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Ok seriously Robert Fisk just needs to shut his mouth. Once again the blogosphere is all over him. This time it’s Morgan over at Think Things Through.

Poor Fiskie got dealt a good a proper fisking…

EDIT: It occurred to me that some people might not understand what “fisking” means. And since I’ll use it frequently, John Hawkins at Right Wing News has a good description of the history behind the term.

Harvey, who in addition to running Bad Example, is also pretty much in charge of The Alliance of Free Blogs, has noticed that I have returned.

I can only assume that is a good thing. Although now I feel pressure to get my site fully online. This archive import thing is slow and tedious. Plus it interferes with all the stuff I want to try out with Moveable Type.

But since I’ve been a very piss-poor Alliance member lately I deserve much worse. All in all I’ll have to hustle and try to catch up on my alliance duties.

After all…I am the Alliance Overseer of Bombastic Babble, which is not a duty to be taken lightly.

The liberals alway seem to drool over our friends in the Axis of Weasels. The feminists always seem to scream about sexism every time Victoria’s Secret puts on a fashion show.

But what have we here?

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

I see, quite a system they have here. Nope, no sign of victimizing women here.

So who has the moral high ground here?

UPDATE: I’ve cancelled comments on this post. It seems the Spam Bots enjoy the term “Spread your Legs” in the title and have decided this is a good spot for iinappropriate spam. Perhaps bots have a libido??

Ok I’m up….and sort of about. Head still doesn’t like me but it’s starting to feel a bit better.

I can testify concussions suck. I can also testify that despite all efforts otherwise your legs will only allow you to lay in bed for a certain length of time before they start walking on their own. As a result I can also testify that after a concussion and especially after laying around alot, one should NOT stand up too quickly, lest thee fall over and suffer another concussion.

Not my first one so I figured doctors advice was warranted. He said take it easy, get rest and come in (or call 911) if it gets worse.

Happened while playing broomball last night. My head got in the way of someone’s stick while they made a slapshot. Dropped my ass on the ice quick. I’ve been told it was a spectacular fall.

In any case, figured I would be fine in the morning. Not the case.

So I apologize if the writing is a little light today.

Ugh…

No Post today.

Me. Concussion.

Hurts. Head.

Done.

Ok so Sandor over at the Zoo is mapping the political leanings of bloggers out there. I figured I’d toss myself into the map and find out where I lean. There is a fairly simple quiz you can take. Takes about 10 minutes, no pain involved. I’m not at all surprised by the right-wing leaning…I figured I would have leaned even more to the right. I think the fact that I’m not religious at all had alot to do with it. I am surprised by my Authoritarian leanings. I’ve always thought I was more Libertarian. The concept of the government should stay out of peoples lives I guess sounds like a good concept to me. Not quite sure about that part…although to be fair I was barely Authoritarian. In general here are my results: Economic Left/Right: 6.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.00 And for the sake of comparison:

EDIT: I just noticed that I just committed a mortal blogger sin. I forgot to link the relevant persons in the post. I apologize to Sandor for the mistake.

An Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.

The boy asked, “What is this Father?”

The father, never having seen an elevator, responded, “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.”

While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blonde stepped out.

The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son…”Go get your mother.”

Ok I’ve had this theory for awhile, and it amazes me that I have yet to find a case that disproves it.

The theory basically goes like this. If you have cable/dish/whatever at any given time of day you can find a channel with either M*A*S*H or COPS on.

If you don’t have cable/dish/whatever, during non-primetime hours you can find a channel with either M*A*S*H or COPS about 50% of the time.

Which isn’t bad since those are probably my two favorite shows.

Ok I’m missing a good episode, go away.

Today I represented my company at a local career fair. Let’s just say I have my pet peeves, which I think are fairly common across recruiters. Yet, students continuously do them.

I know I know…I was a student once too. I’m sure I’ve done alot of the same. And because I understand that, I offer these tips:

1) Have a resume. Yes….seems simple. It isn’t. Some students don’t bring them. To me this just demonstrates how unprepared and unqualified you are.

