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It’s not just Mardi Gras-Fat Tuesday today

It’s also
International High-Five a Muslim Day!

Givin’ some slappy makes everyone happy!

(Well, except for Australian censors…)

♥ SondraK, who reminds us that tomorrow is National Pig Day. heeeheee

Cindy Sheehan Wants The Troops To Die, Just Won’t Be Protesting

Remember, way back when, I let you in on Cindy’s insanity going to Germany? Good little progressive she be, she quit.

From…get this…Palestine Chronicle (remember to put it in whiny, nasal voice; extra moonbattery in bold):

I have been invited to speak to the European Union Parliament in March in Strasbourg, France. My message will be one of peace and non-violent unity against the out of control murderous and disastrous policies of the Bush Administration. I wrote extensively about meeting with other world leaders in my article, “Friends don’t let Friends Commit War Crimes.”

My message to the EU will focus on “we the people” forcing the leaders of all countries to work diplomatically and peacefully to solve problems. It is time we reach across artificial borders of lines drawn on a map to forge bonds of love and friendship with all members of humanity no matter what color, religion, language group or nationality that other person is. Killing other members of the human race is barbaric and abhorrent and should never be used to solve conflicts. This is so important with the current beating of the war drums against Iran, and we must not let off the President of Iran for his inflammatory and non-peaceful statements. The wonderful and innocent citizens of Iran don’t deserve the fate that the undeserving citizens of Iraq received and are receiving on a daily basis still.

In the frenzy and excitement of my trip to France and Germany, some well meaning pacifists in the area have scheduled me to set up a Camp Casey outside of Landsthul, Germany, in front of the military hospital. I won’t agree to do that.

The Camp Casey movement is pro-peace and pro-soldier. We love our troops so much that we want them to come home alive from the fiasco in the Middle East.

Camp Caseys have been set up all over the USA and the world and they are set up in front of the seats of power. The politicians and the war machine got us into this war, our soldiers are trying to protect each other and do the best that they can do under horrifically difficult circumstances.

The Camp Casey in Germany could be moved to a place where people with decision making power can see it. The soldiers have very little to say in their fates after they enlist (which is an entirely different subject) but especially the ones who have already been wounded in the service of their country…no matter how evil and greed-serving the phony mission is.

Let’s set up Camp Caseys in front of recruiter’s offices to stop our children from even enlisting to wear a uniform for the war profiteers. Let’s set up Camp Caseys in front of the Pentagon…Congress…Congressional offices…embassies…the White House…propaganda media centers…war profiteers…President’s vacation homes…Karl Rove’s DC home…the list for valid protest locations is endless…but not in front of our troops.

Our struggle is with the industrial military complex and the people who put our soldiers in harm’s way in the first place for no valid reason and who are keeping them in harm’s way despite all evidence that this war is a nightmare and a mistake.

Let’s leave our soldiers out of our protests. They have been put through so much by their commander in chief and his callous cronies already.

See that part I italicized? Typical. Set up annoying little tables in front of the people it won’t effect. Just being a pest. A dangerous, traitorous pest.

I’m sorry, I should be more hateful, but she’s just so annoying that her insanity doesn’t even effect me anymore. When is she just gonna shut up?

(Props to Sweetness & Light)

Laissez les bontemps roulez!

It’s Fat Tuesday!

Here are more photos from Sunday’s Joe Cain Day parade, on Flickr.

Mardi Gras We went to the Infant Mystics parade Monday night, and it was the best parade I’ve been to yet! Those guys were throwing tons of everything–beads, doubloons, footballs, stuffed animals, boxes of cookies, you name it–and sometimes by the boxful or bagful! And better yet, they got hung up in one spot for a bit for some reason (it happens in just about every big parade), and they kept on throwing to the crowd even though they were in the same spot for five minutes or so. GREAT floats, bands, everything. We left early to get downtown, so we got good parking and didn’t have to push into a crowd, either. It was cold, but once the parade starts rolling, you forget all about it. It’s kinda funny if you think about it–you get all crazy for the parade and for the shi’ite they’re throwing, and when it comes down to it, what are you going to do with all that stuff, anyway? It doesn’t matter, though–it’s still one of my favorite things to do. I LOVE Mardi Gras!

