Aloha Dump

A lot of money went into finding the part of the brain that controls the addictions of human beings. To my understanding, the research invold smokers who later had their brains scanned. Insula seemed to be the common denominator in the addiction after a smoker who had a stroke had his brain scanned. It seemed that after the stroke he no longer had the urge to smoke and this behavior was linked the insula that was damaged during the stroke. This research has some very interesting follow-up questions. For example, are the insula responsible for the addiction of shoplifting or driving fast? Will it only be a matter of time before we can "cure" people of their sexual deviancy, homosexuality, liberalism or their preference of Coke over Pepsi? I can see this research spiraling out of control and being on the same ticket as stem cell research. We are getting closer to Gattica everyday. Arthur Quigle , Scrap-Yard Worker "What a great day for humanity. Pretty soon, none of our s

I needed something to cheer me up after t hat last post and what better way to do that than to see some insurgents meet Allah prematurely. These jackholes are using toy cars in the planning of an ambush of American soldiers. I prefer the execution of the plan, no pun intended. I only wish that every mission these intellectually obtuse insurgents went on was a suicide mission.

It's tax time again and that means headaches, frustration and dead sailors. I wish I could say that this sailor was killed in Iraq, gun in hand, going out in a blaze of glory- but it didn't go down that way for Terron Bush. Terron was shot just after he cashed his tax return. But the story is even more beweildering as police investigate the robbery. The story is not very well written by Military.com and I actually had to write names down to get it straight. The short and skinny is that Terron had the mother of one of the gunmen who robbed him prepare his tax return. The gunman, along with his brother and his cousin, shot Terron and Terron's cousing who was with him. The ting that is most upsetting is that the gunman shot Terron in the gut AS he was handing over his money and then shot him 3 more times. Terron's cousin tried to get away but was shot in the back Jesse James style. Aside from the ridiculousness of this crime and the cowardice of the teenagers involved is t

Airforce Sergent Michelle Manhart, mother of 2 and married, was recently portrayed in Playboy bearing it all- showing once again that Playboy staff can turn anything into an acceptable photographic opportunity given enough make-over resources. Manhart claims, "I didn't do anything wrong, so I didn't think it would be a major issue." I heard this Playmate wannabe in an interview with that exemplory example of interbreeding, Soladad O'Brien, in which she tried to excuse her other than honorable military behavior. When gien the reason the Air FOrce has relieved her of her duties while under investigation she said, "I don't -- don't feel that that's the view of the entire Air Force or the entire military in general." Really? If she was familiar with the other military bimbos who were kicked out of the military for appearing in Playboy she might have thought twice about it. She is definately playing the ignorance of the rules card but her dimwited

**WARNING: GEEK ALERT The long awaited expansion pack to my online role playing game, World Of Warcraft, finally came out yesterday. I installed it and with great anticipation headed out to the zone where I would enter the Dark Portal, transported to place that hasn't been seen in 10,000 years. There was only one problem, 80 Horde characters camping the portal so no Alliance characters, of which I am, could even get to the portal. In non-geek speak, a bunch of jackasses with nothing better to do hung around a choke point and killed people trying to get to the one area that would take them to the game they just paid $40 for. This is the moral equivalent of 20 people hanging out in front of a movie theatre and pushing the few random people who paid to the movie away from the entrance. My server is a PvP server, player-vs-player, in which players can freely attack one another from opposing factions- the equivalent of the Orcs unloading of Aragon whenever they saw him. There are PvE, o

No, I'm not talking about Pamela Anderson but of a spectacle that is really IN the heavens. Most of us can remember Comet Hale-Bop back in 1997. Anyone with a set of binoculars recieved a spectacular view as the comet came as close as 1.31 AU to our planet. An AU (astonomical unit) is equal to 93 million miles, the distance of earth from Sol. There are a few out there who actually saw Halley's Comet in 1996 (I was a Senior in High School) which passed a whopping .60 AU to us. This comet will be visible in 2062- I will be 93 years old; my youngest daughter will be 57. Very rarely do you get to see Halley's comet twice in a lifetime. For the first time in 30 years the brightest comet is visible in the western sky. Comet McNaught can be see by the naked eye and brillantly with a set of field glasses just above the horizon as the sun sets. Viewers in teh northern hemisphere will have the best view until the comet passes behind the sun then the southern hemisphere will get their

I have been reading Michael J. Totten's blog for some time now and I am always amazed at his first had accounts in the Middle East. Totten is a journalist who frequently travels through out Lebanon and Israel. In his latest epilogue he travels with another journalist escorted by 2 Lebanese men, who work for the Committee for UNSCR 1559, into Hezbollah territory. The article has pictures of damage from Israel's attack in July 2006, billboards in Christian and Hezbollah populated territories, and intriguing dialogue. It is one of many articles Totten will write and I encourage you to read them all to gain insight into the local attitudes and perceptions that are hardly convered my the MSM. So, this is our victory...

Ed Koch wrote a great piece that bears some mention on my blog. As this Iraq war drags on, and with 11 already dead this year, the surge of troops in Iraq (an extra 20,000) is a hot issue in Congress. I still stand by my post made earlier and we should give the Iraqi people no more than 6 months to figure out what they want to do. Koch takes the same approach sans troop surge. Here are some highlights. I have supported the war in Iraq and believe that based on the information available to the president in 2003, he was right at the time of the invasion. However, now that we know the CIA information concerning WMD was totally wrong, it is folly to continue remaining in Iraq to prop up a government not supported by major sectors of the country now involved in a civil war of immense proportions, and unwilling to date to do what the U.S. government has heretofore demanded to bring equity and peace to Iraq. The cruelty of the Iraqi military forces under Saddam Hussein before the U.S. in

What happens in suberbia when kids get bored? Watch this video with the sound turned up so you can hear what it sounds like when meat hits concrete. Mankind's only hope is for these idiots to kill themselves before they kill someone else.

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue on envelopes because I now use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, now I scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason. I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program. I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish. I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish wit

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907

With so many changes going on this morning it is almost mind numbing to think about, especially when you consider the implications of the change. Bush is bringing in his 2nd (3rd?) string to try and get something going in Iraq and it remionds me of that cup stacking trick only not as fast. John Negroponte has been nominated as Rice's deputy and Vice Admiral Mike McConnell is slotted to take his Negroponte's place. Pearl Harbor is getting props in this shuffling also: Mr Bush is expected to nominate Admiral William Fallon, the commander of US forces in the Pacific, to replace General John Abizaid, the head of US Central Command, who has overall authority over the American missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lieutenant General David Petraeus, who has been training the Iraqi army, is rumoured to take over from General George Casey, currently in charge of US forces there. Big whoop. I hope that this is the Bush Administration's last charge on the fight in Iraq. It is obvious that