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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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Jeff C Can't post
So this is a test for the best...not the rest. Rich man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief!
manteca
Monday, May 29, 2006
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Isn't this peachy.
If you took a look at the bottom left and the 2nd to the bottom left, you might recognize these two wild and crazy guys, the virtual dos locos gringos of the Senate. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.,and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sit near ringside at the Oscar De La Hoya-Bernard Hopkins championship boxing match in Las Vegas in September 2004. The news clip says that "Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission while McCain insisted on paying $1,400 to reimburse for the tickets he shared with Reid.
Personally, i don't care if either one of them got ringside tickets for free, I would probably take them as well. But the fact of the matter is that I am not preaching about getting money out of politics, nor is there a defunct bill that actaully added private money to politicians via Chapter 527's named after me.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
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Backin' up my boy Matthew!
Here is some more information (Luckliy not made up) to help support Matthew's last post and the fact that Al Gore is possibly the biggest tool on the planet.
This link here is very enlightening. 
Al Gore wrote the book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, which is the wacko socialist manifesto to regulate everything based on junk science. He parroted the extremist EARTH FIRSTers terrorist party line with a straight face. It is probably the most ignorant book ever written about the environment. In it he wrote the scary totalitarian prescription "we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization."The following are highlights from a 1992 Democratic National Committee (DNC) memo by Jonathan Sallet to the Clinton-Gore campaign that highlighted Gore vulnerabilities from his extremist manifestoEarth in the Balance. The memo was obtained by the Wall Street Journal, which published it in August of 1992. Among the DNC's findings:
"Al is a radical environmentalist who wants to change the very fabric of America."
"He (Gore) criticizes America for being America -- a place where people enjoy the benefits of an advanced standard of living."
"He (Gore) has no sense of proportion: He equates the failure to recycle aluminum cans with the Holocaust."
"He (Gore) believes that our civilization, itself, is evil (because it is, in his words, 'addicted to the consumption of the earth.')" Recently Gore was asked by Gannett News if his opinions have changed since writing Earth in the Balance. Gore said:"There is not a single passage in that book that I disagree with or would change."(Gannett News Service, 3/23/99)
I think it is very obvious that Al Gore is a big nut job looking for his next 15 minutes of fame. I mean come on, everyone knows he didn't invent the internet...I did! (Now that was made up)
manteca
It is time to point and laugh again...
Al Gore's movie is coming out and it is called "The Inconvenient Truth."
It is pretty much turning into a Michael Moore gig filled with the same lies, slander, and misdirection.
If you really care to know what 'greenhouse effect" and 'global warming' really are then you really have to read a great article at JunkScience.com It is extremely involved but it really lays it all out. Global warming has garnered alot of mind share over that past few years. But it has gained this mind share due to innaccuracies and some distortion.
If you can't take the time to read it, here is the synopsis:
- The temperature effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide is logarithmic, not exponential.
- The potential planetary warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from pre-Industrial Revolution levels of ~280ppmv to 560ppmv (possible some time later this century - perhaps) is generally estimated at less than 1 °C.
- The guesses of significantly larger warming are dependent on "feedback" (supplementary) mechanisms programmed into climate models. The existence of these "feedback" mechanisms is uncertain and the cumulative sign of which is unknown (they may add to warming from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide or, equally likely, might suppress it).
- The total warming since measurements have been attempted is thought to be about 0.6 degrees Centigrade. At least half of the estimated temperature increment occurred before 1950, prior to significant change in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Assuming the unlikely case that all the natural drivers of planetary temperature change ceased to operate at the time of measured atmospheric change then a 30% increment in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused about one-third of one degree temperature increment since and thus provides empirical support for less than one degree increment due to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
- There is no linear relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide change and global mean temperature or global mean temperature trend -- global mean temperature has both risen and fallen during the period atmospheric carbon dioxide has been rising.
- The natural world has tolerated greater than one-degree fluctuations in mean temperature during the relatively recent past and thus current changes are within the range of natural variation. (See, for example, ice core and sea surface temperature reconstructions.)