Anyway, I didn’t bother with the camera; it’s just a pain in the ass dragging it around and trying to take pictures while beads and shi’ite are flying around in the air. I’ll find some on the internets later.

Like I said yesterday, we’re not doing the parades today or tonight; there’s just way too many people there. Two parades in the cold is enough for me this year, anyway. (My little Mardi Gras princess would go to every single parade if she had her way, though!)

So, since she’s got the week off from school (yes, they get Mardi Gras week off) I don’t have to do the school shuffle, and I don’t have to get up to go to the parades, I’m writing this late at night and sleeping in. While you’re reading this, I’ll probably be sound asleep–at least until some time in the afternoon. Keep the noise down so I get some sleep and can come back and post some nonsense later, OK?

The Travel Channel is supposed to be broadcasting live from New Orleans tonight, if you want to watch the madness there. Check out the video gallery, too.

Mobile coverage:

* Choosing Mobile’s Mardi Gras

* WKRG TV’s Mardi Gras ‘06 guide - they’re supposed to have streaming video online all day, too, so check here.

* WPMI TV’s Mardi Gras coverage (also HERE)

* al.com/The Mobile Register’s Mardi Gras section

* nola.com (New Orleans) Mardi Gras coverage, including webcams (Damn, it’s reeeeeeally late as I write this, and there’s still a big drunkass crowd on Bourbon street!)

All right, that’s it for now. More of something or other later!

Tags: Mardi Gras, Alabama, Mobile+Alabama

eBay cancels Mohammed auction

Remember this? Well, I forgot to get a damn screenshot, and just as I predicted, eBay cancelled the auction–AFTER the auction was completed and someone had won it. (Aaron has more details about the auction than I had posted, though.)

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:23:39 PST

***Listing Cancelled - Results Null and Void***

Please be aware that the following auction-style listing:

Item Number - 7391689482
Item Title - Koran Mohammed acrylic painting

has been removed by eBay for violating of one or more of our policies. Any offers or bids placed on this auction-style listing are now null and void. We advise you not to finalize this transaction with the seller. As stated in the eBay User Agreement, neither seller nor buyer should engage in transactions that violate the law or eBay policy.

Please review eBay’s Prohibited and Restricted Items guidelines and User Agreement at the following locations:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/item_allowed.html
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user-agreement.html

We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Regards,

eBay Trust & Safety

HA!

(No, I didn’t win the auction, I had just placed an early (low) bid so I got this notice.)

CHICKENCRAPS!

Note: Sorry, I still find eBay indispensable and have no plans to quit shopping on eBay. Just sayin’. Chickenshi’ites. I guess in their (weak) defense, though, I’ll concede that they do cancel a LOT of auctions for all kinds of reasons. Chickenshi’ites.

Tags: eBay

Charlotte Wyatt

This is the kind of thing that makes my stomach turn.

It had been an enormous fight,and she had made such improvements it was hard to see in the happy, responsive baby the same infant the doctors had characterized the year before as deaf, blind, with no hope to ever leave her plastic box or get any better, and in constant pain– the baby they had decided was better off dead.

She had proven them all wrong, and on Christmas she came home for the first time unattended by any but her parents.

NOBODY has the right to say someone is “better off dead.” I am so pissed I can’t even write.

Read what Raven says:

I’ve worked with thousands of these kids and I can say, without any hesitation, that every single child had a life worth living; they laugh, they smile, they cry, they touch, they communicate (not always with a voice, but they communicate). They learn to compensate for their disabilities and it’s amazing to watch how they manage. Often these kids grow up to be so much stronger, emotionally, than any of us could ever hope to be. And they don’t live with horrid pain and discomfort. THAT is such a LIE. And every doctor knows it. Charlotte deserves to live.

Charlotte now has a viral infection and her condition is worsening because she is not being treated:

Charlotte’s viral infection is worsening, and in an emergency injunction Justice Hedley has ruled that she should be allowed to die. The Wyatts are pleading for their daughter, and Charlotte is fighting for life– why can’t she be given the chance she so desperately needs?

Pray, hope, whatever, for Charlotte’s life. If this was your child, wouldn’t you want to fight for her life? How would you feel about a judge deciding that you shouldn’t try to save her?

WHAT THE HELL?

