Sunday, March 23rd 2003
Sgt Asan Akbar kills and maims his fellow American soldiers by tossing grenades into the Command Center tent in Kuwait.
Six years later we learn again of the mixed allegiances of Muslims in the Military.
This week when Major Assan shouted "Allah Akbar" and shot 42 unarmed American soldiers in the worst terrorist attack in this country since 9/11... Political Correctness in the news coverage ruled.
Our brave president told us not to jump to conclusions about the motivation behind these murders.
After all, this is a Muslim American... not some white policeman and a black guy.
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
"Man" Murders 12 at Fort Hood
I had to read three quarters of the article before the author commented on the "Man's" Arabic sounding name.
A violent Muslim? Who would have thought?
The story didn't mention whether or not the "man" had run over his daughter recently.
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I had to read three quarters of the article before the author commented on the "Man's" Arabic sounding name.
A violent Muslim? Who would have thought?
The story didn't mention whether or not the "man" had run over his daughter recently.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Quote for the Day
"I've been looking at all the exit-poll data and election analysis... I can't find how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey and Virginia."
--Rush Limbaugh
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"I've been looking at all the exit-poll data and election analysis... I can't find how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey and Virginia."
--Rush Limbaugh
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A Burly Man at Heart
Until I hit my 40's, I was prettier than most people's sisters... Not exactly burly... was I. I was Dick Cavett pretty, but I wasn't Tommy Tune pretty.
I remember sitting in a girlfriend's apartment back in the early 80's, and Tommy Tune came on the TV singing and dancing. I said, "Geez! That guy is prettier than I am!" My girlfriend laughed and said, "Hey, he's prettier than I am, too!"
Before you think I'm bragging... Consider that women aren't attracted to pretty men any more than men like moustached "mannish" women.
But moving on to my point... Having never married, I'm sure assumptions were sometimes made about my sexual orientation that wouldn't have been made before the liberal culture put a spotlight on the gay lifestyle and attempted to legitimize it. Because gays are celebrated and promoted in today's entertainment, bachelors are often looked upon with suspicion.
Am I bitter? Maybe!
Still, I've never been one to gay bash or use slurs. I figure your average fudge-packer has enough problems without having to deal with insensitive remarks... So I refuse to make them.
Recently an NFL player tweeted on Twitter that a person's avatar picture was a "fag pic." He was suspended for two games and fined $300,000.
Well dang!
I think of overweight people, homely little girls, people that aren't very bright, born-again Christians, and other individuals who suffer unkind remarks and yet do not enjoy the same heavy-handed protection that gays benefit from.
Punishing people for their speech is an idea whose time has unfortunately come. It's a part of the slow and steady movement towards liberalism and godlessness, Slouching Towards Gomorrah as Robert Bork put it. I've watched it all my life...
Evil pushes... We stomp our feet, we compromise, we plan our next purchase.
All that just to post another picture of myself.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
RINOs Win
Yesterday a Republican stronghold in upstate New York chose to elect a Democrat and give Pelosi another vote rather than be represented by a Reagan conservative.
It was a smack down for Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, and conservatives everywhere. It was a win for the McCains, the Grahams, for Newt Gingrich and other compromisers... and it illustrates the fissure in the Republican party.
There is nothing to celebrate today... Because nothing good happened for conservatives yesterday.
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Yesterday a Republican stronghold in upstate New York chose to elect a Democrat and give Pelosi another vote rather than be represented by a Reagan conservative.
It was a smack down for Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, and conservatives everywhere. It was a win for the McCains, the Grahams, for Newt Gingrich and other compromisers... and it illustrates the fissure in the Republican party.
There is nothing to celebrate today... Because nothing good happened for conservatives yesterday.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Amazing Knowledge for November
I may be a two-bit, mediocre medical technologist, but my job affords me insight into amazing medical knowledge. Oh, people talk about Mayo's and Johns Hopkins, but those of us in the business know that the real innovations and advancements are taking place at small, rural, Indiana hospitals. Most the time when I'm in the lab, I just sit there with my eyes glazed over, mentally processing some new amazing thought. Other times I'm alert and actually paying attention to what I'm doing.