- Other anthropogenic effects are vastly more important, at least on local and regional scales.
- Fixation on atmospheric carbon dioxide is a distraction from these more important anthropogenic effects.
- Despite attempts to label atmospheric carbon dioxide a "pollutant" it is, in fact, an essential trace gas, the increasing abundance of which is a bonus for the bulk of the biosphere.
- There is no reason to believe that slightly lower temperatures are somehow preferable to slightly higher temperatures - there is no known "optimal" nor any known means of knowingly and predictably adjusting some sort of planetary thermostat.
- Fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide are of little relevance in the short to medium term (although should levels fall too low it could prove problematic in the longer-term).
- Activists and zealots constantly shrilling over atmospheric carbon dioxide are misdirecting attention and effort from real and potentially addressable local, regional and planetary problems.
Here is great open letter to Al Gore.
And here is his hypocrisy
And some more hypocrisy
The cusp of the whole issue is that certain politicians and far left enviromentalists want to blame the prosperity of the USA as the main factor of the planet being destroyed. I do not and will not believe that our prosperity will be the cause of the end of the world. We are the cleanest nation in the world because of our technology. I just don't beleive that humans (other then nuclear war) can change the temperature of the globe. More CFC's were emitted from the Mt. St. Helen's eruption in 1980 then all of human history (yes even the 80's when bangs were huge and it took about a third of a can to keep the hair up). It is just like the BS that enviromentalist were spewing after the Valdez crashed at Bligh Reef about how the area would never recover. PFFT!!! Check this out. The area is just fine. While it was a bad thing to happen and there is still some oil persistence, the enviroment is just peachy. Or what about the Alaksan Pipeline that enviromentalists say would kill the land 2 to 3 miles near this pipeline. PFFT!!! Look here. The Alaskan Pipeline accounts for 25% of the USA's yearly oil. What if they actually thwarted the construction of this pipeline? What would gas prices be today? It is funny that the same people who bite Bush's back on oil prices are the same people who want no new refineries, no new drilling, and they also want to punitively tax the oil companies. This is just getting silly now. Follow the money people. How about this little group that has syphoned off money from Exxon and who knows what else. These far left enviromentalists are making so much money keeping all of us worried about the earth and how the USA is such a horrible country. Most of these far left enviromentalists are also staunch socialist and communists. They would like nothing better then to cripple the United States in the global community and markets. Hating America is not cool.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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Too good to be true
 I'm really surprised that more has not been said concerning the outcome of the New Orleans mayoral election. Our little forum of people should be almost giddy considering our roots as Convoginators. Now New Orleans can become the city that any Convoginator would dream of living in - a CHOCOLATE one. Willy Wonka could have never dreamed it to be so, but now it is. Only in America.
Phynerk
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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Blasting me with all that hate and bass!!!
I'm sitting at the light on Main St. in front of Wilson's Furniture store, calmly waiting for my turn to slide through the intersection. The loud, booming of someone's 15" subs never registers in my brain. I have successfully learned to ignore that sound whilst driving in our lovely metropolitan areas. Anywho, as my light turns green and I begin to creep (thats what we old people do while crossing intersections) through the light, I notice the Chrylser Neon on my right with the purple holographic paint job and the gold chain license plate frame. Normally, this model of the Chrylser Neon, I believe it is the Neon POS with the .002 liter injection system, would never catch my eye. This morning though the beauty of the sun glinting off the purple/green holographic paint and the fact that there is a white kid named Ronald** hanging out of the drivers side window while pulling off a Fly Girl dance move from the classic "In Living Color" television program dressed in his brand new Eminem outfit from the K-Mart Eminem Collection...oh yeah and the truckers cap turned sideways, really catches my attention. I begin to laugh uncontrollably. Ronald notices this and flips me off...then decides to pursue.
