| Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| I'm Takin' This Show On The Road |
Here at Blogger, I'm lost in a heap of junk. Want proof? Just click the "Next Blog" button on the NavBar at the top of most Blogger blogs. I advise that you don't actually click and just take my word for it. What is displayed will more than likely be blocked by your content filter (Shame on you if you don't have a content filter). So you can see that I'm a little fish in a big pond of muck.
Also, because this blog is a tiny speck in the aforementioned huge and unholy blogosphere, my exposure to the masses is limited only to the occasional passerby or visitor who heard by word of mouth* from friends or family. Check out my stats (click here). It appears that only two people even read "Joe Napalm: a son of Liberty": BJ and some would-be hacker from Paraguay. So, I'm going to "gird up my loins" (nod, Wesley) and move to a more classy and upscale neighborhood -- a parcel on the frontage road. (Note to self: I need a sign that reads, "Eat at Joe's.")
A Son of Liberty is going to grow up a bit. Aside from the fact that it won't be as aesthetically pleasing as the Blogger version (at least not initially), I am going to focus less on personal and local anecdotes and more on sober, Christian commentary about national and world events and politics. No worries, Free Prose FridayTM will go with me where I will continue to share web gems and a smattering of personal adventures. But, Theodore Thursday? Well, that's to be determined.
Please tune in shortly and I will announce the new address. I hope to provide a nifty web button for your website or blog along with a possible cash incentive to place it on some of your prime real estate. Do you think campaign buttons and yard signs would be too much?
* I just found out that "word-of-mouth" is the adjective form of "word of mouth." I apologize for all of the times that you cringed from my misuse of the dashes. |
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| Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| I'm Back. Sorta. |
1. I think my lack of bloggering is tied proportionally to my lack of adventure. Every minute of every day is filled with some sedentary activity and it sucks the creative juices out of me. I sit at work all day long in a cubicle, but part of me yearns for high adventure.
2. Here's a brilliant idea for making certain that your luggage does not go missing: Carry a weapon in your checked baggage. Seriously. With the tightened security, everyone knows that you can't lock your luggage. This opens the door for unscrupulous TSA agents picking what they want from your luggage. To foil this carry a $12 starter pistol (considered a weapon by the FAA) and declare it at the baggage check. The TSA is required by law to lock your bag and to track it do its final destination. You can imagine the importance placed on tracking your weapon to make certain that it doesn't go missing. So, when you get to Vegas, your luggage doesn't go to Borneo. Nifty, huh?
3. And, finally ... well, just look (Update: Something's up with Beta Blogger's picture posts. Squint and you can see that this young man's shirt says, "If I throw a stick will you leave?")
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| Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| On Hold |
| Joe is busy. Please call again. |
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| Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| Theodore Thursday |
 "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits" - Theodore Roosevelt.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Joe Napalm Weighs In |
At risk of skewing the results of my on-going "bigot" poll (Link), I share a few thoughts on recent events concerning the War on Terror. (We should call it "War on Islamic Fascism," but that's another post.)
1. The Drudge Report is reporting that Iranian President Ahmadinejad is planning a trip to New York to speak at the United Nations. Here's our chance! This weekend, ABC will air a two-part miniseries that portrays the Clinton Administration's failure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and the events that led up to 9/11. I fear that if we don't take advantage of Ahmadinejad's visit and kill him we'll see documentaries in the future showing Bush's impotence to capture or kill the Iranian president in the events leading up to the nuking of Tel Aviv.
2. The more accurate our weapons have become, the more hamstringed we have become in prosecuting wars. Senators Feinstein and Leahy spearheaded a bill to eliminate the funding and usage of cluster munitions, an area weapon that opens at altitude and drops hundred of little bomblets. Thankfully, the bill died.
