San Diego is BROKEn, and a Biker May Be Able to Fix It

Hat tip to my friend Todd for sending this to us.

There is a real problem in San Diego, where I used to live: It's on the verge of bankruptcy, and the city's credit rating has been reduced to junk bond status. Add to that a mayoral race that went completely sideways because of one city councilperson, Donna Frye. Frye entered the race for mayor at the last minute, which created a legal battle over which document that governs elections has precedence over the other. One clearly states that there is to be a primary in which as many people who want to run may do so. From that primary the two candidates with the most votes run against each other in the main election so there is a majority, over 50%. Frye did not run in the primary, but she entered the race about a month before the main election. Nobody did anything about it, and she ended-up with the most votes. It was not a majority; it was roughly broken into thirds, with Frye getting one or two percent more than the other two. Eventually, it was decided in court that incumbent Dick Murphy would retain the mayor's seat. He is now stepping down next month, and there will be another election.

Donna Frye is the stereotypical California moonbat. Look-up California moonbat in a dictionary and her picture is right there. Ultra-leftist, tree-hugging, tofu-eating...you get the idea. She wants the Mt. Soledad Memorial Cross removed from the site where it has stood since 1949. She's a real turd, and she's running again.

"New York" Myke Shelby is the owner of San Diego Harley Davidson, a Vietnam vet, and he's a strong conservative who has announced his candidacy for the mayor's race.

I hope he wins.

The Way I See It

AP: Gitmo Detainees Say Muslims Were Sold:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - They fed them well. The Pakistani tribesmen slaughtered a sheep in honor of their guests, Arabs and Chinese Muslims famished from fleeing U.S. bombing in the Afghan mountains. But their hosts had ulterior motives: to sell them to the Americans, said the men who are now prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit.

A former CIA intelligence officer who helped lead the search for Osama bin Laden told AP the accounts sounded legitimate because U.S. allies regularly got money to help catch Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. Gary Schroen said he took a suitcase of $3 million in cash into Afghanistan himself to help supply and win over warlords to fight for U.S. Special Forces.

So we put up bounties on the bad guys, and we pay incentives for locals to help us; what's the big deal? This is old news that is coming out again to stir the pot. This "Gitmo-gate" shit is just pissing me off, so here's how I would run things if I were in charge:

As Commander in Chief, I would order a total blackout on all activities at Gitmo and any other detention facility where we're holding goat-raping, Muslim terrorists. No press. No lawyers (The Supreme Court can stick it up their asses - It worked for Andrew Jackson.) All personnel from CIA to FBI to the military staff would be required to sign a form that states they will never write a book, give an interview, or in any other manner disclose information about what transpires, and make them fully aware that if they violate the contract they can expect at any time to be dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night, never to be seen again.

In matters of national security there are certain things the public does not need to know about, (nor should we), and the MSM doesn't need to give any validity to claims made by accused sub-human scum. These animals are not there because they didn't pay some parking tickets. If making some camel jockeys a little uncomfortable by exploiting their cultural and religious superstitions allows us to extract information that can help our guys in battle or prevent another attack at home, I'm all for it, and I don't need to know about it.

Enough is enough.

The Poodle Cries the Blues

Will this ever end?

BOSTON, Jan. 17 -- Sen. John F. Kerry, in some of his most pointed public comments yet about the presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement.

The Massachusetts Democrat, Bush's challenger in November, spoke at Boston's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast. He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but said "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote."

People with dignity know how to lose gracefully. They figure out what they themselves did wrong or could have done better, and they give it another try. But then again, we're talking about politicians; Democrat politicians, more specifically. In this particular case, we're talking about that charlatan, that communist sympathizer, John Fuckface Kerry.

"Voting machines were distributed in uneven ways. In Democratic districts, it took people four, five, 11 hours to vote, while Republicans [went] through in 10 minutes -- same voting machines, same process, our America," he said.

