So Wrinkly, and Yet So Stupid
Sun   9 Apr 2006   16:03 by Kevin McGehee 0 comments [Here's Your Sign] [Wackadoodle] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]	The Mercedes-Benz peace sign makes a reappearance, this time in Lander, Wyoming. And not content merely to screw it up by leaving off one of the lines, this senile old fool turns it upside down. In the immortal words of comedian Ron White: You can’t fix stupid.

Daycap

Sun   9 Apr 2006   15:52 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

I’ve been playing around a little with Google Earth (the free version; ain’t no way Google gets a penny from me), and I like the way you can tilt the view down until the horizon is showing, use the mouse to grab a handful of the horizon, and give it a yank. Voilà, you’re flying around the world in low earth orbit (your altitude gets bumped upward if the terrain gets in the way, as it’s likely to do if you’re below, say, 15,000 feet—though it’s possible to get all the way around without going higher than 10,000). Yesterday I found that if one of my flights intersected with the terrain my direction of travel could be deflected anywhere from a little bit to almost 180 degrees. I didn’t have anything like that happen again today so it may have been a onetime glitch. It was interesting, though, to be “flying” along, come to a point where the ground rose higher than my “altitude,“ and the next thing I know I’m flying backwards, still facing in more or less the same direction. Flight simulator pinball. TILT!

A Little Late for April Fool’s

Sun   9 Apr 2006   10:48 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

...or maybe Aaron’s domain registrar just did him like Dr. Weevil’s did him before. UPDATE: Aaron writes that his host has been working on restoring his site since Friday, but: They re-hacked after the original restoration. I’m pissing off the right crowd. Given the volume of anti-semitic comments he’d been getting last week and the Arabic script used by the hackers, I’d say he’s right. ‘NOTHER UPDATE: More coverage: Something… and Half of Something: Aaron Kicks Ass!!!! MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: It looks like Aaron won the battle for the fatwa Theodore’s World: Aaron’s Blog Has Been Hacked Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: Sir Aaron Gets His Fartwah! Aaron adds, “Trust me, I’m only beginning.“

Still No Bait

Sun   9 Apr 2006   9:32 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Out West] [Prognosticate THIS!] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

Contrary to what I posted about it last October, it appears Hell’s Half Acre, Wyoming—now out of business and owned by Natrona County—has had at least a ghost of a chance of being restored to “last of the old time tourist traps” status if they can just find someone to run it. The last person to make the offer, though, seems to have dropped from sight. Hell’s Half Acre hasn’t frozen over, but prospective visitors will get a pretty cold reception there. Local resident Tracy Hymes told the Natrona County Commission in October that she wanted to open a restaurant, bar and gift shop by April 1 in the vacant park’s restaurant building. “I really would like to have this,“ Hymes told commissioners. “It’s an historical mark; it’s on the map.“ But April 1 came and went and the restaurant never opened. Hymes told commissioners she had two private investors who would put up the capital; she and family members would fix up the building; and she eventually would want a liquor license. She envisioned school field trips, a possible modular motel pending commissioner approval, a meeting area, Internet access and carry-out for those working around Hiland and Waltman, she said. Hell’s Half Acre is located 44 miles northwest of Casper on Highway 20-26. Mike Haigler, whose county road and bridge department oversees Hell’s Half Acre, said Thursday that Hymes met with him on numerous occasions until late December. “She has disappeared,“ Haigler said. “Right after Christmas, it kind of died.“ Hymes’ number is unpublished, and she could not be reached for comment. » Casper Star-Tribune: Plans for Hell’s Half Acre haven’t materialized The main challenge for running a going concern at Hell’s Half Acre is the fact the local water isn’t of very good quality—as last October’s Star-Tribune article notes: An abundance of iron in the area’s water supply makes the area difficult to support. Last year, Natrona County spent $30,000 to transport water in from Casper. And I thought our well water in Alaska was iron-heavy—but a properly maintained water softener could stay on top of our problem. Presumably the iron in the water at HHA is too much for that. Here’s hoping somebody can get the place back up and running in time for our next Wyoming visit.

Don’t Look, Jimmy!

Sun   9 Apr 2006   9:20 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Yee-haw!] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

In a tale reminiscent of the last Wallace and Gromit movie, furious villagers in northeast England have hired armed guards to protect their beloved communal vegetable gardens from a suspected monster rabbit. Leeks, Japanese onions, parsnips and spring carrots have all been ripped up and devoured by the mystery were-rabbit—prompting the 12 allotment holders in Felton, north of Newcastle, to hire two marksmen with air rifles and orders to shoot to kill. “It is a massive thing. It is a monster. The first time I saw it, I said: ‘What the hell is that?‘“ the Northumberland Gazette newspaper quoted local resident Jeff Smith, 63, as saying on its website (www.northumberlandtoday.co.uk). [...] Smith could not be reached for comment Friday, but his mother told AFP that the hare-raising story is true—and no less an authority than the British Rabbit Council said it was credible. “Certain breeds do grow very big, like the Continental Giant” which can be 66 centimetres (26 inches) in length or more, a spokesman for the Nottinghamshire-based council, which represent rabbit breeders, told AFP. » AFP: Bigs bunny: monster rabbit devours English veggie plots Reached for comment, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!“

Son of Kelo?