So here we are, driving down Main St. this little tin can with bling speeding up beside me, Ronald yelling at me at the top of his lungs "yo man, where da hell is my respect..." I am still laughing, and harder now. And then it happens. He actually said it. "I'm gonna hafta put a cap in yo ass!" I couldn't believe it. This kid who I am darn positive has never ventured outside a 4 miles radius of Caney Creek and tragically WHITE, just threatened to put a cap in my ass. Can you cap someones ass with your uncle Jerry Don's 410? Does a .22 hurt worse than a pellet gun? Is the kid a member of the street gang John Deer 12 ( a small offshoot of the Cult of Hank Williams Jr.)??? At this point, the fear takes over...hehe! I realize that I have pooped larger threats than this kid. Luckily, my response is predestined. "Hey, you might want to put a cap on those brakes." Luckily for me, one of Hope's finest has decided to pull out from beside Collin's Electronics. Ronald slams on his breaks and Officer Hightower immediately puts on his lights. I wave goodbye and hope that I get to see Ronald again really soon...for the laughs.
manteca
**Names have been changed and/or made up to protect the ridiculously stupid redneck.
I got ONE request !
 Convoginators......VOTE ! Today
Phynerk
Monday, May 22, 2006
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Look Ma...I can sing...
 So now Natalie Maines, you know the FAT ( yeah, I can use that word...cause I live it) dixie chick, she takes back her apology to Pres. Bush from 2003 and adds to it...
"I don't feel that way anymore," she told Time magazine for its issue hitting newsstands Monday. "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."
Wow...I guess that is fair, I NEVER felt (along with Toby Keith and the millions that stopped buying her albums) that she deserved any respect either. And she is only a stupid country singer. That is unless she has a masters degree in political science from Princeton, then she gets the respect I give dishwater.
Not only does she decide to thumb her twangy nose at the office of the President, but her band mate Martie MaGuire throws in her splat of lunacy. "I'd rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith," Maguire said. "We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do." Hmmm...cool people? Oh, I see cool people. Yeah, I know those people, the ones that will sell out their own country for popularity. So the popular kids. I was never a "popular" kid, so I guess I don't get it. If there are any of the "popular" kids that read this dribble, please enlighten me on the ways of the gay vote, Jesus as a party favor, abortion, immigration and disrespecting ones country and not having the common decency and patriotism to support ones country and the office of the President. WHEW...
So in conclusion of my review of the new dixie chick's album "Bountry Citches,"** I find the songs "Lord help us get clue," "We are Dirty Stinkin' Traitors" and the big hit "Ronny the dogs is under the trailer with the kids again" perfectly simple, forgetful, useless songs that will excite like the fizz on a freshly opened Dr. Pepper, but soon lose all their punch. Much like the chicks. Hopefully those sociology degrees from Dick Durban's school of diplomatic uselessness will do them well when they fight Madonna and Kayne West in a Texas cage match for the title of World's Biggest Mule Hole.
manteca
** I might have mixed up the first letters here. Can somebody check Wikipedia for me?
The blind leading the blind...
I was reminded today that it was election time here in Southwest Arkansas. Bubba Powers was on KXAR with Mark Keith. Great show, that mixture of Jerry Clower meets the people who live in the woods and eat possum down the road from me really gets me going in the morning. It also keeps me right on target with every bowel movement at the hospital and any case of foot and mouth disease that Mr. Roth might know of. I digress...
The interesting part this morning were the comments that Bubba Powers made concerning the people he has met on the campaign trail and their many concerns. During those remarks, he blasted the insurance racket, institution by stating that "we all pay too much for insurance." Then he decides to bring Mark Keith in on his next comment with "we've talked several times about the problems with our schools." Now I must agree these two statements are true (and luckily Mark Keith changed the subject a bit...it's amazing how that man can get a random, useless factoid about a musical artist and an album that no one has ever heard of into any conversation) I just think that when you run for office, you probably shouldn't blast the majority of your local business...ie: insurance (running a close second in Hope behind auto parts stores) and definitely not one of your largest voting bases, teachers and the education community, ESPECIALLY if you are on the school board. Now I can tell you if I had a nickel for every time I ran into a school board member visiting the campuses, I would have...well, not enough to buy a 5 cent piece of gum. So being a member of a certain organization shouId empart some sort of loyalty...it seems. I also expect a little more cheesy, politician "kissing up" from the people that want my vote. I guess my point here is that I'm a little disappointed that once again we hear the promises and know that the outcome is one of smoke being blown in a certain southern region.