Update: This, from RightGirl in comments at Raven’s post:

The feeling in countries with “free” healthcare is that Charlotte is better off dead because we don’t want to pay for her. The same reason I can’t get an MRI in Toronto, or my uncle can’t get chemo in Montreal, Charlotte isn’t allowed a chance because she is a high-cost, low-yield patient. The doctors aren’t looking at her with doctors’ eyes; they’re looking at her with administrators’ eyes.

SICK.

Tags: Charlotte Wyatt, disability, disabled

Clicks & Throws

Stuff to click:

Blogroll random link

Got glue? How to create and maintain your Mohawk, because that combover just looks kinda lame.

Got haiku?
one dot at a time
(organic) machinery
inconsistency

Hate clowns? So does this guy. Why not shoot a few!

Sk8r dawg! Read about Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog here. Too kewl!

Want to win an iPod? (No, this isn’t a “sign up with me” thing.) See this page–it’s got digital “art” each made from about 1000 screenshots. Subjects are Fark News, Digg Top Stories, Cheney’s hunting accident, and Flickr photos tagged “wow.” To win the iPod, you have to guess the subject of the current collection (based on what’s completed as of right now).

The Throws!

“Throws” are, of course, the things like beads and moon pies and other stuff that is thrown from the floats in Mardi Gras parades. Read the mythical Masked Observer to read about all that’s going on in Mobile this Mardi Gras season! And maybe the Mardi Gras Lady will have updated her page (after a week of parades?). I went to the (in)famous Joe Cain parade yesterday for the first time since high school–normally I’d skip Joe Cain Day, because they’re pretty stingy with the throws compared to the regular krewes since it’s not as formally organized. It’s an uniquely Mobile tradition, though, so we went and a good time was had by all–especially my daughter, who got a huge stuffed teddy bear thrown to her! (She ALWAYS ends up with a huge haul!) :mrgreen:

The parade itself is not made up of one crewe or society; it’s a series of dozens of little groups of friends, neighborhoods, offices — whoever can put a float of some kind together.

“It is a people’s parade, but it’s referred to as a procession rather than as a parade because it’s not built along formal lines,” Tatum said. “It’s a matter of decorate your bicycle or your jalopy and a six-pack and let’s party.”

Or at least that’s how it used to be. The celebration eventually became a victim of sorts of its own popularity. As it continued to expand, the city finally began limiting the number of entries allowed in the procession, said Sonny Davis of Mobile Mardi Gras Parading Association.

…Actual societies, such as the Cain Raisers and the Friends of Joe Cain, have now formed, but the atmosphere is still different from parades sponsored by mystic societies rolling on any other day of the season.

“It’s not stuffy, it’s not stiff, it’s not formal,” Tatum said.

We’re going to a “regular” parade tonight, and IF pictures turn out OK, I’ll show the comparison between Joe Cain Day and regular parades. Maybe I’ll be lazy instead, because I just found some sets from this guy on Flickr and they’re MUCH better than my crappy pictures–I was too busy trying to catch beads to take good pictures! See: Joe Cain Day, Mardi Gras 2006

(And NO, hell no, we’re not going to waste time and energy messing with the mob scene on Tuesday. Been there, done that, got the beads & shi’ite. Not again any time soon.)

Tags: Mobile, Alabama, Joe Cain, Mardi Gras, punk, iPod, contest, dogs, clowns

A weapon against cheaters

I heard about this on Fox News last night–a website where men who have cheated on their significant others are LISTED! HA! Serves the bastards right!

Don’t Date Him, Girl!

Of course, there are uncounted millions not listed here, but you never know WHO might be on there. You’ve been warned, guys…:mrgreen:

(FYI–the guys on there can write a rebuttal if the story isn’t true.)

“‘We won’t stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.”

Mark Steyn:

Something very remarkable is happening around the globe and, if you want the short version, a Muslim demonstrator in Toronto the other day put it very well:

”We won’t stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.”

Stated that baldly it sounds ridiculous. But, simply as a matter of fact, every year more and more of the world lives under Islamic law: Pakistan adopted Islamic law in 1977, Iran in 1979, Sudan in 1984. Four decades ago, Nigeria lived under English common law; now, half of it’s in the grip of sharia, and the other half’s feeling the squeeze, as the death toll from the cartoon jihad indicates. But just as telling is how swiftly the developed world has internalized an essentially Islamic perspective. In their pitiful coverage of the low-level intifada that’s been going on in France for five years, the European press has been barely any less loopy than the Middle Eastern media.