But before you become disproportionately impressed with me, let me get to this month's amazing medical knowledge:
Why We Wear Gloves
When I wear latex gloves I can't draw blood worth crap. I was trained pre-AIDS, and back then we donned gloves only when we were handling fecal specimens or when there was a possibility of getting something really icky on our fingers.
Fortunately, the only time I'm called upon to draw blood these days is when at least two other techs have already failed to acquire a blood specimen. These patients are referred to as "difficult sticks" and the hospital staff cares enough about its patients to look the other way when I perform my magic... ungloved.
By the time I enter the patient's hospital room, the patient is usually scared, upset, or thoroughly PO'd. I stroll in, sporting my best down-home demeanor, speaking slowly and relaxed like an airline pilot... And as I make a show of washing my hands, I use phrases like "You poor thing" and "We appreciate your patience." Then I generally say, "Let's just take our time and see what we can find." My aim is to make the patient confident both in my abilities, and the fact that I care about him.
But back to why we wear gloves...
When AIDS was brand-spanking new, the medical community erred on the side of caution in most instances, because it was not yet known how virulent the disease was, or how likely it could be spread in clinical situations.
Someone... I suspect someone sitting behind a desk, decided that lab personnel would be safer if they wore gloves when they performed venipunctures. The fallacy in that decision is obvious when you consider that 1) gloves make the tech less dexterous, more clumsy, and 2) latex gloves will not stop a needle. Therefore, in an effort to make us safer, the powers that be have surely increased our risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens, because gloves make it more likely that we will stick ourselves with a dirty needle... Especially those of us who did not begin our careers using gloves.
But what really tickles us is this: Most of our patients think that we are wearing gloves for their protection. In fact, patients have actually written letters to our hospital complaining that the tech drawing their blood did not wear gloves.
A couple of the techs that have been "turned in" have complained that, though I hardly ever wear gloves, I've never been turned in. I tell them, "The reason is simple, really... I'm Malott... And you're not."
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I may be a two-bit, mediocre medical technologist, but my job affords me insight into amazing medical knowledge. Oh, people talk about Mayo's and Johns Hopkins, but those of us in the business know that the real innovations and advancements are taking place at small, rural, Indiana hospitals. Most the time when I'm in the lab, I just sit there with my eyes glazed over, mentally processing some new amazing thought. Other times I'm alert and actually paying attention to what I'm doing.
But before you become disproportionately impressed with me, let me get to this month's amazing medical knowledge:
Why We Wear Gloves
When I wear latex gloves I can't draw blood worth crap. I was trained pre-AIDS, and back then we donned gloves only when we were handling fecal specimens or when there was a possibility of getting something really icky on our fingers.
Fortunately, the only time I'm called upon to draw blood these days is when at least two other techs have already failed to acquire a blood specimen. These patients are referred to as "difficult sticks" and the hospital staff cares enough about its patients to look the other way when I perform my magic... ungloved.
By the time I enter the patient's hospital room, the patient is usually scared, upset, or thoroughly PO'd. I stroll in, sporting my best down-home demeanor, speaking slowly and relaxed like an airline pilot... And as I make a show of washing my hands, I use phrases like "You poor thing" and "We appreciate your patience." Then I generally say, "Let's just take our time and see what we can find." My aim is to make the patient confident both in my abilities, and the fact that I care about him.
But back to why we wear gloves...
When AIDS was brand-spanking new, the medical community erred on the side of caution in most instances, because it was not yet known how virulent the disease was, or how likely it could be spread in clinical situations.
Someone... I suspect someone sitting behind a desk, decided that lab personnel would be safer if they wore gloves when they performed venipunctures. The fallacy in that decision is obvious when you consider that 1) gloves make the tech less dexterous, more clumsy, and 2) latex gloves will not stop a needle. Therefore, in an effort to make us safer, the powers that be have surely increased our risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens, because gloves make it more likely that we will stick ourselves with a dirty needle... Especially those of us who did not begin our careers using gloves.
But what really tickles us is this: Most of our patients think that we are wearing gloves for their protection. In fact, patients have actually written letters to our hospital complaining that the tech drawing their blood did not wear gloves.
