created chaos among Hispanics in Alabama.”

    Garcia was one of several speakers Monday at a hearing called by congressional Democrats who traveled to Birmingham to rally opposition to HB 56, the state anti-immigration law patterned after Arizona’s SB 1070.

    Here is the obvious: The Federal Government is DIRECTLY responsible for any discomfort caused by the various state attempts at controlling ILLEGAL immigration. Our Hispanic citizens  can hold their heads high, but scofflaws SHOULD feel uncomfortable.

    Without the tiniest trace of racism intended I can say that we’re in the same boat as the Native Americans were back then. It appears that by the time we recognize we’re being invaded it may be too late.

    YMMV

  • An Intriguing Idea – Or Just Silly?

    I dunno just how serious this notion is, but it sure struck my fancy.

    Illinois Republican wants to make Chicago area the 51st state

    A state Republican legislator has introduced a bill to the Illinois General Assembly to separate the Chicago’s county from the state–effectively making the midwestern city the 51st state in the union.

    The bill, filed by State Rep. Bill Mitchell of Decatur Tuesday, would “enact legislation dividing Illinois and Cook County into separate states” because county residents “hold different and firmly seated views” on “politics, society, and economics” from people in the rest of the state. The bill’s supporters point to higher tax rates and strict gun laws in the Chicago area and contend that the northern county is out of step with its Illinois neighbors.

    This actually makes some sense on its face, but I’d include EVERY major urban area in the process.

    I also have no idea just how a referendum would work. For example; would a referendum in New York include NYC in the voting or could the non-NYC voters just sorta wave byebye?

    Regardless of the details the idea is fun to think about.

  • Thanksgiving

    From 2-17AirCav elsewhere on TAH:

    This seemed to be the appropriate place to post the following, inasmuch as pretenders and posers will never know the following:

    Tomorrow many of us will be with family for a Thanksgiving day of turkey, football, and squabbling. We will think of loved ones who are no longer at the table and say a prayer of thanks for them and our many blessings. We will remember others too, those who made the supreme sacrifice in service to our country. Below is a sampling, by year, of those whose sacrifice was made in South Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day itself. When I started this small effort, I quickly found that there were far too many men to list here whose casualty date fell on Thanksgiving. Perhaps you will read their names and know one. In a very real sense, of course, regardless of our age, our dates of service, our branch–we knew each of them. God bless them all and God bless their families.

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 25 November 1965

    Arthur Melvin Gordon, Private First Class, US Army; Age at Loss:19
    William Martin Savoren, Lance Corporal, USMC; Age at Loss:19
    Donald Raymond Bonko, Captain, US Army; Age at Loss:28

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 24 November 1966

    Grady Edward McElroy, Private First Class, US Army; Age at
    Loss: 22
    William Hixson Hardwick, Private First Class, USMC; Age at Loss: 20
    John Neto Rodrigues, Staff Sergeant, US Army, Age at Loss: 36

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 23 November 1967

    Francis John Muraco, Corporal, USMC; Age at Loss: 21
    Gary Doyle Roerink, Private First Class, Us Army; Age at Loss: 20
    Leonard Leroy Bevels, Sergeant, US Army; Age at Loss: 25

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 28 November 1968

    Laurence E Williams, Private, US Army; Age at Loss: 19
    John E Moulden, Specialist Four, US Army, Born 28 November 1945; Age at Loss:23
    Lonnie Michael Reeves, Lance Corporal, USMC, Age at Loss:22

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 27 November 1969

    Wylie Clarence King, Corporal, US Army; Age at Loss: 20
    Angel Luis Acevedo-Millan, Specialist Four, US Army; Age at Loss: 20
    Kenneth James Smolarek, Specialist Four, US Army; Age at Loss: 19

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 26 November 1970

    Samuel Lee Gantt, Sergeant, US Army; Age at Loss: 25
    Ralph Howell, Staff Sergeant, US Army; Age at Loss: 26
    Philip Eugene Richard, Chief Warrant Officer, US Army; Age at Loss: 21

    Thanksgiving Day Casualties, South Vietnam, 25 November 1971

    James Richard Thomas, Technical Sergeant, US Air Force; Age at Loss: 28
    Thomas Dean Prose, Airman First Class, US Air Force; Age at Loss: 20
    John William George, Captain, US Air Force; Age at Loss: 26