What exactly IS it going to take for the world to wake up? Iran using nukes? Will Iran nuking Israel still not be enough? Read the whole thing.

Yup, You’re Reading This Correctly

I’ve added a Muslim to the payroll.

UPDATE from Beth: I am fookin’ jealous. Go look!

Cindy Sheehan Wants The Troops To Die

That’s what Blackfive said. Maybe not entirely true, but he links to Household6 who was the first on the story that Stars & Stripes reports that Mother Sheehan is going to protest outside Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Like I just said, I hope she gets arrested when she gets off the plane.

Here’s as many folks as I could find writing about this:
• Mudville Gazette (who urges a Support the Troops counter-protest)
• Soldiers’ Angels Germany says she’s coming and she’s going to be welcomed
• Iraq War News
• Free Republic
• RepublicanWitch
• Theodore’s World (where I first hear about it)
• Small Town Veteran
• Random Thoughts Of Yet Another Military Member
• euphoricreality.net (who’s one of many who always uses the word “traitor”)
• The Thunder Run

More as I finds ‘em.

ABC News President Issues Update on Bob and Doug

As much grief as I’ve given the legacy/dinosaur/mainstream media over the coverage of one reporter and one cameraman’s ordeal in being attacked (while completely ignoring other people), I’m not going to say that I don’t like it when people get better. When I got this story, I was just amazed at how much it sounded like the troops who’ve been there, and come back less than whole.

From ABC News:

We don’t know how to thank every single person from ABC News for what they have done for us. Some of you we know — some we haven’t met yet. But from the moment of the attack in Iraq until today, we have just been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and kindness.

We are now on our way back to France for the next phase of rehabilitation. Bob and I were already close friends from so many years together on the road. Now, both our families have bonded together in life and in our eternal gratitude to Vinnie and Magnus whose hands were the first to reach out to Bob and me on the ground that day. We also want to send a special thank-you to our friend Robin Weiner, whose unique sense of humor and outstanding overall support helped Vivi throughout this roller coaster.

We cannot thank the members of the U.S. military enough. The care that we have received from Baghdad to Balad and from Landstuhl to Bethesda has been extraordinary. They have looked after us above and beyond the call of duty. Our hearts go out to all those injured in the line of fire. We are truly grateful to have received treatment that is second to none, and this has helped us embark on the next stage of our recovery. Thank you all.

Doug and Vivi Vogt

Well, if we’re all lucky, maybe they’ll get to see SPs arresting Cindy Sheehan as she gets off the plane.

Blogroll stuff

I’m going to try something a little different. I’ve put all my bazillion links from my blogrolls into one, and set it up to kick out one randomly. (As you can see, I didn’t get rid of the long blogroll; I just added this randomized one.) The link WILL CHANGE when you refresh the page, so I may decide to permalink the one I get when I save the draft post. I don’t know, whatever.

So here’s your first random link, which I want you to click!!!

Good news: Sadie is going to make the long blogroll collapsible on ALL my themes. THANK YOU, SADIE!!! xoxoxoxo!
(See how good she is to me? She always helps me out with this stuff! If you need work done on your site, use APOTHEGM DESIGNS!)

Thank you, Joe Cain!

Blame it on Joe Cain, who revived Mobile’s Mardi Gras after the Civil War. I’m going to some Mardi Gras parades today! (Well, actually the ones at night.) If I can get some pictures that don’t suck, I’ll post them on Monday!

“As a major holiday in parts of Europe and South America, the celebration dates back to 1703 when the tiny French colony of Mobile observed North America’s first Mardi Gras.” [source]
(NOT New Orleans!–and ours is better!)

Tags: Mardi Gras

Herding Cats

Does this qualify as cat-blogging? :mrgreen:

(This kinda reminds me of the Cotillion, at times…heehee)

Since Sadie mentioned it…

She posted her past life, so here’s who I was:

Your past life diagnosis: I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.

You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Greece around the year 1025.

Your profession was that of a monk, bee-keeper or lone gunman.

Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Such people are always involved with all new. You have always loved changes, especially in art, music, cooking.

The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
The world is full of ill and lonely people. You should help those, who are less fortunate than you are.

Do you remember now?