A couple of the techs that have been "turned in" have complained that, though I hardly ever wear gloves, I've never been turned in. I tell them, "The reason is simple, really... I'm Malott... And you're not."
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Malott's Better-than-Oprah's Book Club
October's Selection
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (paperback? But of course!)
I'm not a black woman and a heretic, but I do know good fiction when I read it. This New York Times #1 Bestseller is about a defense lawyer who rides around L.A. in a Lincoln. The most satisfying parts are the way he tricks and manipulates everyone from the prosecutors to his client. Very entertaining. One hundred pages in.... I couldn't put it down. I got three hours of sleep last night because I couldn't put it down. My butt is dragging today because I couldn't put it down.
On the Malott Reader-Meter it comes in at a solid 8.
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October's Selection
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (paperback? But of course!)
I'm not a black woman and a heretic, but I do know good fiction when I read it. This New York Times #1 Bestseller is about a defense lawyer who rides around L.A. in a Lincoln. The most satisfying parts are the way he tricks and manipulates everyone from the prosecutors to his client. Very entertaining. One hundred pages in.... I couldn't put it down. I got three hours of sleep last night because I couldn't put it down. My butt is dragging today because I couldn't put it down.
On the Malott Reader-Meter it comes in at a solid 8.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Obama's Enemies List
Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but Barack Milhous Obama, or Barry Capone as we say in Greentown, seems to add new members weekly... And it's hard to keep up.
So here we go: Insurance companies and unrepentant doctors who surgically remove feet, pharmaceutical companies, terrorist American veterans, tea party attendees, town hall attendees, white policemen, the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, FOX News, Wall Street and people who like to profit from their work, coal producers, oil companies, SUV drivers, Republicans, Dick Cheney, and of course... George Bush.
Soon to be added: The Independents and Moderates who voted for the guy who would "set aside childish things" and are quickly becoming disillusioned, Blue Dog Democrats who refuse to destroy their careers by toeing Obama's line, and the liberal mainstream media that refuses to ostracize FOX News.
I hope our post-partisan president hurries up and completes his Enemies list so he can get back to the business of uniting us all.
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Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but Barack Milhous Obama, or Barry Capone as we say in Greentown, seems to add new members weekly... And it's hard to keep up.
So here we go: Insurance companies and unrepentant doctors who surgically remove feet, pharmaceutical companies, terrorist American veterans, tea party attendees, town hall attendees, white policemen, the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, FOX News, Wall Street and people who like to profit from their work, coal producers, oil companies, SUV drivers, Republicans, Dick Cheney, and of course... George Bush.
Soon to be added: The Independents and Moderates who voted for the guy who would "set aside childish things" and are quickly becoming disillusioned, Blue Dog Democrats who refuse to destroy their careers by toeing Obama's line, and the liberal mainstream media that refuses to ostracize FOX News.
I hope our post-partisan president hurries up and completes his Enemies list so he can get back to the business of uniting us all.
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Quote for the Day
"I don't always get my most favorable coverage on Fox, but I think that's part of how democracy is supposed to work. You know, we're not supposed to all be in lockstep here."
--President Barack Obama, February 2009
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"I don't always get my most favorable coverage on Fox, but I think that's part of how democracy is supposed to work. You know, we're not supposed to all be in lockstep here."
--President Barack Obama, February 2009
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Time for an "honor killing " update...
Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming "too Westernized" and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued.
Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming "too Westernized" and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued. Noor Faleh Almaleki (above) is in "life-threatening condition," Peoria Police spokesman Mike Tellef told ABCNews.
I'd hope that every reasonable, moderate, and law-abiding Muslim man in the country cringes when he reads such a story... Or do many secretly admire and sympathize with this man? Their silence may reveal something very ugly.
It's been a little over a year and a half since... two teen sisters were found shot to death inside a cab outside a Texas hotel, and their father, who police say is the sole suspect in the New Year's Day killings, remains at large.
Authorities tell ABC News that the investigation so far has produced few solid leads as to Yaser Abdel Said's whereabouts, and they fear he may have fled the country, perhaps even to his native Egypt.
So far Rifqa Bary, the Ohio Muslim teen who converted to Christianity and then fled her family fearing for her life, only to be ordered home by a Florida judge... So far she is still alive... And quaking in fear, I suspect.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Obama Criticizer - String of Failures
This is Rush Limbaugh's call screener. Being black, he is able to criticize Obama, without being called a racist.