He and the rest of the Dummycrats just can't accept that they lost because America is not buying their brand of bullshit right now. This cry of voter fraud against Democrats is laughable for the simple reason that he admits many of these very same voting districts where the fraud supposedly occurred are controlled by Dems from the registrar of voters down to the precinct captains. If things went wrong in these Dummycrat districts, like uneven distribution of voting machines, how is that the Republicans' fault? "Same voting machines, same process" sounds like equality to me. I can only conclude that most of the people in these districts are just a bunch of dumbasses who are too fucking stupid to vote in the first place, or the Dummycrats that run these districts are thoroughly incompetent. It's probably a combination of both.

Message to Fuckface: You're a do-nothing senator with one of the worst records in the Senate. I am ashamed that you wore the US Navy uniform strictly for the purpose of your own personal aggrandizement. STFU, and go away already. You make me sick. And your wife is a lunatic. And you look like a French, fromage-eating surrender monkey.

There, I feel better now.

Where We Live

Map showing both north and south islands of New Zealand. Mae and I are currently on the north island in Rotorua and will be moving to Auckland, about a 2-3 hour's drive north. Auckland is NZ's largest city, roughly the same square miles as Los Angeles, but with about a million people.
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Close-up of the northern two-thirds of the north island. The area used as Mordor in Lord of the Rings, Tongariro National Park, is between New Plymouth and Wanganui. The area used for the Hobbit Village would be in the center of a triangulated area between Rotorua, Hamilton and Tauranga, near the town of Matamata (not shown).

Light Blogging Today

It looks very good that I will be taking a job in Auckland, so we will be packing boxes here over the next few days. Blogging will be light today and probably over the weekend as well. Check back every now and then, and we will at the very least post some pictures or something. I hope to put up one story per day as well.

We'll be checking in with those of you who have your own blogs - you know who you are! Keep doing an excellent job, and keep the fires burning.

Thanks to all our regular visitors for making this thing a worthwhile venture - you know who you are! We'll be back in full swing shortly.

See ya soon!

Who Cares? Part Deux

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI No. 2 Mark Felt is "Deep Throat," the legendary source who leaked Watergate scandal secrets to the Washington Post and helped bring down President Richard Nixon, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said on Tuesday after 30 years of secrecy.

This is the biggest non-news story. Does anybody really care? This guy is 91; Watergate was over 30 years ago; and President Nixon has been dead for over 10 years. Furthermore, in terms of national security, the Watergate tapes contained nothing of importance; it was all about GOP/DNC political strategy. I don't think the information that may possibly have been acquired from those tapes would have made any difference one way or the other since Nixon trounced McGovern 49 states to 1 in 1972 (the only state McGovern won was Mass-a-2-shits; go figure...). No matter what Nixon did, McGovern never had a chance, so save the sanctimonious BS about Watergate having shaken the very foundations of democracy.

If you didn't like Vietnam, don't blame Nixon. Blame the French for not being able to control their colony and running away, surrender monkeys that they were and still are. Or blame Woodrow Wilson, another racist Democrat who sought a "new world order" as he tried to get the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations passed through Congress. Wilson basically told Ho Chi Minh to go fuck himself when Ho aproached him for help in Paris in 1918 after WWI - it was only when Wilson refused that Ho went to the Communists.

I'm much more concerned that former National Security Adviser under former President Clinton, Sandy Berger, the underwear bandit, is not in prison for misappropriating sensitive, classified material pertaining to national security in a time of war.

The only part of this story that seems "newsy" is that Felt possibly had an axe to grind:

Felt had denied in the past that he was "Deep Throat," but as a top FBI official he would have had access to many of the details of the scandal. He was passed over by Nixon for the top FBI job, giving him a potential motive.

Lisa's got a Brand New Blog!!!

I don't know where she finds the time, but our friend Lisa, host of NYC's Urban Grind Blog, has another blog now, Madison Avenue Maverick. This one focusses on the advertising end of bias in the MSM. Go there and check it out...NOW!

All That Jazz...in Saudi Arabia?

From Wired News:

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two U.S. citizens accused of being al-Qaida loyalists were each ordered held without bail Tuesday as they appeared in federal courtrooms in New York and Florida.

In Fort Pierce, Fla., Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir, 50, told U.S. District Judge James Hopkins that he had yet to hire an attorney, and the judge set the next hearing in his case for June 6.