Hey, promises are promises...see you at rehearsal Phynerk....
manteca
Friday, May 19, 2006
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Cool Tech Blog
I thought of this like years ago, but I didn't have the equpiment to make it. They beat me to it.
Two additional laser beams are directed at the left groove wall and the right groove wall just below the tracking beams. Modulation on the individual grooves is reflected to scanner mirrors and onto left and right photo optical sensors. The variations of the modulated light cause the audio sensors to develop an electrical representation of the mechanical modulation of the grooves. The entire sound reproduction chain is analog.
That was the easy part.
The distance from the surface of the record to the traveling pickup head is kept constant by using a separate laser beam. This is very similar to every CD player that uses a "focus" laser to move the laser that reads digital bits to the proper spacing between the reader and the disc. Since phono records vary in thickness, this feature assures precision alignment from the pickup head to the record. The servos are fast and responsive allowing the LT to accommodate even warped records. Also the new audiophile 180 gram (thick) records are reproduced beautifully.
Now this took some time to completely flesh out. Where's my proof of patent papers?
10 Top topics you'll hear at the Hollywood parties tomorrow.
10) God invented evolution
9) Noahs ark sunk
8) Jesus was the first Santa Claus
7) John the Baptist was actually Methodist
6) The sons of thunder got that name from their habit of openly passing gas
5) Adam and Eve were avid snake handlers
4) Moses took credit for the parting of the Red Sea which was a naturally occurring phenomenon back-in-the-day
3) Judas Iscariot wrote all the Biblical epistles under the pen name of Paul
2) Hell is a fanciful place where we would like evil people to go
1) Hollywood is a place of evil people
0) There is a Rock 'n Roll heaven
Thanks Matthew for the inspiration
Phynerk
Thursday, May 18, 2006
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Jesus - from faux pa to party favor
First and foremost I am not going to debate whether or not a Christian should go see the Da Vinci Code or not. I don't jump on the bandwagon that is trying to ruin this film at the boxoffice. This won't be the first movie that entertained me that wasn't true. I can seperate fact from fiction. But i am aware that this will influnece some people in a very bad direction. But I have to laugh at liberals, intellectuals, and progressives that are glumbing on to the notion that Christ married Mary Magdalene so as to prove he wasn't gay.
"When I put the book down I thought 'What a load of potential codswallop'."That's still going on in my mind. But I'm very happy to believe that Jesus was married. "I know that the Catholic Church has problems with gay people and I thought that this was absolute truth that Jesus was not gay." --- Sir Ian Mckellan
I love this quote. I just giggle and laugh at the willful ignorance of this quote. Jesus has now moved from his fuax pa position in a typical conversation to the hip, cool, "look what I know", and witty factoid. I can just imagine parties of the rich and famous actors, directors, and producers where slightly drunk conversations take place about the now amazing topic of the life of Christ. I can hear it now:
"Did you know that the Christ Figure of the Catholic church was married to Mary Magdalene so his followers wouldn't think he was gay."
"I thought he didn't even exist?"
"Of course he existed."
Now that Jesus has been removed from his well deserved title of the Savior of all mankind and is just a mere closet homosexual hiding his true nature from his disciples, he can be discussed openly and "seriously" during witty conversations at a premiere party of a Ron Howard movie.
Read the other great quotes and enjoy.
Monday, May 15, 2006
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Top 5 reasons to NOT play a viloin
5) You can't find one at the Mateca's studio-in-the-sky
4) Gig's are impossible to find in Hope, AR anywhere.
3) They're also called fiddles
2) Tim's already mastered one
1) You'll look like this guy
Phynerk
The Pres. & protecting the borders.