...And I wouldn't tell him to "get back on the porch..." At least I wouldn't recommend saying it to his face.
Be Mao, Be Mao Baby Anita Dunn, Obama's White House Communications Director, said in a speech recently that Chairman Mao was one of her favorite political philosophers.
I believe her.
If Mao Tse-Tung had been born in America... Say... in 1961, and if he rose in politics... maybe in Illinois, as a charismatic Chinese-American... And if he was looking to impose socialism on the American people, not through revolution, but through the political system... If he became president and began seizing corporations and expanding the size and control of the federal government...
Yes, I believe her.(doctored photos from Matt's Meditations)
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Wallace: White House is Biggest Bunch of Cry Babies I've Dealt with in 30 Years
From foxnews.com : The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel.
The White House stopped providing guests to 'Fox News Sunday' after Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August. Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was "something I've never seen a Sunday show do."
From Malott's Blog : The reality is that liberal ideas cannot stand up against conservative ideas in a debate. Liberal ideas can only be sold in an unchallenged speech from a lecturn. If Obama's boys and girls could be successful against the probing questions of REAL reporters, they would be on FOX every day.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Still the Carrot King
I took the last of my carrots from my garden today. I plant them in a raised bed in the middle of June. They turn sweet with the cold temperatures in the fall.
I will store them in the bottom drawers of my refrigerator, and I will still be using them next spring.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Rush Limbaugh Dropped
From Malott's Unabridged Pocket Dictionary:
racist (ras' ist)
1) A white man who believes black men are as capable as white men and do not need the Federal Government's help to be successful in life.
2) A white man who is politically conservative. (see Rush Limbaugh)
3) A white man who votes for Republicans.
4) A white man who criticizes Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charles Rangel, or any other powerful, black race-baiter.
5) A white man who offends liberals by not towing the liberal line on any matter concerning African-Americans. (see hate speech)
syn. Republican, conservative, NASCAR fan
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.
The move against Limbaugh was propelled by left-wing media, liberal sportscasters, and liberal athletes, using supposed quotes from Limbaugh that mysteriously cannot be found in any recording.
Limbaugh said that he never made those statements, and that if he had, his African-American call screener, Bo Snerdley, would have walked out years ago.
I once called the show and talked to Mr. Snerdley. He was not smooth or polite. (Imagine calling ACORN). He was very intimidating. He had the kind of voice... Well if I was in a dark alley and I heard that voice behind me, I would immediately urinate into my drawers.
"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.
Limbaugh, of course, is not a racist. He celebrates conservatives of all colors. His problem is that he debunks liberalism in a way that is not politically correct... And that he is very effective when he does it. This makes him the target of the liberal media who can distort his words with impunity.
Looks like the liars won this time.
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From Malott's Unabridged Pocket Dictionary:
racist (ras' ist)
1) A white man who believes black men are as capable as white men and do not need the Federal Government's help to be successful in life.
2) A white man who is politically conservative. (see Rush Limbaugh)
3) A white man who votes for Republicans.
4) A white man who criticizes Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charles Rangel, or any other powerful, black race-baiter.
5) A white man who offends liberals by not towing the liberal line on any matter concerning African-Americans. (see hate speech)
syn. Republican, conservative, NASCAR fan
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.
The move against Limbaugh was propelled by left-wing media, liberal sportscasters, and liberal athletes, using supposed quotes from Limbaugh that mysteriously cannot be found in any recording.
Limbaugh said that he never made those statements, and that if he had, his African-American call screener, Bo Snerdley, would have walked out years ago.
I once called the show and talked to Mr. Snerdley. He was not smooth or polite. (Imagine calling ACORN). He was very intimidating. He had the kind of voice... Well if I was in a dark alley and I heard that voice behind me, I would immediately urinate into my drawers.
"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.
Limbaugh, of course, is not a racist. He celebrates conservatives of all colors. His problem is that he debunks liberalism in a way that is not politically correct... And that he is very effective when he does it. This makes him the target of the liberal media who can distort his words with impunity.
Looks like the liars won this time.
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