Tarik Shah, 42, of New York, waved and smiled at supporters and appeared relaxed at his preliminary hearing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan before Magistrate Judge Theodore Katz.

Neither defendant had entered a plea on the single charge of conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida. Prosecutors say the two men swore a formal oath of loyalty to al-Qaida as they conspired to use their skills in martial arts and medicine to aid international terrorism.

The men were arrested Friday following a sting operation that the government said started in 2003. If convicted, each could face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

A lawyer for Shah, Anthony Ricco, said outside court that the case was a "desperate prosecution by our government." He described Shah as a world renowned jazz musician, a father and a family man.

This is too rich to pass up. First, I am a musician and music afficionado with a strong background in jazz, and I have never heard of this guy.

A spokesman for the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, Dan McBride, defended Sabir outside court in Florida as a man who traveled between the United States and Saudi Arabia to earn enough money to support his wife and their two sons.

"He has no money," McBride said. "He works over there, then comes back and lives over here."

For a guy with no money, he has to travel there to make money so he can live in the US? I dare say that he would have more money if he worked in the US and saved the money he spends travelling to SA. It would also be more believable if it was the other way around: that he lives in SA and comes to the US (or Europe - it's a lot closer) to work.

But read the rest. They have the goods on this guy and his buddy. Life in my Alaskan internment camp is what they deserve. Next...
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**UPDATE**
OK, I did a search of Tarik Shah and found that he's a bass player whose most notable performance that I could find was on a Pharoah Sanders album...from 1987, and a few other albums with even lesser known musicians. If he is so "world reknowned" I shouldn't have to dig too far to find out.

**Correction**
I have corrected myself. Originally I indicated that Shah was the one travelling to SA to play jazz, but it was his buddy who was going there to work. Sorry for the confusion.

Who Cares?

From Wired News:

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac named Dominique de Villepin as prime minister on Tuesday after accepting the resignation of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Chirac's office announced.

Raffarin tendered his resignation earlier on Tuesday after French voters rejected the European Union's constitution in a referendum on Sunday. Villepin is a loyal ally and former interior and foreign minister.

So it sounds like Chirac appointed a yes-man. Big fucking deal. It's France. Who cares?

I'm sure there is more significance to this as it relates to the EU constitution, but I haven't really had the time to explore all the ramifications of ratifying it as it stands now. I will have something on that in the near future, though. In the meantime, I'll take any chance I get to poke some kind of fun at the cheese-eating surrender monkeys, aka the French:

Q: Why did the French plant trees along the Champs d'Elysées?
A: So the Nazis would have some shade when they marched into Paris.

Was it the Chicken?

From CRI (China Broadcasting):

Six people burned when protestors in Pakistan's largest city set fire to an outlet of the American fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken, late on Monday.

Ok, I know sometimes the chicken can be a bit greasy, but I never felt like torching the place.

Alright, so that wasn't why it was torched. More from CRI:

The attack was in response to the suicide bombing of a mosque.

Imagine that...big fucking surprise there.

However, take a look at how the Financial Times reports it:

Six employees of Kentucky Fried Chicken, the American fast food chain, were killed in Karachi overnight Monday when their restaurant was set on fire by Shi’ite youths seeking revenge for a suicide bomb attack on a local mosque, police and rescue workers said.

Here's where it gets interesting, though. The FT explains the incident this way:

The riot followed an attack Monday on the Shi’ite Madinatul Ilm mosque in Gulshan, in which three assailants, suspected to be Sunni Muslim extremists, clashed with police before exploding a bomb that killed two of the attackers, two policemen and a worshipper. Twenty-six people were injured, AP said.
The surviving assailant told police he was associated with Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Sunni militant group accused of orchestrating several attacks against minority Shi’ites, Christians and government officials, and suspected of having links with al-Qaida, the AP report said. About 80 per cent of Pakistan’s 150m people are Sunnis, while 17 per cent are Shi’ites.

The CRI reports the following:

The incident comes after a suicide bomb attack at a minority Shiite Madinat-ul-Ilm mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing six people, including the three attackers.