In World War II, the 8th Air Force firebombed Berlin. In the Pacific theater of WW2, the U.S. Air Force reported that 3% of its bombs reached the target. In both the European and Pacific theaters, showing the devastation of the Allied military might was sometimes necessary for those that wanted to oppose us. The Soviets were terrified of the West during the Cold War because they witnessed the power and our willingness to use it.
I saw a report on TV during Operation Iraqi Freedom that our Air Force was dropping laser-guided bombs filled with concrete instead of explosives. Saddam Hussein's army was in the habit of parking tanks and artillery pieces in civilian areas, so our "concrete bombs" could disable or destroy military equipment without any damage to the surrounding homes. The Iraqi army was right that we are afraid of the backlash of killing "innocent civilians" and the Islamic Fascists around the world know it, too. Iran knows we have the power, but we're unwilling to use it.
Right now, I say that the notion of "innocent civilians" is a myth and that collateral damage is sometimes necessary, but I'm willing to listen to arguments.
3. There's a report out there (I'm too lazy to find a link. Just trust me on this one.) that the U.S.'s war on terrorism is failing because we're prosecuting fewer terrorists in court than we were 6 years ago. You can't try a dead terrorist. You can quote me on that. |
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| Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| I'm About 56 Years Too Late |
From the 1940 film "The Ghost Breakers" starring Bob Hope:
Geoff (Richard Carlson): "When a person dies and is buried, it seems there's certain voodoo priests who have the power to bring him back to life."
Mary (Paulette Goddard): "How horrible."
Geoff: "It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes, walking around with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring."
Larry (Bob Hope): "You mean like democrats?" |
| posted by Joe Napalm @ 2:28 PM |
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| Do You Remember Preacher Mull? |
A fond memory I have is sitting with Dad and watching the "Mulls Singing Convention" TV show before church. Actually, everyone that I know has that same memory. Not the sitting with by Dad part. That would be a little creepy because most of the time I sat in the living room in my underwear.
But, I digress. Remember his gravelly voice and "Ain't that right, Mizz Mull?"
And how about?
Elizabeth Mull: (soft, patient voice) "That was the the Happy Goodman Family singing 'I Can't Wait For You to Go to Heaven'."
J. Bazzel: "That's some mighty fine singin' -- mighty fine singin', Lady Mull."
He must've been born old, because I don't remember him being young. He died yesterday at the age of 91 -- not 291. |
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| Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| One Poll To Rule Them All |
OK. To settle the matter once and for all, please follow the link to decide if Joe is, in fact, a bigot. Click here to take survey. Please invite others to participate. I'll share the results on Friday.
Update: One of you pig-dogs checked both "Yes" and "No." I changed the survey to only allow one answer. Try again you silly kaniggets. |
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| Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| Free Prose FridayTM |
1. I just heard that it is a tradition to do the chicken dance at weddings in Wisconsin. I heard if from a a former Wisconsinian Wisconsinite Cheese Head. The chicken dance? C'mon! They strike me as the Macarena type.
 2. Have you ever fallen down stairs? I have. When I was high-school age, I fell down some steps at a friend's house. I went over after work to play video games and asked if I could borrow some clothes. My friend said to go to the first door on the right and look in the chest. I walked down the hallway to the door, and, while stepping through the doorway, I turned the light on and -- gasp! Stairs! I rode all the way to the bottom on my derriere.
Today, a lady fell down some stairs and was rushed to the emergency room for stitches. But, unlike me, she went down head first. Ouch!
 3. (Click image to enlarge.) I think I see a running theme. I haven't decided if I will write an "I'm not a bigot" post or not. The jury is still out. I might actually be a bigot. My next step is to find a hyper-cool HTML poll that I can post here to let you, the faithful reader, decide.
4. Your moment of Zen: Campagna T-Rex (Link). 0 to 60 in 4.1 MPH.
5. Hopefully this weekend will be an outdoors-y weekend. Saturday starts off strong with a hike through Panther Creek State Park. I'll post pictures as soon as possible. Have a great Labor Day Weekend! |
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