Sat   8 Apr 2006   12:09 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 4 comments [Courting Disaster] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

According to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, any federal employee can invade private property purportedly on official business, and you have no recourse. A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of trespassing and littering charges against a federal wolf biologist and a private contractor who were found with tranquilized wolves on private property near Cody. [...] U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson later dismissed the charges, saying that federal employees acting in their official capacity cannot be prosecuted under the trespass law. He also concluded the charge was “ridiculous.“ » AP: Court upholds dismissal of charges The rancher whose land was intruded upon sums it up: “They don’t seem to have much sympathy for people’s rights nowadays,“ he said. Oh, they’re all for “rights” that don’t exist, like the right of illegal aliens to access to all the government services that citizens pay for, or the right of a woman too lazy to use birth control and too undisciplined to abstain, to kill her unborn child just because she wants to—but actual legitimate rights like political speech, or free exercise of religion, or the right to be secure in one’s property, those rights have been excised from the “living constitution.“

It’s Spring Fever

Fri   7 Apr 2006   9:39 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 6 comments [Nature] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

That’s what it is. Not burnout. Not creeping disgust at the ineffectual mess that my Republicans have made of national policy because they can’t bring themselves to swat the Democrats upside the head seven or eight times a day. Not discouragement over Yippee-Ki-Yay!‘s traffic stats that have been more or less flat since before it was Yippee-Ki-Yay! Not simmering rage over the continuing and utterly preventable upward trend in summer gasoline prices. Not the sometimes frantic desire to get the hell out of Coweta County before it’s totally paved over (using money from my pocket, that I need to use to buy the gas that I burn sitting in traffic trying to get to the gas station). Nope, those things aren’t why I’m running low on blogthusiasm these days. It’s spring fever. Gotta be.

On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
Fri   7 Apr 2006   8:50 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [War] [Yee-haw!] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]	Uncommon common sense on display at Indigo’s. She found or was sent a piece with the title, “On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs.“ If you haven’t already read it, go read it today.

BWAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HAHHH!!! (Updated)

Thu   6 Apr 2006   15:36 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Our Times] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to “knock Steele down.“ The 37-page report says a sizable segment of likely black voters—as much as 44 percent—would readily abandon their historic Democratic allegiances “after hearing Steele’s messaging.“ “Governor Ehrlich and [Lt. Gov.] Michael Steele have a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland,“ says the March 27 report by Cornell Belcher, polling consultant for the Democratic National Committee, which bases its findings on a survey of 489 black voters in Maryland conducted last month. The report, given to The Washington Post this week, drills into a topic that has emerged as a key focus of this year’s U.S. Senate contest in Maryland: race. » Washington Post: Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters I promise you—if Steele does that well in his Senate election, I will be at the emergency room shortly thereafter with a busted gut in dire need of repair. It’s not healthy for me to laugh that hard. UPDATE: Democratic plans to “discredit” Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele’s reputation among black voters in his run for the U.S. Senate are “destructive” and won’t work, a key Maryland Democrat said yesterday. “[Democrats] ought to be promoting what they’re going to do that’s positive, instead of trying to knock Steele down,“ said Wayne K. Curry, former Prince George’s County executive. Mr. Curry said Mr. Steele’s candidacy presents an “enormously historic” opportunity for blacks that “may ultimately break this sort of vice grip by Democrats who feel entitled to black votes regardless of how they treat black voters.“ Mr. Steele, who is black, is a Republican. “I’ve been a loyal and devoted Democratic supporter. ... I’ve been at it for over 40 years waiting for that bus to arrive ... under the virtual totalitarian leadership of the Democratic Party,“ said Mr. Curry, who is rumored to be on the short list of potential running mates for Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican. “People would say, ‘You don’t have anywhere else to go.‘ Now we do have somewhere else to go.“ » Washington Times: Plans to knock Steele labeled as ‘destructive’ Which is what I’ve been saying since Reagan was president.

<sigh>

Thu   6 Apr 2006   15:33 by Kevin McGehee 0 comments [Wackadoodle] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]

But even as McKinney appeared to be trying to put the issue to rest, a bodyguard she hired – reportedly a former Georgia state trooper – was raising another furor when he threatened a television reporter trying to interview McKinney outside the Capitol just minutes before she appeared on the House floor. When the reporter from Cox Broadcasting tried to ask McKinney about the grand jury, the bodyguard told him, “I’m going to put your ass in jail. I’m a police officer,“ a videotape of the incident shows. Asked if he worked for Capitol police, the man said, “I work for Miss McKinney.“ Word that McKinney had hired a bodyguard roiled the ranks of the Capitol police who were worried that the guard was carrying a weapon. They said they are concerned about what the bodyguard might do if Capitol police challenged McKinney at a security checkpoint. » AJC: McKinney apologizes on House floor I can’t possibly imagine why that lout is a former Georgia state trooper. Hey Bubba, I got news for you—the ass that’s going to wind up in jail, may be your own. After all this, I’m actually kinda sorta hoping McKinney stays in Congress. She’s yet another Dem gift that keeps on giving.

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