Now, not only is the FT report more thorough and detailed, but the facts don't even match (ie. the number of people killed, location), and apparently one of the terrorists survived. Now, either the FT is making up facts, or the Chinese news service leaves out a lot. Hmmm....

Let's review. A Shiite shrine and mosque are blown-up within three days of each other, apparently by Sunnis. The Shiites then riot and burn a KFC, killing 6 people trying to make a buck. The Sunnis are the majority in Pakistan. This is reported as an act of revenge. Perhaps, but maybe not for the reasons cited.

In Iraq, the Sunnis (Saddam's tribe) are the minority (and no longer in power), and are primarily the ones (among the Iraquis) causing all the turmoil there along with imported nut-jobs like Zarqawi. Based on this report, could burning down the KFC be revenge directed toward the US? Neverdock has an interesting take on the activities of Pakistani intelligence operatives posing as students in Afghanistan to hijack protests and agitate violence and anti-US sentiment there. I would not be surprised if the detaining of the Sunni leader in Iraq and the torching of the KFC in Pakistan are related somehow.

At least one Pakistani official seems to have a grasp on reality and common sense:

“This country has to have a democratic government to be able to unite the public to fight terrorism,” said Enver Baig of the opposition Pakistan People’s Party. “Keeping the government under a single ruler is not the way to handle lawlessness. Pakistan is like the wild west - you don’t run countries fighting terrorism like this.”

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**MBA (Media Bias Alert)**
Check out how the first paragraph of the Iraq report instantly accuses the US as the ones who "aggravated sectarian tensions:"

BAGHDAD — U.S. forces aggravated sectarian tensions in Iraq on Monday by mistakenly arresting a prominent Sunni Muslim leader as suicide bombers killed at least 25 people in a Shiite town and soldiers continued their offensive against insurgent networks in Baghdad.

Yeah, we arrest a guy, let him go, and we're the ones making trouble; not the suicide bombers. Nope, they aren't aggravating sectarian tensions. They're merely carrying out their duty to Allah to drive out the infidels. Seditious fucktard MSM.

Mrs. Bohemian

My better half, Mae, whom I love more than life itself.

Conversion Of A Non-Believer

A WEEK OF ENLIGHTENMENT

I have been converted by the histrionics of the MSM and the liberal minded. I have to act with piety upon my new found beliefs; to be politically correct and accepted by all the humanity loving individuals of the world, so let me outline my new faith:

I shall try to exert myself to the best of my powers and abilities.
(example: politically correct and highly admired: Religion of Peace: Jihad is an Arabic word meaning "striving hard" or exerting yourself to the best of your power and ability.)

My doctrine will be as follows:
The (Holy Quran) doctrine shall mention the following purposes for which (a Muslim) I should strive hard:

1. To attain nearness to God, by struggling to overcome (your) my bad desires;

2. To stick to (Islam) my doctrine under difficult circumstances, such as when facing persecution and other problems;

3. To take part in the defence of (the Muslim) my community when it is attacked by an enemy who wishes to destroy (Islam) it.

4. To take the message of (Islam) my doctrine to others, by devoting (your) my time and money for this work.

5. "Strive against them (the non-believers) a mighty striving with (i.e. with the (Quran) doctrine)."

How do I intend to acheive my new found values in my attempt to remain the MSM's darling, and, get a guest appearance on the Oprah show, you ask?

Firstly, I will approach my neighbouring countries and obtain millions of dollars to fund my activities. Read here....

With my funding secured I shall then employ (no outsourcing here) my many followers of the true doctrine and utilise their specialised skills. ie..... here and here.

I shall have the support of many enabling me to replace my followers' old tools of profession, with the sharpest weapons available. My supporters are recruiters and also have built in safe storage in the buildings of my faith. Imagine, I can acheive all this, while remaining the down trodden victim in the eyes of the MSM and Oprah.

Michael Moore, the rich, government members who don't have power but want it, hack actors and actresses along with all their anti-US followers, will fund and produce a documentary about the evil suppressors of my faith for the rest of the world to witness the unholy persecutors in action.

With the question of finance and support covered I shall then proceed with my doctrine of faith and now show how I will respond to criticism, difficult situations, lies and persecution.

