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Leggett: Responsibility yours, Cheney; stand up and take it

By Mike Leggett
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF (American-Statesman’s outdoors writer.)
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Be a man. You shot a guy.

That would be my unsolicited advice for Vice President Dick Cheney.

You shot a guy. At least stay in town until he’s out of the hospital.

You shot a guy. Don’t blame the sun or the wind or the rotation of the Earth. And for goodness’ sake, don’t blame Harry Whittington.

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Diocese of Fall River

Remember that guy who recently attacked a gay bar in New Bedford, MA? There’s been lots of discussion of the event on the local news and last night I was watching when the reporter went to the local Catholic church for reaction to something.

The church was called Our Lady of Purgatory.

Seriously.

I’m not making this up. This may betray my profound ignorance of Catholicism, but isn’t purgatory a bad place? I’m guessing this usage is focusing more on the redemption angle of purgatory than the punitive. Nonetheless, i don’t agree with the association of “our lady” with purgatory.

Whatever. I mean, its not my religion, right? I guess they’re welcome to do what they want with it without my approval.

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“…that birdshot from Cheney’s gun has moved into Whittington’s heart and that he suffered a “mild heart attack” today as a result. ”

What would happen if he died? Murder charges wouldn’t stick, I’m sure. But negligent homicide might.

Of course, like teflon, the VEEP is a pretty slippery guy and I think this will slide right off him as well.

As much as I dislike him, I don’t think Cheney intentionally shot him. And sure, shit happens and I’m positive he accidentally blew his buddy away. I don’t think there’s any reason to see this as anything more interesting than a hunting accident.

What happens when you play with guns?

Someone will get hurt. You have to expect that.

But it sure would be nice if some charge stuck to the man.

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The Dilbert Blog: This is Why I Blog

Scott Adams’ take on the VEEP’s attempt to make the bayou a safer place for everyone.

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Ok, the WHOLE weekend wasn’t snowy — just Sunday. On Sunday we got a blizzard that dropped 15″ of snow on us. I have to admit that it wasn’t so bad.

I mean it was a Sunday, so we had nowhere to be. We had relatives up from South Jersey so we had good company. We were set with food and alcohol. We were in a good position to be able to sit back and enjoy the foul weather outside.

The kids and dog had a good time romping in the snow. I got a couple of good photos, which I’ll post. At the end of the day it finally stopped snowing and blowing around so me and my brother-in-law were able to go out and dig out the cars.

On Friday, the big event was going to Penzy’s spices and then Trader Joe’s — both in Arlington. The ladies bought lots of supplies there and me and Roddo just looked forward to the results!

In the afternoon I grilled some ribs that went over very well. And I have to confess that I don’ t think anyone enjoyed them as completely as I did.

On Saturday we took our guests to Laser Tag in Danvers where we were only able to play one game because we didn’t have reservations. I can understand how it might be tricky to accomodate 9 or 10 of us. Liz took Grace in for her first time. Grace got to hold the laser and Liz wore the vest — It was very generous of her. Grace had a crazy good time! She’s pretty good for only being 4. In fact, I would say she’s a lasertag prodigy!

I won. Gabriel took second place. But a good time was had by all.

We’ve been watching the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was sorry to hear about Michelle Kwan, but pleased to hear that the Flying Tomato did well. Likewise, George the Speeding White Sausage (a german Luge-guy) did well too.

It was a good weekend and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

But for now its back to the grind.

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CH 5HP 26 Gallon Air Compressor + Dewalt Reciprocating Saw + 50′ Air Hose $300 after $30MIR

Good Deal!! Now if only I could figure out a good reason for an air compressor!

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I went to the dentist today and its clear to me now that I must either start flossing regularly or stop going to the dentist altogether. I brush really well so my teeth are in good shape, but I somehow never get around to flossing so my gums are giving me trouble. Well, truth be told, since I had a “scaling” done a few years ago my hygenist has told me that everything is fine. But today I got some other sadistic hygenist who seemed to take out her day’s frustrations on me. That woman laid in to me and beat the crap out of my mouth! Here it is, four hours later and my mouth is still throbbing!

I know, I know: bitch/moan, bitch/moan.

So yesterday I had to keep arguing with one of our DBA’s and I think I upset him. Apparently it upset him that I was telling him how to do his job. And I have to confess: I was also upset that I had to tell him how to do his job. So, we’re in agreement. I wanted some files arranged on the disks in a very particular way. He explained that it wouldn’t help our I/O times. I explained that it would. He eventually said that he would like to discuss the idea with the rest of the DBA’s (who know what they’re doing). I agreed that this would be for the best.

Today he unilaterally anounced that he was taking down a system on a particular day to do some patches. He didn’t check with anyone and the business got bent out of shape.

Oh alright, I got bent out of shape too!

So now he’s upset again. This S.O.B better get his act together because I’m sick of it. In the past he has only agreed to do certain kinds of activities with HUGE windows of time. He will only do tasks in the safest, most time-consuming manner.

I think its obvious that he does this, not out of a concern for the database but because he doesn’t know how to do his job and he’s very afraid of breaking something.

I can understand that: I’m very afraid that he’s going to break something too!

We do things here that aren’t necessarily supported all the time. We sometimes do things in an unconventional way. I don’t think we can afford to have someone who is gun-shy in a position like that.

I hope his boss notices that the guy has no skillz.

No nun-chuck skillz, no drawing skillz.

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It made me laugh:

  According to a news report, a certain private school in Markham, OH was  recently faced with a unique problem.  A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.

  That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick, they would press   their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.  Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.

  Several memos were posted about this without effect. Finally the Principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man.  She explained that all these lip prints were causing a problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

  To demonstrate how difficult it was to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls just how hard it was.

   Following the instructions, the man took out a long-handled squeegee,  solemnly dipped it in the nearest toilet bowl, and scrubbed at the  mirror.  There was complete silence in the room.

  Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

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Arguing with an idiot is like wrestling with a pig: its a giant waste of time because you get muddy and the pig enjoys it.

AMEN, BROTHER!!
(who said that first, anyway?)

“Its time to start slapping people.”
-George Carlin

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See, i don’t trust Gonzales one bit. I hated his predecessor, who brought the administration a lot of grief because he was an idiot and an asshole. Back in 2000 Ashcroft was in a senate race with a guy named “Melman” or something — a democrat who sadly, met an early death just a couple of weeks before the election. Ashcroft must have been tickled because now he was SURE to win the election!

Nope. Most people STILL voted for Melmen — the dead guy. Ashcroft had lost his race to a DEAD MAN. The people who knew him best would still prefer to be represented by a dead man than by Ashcroft.

I thought that was pretty telling and always kept that in mind.

But that guy’s gone now. He still gets my blood pressure up but he’s not the point.

Gonzales is his replacement and although he had an easy confirmation I suspect he’s even worse than Ashcroft because he’s so much smarter. Right now he’s trying to explain to the American people why its ok for the president to break the law. Earlier he wrote some legal memos explaining why it was ok for the US to torture prisoners and referred to the Geneva Convention as “quaint”.

He’s all lawyer, in that he can come up with a way to pretend its ok to do the wrong thing and can explain why black is white.

I’m not about to advocate that some terrible fortune befall him, but America would be better off if he found somewhere else to work.

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