Tonight's the night. President Bush will address the country concerning illegal immigration. The talk is that he will use the National Guard to help the current Border Patrol in securing the border until the Border Patrol's numbers can be increased. Several of his opponents, and unfortunately some of his own party members feel this is an inapropriate use of the National Guard. That's interesting considering that this website http://www.ngb.army.mil/about/ states that "...the National Guard continues its historic dual mission, providing to the states units trained and equipped to protect life and property, while providing to the nation units trained, equipped and ready to defend the United States and its interests, all over the globe." Also, from the same website.The National Guard traces its history back to the earliest English colonies in North America. Responsible for their own defense, the colonists drew on English military tradition and organized their able-bodied male citizens into militias. The colonial militias protected their fellow citizens from Indian attack, foreign invaders, and later helped to win the Revolutionary War. Following independence, the authors of the Constitution empowered Congress to "provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia." It's the "providing to the states units trained and equipped to protect life and property" and the reference to "foreign invaders" that really justifies his decision for me. Oh yeah, and the fact that he is the President. That one always seems to trump even the best hand. I hope that most AMERICANS can understand the importance of nipping this illegal immigrant problem in the bud. Unfortunately for several lawmakers, they did not and some still DO not. This is a silent revolution. No shot will be fired (hopefully) and it will be held in the streets and the press. It willl displayed with such common place repetition that we will ignore it and never realize the power that it enables it's participants. IT worked in the late 60's, and it will probably work again unless we handle it now. I know several will read this and think that I am some sort of super conservative nut job. I have just learned over the years that the rules are in place for a reason. If the game is to be any fun and beneficial for all who play, then you have to follow the rules. There are rules governing the immigration practices of the United States of America. Hopefully, this President with the help of Congress can find a way to enforce them. Using the National Guard may be one of those ways...
manteca
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Since everyone is home and posting...
I found this very entertaining...seems like a good idea...
manteca
Home Sweet Hope
Yeah, yeah. I know I haven't posted in forever, but I've been busy with 18 hours of schooling. And I don't mean to toot my own horn or anything, but I made all A's this semester, so I got my reasons.
Well, Mother's Day is fast approaching, and I know we all love our mothers and/or wives who are mothers. I especially love my mum and thus decided to purchase for her an iPod shuffle to use while she walks, which is an hour every day. A good gift indeed. But I've discovered I have an illness. While shopping for Mum I also ordered for myself an iPod nano. Some of you may be aware that I already have two iPods, so what's the point? Well, I have developed a new, umm... hobby. I run, for my health I guess. I don't know. Anyhow, that's what the nano is for. I'm weak when it comes to books and music. And now, since I don't start work for about three weeks, I am broke. Well, not yet, but by that time I will be. So now I don't have any money to go see Miss Hope.
It's quite a shame. I was really looking forward to something new to do in Hope, especially since I can't go get a huge tatoo now. I was thinking something like a dragon eating a unicorn, but I couldn't think of any part of me that's big enough, so perhaps I could get the dragon on me and the unicorn on one of my hippie friends. But alas, a tatoo is out of the question in Hope. And since I can't afford new tires for my truck for about a month, I can't leave to get a tatoo. I wonder if Miss Hope could do one for me. It's probably the same person who owned the place before. Can't wait to see what opens next. Nothing can compete with Wallgreens
seashell
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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What it would really be like without Illegal Immigrants
I didn't write this, but it is very interesting.
What would a day without illegal aliens really be like? Lets try to imagine it.
...Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.
OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeless maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.
Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.
...Colorado taxpayers would save almost $3,000,000 in one day if illegals do not access any public services, because illegal aliens cost the state over $1 billion annually according to the best estimates.
Colorados K-12 school classrooms would have 131,000 fewer students if illegal aliens and the children of illegals were to stay home, and Denver high schools dropout rate would once again approach the national norm.
Colorados jails and prisons would have 10-percent fewer inmates, and Denver and many other towns would not need to build so many new jails to accommodate the overcrowding.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTBlOTVlNDFkNTYwOTg4YWYxMThkZmE2MWZhMmVjMWM=
Duping the Gringo
Matthew and I were on our way to some free chicken...Come to find out, it was free burritos...
But they were good burritos! Too bad our economy collapsed!
manteca
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