After alll this, I WILL, still be seen and portrayed as the VICTIM and the US hated. Thank you MSM, thank you for supporting my faith and not your own troops and country. May you all experience the kiss of matrydom and join your 72 virgins in paradise.

TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT that requires no words

The majority of the Iraqis in the mass grave were Kurdish women and children who were butchered. Read and or view video here.

If the MSM and liberal moonbats spouting nonsense can justify their sympathetic views towards the Islamic fanatics=murderers, I too, will adopt their method of fighting, so I can justify forcing planes to crash into their divine Mecca in protest of their invasion of western countries, through both illegal and legal immigration. I too, can demand foreign governments recognise that my religious rights supersede all others, including the laws of lands. I too, can justify the murder of innocents in the name of my faith. I too, can count upon leftist BS to support my worldwide public image of victim not aggressor. I too, can be forgiven for killing 1000's in one strike of suicidal homicide. I too, can demand that all Muslims leave my country, with the crying mantra they don't belong here, this is my country. I too, can maim, murder, butcher, commit honour killings in the name of my faith. I too, can send suicide bombers into the street to kill innocents and lay the blame at their feet not mine. I too, can force all to convert to my religion or behead, hang, kill in any manner, non believers. To sum it all up: It is time for the MSM to start reporting objectively and not with their personal agendas stamped all over the articles. It is time that freedom of speech be made accountable when murders of innocents are being committed because of the way events are portrayed. It is time for truth and justice.

UPDATE see Mending Wall article Unreal:

To refresh your memory: Osama bin Laden issued a fatwa against America in February 1998. A "fatwa" is a legally binding interpretation of the Quran for a contemporary issue written by an Islamic scholar. Here's a brief sampling:

"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies civilians and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [in Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,"and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah."

Us and Them...

Ewwww...strong stomach needed for that first lot.....


Hat tip: David

Memorial Day Weekend

As we have our BBQ's, watch our baseball, Indy 500, or whatever else on this holiday weekend, let us remember those who have gone before us and those on the front lines today, the true meaning of Memorial Day.

Racing News

Nick Heidfeld grabs his first pole position ever in the Williams-BMW for today's European GP at the Nurburgring:

First it seemed that Toyota were on course for their first pole position, then Mark Webber. But in the end it was Nick Heidfeld - one of the stars of Monaco - who pushed his Williams into the prime starting slot for Sunday’s Grand Prix of Europe.

It seems with the new rule changes regarding engines and tires, the 2005 Formula One season has shown us a few things: The field is wide-open now; Renault's Fernando Alonso has been a forceful presence thus far; and defending multi-time uber-god, Michael Schumacher, and Ferarri (and Bridgestone tires...a-hem) have only shown brief flashes of brilliance, having not fully adapted to the new rules...yet. Don't count them out.
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Tomorrow's Indianapolis 500 should be a bit more interesting than usual at the very least due to the presence of one young lady, Danica Patrick, who sits on the second row for the start of the race. Having just this year stepped-up from the Toyota Atlantics, a development series, Danica is an IRL rookie, and she shows great promise at 23 years of age.

Here are some predictions from insiders and other experts:
Robin Miller's analysis (the page is screwy; scroll about halfway down and you'll see the article.)
Jeff Olson gives his picks.
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And now, I've got to go watch the Australian V8 Supercars from Eastern Creek. They usually have a race on Saturday, so I don't check the results until I watch the delayed coverage on Sunday. Now the question is whether or not they will show today's race live, also, or make us wait until next week...

Hollywood Asshats in the News: Oliver Stoned Again

In Hollywood moonbat-asshat news:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and driving while intoxicated, police said Saturday. Stone, 58, was arrested Friday night at a police checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard after showing signs of alcohol intoxication, police Sgt. John Edmundson said. A search of his Mercedes turned up drugs, Edmundson said. He did not specify what kind.

Ha-Ha!!! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Apparently, he isn't too bright as he didn't learn his lesson the first time:

In 1999, the filmmaker pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence and was ordered into a rehabilitation program.

He'll probably cry political persecution. Maybe Fidel Castro can help him out.