2) Have your resume ready. I can’t tell you the number of times a student will come up and not have his resume ready. Then when I ask to see it I have to wait for him to take off his backpack, open it up and scrounge through it looking for a resume.

3) A suit is not necessary. Neither does it impress me. If all it took to get a good job was the ability to dress up, we’d all be the next Bill Gates.

4) I am also unimpressed with torn jeans and a Van Halen T-Shirt. You can lounge with your friends later. At least demonstrate you are taking this seriously. Here’s a hint…dress at the recruiters level or high. Standard attire for a recruiter is khakis and a company polo shirts.

5) If you insist on wearing a suit, make sure it fits you. Believe me…it’s easy to tell. And if it doesn’t fit you, you look as bad as the Van Halen stoner mentioned above.

6) Wipe off your hands before approaching. I understand you are nervous, but the first thing I’m going to do is shake your hand. A wet clammy hand leaves a bad first impression.

7) If you don’t know how to write a resume, seek help. If you know how to write a resume, have someone else double-check your assumption. If I can’t read it and quickly reference important information during our talk I’m going to be annoyed. And if I’m annoyed, chances aren’t good that you will be highly recommended. A good general rule is don’t annoy me.
Be prepared to talk. Understand that I am your friend and advocate during this process. I’m trying to find out why you are qualified for the job. To do that I need you to talk. If you are not I’m going to have to try to carry the conversation. And understand this…I’ve already said the same shit 20 times today, and I’m sick of it. And I’ve already been hired. I need to hear how YOU are qualified.

9) Be prepared with a question. At some point during the conversation, I’m going to ask you if you have any questions. Have one ready. Even a simple one is better than none. If it is relevant to our conversation, all the better. But have a backup one in case nothing comes up. It shows to me that you are really interested and committed to this.

10) Two words: Personal Hygiene

Ok I have a favor to ask of the Secret Service. I understand you are busy preparing to take the bullet for the big boss guy and everything but it would mean alot to me.

Here’s my favor….could you please lean over and whisper in Bush’s ear “You Are Not The President of MEXICO“. Thanks a bunch. You’re a pal.

Seriously first he pulls his illegal amnesty crap. Then his “let anyone cross the border” “plan”. And now this:

President Bush will not ask Congress for enough money to add 2,000 agents to patrol the nation’s borders in his 2006 budget, even though he signed a bill last month authorizing the increase.

He’s been so afraid of becoming tough on illegal immigration. I can’t fathom for the life of me what he thinks he’s doing. How can you claim you want to protect our country but then not even sufficiently monitor our borders?

Get it through your head…hispanics did not vote for you! They have never indicated they will vote for you. And even your political opponents are tougher on illegal immigration than you are.

But in an interview with USA TODAY, Ridge scoffed at the notion of adding so many agents and said it would be an inefficient use of precious homeland security dollars.

“The notion that you’re going to have 10,000 is sort of a fool’s gold,” Ridge said. “It’s nice to say you’re going to have 10,000 more Border Patrol agents in five years, but what other part of Homeland Security do you want to take the money from?”

He said it makes more sense to pay for a combination of more agents and better technology, such as ground sensors and cameras.

What kind of crap is that?? An inefficient use of precious homeland security dollars?? I see…well, I guess I assumed that the most important thing in the homeland security budget is securing the homeland. My mistake. Inefficient? Oh you mean your precious technology. Great now our couple extra agents can watch all those illegal immigrants cross our border because we don’t have enough to patrol it!!

Although it would be more difficult now for terrorists to attack the United States, “I am no less concerned that an attack will occur. … I still accept the inevitability.” [Tom Ridge] said it may take “a generation or two” to defeat the terrorist threat against the United States.

Yeah, I’m not sure I’m comfortable with Homeland Security director who accepts another attack as a “inevitability”. How about your prevent them from attacking. A good place to start would be to guard our borders. Stop letting in illegals. Do your job.